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Tel: 9948 2257 Fax: 9907 0342

Principal’s Report Stop Press: Tickets for Arts Alive Drama Festival on sale from today. Dance Expo Stage 3 and Stage 1/Glen St Theatre Festival

The Dance Expo performances this week have been highly successful. Thank you to all the parents and caregivers who have supported and attended the days. Thank you to all the students who have not only

learned a variety of dance and movement skills as part of the PDHPE curriculum but also gained confidence and team building skills. Thank you to all the dancers from the Junior, Senior and Boys’ dance groups. They were fabulous performers at the Glen St Festival and were

very professional at all times. Thank you to Amber Kriletich, Morgan Randall, Miss Wilson, Miss Williams and Miss McCartney for the incredible choreography and organization of the dance groups this year. Next semester, Kindergarten and Years 3 and 4 will participate in the dance program. Band Congratulations to all the bands for their outstanding performances in the Pittwater Festival last Thursday and Friday nights. The Festival assessors proclaimed that Manly West Bands set the benchmark for all the

bands on the Northern Beaches. We thank Miss Penny Coucill, for her outstanding expertise and innovation with all the bands. She annually attends a huge Music Conference in Chicago USA as part of her own professional learning and always has the highest of expectations for all our students.

Thank you Holly Docker-Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program On Thursday afternoon, a farewell assembly has been organised to thank Holly Docker for the outstanding contributions that she has made at Manly West with the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program.

The three-year program has included Mrs Sara Lind and Mrs Beth Dowdle working alongside Holly and all the students, parents and caregiver volunteers. The extended garden has offered more aspects of the garden and science program to our students throughout this time. We wish Holly all the best for the future. Mrs Angela Penn will take over Holly’s position starting next term. Year 5 and 6 Camps Early next term, the Year 5 and 6 students will attend the camps to Bathurst and Canberra and the Snow respectively.

Staff News / Executive Director’s Award Thank you and good luck to Mrs Emma Siale who will be going on maternity leave this week. Mrs Siale has been a wonderful asset to Manly West with her students across many classes and also extra curricular activities.

Last week it was a privilege to attend the Executive Director’s Awards in recognition of Quality Teachers. Congratulations to Jenni Milburn, who was the recipient from the Warringah Area. P&C Enrichment Opportunities-Kidpreneur Workshop

The Manly West P&C Enrichment Committee has organized an educational workshop on Sunday 23rd July and 30th July from 12:30-4:00pm. Bookings close on Friday. Reminder: Canteen Volunteers We desperately need canteen volunteers to keep our canteen open 5 days a week. Please let the canteen operators know if you can volunteer a few hours as this will help keep our canteen open every day. Reminder: Please remember to return the asthma health care plans.

Student News Congratulations and good luck to Kalita McKeen, Gracie Noble and Olivia Cooper-Larson for being accepted into the Arts Alive Visual Arts Camp this week. Congratulations to Piper Simons and Tylan Black-Berryman who were selected to compete in the NSW PSSA Touch Football Girls and Boys on 1st-3rd August at Wagga Wagga.

Congratulations to Andie Korgul for her selection in the NSW PSSA Girls Basketball State Championships on Tuesday 15-17th August at Greenway in Canberra.

Congratulations to Harper Hinterleitner in 6P came 2nd place in the Sydney Academy of Chess Fun Tournament in Bondi on Sunday 18 June.

Mrs Julie Organ

WEBSITE: http://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au

Wednesday 28th June 2017 Term 2 Week 10

Respect Responsibility Aspire

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From the Deputys’ Desk Debating News

Last Friday, we hosted our first debate as part of the Northern Beaches Debating Competition. Our

Year 5 team, consisting of Aiman Shahriar, Gracie Noble, Amelia Crouch, Audrey Ray, Ava Nicolson

and Charlie Highnam, debated that ‘Homework should not be compulsory’. Seaforth Public School

won the debate, this time. Our Year 6 Debating team, consisting of Zoe Ball, Lexie Landrak,

Hannah Mcllwane, Ally Doyle and Olly Todd, won their debate, negating the topic, ‘We should have a

three day weekend’. Congratulations to both teams and thank you to Mrs Siale and Mrs Gaynor for

their support.

