Reminders - Mossgiel Park Primary School

Mossgiel Park PS Website: http://www.mossgielparkps.vic.edu.au
Issue 13:2016
12th May 2016
Reminders
DIARY DATES
2016
Special Lunch Day
MAY
Friday 13th
Tuesday 17th
Thursday 19th
Mon 16th – Fri 20th
Wed 25th – Fri 27th
Tuesday 31st
Special Lunch Burger Day
Science Family Night
Scienceworks Planetarium
Science Week
Gundiwindi Camp
Science Exam
JUNE
Wednesday 1st
Thursday 2nd
Monday 13th
Thursday 16th
Friday 17th
Thursday 23rd
Friday 24th
Pantomime
Curriculum Day
Queen’s Birthday – Public Holiday
School Disco
Year 5-6 Hooptime
Special Lunch Pizza & Potato Day
End of Term 2
JULY
Tomorrow, Friday the
13th of May
Whole School
Science Family Night
Tuesday the 17th of May
Whole School
Scienceworks
Planetarium
Thursday the 19th of May
All forms and money are due by
4pm today.
Monday 11th
Term 3 Begins
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I hope all our hard working mums
enjoyed a little spoiling on Sunday!
It was lovely
to hear the
children
explaining
why their
mum was
special and
seeing the care with which they
selected their gifts. I’d like to thank
our dedicated band of PAFA mums
for organising the Mother’s Day
raffle, stall and gifts for the children;
besides raising money for school
amenities, they brought a lot of joy
into our homes on Sunday – well
done!
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Wayang Kulit Day
Last Thursday, students in Years 3-6
experienced the traditional
Indonesian art of Wayang Kulit
(Shadow Puppet Performance),
thanks to a Victorian Government
Languages Immersion Grant.
Students watched various
traditional Indonesian tales being
performed on the shadow screen
and had an opportunity to ask the
puppeteer (Dalang) questions.
Students were then involved in a
puppet making workshop where
they constructed their own puppet
from the story of Kancil and the
Crocodile, a
tale that the
students are
learning in
Indonesian.
Following this
workshop, the
students will
be fully
immersed in the Indonesian
language, having opportunities to
read, watch, listen to, write and
perform their own shadow puppet
plays in the target language. What
an exciting
way to explore
a new
language and
culture!
I would like to congratulate Bu
Kranz for gaining the grant and for
her outstanding organisation of the
Wayang Kulit experience. I can’t
wait to see the childrens’ puppet
plays!
Mossgiel Park Open Night
Sensational Science
Excitement is
building as we
prepare to
celebrate
Science Week 2016! During our
Education/Science week we will
explore many new concepts and
discover exciting facts and ideas as
we work with visiting scientists and
engineers. Our cross-age activity
morning sounds exciting and I can’t
wait to see the technology
challenge – how far will your plane
fly?
I hope you can all come along to the
family night to enjoy the science
challenges, games and activities
with your children and to perhaps
learn a little more about science in
schools. Mark Tuesday, May the
17th in your diary now to keep the
evening free. If you know any
families with young children
perhaps you could remind them
that we’re open and encourage
them to come
along and see for
themselves what
makes Mossgiel
Park such a great
school! See you
next week!
NAPLAN Testing
This week, our Years 3 and 5
students completed the NAPLAN
(The National Assessment Program
– Literacy and Numeracy)
assessment tasks over a number of
sessions. The tests assessed a
number of student skills in reading,
writing, language conventions
(spelling, punctuation and
grammar) and numeracy. The
writing task this year involved using
a narrative style of writing; there
were some very creative responses
to this year’s topic – ask your child
about their piece of writing!
Later in the year you will receive a
report showing your child’s results
in each of these tests.
These results will
add to the
knowledge you
have of your
child’s skills and progress. I am very
proud of the calm, thoughtful way
the children approached the tests –
well done Year 3 and Year 5!
Thank you for
your support,
Jenny Scott
Congratulations!!
The Parents & Friends Association
would like to announce the
following winners from the
Mother’s Day Raffle.
Thank you to everyone who
donated, advertised & sold tickets.
There was much excitement & Mrs
Scott drew the following winners
from the raffle barrel.
We are pleased to announce we
raised just over $887.50 for
Mossgiel Park Primary!!
