SCHOOL NEWSLETTER - Week 5, Term 2 2025
Principal's Message
What a busy week it has been at Mudgee PS this week. Many students travelled to Gulgong for the Eisteddfod last Friday and Tuesday, performing in both the verse speaking and music sections. This is a wonderful experience for students to perform on stage in front of an audience and receive expert feedback from the adjudicators. Mudgee PS received great results with a big congratulations to all the students that performed. Please see the final results later in the newsletter. Congratulations also to the Touch Football teams and the Netball team who played well this week in wet and blistery conditions.
Kindergarten Safaris: Our final Safari was held yesterday. We had a fantastic turn out and would like to remind everyone that enrolments for 2026 are now open. Head to the Mudgee PS website to enrol online or see our administration team in the Front Office for a paper copy. Our next Kindergarten transition experience will be Jolly Gym in Term 3. Keep an eye on our socials for further details closer to the date.
Project Rockit: will be visiting our school on Tuesday 3rd June to present some tailored workshops around bullying. During this visit they will be working with our Year 3-6 students. Content will include online safety, strategies to take action against bullying and friendships. Project Rockit will be very empowering sessions for our students.
PBL Assembly: As we get ready for our end-of-term PBL Assembly in Week 10, we are asking families to start sending in any Merit awards your child would like to trade.
Students can return awards as soon as they have the required amount—there’s no need to wait until the end of term. Please ensure awards are handed in by Wednesday of Week 9 so we have time to prepare for the Assembly. Thank you for your continued support in celebrating positive behaviour at Mudgee PS.
Gulgong Eisteddfod: All the students thoroughly enjoyed performing, and every student and all the teachers involved in the performances at Gulgong should be very proud of their efforts. Results in the Verse Speaking: Infants section-1st place - Quokkas, 3rd- Meerkats, Highly Commended -Rosellas Jnr Primary section- 2nd- Manly Magpies Music Section: 1st - Quokkas percussion, 2nd- Stage 1 Choir, 1st- Manly Magpies, 1st- Violin group, 2nd- Snr Band
Have a great weekend, and week ahead.
Mr Carters
Principal
Principal's Awards
Congratulations to the following students that have received a principal or deputy principal award over the past fortnight.
CHAMELEON - Sage Somervail, Lara Walker, Charlie Fay, William Hudson MEERKATS - Noah Speechley ROSELLAS - Charlie Bull, Sophie Colley, Chester Barrington BERRY - Joey O'Regan NAMATJIRA - Hendrix Campbell
Attendance Spotlight
📢 MUDGEE PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SPOTLIGHT ❄️📊
Bringing you another Weekly Attendance Spotlight and guess what? Our data is telling us that the cooler months have officially arrived 🧊🧣... and with them, a little dip in our attendance rates 🫣
🌡️ Week 3 saw our whole school attendance rate fall to 88.8%, just shy of our 90% target 🎯
BUT... let’s not forget the BIG wins worth celebrating🎉
🌟 KINDERGARTEN and YEAR 3 you absolute ATTENDANCE LEGENDS 🙌💛
💯 You both smashed that 90% goal!
👏👏 DOUBLE ROUND OF APPLAUSE for YEAR 3 for having the least amount of unexplained absences just 3! That's EPIC 💥🎉
🧠 It's a great reminder that explaining absences is SO important.
✅ Each time your child is absent, you’ll receive an email 📧 and a push notification 📲 through the Sentral Parent App.
From there, you can:
📱 Use the app to explain the absence OR
📞 Call our school office
📬 Email your class teacher
💬 Send a message via Class Dojo
We know these frosty mornings 🥶 and sniffly germs 🦠 are making the rounds, but let’s work together to keep the attendance momentum rolling 🚀💪
Every day your child is well, they should be here, learning and thriving 🏫❤️
💡 TOP TIPS TO STAY WELL THIS WINTER 🧼🧤
🍊 Boost immunity with lots of fruit and veggies
💧 Stay hydrated with water and warm soups
🧼 Wash those hands often
🛌 Get plenty of sleep
🧣 Rug up with jackets, beanies, and scarves
Let’s stay healthy, stay warm, and keep showing up for learning 💙📚
Together, we’ve got this, Mudgee Public 💪🎓
#AttendanceMatters #EveryDayCounts #MudgeePublicPride 💙💛
Mrs George
Deputy Principal
Library News
Book Club - Issue 3 orders have been finalised today. If you ordered something from Issue 3, your items will arrive in the next week or so. If you missed out this time, don't stress! Scholastic Book Club releases a new brochure twice a Term, so keep an eye out for the Issue 4 brochure!
PRC - The Premiers Reading Challenge is still going! I have had a few students complete the challenge, and their names will be put on the PRC Tree in the Library. If your child has misplaced their reading log sheet, there's still time to come to the library and get one from me to complete the challenge.
Please go to https://online.education.nsw.gov.au/prc/home.html for more information.
Yr 6 Hoodies - I have had lots of questions about the Yr 6 Hoodies and appreciate your patience while we wait for our order to arrive. I can assure you; they are on their way! We will hopefully receive them in the next couple of weeks.
Overdue books - We have a lot of overdue books across the school at the moment. Please return all your books so that others can enjoy the great resources we have at MPS Library.
Happy Reading!
Students of the Week
Term 2
CLASS | WEEK 4 | WEEK 5 |
| Echidna | Florence Cochrane | McKenna Radawyetz |
| Chameleon | Kaylee Horton | Vincynt Sutton |
| Koala | Frank Letourneau | Matilda Lawrie |
| Bilbies | Aubrey Crane | Jack Hough |
| Meerkat | Colton Howson-Purser | Maddie Cusack |
| Rosella | Harley Brady | Richard Adams |
| Quokka | Dimity Curtis | Abby Steele |
| Manly Magpies | Mabel Boyton Louis Esnault | |
| Pink | ||
| Purple | Lachie Miller | |
| Orange | Ollie Robertson | Jayden Hall |
| Yellow | Shakira Bateman | Lily Memorey |
| Blue | Toby Cochrane | Abigail Leonard |
Red | Mason Evans | |
| Green | Byron Said | Zoe Roach |
| Yamba | Arya Colley | Amity Barrington |
| Donnellyville | Lincoln Heppel | Hallie Horrigan |
| Daintree | Narah O'Brien | Chase Kovacic |
| Berry | Indie Horton | Henry Rostron |
| Sofala | Lotte Roberts | Sampson Pronk |
| Namatjira | Hendrix Campbell | Jayda Sterland |
| Laver | Isabella Doyle | Lachlan Marks |
| Hollows | Dana New | Marcie Grosse |
| Freeman | Claudia Williams | Olive Smith |
| Bradfield | Ava McDonnell | Declan Godfrey |
Week 4 - Persistence
Week 5 - "Be an upstander, not a bystander"
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