For Your Calendar;

13 May-17 May NAPLAN Week

Fri 17th May Book Club Closes (LOOP)

Fri 17th May Walk Safely to School

Mon 20th May School Photo Day

Wed 22nd May Mulbring Minis

Thurs 23rd May Year 5/6 Leadership Exc.

Fri 24th May Small Schools Athletics

No lunch orders

Wed 29th May Mulbring Minis

Wed 5th June Mulbring Minis

Fri 7th June Assembly Day

Fri 21st June Assembly Day

BANKING

Every Tuesday

LUNCH ORDERS

In on Wednesday, enjoy on Friday

ATTACHED

Stewart House Envelopes

Small Schools Athletics Permission Note

“Be Safe, Be Responsible, Be Respectful and Always Try Your Best".

13th May, 2019

ADOPT A FARMER- Wednesday 8th May Out of Uniform-

Congratulations Mulbring Public School, we raised $82.00 for Rural Aid.

SCHOOL PHOTO DAY—Monday 20th May

School photo envelopes went home last week. School Photo day is

Monday 20th May. Envelopes are to be sent in with payments prior to the

day. Sibling photo envelopes are available at the office. Payments can be

made online via the MSP Photography website (not the school webpage).

STEWART HOUSE ENVELOPES—Return by Friday

Stewart House envelopes are being sent home today. The donations

received support the 1700 students from NSW Public Schools who visit

Stewart House each year. By placing a small amount (minimum $2) in the

envelope and returning it to school, you go into the prize draw to win a

$4000 holiday to a destination of choice. Please return envelopes by this

Friday 17th May, this will allow the envelopes to be forwarded in time.

STEWART HOUSE GOLD AWARD

On Friday 10th May our school leaders, accompanied

by Miss Lennard, visited Stewart House to receive our

very first Gold Award. The awards are pro-rata for the

amount the school (and staff) donated to Stewart

House in 2018. We were very excited to receive the

award. The leaders also had a very informative tour of

Stewart House and have a new understanding of how

Stewart House helps.

SMALL SCHOOLS ATHLETICS—FRIDAY 24TH MAY

The Small Schools Athletics carnival will be held on Friday 24th May at

Turner Park (adjacent to Cessnock High School). The 8 years and over

group will be at the main park, the K-2 (under 8 years) will be on the

soccer fields to the lower end of the park. We have been requested to ask

some parents (about 3-4) to do canteen duty between 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

The money raised by the canteen goes towards helping small schools

sports teams (jerseys etc). We would ask that some of our wonderful

parents offer their assistance. (Permission notes are being sent home

today)

AUSTRALIAN SPORTING SCHOOLS

We were once again fortunate to receive this grant from Australian

Sporting Schools which will feature 5 weeks of basketball coaching by a

Basketball NSW coach.

MULBRING PUBLIC SCHOOL

NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS – WEEK 2 T2 MERIT AWARD WINNERS

Kindergarten—Jack P

For: Good handwriting this week and producing the letter ‘T’ using correct formation

Year One-Mason

For: Putting his best effort into learning his high

frequency words

Year Two— Natalie

For: Taking an active role in class discussions

Year Three—Kyla

For: Excellent effort and improvement in Spelling

Year Four—Coopa

For: Fantastic recognition and writing of

Fractions

Year Five—Isabella

For: Positivity and enthusiasm in group activities

Year Five—Bailey

For: Great persistence in all KLA’s

MATHLETICS

Mathletes receiving certificates;

Mia C, Quinn

MATHLETE OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to Flynn M

Thanks

Mulbring

Fire Brigade

for visiting

our school.

We have EFTPOS

MULBRING MINIS:

Our “Mulbring Minis” playgroup, supported by Mulbring P&C, is held

every Wednesday from 9:30am-10.30am in the school library.

Thank you very much to Natalie Hunter who is leading Minis for us

this year. You can see some great Minis artwork on display in the

library.

Minis is for children 0-5 and their parent/s. Tea/coffee will be

provided for parents and if you’d like to bring a snack/drink along for

your child/children this is encouraged.

Mulbring Park Tennis Club once again have Entertainment Books for sale.

These can be ordered at the school office. The books are $65 each and can

be supplied in hard copy or via an app for your Smartphone.

Entertainment books and digital memberships are your guide to the most

popular restaurants, attractions, shopping, travel and more, all with

valuable 50% off and 2-for-1 offers.

Further details contact the school office.

A huge thank you goes out to Mr Todd Herbert (Jake & Leah’s dad) for stitching up our sand pit cover. The cover looks amazing and now we can keep any critters out of the sandpit. We do really appreciate the help of our parent community.

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YEAR 3/4 - This week in 3/4 we have welcomed Miss Denise Smit into our classroom. Miss Smit is in her final year of

University at Avondale College, and will be teaching alongside Mr Hemsworth until the end of week 7.

We have also looked at fractions - students have collected lots of objects from around the classroom and playground, such as fruit from the orchard or different coloured textas, and determined the fraction of each group. 3/4 has begun our new unit of work on identity, which has included finding out the history of our names, creating acrostic poems and assessing how we react to different situations. Below are some acrostic poems that we have created about ourselves.

K-1,2 has settled back into the school routine and everyone is looking forward to another exciting term of learning. One of

the units of work we will be covering is “identity”. Students will be learning how their likes and aspirations help form there

individual identity. As part of this unit of work the students will be learning how and who to ask for help. Students will also be

presenting and talking to the class about something that is important to them. Further information regarding the presenta-

tion will be sent home this week.

The students were very excited when the Mulbring Fire Brigade visited the school to talk about fire safety. A big thank you

for Campbell and Chris for taking the time to talk with the students.

This term we have also started to use a new spelling program in the school “Sound Waves”. The program supports a syn-thetic phonics approach with engaging interactive learning activities. The students are enjoying the learning experience and are being empowered with the skills and strategies to become better spellers and readers

Year 5/6— Stage 3 have enjoyed a positive start to Term 2 with the holidays now a distant but fond memory. We have been

working on including a range of literary devices into our writing such as ‘alliteration’ and the influence these can have on your audience.

The focus from our MAPPEN unit for Year 5 & 6 this term will be on Ethics and Emotions. Students will consider ethical dilemmas as they learn about the values of honesty, respect and loyalty. They will also understand and prepare for the social and emotion-al changes that they will experience including building a repertoire of strategies that support their sense of self-worth and self-being. Good luck to all Year 3 & 5 students that will be participating in NAPLAN tests during week 3, with all your hard work and preparation we are confident you will succeed in doing your best.

ZONE CROSS

COUNTRY Congratulations to the 20 students that represented Mulbring PS at the Zone Cross Country Carnival on Friday 3rd May. It was a fantastic day with superb results across all age groups. We are very proud of all students for the efforts and behaviour on the day as well as their encouraging attitude to all other students that were competing.

The final wrap up of awards were handed out at Assembly on Friday.

The highest overall fundraiser was Jonte. He received a trophy.

Congratulations to Jonte.

The highest class fundraisers were

K/1/2—they will have a special lunch one day this week.

The highest fundraiser for each class was;

K/1/2 Grace

3/4 Jonte

5/6 Vanessa.

They each received a certificate and a book for their efforts.