Mawson Lakes School ~ Cooperation – Pride – Quality – Respect ~

Term 3, Week 6 30th August 2019

School Administration

Garden Tce, Mawson Lakes, 5095

Principal: David Cowles

Deputy Principal: Sue Lemmer

Assistant Principals: Karen Post Phil Parsons

Business Manager: Christina Cannon

Mawson Lakes School Gov. Council

Chairperson: Simon Lemmo

Secretary: Tracy Fitzjohn

Treasurer: Peter Richings

Email: dl.0987.govcouncil@schools.sa.edu.au

Library

Mawson Centre, Main St, Mawson Lakes

Email: dl.0987.admin@schools.sa.edu.au

Website: www.mawsonlakes.sa.edu.au

Out of School Hours Care

Contact: Cyndi Sapwell, Director

Phone: 0401 121 318

Email: oshc.mls987@schools.sa.edu.au

2019 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

30th August :School Closure. 2nd Sept—13th Sept: Swimming ( R-5 ) 20th Sept: Sports day 23rd Sept: Grandparents Special Visitors / Cultural Day

A word from the Principal …

It was great to see the parent community come out for our

book week parade! There was lots of colour and creativity

in the costumes we saw! Well done to everyone involved.

Planning for 2020

Believe it or not we are already starting to plan for classes in 2020.

This includes counting the students who we think are returning the

following year. However, If you know for some reason your child/

children will not be returning in 2020 (eg. moving interstate, trans-

fer to different school) please inform the front office in writing

(email/letter). This will then inform our planning as we will have

accurate numbers to work from. Thanks for your co-operation with

this important matter.

Overdue School Fees

Monies from school fees help generate revenue to fund many of the

educational programmes we run in the school and also help us to

purchase items such as modern school furniture, nature play options,

stationery and ICT/ technology initiatives such as new lap tops for

our students, robotics and 3-D printers. Final payment reminders for

school fees have gone out to those who have still not paid them. If

you have not yet paid your 2019 school fees, please make contact

with the cash office ASAP, to finalise payment. Please note that any

outstanding school fees may be referred to the Department’s debt

collection services, as per our school fees/ debt collection policy.

Upcoming events

We look forward to seeing you all at our upcoming Sports Day and

also at our Grandparents/special visitors/Cultural day. More infor-

mation about these days are inside the newsletter.

David Cowles

Principal

School Closure This Friday 30th

School & OSHC Closed

MAWSON LAKES SCHOOL SPORTS DAY

Friday 20th September 2019

We are looking forward to another successful Sports Day. Please be

aware of the following details about the day.

Coloured hairspray in house colours will be available on both sites

from 8:00am—8:40am. $2– spots and stripes and $3-full head.

Zinc coloured sunscreen available starting at $1 up to $5, with a

hair tie, depending upon style requested.

Could you please ensure that your child is wearing

sunscreen and brings a bottle of water.

The program for the day is as follows:

Morning Sessions

9:00am Whole School meet in gym for Opening Ceremony

9:00-9:25am National Anthem, war cries, health hustle, etc

9:30-10-30am Four 15 min, tabloid events

10:30- 10:40am Eating recess

Recess: 10:40am -11:00am Site East oval out of bounds

11:05-12:20 Five 15 min tabloid events

12:25 In class eating lunch

Lunch Play: 12:35pm -1:15pm Site East oval out of bounds

Afternoon Session

1:25-1:30pm MLS Open Sprint

1:30-1:55pm Year 3/4/5/6/7 championship sprints

1:55-2:15pm Whole school novelty events (staff/parent

involvement

2:15-2:30pm Shield and Open Sprint Champion presentations

2:30-3:00pm Back to classrooms

Junior Primary

(Site East)

1. Beanbag Throw

2. Dress-up Relay

3. FMS Relays

4. Rob the Nest

5. Parachute

6. Soccer

7. Sprints

8. Sack Races

9. Hurdles

10. Cone Catch-

ers

11. Rebound

nets

12. Parachute

13. 3-Legged

Race

14. Roll n’ Runz

Middle Primary

(Site East)

15. Caterpillar

16. Javelin

17. Defender

18. Soccer

19. Sack Races

20. Cricket Throw

21. Frisbee

22. Quoits

23. Spikeball

24. Tug O War

25. Netball

Upper Primary

(Tennis Courts

and Site West)

26. Basketball

27. Tennis

28. Quoits

29. Rowing

30. Defender

31. Tail Chasey

32. Caterpillar

33. Spikeball

34. Tug O War

JAPAN STUDY TOUR 2020

As part of the development of our Japa-nese curriculum and cultural understanding, we would like to conduct another Study Tour to Japan in 2020. The purpose of the visit is to..

Enrich the lifelong learning experiences for our students

Continue to build upon our students lan-guage learning

Further develop the cultural and educa-tional links between our school and Japanese schools

Develop global perspectives for our students

We will be inviting the current (2019) Year 5 and 6 students to apply for this unique opportunity. More information with an ex-pression of interest and Parent Infor-mation Night will occur in Term 4. Please start to have a chat with your child/ren as to their interest in taking part. We ask that an adult/parent attend the Study Tour with their child/ren.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, Erin, at

erin.bath601@schools.sa.edu.au

Mawson Lakes Neighbourhood & Business Watch Area Coor-dinator

Join our Closed Facebook Community Group: “Mawson Lakes Neighbourhood Watch”.

Community Meetings: We hold our meetings quarterly at the Mawson Centre with SAPOL.

Our final meeting for 2019 is Thursday 21 No-vember 2019 at 6PM with Guest Speaker Senior

Sergeant Di Litton and Northern District Operations Coordina-tor.

FREE Neighbourhood Watch Bin Stickers: please collect yours from the office of Michael Brown MP, our local State Member of Parliament.