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Tel: 9948 2257 Fax: 9907 0342

WEBSITE: http://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au

Wednesday 15th August, 2018 Term 3, Week 4

Respect Responsibility Aspire

Principal’s ReportDiary Date: P&C Disco Social Night at Manly Golf Club 18th August.

Education Day Open Day Schedule Wednesday 22nd August –Parents and Caregivers are invited to the Manly West K-6 Education Day. Event Times 9:30-10:15am Classrooms Open 10:20-11:20am School Showcase in the Hall will include:

Intermediate Band Bear Pit Speeches Junior and Senior Choirs

Dance Groups—Junior Girls, Senior Girls, Boys Books will be available for sale to donate to the library in the morning near the hall. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden will be open for enjoyment.

Environ Group Artwork will be on display.

3-6 Athletics CarnivalCongratulations to students, staff and parents on the extremely well organized 3-6Athletics Carnival at the Narrabeen Academy of Sport. All the House Captains and

Vice House Captains created a fabulous supportive atmosphere with lots ofenthusiasm and colour. Students were actively involved in all the rotating activitiesand races. Thank you to the Year 9 Mackellar Girls, who displayed outstanding skillsand organisation at all the sporting stations. Thank you to the teaching, office andsupport staff particularly Mrs McMaster and Mrs Gaynor. See Page 8 for photos.

Gold Gold Gold Gold—not one year, not two years but three years consecutively. Congratulations to the Training, Intermediate, Concert and Performance Band each being awarded Gold at the UNSW Band

Festival. This is the third year consecutively that Manly West have won

Gold for every band. It is an amazing achievement and unprecedented. Thank you to the wonderfully talented Penny Coucill, the students, the band tutors and all the supporting parents.

SRC Drought Appeal –Thursday 23rd August Thank you to the SRC for their decision making today about the drought and desperate situation for our farmers. Next Thursday, the SRC have asked everyone to wear mufti with a touch of country life. We are supporting the Fiver for a Farmer appeal started by Jack Berne from St John the Baptist Primary School.

‘Manly West on Broadway’ Production K-6 17-20th September Next week in the newsletter, we will present the schedule for all classes for the production week. This will include at least one night and one matinee performance for each class. We will also let parents and caregivers know when

the tickets will go on sale using TryBooking.

Student News Congratulations to Bart Oostdijk for finishing the City 2 Surf in 1h:32m. Bart finished 261st in a total field of 1,491 runners under 12.

Mrs Julie Organ Street Library is opening next week.

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From the Deputy’s Desk

Congratulations to the following students for gaining 4 Expectation Cards to receive an

Expectation Certificate: Thomas Bell, Emily Murphy, Juliet Yardley, Rafferty

Lucas, Matthew Namkung, Lily Wheat, Isaac kriletic, Indiana Hadnam, Henry

Whitehead, Noah Namkung, Jesse Matheson, Thomas Dalton, Mitchell

Swanson x 2, Freddie Cowdery, Johan Thompson, Marcus Williams, Eliana Hobbs, Rosie

Locke-Gardiner, Isabel Wimpole, George O'Mahony, Mimi Lofgren, Lucy Whitehead, Ella

Hodgkinson, Molly Del Bene, Quinn Waaka, Stella Lewis, Thomas Kiernan, Richard Yang, Ayden

Ward, Savannah Galaxe-Clarke and Xavier Kirby.

Special congratulations to Thomas Bell, Marcus Williams, Henry Whitehead and Xavier Kirby for

receiving a Bronze Banner.

Students are taking responsibility collecting their Expectation Cards that reflect our school expectations of Respect, Responsibility and Aspire. Once a student has collected 4 Expectation Cards they take them to the Award Centre outside the Primary DP Office (Years 3-6) or to myself (Years K-2). If I am not in the office, students either place them in the red tin that I take to assembly each week or on my chair.

