EVERY SCHOOL DAY COUNTS
Tuesday October 22nd 2024
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
Everyone has the right to be SAFE
Everyone has the right to be RESPECTED
Everyone has the right to LEARN
STUDENT FREE DAY: Yesterday teaching staff had their DET Professional Practice Day and Education Support staff had professional learning on Protective Intervention. This involved
Module 1: – DET Policy – Core behaviour response & de-escalation skills
Module 2: – Core protective skills – Personal safety & safety intervention
Module 3: – Guiding Principles of protective Intervention – Links back to policy & de-escalation
Links to wider school approach, incident response & follow up – Escalation scenarios, questions & reflective discussion.
CAMP PLANNING: Camp planning is well underway, thank you to Sarah and Peter who organised the parent information session online and to the parents who signed in. Just a reminder that the bus will leave on time, 9am as activities are scheduled on arrival at camp, if students are late they will miss the bus. There are still outstanding forms that have not been handed in, they must be returned by Wednesday this week or your child will have to be withdrawn from the camp.
GRADES 2025: 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 Friday the 25th 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.
DENTAL SMILE SQUAD: As you might be aware, we have had the School Dental Program – ‘Smile Squad’ attend our school to give the students information on good dental health, undertake dental examinations and, where required, organise follow-up treatment. While the program is voluntary, many of you consented for your child/children to participate in the Smile Squad program. To better understand the delivery of the Smile Squad program including benefits and challenges, an independent firm (Abt Global) has been engaged to evaluate the program. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on your experience of the program. If you didn’t consent for your child/children to participate in Smile Squad they are also keen to hear from you. The evaluation team wants to understand why you chose not to
participate. So, whether you participated or not, this is an opportunity to provide feedback so that improvements can be made to the Smile Squad program.
To participate in the evaluation, you can complete a confidential 5–10 minute survey. The survey does not require you to provide any information to the evaluation team that identifies you, however the survey does ask what school your child/children attend. Here is the link to the survey.
https://abtassoc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bf6YJUMs3NkfHWm
We encourage you to participate in this short survey and provide valuable feedback on Smile Squad. If you would like to provide more detailed feedback to the evaluation team, please contact Eleanor at smilesquad_eval@abtglobal.com.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
| NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | NAME | REASON FOR AWARD | ||
| PA | Zainab | For working hard in writing simple sentences. | 3E | Henry Suleimaan | For following our SWPBS matrix and making good choices in all areas. For his outstanding efforts to participate in classroom learning tasks. |
| PC | Sidak | For always trying his hardest during learning time. | 4B | Mark | For working hard at answering a range of questions about the texts he reads. |
| PE | Luani Jagneet | For fantastic examples of text to self-connections when reading. For a friendly start at her new school. Welcome to MSPS. | 4D | Kashindi | For using interesting, topic specific language in his writing on the hawksbill sea turtle. |
| PF | Faalelagi Cooper | For creating an incredible “get-away” car to help The Bad Guys. For creating an inventive mind map to help The Bad Guys escape with 200 dogs. | 4E | Ousman | His quiet determination to understand his learning. |
| 1C | Jaxon | For the amazing effort he has been putting into his learning in the classroom. Proud of you Jaxson! | 4F | Zayne | For showing improvement in punctuality at school. |
| 1D | Kayson | For making good choices in the classroom. | 5D | Chase | For making great choices in the classroom. |
| 2A | Rafi | For his fantastic recount about our Melbourne Museum Excursion. | 6B | Obai Da | For his research and explanation text on volcanoes this week. |
| 2B | Samson | For working hard to complete his work over the last week. Well done Samson. | 6D | Marshall | For participating above and beyond in Mass lessons in maths. |
| 2D | Xiaoran Adama | For displaying a focussed and consistent approach during his daily independent reading tasks. For arriving each day at school “ready to learn” and consistently showing kindness and respect to others. | 6E | Tolofina Lumande | For showing fantastic improvement within reading especially while she was answering her beyond the text questioning skills. For showing fantastic researching skills during his investigation’s unit of work. |
| 2E | Yusuf | For writing great dinosaur stories. They are very entertaining. | LOTE | Owen 2C | For helping and assisting in the French class |
| 3B | Mahib Malakai | For his excellent work in showing his working out during our Problem-Solving Maths lesson. For using a growth mindset to show his knowledge of adding fractions. |
SWPBS BADGE EARNERS
Each day, MSPS students work their way up the SWPBS 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.
| Name, Grade Prep | Name, Grade 1&2 | Name, Grade (3&4) | Name, Grade (5&6) | |
| 10 SWPBS | Nelly PC | |||
| 25 SWPBS | Azma PF | Ashtan 2E | Summer 3E Aaron 3E | |
| 50 SWPBS | Zayan PF David PF Matthias PF Diane PF Ernisa PF | Miley 1C | ||
| 75 SWPBS | Steven PF | Kirat 2E Saahib 2E |
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!STEAM Wanted!
As part of our Year 3 Robotic STEAM unit on chariots, we are in need of items that can be used by students to create wheels. If you have any of the following items, can they be brought in over the next 2-3 weeks so our students can use them in their creations:
-milk bottle tops (clean)
-CDs
-other round items (such as Pringles tops etc but no larger than CD)
Please no metal items as we cannot poke holes in them.
Thank you for your support
The STEAM TEAM
Bulletin Board
https://www.melton.vic.gov.au/Services/Support-services/Food-Relief
The council website has a list of services that provide food and other items of need.
We do have some free bread/food on Fridays in the quadrangle but it is limited.