Mulwala Public School

Wednesday 21  June 2023

Goal - 95%

Term 2 -%

Year - %

No of days 100% for 2023- 0

Yarma (Welcome)

P&C Disco

The P&C will be holdng a disco at the Mulwala community centre of Friday 23 June 6 pm- 8 pm. 

Fully supervised

Gold coin donation

Children will receive a free hot dog and fruit box.

Student Reports

The teachers are currently writing the semester one reports. Your child's report will be distrubuted on Friday 21 July. The teachers will inform you about your child's progress during Terms 1 and 2. Please discuss the reports with your child when you receive them.

Parent-teacher interviews

Parents are invited to contact the class teacher at any time during the year to organise a parent-teacher interview. In addiiton, teachers may contact parents and request an interview. Your child is invited to attend any interview to share their learning with you.

Attendance

As we head into the  end of term 2 it remains important that your child attends school every single day. Being at school is the best place for students to learn as well as to keep social connections and build life-long skills. 

We understand that families are eager to see and reconnect with loved ones and take a well-deserved break, but please remember that planned travel should only be taken during scheduled school holidays.  If you family is planning to travel within a school term complete the MPS Application for extended leave - travel on SchoolBytes.

Students should be at school every day during school terms, including until the end of term, unless they are sick or are absent for a justified reason.

Missing a day here or there may not seem like much, but absences add up and can negatively impact your child's learning and wellbeing. When your child misses one day a week, that’s 40 days of school and 8 weeks of learning in one year. Over an entire school journey this adds up to 2.5 years of lost learning.

We want to do everything we can to help all students be at school every single day, because every day counts. If you have any concerns or questions please talk to me, the front office staff or your class teacher. We want to do everything we can to help all students be at school every single day, because every day counts. If you have any concerns or questions please talk to me, the front office staff or your class teacher. 

Term 3

Term 2 finishes on Friday 30 June. Staff return to school on Monday 17 July.  Students return to school on Tuesday 18 July.

Athletics Carnival

The athletics carnival will now be held on Thursday 20 July. We will be hoping for kinder weather!. The 15oom event will be held on Friday 21 July.

Future jarmbies 2024 

The school is now taking enrolments for 2024 Kindergarten students. If you know anyone who would like a guided tour of the school, please ask them to contact the office. Our next parent information session is on  Wednesday 9 August. This will be followed by a long transition program for the future jarmbies. Children need to be enrolled to participate in the transition program.

P&C School Disco

The P&C will be holding a school disco on Friday 23 June at the Mulwala civic centre. The disco will run from 6 pm- 8pm, and is a free event. Parents will need to sign their student in an out and leave a contact number.

Covid Guidelines

I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that we are still continuing our COVID-smart measures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses such as the flu in our school community.

Our COVID-smart measures

While the community continues to live with COVID-19, NSW Health has advised that the unpredictable nature of the virus will continue to present a health risk to the community, especially during the winter months while other respiratory illness circulate. As a response, our school will continue to operate with our baseline COVID-smart measures in place throughout this term to minimise transmission while prioritising student and staff wellbeing. These includes a combination of layered safety measures such as:

• Staying home if unwell and test for COVID-19 if showing any symptoms

• . Students and staff are advised to stay home until they are well, even if they have a negative COVID-19 test result. Students can be supported to learn remotely if they are well enough.

• Boosted day cleaning of high-touch areas in our schools.

• Strongly encouraging masks to be worn by all students, staff and visitors, particularly when indoors or outdoors when physical distancing is difficult to maintain, and if exposed to COVID-1

• Strongly encouraging up-to-date vaccinations for our students and staff, including COVID-19 booster shots and flu vaccinations for anyone eligible.

• Maintaining natural ventilation with windows and doors open whenever possible, including when cooling/heating systems are in use.

• Continuing to provide RATs and other hygiene products to our school community, free of charge.

Our school may be directed to temporarily reintroduce additional COVID-19 measures, including mandatory mask-wearing and postponing events and gatherings, or directing a cohort to learn from home for a short period to minimise transmission risks. The NSW Department of Education’s COVID-19 Health, Safety and Staff Wellbeing team will continue to lead this work when it is needed.

For further information about the COVID-smart measures in place this term refer to the department’s COVID-smart measures at school on our Advice for families page

I would also like to take this opportunity to share Fire and Rescue NSW’s Winter fire safety checklist (PDF 864.8KB). Please download the checklist and follow the instructions listed to help keep our households safe and warm during the colder months.

On behalf of our school, I want to thank you for your support in helping to keep our students, staff and community safe.

Moodamoot (farewell)

Regards

Gayle Pinn

Principal

On Thursday the 8th of June Tommy, Natalie, Xavier and Zain went to Howlong for the Multicultural Public Speaking competition. We had to present our prepared speech. Then after the prepared speeches we had a break and enjoyed some morning tea. After the break we  had to prepare an impromptu speech that had to go for two minutes. The topic was cutting corners. We did very well and it was very hard but fun. We managed to do it and we only had five minutes and it was very hard but in the end there were people who did amazing jobs and tried their best but there is only one winner. The person who is going to represent the area in the next round is Thomas Hargreaves from our own school MPS.

By Natalie and Tommy

On Thursday the 15th of June Scarlett and Charlie represented Mulwala Public School at Gundagai. They had a great day. It was muddy to start with on the track but then the sun came out. Charlie came 41st and Scarlett came 9th. They both did very well.

From Scarlett

On Tuesday the 6th of May an author came to visit our school.

Her name was Lucinda Gifford. She has written lots of different books like Chicken Divas, The Cat Wants Cuddles, The Cat Wants Custard and many more. While we were there some of the students from all the different classrooms gave Lucinda some animals and she combined them to make a new animal. After she had showed us we got to go off and make our own animal. They were all really funny. Mine was a dog ,fish and elephant. She brought a few of her books that had she sketched. It was really cool. At the end of the time she gave us one of her new books called Hair

 By Brodie 

It is a requirement of the P&C association that all members have a current WWCC. Volunteer applications are free of charge. Follow the link to submit your online application prior to visiting the mobile centre:  Working with children check.  Once applications have been cleared a copy can be sent to the school office mulwala-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au.