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Gater Gazette
Mountain Gate
Primary School
Adele Avenue
Ferntree Gully 3156
Ph: 9758 2811
www.mountaingateps.vic.
edu.au
DATES TO REMEMBER
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Thursday 14 May
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NAPLAN
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Monday 18 May
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Education Week – Open Night 6.00pm – 7.00pm
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Wednesday 20 May
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School Council
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Beyond Blue/Kids Matter – Grades 3 & 4
Friday 22
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District Cross Country
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Wednesday 27 May
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RACV incursion – Foundation
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Beyond Blue/Kids Matter – Grades 3 & 4
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Thursday 28 May
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Cosmodome Science Incursion – Grade 5
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Wednesday 3 June
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NSW Science Competition
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Friday 5 June
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Report Writing Curriculum Day
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Monday 8 June
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Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday
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Tuesday 9 June
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Hands on Science – Grade 5 & 6
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Thursday 11 June
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Graduation Night Advanced Presentation Skills
Friday 12 June
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Winter sport – Grades 5 & 6
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Wednesday 17 June
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Writing Competition
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School Council 7.45pm
Monday 22
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Parent Teacher Interviews commence this week
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Friday 26 June
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Last day of Term 2 – 2.30pm dismissal
14th May 2015
-7FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
NAPLAN
The National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy was held this week for our students in Years 3 and 5. The
national testing program is one component of our assessment schedule. This together with a range of other assessment
practices throughout the year builds a detailed picture of your child’s progress, which in turn informs teaching practice.
MOTHERS’ DAY STALL
Many thanks to our PTFA for once again organising a terrific Mother’s Day Stall. We greatly appreciate their time and
effort in providing the opportunity for children to purchase that special something for Mum or a special person in their life.
WORKING BEE
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On Saturday 23 May we are having a working bee to give our grounds a general tidy up. I know our Buildings and
Grounds Committee would appreciate any help you could give over the morning please.
I often receive positive comments about our grounds from visitors and this is due to the wonderful efforts of parents, staff
and students over the years.
OPEN NIGHT FOR EDUCATION WEEK
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Just a reminder that Open Night is next week – Monday 18 May 6.00 – 7.00pm. Please join us to see what’s happening
in your child’s classroom and specialist lessons and keep an eye out for the Education Week supplement in the Knox
Leader Newspaper featuring our School Captains and Foundation students.
DISTRICT ATHLETICS
What an impressive performance by our students last week at the District Athletics competition and thank you to Mr E and
our teachers for preparing the Gaters so well. Not only was I proud of our performance on the sporting field but also our
Gater sporting spirit and behaviour was exemplary.
Go Gaters
CHERYL SAMPSON
PTFA NEWS
Thank you to all the parents who dedicated their time to
help with the Mother’s Day stall and deliver the Cadbury
boxes to each grade.
Entertainment Books
We are once again selling the Entertainment Books for
$65.00. We have hard copies available or you can
purchase the phone App.
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Gaters 1 Cook Book
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Submit your family favourite recipes by Friday 26 June
to be included in our Cook Book. Orders for the book are
$15.00 or save and buy 3 for $40.00. Extra forms are
available at the office or email your recipes to
[email protected]
Nissan Raffle
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Raffle ticket money is due by 30 June. Please write
your name on the envelopes when returning your tickets,
sold or unsold, to the office.
Shopping tour
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Book in Saturday 14 November for our Shopping Tour.
The cost will around $32 - $45.00 and a $10.00 deposit
will secure your place. We will be visiting 12 outlets.
Biggest Morning Tea
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Our Biggest Morning Tea is on Friday 29 May at
10.30am in the Hall. Parents and Teachers welcome.
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Our colouring competition is due Tuesday 26 May.
Cadbury Chocolate Drive
Our Cadbury Chocolate drive started this
week…Yipeee!! Boxes were delivered to the classroom
today and are $50.00 a box. Extra boxes are available at
the office.
PTFA
‘THE PIRATES OF THE CURRY BEAN’ SCHOOL PRODUCTION
Grade 5 & 6 students have been excitedly preparing for
their performances of ‘The Pirates of the Curry Bean’
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that will be staged on Thursday September 3 and
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Friday September 4 this year at Karralyka Theatre,
Mines Road, East Ringwood.
As you are no doubt aware, a great deal of work goes
into a production and each staff member is involved in
some way or other. However we need parent helpers as
well. If you would like to assist with props/set
preparation, costumes, makeup, choreography or
transport of props then please complete the tear off slip
in this newsletter and return to the office.
JULIE GORDON
MUSIC TEACHER
DISTRICT ATHLETICS
This year the District Athletics Sports were in the fourth
week of Term 2. There were lots of trials and practice
leading up to the athletics sports. Students in Grades 36 were taught the different athletics events during their
P.E lessons and from these performances a selected
few were asked to trial during recess and lunch times
from which our athletics team was chosen.
Halloween BBQ
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Book the date Friday 30 October at Mountain Gate
Shopping Centre. Help will be needed in the afternoon.
More information soon.
Trivia Night
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Our Trivia Night is Saturday 25 July with a Christmas in
July theme. Tickets will be $15.00 per person with
bookings for 8 – 10 people per table. Donations are
welcome for the Trivia Night; please leave them at the
office.
Bakers Delight Mountain Gate
Don't forget to mention Mountain Gate Primary School
when you make any purchase at Bakers Delight
Mountain Gate. 5% of every purchase is donated back
to the school.
