Murwillumbah East Public School

Newsletter Term 2, Week 4

16th May, 2017

District Cross Country Carnival

Last Friday our representative team of students

attended the PSSA District Cross Country Carnival at

Murwillumbah High School, where we were placed

second overall.

It was a very successful day with our students

running in our new athletic singlets for the first time.

It was great to see the level of support shown by our

parents who came to cheer the participants along.

Many thanks as well to our P&C for providing the

new athletic singlets and getting them to the track

on time.

Congratulations to our Age Champion winners on

the day. Chloe Le Dan and Dempsey Van Egdom

both had very convincing wins in their events

despite the difficult running conditions on the day.

Well done!

Congratulations as well to all our other students who

qualified to attend The Far North Coast Cross

Country Carnival to be held at North Byron

Parkland, Yelgun on 26th May.

Soccer Gala Day

Two teams of students, both girls and boys have

been selected to take part in this event at Queens

Park Murwillumbah on Thursday 18th May. This is a

PSSA event that will provide our young soccer

players with a challenging and fun day.

Thank you to our parents for helping with

transporting our students to and from this event.

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Floral Friday 16th June

Our SRC are planning a fundraising event - Floral

Friday, on the 16th June. Proceeds will be going to

help support our MEPS garden and canteen that

were severely damaged by the recent floods.

Students and participants are invited to wear

something floral or the colour green and bring in a

gold coin.

Our SRC are madly planning a fun day that will

include :

Lunch on the lawn

Cake stall

More news next week!

Ms Helen O’Keefe

Assistant Principal

Canteen Snack Shack

Due to the recent floods our canteen was severely

affected and will be closed till further notice.

Home Reading - Stage 2 & 3

Congratulations to the following students:

25 nights - Casey, Dempsey, Noah, Toby R and

Jack D in 3-4W. Victoria, Mairah, Ebony, Tyler and

Rory in 3-4H.

50 nights - Noah and Tyson in 3-4W.

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

SRC Cake Stall - Change the Date

2R, 1-2L and K-6V will be hosting our next cake

stall as part of Floral Friday celebrations on the

16th of June. All proceeds will be used to help

support the rebuilding and restocking of our

award winning garden and our canteen.

We appreciate your efforts, thank you. SRC

P&C Blackboard

Flood Appeal Raffle

Our P&C are holding a raffle, with all funds raised

going towards the refitting, refurbishment and the

restocking of our canteen.

Tickets will be handed out this week, one book to

each family. Our canteen is the major fundraiser

for our P&C with profits going towards purchasing

items for our school that support our students.

Prizes are listed on the tickets except for the late

inclusion of the NRL Brisbane Broncos

Merchandise pack.

ALL TICKETS need to be returned by Tuesday 13th

June 2017.

Thank you for your support!

DISCO! - Our P&C will also be holding a disco on

Wednesday 7th June.

A flyer with more information and meal deal

options will be sent home in the coming weeks.

“Students of the Week”

Class Awards

Ms Davison KD William

Mrs Watts KW Pharidah

Mrs Hawthorne &

Miss Anderson K-1HA Grayson

Mrs Chaffey 1-2C Ben

Mrs Lindsay 1-2L Levi

Ms Reeves 2R Delilah

(not in photo)

Ms O’Keefe 3-4H Victoria

Ms O’Loughlin 3-4O’L Nayte

Mr Wills 3-4W Gypsy

Mrs S Robinson 5-6R Jade

Ms Noble 5-6N Summer

Mr Tunaley 5-6T Lily

Mrs Harper K-6H Thomas

Mr Vella K-6V Kayden

“Happy Birthday” to these students

Deakin, Oliver, Orla, Joseph, Charlie, Ekam, Isla, Britta,

Shae-Lee, Nayte, Sasha, and Julian.

This Week’s Bee Rule

Do not bully others.

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

MEPS Patch

Our gardening group would like to extend a few

thankyous for the support received after the recent

flood effected our school grounds and MEPS’s

Patch.

