EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS
Friday July 14th 2023
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS UPDATE
2023! It is officially our 100th year celebration.
We have an email dedicated to all Centenary enquiries at: 100Years@meltonsthps.vic.edu.au
We look forward to celebrating our schools’ incredible milestone with you this year!
Access your child’s semester 1 2023 reports on COMPASS
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Everyone has the right to be SAFE
Everyone has the right to be RESPECTED
Everyone has the right to LEARN
WELCOME TO TERM 3: We warmly welcome all students, staff and community, to term 3. As you can see in our ‘Dates to Remember’ section, term 3 is again a busy term with many engaging activities for our wonderful students. We have our school DISCOS on August 2nd & 3rd and our school EXPO on August 25th.
GRADE 6 CAMP TO VALLEY HOMESTEAD: We received such positive feedback from both students and staff who attended the Gr6 camp to Valley Homestead in Ovens in the last 3 days of term 2. The engaging group activities that students participated in, enabled them to further develop their collaboration/teamwork skills. We would like to thank all the staff who attended this camp and in particular Stephanie Millan for her exceptional organisation of this event.
INTERVIEWS: Last night we held parent/teacher interviews. It was great to see so many families taking this opportunity to meet with their child’s teacher to discuss their learning.
REPORTS: A reminder to those parents and carers who have not yet accessed their children’s semester 1 reports to please log on and download your report/s from COMPASS.
NAPLAN: The way National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results are reported is changing in 2023. See note in this newsletter. Student individual results will be released from Monday 17 July 2023.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | ||
| PA | Noah | For listening to the letter sounds when writing. | 3A | Dejan | For starting Term 3 with an amazing mindset. Well done Dejan for settling back into the classroom after the holidays. |
| PB | Noah | For contributing to class discussions. | 3C | Boyoris | For sharing his experiences and voice through his writing in an interesting and engaging way. |
| PC | Abraham | For always having a positive attitude towards learning. | 3E | Ray | For completing an amazing recount about his holiday activities. |
| PD | Mary | For raising her hand and making great contributions to our class discussions. | 3F | Christian | For completing an amazing brainstorm of his holidays and trying his best to stretch out the sounds of words. |
| PE | Isabelle | For building her confidence to have a go at new tasks. | 3G | Hunter | For completing some amazing writing this week. |
| PF | Declan P | For doing a wonderful job at creating a bar graph. | 4A | Aalya | For increased commitment to her take home reading. Keep it up! |
| 1A | Alexander | For making a great start to Term3 with his positive attitude. | 4B | Preetika | For displaying a growth mindset in maths lessons, always trying her best. |
| 1B | Tyler | For working hard in writing and having a go at spelling high frequency words. | 4C | Victory | For her excellent work during reading groups. |
| 1C | Catalaya Bakshish | For working hard in writing and having a go at spelling high frequency words. For incorporating adjectives in his writing. Great job Bakshish. | 4D | Charlotte | Her fantastic effort in maths, using different arrays to show her multiplication knowledge. |
| 1D | Thomas | For showing a growth mindset by working hard to improve his handwriting. | 4E | Ezee Ayub | For his huge effort he put into his writing. For the growth in his reading from practising his goals. Well done! |
| 1E | Adama | For adding adjectives and noun groups in her writing. | 5A | Summer | For showing a positive mindset across all areas of your learning. Keep working Hard Summer! |
| 2A | Jai | For using text clues to make inferences. | 5B | Justyce | For showing the school values at our Scienceworks excursion. |
| 2B | Tim | For settling back into Melton South Primary school and showing school Values. Welcome back Tim. | 5C | Alina | For showing the school values at our Scienceworks excursion. |
| 2C | Charlie | For using a growth mindset when completing his project about guitars. | 5E | Ariel Joseph | For making wonderful growth in all aspects of her schooling. For showing an interest in financial maths. |
| 2D | Henry | For writing lots of positive, bucket filling letters to his friends. | 5F | Anabelle | Excellent home reading over the holidays. |
| 2E | Arvie | For his outstanding effort in Reading both at home and school. | 6A | Puleono | His dedicated work ethic and his willingness to tackle learning challenges. |
| 2F | Zeth | For excellent work completing his work on Mass. Great hefting work. | 6B | Ray | Reading the mission statement for MY MATS to his class with wonderful expression. |
| PArts | Land 6A Divine 6E Harrison 3F | Outstanding contribution to class discussion in Performing Arts. For using the Performing Arts word wall to contribute ideas to our anchor chart, “What makes a good actor?” Very Clever! | 6E | Pison | For being a respectful and helpful House Captain during PMP this week. |
| STEAM | Jennifer 5C | Always maintaining a high standard of work. | AP award | Noah | His excellent behaviour and amazing Art work. |
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 acknowledgement 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.