An Expectation Certificate is then presented at respective Primary or K-2 assemblies. As K-2 assemblies take place each Friday, students need to deliver their 4 expectation cards to my office by Thursday afternoon.

https://manlywest-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/learning-at-our-school/scholarships-and-awards.html

Primary Assembly Thursday 2:20 alternate weeks K-2 Assembly Friday 12:30 weekly

Parent Survey re K-2 Athletics Carnival A survey regarding the K-2 Athletics Carnival was emailed to K-2 parents today. Your feedback is important to us and will help us plan for 2019. Please complete online by Friday 24th August.

https://goo.gl/forms/cfO0wHxb5mDLG8eI2

Year 2 Excursion Year 2 walked to Manly on Monday to complement their History unit, ‘Past and Present’. This morning I had the privilege of discussing the tour with 2M and 2B and was very impressed with their collective knowledge and interest in historical Manly. Thank you to Mr Oliver Messent for

organising the excursion and sharing his wealth of knowledge. Thank you also to the many parents who assisted on the day.

Medical Reminder

If your child has a medical diagnosis that requires an Individual Health Plan and an Emergency Care/Response Plan such as anaphylaxis or asthma, it is

parent responsibility to provide both the plans and medication to school before the respective expiry dates. Our office staff spend countless

unnecessary hours chasing medical forms. Please assist our office staff by taking note of these expiry dates and replacing both medication and Emergency Care/Response Plans before the respective expiry dates. All Medical forms are available on the website under the ‘School Notes’ tab.

https://manlywest-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/school-notes.html

Mrs Wendy Mwanga

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From the Deputy’s Desk

Congratulations to the following students who have received an Expectation Certificate;

Ashley Corn, Banjo Kirkham, Theodore Ray, Leon De lBene, Catriona Bowring,

Amalia Mauricio, Clara Smith, Orla Beacham x 2Elisabeth Hamlyn, Ben Mooney,

Jack Mooney x 2, Miles Morton, Elizabeth Enriquez, Sophie Stacker, Eve Massey,

Jorja Kearnes, Zach Pawley, Chase Murray, Joel Murray x 3, Summer Opadchy and

Lachie Howe.

Bronze Banner: Lachlan Howe

Bounce Back Parent Workshop - September 3rd 6:00pm We will be presenting a workshop presented by Cliona Mulloy. Cliona has worked at Manly West as our school counsellor in the past.

As part of the Department of Education’s Wellbeing Framework, Manly West is continuing to implement the

Bounce Back program which is an evidence-based program across K-6. The Bounce Back, Wellbeing and Resilience program teaches children the skills and attitudes to help them become more resilient. It uses literature as a starting point for discussions and follow-up activities. If you would like to attend the workshop,

please email the school with Bounce Back Parent Workshop in the subject line. Please indicate your name, child’s name and their class in the body of the email.

Date: Monday 3rd September 2018

Time: 6:00pm Venue: School Hall

ICAS Mathematics Competition Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 Congratulations to all of the students who sat the ICAS Mathematics competition. Students who forgot or were unaware of the change of date were given the opportunity to sit the exam later in the day.

Reminder: What is bullying? How can you help your child if they are being bullied or are bullying others?

Most children occasionally get teased or annoyed by other children at school. Responding to this is one of the common challenges that children have to face at school. Being bullied is more serious. Bullying is when one child (or a group) repeatedly and deliberately uses negative words and/or hostile actions against one specific child that causes distress.

Bullying can be:

Physical (e.g. hitting, pushing or damaging personal property)

Verbal (e.g. insults or nasty name-calling)

Social (e.g. trying to socially isolate someone by spreading lies or rumours about them or

stopping them from joining in)

Cyberbullying: this means using technology (such as email, mobile phones or social

networking sites) to bully someone verbally or socially or to frighten or intimidate them. It isn’t called bullying if any of these things happen only once, if children have a mutual argument or fight, or if a child chooses not to spend time with another child.