Thank you to Colin Sorenson for making life so

much easier to re establish our little patch. Without

his constant volunteer skills we would not be where

we are today.

We also extend a huge thank you to Julie and

Bruce Murray from Kingscliff for donating $200 to

help get us back on track.

Deb & Jerome for a brand new wheelbarrow and

even a gentleman from Victoria who sent us some

beautiful fresh seed to begin again.

Zdanka for being a helpful happy volunteer and

always sharing this joy with our students.

Basal our General Assistant, always there to help in

any way, thank you.

We also thank the P&C for their support

throughout the years, helping us to purchase

gloves, pots, plants, tools & equipment, mixes,

seeds etc. all vital components.

Our patch allows a space for students to integrate

with each other and meet new friends, not to

mention the empowering of gardening and

propagating skills.

We extend a warm welcome to all parents to join

us for our Tuesday morning session with our students

from 8.30am.

Hopefully no more weather events will prevent our

quarterly plant sale scheduled for Tuesday 27th

June.

Happy Gardening.

Community Notice

Applications for the 2016-2017 rebate period close

at 11pm, Thursday 15th June 2017.

The Family Energy Rebate (FER) helps NSW family

households with dependent children to cover the

costs of their energy bills. The FER is available to

applicants who are eligible for and received the

Family Tax Benefit (FTB) from the Department of

Human Service3s (DHS) in the previous financial

year.

You can apply if you are:

A resident of NSW; and

The account holder of your electricity account

with an electricity retailer or an on-supplied

electricity account holder; and

The recipient for the FTB during the previous

year.

SRC Cake Stall

A massive thank you to all our students who

supported our SRC cake stall last Thursday. Our

fantastic classes 1-2C and 3-4W baked up a storm.

A tremendous effort from our whole school

community! Thank you to the cooks, cleaners,

sellers and buyers. We raised $217 to assist our

dance group.

SRC

Friday Assemblies

It was fabulous to return to our hall for our first

whole school assembly for the term, celebrating

students successes. Assemblies operate in our

school hall from 12pm each Friday and are

presented by our school councillors or classes that

are rostered on.

Please note the following dates in your diary:-

3-4H – Week 5 Friday 26th May

5-6N – Week 6 Friday 2nd June

5-6R – Week 9 Friday 23rd June

New Trophy for K-6V

During the flood our bowling trophy got lost. Then

we didn’t have one for 4 weeks and now we have

a new trophy. It’s actually a real bowling pin.

Michelle the assistant manager from Coolangatta

Ten Pin bowling presented it today to us and I’m

the first one to win it! Kristin, Class K6V

Lost Property

Our office has a large number of reading glasses

in our lost property box

that have been

unclaimed during the

year. If your child has

lost a pair of glasses

please drop by our office.

Murwillumbah East Primary School

Term 2 Calendar

4 15th May 16th May 17th May 18th May

Soccer Gala Day

19th May

20/21st

May

5 22nd May 23rd May 24th May 25th May 26th May

Friday Assembly -

hosted by 3-4H

FNC Cross Country

27/28th

May

6 29th May 30th May

7pm P&C Meeting

31st May

FNC Dance Festival

1st June

2nd June

Friday Assembly -

hosted by 5-6N

3/4th June

7 5th June 6th June 7th June

K-6 Disco

8th June 9th June

10/11th

June

8 12th June

QUEEN’S B’DAY

LONG WEEKEND

13th June 14th June 15th June 16th June

Floral Friday - Green

Cake Stall 1-2L, 2R,

K-6V

17/18th

June

9 19th June 20th June 21st June 22nd June 23rd June

Friday Assembly -

hosted by 5-6R

24/25th

June

10 26th June 27th June

MEPS Patch - plant

sale

28th June 29th June 30th June

Last day of Term 2

1st/2nd

July

Term 3 Calendar

1 17th July

School

Development Day

18th July

Students K-6 return

19th July

20th July 21st July

School Athletics

Carnival

22/23rd

July

2 24th July 25th July

7pm P&C Meeting

26th July 27th July 28th July 29/30th

July

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au