EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS
Friday October 27th 2023
Message from the Principal
Everyone has the right to be SAFE
Everyone has the right to be RESPECTED
Everyone has the right to LEARN
GALA DAY: What an amazing day we had on our Gala Day celebrating Melton South Primary School centennial year. It was great catching up with former staff, students and families. Many of our former students now have their children attending Melton South Primary. We heard so many stories from students who attended our school in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I would like to thank all of the volunteers who were on the planning committee and the rest of our staff who assisted in both setting up, attending the Gala Day and those who assisted in packing up after the event. I am sure you will have noticed the new paintings on many walls around the school and also the House shields and mascots in the gym. The amazing artwork was all done by Colette Freund, one of our Education Support Staff. Colette was also responsible for the photo boards that were very popular on the gala day. The new time capsule will be buried, I am sure when it is opened in the future, education will have changed significantly.
2024: If you know your child/ren will not be attending Melton South Primary in 2024 please let us know at the office or email: melton.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au This will assist us with planning for 2024.
EVENTS: As you can see by the diary dates above we still have so many events to come between now and the end of the term in what has been a very busy year. Mrs Martin and students representing Melton South Primary in the Djerriwarrh Festival were busy at lunchtime yesterday rehearsing the dance they will do in the parade on Saturday the 11th of November.
GRADES 2024: Teachers devote many hours to the development of grades, taking many factors into consideration. If you have any specific requests, please put them into writing to the Principal marked Confidential and hand in to the office by tomorrow, Friday the 27th of October. You may send an email to melton.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au subject – Attention Principal. All requests will be given due consideration.
Marilyn Costigan
Principal
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
On Saturday 21st of October we held our Centenary Gala. With approx. 3000 guests visiting throughout the day there was a lot of excitement with the Petting Zoo, Face painting, Basketball Clinics and Maze on the oval, as well as a lot of positive feedback on all of the memorabilia on display throughout the school buildings. Thank you to all our families who could attend, the staff who worked hard behind the scenes on the planning and organisation and was in attendance on the day and to all of the wonderful local businesses who donated to our raffles!
GRADE 1 LIVING THINGS INCURSION
The grade 1s are learning about living things and how they adapt to changes in their environment.
On Thursday 2nd November the Grade 1s have an incursion, where students will get to view a range of reptiles, frogs, invertebrates, birds, and marsupials. Please note that final payments are due this Monday 30th October and no late payments will be accepted.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | ||
| PA | Harata | Sharing a verbal summary of ‘Pig the Pug’ including important events. | 3B | Ioane | For his amazing skip counting skills during our maths sessions. Thank you for helping others complete the task. |
| PB | Piper | For applying all strategies she has learnt when reading a new text. | 3C | Kayden | For making a big improvement in his reading by working hard with his reading goals. |
| PE | Mahlia | Experimenting with finger spaces in her writing. | 3E | Kathleen | For always being conscientious and willing to help others in the classroom. |
| PF | Declan P | For his fantastic summary in Reading. | 3F | Harry | For creating an amazing light up planet as part of our investigation unit! |
| 1B | Sanson | For showing a growth mindset while writing information texts. | 3G | Logan | For being focused and determined when completing a guided drawing of an astronaut. |
| 1C | Marley | For showing a growth mindset in writing an Information text about Turtles. | 4A | Ruby | For always showing kindness to her peers and being a great role model! |
| 1D | Tekaai | For his excellent number work on Essential Assessment tasks. | 4B | M’Muya | For his impressive efforts towards improving his reading skills. Well Done! |
