SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Week 10, Term 2, 2023

Farewell Mrs Rogers

It is with a mixture of joy, sadness, and immense gratitude that I write to you today. After an extraordinary career spanning four decades, our esteemed Deputy Principal, Ros Rogers, is set to embark on a well-deserved retirement. It is an opportune moment for us to express our heartfelt appreciation for her unwavering dedication, exceptional leadership, and unparalleled commitment to our school community.

Mrs Rogers (a former MPS student herself) started teaching here in 1983. Between 1984 and 1988, she worked at Gulgong PS, CVPS and then Teacher-in-charge at Wollar PS before returning to Mudgee PS as a permanent teacher in 1989. Many of our parents reading this article have been taught by Mrs Rogers and I'm sure that many of you would be appreciative of her leadership in one way or another.

Ros has played an integral role in shaping our school into what it is today. Her tenure of over four decades with the Department of Education has been marked by a relentless pursuit of excellence, a genuine love for education, and an unwavering belief in the potential of every student. Ros has left an indelible mark on our school, and her legacy will continue to inspire and guide us for years to come.

As our Deputy Principal (and former relieving principal), Ros has exemplified the qualities of an incredible leader. She has displayed a rare combination of wisdom, empathy, and vision that  always has MPS moving forward. Whether it was supporting our teachers, fostering a nurturing environment for our students, or working collaboratively with parents and the wider community, Ros's impact has been profound.

Ros's unwavering commitment to our students' welfare and academic success has been a cornerstone of her leadership. She has championed for students, encouraged personal growth, and instilled a love of learning in countless young minds. This was evident when compiling photographs and videos for a Slideshow, where we have seen many ex-students reach out to share their stories and pass on their well wishes.

Beyond her work with our students, Ros has also been a source of inspiration and guidance for our dedicated staff. Her open-door policy, approachability, and willingness to lend a listening ear have created an environment where teachers feel valued, supported, and motivated to excel. Ros has been instrumental in fostering a culture of collaboration and professional learning, ensuring that our educators continue to provide the highest quality of education.

It is not just her professional accomplishments that make Ros an exceptional leader; it is her kindness, warmth, and genuine care for each member of our school community. She has touched the lives of countless individuals, providing guidance, encouragement, and a steady hand during challenging times, non more so than leading the school through the beginning of the COVID pandemic, in what was unknown and uncertain times! 

From a personal perspective, I can't thank Ros enough for her support in welcoming me to Mudgee PS as well as the Mudgee Community. Her unwaivering support and encouragement is very much appreciated. Whilst I feel incredibly supported, I also appreciate the way we collaborate on the key decisions we make as a school in the most positive way, which is always with the students at the centre. I feel like we are losing a co-principal, and I know that I will greatly miss working with her as a colleague, but I'll also greatly miss her friendship and the laughs we have along the way. 

As Ros embarks on this new chapter of her life, we extend our deepest gratitude for her unwavering commitment, outstanding leadership, and incredible service to our entire community, with service to students at the centre. We are forever indebted to her for the lasting mark she has left on Mudgee Public School and the lives she has touched along the way.

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye!

Enjoy a happy, healthy and long retirement!

P.s. We will see you back as a casual teacher for sure!! ;) 

P.p.s There is an Assembly for Mrs Rogers this afternoon at 2:30 pm and if you're up at school and want to pop your head in the door, feel free to do so.

Principal's Report

PBL Awards Recipients:  Congratulations to all our PBL Award Recipients from Tuesday's assembly. It was a really lovely awards ceremony and you should all be incredibly proud!

Staffing Update: We have just finalised the recruitment of the vacant Deputy Principal Position. I am pleased to announce that Donna O'Hara has been successful in this position. There is an expression of interest out as we look to secure a 2nd Deputy Principal which is the position that Donna was acting in. Please join me in congratulating Mrs O'Hara.

NAIDOC Week: MPS will be celebrating NAIDOC week when we return next term. All MPS families are invited to attend our NAIDOC BBQ and NAIDOC Assembly. This year's theme is "For our Elders" This theme encourages us to look to our Elders not only for inspiration, but for guidance in the issues that we face today. We are encouraged to “draw strength from their knowledge and experience, in everything from land management, cultural knowledge to justice and human rights. We look forward to learning from our elders from all backgrounds throughout NAIDOC Week. 

Public Speaking Success: Yesterday, we had the privilege of hosting the zone final of the Mulitcultural Public Speaking competition. The competition was adjudicated by Justine Clarke (head of the Department of Education Arts Unit). A huge congratulations to Georgia Chase (Winner Stage 2); Addisyn Caligari (Highly Commended Stage 2); and Freddy Stevens (Highly Commended Stage 3). Extra special acknowledgement to Seb Turner for his wonderful speeches in the Stage 3 section; to our chair persons Charlie French and Ziggy Gordon; and noteable mention to Charlie Pye from CVPS and former MPS student who took out the Stage 3 competition.

A big thanks to Mrs Baddock for her organisation and advocacy of this competition, and indeed our students!

