A WORD FROM THE PRINCIPAL Next week we celebrate a great year of learning at our Presentation Day assemblies. Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 will start at 9.30am and finish at around 10.45am. Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 will begin their event at 12 noon and finish around 1pm. There will be lots of awards, choir performances and Drum Corp performances.

Our Year 5 students presented their leadership speeches to staff and students today. They were proud of their presentations and showed leadership by ‘having a go’. Our leadership group for 2017 will be announced at the senior presentation assembly and will be introduced to Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 after recess. Cathy Watt

Metford Public School Newsletter

Commitment, Respect and Responsibility “With Honour and Pride”

Find us at: 13 Melaleuca Drive, Metford 2323 Ph: 4933 2655

Email: metford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.metford-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Issue No 34 Term 4 Week 6 Principal: Cathy Watt Wednesday 16th November, 2016

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“To give real

service, you must add something

which cannot be bought or measured

with money.”

Mokshagundam Visvesvaray

PRINCIPAL’S LUNCH 10.11.16 FOYER DISPLAY - SPORT

Practising speeches

Leadership 2017 candidates

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL) The focus for week 7 is Responsibility: Playing safely and fairly. It is with pleasure that we share the following students who received PBL recognition awards last week for Respect: Wearing correct school uniform with pride. Mrs Christine Attard, Assistant Principal

REMEMBRANCE DAY at MPS

REMEMBRANCE DAY AT EAST MAITLAND Our school was proudly represented at Remembrance Day Memorial Service at East Maitland by two of our student leaders Kyana Patten and Jacob Saunders.

Bright green Wristband total of 9 High Flyer tokens

Dark green Wristband total of 27 High Flyer token

Bronze Wings pin total of 54 High Flyer tokens

Luke McBride Jack Jensen-Podwika

Kayleigh Annetts Kallan-Lee Bidner-Wood Zak Tompsett Brody Hackett

Hayley Ledwidge Cayden Jones Allira Kent Kane Nickalls

Rocky badge total of 90 High Flyer tokens

Bright Green & white wristband total of 99 High Flyer tokens

Dark Green & white wristband total of 126 High Flyer tokens

SCHOOL CALENDAR 2016 Term 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Every Week

Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club ------------------ School Assembly 1.30pm

Breakfast Club

DrumCorp Y3-6 9am K-2 9.15am ------------------------ Principal’s Lunch

PUPS 9-11am -------------------------- Student banking

Wk 6 Nov 14-18

Thursday Sport at Maitland park Y3-6

PUPS

Wk 7 Nov 21-25 Presentation

Assembly Thursday Sport at Maitland park Y3-6 – Last Day

PUPS

Wk 8 Nov 28-Dec 2

Swim scheme Week 1

Last day DRUMS

PUPS MHS Year 7 Uniform fitting

Wk 9 Dec 5-9

Swim scheme Week 2

10am Y7 2017 Orientation Day at MHS

PUPS Christmas Under the COLA Cinema Under the Stars

Wk 10 Dec 12-16 6pm P & C Year 6 Farewell

MPS hall

PUPS – last day LAST DAY for staff & students

YEAR 1 GIRLS with CHiP Our year 1 girls were practicing yoga with CHiP while looking at different ways we can use robots and coding.

SMARTbots Last Thursday our students enjoyed a futuristic experience in the SMARTbots show. It was very enjoyable and educational. They even learned that there is a robot that can solve a Rubics cube in 3 seconds.

COMMUNITY LIAISION OFFICER TAFE OUTREACH – Computers or Digital Imaging. Are you interested in attending a FREE course in 2017 here at Metford Public School? Due to the success of the TAFE course this year, we are being offered another opportunity to run a course here next year. The course can only run if we have 15 or more participants. If you would like to do a course in either introduction to computers or digital imaging, please contact the office and leave your details. The course will run in our computer lab for 3 hours one day per week. Tell you friends and family! All welcome! KINDER EXPO – Parents and carers of children starting Kinder in 2017 attending last Friday, were able to browse our school’s programs, meet staff and ask questions as well as purchase uniforms. Uniform purchases can still be made at our office by completing a pre-order form and making payment in cash only. School polos are $25 each and the sports uniform is $20 each.

Katherine Barr