Thank you

We would like to acknowledge the contribution of all our parent,

grandparent, carer and community volunteers who give their time to

support students. One special volunteer, Lola, who has been assisting

with Literacy and Numeracy Groups in KY for the past three years,

celebrated a special birthday on Sunday. Lola, on behalf of Manly West,

thank you and Happy 90th birthday!

Three Kindergarten students, Hugo Lawrence,

Callum Neal and Harley Watts-Conn have been

collecting rubbish in a bucket after school each

day. We would like to congratulate and thank

them for their commitment to caring for our

school grounds. We hope that their efforts will

encourage others to be more mindful of litter.

Basketball Court Renovation Safety Alert

During the holiday break, the synthetic material on our lower basketball

court will be replaced. For safety reasons, we ask that families avoid

school grounds. There will be heavy vehicles on site, barricades and

limited access from Boyle Street.

Maths Workshop for Parents

On the second Tuesday of Term 3, 25th July, we are holding a Maths

Workshop for Parents. This will be held in the Year 6 rooms from 9:30

-10:30 am. The focus of the workshop is Early Numeracy Strategies

and is similar to the workshop presented to K-2 parents last year. The

target audience is K-2 parents, however, all parents and carers are

welcome to attend. I encourage Kindergarten parents to join us and

any parent who has not attended this workshop previously. The

workshop presenters are Mrs Tara Israel, facilitator of the Targeting

Early Numeracy Strategies program and Mrs Lara Richards, Year One

class teacher. Both teachers have taught Kindergarten, Year One and

Year Two students at Manly West and have a thorough understanding

of the learning progressions in the early years. If you plan to attend,

please RSVP to the school email address with Maths Parent Workshop

in the subject line and your name and grade/s of your child/children at Manly West in the body of

the email.

Return to School in Term Three

On Monday 17th July, teachers return to school for professional

learning and grade planning. We will be involved in workshops in

‘Bounce Back’, Technology and ‘Visible Learning’.

Please note school driving zones apply on Monday 17th July.

Students return on Tuesday 18th July. We wish all families a safe

and happy break. Mrs Wendy Mwanga

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Uniform Shop

Thursday 29th June 8:45—9:45am

Thursday 20th July 2:45—3:45pm

Diary Dates

Thursday 29th June

8:00am Chess Club in Library

Friday 30th June 9:45am Boys Dance Group Glen St Theatre 11:30am Junior & Senior Girls Dance Group Glen St Theatre

Tuesday 18th July—Term 3 Students return to school

Monday 24th—26th July

Year 6 Canberra & Snow Camp

Chook Roster Gone on vacation!

Library News

2017’s Book Week theme next term is ESCAPE TO EVERYWHERE and reading books certainly does take people to all sorts of places! Come visit the library to see where Manly West students have been ‘travelling’ through the books they have read. You will be so surprised by their responses!

By now, all Scholastic Book Club orders have been delivered. This has been made possible by the wonderful volunteer helpers, Emma King, Jack, Ben and Kate Mooney plus Kerrie and Robert King! Thank you again for your orders, as our school library will receive new books from the

commission of your purchases. You have made all Manly West readers an even happier bunch!

The following students have escaped to fantastic places because they have completed the 2017 Premier’s Reading Challenge: Naima De Souza (6T), William Procter (3/4R), Katie Gallinetti (1S), James Ford (3P), Prescott Williams (2T), Ella Cotton (4J), Lachlan Holley (2W), Austin Holley (5J) and Iris Watt (4B)!!! All students have just

under 2 months to complete the PRC. Check out the PRC website (https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html) for all the rules and helpful hints to ensure successful completion of the PRC 2017. Remember that all reading logs need to be completed, printed out and turned in before or by Friday, August 25th, 2017 to receive an ASPIRE card, a bookmark, your name published here and a certificate at the end of the year. Snuggle up with some great books these holidays, and there will be heaps of names here next term!