| Name, Grade (P,1) | Name, Grade (2,3,4) | Name, Grade (5,6) | |
| 10 SWPBS | Ariah 4C Cross 4C Patrick 4C Keira 4C Logan 4C Ameeah 4C Matalix 4C Nathan 4C Jayden 4C Rocky 4C Victory 4C Alfred 4D Amity 4D Aswad 4D Jade 4D Lavinia 4D Mason 4D Rowina 4D Suad 4D Dante 2F Mehtaab 2F Emir 3A Dejan 3A Naw Naw 3A Jade 3A Caleb H 3A Trinity 3A Tyler 3A Maria 3A Ahmed O 3A Rithin 3A Ousman 3A Chase 3A Caleb V 3A Hevani 3A Liu 3A | ||
| 25 SWPBS | Telina 1B Tyler 1B Samantha 1B Nikki-Leigh 1B Ashtan 1B | Anaya 2C Ansharah 2C Nityansh 2C Kelly 2C Sara 2C Skylar 4C Hope 4C Gabby 4C Rehmat 4C Zakiah 4C Noah 4C Sera 4D Ryder 4D Rico 4D Jemma 4D Priya 4D Farin 4D Emily 4D Diamond 4D Chase 4D Amara 4D Charlotte 4D Shayna 4A Dominic 4A Esther 4A Zoe 4A Aalya 4A Kirim 4A Ila 2F Adalyn 2F Riziki 2F Genoveva 2F June 2D Eliza 2D Trinity 3A Rithin 3A Ali 3D Angelique 3D Aurora 3D Dhrithee 3D Harmaheeal 3D Prahlad 3D Riynasser 3D Samardeep 3D Sean 3D Taylah 3D Tyler 3D Ahmed 3E Aila 3E Kai 3E Taeaolasi 3E | Connor 5F |
| 50 SWPBS | Danielle 2D |
What are the students currently learning?
Prep: Investigation Unit – Media Arts
Students will explore… the Media arts and learn how artworks can represent the world and that they can make artworks to represent their ideas about the world. They will share their artworks with peers and experience being an audience to respond to others’ art making, becoming aware of structure, intent, character and settings in ideas and stories. They will explore ideas and learn about composition, sound and technologies to construct stories and learn how their ideas can be communicated through selecting and organising the elements of media arts.
Grade 1: Investigation Unit – Where I Live
Students will learn… about natural, managed and constructed environments and how they are formed by natural and human intervention. They will learn how features of these environments can change over time e.g. re-vegetated areas and new buildings. Students will also investigate activities in the local area e.g. recreational and find them on maps as well as give reasons for their location. They will recognise that physical activities can take place in a range of different environments, including natural, built and aquatic settings.
Students will be reading and viewing… fiction and information texts, weather maps and viewing local maps (Google maps).
Students will write… a narrative text using one of the three environments as a setting.
Grade 2: Investigation Unit – Water
Students will learn…about the Water Cycle and how weather affects water (evaporation, conservation, condensation).
Students will be reading and viewing… explanation tests
Students will write… an explanation explaining how or why something happens.
Grade 3: Investigation Unit – Australia and It’s Southern Neighbours
Students will learn… Australia’s place in the world and the unique features of Australia. They will locate and research features of Australia and other Southern Hemisphere countries.
Students will be reading… a variety of information texts to build understanding of Australia and its Southern Neighbours. They will be viewing short informative BTN clips and looking at artefacts from different cultures to support the learning. Students will be reading maps as well as geographical data and information. They will be identifying the Countries and Places of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia
Students will write… an information text in the form of a travel guide brochure.
Grade 4: Investigation Unit – Living in an Australian Democracy
Students will be learning… about how local government works. They learn about the Melton Council and the services it provides for its constituents. Students will learn about the election process for the Melton Council and how it relates to the election process for State and Federal Government.
Students will be reading and viewing… texts about local governments including online resources.
Students will write… a Sequential Explanation text on a Melton local Government service or how to access the service.
