EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS
Thursday August 3rd 2023
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.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Everyone has the right to be SAFE
Everyone has the right to be RESPECTED
Everyone has the right to LEARN
FRENCH PERFORMANCE: On Monday I had the opportunity to attend the 1/2 assembly and see the French performances. The performances by the students were all outstanding and you could see how much the students were enjoying it. A big thank you to Mr Chau and Ms Spencer for organising the day and all the food sampling in their classes this week. It was so great to see so many parents attend the assembly.
DISCO: Last night we have the 3-6 disco and by all reports it was a fantastic night. Lots of dancing and plenty of food and drink. Tonight, we have the Prep–2 disco. Please note it is very important that all students are picked up straight after it finishes at 6:15pm. No students will be allowed to walk home unsupervised at the end of the disco. Students need to be signed out by the child’s classroom teacher.
LOST PROPERTY: Please ensure you label your child’s school jumpers and bomber jackets. We have staff members who regularly check lost property tubs and they return the items to the student if they are named.
Marilyn Costigan
Principal
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 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!
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | ||
| PA | Puni | Always trying his best when learning new concepts. | 3D | Aavai | Your concentration and effort during Guided Reading. |
| PF | Kayden | For working hard to use finger spaces in his writing. | 3E | Amazon | For showing improvement in his home reading. |
| 1C | Tryphosa | For always taking initiative and helping the school environment stay clean and litter free. | 3F | Emmie | For using her initiative to use materials around her when summarising information about Brazil. |
| 1D | William | For writing a fantastic sentence about his setting during narrative writing. | 3G | Dimitrios | For his enthusiasm during Grade 3 expo practice. |
| 1E | Cadey | For adding adjectives in her narrative writing. Well done! | 4B | Tiana | For her concentration and effort in writing her explanation text. |
| 1F | Ricky | For using the Word Wall to help him with spelling and helping his classmates find words on the Word Wall. | 4C | Uzayr | For settling well into his new classroom and school. Welcome to maps! |
| 2B | Alex | For showing his goal, which is sitting on the floor, showing whole body listening. | 5A | Lebron K | For making a positive start to school life at MSPS and really making the effort in all areas of the curriculum. |
| 2C | Awad Devrat | For showing resilience and perseverance during our School Expo practice sessions. For using excellent descriptive language when writing about thunderstorms. | 4E | Zun Then Jacks | Putting a lot of effort into her explanation text. For showing confidence in writing independently, well done! |
| 2D | Callum | For sharing his amazing positive mindset and attitude to help a friend. | 5C | Mason | For creating an excellent billboard on advertising a soccer clinic. |
| 2F | Dakota | For making a great rain gauge for homework and explaining how it works. | 5E | Felix Natalie T Nathan | For showing perseverance when measuring angles. For being a wonderful student voice representative. For showing an interest in advertising. |
| PArts | Xiaotai 6E Rocky | Great enthusiasm and confidence for acting in Performing Arts. Enthusiastic participation in all drama games. You inspire others, Rocky! | 6A | Aiden B | His positive attitude towards his learning in all areas of the curriculum. |
| PE | Shannon | For his great understanding of attacking strategies during the invasion games unit. | 6B | JA | For writing an excellent mission statement, and product/service paragraphs. |
| STEAM | Laghuvi 5F Connor 5F | For consistently maintaining a high standard. | 6E | Ansal Azra | For using good strategies to work out worded problems with fractions. For showing how different strategies can be used to work out fractions. |
| LOTE | Paige 6D | For her brilliant performance on the French Day. |
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 | Aiden B 6A Corey 6A Cortez 6A Feleti 6A Iang 6A Iulia 6A Junior 6A Kassie 6A Mia 6A Nate 6A Olivia 6A Skyla 6A Taani 6A Kumbah 6A Rocket 5E Shuraim 5E Prosonno 5E Felix 5E | ||
| 25 SWPBS | Alexis Areeb Harneet Samantha 2D Ofa 3D | Crispin 6A Puleono 6A Ryan 6A Ivy 6E Samantha 6E Levi 5E Nandar 5E Ghazala 5E Ariel 5E Senecaselle 5E Thyrone 5E Jasper 5E Jannah 5E Joseph 5E Atif 5E |
Grade 2 upcoming EXCURSION
The Grade 2s have an excursion coming up, visiting the Melbourne Museum on Tuesday 29th August.
Notes have gone out with students and the information is also available on the Compass app.
Permission and payment are due by Thursday 10th August.
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.
Grade 2: Investigation Unit – Water
Students will learn…about the Water Cycle and how weather affects water (evaporation, conservation, condensation).
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.
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.
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.
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.
SONGS THROUGH THE DECADES School EXPO
P-6 Friday August 25th 2023
All grades will be performing in the gym, including Specialists 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.
| PE NEWS Gr 5-6 Girls District Volleyball Tournament Friday 4th August, our Gr 5-6 girls volleyball team will be playing in a small tournament to win a spot at divisions. Parents are welcome to come and cheer and support our students. Venue: Melton South PS gym Time: 11:30-1:30 |
French News
Merci beaucoup to everyone who celebrated the French Day with us on Monday. It was wonderful to see students and staff in their Fashion. Gr3-6 students had a great time singing, dancing and watching the wonderful performance by Phillipe & Jacques. We also would like to thank our Senior students who performed at the Junior assembly.
On Ecrit Sur Les Murs: Jasper, Paige, Rylan and Jade
Fashion Parade: Siena, Ava, Apsara, Samuella, Connor, Jeanine, Anaya, Winter, Eliza, Inara, Haylee, Nina, Hayden, Mia, Shehbazz, Maddi, Agam, Elias, Sean, Quedesa, Ruby, Evie-Rose, Jordyn, Nanta, Leah, Georgia, Emily, Ekam, Kai, Body, Jacobi, Prahb, Mahalia, Nina K, Nina L, Summer R, Summer S, Hayden and Gurjovan.
Soccer Dance: Kaiden, Mason, Tyson, Brax, Jason, Hayden, Arian, Mason S, Jackson and Ari
Waka Waka: Anika, Preetika, Japleen, Sera, Priya, Farin, Emily, Tamara, Ryder, Amara, Nathan and Suad.
Mime: Rose,Ariel,Ghazala, Indie W, Persephone, Laghuvi, Indie, Latisha, Bodie, Joy, Mehnaz and Latisha
Parisian Café Play: Bryleigh, Renata, Emerald, Connor and Guni
Special thanks to families and friends that came to watch and support our performers. We would like to thank Allyson and the ladies in the canteen for sharing joie de vivre snacks for the day.
This week in classes we are celebrating by watching the recording of the performances and sampling some wonderful French foods such as croissant, crepe, pain au chocolate, brioche, raison and macaron. Bravo a tous!
BOOK WEEK DRESS UP
Come dressed as your favourite character, book, or author. Be as creative as you can!
Friday 11th August, P-2 Parade at 9:05am and 3-6 parade at 9.45am.