1st Prize - Jenny c/o Angelina 1/2B
2nd Prize - Mel c/o Lucas 4DW
3rd Prize - Thinaya 3/4M
4th Prize - Sue Williams c/o Max 1LG
5th Prize - Kerrie
6th Prize - Alannah Prep LS
7th Prize - Charlotte Prep 1H
8th Prize - B. Wilson
9th Prize - Rosa c/o Tanaya 2/3E
10th Prize - Kithsiri c/o Virul 6CC
11th Prize - Mrs Abeyratne
12th Prize - Ms Evans 2/3E
As a special treat, PAFA were able
to present a small prize for the kids
& a little something extra for their
mums, PLUS a family pass to
Dandenong Oasis. The packs for the
kids who sold 10 or more tickets
were won by
• Schakelle 1LG
• Dean 1LG
• Nazifa 2AN
• Harry 2/3E
• Casey 3/4M
A HUGE thank you to the local
businesses & individuals who
donated to our Raffle; Lifestyle
Portraits, Heavenly
Scented Flowers & Gifts,
Narelle Blackwell, Jana’s
Beauty Clinic, Pancake
Parlour Fountain Gate, Chemist
Discount Endeavour Hills,
Dandenong Pavilion, Coles
Supermarket Endeavour Hills and
Elena Hofmayer from Healing
Hands.
Also a thank you to all our
volunteers who helped with the
Mother’s Day Stall; Lee & Brock,
Joyce & Annabel, Paula, Natalie,
Nermina, Tracey, Mel, Eliana –
without all of you we wouldn’t have
such a thriving PAFA community
able to assist all the kids & Mossgiel
Park Primary School. You guys are
awesome!! – Manette & Narelle
The Mother’s Day Stall raised
$986.30 for the school community!
REMINDER – The Bake
Stall is next Tuesday
17th at the Family
Science Night. If you
would like to donate a baked item –
please include the ingredients. A
blank label can be obtained from
the noticeboard in the office under
the PAFA heading. To save our
volunteers on Tuesday – please feel
free to portion & wrap your
donation before dropping it at
school, freezer bags or glad wrap
are fine. Thanks in advance & we
look forward to purchasing your
‘Masterchef’ or MKR goodies on the
night!
Term 1 100%
Attendance Awards
At next Monday’s school assembly
30 students from 2/3E & 3LR will be
presented with their attendance
award, for attending school every
day in Term 1. CONGRATULATIONS
to these students. This is a
wonderful effort!!
2/3E – Eve Carter, Milan
Erdeljan, Lyncoln Fry, Talar
Hairigian, Taylor Howe, Oliver
Kranz, Dayna Loa, Ryan
Macinnes, Harrison Mostert,
Caleb Rahmani, Harini Raj,
Giorgia Ratcliffe, Saade Yawnou,
Aidan Zubanovic
3LR – Fartun Abokar, Zohra
Akbari, Raj Bhavsar, Lyanna
Cong, Taqi Ehsani, Alia Fahimi,
Omeed Fedai, Annabeth Godo,
Zainab Hussaini, Azimullah
Janjua, Ethan Johnson, Taiba
Kazemi, Maryam Khan, Thomas
Kranz, Alex Megna, Lara Pir
PARENTING ISSUES
Helping Kids to be Positively
Optimistic
Optimists do better academically,
socially and have better health than
pessimists so it makes sense to
promote the skills of optimistic
thinking to children. Optimists look
at the flip side of negative events
for some good, some hope and
some reason to be positive.
The basis for optimism is in the way
that a person thinks about causes of
events, which is reflected in the way
he or she explains events. Research
indicates that children learn
optimism or pessimism from their
experiences of success and through
their interactions with
parents, teachers and
other significant
adults.
Parents and teachers
model optimism and pessimism for
children. Adults model an optimistic
or pessimistic attitude by the way
they react to both adverse or
positive events that happen in their
lives.
Optimists explain adverse events in
the following ways:
• Adverse events are temporary. ‘It
takes time to find a friend’ rather
than ‘No one likes me’.
• Situations or causes are specific,
not global. ‘I am not so good at
soccer’ rather than ‘I am hopeless at
sport’.
• Blame is rationalised rather than
personalised. ‘I was grounded
because I hit my sister’ rather than
‘I was grounded because I am a bad
kid.’
Adults can also encourage children
to use positive self-talk. An ‘I can do
it’ attitude begins with the
messages that they repeat to
themselves. This positive
way of thinking is the basis
for optimism as it tends to
become a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
Mrs Joanne Fisher
(Acknowledgement of ideas used form
Michael Grose – Child Psychologist).
