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The Colour Run is fast approaching. Please start collecting sponsorship to raise money for our school grounds and facilities. Children who raise the highest funds will be rewarded with prizes. The Year 6 classes are also competing to raise the highest funds with the winning class getting to run Sport for several weeks. Get collecting!
Although we are not filming our movie until Thursday October 24th we need you to start gathering your costume.
Please collect the following items:
Workers: jeans, overalls or boiler suits, plain white t-shirt, braces, cap, boots, neck scarf. You will look grubby and unkempt.
Foremen: slacks, shirt and tie (but no jacket)
Directors: business suits, smart shoes. You are well groomed with styled or slicked back hair. You have expensive looking accessories (watches, bracelets, necklaces etc).
We don’t want you to have to go out and buy new clothes. If you don’t have any of the above, see if you have friends who can lend them to you. At worst, spend time visiting op shops over the holidays to collect items.
If you have any questions, speak to Mrs Cooper or Mrs Gadsby.
he Year 6 students have worked very hard on this project where they had to program their own game using either code.org, Scratch or Bitsbox in Digital Technologies lessons. Each student has selected the coding project that they are most proud of to add to this padlet to share with our families and wider community. We hope you enjoy playing them.
The below video shows families that came to our recent STEM night to play the games the Year 5 and 6 students coded. It was great to have an audience that had the chance to experience the games we worked so hard on.
What a blast we had last Wednesday night at school. Teachers dressing up, exciting activities, student and community involvement and a steady flow of interested families. Guests were spoilt with a range of activities that enabled them to test, play and explore science.
There was such a wonderful range of activities on offer. Down in the Prep area we were treated to hammers and nails, blood and bones and solving the case of the missing chocolate. Turns out Mr O’Brien has a lot to answer for there! But who was helping out the evil Dr Porkchop in Year Two? Visitors worked hard to help Forky escape Andy’s Treehouse by creating escape mechanisms using push and pull. Year 5 explored electrical circuits with the help of George and a keen team of Year Five assistants, including Max, Hayden, Ava, Indigo, Jack, Jimmy, Duke, Luca and Katie who knew all the tricks. Meanwhile, in the Digital Technology Lab, Xavier and Lucas, themselves Year 6 students, helped to showcase student work in coding.
There certainly was a huge NASA contingent on site this year, being the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969. Year One were landing on the moon and feeling how the lack of gravity affects the weight of objects and what humans were capable of in the weightless environment. Balloon rockets took off in Year Three ready for stargazing in Year Four, while in Year 6, design seemed crucial to the flight time and distance of rockets soaring through our solar system.
We were lucky enough to get some clear sky sometime after 6pm. If you were lucky enough to venture out in the cold to the oval, there were telescopes on the ground, thanks to our volunteer friends at the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society. The skies really let us see their secrets by 6:30pm with many getting a glimpse of Saturn with its rings and larger moon Titan, Jupiter and its four moons and of course we saw the Moon’s surface of craters and mountains up close and personal.
Thank you to all the staff who continue to put on amazing open nights for our school community. Learning really is fun at Mt Martha Primary School.
Mrs O’Connor
Science Coordinator
Following is a Padlet for you to add things that your your group need to assist them with their market stall. As part of your homework each week please review the list to see if you can help.
Please make sure you:
– keep your request brief
– only respond if you can help
– ONLY HELP WITH THINGS THAT YOU HAVE AT HOME. DO NOT ASK FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO BUY THINGS FOR YOU OR OTHER STALLS.
– make a effort to help everyone, not just your friends.
FREE PARENTING WORKSHOP – MANAGING ANXIETY AND WORRIES
WHEN: Thursday 1st August
TIME: 6.30 – 8.30 pm
WHERE: Mt Martha Primary School, Glenisla Drive, Mt Martha.
COST: FREE
BOOKINGS: Please book directly with school. Call 59742800.
Facilitated by Michelle Brown, Parent Resource Co-ordinator, Parentzone michelle.brown@anglicarevic.org.au
Do your kids worry about:
school, sport, friends, family, illness, death, pets, exams, pleasing people, the dark, getting in trouble, doing homework, trying new things, going to parties, making friends, monsters under the bed, the weather …
Come along to a free parenting workshop to understand why children behave the way they do, how to appropriately respond and discuss practical strategies to help them.
Hi everyone and a welcome back!
We cannot believe we are already in Semester 2 and there is so much to look forward to.
As it is a new semester, specialist times have changed so please have a look at the sidebar under ‘Specialists Timetable’.
Please also make a note of events that are coming up this term – listed under ‘Important Dates’.
We also have one change in our Year 6 team – Ms. Bell has left to have her baby and Mrs. Jo Rossiter has joined us as classroom teacher for 6B.
Probably two of our most significant events this term are our visits to Dromana Secondary College (All students, irrelevant of their secondary school hoice) and Year 6 Market which the children are very excited about. (Please make sure you have read the information letter that Mr. Beirne put on Compass last week).
We are sure this term will be a great one with so many exciting things happening! If you have any questions about anything, there are several lines of communication you can use:
Many thanks,
Donna Gadsby & Lucinda Cooper
This video is a good one to get you thinking about balancing your time and not spending too much time in front of a screen this holidays. Hopefully, the weather will be kind on some of the days so that you can get outside and play or maybe play a board game inside rather than spending long periods of time on video games.
We had some great entries to our Book Review Competition and by far the most creative was the “Family Book Club” animation by the Lawrenson family, reviewing the book “The World’s Worst Children” by David Walliams. Here it is for you to enjoy!
Well done to Jasper an his family.
