Mayfield East Public School 32 Crebert Street

MAYFIELD NSW 2304

P: 02 4968 1495 E: mayfielde-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Message Here we are at Week 10, Term 3! My goodness how the year is just flying! One thing which has really reinforced this has been the pre-Kindergartens coming along to 'Big School For Little Kids' over the past few weeks. It doesn't seem that long ago that our current Kinders joined our MEPS family and here we are welcoming the 2019 Kinders! We already have a lot of children enrolled in Kindergarten for next year. However we are still accepting enrolments for students who live in our catchment zone. So if you know of any families who have not yet enrolled please direct them to our lovely office staff. I'm also happy to conduct school tours for new families. Conversely if you know that your family may be moving to another school in 2019 please let us know as soon as possible. It helps us to plan not only for future staffing needs but also in supporting student transition to another school. We are very fortunate to have a drop-off/pick-up zone outside our school. This is not just for parent convenience, it is primarily for student safety. I have noticed some very unsafe actions in recent days where parents have double-parked and called students to move out onto the road to jump in the car rather than pulling up at the kerb. I've also seen students encouraged to get in or out from the road side. As a parent I know how incredibly busy we can get and how pressed for time we can be especially in the afternoons with after-school activities and appointments to get to. It would be preferable to be a minute or two late than have a child injured or killed. So please follow the rules and pull into the kerb before asking your child to get in. Please encourage them to climb in on the kerbside not the road-side.

Tuesday 25th September Week 10—Term 3

MAYFIELD MESSENGER CALENDAR

Tues 25th Sept:

P&C meeting 6pm

Wed 26th Sept:

Sport Choices today—doors open in the hall at 8:30am

Last day for Hamburger orders

S2/S3 Camp Parent Info Sessions 4:30-5pm

Fri 28th Sept:

Last day of term

Mon 15th Oct:

Term 4 commences

Thurs 18th Oct:

Kindergarten Cultural Day Primary Sport starts

Fri 19th Oct:

Big School for Little School continues

On another note please be aware that the Fronditha carpark is private property. Also be mindful of the tiny Swainson St just near our school. The residents in that street are very patient and supportive of our school community, however they are becoming increasingly frustrated by parents and carers parking across their driveways or blocking the street as it's quite narrow and not suitable for parking. Our wonderfully talented keyboard and piano students performed in the school hall for an audience yesterday afternoon. We have such talent here at Mayfield East across all areas of the Creative Arts. Well done to all the students who took part. We are very proud of you - your hard work and continual practice is paying off! This month’s P&C meeting will be held on 25th September from 6-7.30pm in the Staffroom. There will be a babysitter if you need to bring your children with you. Our P&C is very supportive and friendly - definitely the friendliest that I've been a part of! I will be attending as usual to give my Principal's Report and Mrs Horgan will be giving a very short presentation on what our Student Parliament is all about. The P&C is a great place to meet like-minded parents and friends of the school so come along, we would love to see you there! There will be a short information session on the upcoming Year 4 and Year 5/6 camps this Wednesday 26th September between 4.30-5pm. Mrs Horgan and Mrs Hipwell will be talking about procedures on the day, the itinerary, packing lists and our expectations for student behaviour during camp among other things. Congratulations to our wonderful canteen ladies, Kirsty and Kallie! We have received confirmation that our school meets the NSW Healthy Canteen Strategy. We also received a letter of congratulations, a certificate and a Healthy School Canteen Website Badge. To further help our children make healthier choices the sale of 'Occasional Foods' such as pies and sausage rolls will be limited to Monday/Wednesday/Friday only. Did you know that other foods such as mini-pizzas and chicken burgers are all made with fresh ingredients by our canteen staff?! The chicken schnitzels are made from scratch using real chicken breast which is crumbed and baked in the oven. The mini pizzas are made from fresh dough prepared in the canteen with fresh ingredients. I know that our students are very lucky yet again to have sushi on offer this term which is wonderfully healthy. If you have some time to spare to help out in the canteen – even an hour would be useful – please see Kallie or Kirsty at the canteen or call our office and we will pass on your details. Many schools don’t have a fulltime canteen and certainly I’ve never been to a school where such a high percentage of the menu items are made on-site with fresh food. We are so very lucky and I’d like to thank our wonderful canteen staff and helpers for providing us with such a quality service. Save the date! Next term on Thursday 25th October (Week 2) in conjunction with the P&C we'll be firing up the pizza oven and holding a home-made pizza and movie night to bring our community together as an end of year celebration. More details to come very shortly - keep an eye on the website and on SkoolBag. Have a fabulous 2-week break - school resumes on Monday 15th October as there is NO Staff Development Day at the beginning of Term 4. Stay safe and drive carefully if you're hitting the road in the holidays. See you for the final quarter in a few weeks! Your proud principal,

Robyn Christie

From the Library Please make sure all library books are

returned this week as it is the last week of

term. Also no borrowing until next term.

