Manchester Matters - Manchester Primary School

Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
Manchester Matters
Monomeith Street, Mooroolbark 3138.
Telephone 9726 6931
Fax 9726 4911
PO Box 161, Mooroolbark 3138
Email address - manchester.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Web:www.manchesterps.vic.edu.au
April
23rd Subway
24th
Level 3 & 4 Puppet Incursion $15 and
permission due
25th
ANZAC Day
27th
Subway Orders due
School Banking
Level 5 & 6 Laneway Art Excursion
Level 5 Camp $60 due Option A
28th
School Council
29th
Level 3 & 4 Puppet Incursion
30th
Level 5 & 6 Scienceworks $20 and
permission due
May
1st
Level 5 & 6 Sport V Lilydale W (away)
6th
Level 5 & 6 Scienceworks Excursion
7th
Mother’s Day Raffle Tickets due
8th
Mother’s Day Stall
10th
Mother’s Day
12th
School Council Subcommittees
PaFA Meeting
6:30pm Building Ideas night
NAPLAN Language & Writing
13th
NAPLAN Reading
14th
NAPLAN Numeracy
18th
Ready to Start School 2016
Information Night 6pm
23rd—
24th
Scrap Metal Bin at school
From the Principal’s Desk
For many, this weekend is the most important one on the calendar. I
refer to ANZAC day as our day of remembrance for everyone who has
served national duty for Australia. This year is of special significance
being the 100 year anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. Our school
leaders, Ms Keating and myself attended a special ANZAC day
ceremony today hosted by Lilydale Heights Secondary College. Our
students presented a wreath and Toni Pinto shared the story of her great
uncle who fought during WWII. On Tuesday, we also hosted special
guests who presented to our Level 5 students. experience of War,. I
would like to thank Alan and Sarah, who are Ms Turner’s relations, for
sharing experiences of War in particular the those in Borneo during
W.W11. Our students were captivated by some incredible accounts of
survival against the odds.
As you are aware, our school has been the recipient of $1.28 million for
school building works. Along with School Council, staff are working
very hard to ensure that funding will be maximised to benefit our
students. As it is targeted primarily at building work we still require a
great deal of time, money and resources spent on developing the
grounds. If you have any ideas, interests or even suggestions about
what is needed or what you want or would like to see in the school
grounds, we would appreciate your input. Thanks to members of our
school council we will be holding a planning/ ideas session leading into
the development of a Master Plan for the grounds at school. This might
include, redeveloping the driveway, including the car park and
decongesting the ‘Kiss and Go’ zone. It may include redeveloping or
redesigning the playground spaces. It might include revamping the
veggie garden. If you have skills in design, architecture, horticulture,
graphic design, gardening or are a landscape designer we would value
your expertise. The information session will be held on Tuesday 12th
May at 6:30 pm. We are very interested in hearing your ideas and
would like to encourage you to invite others who may have made a
suggestion about what we can do to come along.
I would like to do a big ‘shout out’ on behalf of our wonderful PFA to
Big Mates Pizza of Croydon. Greg, the owner of Big Mates Piazza has
chosen our school to be the recipient of 50 free pizzas which will be
used as a school fundraiser later this term. Please keep an eye out in
newsletters particularly in the PFA column for further details. If you are
ever in Croydon Market Shopping Centre be sure to call in and let him
know you are from Manchester Primary School, I’m sure he will do
you a great deal on pizzas.
Peter Jenkins, Principal
“Manchester Is Magic”
Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
REMINDER
Final fee payments for 2015 are now due. Thank you to all
families who have already finalised their 2015 fees.
Parent Payments
Thank you to all those families who have paid their
fees for 2015.
A reminder that the final Parent Payment instalment
of $60 per student is now due. Any families
experiencing financial hardship, please see Helen
Whiffin, Susan Fergeus or Peter Jenkins to make
arrangements for the year. A reminder that Parent
Payments are now being finalised and are $240 per
student for the year.
Excellence
Hayley S & Ryan O
OSHC
Don't forget to return new enrolment
forms for 2015 new forms required each
year to attend.
Thursday
ANZAC Biscuits
Friday
Games and Movie Night
Monday
Mother’s Day Craft
Tuesday
Free Choice
Wednesday
Mother’s Day Craft
Personal Best Award
(Term 1) Emma N
Rubbish Free Lunch
Ella W & Jordan L
SAVE THE DATE
We will be having another
SCRAP METAL fundraiser on
the weekend on the 23rd and
24th of May. Please start
saving your metal now!
