Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 1

Term 3 Week 1

Learn to Live

Mendooran Central School

Friday 21st July 2017

Name: __________________________

NEWSLETTER

Fantastic Pavers The laying of the new named pavers was completed by Dubbo Landscaping in the school holidays. It looks amazing! They also really finish off our school entrance beautifully and also gives us a historical record of students, staff and community members past and present. Many thanks to Sharne Cook, Max Neal and Sally Thompson and the P&C for their tireless efforts in getting it organised, to Rob waters for finishing the gardens off so well and to Mandy and Kristy for the big clean-up!

J Waters

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 2

PRINCIPAL’S NOTES

Welcome back, we hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable holiday. We look forward to a very productive term! Any parents who would like to discuss their children’s reports from Semester 2, please contact the office to make an appointment.

Excursions Payments for the K/1/2 and Yr 3-6 excursions are now due. Only 4 ½ weeks to go! Planning is underway for a secondary excursion for early Term 4.

State Cross Country Carter Swan and Bailey Thompson compete at the State Cross Country today in Sydney. We wish them both the best of luck!!

Primary Touch Football Next Tuesday 25th July, Mendooran Central School is hosting a Primary Touch Football match against Narromine. This is Round 3 in a knockout competition.

Secondary Western Athletics One of our largest contingents of qualifiers for Western Athetics will compete next Friday in Dubbo. Qualifiers include: Jaike Mitchell, Kyle Hartley, Mitchell Averillo, Connor Hughes-Tincknell, Carter Swan, Bailey Tincknell, Stehen Eyles, Tom McKechnie, Jackson Dunbar, Cameron Duce, Amy Adams and Stacie Phillips.

MCS Small School Rugby League MCS Small School Rugby League team are competing again on Thursday 27th July. More information to come.

Rugby Union Each Thursday over the next 5 weeks, a Rugby Union Development officer named Luke Mack will be running workshops for Primary students. This began yesterday.

Keeping us Safe Marty Paice, our Police Liaison Officer will be talking to Years 3 & 4 and the Secondary students about keeping themselves safe, this morning. This is a follow up from the talks he did with the other Primary classes.

Book Fair The viewing of the books at the Book Fair has been taking place this week. Next week the students can purchase items any day next week. There is a Book Fair parade on Thurday 27th July at 10am. We will be joined by the Pre schoolers and the theme is your “Favourite Book Character.”

Mrs Archer Mrs Pip Archer formally resigned from our school during the holidays. It is fitting to acknowledge the significant contribution she has made to our school both in the office and as a Library Assistant. Her work was always of a high standard and she made valuable contributions to the lives of our students. She will be missed, but we wish her a happy retirement!

School Fees Please finalise any outstanding school fees for Secondary Electives. If you are experiencing difficulty paying, please contact us to work out a payment plan.

Visitors to School All visitors to our school must sign in at the Front Office this is a WH&S requirement. No parent/carers are to go to classrooms to collect students. If you wish to speak with a teacher you must phone the Front Office to arrange a suitable time with the teacher.

Mrs Julie Waters

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 3

K: Lily Beer 1/2: Abigail Rogers 3/4: Riley Munro 5/6: Rebecca Redding

K: Tom Hill 1/2: Eloise Tobin 3/4: Jocelyn Dunbar 5/6: Airlie Smith

K: Alexis Norwood 1/2: Lori Manning 3/4: Hollie Carey 5/6: Jaxson Mitchell

K: Tom Hill 1/2: Eloise Tobin 3/4: Benjamin Adams 5/6: Victoria Monk

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Happy Birthday Marcus Rogers

Jett Crothers

Chloe Sciberras James Eyles

Bailey Tincknell

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 4

Year 3/4 It is another busy start to the term. This week students are able to view the items available at the Book Fair. During Week 2 students will be able to bring money if they want to purchase any of these books etc. Thursday Week 2 is our School Book Fair Parade. Students are asked to come dressed as their favourite book character and participate in the parade. Next Tuesday, 25th July, we have approximately 12 girls and boys participating in the PSSA Touch Footy against Narromine PS here in Mendooran. These students have been given a permission note that they must return to Mrs Norwood or the office before Tuesday. Starting this week, on Thursdays period 5, during the next five weeks our class will participate in the Primary Rugby Union Skills Program. This term, 3/4 will be investigating The Solar System/Space with Mrs Davis in Science. We wish Bailey Thompson the very best of luck as he travels to Sydney to participate as a Para-athlete in the State Cross Country! We look forward to hearing of his result! Our class has been producing some great artwork. In keeping with the current season, 3/4 created winter silhouettes using the technique of paper tearing.

