Principal’s Message It has been fantastic this week to watch our students work to meet the high expectations of their teachers. As the term progresses and our routine develops your teachers will be working with the students to grow their understanding of why high expectations are an important part of learning and how using this strategy helps students develop to their full potential. Having high expectations does not mean riding a student and punishing them when they don’t perform. It does, however, mean that you spur all your students on to do their best and you don’t accept less from a student you know can perform better. This may mean that you give them the opportunity to redo a test or a task because you know that they can achieve more. Students will come to understand that there is nothing they cannot learn. That together we will find a way to make achieving learning goals a successful experience for all our students. Our Murringo public school students have already demonstrated an impressive willingness to set themselves interesting and challenging goals. I am looking forward to working with them to achieve those goals throughout the year and celebrating their progress with our community. P&C Meeting Thank you to all our community members who were able to get back to us about what time best suited for the upcoming P&C meeting. We appreciate that everyone is busy these days with commitments, we have done our best to try and meet everyone close to the middle. The upcoming P&C general meeting will take place on Monday, 9th March, starting at 7.30pm. At this stage we will be able to have the meeting at school, following Covid plans and protocols. I look forward to seeing you all there.

Music Lessons There are still limited places available if your child would like to learn a musical instrument or develop their singing voice with music lessons at school. We are very lucky to have 2 instructors from the Young school of Music visit Murringo primary each week. If you would like to learn drums, guitar, ukulele, piano or learn to sing please contact Young School of Music on (02) 6382 5735 to take part in the lessons on Monday and Thursday at Murringo Public School.

Murringo Public School Newsletter

Term One Week Four 2021

Parent Teacher Interviews Parent teacher interviews will be held in week nine of term one. These interviews are an opportunity to touch base with your child’s teacher, discuss your child’s areas of strength as well as any particular skills that they may need to focus on. This is a great time to share with the teacher your child’s interests and activities as well as any concerns that you may have. Notes will come home in week five, please provide at least two options for times that might suit. We will do our best to ensure that families with more than one child at school have their interviews streamlined. We look forward to seeing you all. Birthdays We are wishing a happy, happy birthday to this week's three birthday kids. We hope you had an amazing day. 15 Feb – Charlie Longhurst 17 Feb – Eddy Dunn 20 Feb – Lexie McGovern

Lower Division News Lower Division have had their first full week of ‘normal’ learning at school and regular routines, without the interruptions of swimming lessons. In literacy we continued to learn our phonics sounds (this week: c/k, e, h, r) and tricky words (be, was, to, do). We completed our reading groups where we are learning to recognise sight words in books, point to each word as we say it out loud, know which direction and line to read next and read simple texts. I’m sure all parents will be impressed with how ‘easy’ home reading seems to be for their child so far. We have also begun some early sentence work where we recognised the differences between pictures, letters, words and sentences and also had a practice at composing our very first sentence. My name is …. In maths we have been practicing counting forwards and backwards to 20 and trying to recognise these numbers. Most students have mastered numbers 0-10 and we will continue to focus on the ‘teen’ numbers in the next coming weeks. We have spent a lot of time practicing number formation, where lots of little people are finding 2 and 5 quite tricky to write. Practice makes perfect! Our mini whiteboards come in so handy for repetitive practice. Last we week began our PDHPE lessons where we labelled the human body and talked about some similarities and differences between people and their bodies and body parts. Do you have long hair or short hair? Brown eyes or blue? This led smoothly into our Science lesson where we thought about the different ways our bodies can move and practiced moving in particular ways. Can your body: run, jump, climb, balance, roll, stop and stay still?

Middle Division News This week has been another busy one for Middle Division. Some of the older students in Year 2 attended the swimming carnival and tried their best in all their events. We also worked on the sound ‘a for apple’ in our spelling and Sound Waves work. In Maths we started looking at addition and ensured we knew our combinations to 10, I think most of us have it now! Ask your middle division child some friends of 10 and see what they say! We continued to look at forces in Science with friction and gravity. The students definitely know about pushing and pulling and are now thinking about how friction and gravity affect them and objects in their daily lives. In health we continued to think about how we were similar but also different and if we were all the same it would be quite a boring world, but with so many differences between us we can be friends with people who bring interesting things for us to learn, different cultures for us to experience and although we are all the same on the inside (basically) it doesn’t matter what we look like on the outside we can still be friends with everybody. These differences make us unique. Please remember homework is due on FRIDAYS for middle division, home readers can be returned every day for a new one to make sure we are reading every night. Looking forward to a fantastic Week 5 with lots more fun learning to come.

