Melrose Park Public School Newsletter

Wishing all our mothers and grandmothers a wonderful day this Sunday as we stop to say, 'thank you', mothers for everything you do for your children.

Origins of Mother's Day

On Sunday many Australians will spend the day celebrating their mothers and other special women in their lives.  The idea of a mother's day did not gain traction until 1908, when West Virginia woman Anna Marie Jarvis held a church memorial to honour the legacy of her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis.

Ann Jarvis had been a peace activist who nursed wounded soldiers during the Civil War and created mother's day work clubs to address public health issues. In 1914 her campaigning paid off, when US president Woodrow Wilson officially declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother's Day.

But it was not until 1924, following the losses of World War I, that Mother's Day was first held in Australia.

Covid cases are still being reporting  to the school.  Thank you to those families who have reported under the Close Contact provision to the school.  We are also hearing of Covid reinfections  in our community. It is essential that we maintain  constant awareness of the changing circumstances to keep everyone safe and well.

Students who are close contacts and have no symptoms may attend school if a RAT is used everyday for five days. Masks are still encouraged to be worn as a close contact.

Students may access the Department's Learning From Home packages from the school's website. Each week there is a new  learning package to use.

A warm hello to you from Melrose Park’s new wellbeing support officer/chaplain, Mrs Nerida Gallagher.  I am at Melrose Park on Mondays and Fridays, for social, emotional and wellbeing support for students, staff, and the school community.  I spend my time assisting with wellbeing lessons in classes, and with individual students, as well as on playground support and weekly lunchtime craft activities.

This term, our wellbeing focus is on the Zones of Regulation.  You will have been introduced to this in previous newsletters by our fantastic kindergarten teacher, Bianca Di Nicola.  This is an important program for helping children gain emotional literacy, and it empowers them to help themselves take control of how they are feeling, by using various tools to bring them back to green, where they are best placed to learn and play.  Our creative playground endeavours this term, for children who want to participate, will be to make some of our own sensory support tools for classroom use, squishies, fidget toys etc.

Nerida Gallagher

Wellbeing and Support officer

Mondays/Fridays

• Monday 9  May

P&C meeting

In the library at 7pm

• P&C Mother's Day stall Thursday 2- 3pm.  calling for volunteers.
• Election Day BBQ 21 May, calling for volunteers throughout the day.

Free to a good home or a home office.

This large table is in great condition and was donated to the school.  If interested in this table please contact the office on 9847 4669.

The table will need be picked up.