Thank you, Mrs Bayl

Year 6 Peer Support Next Thursday 27th September and Friday 28th September all of Year 6 will be involved in two Peer Leadership Training Days. This will help prepare them for their role as leaders of our school. These days involve problem solving, team building and leading their peers as they prepare to lead their own peer support group in Term 4. Training will be during normal class

time Lunch will need to be packed

(Hamburger Day Fri) They may come out of uniform (no

open shoes or thongs, no singlets or inappropriate clothing)

Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you have any questions. Miss Peterie

Student Sporting Success Congratulations to Amirah B in Year 5 who was selected to join the Newcastle Under 12’s Netball Representative Squad last week. Well done, we are very proud of your achievement!

Term 4 Sport Rotation Just a reminder sport choices for Term 4 will

be on Wednesday 26th September in the

school hall. Doors open at 8:30am.

Rotations will commence Thursday 18th

October (Week1) and finish on Thursday 6th

December (Week8).

These are the choices for next term:-

Option 1: ($28)

Dancefit—Beachfit Dance Mayfield

Option 2: ($35)

Kids Functional Training—Real Fitness May-

field

Option 3: ($42)

Tactix Training—Martial Arts with Sean Oul-

tram

Option 4: ($2)

Oz-tag—Dangar Park

Option 5: ($2)

Cricket—Dangar Park

Option 6: Free

Table Tennis—school grounds

**Please remember NO POP

PAYMENTS will be accepted**

TERM 3

Last day of term is:

Friday 28th September

TERM 4

Monday 15th October

(No Staff Development Day) to

Wednesday 19th December

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion - Outstanding Balances and Medical Forms All camp forms and payments are due by Friday 28th September, 2018. However, there are still a large number of outstanding payments. If they are not finalised by the end of the term, your child will be taken off the list of attendees and will forfeit their non refundable $50 deposit. Please contact the office by Friday 28th September, 2018 if you need to discuss finalising your child's payment.

Stage 2 & 3 Camps - Parent Information Sessions We will be holding a short camp information session for our Stage 2 and 3 camps on Wednesday 26th September at 4:30pm. The Great Aussie Bush Camp meeting will be held in the Stage 2 open classroom and the Canberra Excursion meeting will be held in the Stage 3 open classroom.

We would love to see you there!

P&C News Time for another break with the October school holidays! The P&C would like to acknowledge the great work of the teaching staff, ad-min team and Principal this term.

Our students have enjoyed a rich array of learning opportunities this term with science presentations, author talks, sports events, dance and choral groups performing around the Newcastle area. What a terrific school we have!

P&C dates for next term are:- P&C Meetings: October 30th and November 27th Digital Festival: 29th November Annual Fun Run: 3rd week in November

MEPS did a fantastic job fundraising for our farmers. We all had a mar-

vellous time at our dressed like a farmer day. I especially enjoyed having

fun and line dancing in our fancy dress. Across the school, we managed

to raise an incredible……..$820.50!

Plus, we have collected a tremendous amount of non-perishable food as

well. Well done everyone! A special mention goes out to our class winners for the scarecrow competi-

tion…..K/1C and 5/6H!

We had a fantastic time last week cooking in our garden. When the weather turned bad we moved into our classrooms. We made fresh rice paper rolls which are so easy and would make a fantastic snack during the holidays. No cooking required! I have included the recipe on the next page but you can easily change the ingredients to whatever you would like.

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MEPS

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Pasta Stall *****

Fresh pasta for sale at the harvest stall this

Wednesday at 2.45pm

$5 per a pack

Thanks you to my wonderful holiday chicken helpers! We have had lots of support these holidays which makes it wonderfully easy to look after our school chicks!

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 9am-10am KH 5/6H 1/2G

10am-11am 4/5R KB 1/2T Recess

11.20am-12.20pm

3/4H 3/4B

Lunch 1.50-2.50pm 5/6P 2/3B K/1C

Mrs Claire Lendich

SAKG Program Coordinator

Fresh Rice Paper Rolls

Equipment: Platter

Low bowl

Cooks knife

Chopping board

grater

damp tea towel

Ingredients:

50 grams vermicelli noodles

1 carrot

1 cucumber

½ bunch garlic chives

Bean sprouts

24 mint leaves

lettuce

2 radishes, grated coarsely

Dipping Sauce

2 tablespoons fish sauce

2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar

2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce

Method:

Place noodles in a bowl of hot water for 10 mins or until softened and drain well.

Cut carrot and cucumber in long thin strips and cut garlic chives to same length as carrots

Cover a board with a damp tea towel. Place one sheet of rice paper in warm water then place on tea towel.

Place some carrot, cucumber, radish, chives, bean sprouts, mint and noodles in the centre of the sheet.

Fold the sheet in and roll to enclose filling.

Repeat with remaining rice paper sheets and ingredients.

Dipping Sauce:

Whisk all ingredients together

A big thank you to the wonderful, hard working and energetic volunteers who came along

to our school working bee on Sunday. We had a few volunteers that managed to get some tricky gardening jobs done ready for a fantastic spring. Our gardens are looking fantastic,

well pruned and rejuvenated! Thanks so much for coming in on the weekend and supporting our kitchen garden program. Claire Lendich, SAKG Teacher