Happy reading!

Mrs Ellen Swick Teacher Librarian

Ticket information:

Phone: Ticketek—132 849

Ticketek Theatre & Arts Hotline: 1300 795 012

Web: http://premier.ticketek.com.au

http://m.ticketek.com.au

Search for NIDA on the Ticketek website. Tickets are only available through Ticketek at the Parade Theatre

Box Office, NIDA.

Performance Date and time:

Thursday 27 July @ 11:00am

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BRAVE

Being BRAVE when you are in Year One is showing

courage, facing your worries and trying hard, even

when you are scared, fearful or just plain don’t know.

We all have felt scared or fearful. We have felt scared

when we: start a new school year, meet someone

new, need to make new friends, have a fight with a

best friend, lose mum or dad at the shops, hurt

ourselves badly and need to go to hospital, see a

scary movie or ad, or sometimes when we just can’t

understand what is wanted of us. Being BRAVE is showing courage and Courage can be a

trickster because – it often looks different from the outside to the way you would expect it to

feel on the inside. WE are practising: identifying our emotions, calming techniques,

remembering bad things do happen but that they don’t last, talking to our friends and the adults

in our lives and asking for help and concentrating on the good things in life all the while knowing

that nobody is perfect and that WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. YEAR ONE IS LEARNING TO BOUNCE

BACK! We hope you enjoy our version of being BRAVE.

Chess News

To Tara Smith, Kasper Lowe, John Engledew and Noah Zingsheim-Smith for

representing Manly West in the NSW Junior Chess League. For the past 7 weeks,

these four children have been playing chess against other schools on the Northern

Beaches every Friday afternoon. Thank you so much to Yolanda, Stefanie, Marius

and Joyce for your help in driving the children to the away games and providing

delicious snacks for the home games.

Drama at Balgowlah

Since 1983 the Creativity Through Drama Workshops have been holding after-school classes at Manly West Public School each term for ages 5-7 and 7-11 years. These workshops offer children the opportunity to express themselves imaginatively and creatively and build confidence and self-esteem

through the fun and excitement of drama. Bookings are essential for these highly popular classes. Days and times: Mondays 4-5pm for 5-7 years Tuesdays 4-5 for 5-7 years Thursdays 4.15 – 5.15pm for 7-11 years

For further details and bookings, please contact Pat Whyman on 9949 3352.

Lost NIKON digital camera, last seen Thursday 22nd June in Kindy/Year 6 area.

Please call 0407 410 005 if found.

Thank you.

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Manly West Before & After School Care

Have a wonderful and safe school holiday from all at BASC! CENTRE NEWS Our Incursion/Enrichment Program continues this week. As a reminder, if at all possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

W/C 26/6 (Week 10) K-2 Monday - Rockets Club 3/4 Tuesday- Fitkids Thursday – Shelters 5/6 Club Tuesday- Fitkids Our Room Leader reports about some of the other activities this week –

Lauren: This week in the K-2 room we are doing a lot of races from different types of movement relay

races on Tuesday to Beyblade timed races on Thursday. We are having a big disco party to celebrate the

end of term and finishing off the afternoon with a relaxed game of sleeping lions.

Ben: 3/4 club will be having a fancy dress photoshoot with our new photobooth this week. We’ll also be

doing lots of craft and keeping warm by dancing to our new Just Dance Wii games.

Annette 5/6: Lots of fun and relaxing activities are planned for this week as we finish off Term 2 and

head towards the holidays. We’ll have a glow in the dark treasure hunt, play the chocolate game and watch a DVD. We’ll also play corners; a fun outdoor game created by the BASC children. On Friday we

will join with the other children from BASC for a dance party! You can look at the full list of programed activities and our menus displayed in each room! We ask all BASC parents to please Log-In to your HUBWORKS account and update the details on your Enrolment Form especially for medical information, emergency contacts etc. To avoid Late Payment Fees and possible exclusion next term, you can also check to see if you have any amount owing by entering the period 24/4/17 – 2/7/17. If you are unaware of your Log-In, please email us at admin@mwbasc.com.au before

the school holidays.