Sporting Updates: Congratulations to the boys and girls touch football teams who had great wins in a very cold Lithgow on Wednesday. In freezing, wet conditions we saw a huge effort from the kids who were numb from the cold by the end of their games! Girls victorious 9-1 Boys victorious 6-1. Thanks to Mr Harris, Mrs Fletcher and Liz Channon

Jolly Gym: Reminder......Jolly Gym enrolments are now open! Click on the link below or scan the QR code to register. We can't wait to meet our 2024 Kindergarten students!

Kindergarten Enrolments: Just a reminder, Kindergarten enrolments are now open! We really need these completed ASAP. Jump onto our website to enrol or visit the office to obtain a paper copy. 

CLC Short-Film Competition: On Monday we held a school viewing of all the films entered in the Short-Film competition. I was so impressed by the level of creativity and skill from our students. Congratulations to the winners and runners up. Your films will be aired at the Mudgee Town Hall CLC Film Evening, launching Education Week. 

• K-2 Winner: News Report                          
• K-2 Runner Up: Mobile Phones
• Stage 2 Winner: Weird Science                       
• Stage 2 Runner Up: Daycares through time
• Stage 3 Winner: 5B - History of Glen Willow
• Stage 3 Runner-Up: Da Bank Family 

Stay tuned for formal invitations. Once again, congratulations to all for your film submissions!

Beginners Violins: This week, our Beginners Violin displayed their debut performance at our Infants assembly and I can assure you, it was absolutely fabulous! Well done, Beginners! 

I wish you all a safe and healthy holidays. Reminder, students return on Tuesday 18 July (Monday 17 July is a School Staff Development Day).

John Carters

Principal

Before and After School Care - IMPORTANT

Please see below important letter from NSW DoE re: Change of provider for our Before and After School Care service. 

Key things to note:

• The department has terminated the Big Childcare out of school hours care service at our school as they have been unable to fulfil their obligations under their Licence with the Department for out of school hours care services at the school.

• Big Childcare’s will continue to run vacation care as usual (at Cudgegong Valley PS as per the original plan).

• Big Childcare’s last day at our school will be 14 July 2023.

• To ensure the continuation of care for our families, the department has selected PCYC to take over the service for our school. This service will operate on Mudgee PS grounds (in our Before and After School Care Building). You can find out more about PCYC on their website and links to enrol are included in the communications sent to you

• The department is working with the provider to confirm service approval as quickly as possible. We currently expect this service to commence from Day 1, Term 3 2023 including on the staff development day – 17 July 2023

• Further information will be provided as soon as it becomes available

Principal's Awards

Congratulations to the following students on receiving a Principal award over the past fortnight. 

Students of the Week - PBL

Term 2 - WEEK 9

INFANTS KC -  Skylar Peterson / KF - Chloe Stanford / KL - Hendrix Koscica  / 1N - Elsie Sharp / 1RD - Evelyn Tracey / 1S - Theo Berney / 1/2SR - Tiyce Kelle-Browne  / 2E -  / 2GP - Odella Fahey-Leigh / 2M - Maddie Baskerville / AB - / AL - Levon Van Reason

PRIMARY 3D - Hunter Reid / 3L - Willow Roberts / 3S - Darcy Gallen / 4H - Zac Newsome / 4W - Jasper Kenny / 4/5A - Ryder Sharpe / 5B - Cooper Lecke / 5/6H - Keira Hinton / 5/6T - Aleeya Reid / 6J - Sarah Harrison / 6S - Maxx Ryan / JC -Brendan Hogansen-Peterson / LL - Lockie Cox / MW - Kyesha Riley / OL - Jaiden Vella / SM - 

Term 2  - Week 10

INFANTS KC - Maci Lecke / KF - Georgia Pradhan  / KL - Alayah Webster / 1N - Amelia Williams / 1RD - Taylor Masling  / 1S - Amelia Sabin / 1/2SR - Henry Letourneau  / 2E -  / 2GP - Isla Munn / 2M - Benjamen Brook / AB - / AL - 

PRIMARY 3D - Chelsea Butler  / 3L -  Dean Crowther / 3S - Olivia Murray / 4H - Addisyn Caligari / 4W - / 4/5A - Ava-Rose Kelly / 5B - Lexie Dinsmore / 5/6H - Brayden Singer / 5/6T - Jamie Boyton / 6J - Elijah Pronk / 6S - Sierra Pye  / JC -  / LL - / MW - Travis Hill / OL - Bug Clarke / SM - Jaxon Ross

Library News

In Library this Term, students have been looking at the CBCA shortlisted books, in preparation for Book Week in Term 3. All students have enjoyed listening to a range of books and giving them a rating. We will continue looking at shortlisted books into Term 3, including some special Shortlisted books for NAIDOC week.

K-2 Students are in for a treat next term, with an author visit scheduled for August 18th! Chris Roy Taylor and James Crabtree are going to visit our school as part of the Mudgee Young Readers Festival. They will entertain our students and talk about their book 'Tina and Tom's Time Travelling Toilet' We are looking forward to hosting them here at MPS. 

PRC - Congratulations to the 91 students who have now completed their Premiers Reading Challenge! Your names are displayed on our PRC Tree in the Library. There is still plenty of time to complete the PRC! The challenge closes on Friday, August 18th. 

