MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
CURRICULUM DAY: The first day of term 2, Monday the 24th of April will be a student-free day. Staff will be working with our Literacy Consultant on writing and spelling followed by a session on student well-being. Tuesday the 25th is the ANZAC DAY public holiday. Students will return to school on Wednesday the 26th of April.
CENTENARY PARADE AND PICNIC: This Friday, 31st March, our school will be holding a Picnic Morning Tea and Centenary dress-up parades. Families are encouraged to BYO their own picnic food & blanket/folding chairs to celebrate our school’s momentous celebration.
Parents, families, staff, and students are also invited to dress up in period costumes to represent the decades throughout our school history (1923- 2023).
Event Schedule
P – 2 Parade 9.15am – 9.45am
Picnic 10am – 10.25am
3 – 6 Parade 10.25am – 10.55am
A parade and picnic will be held in the quadrangle. If inclement weather, it will be held in the gymnasium.
1923 CLASSROOM: We have been busy setting up our 1923 classroom. Next term students will have fortnightly lessons in this classroom. They will be using chalkboards, ink wells, etc without the use of computers and other 2023 technology. This Morning a photographer from the local paper came to take a photo of grade 3C students, in the classroom.
BUSY WEEK: Next week will be a busy one for students at Melton South Primary. The House Athletic sports for students in grades 3 and 4 will be held at Bridge Road Recreation Reserve on Tuesday the 4th of April. Parents are welcome to come and watch. The cross country for students in grades 3-6 had to be postponed due to the wet conditions. It has been rescheduled for next Wednesday the 5th of April; held on the school and rugby oval. Parents are welcome to watch from the rugby oval.
CRAZY HAT PARADE: For students in grades Prep, 1 and 2 there will be a hat parade in the quadrangle on Thursday the 6th of April in the quadrangle at 9:15 am.
Melton South Primary School acknowledges the Wurundjeri People as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we learn and play. We value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture. We recognise the First People’s connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respects to Elders, both past, present and emerging.
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS UPDATE
Our first round of brick paver orders closes on Friday 31st March. From Term 2 onwards we will be holding other events to celebrate our Centenary milestone. This will include the theme of our Expo in early Term 3, a school open day in October, and small group heritage tours taking place as part of the Melton Heritage Festival in April. We are also opening the Facebook group dedicated to celebrating our Centenary. You can join the group by searching “Melton South Primary School – Celebrating 100 Years” to share your stories, photos and to be informed of upcoming information. We have an email dedicated to all Centenary enquiries at: 100Years@meltonsthps.vic.edu.au
Melton South Primary School Swimming Lessons Year 4
The Grade 4 students will be participating in a School Swimming and Safety Program in Term 2. They will have 9 swimming lessons at Melton Genesis Swim School on Coburns Road. Students will be transported to and from Genesis by bus. A swimming timetable will be created once student numbers have been confirmed.
Dates: Monday 1st May, Tuesday 2nd May, Wednesday 3rd May, Thursday 4th May, Friday 5th May
Monday 8th May, Tuesday 9th May Wednesday 10th May **NO SWIMMING due to school photos, Thursday 11th May, Friday 12th May
Cost: FREE
The lessons in this program is funded by the government, making it more accessible and cost-effective for parents.
Permission forms and up-to-date medication plans, such as asthma MUST be returned to school no later than Wednesday, April 26th.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| GRP-2 | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | GR3-6 | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD |
| PB | Bryan | For an amazing effort with his writing. | 3B | Pearls | Working hard on your writing goal of using consistent capital letters during our writing sessions this week. |
| PD | Gurbaaz | For writing a great procedural text using the sounds that he knows. Well done! | 3D | Jaxson | Following our school value of ‘Respect’ when using whole-body listening during class story time. |
| PE | Lila | Working hard at writing the steps of different procedural texts. | 3F | Helena | For always demonstrating excellent work habits. |
| PF | Kiyana | For using the sounds she knows in her writing. | 4A | Blake | For actively encouraging his peers when developing problem solving skills. |
| 1A | Alex | For always demonstrating our classroom values and expectations. | 4B | Tyrese | For writing a very convincing persuasive text on why the school hours should change. |
| 1B | Telina | For always demonstrating the school values of everyone has the right to be respected, the right to be safe and the right to learn. | 4C | Hope Patrick | For never giving up while trying to write a TEEL paragraph during persuasive writing. For consistently working on his writing goal. Well done Patrick I’ve seen a huge improvement in your hand writing. |
| 1D | Sophia | For working hard on her maths goal by writing the numbers 1-29 without any assistance. | |||
| 1E | Aleah | For consistently working on her writing goal and feedback. | 4D | Chase | Amazing effort in writing this week! Well done creating a persuasive text and including emotive language to engage the reader. |
| 2C | Lavin | For working extremely hard on his opinion writing task. | 4E | Jacks Ben | His enthusiasm and expertise in making 3D shapes. For settling into his new classroom. |
| 2D | Henry | For being an exceptional ICT co-ordinator, always helping others & keeping the laptops organised. | 5A | Krish | For always demonstrating outstanding school values and working super hard on your elapsed time questions in math. Keep working super hard! |
| 2E | Avni | For always showing respect towards her teacher and classmates. | 5B | Amora | For demonstrating kindness towards her peers and helping others. |
| 2F | Mehtaab | For great understanding of collecting data and showing his data on a Bar graph. | 5C | Kaiden | For working hard on improving his understanding of time. |
| 6A | Junior | His quiet determination to make the most of every learning opportunity. | 5D | Vaai | For consistently completing her nightly reading and reaching 50 nights. |
| 6C | Thiep | For being a great role model to his prep buddy. | 5E | Ghazala | For consistently completing her nightly reading. |
| 6E | Dionte | For writing an expressive thesis statement for his persuasive writing. | 5F | Summer R | For enthusiastically participating during class. |
| LOTE | Blake 4A | For being a supportive, kind, caring role model in the French classroom. |
CASUAL CLOTHES DAY
The JSC is raising money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Date: Thursday 6th April (Last day of term 1)
Cost: Gold Coin donation
SWPBS BADGE EARNERS
Each day, MSPS students work their way up the learning ladder through following our school values, showing Respect, Kindness, and striving to do their best every day. When they reach the top, they are recorded with an Outstanding day on their token acknowledgment chart. When a student reaches a significant milestone of Outstanding days, they earn a badge, here is where we celebrate students who have worked hard to achieve their milestone badges.
| 0 SWPBS | Name, Grade (P,1) Avah 1B Hitesh 1B Lily 1B Zayden 1B Adele 1B Leonardo 1B Telina 1B Nini 1B Kaili 1B Ashtan 1B | Name, Grade (2,3,4) Shayna 4A Raiden 4B Sam 4B Luisa 4B Annika 4B Cheyenne 4B Tiana 4B Tyrese 4B Nevaeh 4B Navnoor 2F Areeb 2F Harneet 2F | Name, Grade (5,6) Guronkar 5A Jacks 4E |
| 25 SWPBS | Ariz 4B |