Miss Catherine Wyles

Relieving Deputy Principal

The PBEL for this week is : Responsibility

Before school, play in the correct areas and

only use small balls.

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Diary Dates

Thursday 16th August

9:00—1:00pm Primary Proms Rehearsal Years 3 & 4

11:40-1:10pm Year 4 Bear Pit Final in Hall

Friday 17th August

Stage 2 Bear Pit final Stage 2 in New BASC

12:30pm K-2 Assembly

Saturday 18th August

P&C Blue Light Disco at Gold Club

Tuesday 21st August

Author Michael Salmon visit to Library

Wednesday 22nd August

9:20-10:15am Education Open Day—Open Classrooms

10:20-11:20am Hall Performances

Thursday 23rd August

Mufti Day—Fiver for a Farmer

Library News

Hip, hip hurray for the following super readers who have completed the 2018 Premier’s Reading Challenge: Thomas Dalton (2M), Henry Whitehead (2W), Jodie Lewis (5F), Eva Watts (3B), Felix Elwin (3/4B), Ben Coghlan (2B), Zoe Palmer (KOrange), Ava Nicolson (6T), Ella Cotton (5D), Zachary Pawley (4J), Austin Holley (3G),Grace Kirby (3/4B), Emily Alver (5F), Sia Field (3B), Katie Gallinetti (2M), Eleanor Lucas (6C), Aliyah Gannon (KOrange), Summer Opadchy (4W) & Olivia Murphy (KSilver)! All Manly West

readers have only until Friday, August 31st, 2018 to enter their books onto their Student Reading Record online at https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/studentExperience.html#/ . This is especially important for those in Year 3 to achieve 4 years in a row for their GOLD certificate and for Year 6 to achieve 7 years in a row for their

PLATINUM certificate. You’ve already done the reading in class and for homework, so now just get your Reading Record into Mrs. Burke or I in the library for all your prizes & reading glory! Just over 2 weeks to go…!

Just in time for Book Week, the terrific Suzanne Cairns has reupholstered more chairs and benches to make our school library sparkle! Thank you so much for your persistence & hard work – the children love reading & sharing on the new, shiny furniture!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2018 – Fair dinkum author illustrator Michael Salmon will present to all classes in the hall throughout the day, have some of his books on sale & hold a book signing of those you buy for your home

library. Order forms are available in the office and library, but there will be a selection of titles available on the day. Parents and younger siblings are welcome to any session (10:20 am, 12:10 pm or 2:15 pm).

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 – As part of the Education Open Day celebrations, there will be a selection of brand new library books for a small donation of $5, $10 or $15. Your child’s name will be put on a special donation sticker for all to see when the book gets borrowed, so every reader will see which generous student has given a fantastic book of stories, facts or fantasy to Manly West Library! The student who donates the book gets to borrow it first and leave a lasting legacy in the library for many years to come! Hope to see you at the

COLA by the hall. Books will be on display to donate from 8:50 am until 11:20 am. After visiting your child/ren’s classrooms, come by to donate the gift of reading and wonder. Hope to see you then!

Mrs Ellen Swick

Uniform Shop

Thursday 23rd August

8:45-9:45am

Monday 27th August 2:45-3:45pm

Chook Roster

Saturday 18th August

Kozlinski family

Sunday 19th August

Alver family

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Band News

Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold......awarded to all four Manly West Bands at the NSW Band Festival last

weekend.

For the third year in a row, all bands impressed the adjudicators with their musical prowess. Thank

you to Penny for your unwavering dedication, our talented group of tutors and the very supportive

parents and carers who work together in bringing the Bands together. And most of all a massive

thank you to the students for your practice and commitment. We hope you really enjoyed the

experience.

Next Up on the Calendar:

Wednesday August 22, Education Week at Manly West

Intermediate Band will perform at 10.20am in the Hall. Normal uniform to be worn.

