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Merri River School – Formally Warrnambool Special Developmental School of 13

Merri River School

Newsletter Edition 15 – Friday 21/05/2021

Term 2 Ph: 03 55 611 711

www.merrirs.vic.edu.au

[email protected]

Friday 28th May

Building Community

Connections

Book a school Tour

Friday 20 August – Pupil

free day

Friday 26 November –

Pupil free day

Friday 17th December –

Pupil free day

Warrnambool Bus Lines

55621866

Christians Bus Company

55629432.

PLEASE NOTE:-

If you are picking up your child/ren before

3pm, you must do so at the office. Parents are only to pick their child up from the bus

entrance after the buses have left the school.

Please notify the office if your child/ren

will not be on the bus of an afternoon

before 2.30pm.

Our OH&S team have

requested that for the

safety of our staff and

students, when entering

our school could you

please drive at walking

pace keeping the limit to 10km.

Education Week Open Day – Friday 28th May

As part of Education Week the school will be holding an

Open Day on Friday 28th May.

In order to ensure that all current Covid regulations are

followed, pre-registration of attendance

will be required.

Please phone 55611711 to register your name.

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DETAILS:-

Could all parents/carers please inform the office if

you have a change of address, phone number,

emergency contacts or any other relevant details

so that we can keep our records up to date.

Thank You.

http://www.merrirs.vic.edu.au/

mailto:[email protected]


Xavier Knights received the

Senior Secondary award for

always being available for

extra jobs.

Jacob DeBono received the

Junior Primary award for

identifying how he is feeling

using the Zones of Regulation

chart and using strategies to

self-regulate his emotions.

Jesse received the Sport

award for fantastic running

in the Interschool Cross

Country.

Jack Shaw received the

Junior Secondary award for

embracing his writer’s

notebook with eagerness

and enthusiasm.

Marshall Hayhoe received

the Junior Primary award

for being able to tolerate

trying new things.

Genevieve Jukawics

received the Senior Primary

award for engaging in all

activities at school and in

particular her great skills at

indoor soccer.


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Lily Knowles received the

Therapy award for working

hard in her Physio and OT

session.

P4 received the Food For

Life award for great

listening and following

instructions in the kitchen.

Blade Mozes received the

Music award for his

dedication and

concentration when

learning the bass guitar.

Happy Birthday to everyone that celebrated their special day over

the past week.

Merri River School has now appointed a new NDIS Coordinator,

Clare Kavanagh, to manage NDIS therapy sessions at the school

and assist with the development of NDIS plans and reviews for

students in need of guidance through the process.

Clare can be contacted via the school office on Thursdays and

Fridays on 55 611 711.


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Very busy in the kitchen this week as sushi was on the menu!

Lots of work needed to be done by the students to make the sushi from

scratch, but the students did an amazing job!

Churros were also awesome and our younger students had fun making

banana coconut pancakes!


P8/P9 have been reading Rainbow Fish over the last few

weeks.

Today we explored blue, purple and yellow fish with sparkly

shiny scales and made gooey fish out of hair gel in snaplock

bags.

Students cut fish out of jelly and shared their sparkly shiny

purple scales.


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Ashley competed in a horse

vaulting competition in

Adelaide last week and look

how well he did!

He got one 1st, two 2nds and

one 3rd!

We're super proud of you,

Ash!

This week, some of the S1 and S2 students had a sustainability focus in their STEAM class. They

did a great job of making recycled paper by using used photocopy paper, ripping it up to

make pulp and making new sheets. It was very messy and the paper pulp felt weird but

everyone enjoyed learning how to make recycled paper.


Congratulations to our Primary and Secondary Cross-Country athletes that raced over the

past week! Cross-Country is tough! With mud, wet grass and hills to contend with (and sheep

for our Secondary kids!) but they all ran extremely well!


SCHOOL UNIFORMS

School Uniforms are now available from Joroni Embroidery

Shop 3, Norfolk Plaza

743 Raglan Parade, Warrnambool.

Feel free to pop in and talk to Janice regarding options and size needed.

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Pupil Free Days for 2021: Please pop them in your diaries.

Friday 20 August – strategic team visits to other schools

Friday 26 November – whole school planning

Friday 17th December – Last day of the school year

Essential Education Items – NOW DUE

Invoices have been sent home, if you have paid - thank you.

If not, could you please attend to this?

Invoices can be paid at the office via cash/cheque/eft or using the direct debit details

on the bottom of your invoice.

If you require a new invoice, please contact the office and we can reprint one for you.

Thank you

National Sorry Day, 26 May

National Sorry Day is a day to remember

and acknowledge the mistreatment of

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

people who were forcibly removed from

their families and communities, which

we now know as ‘The Stolen

Generations’. On National Sorry Day we

acknowledge and reflect on how we

can all play a part in the healing

process for our people and our nation.

Flowers made for Sorry

Day by the students.


Next Friday the 28th of May at MyTime parents group we will be hosting an Australia’s

Biggest Morning Tea in memory of Tiffany Lopez.

Bring along a plate to share and a gold coin donation for the Cancer Council.

All school parents welcome.


We are stoked to announce the details of our next Holiday Program, which will run at the end

of this term!

We have six days of our ever popular holiday ART AND MUSIC CLUB.

We have the return of our holiday COOKING CLUB for three days.

And we have a special three day ROCK SCHOOL PLUS, which will be open to students of all

ages and musical abilities. We will make amazing music together with a group performance at

the end of the three days that will feature all our participants. Can't wait!

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