More information can be found at: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html 

PBL Book Awards - If you have received a book award at the recent PBL assembly, you can come in and see me at the Library to choose your book. If you cannot find something that you like, you are welcome to choose a book from Book Club next term, up to the value of $20. 

Overdues - There are a lot of overdue books across the school at the moment. Please check your shelves at home and return any books after the holidays.

Happy Holidays, and Happy Reading!! 

Happy Reading!

Mrs Siobhan Vitnell - Teacher Librarian

Class Corner - 3S

3S have had a wonderful Term 2. We have been busy developing our skills to be the best possible learners and are working towards achieving our set learning goals.

There have been so many events on this term! From the Multicultural Public Speaking Competition to the Eisteddfod, our local History excursion to the Museum and the Athletics Carnival, 3S have consistently displayed a positive attitude and have represented MPS with pride.

Our class thoroughly immersed ourselves in our class text, ‘The Secret of the Swords’ by Frances Watts, discussing what living in a castle would be like and learning to be a knight would be like.

We have enjoyed developing our additive strategy skills in Maths and have discovered the importance of trying to solve one problem in different ways. We had fun renaming numbers in non-standard ways and loved using our fraction wall puzzles to recognise fractions that are equal to each other.

In Science, we have been studying the topic, ‘The Earth, Sun and Moon’. It was pleasing to see so many students complete a home research project and present their findings to the class. We liked listening to each other and offering feedback to our peers on things we believe they did well and things they could improve on in the future.

We look forward to another busy but exciting term after a lovely break!

Mrs Teegan Sheedy (Classroom Teacher) and 3S students

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Class Corner - 5/6T

5/6T have been busy bees this term.

Our class presented two contrasting choral verse speaking poems at the Gulgong Eisteddfod achieving first place.

Many students delivered their multicultural speeches to their class audience. Some students went onto deliver their speeches in front of the Stage 3 audience. The four boys who competed by writing and delivering an impromptu speech were Freddy, Henry, Seb and Charlie. Freddy and Seb are the two finalists from our class and represented our school on Thursday 29^th June. Freddy received highly commended. Both boys did their best and made us all very proud.

Freddy won our Stage 3 Spelling Bee Competition and will represent MPS at a future date.

We have been busily preparing for our Athletics Carnival all term. Well done to students who participated on the day.

Students have been working in small groups to develop a short film based on the topic ‘Past, Present and Future’ to enter the CLC Short Film Competition. They enjoyed working collaboratively to develop create films.

The class sat two Math Games competitions. They tried their best and are all finding this a great opportunity to apply their problem-solving strategies and challenge themselves.

Mrs Julie Tito - Class Teacher

Class Corner - Stage 3

Earlier this term students from Stage 3 went to Glen Willow to plant native plants with the council as part of the river regeneration as part of the Murray River federal funded management program.

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Western Cross Country update

Western Cross Country Last week, 14 students participated at the Western PSSA cross country trials in Orange. There were some terrific results across the board. Five of our runners finished in the top 10 of their respective age groups. A special congratulations to: Rachel Gilmour in U11s Girls, Hope Gilmour 6th in U11s Girls and Sam Walker in U12/13s Boys.

These three students have been selected for the Western team to run at the NSW State Titles first week of Term 3. Well done to all!

Mr Harris

Staff Professional Learning

Over the last fortnight, teachers have continued on their visible learning journey exploring feedback within their Teacher Learning Community Groups. They were explicitly looking at how when they set effective success criteria, students are then able to give great Peer Feedback. An example of seeing this in action was with class 5B, where they presented a feedback criteria to other Stage 3 classes who came to view their dioramas. Visible learning at it's best!

Upcoming Professional Learning for Staff:

• Week 1: SchooL Development Day - AECG presentation, Department of Education Webinar, Stage Curriclum PLanning, Own PL Goals + NAIDOC / Strong Strides Together planning
  

Office News

SCHOOL VISITOR CHECK-IN and PICKING UP YOUR CHILD EARLY

ALL VISITORS  (parents/carers, volunteers and contractors including cleaners) must use School Visitor Check-in to comply with school sign-in procedures. When needing to pick your child up early from school please come to the office and sign them out in the “Student Early Leavers” register.  A printed early slip will be provided, and you can then  collect your child from their classroom. 

CHANGE OF AFTERNOON ARRANGEMENTS

If the home time arrangements change for your child, it would be very much appreciated if a phone call, to the office, could be made by 2pm. This enables us, to ensure that, the message will get to your child before the afternoon bell time.

CHANGE OF STUDENT DETAILS - IMPORTANT

It is important that the school have correct student contact details incase of an emergency, including residential address, parent/carer email, phone numbers and any additional emergency contacts. If you wish to check your student details, or wish to make any changes, please phone the office for assistance. PH - 6372 2036

Your Friendly Office Staff  - "We're here to help!"

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Community Notices

DENTO RYU KARATE

Traditional non-contact Karate 6pm - 7pm Tuesday & Thursday 

Mudgee Public School Hall  $3.50 per lesson - Ages 5yrs over 

For further information contact: Harvey Mb 0427 435 930