| 2C | Sara Devan | For consistently displaying kindness towards her peers and teachers. For showing excellent growth and improvement in using his strategies when reading. | 4C | Rocky | For his huge improvement with his attendance, great work we love having you in the classroom. |
| 2D | Samantha | For always being the best bucket filler to everyone! | 5A | Richard | For showing outstanding values in all areas of the curriculum, especially responsibility towards your own learning. Your passion towards your studies should be celebrated! |
| PArts | Lily 2E | Volunteering to demonstrate body percussion drills. | 5B | Layla | For writing fantastic biographies with great structure and detail. |
| PE | 3F Ngun Prep A Kc 1E Aleah | For working hard on her bowling during our cricket unit. For demonstrating great sportsmanship at Mini Athletics last week. For demonstrating great sportsmanship at Mini Athletics last week. | 5C | Mahindo | For solving division worded problems using the short division strategy. |
| LOTE | Saggu 5C | For her wonderful French artwork. | 6A | Honour | His amazing work when adding decimal numbers in Maths. |
| 6E | Charm Harleen | For her interesting fact about hailstones. For working confidently on her snowstorm project. | 6B | Nina and Tristen | For writing and delivering a wonderful speech for our MSPS Assembly. |
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 | Thomas 1D | ||
| 50 SWPBS | Samantha 2D Lucky 4B Eknoor 4B Samuel 4B Luisa 4B Annika 4B Hudson 4B Preetika 4B Sarah 4B Moiz 4B | Latisha Scarlett Lauchlan | |
| 75 SWPBS | M’Muya 4B Raiden 4B | Lebron L | |
| 100 SWPBS | Guronkar Taribo |
PE NEWS 3/4 Touch Rugby Gala Day
Congratulations to the Gr 3/4 Touch Rugby team who represented our school at Seabrook Reserve, Broadmeadows. Students were given the opportunity to meet players from the Women’s Jillaroo National Rugby team. The team gave up their lunchtimes to train and work with Nathan from Melton Warriors. A big thank you to Nathan! The boys won 3 out of 3 games, with the girls winning one, drawing one and losing one. Well Done to both teams who played so well.
MINI ATHLETICS – Gr1 and PREPs Congratulations and well done to all the prep and Gr 1 students who participated at the Melton South Mini Athletics on Friday 20th October. Students rotated through a range of activities that they have been practising in PE. Of course, the day couldn’t have run without the help of the prep and Gr 1 staff and house captains. We look forward to having the Gr 2 day on Wednesday 2nd November.
Refugee Education Support Program 2021 – 2023
A huge congratulations to Melton South Primary School for completing the Refugee Education Support Program (RESP). Through RESP Melton South Primary School has implemented many supports to ensure we are continuing to be a welcoming place for students to attend of all cultures and experiences.
Some of these changes include:
-A Student led multicultural group
-A modified enrolment process to enable smoother transitions into the school
-Having our school website translated
-Having a mobile for the EAL team as a point of contact for families.
-An Interpreter line directly to the school
-Translated notes for important information
-Connecting with external agencies eg. centerlink, foundation house
-Sessions with Western Edge Youth Arts Program
We look forward to watching as more exciting changes unfold.
Burmese Health and Wellbeing Group
Come and spend some time enjoying relaxation and connection with others. We are exploring different ways to care for yourself as a parent as well as going to places such as pools to destress. Community child carers available to look after younger children.
When: Every Wednesday from 9:30-11:30
Where: Room 56
For more information please text or call Derinda on 0481 330 233
News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families are invited to come to a yarning circle at Melton South Primary School to share experiences of Melton South Primary School and how the school can better support you and your children.
Cheryl Cooper, who is one of the Koorie Education Support Officer’s (KESO’s) that work in the Brimbank Melton Area will be running these sessions.
Your input is valuable and we would love to see you there.
It will be very informal, so if you can only attend for a short time or one day, you are still very welcome. Morning tea will be provided. While your kids will stay in class for the session, if you have pre-schoolers, feel free to bring them along, and we will have staff available to set them up with activities.
Thursday 2/11 9.15am – 10.30am meet and greet
Thursday 9/11 9.15am – 10.30am parents invited to give feedback
For further information, please feel free to call:
Mairead on 0455 142 350
Susan on 0412 588 473
Looking forward to seeing you there!