From the Principal

Tuesday 21st April 2015 Term 2 Week 1

MORGIE NEWS Telephone: 08 8087 5155 Principal: Mr Chisholm Bloch Fax: 08 8087 3729 Email: morganst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

It was a fantastic start to Term 2 this morning, even though it was a little chilly. The children I spoke to before school and throughout today had a great holiday and travelled to many places, but also sounded positive about being among friends and teachers at school.

Having spent a week in Bali for my first ever overseas trip I find myself now reflecting on many of the positives our Australian way of life has and which we take for granted. This is specially important as we are in the week that leads to ANZAC DAY here at school on Thursday and on Saturday in Broken Hill town march. Children in Bali certainly have a very different cultural background than our Morgies. It was eye opening to witness the daily lives of Balinese and how the Tourist industry has affected the island.

Morgan Street is back in swing and we wish to welcome back Mrs Files and Ms Muir who had been on leave at the end of term and also welcome to our teaching team Mrs Earl (yes Mr Earl got married in the holidays) to teach 3C as Mr Byrne is on leave. Parents are welcome to come in and meet Mrs Earl after school or by appointment.

This term Year 3 and Year 6 will be participating in “Friends for Life” program work each Tuesday for an hour. The program aims to assist children with a better understanding of the complexities they face on a daily basis with relationships, and many with anxiety. Todays TV news tells the story of 1 in 10 children suffer anxiety related issue although research suggest it is more likely as high as 4 in 10. I am confident that within the lessons there is something for these students and also assistance for the other students who need to interact with them in classroom and playground. I suggest that in the weekly follow-ups that are aimed for students to complete at home that some parents will pick up useful strategies to assist and help assure them that they doing a good job of raising their children. We see evidence of this each day at Morgan Street Public School.

Important Dates

Thursday 23rd April

School ANZAC Service 10.15am

Saturday 25th April

ANZAC Day Town March

Tuesday 12th May NAPLAN—Language Conventions and Writing

tests grades 3 & 5 students

Wednesday 13th May NAPLAN—Reading test grades 3 &

5 students

Thursday 14th May NAPLAN—Mathematics test grades 3 & 5 stu-

dents

This program will commence

next week for students in

Year 3 and Year 6. If you have not yet paid the

$5 for your child’s

workbook please pay by

Thursday 23rd April so your

child can participate in these

lessons

NOTES SENT HOME THIS WEEK

If you did not receive any notes relevant to your child, please see the office staff

NOTE WHO?

Term 2 Calendar Everyone

Canteen Winter Menu & request for helpers for canteen Everyone

Born To Move KM, KS, Y2, Y4, Y5, Y6

Term 2 Sport Organisation Years 3 - 6

NAPLAN Letter to parents Years 3 & 5

EASTER COLOURING COMPETITION WINNERS

Ruby Gaiter Mackenzie Leecroft Shavanah Miller

Harry Quinn Ella Williams Starley Knott

Ava Cunico Abigail Lazarus Bethany Stokes

Evelyn Mann Ashton Sedunary Kyra Petersen

Jack Reinhardt Ella Thompson

GUESSING COMPETITION

Lenai King (K-2) Hannah Beitzel (3-6)

Raffle Tickets/Guessing Competition raised:

$415.40

EASTER EGG RAFFLE WINNERS

Isaac Stokes x2 Summa Howse Trinity Connor x2

Abbey Cvirn Zarko Family Evan Mason

Rebekah Harffey Cruz Lihou Grace Reymer

Ella Camilleri Madysun Camilleri Seb Miani

Chatu Yapa Charlie Maiden Rebel Mannion

Angel Lewis Ella Thompson Sam Doohan

A big thank you to everyone who donated Easter Eggs for

the raffle!

This term, many of our classes will be participating

in this exciting fitness program as part of their

physical education lessons. BORN TO MOVE ™

is a series of classes created by and for young people. It uses music, movement and the power of

group exercise to boost energy levels and increase

fundamental movement skills.

The 45 minute class will be run by qualified YMCA

instructors each week at a cost of $3 per lesson.

The following classes will be participating this term:

KM, KS, 2GK, 2V, 4S, 5/4G, 5W, 6E and 6M. Year

1, Year 3 and KK will have the opportunity to

participate in Term Three.

School ANZAC Service

The school’s ANZAC Service will be held on Thursday 23rd April 2015 at 10.15am in the

hall. Everyone is welcome to join the school body for this important recognition of our ANZAC

history. All students are requested to bring some flowers to school for their class wreaths and

wear their official school uniform.

ANZAC DAY Town March

We are once again hoping to have a large contingent of students involved in this great tradition

as we commemorate 100 years of Anzac. As ANZAC Day is this Saturday we hope many

students are able to march with the school group. We envisage that all SRC members would

participate as a responsibility of their role and as Year 6 are studying this topic in HSIE we hope

that many of them are able to participate. Children marching will need to wear their school

uniform. Children are asked to assemble near Hungry Jacks by 10.30am on Saturday 25th

April, 2015. If children wish to wear medals of a relative they are asked to wear them on the

right-hand side.

Tuesday 21st April CLOSED

Wednesday 22nd April Kerry Murray, Joanne Player

Thursday 23rd April Nic Sinclair

Friday 24th April Martin Griffiths

Please Note - there is a NEW Winter

Menu going home today with the Newsletter, and some of the prices have changed. Also pastries are now only

available on Wednesdays and Fridays.

“Proud Morgies learning together”

POSITIVE PLAYGROUNDS

Last term teachers continued to monitor and record

inappropriate behaviours and incidents in the

playground book. There was a total of 73 incidents

recorded compared to 80 at the same time in 2014.

This is a great improvement and one that we would like

to see continue.

The types of inappropriate behaviours that teachers

record include - disrespect of others and property,

disobedience, physical contact such as hitting, kicking,

punching and pushing, verbal incidents such as teasing,

name calling, swearing and lying.

Types of incidents recorded in Term 1

Incidents per grade in Term 1

Congratulations Year 2 and Year 6. You are

certainly getting it right in the playground

Our aim this term is to work closely with Year One students in order to teach them how to play safely and sensible and respect others and property so that there are less incidents recorded in the playground book in Term Two.

You can do it Year 1!

COMMUNITY NEWS

Incident Number

Disrespect of others/property &

disobedience 27

Physical - hitting, kicking, punching, push-

ing, fighting 25

Verbal - lying, teasing, swearing, name

calling 7

Other - out of bounds, playing in toilets

etc 14

Grade Number

Kindergarten 12

Year 1 28

Year 2 3

Year 3 10

Year 4 9

Year 5 6

Year 6 5