Grade 5: Investigation Unit – Taking Care of Business
Students will explore… everyday money matters such as shopping lists, bank statements and personal budgets. Learning progresses to incorporate fractions and decimal algorithms into financial mathematics by investigating and understanding General Sales Tax (GST) in everyday purchases. Students will explore basic economic principles in terms of wants and needs. Through practical experiences and readings students will investigate influences on consumers and the resources that they consume.
Students will research and write… a persuasive text on the importance of budgets and savings.
Grade 6: Investigation Unit – We are Entrepreneurs
Students will … become entrepreneurs. Students will consider the dispositions of entrepreneurs and how these contribute to successful business enterprises. They will learn about why businesses exist; how decisions consumers make have an impact on business and the way that businesses produce, market and distribute goods and services.
Students will be reading and viewing… clips about entrepreneurship and investigate the entrepreneurial skills of successful people e.g. Bill Gates including Australian entrepreneurs.
Students will write… an informative business plan based on a product/service they identify, including how that business has a positive impact on the environment.
SCHOOL EXPO
SONGS THROUGH THE DECADES
P-6 Friday August 25th 2023
All grades will be performing in the gym, including 2 choir performances.
We hope you can come and join us.
There is no cost to the families to attend the EXPO.
Parents & Carers are invited into the classrooms to view art and work samples following/prior to performances according to session times.
We look forward to seeing you there.
LIBRARY NEWS
To borrow books from our school library, you need to bring a bag (not plastic). This is to protect the books.
You have 14 days to read the books at home before returning them.
When you return your books, put them through the lolly jar slot before entering the library.
Remember to bring your library bag with you on your library visit day as you cannot borrow without one.
Library books personal borrowing is for pleasure reading, these books are taken home to read, try to keep your personal reading books separate to your classroom library books.
If not having a bag is stopping you from borrowing from our school library please speak to Mrs. Handley.
100 DAYS OF SCHOOL
Dear Prep Families,
The students are about to hit a huge milestone, 100 days of school. We will be celebrating the day with lots of fun and exciting activities on Friday the 28th of July. This is a time to reflect on how far the students have come over the past two terms.
-Students will need to bring in a T-Shirt to school that they can decorate with paint and stickers. This will need to be at school no later than Monday the 24th of July. A white T-Shirt is preferred, however, it is not a requirement.
-As a treat, we will be purchasing some hot chips for the students. However, they will still need to bring their lunch on the day.
-Parents will be invited into their child’s classroom from 9-9.30am to help them put on their special T-Shirt and take a photo with their child.
A payment of $2 is required to help fund the activities. Your child’s classroom teacher will be collecting the money. Please pay this by Monday 24th of July.
A big thank you from the Prep Team for helping us ensure this will be a successful and memorable day for the students!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s teacher.
Upcoming changes to NAPLAN reporting
Ahead of NAPLAN results for students being released from Monday 17 July 2023, I’m writing to inform you of some changes to this year’s reporting.
These are changes being introduced nationally by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
NAPLAN will continue to measure student achievement in numeracy, reading, writing, spelling, and grammar and punctuation but the results will now be presented in 4 proficiency levels: These are:
• exceeding
• strong
• developing
• needs additional support.
This change will give schools, parents and carers clearer information that details student achievement against new proficiency levels.
Students’ NAPLAN reports will continue to show how they are tracking against their peers and provide an indication of their skill levels against national averages and where we would expect them to be in order to get the most out of schooling. This provides valuable information to teachers about how we can continue to support your child.
Each set of NAPLAN results is an important milestone but it’s also important that students know that one result does not define them – these results are about making sure every student gets the support they need so they can continue to get the best from their learning.
When we provide you with your results, you will also receive information about what the new proficiency levels mean.
As ever, you’re welcome to speak to me, or your child’s teacher with any questions about these changes.
Angela Lanza,
Assistant Principal
BREAKFAST CLUB HAPPENING EVERY WEDNESDAY
Breakfast Club enables students at school to enjoy a nutritious breakfast, allowing them to engage and participate fully in all the educational and social opportunities that school offers.
It is held from 8.30am – 8.50am at BER Staff room entering through gate 2, Morsehead Street.
Please note that we encourage all students to eat breakfast before school. This program is to supplement families that may not be in the position to provide breakfast on that day.
Food provided will include, SPC diced fruit cups, toast with margarine and vegemite, full cream milk and fruits (apple/pears/oranges).
Please notify staff of any food allergies on the day. Parents can accompany younger students if required, but please note food is provided for school students only.