Thursday August 23, Manly Selective Performance at Manly West

Years 7-8 from Manly Selective will put on a concert for various classes at Manly West. The

Performance Band will also play.

Invoice Reminder:

Don’t forget that invoices are due and payable on or before 24 August. If you have any queries

please contact Nicole Macnicol on 0400 401 650 or email band@manlywestpandc.org.au

Environ Group News The Enviro Group have been busy creating an artwork for

the NSW Threatened Species Children’s Art

Competition. They researched a threatened species,

discussed ways to help these species and created an

artwork. These artworks will be exhibited outside the hall

on our open day next Wednesday. We hope you enjoy

looking at them as much as we enjoyed making them!

Mrs Nicola Wilson

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Kitchen Garden

In the Kitchen Garden this week...

At Manly West we're continuing the War on Waste. Tune in to watch the latest episode on iView. It's highly recommended family viewing.

Year 4 in the Garden—Bees Wax Wraps

In an effort to reduce the use of single-use plastic like clingfilm in the environment, Year 4 are learning how to make beeswax wraps. They will each be making a wrap in class over the next couple of weeks and will be able to bring it home for use in their lunchboxes etc.

Garden Library

5M have finished the installation of the seating and decoration of the area around the Garden Library. Come and have a look, it's under the tree next to the chook run. The Garden Library will be open at lunchtimes for quiet reading. The motto is "Read a Book, Return the Book". The books are not available to be borrowed, they are for reading in the garden only. Books Needed - following on from this we are looking for donations of garden-related fiction or non-fiction picture-type books. For example, books on insects, flowers, plants, growing things, bush tucker, native plants,

native animals etc. If you have something you think is suitable, please cover it with contact and drop it off to me at garden shed on Wednesdays or Thursdays.

Native Bee Hotels I'm working with 5F this week to start planning the construction of our new B & B Hotels for native bees and insects. Insects are really important in the garden as pollinators and pest killers so by providing their 'bed'' in the hotel and their 'breakfast' in the garden they will hopefully make the garden their home.

Science Week It's Science Week this week. Check out https://www.scienceweek.net.au/ on events happening around Sydney.

Small-space edible gardening course Aimed at beginners who would like to know how to start growing their own food. The course covers basic

composting and worm farming. It's at Manly West Kitchen Garden, on Sept 9th. Bookings are essential. All details are on the website http://www.permaculturenorthernbeaches.org.au/events/

Compost turning and watering help

Thankyou so much to those that have already signed up! If not, can you please go to SignUp Genius search under my email address angie.penn@unswalumni.com for "Kitchen Garden Helpers". We ask that anyone who is bringing scraps from home to add to the school compost bins, please sign up at least once per term to help turn

the compost bins.

Thanks Angie Penn and Beth Dowdle

Chess News

Congratulations to Tara Smith, Alex Vissarion, Kasper

Lowe, John Engledew, Noah Zingsheim-Smith, Zander

Highland, Louie Hurlow, Hamish Barton and Tom

Lawler for representing Manly West in the NSW Junior

Chess League. Across 10 weeks, these nine

students played chess games against other schools on

the Northern Beaches every Friday afternoon. Thank

you so much to Yolanda, Gary, Joyce, Marius, Carmen,

Radu, David and Kylie for your help in

driving the students to the away games, supervising

them, providing delicious snacks for the home games

and cleaning up afterwards.

Mr Oliver Messent

www.manlywestpandc.org.au

BIGGEST FUNDRAISER FOR 2018!

Enjoy a welcome drink - two course meal -

great entertainment - raffles, auctions and more!

Watch the Bledisloe Cup on the screen and dance the

night away. For those not into dancing, there’ll be

plenty of break out areas to sit, mingle and catch up

with friends over a refreshing drink.

The mega raffles are worth a minimum of $500 each:

Date Night

Wellness pack

Backyard BBQ Bash

Family fun pack

Kids holiday pack.