V Parnaby

Kindergarten Welcome back to Term 3! We hope everyone had an enjoyable and refreshing holiday. The students have returned to school in a very settled frame of mind which is great to see! This term our focus will be on increasing our reading fluency and comprehension of text, extending our sight and written vocabulary to thirty words and on counting forwards to 30 and beyond and counting backwards from 20. The students have a good understanding of the names of the basic shapes and now are learning to recognise the number of sides and corners. The students have also been discussing the days of the week. In Art this week we discussed and painted patterns using the colours of the Aboriginal flag.

L Peter

Year 1/2

Welcome back to Term 3! The year is absolutely flying by and students have worked hard so far. I hope to see everyone put in as much effort for the remainder of the year. In Week 6 we have our K/1/2 excursion to the Warrumbungles. If you have misplaced the note for this excursion you can get another one from the Front Office. The veranda outside our room (on the stage) has been overflowing with jumpers, hats, drink bottles, containers, tracksuit pants and much more. If your child has misplaced any personal belongings they may be there. Students need to come and have a look. Unnamed clothing that has not been claimed for many weeks goes over to the clothing pool in the Front Office. We have not had any homework this week in class - it will go home on Monday. Students have been reminded every day this week that they can grab a home reader. We are beginning a History unit about Celebrations and students have already been able to identify a number of holidays and celebrations and what makes them unique. We are also beginning to look at the Weather and Seasons in Science. On Tuesday we watched a short clip to find out the difference between the weather and seasons. Students were interested by the information, so we then looked up the weather on the Elders weather site for Wednesday to find out it would be very cold and there was a high chance of rain (it turned out to be a very cold and rainy day indeed!).

S Kenny

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 5

Year 5/6

Welcome back everyone for an exciting and productive Term 3. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. In Literacy during Week 1 we have been concentrating on a range of different text types including both recounts and writing a resume. For Spelling we have been focusing on the “m” sound as in “Mum”. For Grammar we have been looking at anagrams. An anagram is a word made by rearranging all the letters of another word. The students used critical thinking skills to make numerous anagrams. Some examples are; antler - learnt - rental and mean - name - amen - mane In Maths we have been focusing on whole number. We have been using a range of strategies to order numbers in ascending and descending order which include negative integers. In Geography we have started a unit called A Diverse and Connected World. We are learning how nations interact with one another for a range of different purposes. During the discussion we discovered that 11 out of 19 students had shoes that were made in China. This made the students realise we connect with other countries on a daily basis.

N Ptolemy

State cross country Wishing Carter Swan and Bailey Thompson all the very best at the State Cross Country carnival in Sydney today.

Primary Touch Football Knockout On Tuesday 25th July Mendooran Central School is hosting Primary Boys and Girls Touch Football Knockout competition against Narromine Public School. The games will be held on the Mendooran Oval and will start at approximately 10.30am. Good luck to both teams.

Small Schools Rugby League Good luck to Kyle Hartley, Stephen Eyles, Jackson Dunbar, Connor Hughes-Tincknell and Jaike Mitchell competing at Coonabarabran on Thursday 27th July. These boys joined with Gulargambone and Dunedoo Schools last term and won the carnival in Dubbo. Wishing them all the very best on Thursday at the next level.

Secondary Western Athletics Carnival Good luck to the 12 Secondary students competing in Dubbo next Friday, 28th July at the Western Athletics Carnival. We look forward to hearing about your outstanding efforts.

K Norwood

Sport News

Book Fair

All our books have arrived for our Book Fair and the students have been busy making their wish lists. The Book Fair will run from Monday 24th to Friday 28th July. All Parents and Carers are welcome to come and have a browse through our wonderful collection. Cash or credit cards (via the online site) are accepted. We will be having our Book Fair Parade on Thursday 27th at 10am. Students are to dress as their favourite book character, there will be prizes for best dressed character. Parents and community members are invited to attend.

G Davis & S Cook

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 6

Secondary News All secondary students across Years 7 to 12 are about to embark upon the adventures of learning poetry.

Years 7-8 Stage 4 will be looking at a selection of poems that are centred on an environment and sustainability theme. These poems will introduce students to literary exercises, poetic devices, and songs as poetry, whilst educating them on the importance of looking after our environment.

Years 9 -10 In our war poetry unit students will be introduced to poetic devices and language, and will be encouraged to recognise the emotion and beauty that poetry has to offer. War poetry is an intriguing genre that will have the ability to engage students in the works of: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, David Campbell, Dylan Thomas, John McCrae and Robert Laurence Binyon. The poems will be taught alongside related song materials such as: Zombie (The Cranberries), I Was Only 19 (Redfern) and Hero of War (Rise Against).

Year 11 English Through the study and analysis of Bruce Dawe’s life and his following poems students will develop an understanding of how the ideas, forms and language of a text interact within the text and may affect those responding to it: ‘Homecoming’, ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’, ‘Life-Cycle’, ‘Home Coming', ‘Homo Suburbiensis’, ‘And A Good Friday Was had by All’, ‘Weapons Training’

Year 12 English Year 12 will be completing a study and analysis of Wilfred Owen’s life and his following poems. Students will develop an understanding of how the ideas, forms and language of a text interact within the text and may affect those responding to it: ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori’, ‘Futility’, ‘Insensibility,’ ‘Next War’.