House Athletics
Carnival
Last week almost all of our middle
and senior school students
attended our annual athletics
carnival at Knox Athletics track. The
students in their age groups took
part in High Jump, Long Jump, Shot
Put, Discus, Hurdles, 100m Sprint,
200m Sprint and Shuttle Relay. All
students had a great day and came
back to school with ribbons. I would
like to thank the following parents
for their assistance at
the athletics as it would
be very difficult to run
this event without
them. You are very much
appreciated by staff and students:
Mrs Rahmani, Mrs Man, Mr Inveen,
Mr Mostert, Mrs Dervishi, Mrs
Djuric, Mrs Valenzuela, Ms Calabria,
Ms Donaldson and Mrs Hach.
The final results are: 4th place Park,
3rd place Endeavour, 2nd place
Churchill and 1st place Lodge.
The following students were
presented with a medal at assembly
last Monday for earning the most
points overall in their age group:
9 Year Boys- Kairus Dissanayake
9 Year Girls – Ashleigh Thatcher
10 Year Boys – Terre Saitu
10 Year Girls – Annaliese Bader
11 Year Boys – Danilo Dragisic
11 Year Girls – Annie Ruja
12 Year Boys – Joshua Faleafa
12 Year Girls – Chloe Stratton
Congratulations to our DEA winners.
Awards will be announced at our
morning Assembly on Monday 16th May.
Congratulations to our 1st Digital
Excellence Award Winners:
MIND MAPPING – Gold Level
3LR – Taqi Ehsani
3LR – Thomas Kranz
3LR – Taiba Kazemi
3LR – Lyanna Cong
Other DEA Award Winners include:
GRAPHIC ARTIST – Silver Level
1LG – Max Williams
MIND MAPPING – Gold Level
2/3E – Lynya Fu
3LR – Lara Pir
3LR – Annabeth Godo
3LR – Maryam Khan
3LR – Eihab Naami
3LR – Fatima Ramazani
3LR – Alex Megna
3LR – Nyawal Kun
LAPTOPS – Gold Level
6CC – Zeba Delmurut
Well done – impressive work! We are very
proud of you!
Ms Julie Evans – ICT Coordinator.
Mrs Vanessa Barra & Mrs Kathy Coquet
– Certificate Coordinators
Advance Notice
The Uniform Shop will be
closed from the 27th of May
to the 6th of June inclusive.
If you would like to place an
order before the time, please
send it to the office before
the 26th of May.
Sorry for any inconvenience,
Emily Scott
Uniform Coordinator
2/3E
NAPLAN Champions!
3LR
NAPLAN Achievers
3/4M
Caroline Zheng
4DW
Haleema Fahimi
Somers Camp
4/5V
Shravani Jaikumar
From the 26th of April to the 5th
of May, 19 lucky students and 1
happy teacher from Mossgiel
Park went to Somers Camp.
What an amazing experience!
They aimed at archery, flung
down the flying fox, rowed up a
river, rocked at rock-climbing
and danced like divas at the
disco.
5KW
Lina Woolley
5/6B
Luka Pivac
6CC
Emmanuel Kun
(REMARKABLE isn’t it)
Cassandra 5KW
ART
Friendship
On camp, I learnt not to be
afraid of talking to new people
and making new friends. It was
nice to have someone new to
talk to. Andrew 5KW
A Challenge
It was so nerve-racking standing
at the top of the abseiling wall. I
was terrified taking my first step
down. When I reached the
bottom I was so proud of
myself. Sonya 6CC
Mia Dragic 2AN
Class
2AN
LIBRARY
Student
Harini Raj 2/3E
Class
3LR
LOTE
Living with Others
It was a bit weird at the start
living with students from other
schools. After a while it started
to feel normal and they became
like my camp family.
Jasmine 5KW
Working Together
Working together was probably
the best part of being in my
group. My teacher Tanya really
liked when we were working
together. Aaron 5KW
Prep KH
Thomas Kaminski
Prep LS
Daniel Zubanovic
Prep /1H Hesam Wahed
Feeling Good
Archery was hard but it made
me feel good because I got
three bullseyes in a row!
Student
1LG
Mahida Khalid
1/2B
Inuli Wijetunga
2AN
Annabella Nicholls
Student
Hunter Bernstein 1/2B
Class
4DW
SCIENCE WEEK IS
COMING……….
……STARTS MONDAY
16TH MAY
DON’T MISS OUT
PAYMENT DUE
THURSDAY 12TH MAY
MANY EXCITING
THINGS WILL BE
HAPPENING!
DON’T FORGET OUR
SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGE
FRIDAY 20TH MAY
HAVE TO BE IN IT
TO WIN IT!!