Telephone: 5457 2284 Congratulations to all the students who Fax 5457 2417 won or were highly commended in their Email: [email protected] section of the Book Week Competition. Our Website: www.murrabitps.vic.edu.au visit to the park and library afterwards added to our day and was a great way to NEWSLETTER finish our Book week adventure.

Father’s Day Stall th - 28 August, 2019 and Father’s Day Evening Thank you to our Parent’s and Friends who organised today’s Father’s Day Stall. The School Values: children are always excited when they can • Respect surprise Dad on Father’s Day with a gift • Honesty and the stall helps them to do this. I hope • Teamwork all dads get to spend some quality time on • Learning Sunday with their children. • Persistence Friday Night is the Father’s Day Night and it promises to be a great night with lots of fun activities organised by our Grade 5/6 Murrabit Group School respectfully acknowledges Leadership Team. The night will include the traditional custodians of the land. games, art activities and dinner. A great We pay respect to their ongoing living culture. opportunity for dads and kids to join in activities together. Starting time is 5:30pm. Dates to Remember : 29 th August T-Ball Championship T-ball 30 th August Fathers Night Good luck to our T-ballers who are 3rd Sept . Breaky Club participating in the Regional 4th Sept. School Council Meeting Championships in tomorrow. I am 6th Sept. KDPSSA Athletic Trials sure they will represent our school well. 10 th Sept. Parents & Friends Meeting 13 th Sept Pupil Free Day Murrabit Playgroup th This Friday, the 30 August, our Grade 5/6 students will be visiting playgroup again as Hello Everybody , part of their Leadership Program. This Book Parade gives them a great opportunity to interact with the children from playgroup, reading, What a fantastic day we had at the Book completing puzzles and leading them in Parade. The children looked amazing in outdoor play. their costumes for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Thank you for your Men’s Shed amazing support in sending the students to Next Thursday, the 5 th of September, the school in their fantastic costumes. It Grades 4-6 students will begin their Men’s certainly added to the excitement of the Shed Woodwork Program. This is a day. We had so many different characters wonderful program that involves including Charlie, Willy Wonka, Oompa mathematics, design and technology and Loompas, Grandpa, a squirrel, Veronica art. We thank the Men’s Shed and Murrabit Salt, Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Violet Lions Club for making this program Beauregarde and Golden Tickets. possible. Pupil Free Day Market Morning Teas & Parent Teacher Interviews Those families on duty for the Market Two important dates to mark on your to be held on 7th September are :- calendar are the Pupil Free Day (staff will Gurnett, Maher, Ettershank, be attending a Mathematics PD) on Friday Heffer, McNeil Team Leader : 13 th September and Parent Teacher Elissa Keath Interviews on Thursday 19 th September (more information to follow about times). Bookclub Bookclub orders have been sent home and Murrabit Market need to be returned before Wednesday 4 th We still need Team Leaders for the September Murrabit Market. If you can assist please put your name down. Parents & Friends Just a few things coming up:- Scone Making - Name - this Friday is Father’s night we will be Date supplying pizza & chips for tea. We hope Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb Sara McNeil you all enjoy your night - we are looking for feedback for the 30th Mar, Apr, May, Anniversary Lions dinner catering if June anyone is available for Saturday the 23rd of November please let Us know. - Next meeting is Tuesday 10th September Date Team Leader at 9:30am Saturday 7 th Elissa Keath Have a good day! September Thank you, Sara and Michelle Saturday 5 th Jo Yard October Sue’s News Saturday 2 nd Ang Morton Book Parade…what Superstars! November Our students looked amazing on Friday. We Saturday 7 th Jodie Hartley had a wonderful array of costumes and December characters! Congratulations to everyone who Saturday 4 th Greg Maher took part and thank you to our wonderful January families for their support. Our students won Saturday 1 st Donna Thomson LOTS of book awards and we are very proud of February them all. Thank you to all those students who Saturday 7 th March Ang Morton worked tirelessly on the banner…we certainly wore out a few crayons! Saturday 4 th April

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Regional Tee-ball… Students of the Week: … Thursday 29 th of August… … Good Luck Team!! Tomorrow, we are looking forward to travelling to Bendigo where we are playing against Tylden at the Kennington Primary School at 12.30pm. We are departing school at 9am and we hope to return to school between 4.30 and 5pm . Parents will be contacted if these times change. Children need a cut lunch, snacks and drinks. Thank you to the many families for supporting our training sessions and to the mighty Murrabit students who have helped us with our practise. Casey Heffer – for working super hard to “Go Mighty Murrabit Go…you can do it” improve his reading and writing Division Zone Trials Congratulations to the following students who have qualified for the Zone Trials – Cooper, Jed, Xavier, Dustie, Leah, Lachie, Jack, Emmity, Caleb, Free and Angus. This event is on Friday 6 th of September at the Kerang Technical High School. Children will need to bring a cut lunch, drinks and appropriate athletic gear. School T-shirts and jumpers need to be worn. We need help with transport for this day so please let me know if you can assist. The above students will bring a note home on Friday outlining the times and events, and a Grade 2/3/4 – for being awesome athletes transport permission note. If you have any and authors! further queries, please contact me.

STOP PRESS - OVEN OUT OF ACTION Our oven needs the element replacing… our hot lunches weren’t so hot yesterday. Thank you to Greg M for dealing with this matter so promptly. We are waiting for a new element so NO hot lunches today but they should be back by tomorrow (Thursday).

Jump Rope for Heart… Don’t forget our “Jump Off” will be on the last day of this term. We hope to raise over $1000 for this very worthy cause so we all need to find some sponsors. I will sponsor every child in the school to kick the fund raising campaign off. Caleb Simmonds – for his work in Maths Children will be bringing sponsorship forms home this week. Our focus for fitness over the Curators next three weeks will be skipping of course! August - 2nd Half - Keath Skipping is a wonderful way to keep fit and September – 1st Half – Wescombe also to build skills. Feel free to join our fun!! - 2nd Half - Coulter Thanks Sue

2019 Speech Pathology Week: August 25 th -31 st

When a family member or loved one has trouble with speech and language, it can be difficult to know if you should get help, especially with children. Questions like, ‘will they grow out of it?’ are often asked. What is important is that communication difficulties are often underestimated and need to be thought of as serious, like other disorders and disabilities. Don’t delay in getting help, have a Speech Pathologist help you to understand what is happening and to see if they can help Communication is a basic human right. • 1. 2 million Australian’s live with communication disability • Communication disability is largely invisible: Unseen and out-of-sight • More confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes • Communication is more than just speech Tips for Successful communication • Be welcoming and friendly • Avoid loud locations • Listen carefully • When you don’t understand, let them know • If you think the person has not understood, repeat what you have said, or say it in a different way • Speak at your normal volume & speed For more information visit: https://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/

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