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Congratulate

Next Week’s Mona Vale Manners

Next Week’s Events – Week 10A

Next Term’s Events – Week 1B

Week 10A

Monday September 15th

Choir @ Town Hall

Tuesday September 16th

Regional Spelling Bee Finals @ Collaroy Plateau PS

Wednesday September 17th

Performance Band @ Town Hall

Thursday September 18th

Honour Assembly

Friday September 19th

Last Day of Term

Week 1B

Monday October 6th

Public Holiday

Tuesday October 7th

Students Return

Wednesday October 8th

9am K-2 Athletics Carnival

Thursday October 9th

Friday October 10th

September 12, 2014

Week 10A – Wait for adults to finish their conversation

before speaking to them and remember to say, “Excuse

me,” when you do! (begins Monday 15th September)

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From the Relieving Principal

EXCELLENCE AUSTRALIA MY COUNTRY WRITING COMPETITION

This week we welcomed Avalon RSL Sub Branch President Commodore Graham Sloper to our K-6 assembly to present prizes to our students in the Australia My Country writing competition. Many of our senior students entered this competition and I would like to congratulate James Wainwright (1st place in writing), Daniel Glass (1st place in poetry) and Kelly Xu (2nd place in poetry) on their outstanding achievements. Several students also gained highly commended places: Chloe Bracher, Lorenzo Grillo, Alex Wright, Ciara Smith and Jordan Anderson. Well done to all students.

INNOVATION BYOD INFO EVENING On Tuesday evening we held a BYOD information evening for parents in our Stage 2 (Years 3 & 4) classes. The evening was well attended by parents and lots of interesting questions were asked regarding this initiative currently being trialled in Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6).

Many thanks to Mr Matt Kelson, Miss Peta Gorman and the Stage 2 staff for organising this evening for our community. We are looking forward to moving this initiative into our Year 3 and 4 classes next term.

COMMUNITY ROAD SAFETY

The ongoing issue regarding road safety around our busy school was once again discussed at our P & C meeting on Tuesday evening where Mrs Michelle Carter, Road Safety Officer from Pittwater Council, presented several options which were currently being considered regarding parking around our school perimeter. Meetings to develop solutions will continue into next term, however in the meantime there are many simple steps we can take to assist in keeping our children safe:

Take advantage of the many footpaths currently being constructed around the school perimeter by parking further away and walking on the footpath – additional exercise is an added bonus for all!

Avoid doing u-turns whenever possible as they are highly dangerous – particularly in Wangarra St.

Whilst it is not illegal to do a u-turn into a driveway, it is an incredibly dangerous practice due to the number of children using footpaths who are hard to see behind parked cars.

Make proper use of our Kiss-n-Drop zones around the school by stopping, kissing your child goodbye and allowing them to walk into school independently – a great activity for developing confidence in children.

Do not enter the school carparks to drop off your child, or walk your child through the carparks – please use the internal footpaths instead to avoid accidents.

Please take a moment to look at the road safety posters attached to this newsletter for further ideas and information. Children’s safety is everyone’s responsibility.

WELCOME BACK MR JONES! It is with great delight that we will welcome Mr Jones back to Mona Vale PS next week as he returns from his long service leave abroad. He has had a wonderful time away and I know he is looking forward to saying hello to all the children when he returns.

I would like to thank the school community for their support during my period as Relieving Principal. It has been an honour to lead the school through a very busy and exciting time and I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

Kind regards

Leesa Martin Relieving Principal

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From the Office

Permission to Publish

Permission to Publish notes are due today. If you have not already done so please return these notes to

your teacher on Monday.

PSSA and User Pay Sport Years 3-6

PSSA teams have been chosen and permission and payment notes have been sent home. Please note

PSSA is optional and therefore, payment must be made for students to continue to attend.

User Pay Sport notes will come home to Year 6 on Monday 15 September, Year 5 on Tuesday 16

September, Year 4 on Wednesday 17 September and Year 3 on Thursday 18 September. Students will

be asked to bring their notes and payments back the following day. If your child is away please ask a

friend to bring it in on the appropriate day on your behalf. We are unable to accept fax or email requests.

