Melrose Park Public School Newsletter

The school infrastructure upgrades are commencing with painting happening around the school, installation of new carpet and vinyl across several classooms, new asphalt across the large playground area and hopefully soon the upgrade of IT infrastructure across the site.

This Thursday 17th November, students will participate in a Mini Soccer World Cup. We will be playing in our Peer Support groups and enjoying an afternoon of fun!

Students will wear their sports uniform and appropriate running shoes. Please ensure all students have a hat, sunscreen and water bottle for the afternoon.

 We are looking forward to a great afternoon of soccer! 🙂  

Our students are learning and so are our staff. We value and prioritise time for professional development. Last week our leadership team and I attended a Masterclass, presented by Dr Simon Breakspear and Tom Sherrington regarding Leading Professional Growth Cultures. This day provided an opportunity for the team to reflect upon our actions as school leaders and seek improved practices, particularly around Professional Learning for our teachers.

Mr Steel and Mrs Piper are working together in collaboration with  neigbouring schools to support high potential and gifted students and demonstrate ways to engage and support these students to reach their potential. Marsden High School are leading this initiative.

All teachers are involved in our weekly professional programs in order to learn about the new curriculum that will be implemented in 2023. I thank our staff for their time and commitment they demonstrate ways to strengthen their professional practise and this is on top of their workload in classrooms.

Aboriginal resources

Our school is fortunate to have access to a range of resources presenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content and literature. In recent weeks we have received some new material to add to our collection. Students have been enjoying these books during literature and library lessons learning about First Nation connections.

End of borrowing

It has been a wonderful year seeing many students borrow a range of books from the library, old favourites to new releases. This week will be the last week for borrowing. All books will need to be returned by Week 8. Reminders will be distributed to those students who have overdue books.

Thank you!

I would like to say a huge thank you to the volunteers who have kindly given time to cover new resources for our school’s library. Students are always eager and wait in anticipation for these new releases. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Mrs Piper Teacher Librarian

4L have been learning about different environments in Geography and last week we went on an excursion to Penrith Lakes to examine the environment there. If you have not been to Penrith Lakes we would highly recommend it. There are bike ways, bush walks and water sports. A great way to unwind in the school holidays.

Upon return to school, the students wrote a recount about their day and showcased all of the writing features they have learnt this year.

One of the Best Excursions EVER!

I awoke suddenly in a jolly mood to get ready for the day.

“It’s today!’ I exclaimed in my mind.

My dress was a tad wrinkly but I didn’t care! I waited until eight o’clock and then left.

I found my path to the garage and ‘yoinked’ my bike. The ride was a pleasingly, peaceful journey.

Surprisingly when I arrived at school, it was eight twenty! We’re going to leave in fifteen minutes!

The bus arrived at the school in plenty of time. Enchantedly I leapt onto the bus for the long journey (I slept most of the way).

When we got there Mr C and Mrs G welcomed us to the wondrous place and led us to the classroom. We chattered through an introduction about what we would be doing. Luckily 4L were first to get to do the Yowie Hunt!

Squish (the only yowie we had at the time) gave us clues to find all of the other yowies. We were told compass directions such as South, East, North, West and all the other ways.

Next we went bird watching. I don’t remember all the birds BUT I do remember we saw the rare grass parrots.

Then we had a fun lunch time. We got to play any game we wanted! It was a lot of fun.

After that we went off to do some dip netting. We caught freshwater shrimp, mosquito fish, water boatmen and more!

The hardest thing was next … LOOKING FOR BUGS! You might be thinking ‘Why is looking for plastic bugs hard?’ Well, because they forgot to hide them. So we had to find REAL bugs instead.

Before this we were recognising tree leaves, which was quite easy.

We then had our break. Our last meal at Penrith Lakes for the day. The last thing we did for the day was revise in the classroom.

I think this was the second best excursion of my LIFE and I felt ALIVE!

Rose 4L

Stage 3, Year 5 and 6, went on an excursion to Fishermen's Beach and Long Reef headland. Students participated in many engaging activities exploring how sudden geological changes and extreme weather events can affect the Earth’s surface. We learnt about how the headland was affected by the 2016 storms and examined how the affected areas were rebuilt. We also got to explore the rock pools learning about different creatures, their habitats and how their adaptation process.

At Melrose Park Park Public School we are Learners.

What does this look like?

• Always try your best
• give your personal best 
• check your spelling punctuation and grammar
• edit your work

• Listen to and follow instructions
• think about what the teacher is saying 
• what are you being asked to do?
• Be prepared and stay on task
• have your pencils, pens and books ready
• don't waste time
• get your work done within time limits
• Work cooperatively and allow others to learn
• speak kindly and don't be bossy
• don't distract other learners
• be a team player

Students reported enjoying the Sausage Sizzle last Friday and look forward to another Friday lunch opportunity this Friday.  As this is a trial, please send through any feedback you may have heard about the Friday Lunch event.

Friday 2 December 2022 

Kindy – Year 2:                  5.30pm – 6.45pm

Year 3 – Year 6:                 7pm – 8.30pm

Come and join us for a disco in the school hall and its free! Funded by the P&C for everyone to celebrate before the year ends.  There will be music, games, pizza, drinks and lots of fun.  

We would appreciate volunteers to help with this event.  Please use the link below to sign up and we will be in contact with you. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050D4FAAA628AAFD0-school