SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Week 3, Term 3, 2023
Principal's Report
Education Week: What a wonderful week celebrating Public Education and indeed the wonderful happenings of Mudgee PS. Our Open Day yesterday was a huge success with a wonderful community turnout. Partnerships with our community is what makes our school so special.
This year marks 175 years since the establishment of public schools in NSW. Founded in 1848, the Board of National Education was formed and tasked with establishing a public education system in NSW. Prior to 1848, schools operated under a denominational system and were the responsibility of churches. As we look at public education at Mudgee PS;
- we celebrate our achievements throughout the NSW public education system - MPS did this by combining with the CLC for our Film Festival - We are stronger together!
- we celebrate the significant contribution public education has made to society over the past 175 years. - MPS did this by inviting back 6 former Mudgee PS students to talk about their careers and how Mudgee PS played a significant part of their life and career path.
- we celebrate the work of teachers and support staff in developing and shaping the next generation.
- we celebrate all types of learning that occurs at all levels across our education system.
- we celebrate our shared responsibility in helping to shape the lives and futures of today’s learners
I am so incredibly proud of our students, parents and community and feel privileged to be a part of it. Happy Education Week!
SRC Investiture Assembly: Yesterday we held our Investiture for our Semester 2 SRC Reps. Congratulations to our Semester 2 SRC representatives. Our school is in great hands! An extra big congratulations to our performance pieces: The Stage 3 Choir, combined Violin Group and School Band. You are all doing a wonderful job - Keep going!
Jeans for Genes - CMRI Mudgee Fundraiser: Today, students were invited to wear a pair of jeans, with their usual uniform items, and bring along a gold coin donation to support the Children's Medical Research Institute. The SRC have also been selling yo-yos for $5 in an attempt to partner with CMRI Mudgee to reach their fundraising goal. From walking around on the playground I could see the event was highly supported. We know this charity is close to home for many of our Mudgee PS community. To highlight its importance I have included these words from the CRMI Mudgee Page:
"Our team cares about the 1 in 20 Aussie kids who face a birth defect or genetic disease. That's one in every classroom, maybe someone you know or love. Every day, many of these kids wake up to pills, injections, hospital visits (or worse). They don't get the chance to run around and just be kids. If they can endure that, and keep smiling, then the least we can do is fight alongside them. That's why we're doing Jeans for Genes and raising money for Children's Medical Research Institute. We want to give these kids better treatments and maybe even a cure.
We’ve signed up to Wear Jeans, so we can raise awareness and start the conversation—we need to do all we can to help save more kids’ lives. Can you help by sharing this message with the people you know and asking them to donate too? We (and millions of Aussie kids) thank you for it!"
At the time of publication, Mudgee PS have raised $1164.35
CLC Short Film Festival : On Monday, the Red Carpet was rolled out at Mudgee Town Hall and schools from in and around the Region gathered to view some very clever short films on the theme Past, Present, Future. It was a sell out crowd and our Mudgee PS films did such an amazing job! All our students then visited Town Hall to view the films on Tuesday. A big thanks to Mr Wheeler for helping run the films. You can see all the film entries below which might give some inspiration for next year, when we hope to run a school-based film competition.
MPS Debating Team success, Spelling Bee & Multicultural Public Speaking Finals
Debating Success...... Congratulations to our debating team who have won all of their debates to qualify for the interzone final. The team members; Toby Williams, Charlie French, Freddy Stevens and Oscar Clay, are applying excellent debating skills and Mrs B is very proud of the dedication they display during practice and on debating day.
Spelling Bee Final...... On Wednesday 9th August, Grace Rayner and Freddy Stevens will contest the Zone Final of the Spelling Bee. We wish them well and congratulate them both on qualifying to represent our school in this state wide competition.
Multicultural Public Speaking Riverina Zone Final..... Thursday 10th August, Georgia Chase and Freddy Stevens will travel to Young Public School to compete in the next stage of this statewide competition. Both students have been devoting extra time to practise their speeches. Georgia will deliver her prepared speech on the topic, "Making Connections" and Freddy will present his speech on "Privilege". Best of luck to you both and congratulations on your success so far.
100 Days of Kindergarten: In last weeks Principal's Video message I mentioned that we were celebrating 100 Days of Kindergarten. Click on the link or view some of the pictures in the gallery below to see all the fun we had last Friday celebrating our Kindergarten Students. (13) Facebook
Have a great weekend, and week ahead.
John Carters
Principal
Principal's Awards
Congratulations to the following students on receiving a Principal Award or Deputy Principal Award over the past fortnight.
