EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS
Friday August 18th 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.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
SMILE SQUAD: Did you miss your Smile Squad dental visit?The Smile Squad team from Western Health have now completed their visit at our school. During this time, they provided free dental care to students who returned a signed consent form. If anyone in your family returned their consent form but didn’t get seen, it’s not too late as you can visit Smile Squad at their community dental clinic. Please contact the team at any time to book an appointment. Just let them know you signed up to Smile Squad and have returned a consent form. This is a free service.
Contact the team at: Western Health
195-209 Barries Road, Melton West
Ph: 97477676
SPECIAL EVENTS: We had a very busy time last week with the Book Week parades and our EXPO rehearsals. It was so pleasing to see so many parents come along to the parades and we hope that a lot of parents will be able to come along to the EXPO. We will be having the EXPO performances professionally videoed for parents to purchase.
PARENT OPINION SURVEY: The Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Opinion Survey (PCGOS) is a confidential survey made available to all Victorian government schools in Term 3 each year. The objective of this survey is to collect parent/caregiver/guardian opinion data from individual schools, and to use this information to assist with the future planning and improvement of Victorian schools.
SWIMMING PROGRAM: Our grade 3 students have had the opportunity to attend swimming lessons at Genesis. This was funded by a grant from DET.
PAMPER AND PASTA: Next Wednesday the 23rd of August we will be having our Pamper and Pasta evening. This came about after our Student Voice group informed me they didn’t think it was fair that only dads got to come to school with their children to do activities after school. They said many of their mums worked and couldn’t get to school during school hours. We are looking forward to the evening.
WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS: We have had two excursions recently, Grade 1 to Animal Land and Preps to the Werribee Zoo. We asked parents to volunteer to assist with supervision on the excursions. To attend excursions parents must have a current Volunteer Working with Children check. You can apply for this online, once you have received this we need to photocopy the card and add it to our database.
SPORTS: We have had so many students representing our school in different sports. A big thank you to our PE teachers, Mr Demarchi, Ms Montalti and Ms Modesti who give up many of their recess and lunch breaks to offer students extra training.
CENTENARY MEMORABILIA: Don’t forget to take the opportunity to order Centenary Memorabilia, it includes a Centennial bear, pen sets, tin mugs, bumper stickers and a carry bag.
NAPLAN: NAPLAN results are still available from the office for students in grades 3 and grade 5 who sat the tests. We request parents pick them up from the office or send a note to say their child can collect it instead.
BROOKFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL: The new Brookfield school will be opening in 2024. Its new name is BINAP PS. It will be zoned as all government schools are in Melton. To find out if you are in the zone google Find My School, type in your address, select enrolment year, and select primary school. If you then decide to enrol your child/ren at the new school please email me via the address below.
melton.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au
As your child/ren are already enrolled at MSPS they can continue at our school. if that is what you choose to do. If you do decide to enrol at another school and you are not in our zone then you will be unable to re-enrol at Melton South Primary.
2024: We are already planning for 2024 so if you know your child/children will be moving to another school next year please advise the school via email: melton.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au We are currently taking Prep enrolments for 2024. Please see the office staff for more information.
Marilyn Costigan
Principal
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS UPDATE
Our Centenary Gala Expo Day will be held on Saturday, October 21st, 2023 from 10am to 3pm. Our online ticketing system will be provided by CompassTix and will go live from the 18th of August. Tickets are FREE and will be available up to the day before. More advertising will be available at the conclusion of our EXPO next week. The second and final round of Centenary Pavers are now available for ordering, as well as a wide variety of Commemorative Memorabilia for our Centenary through Compass. We look forward to celebrating our schools’ incredible milestone with you this year!
School EXPO – SONGS THROUGH THE DECADES
P-6 Friday August 25th 2023
All grades will be performing in the gym, including Specialist 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 work samples following/prior to performances according to session times.
During the recess break we ask parents to stay in the gym for tea/coffee & biscuits.
Access to the school will be via 2 points, the gates behind the gym and Morsehead Street.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Grade 2 upcoming EXCURSION
The Grade 2s have an excursion coming up, visiting the Melbourne Museum on Tuesday 29th August (please note that the Tuesday date is correct – not Thursday).
BOOK CLUB
Book Club Issue 6 orders are due in by Thursday 31st of August.
You can order using the LOOP ordering system. NO PAYMENTS to school, online ordering only.
MULTICULTURAL EVENTS CALENDAR
Link to calendar of multicultural events celebrated widely in Australia.
Animal Land Children’s Farm
Last week the Grade 1 students went to visit Animal Land Children’s Farm in Diggers Rest. The students explored all of the managed aspects of the farm environment; while also having a lot of fun being farmers for the day. Here is some of what we got up to!
2024 PREP ENROLMENTS
Melton South Primary School 2024 Prep Enrolments are now open.
If you would like to enrol your child at Melton South Primary School, please email enrolments@meltonsthps.vic.edu.au or Call (03) 9743 2922.
Further information about our school can be found on our website https://meltonsthps.vic.edu.au/
There is a change to our school zone for 2024. Please go to the Find My School website to see if your address is within our school’s zone: https://www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au/
OFFICIAL MEMORABILIA
Celebrate our Centenary with a keepsake! We are taking pre-orders to ensure we have enough products and items that will be on sale during the Gala Event on October 21st, 2023. Items will be available for pre-order between Monday, July 31st, and Friday September 1st, 2023. Log into Compass to place an order for Centenary Celebration Orders.
Our second and final round of Centenary Brick Pavers will also be available to be ordered from Monday 31st July to Monday October 23rd.
MSPS CENTENARY GALA DAY
Centenary Gala Day will be on 21st October 2023. It is a free event, although all visitors must book tickets via CompassTix –> MSPS Centenary Gala Day Tickets
MSPS Centenary Gala Day is featuring old-fashioned games, Maze & Petting Zoo, food trucks & Devonshire tea, as well as photo boards, video & photo displays, an official ceremony at 12pm, time capsule & more!!