Upper Division News Upper Division are riding high this week on their incredible swimming carnival victory. Thank you again to all our family members who were able to attend, we loved having you all at an event after such a long time without you. We are discovering data this week in Upper Division, ways to collect it, display and analyse it. We are working on creating correct graphs, using correct labels and accurate measurements. We are also learning how to interpret the information displayed in a graph. All the students have made excellent progress with their spelling and book work has been improving steadily. We have begun to focus on developing our handwriting. Making sure all the letters we write are correctly formed. This will be a big help, especially for the 5/6 students as they move to cursive writing, as well as for the year 3 /4 students if they would like to earn their pen license soon. The year 5/6 students have been learning about subordinating and coordination conjunctions and how they can improve their writing, quick quiz them at home, ask what FANBOYS stands for and what type of sentence we most commonly see them in. 3/ 4 have been practising beginning sentences with more interesting openers. They have been using the VCOP openers pyramid to help them. Challenge them at home to use the words that are the foundation (bottom) of the pyramid to create some amazing sentences.

Kitchen Garden

The students have been very busy planting in the garden over the last couple of weeks. We have kids that are very excited as they water and care for the plants whilst watching them grow.

Bus Times

This is a very important reminder that we need to be very vigilant when keeping to the bus times both in the mornings and in the afternoons. Parents need to have their children ready at the bus stops every school morning as the bus cannot wait for your child to turn up. The bus drivers are required to be on time as they have to connect up with other buses to transport our students to school. In the afternoons, parents must be at the bus stop and ready to collect your child or children off the bus as it arrives. Again, bus drivers cannot be babysitters waiting for someone to turn up to collect students.

If we do not adhere to these rules, there is a chance that we could lose the bus connection to Young entirely which would be very sad since we just got this great service.

Covid Updates

Covid restrictions still currently apply in schools, we have been advised that parents and visitors are not to enter the school grounds unless absolutely necessary.

If you would like to meet with your child’s teacher, please contact the school so that a meeting can be arranged using current covid plans. Care Flight Bears We have been lucky enough to be given 18 new Care Flight Bears and so we are offering them to our families. If you would like one, we are accepting kind donations which will passed onto the charity Care Flight from the students of Murringo Public School. First in best dressed. So get in quick as they are adorable. Awards Congratulations to all the extraordinary award winners this week!

Young Small Schools Swimming Carnival Congratulations to all our students who took part in this year's Young Small School’s swimming carnival. We enjoyed the beautiful weather that was put on for us and there were some proud parents and staff members watching our amazing swimmers give it their all. Lots of kids swam in 50 metre races for the first time and some swam their first 25 metres for the first time. A huge thank you to Maimuru Public School who organised the event and all our other small school's network colleagues and staff. The day ran incredibly smoothly, and our students had a fantastic time.

Our students performed exceptionally, participating in all events for which they were eligible, earning points for our school and enjoying the time in the pool. We were very excited to find that we had earned the winner's trophy at the end of the day. We also learnt that our P5 relay team, Georgia, Sienna, Malayah and Jack had broken the relay record which was held by Greenethorpe since 1993. Georgia broke another 3 records - WOW and they were Junior Backstroke 50m, Junior Breaststroke 50m and junior Butterfly 50m and Sienna, to finish off the day in amazing form also broke the record in the Senior 50m Butterfly. Well done girls! Some of the amazing achievements on the day also included: Sienna – 1st 200IM, 50m Fly, 50m Back, 50m Breast, 50m Free, 100m Free – Age Champion Jack – 1st 200IM, 50m Back, 50m Breast, 50m Free – Age Champion Georgia – 1st 50m Back, 50m Breast, 50m Free, 50m Fly, 2nd 200IM, 100m Free – Age Champ Lexie – 2nd 50m Free Jaycee – 3rd 50m Breast Zaviar – 1st 100m Free, 50m Free, 50m Back, 50m Breast, 50m Fly, 2nd 200IM – Age Champion Addy – 3rd 50m Back, 2nd 50m Breast, 50m Free, 50m Fly - R/Up Age Champion Gus – 1st 50m Free Brooke – 2nd 50m Back , 3rd 50m Fly, 50m Free, 50m Breast, Bailey – 3rd 50m Fly Nat – 1st 50m Free Malayah – 1st 50m Fly, 50m Breast, 2nd 50m Back, 3rd 50m Free, 200IM – Age Champion Tahlea – 2nd 50m Fly, 2nd 50m Breast, 3rd 50m Back, 3rd Free - R/Up Age Champion Charlie – 1st 50m Breast, 50m Fly, 2nd 50m Fee - Age Champion Jimmy – 1st 50m Free, !st 50m Back, 2nd 50m Breast, 3rd 100m Free - R/Up Age Champion 1st Medley Relay Boys 1st Medley Relay Girls 1st PP5 4x50m Freestyle Relay