Principal Awards
KF - Pippa Carters, Prue Llewelyn, Chase Gallagher, Sage McDonell / 1N - Georgia Brown / 2M - Leela Lawson / AL - Lily Memorey, Shakira Bateman / JC - Parker Barrass, Lachlan Stewart, Charlie Smith / 4/5A - Surayah Davis, Ryder Sharpe, Evie Cox, Ava Kelly / 5B - Tori Lonsdale, Ambrose Willetts, Lexi Dinsmore, Violet Healy,
Deputy Principal Awards
MW - Layla Newman , Travis Hill, William Morris-Belpitt, Gabriel Powell, Tyler Rostron / KC - Dimity Curtis / 1N - Elsie Sharp / 5/6T - Mollie Wallace, Poppy Waugh, Eva George / 5/6H - Alexis Salter / 6J - Ivy Menzies, Zayne Meah-Reynolds
Students of the Week - PBL
"Wear the Correct School Uniform"
Term 3 - WEEK 2
INFANTS KC - / KF - Ariah Flack / KL - Lilly Norris / 1N - Connor Saliba / 1RD - Scottie Forbes / 1S - Zara Richards / 1/2SR - Lila Illy / 2E - Sam Hawkins / 2GP - Layla Murnane / 2M - / AB - Raiden Blunt / AL -
PRIMARY 3D - Grahame Lonsdale / 3L - Denver Stokes / 3S - Paige Perry / 4H - Callen Johnson / 4W - Isaac Davidson / 4/5A - Whyatt Barrass / 5B - Lucius Newton / 5/6H - Emily Carter / 5/6T - Angus Scales / 6J - Ivy Menzies / 6S - Maya McMaster / JC - Tyler Nixon-Shaw / LL - Isacc Lucas / MW - Travis Hill / OL - Malia Gardiner / SM -
"Move Safely and Sensibly"
Term 3 - WEEK 3
INFANTS KC - Ellsie-Mae Forbes / KF - Alyssa Richardson / KL - Tasmin Sharp / 1N - / 1RD - Sienna Cardoso / 1S - Sam Perry / 1/2SR - / 2E - Abigail Leonard / 2GP - Leigh Clapham / 2M - / AB - / AL -
PRIMARY 3D - Allira Arndell/ 3L - Emrie Field/ 3S - Noah Harrison / 4H - Nicholas Temessl / 4W - Destiny Darlington / 4/5A - Kaitlyn Dale / 5B - Jimmy Norris / 5/6H - Dominik Kelle-Browne / 5/6T - Leevi Brook / 6J - Lucy Stanford / 6S - Daniel Simpson / JC - Brodie Speechley / LL - Lockie Cox / MW - Sierra Cottee / OL - / SM -
Library News
K-2 Students are in for a treat this 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. You can read all about them here: https://www.tinaandtoms.com/
PRC - Congratulations to the 94 students who have now completed their Premiers Reading Challenge! Your names are displayed on our PRC Tree in the Library. The challenge closes on Friday, August 18th, which means only a couple of weeks to get finished!
More information can be found at: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html
Book Fair - Term 3 is the most exciting time for the Library!! We will be holding our annual Book Fair in Week 6 this term. August 21st to 25th, which is also Book Week, will be the week we celebrate everything about books! There will be an opportunity for students to dress up on day TBC, as well as purchasing items from the Book Fair. During Library lessons in the week before, students will be able to browse the Book Fair and fill out a wishlist. This list will then be taken home for parents/carers to look at. Payments for books can be made online using the wishlist, or money can be sent in with students to buy in their Library time from August 21st to August 25th . We will have the Book Fair open for parents/carers to buy from 2pm until 3.30 every afternoon during Week 6.
If any parents/carers are willing or able to volunteer some time to assist in the selling of books, please email me at siobhan.vitnell@det.nsw.edu.au
Happy Reading!!
Mrs Vitnell - Teacher Librarian
Canteen Roster
Class Corner - 1RD
1RD have had a very busy start to Term 3. We have welcomed two more students and celebrated with four birthday buckets already this term!!! We have been busy creating goannas, echidnas and emus during Art and everyone in 1RD was very excited to hear that our Deadly Door was among the winners!
In English, we have been learning about representation, how things or characters can be shown in the real world and the imagined world. We are reading “The March of the Ants” by Ursula Dubosarsky and are learning to research ant facts to help us uncover the difference between storybook reading and reading for information. We have also been perfecting our understanding of prepositions and how to change between past and present tense verbs.
It was great to welcome Susan from Bunnings back to our classroom. Bunnings generously donated a class set of bee hotels for us to decorate. Susan taught us lots of interesting bee facts (they never sleep, plus they communicate through dance!) and helped us to decorate and stock our bee hotels full of twigs and leaves ready for the bees to move in.
We are learning to collect and organise data in Mathematics. We used symbols to create faces that represent our favourite meals, how many pets we own, the number of people in our families and even how we travel to school. We are masters of tally marks and are learning to analyse just what our data tells us about our 1RD friends. Look through to the last of our pictures to see if you can decode one student's favourite meal, family size or how they get to school. In Science, we have been investigating the difference between hardware and software and learning that when they work together, they make digital systems. We can’t wait to see what the rest of Term 3 brings. 😊
Class Corner - 4/5A
4/5A has made a fantastic start to Term 3! This term we will be studying Vietnam to accompany our Geography unit and our novel ‘Noodlepie’. Students investigated a variety of animals that are native to southeast Asia and had a go at sketching these unique animals image.
We look forward to another busy and exciting term!!
Mrs Feltcher & Mrs Walden (Classroom Teachers)
Meet The Staff - Ms McKinley
Hello!
I’d like to re-introduce myself to the MPS community. My name is Karli McKinley and I have just returned to work after maternity leave, where my partner Cameron and daughter Olesya welcomed our son, Lawson in 2022.
I will be working part time in the Support Unit, on class LL and am very excited for this new opportunity.
Ms Karli McKinley
Class Teacher
PCYC Before and After School Care
For parent/carers wishing to access the NEW PCYC After School Care provided at Mudgee Public School, please visit the website for further information https://pcycoosh.org.au/
or click on the link below to enrol;
https://prodadmin.myxplor.com/enrollment_v2/centre/FAMWLCTVxjaH4QZ12435694231iENg
Office News
Local Trades persons for Mudgee/Gulgong Area Schools
Any trades persons that would like to enquire about contracts with the DoE (Department of Education), to support local schools with maintenance etc., please direct your enquiry to the following email address; nwnsw.fmct@det.nsw.edu.au
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
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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