English Homework Homework will be given out weekly on a Monday and it needs to be returned on Fridays. For homework to count on the tally board it needs to not only be handed in, but it also needs to be completed. I have a handful of students in each class who are now creating superb study habits whilst others could use some improvement. The homework over the course of the year will be a series of reading comprehension, writing and research tasks. I have designed these tasks to help address the areas of need as demonstrated in our NAPLAN and assessment results last year. These tasks are not designed to be overly difficult but they are needed to help our students develop their writing and comprehension skills. If anyone wishes to contact me about this program please feel free to call me at the school or we can arrange a meeting.

M Galiatsatos

Deadly 7’s Rugby Union Program Mendooran Central School will be participating in the Deadly 7’s Rugby Union program on Thursday afternoon over the next 5 weeks. This program provides primary school students across Australia with their first taste of rugby, whilst also educating them about the importance of education and healthy lifestyles. Luke Mack, the Rugby Union Development Officer for the Western Area, will be facilitating the lessons on Mendooran Oval. Students will walk across the road and be supervised by their Classroom teacher. Please ensure your child comes to school in full sports uniform including appropriate footwear. It is also recommended that students wear a hat and have sunscreen for the day.

K Norwood

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” ‒Sarah Caldwell

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 7

Community News Macquarie Regional Library – Mendooran

57 Bandulla Street in the Community and Health Building. Open Monday and Wednesday 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

C Heslin

Mendooran Tennis Club News Junior Tennis will start on Monday 24th July at 4pm. Cost is $3 per child and some

afternoon tea is provided beforehand. We will also start playing a few proper games for our more advanced juniors every Monday this term, whilst our younger players will still have more coaching and fun activities. If your child is interested, please contact Natasha Tobin on 0438 760 287. Friday 21st July will see 8 of our Senior players have a game against Dunedoo. This should be a fun night and we would love to see many spectators come down and cheer Mendooran on! Games start from 6.30pm. Go Mendooran!! We also now have a Facebook page to let you know of any upcoming events and any cancellations due to wet weather.

N Tobin

Boxing for Fitness & Interval

Training Boxing will recommence Wednesday 26th July at 3.30pm

under the COLA All welcome kids and adults

Tell Them From Me survey Our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices. Our students also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this year. Asking students to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as well as track engagement and motivation across the school year. The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help improve how they do things at school. More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au The survey is confidential, is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 21st August and 13th October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary. A consent form and FAQs for parents/carers about the survey has been sent home with students. If you do not want your child or children to participate, please return the form to school by Friday 11th August. Copies of the form and FAQs are available from: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents.

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 8

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS Voluntary School Contributions for 2017 are: $ 25.00 per Primary/Infant student $ 50.00 per Secondary student from Years 7-12 with a maximum of $80.00 per Family (not including electives)

Compulsory Fees in 2017 are Year 7/8 Electives: $20.00 Technology Mandatory (Textiles/Food Tech/Technics) $20.00 Art / Music Year 9/10 Electives: $40.00 Industrial Technology- first project ($30.00 per project thereafter) $80.00 Food Technology $20.00 Design & Textiles $10.00 Agriculture Year 11/12 Electives $40.00 Industrial Tech (first project. 2nd project depends on cost) $20.00 D&T Mixed Media $120.00 Year 11 Hospitality

ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE The following items are available from the School Office for purchase: (prices are GST inclusive)

Black Sloppy Joes (with School Crest) Small (6, 8, 10, 12, 14) $16.00

Large (16y , 16, 18, 20) $20.00

Woollen Jumper (with School Crest) Small (8, 10,) $60.00

Large (12 & up) $65.00

Micro Fibre Track Pants (New School Crest) Kids Sizes (6, 8, 10, 12, 14) $35.00

Adult Sizes ( XS -5XL)

Micro Fibre Spray Jackets (New School Crest) Kids Sizes (4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14) $45.00

Adult Sizes ( XS -5XL)

Polo Shirts (White & Grey) Small (6, 8, 10, 12, 14) $14.00

Large (16y, 16 - 24) (S - L) $16.00

Sports Polo Shirt All Sizes $22.00

Primary Checked Dress Size (4 - 16) $50.00

Primary Black Tunic Size (4 - 16) $50.00

Secondary Checked & Black Skirts $50.00

Checked Material Per Metre $14.00

HATS:

Black Bucket Hat $7.50

Black Cap with School Emblem $5.00

EQUIPMENT:

Book Packs $20.00

(Art Diary, Pens, Pencils, Exercise Books, Sharpener, Maths Set etc.)

Scientific Calculator $20.00

Mendooran Central School Phone: 02 6886 1149 Email: mendooran-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au 9

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