Contact Us Relieving Principal: Alison Jackson Senior Admin Manager: Gina Galvin Address: 91 Murringo Gap Rd, Murringo, NSW, 2586 School Number: (02) 63846351 School Email: Murringo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal’s Email: Alison.jackson@det.nsw.edu.au

School Calendar We have included the dates that we know about at this stage. When there are new dates added, they will be in red. Please mark these dates on your calendar or put this calendar in a prominent spot at home, so that you can keep up to date with what is going on.

Week Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun 5 22 Feb

23 Feb

24 Feb

Ice Block Day 25 Feb District

Swimming In Young

26 Feb

27 Feb

28 Feb

6 1 March

2 March

3 March Ice Block Day

4 March Playgroup for Kinders

5 March Clean Up

Australia Day at School

6 March

7 March Clean Up Australia

Day 7

Healthy Lunch box

Week

8 March P&C

General Meeting at

7.30pm

9 March

10 March Ice Block Day

Regional Swimming in Leeton

11 March

12 March

13 March

14 March

8 Harmony

Week

15 March

16 March

17 March Ice Block Day

18 March Playgroup for Kinders

19 March National Ride to

School Day

20 March

21 March

9 22 March

23 March YSS Athletics Carnival in

Young

24 March Ice Block Day

Hockey Gala

Day

25 March

26 March

27 March

28 March

10 29 March

30 March YSS Athletics

Carnival (Back up

date)

31 March Ice Block Day

1 April Playgroup for Kinders

Last day Term 1

Assembly

2 April Good Friday

Holidays

3 April

4 April

LOADER’S COACHES PTY LTD

COMMONS ROAD APPROVED BUS EXTENSION AS OF 27th January 2021

AM SERVICE

7.33 am Depart Bus Depot – Mackenzie Street

7.40 am Depart Bus Stop One – Young High School Bus Bay Campbell Street

7.45 am Depart Bus Stop Two – Young Railway Station

7.53 am Arrive Wambanumba Drive/bus exchange – Taylors Bus Service – Drop off

8.08 am Bus departs to commence original section of run.

8.15 am 31 Commons Road.

8.18 am Batinich’s Lane.

8.20 am t/a Commons Road.

8.22 am Cnr Friends Lane

8.25 am 110 Whiteman Avenue.

8.28 am Hennessy Catholic College – Drop off

8.30 am Young High School – Drop Off

8.32 am Young Public school – Drop Off.

8.36 am St Mary’s Primary School – Drop Off

8.40 am Young North Primary School – Drop Off

8.52 am Return to depot – Mackenzie Street.

PM SERVICE

2.55 pm Depart depot – Mackenzie Street.

3.14 pm Young Public School – Pick up

3.20 pm St Mary’s Primary School – Pick up

3.23 pm Young North Primary School – Pick up

3.26 pm Hennessy Catholic College – Pick up

3.29 pm Young High School – Pick up

3.33 pm 110 Whiteman Avenue

3.36 pm 31 Commons Road

3.37 pm Batinichs Lane

3.40 pm 140 Commons Road

3.52 pm Wambanumba Bus Exchange (Taylor’s Bus Service arrives) – Pick up

3.54 pm t/a Wambanumba Drive

4.04 pm Young Railway Station – Bus Stop (north side) – Drop off

4.06 pm Young High School Bus Bay/Campbell St (south side) – Drop off

4.20 pm Return to depot – Mackenzie Street