Notices Sent Home
All Students
Youngest in
Family
** REMINDER:
Mother’s Day Raffle and Stall
Chaplaincy Consent Form
Mother’s Day High Tea
Level 5 and 6 students will need
to get their Subway orders in before they leave on their
Laneway Art Excursion on Monday morning.
“Manchester Is Magic”
Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
Pupil of the Week
Thomas M
Patrick O
Jayden S
Ms
For helping Ms Fergeus to keep our
Fergeus playground ‘Rubbish Free’. Great job!
Zac S
FA
For a positive start to Term 2 and his
wonderful Investigations.
Cayley W
FG
For always being a wonderful listener and
displaying a positive attitude towards learning.
Oliver R
FS
For his fabulous efforts during Investigations
when making his Pokemon book.
Francis F
1B
For his fabulous effort with his writing, well
done Francis!
Mikaela C
1F
For her fantastic discussion about her ‘question
mark’ home studies.
Chloe D
1P
Chloe is being recognised for her positive
approach to her learning. Well done Chloe
keep up the good work.
Toby G
2C
For his wonderful attentive listening.
Hayley JJ
2F
Wonderful listening and a great approach to all
tasks.
Ryan W
2H
Bright, enthusiastic approach to learning.
Jesse H
3S
For always having a smile on his face and
having such a positive approach to his
learning.
Yuna O
3WH
Josh F
4E
For his persistence towards always giving his
best to all tasks.
Jazmine H
4R
For developing an excellent home studies
routine and showing enthusiasm for extending
her learning.
Lara M
5K
For some excellent work and perseverance in
Maths.
Chloe B
5T
For the pride she takes in the presentation of
her work.
Jacob W
6B
Well done on becoming more organised Jacob!
Tiah C
6J
For a great attitude to learning.
Blake C
Art
For being an enthusiastic learner. Well done!
Pupil of the Week
“Manchester Is Magic”
For her excellent reading skills with expression
and fluency.
Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
“Manchester Is Magic”
Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
Chaplain’s Chat
Croydon Little Athletics
2015 Cross Country Season
Looking for a great way to keep fit over winter?
Then come down to Croydon Little Athletics and join our
Cross Country team.
Our calendar and registration information can be found on
our website www.croydonlac.com.au or send us an email
Croydon@lavic.com.au
See you at the track!!
“Lest we Forget”
I spent a lovely
weekend in Torquay
last Saturday as my
husband was riding
in the Otway Classic
bike ride. While
there, we read about
a re-enactment
demonstration at
Barwon Park Mansion just out of Winchelsea. There
were several presentations being held which related to
wars in which Australia has fought. In particular, there
was a focus on WW1 given the upcoming ANZAC Day
Centenary.
I stood beside a row of trenches that had been dug to
represent the trenches on Gallipoli and watched ‘soldiers’
preparing to represent the Australian and Turkish troops
just prior to the Battle of ‘The Nek’. These ‘soldiers’
were readying themselves much as the soldiers 100 years
ago would have been doing. A young boy in front of me
asked, “Are these the ‘goodies’ and are those over there
the baddies?”. His mother replied, “Well that really
depends on your point of view.” Doesn’t that just say
it all?
As a lay student of history, I have read and researched
quite a bit about the social and political lead up to WW1
and the direct impact of individual and national
insecurities and hubris. In the light of the consequences
of their choices and actions; untold death and devastation,
these are behaviours of which we need to be extremely
mindful.
Yes, ‘Lest we Forget,’ all those who suffered and died,
but also ‘Lest we Forget’ the potential consequences of
our own choices and actions and the choices and actions
on those whom we impact.
As I participate in the remembrances surrounding the
100th anniversary this April 25th I am hopeful that we
may tell each other, tell our friends and tell our children
about the importance of valuing ‘the other’, of putting
aside our self-righteousness, our pride, our anger and our
self justification to see things from the others point of
view and to try to respect their journey.
WW1 recounts truces at various times; the Christmas
truce, the truce at Gallipoli to bury the dead and how the
opposing soldiers met and discovered something of each
other’s humanity and of their life. Let’s work toward
creating that understanding in the way we treat others and
in how we model our disappointments and anger with our
children, so that we can build for them a world where we
no longer have to create remembrances for those who
have had to pay the ultimate price.
Lest we Forget!
Gill Van Der Ende, Chaplain
“Manchester Is Magic”
Term 2 Week 2/ 11
22nd April, 2015
“Manchester Is Magic”