We also have the school production front row seats

to auction and a number of other items yet to be

allocated to raffles or auctions.

Dressing up is definitely part of the fun but it is

purely optional!

$75 per person

Ticket price includes a small donation to the school.

Book now: www.trybooking.com/WRHQ

Take a musical journey from the early 70’s until now

the BLD is a guaranteed great night out!

THIS SATURDAY

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Manly West Athletics Carnival Years 3—6

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Manly West Before & After School CareCENTRE NEWS

Our Incursion program continues this week. Reminder: If possible, we would ask parents to collect

their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

W/C 13/8 (Week 4) W/C 20/8 (Week 5)

K-2 Tuesday – Fit Kids Sports Thursday – Go Go Play Sports

Club 3/4 Friday – Skateboarding Yr 4 Friday – Skateboarding Yr 3

Osmo & Ipads Yr 3 Osmo & Ipads Yr 4

5/6 Club Thursday – Go Go Play Sports Tuesday – Fit Kids Sports

Reports from our Room Leaders about some of the other activities this week –

Lauren K-2 room: This week we will be finishing our kindy wall, drawing the Manly Ferry, designing

cardboard skateboard decks and poster designs. Outdoors we are playing 4 way soccer, kick tennis with a

twist, hockey, touch footy and having running races.

Felix & Ben 3/4 club: We will be getting creative this week with some crazy critter art creations. We’ll

also be designing some great Lego scenes which will be on show for the parents to see later in the week.

As well we will make use of our new ping pong basketball hoop with lots of fun and exciting challenges to

complete!

Aidan 5/6 room: This week the kids will be designing artworks to be transferred onto canvas, decorating

and painting tiles which they can take home and working on posters for our Cupcake Fundraiser for the

RSPCA*. Outside we will be trying out a new game called corners as well as the usual coloured

equipment visits.

You can look at the full list of programmed activities and our menus displayed in each room!

* Manly West BASC is hosting a RSPCA Cupcake Day event to fight animal cruelty on Friday 17 August at3.45pm in the Toone Room – a gold coin donation for a cupcake!

Canteen News Canteen roster for Term 3 2018, week 4

Monday 20 August Tuesday 21 August Wednesday 22 August Alexandra Gaunt AM Emma Campbell AM Claire Poole AM Stefanie Zingsheim AM Arnisa Skrami AM Nathan Smith AM VACANCY AM VACANCY AM Marta Mensdsorff AM Sacha Berwick PM Natalya Hansson PM Genie Graham-Smith PM

Simone Massey PM Danielle Oerlemans PM Laura Newton PM

Thursday 23 August Friday 24 August Bernie McGuirk AM Audrey Watson AM Friday PSSA and after school VACANCY AM Bob Cairns AM Ignacio Martinic AM Sandra Shepherd AM VACANCY Kate Mooney PM VACANCY AM VACANCY

Jan Rowland PM Kimberley Howe PM

Micheal Egan PM VACANCY PM

The AM shift runs from 9.30am-12pm, and the PM shift from 12-2pm.

You can sign up for shifts using SignUp . Just go to the new address https://www.manlywestpandc.org.au/

volunteer and click on the Volunteer button SignUp will send you reminders for your chosen day You can also contact us by email mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call Shona or Yvette on 9948 2257 or come and see us.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Events and Fundraising

www.manlywestpandc.org.au

BLUE LIGHT DISCO Volunteers are needed to

help to set up, sell raffle

tickets and pack down.

One hour shifts

Saturday, 18th or

Sunday 19th August

Sign-up here

http://signup.com/go/RKaKRTj

VOLUNTEEERS NEEDED

FATHER’S DAY STALL Volunteers are needed to

help set up, pack down and

sell gifts on the stall.

One hour shifts

Friday, 31 August

Times available between

8:30am and 12:30pm

You may sign up for one or

more shifts

Sign-up here http://signup.com/go/AFNkRCE

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