Sports on offer will be as follows:

Sport Venue Travel Cost Spaces available

Tennis (Tiger Tennis) Mona Vale Public School n/a $60 60

Gymnastics (Northern Beaches Gymnastics)

Northern Beaches Gymnastics

Bus $165 60

Dance (Year 3 & 4 only) Mona Vale Memorial Hall Walking $20 40

Capoeira (Capoeira Brasil) Mona Vale Public School Hall n/a $65 60

AFL (AFL NSW) Mona Vale Public School n/a $35 30

Skate boarding & Scooting (Skater HQ) Mona Vale Public School n/a $85 30

Golf (Bayview Gold Club) Bayview Golf Club Walking $100 25

Sports Academy (Academy of Sport) Narrabeen Academy of Sport Bus $175 60

School Sport Mona Vale Public School n/a Nil Unlimited

Kindergarten 2015 Enrolments

Have you got a sibling, friend or neighbour enrolling in Kindergarten 2015? Please lodge your enrolments

now as we are finalising our class numbers. Please collect an enrolment form from the office.

Regards

Leonie Gallard

School Administration Manager

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Father’s Day Photos

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Sport News

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to all our Regional Athletics competitors. It was brilliant blue sky (for once) at Homebush and Mona Vale were performing brilliantly. We were so proud of all of you. Special mention to Kai Morgan and Owen McNicol for placing 5th in the final- Kai 200m and Owen 100m events. A huge congratulations to our Junior Boys Relay Team who placed 2nd. Max Loudon, Max Oldham, Matty Macarthur and Owen McNicol. They are off to state!!!!!! Woohooo! Go boys.

Lost Property

A student from 3C has lost a USB drive. It is a distinctive design as it looks like a white mummy.

It has a lot of precious work on it. If you find this USB, could you please return it to 3C as soon

as possible.

Thank you

School Disco

Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 Disco Tonight! The Junior Primary Disco which is run by the P&C Band Committee is on tonight from 6:30pm - 8pm in the school hall. All Year 2, Year 3 and Year 4 students are invited. There will be live music by our very talented Stage Band as well as disco music, snacks and prizes. The disco is well supervised by band parents. Tickets ($12) will be sold at the door from 6:20pm. See the flyer in the newsletter for further details. Band information night for all students wishing to join band in 2015 will be held on Wednesday October 15th at 6:30pm in the School Hall. Band Committee

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Canteen News

Thank you to those volunteers who have come along to join the canteen roster this Term.

It’s been great getting to know new school families.

Last Week of Term

As it’s the last week of Term, the Canteen will be running stock down for the holidays. Due to

this you may find on flexischools that certain items will be unavailable. I hope that in these cases

there will be alternatives you can choose. The canteen will be open all week as normal.

Flexischools All our lunch orders are through the flexischools website. If you are not familiar with flexi schools please go to www.flexischools.com.au and

1. Click Register Now and enter your email address 2. You will be emailed a link to complete the registration form with username, password,

contact details and credit card information. 3. Nominate how much you would like to put into your online canteen account. 4. For each of your children click “Add a Student” and the school code is “MVPS” 5. You can start placing advance canteen orders immediately.

Monday 15th Tuesday 16th Wednesday 17th Thursday 18th Friday 19th

Lana Mares Helen Mijakovac

Volunteer Needed

Jo Castle Michelle Le Creurer

Lana Mares

Madeleine Koo Ali Turner

Last Day of Term

Monday 6th Tuesday 7th Wednesday 8th Thursday 9th Friday 10th

Public Holiday

Jenny Dale Linda Newman

Laurence/Ange

Volunteer Needed

Marguerite Kraft Robyn Stonell

Sandra Avadission Corrina Bowman

Juli Shirdon

Enjoy your weekend Rebecca O’Donnell 9997 2442

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Uniform Shop

REGULAR OPENING HOURS

Mondays 2:30pm – 3:00pm Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:30am – 10:30am (When making purchases by cash please keep notes in small denominations)

SUMMER UNIFORMS

The uniform shop summer stock has arrived in preparation for Term 4.

There will be a changeover period on Week 1 and Week 2 with all students in summer uniform by

Week 3.

HATS AND TIES

Hats and ties are always available to purchase from the school canteen.

Orders for uniforms can be placed at any time by completing an order form which is available on

the website. Enclose your order in an envelope (with payment or credit card authority) and leave

it in the grey box at the school office. Uniform purchases can also be processed via

Flexischools. Orders will be forwarded to your child in his/her class as soon as possible.

Profits made during the year in the uniform shop are given back to the P&C to support initiatives

within the school.

Regards

Tracey Cranston Uniform Shop Supervisor tracey.cranston@det.nsw.edu.au Volunteers are always needed so if you can spare a couple of hours once or twice a month

please text Tracey on Mobile 0427 224 893 or contact her via email.