Registering With Us To register your child with us, please visit our centre’s site https://manlywestbasc.hubworks.com.au and click on ‘ENROL’. Enter your child’s details (please click the ‘Before and After School Care’ box if you require both sessions) and then click ‘SUBMIT’.

Vacation Care

To register your interest in vacation care for the July holidays, please visit www.neighbourhood7.com.au/registration-form.

All carers are approved by the NSW Department of Education and Communities and hold current first aid certificates, working with children and criminal history checks. What families are saying “My son loves being there and begs me to send him more often…. I can’t recommend this child care system

highly enough.” “Neighbourhood7, thank you for helping to find childcare solutions for more parents….”

Vacancies Our carers currently have vacancies before school (7am – 9am) on Thursdays and Fridays. How to enrol Simply register your care requirements at www.neighbourhood7.com.au to be notified when a carer becomes available. Enrolment begins with a carer/ parent introduction at the carer’s home. After meeting, parents

submit a signed Service Agreement along with their child’s immunisation statement to Neighbourhood7 to complete the enrolment process. Contact Us For further information, visit www.neighbourhood7.com.au or call Cassie Matheson on 0402 041 972.

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Canteen News

Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and carers who have volunteered their time to help in the canteen this term. We really appreciate all your help!

Volunteers needed - the roster for Term 3 is attached, and as you can see, we have 23 vacancies that need filling. Please think about putting your name down for a shift or two – it means helping for a couple of hours once a month, and no prior canteen experience is needed. We’d love to hear from you!

The AM shift runs from 9.30am-12pm, and the PM shift from 12-2pm.

If you’d like to fill a vacancy, please contact us by email mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call Rachel or Shona on 9948 2257 or come and see us.

Canteen roster for Term 3 2017, Week 1

Monday 17th July Tuesday 18th July Wednesday 19th July

Teacher only day Marie-Claire Johnston AM Lesley Hamlyn AM Jody Phillips AM Helen Yardley AM Caz Thompson PM Annabelle Cotton PM `

Michelle Fighera PM Jen Bradley PM Thursday 20th July Friday 21st July

Tiane Olive AM Em Pepar AM VACANCY AM Jodie Adams AM Tracy Black PM Jane Cameron AM VACANCY PM Jodi Stacker PM

Natalie Mitchell PM Jacqui Liddicoat PM

We wish everyone a happy holiday and look forward to seeing you next term.

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Band News NORTHERN BEACHES MUSIC FESTIVAL, 22-23 JUNE 2017

These were some of the comments given at the Northern Beaches Music Festival last week.

“Manly West Bands set the standard for Primary School Bands”; “One of the most comprehensive band programs I’ve seen”; “I can’t believe you have only been playing together for 2 terms”; “The calibre of the

music you are playing is well beyond primary years” ………

All bands should be extremely proud of their performances and Penny would like to congratulate you all.

Thank you to parents who battled the traffic to get there and of course, to Penny Coucill, our amazing Band Director for driving the fabulous band program we have.

Have a great break and make sure you keep practising over the holidays.

Nicole Macnicol Manly West Bands Coordinator

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Kidpreneur Workshop

The Manly West Enrichment Committee has organised a fun, educational workshop that will teach kids from

years 2 - 6, the basics of starting a business by creating real products such as bath products that use

botanicals from our kitchen garden.

Each workshop participant will get to take home one of each item they make and will also get to market their

products through branding and packaging design. The workshop offers a great mix of hands on activities and

high-tech manufacturing to make bespoke items.

Participants will also be helping the school to raise money by donating some of their products to sell at the

Manly West carnival.

The workshop takes place on the first two Sunday afternoons in Term 3, July 23rd and 30th from

12:30 - 4:00pm. Numbers are limited so book early to avoid missing out.

Book now at https://www.trybooking.com/QRTK

For more information contact Jo Sommers ph: 0411 521 030 or jo@mobilemakerspace.com.au

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Holly for making our garden grow!

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All School Holiday programs run 2—17 July 2017

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