From the Principal

Monday 4th May 2015 Term 2 Week 3

MORGIE NEWS

Important Dates

Thursday 7th May

Mothers’ Day Stalls from 9am

Mothers’ Day Morning Tea 10.45am

Friday 15th May

Broken Hill Cross Country

Principal: Mr Chisholm Bloch Telephone: 08 8087 5155 morganst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Several messages this week – Firstly congratulations to every child who ran the cross country course on Friday, we are proud of every one of you for the big effort you put in. Coming first can only happen for one person, being a winner by participating is what all runners achieved. Well done.

ANAPHYLAXIS – all staff have completed the required training to manage this life threatening situation should it arise. We ask families to take into account what goes into lunchboxes and comes to school for lunch and morning tea and assist by not including peanut and tree nut products at morning tea and lunch and encouraging children to not share food and to wash their hands after eating and to report to a teacher if another student looks to be unwell after eating.

Circus ticket — Mr Bloch has been given a family pass to the circus which he is willing to give away to the best entry in a little competition. The answer to this question What makes Morgan Street Public School the fantastic place it is? (25 words), delivered by Thursday afternoon to Mr Bloch – presentation at Assembly Friday. Good Luck.

Two new programs began last week in the school , both receiving thumbs up from students and staff. I was able to visit the high energy of Born to Run being delivered as PDHPE this term across grades 2 to 6. Friends for Life began in grades 3 and grades 6 with positive feedback so well done to our program deliverers as they are well organised and the students are enjoying the fresh input. Parents are requested to check if they have paid the $5 for the Friends workbook and do so ASAP.

CANTEEN — the great news is the announcement of a refurbishment of our canteen and the Air conditioners in our school with a dollar figure of $180,000 being recently revealed for the whole project. Sadly though, if we cannot get the numbers of helpers to improve it may lead to a review of how many days we can actually have the canteen open. This would be sad as we have such a healthy vibrant canteen where it is always a pleasure to buy your lunch. Maybe you also saw the weekend media reports of how “Healthy Canteens” are in trouble in many schools. If you can offer up even just a couple of hours especially towards the end of the week Marni will be delighted.

NOTES SENT HOME RECENTLY

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

NOTE WHO? ACTION

Mothers’ Day Morning Tea and

Gift Reminder

K-6 Come and be apart of our

Mothers’ Day Morning Tea

Born To Move Years 3-6 Return permission notes & money

Stewart House Envelopes K-6 Return by Friday 8th May

Mothers’ Day Gifts/Cake donations K-6 Thursday 7th May

Friends For Life reminder notes Years 3-6 Send in $5 for student work book

KK Natalia Kloczko

Chace Glover

KM Kaydence Beavan-Kemp

Keiran King

KS Isabella Sprigg

Molly Jones

1F Dougall Hughes

Sonnie Zarko

1K Zak Lawrence

Macey Howse

2GK Demi Chrisakis

Nate Stenhouse

2V Kaden Taplin

Natalie Macharia

Mrs Loomes: Aleesha Burgess

Evelyn Mann.

Mrs Dougherty: Tyson Daly, Morris

Schaefer and Annastasija Pagano.

Peer Awards: Bella Ware, Dakota

Gibson, Nala Rawlins, Siere Hawes,

Thomas Gogler, Max Thompson, Ashwin

Murugappa, Riannah Read, Hannah

Campbell, Morris Schaefer, Piper Murray

and Andrew Spencer.

KK KM 1K 1F 3C 5/4G 6M

3B Hannah Beitzel

Tyler West

3C Jayden Beavan-Gilby

Ned Schaefer

4S Lucas Thompson

Grace Johnson

5/4G Lauren Slattery

Owen Haynes

5W Faith Vigar

Bo-Dean Daniels

6E Jaycee Johnson

Tyson Daly

6M Brooklyn Gibson

Ruby Gaiter

CROSS COUNTRY ROUND UP

AGE CHAMPIONS

12/13 Year Boys

Champion Aedyn Goodman

Runner-up Oscar Jones

12/13 Year Girls

Champion Brooklyn Gibson

Runner-up Kalliopi D’Souza

11Year Boys

Champion Mason Crabb

Runner-up Ben Milnes

11Year Girls

Champion Trinity Connor

Runner-up Elise Turtur

10 Year Boys

Champion Coen Tonkin

Runner-up Jay Cannard

10 Year Girls

Champion Madison Maguire

Runner-up Bella Jeans

7,8,9 Year Boys

Champion Layne Berryman

Runner-up Isaac Jones

7, 8, 9 Year Girls

Champion Lily Jones

Runner-up Ava Hinton

We had a fantastic carnival at

school on Friday morning. So

many keen, energetic Morgies

running their hearts out for their

teams. So good to see such

enthusiasm and involvement.

Our Champions

It was a very close carnival with only a few points between each house, but HARDING was the winner on

324 points. Flynn came second, followed closely by RASP. Congratulations to all runners and a big pat on

the back to the Champions and runner-ups for each age division. The first six runners in each division will be invited to participate in the Broken Hill Cross Country Carnival at

the Memorial Oval on Friday 15th May, 2015. They will receive a note later in the week.

CLASS NEWS

Fire Safety

Talk!

Friday Week 2

During Week 1 KM had a discussion about fire safety and what we are required to do if there is a

fire. After the conversation Ethan put his hand up and said “My Dad is a fireman, maybe he

could come and talk to us”. After this discussion we organised for the local firemen to come and

visit our class.

During our visit from the firemen we learnt to:

Use the hose to

put

out fires

GET DOWN LOW

AND

GO GO GO!

STOP, DROP

AND ROLL

If our clothes

are on fire

Call 000

if there is a

fire

By KM

Tuesday 5th May Shirley Beven, Crystal Hammond

Wednesday 6th May Kerry Murray

Thursday 7th May Canteen will be closed at RECESS

Friday 8th May Christine Bloomfield

We are still in desperate need of helpers, if you can spare an hour or two please call

Marni on 0417 696 700

“Proud Morgies learning together”

Next week there will be a small change to the PBL

News section of our newsletter. It will change to the

title of PROUD NEWS.

PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning) is the framework

we use to implement new programs, monitor them

and make changes into how our school runs. PBL is

designed to promote student wellbeing and the best

learning environment we can provide our students.

However, PROUD is both our motto and our rules at

MSPS, and this is what drives the initiatives we use in

our school. PROUD is a daily part of what we do, how

we do things and why we do things at MSPS. Our

reward systems are based on PROUD and so are the

lessons we learn in every classroom about what it is to

be PROUD and how we show it. This small change will

keep the focus on why we use the PBL framework in

our school, but at the same time put the spotlight on

what MSPS is all about - being PROUD every day!

Keep up the great work Morgies!

COMMUNITY NEWS

Mother’s Day Update.

Thank you to everyone who has returned the helper notes. If you haven’t had a chance to put

one in yet it would be great to get it in by tomorrow, so we can finalise all the details for the

day. As I mentioned last week, we are worried about running out of cakes and some mums

missing out on morning tea with their little ones, so on the day each adult can buy 2 plates of

cakes at a time. We have also bought some new chairs to improve the availability of seats. Hopefully you

have all been busy getting your baking organised so the day can be the best it can be!

Happy baking and we look forward to seeing you all on Thursday 7th

May at 10.45am

Your P&C

The glamorous story of Australian fashion

photography is revealed in:

Flashback: 160 years of Australian Fashion

Photos.

A new travelling display.

Broken Hill City Library from

20th April to 7th May.