So on Thursday 7 of May 63 students from Grades 3 –
6 represented Mountain Gate at the District Athletics at
the Knox Athletics Track. We started the day really
strong with some outstanding performances in the field
events putting us in third place. The students showed
intense determination in the track events and kept us in
the hunt. Our relays were very impressive with all teams
having clean baton changes and this made the
difference. It was a fantastic day for the ‘Gaters’ who put
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in a huge effort. We ended the day finishing in 5 place
and everyone that participated should be extremely
proud of their efforts and behaviour throughout such a
long day of events.
Mountain Gate - Placegetters
Discus
10 Year olds
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Brady Hunt – 3 place
11 Year olds
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Rex Hancock – 2 place
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Libby Hall – 2 place
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Bailey Toevai – 3 place
12 Year olds
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Roxanne Margary – 1 place
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Jayden Urban – 2 place
Shot Put
10Year olds
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Zac Donnelly – 1 place
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Riley McIntyre – 2 place
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Alana Tomkins – 3 place
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Tahlia Thomson – 3 place
11 Year olds
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Alysha Blackwood – 1 place
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Ashton Feltham – 2 place
Long Jump
10 Year olds
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Zac Donnelly – 1 place
11Year olds
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Harley Meerten – 1 place
12 Year olds
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Mitchell Pendergast – 2 place
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Carly Hughes-Gage – 2 place
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Lyn-Marie Spencer – 3 place
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Cole Eerden – 3 place
Triple Jump
10 Year olds
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Bethany Koster – 3 place
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Diamond Guthrie – 3 place
11 Year olds
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Emma English-Russell – 2 place
12 Year olds
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Shayla Dihood – 2 place
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Lyn-Marie Spencer – 2 place
High Jump
10 Year olds
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Lila Lessing – 3 place
12 Year olds
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Chelsea Lawrenson – 2 place
11 Year olds
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Harley Meerten – 1 place
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Alicia Fox – 1 place
12 Year olds
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Mitchell Pendergast – 1 place
Sprints 100m
9 Year olds
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Zara Feltham – 2 place
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Brock Humphries – 3 place
10 Year olds
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Zac Donnelly – 1 place
11 Year olds
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Harley Meerten – 1 place
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Cameron Hill – 2 place
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Lucinda Cooke-Balde – 3 place
12 Year olds
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Mitchell Pendergast – 2 place
200m
12 Year olds
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Shayla Dihood – 2 place
1500m
10 Year olds
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Tom Glen – 2 place
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Bethany Koster – 3 place
11 Year olds
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Alicia Fox – 1 place
Relays
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11 Boys A – 1 place
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12 Boys A – 1 place
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12 Girls A – 2 place
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11 Boys B – 3 place
Congratulations to all the students who represented
Mountain Gate and especially to the following students
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who finished 1 or 2 in an A event and will now
continue on to the Division finals in Term 4.
Alicia Fox – 800m, 1500m
Zac Donnelly – Shot Put, 100m, Long Jump
Harley Meerten – 100m, 800m, Long Jump, Relay
Shayla Dihood – 200m, Triple Jump, Relay
Mitchell Pendergast – 100m, 800m, Long Jump, Relay
Chelsea Lawrenson – High Jump
Emma English-Russell – Triple Jump
Tom Glen – 1500m
Riley McIntyre – Shot Put
Roxanne Margary – Discus
Rex Hancock – Discus, Relay
Libby Hall - Discus
Ben Ogley – 800m
Cameron Hill – Relay
Trae Humphries – Relay
Will Hewish – Relay
Blake Jackway – Relay
Nick Jackson – Relay
Carly Hughes-Gage – Relay
Bonnie Price- Relay
Lyn-Marie Spencer - Relay
Congratulations to Mitchell Pendergast and Harley
Meerten who won the overall achievement award for
their age group, the 12 year old boys and 11 year old
boys respectively.
Thank you to all the parents who came down to support
our students on the day and cheered for all the Gaters.
A special thank you to Mr Hall and Mrs Hutchison who
gave up their day to assist in running one of the events
and to Mr Hall who gave some of his lunchtimes to help
coach and train our students it made the difference.
11 Boys
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1 – Harley Meerten
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2 – Cameron Hill
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3 – Trae Humphries
11 Girls
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1 – Alicia Fox
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2 – Emma English-Russell
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3 – Libby Hall
12 Boys
12 Girls
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1 – Mitchell Pendergast 1 – Lyn-Marie Spencer
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2 – Nick Jackson
2 – Shayla Dihood
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3 – Will Hewish
3 – Carly Hughes-Gage
Go ‘Gaters’
HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY
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On Friday May 1 the whole
school participated in the annual
House Cross Country event. In the
morning session we had students in Grades 3-6
compete with those turning 8, 9 or 10 years old running
2km and the 11, 12 and 13 year olds running 3km.
The students in grades Prep, 1 and 2 ran their races
after recess at modified distances with all students
performing extremely well.
Every student that completed their race won points for
their respective house. The final results for the
competition were:
Armstrong – 677 points
Bradman – 615 points
Curry – 621 points
Gardner – 551 points
Congratulations to Armstrong for winning the house
cross county.
Individual Top Placing’s
Prep Boys
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1 – Tristan Fox
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2 – Luke Ziza
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3 – Harry Johnston
Prep Girls
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1 – Mia Burridge
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2 – Leilea Cocker
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3 – Tamara Smith
Grade 1 Boys
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1 – Damien Pacey
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2 –Eliah Sehler
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3 – Max Gerrard
Grade 1 Girls
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1 – Kyah Fisher
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2 – Hannah Hodgman
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3 – Teisha Banfield
Grade 2 Boys
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1 – Daelin Fox
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2 – Samuel Egan
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3 – Bailey Driscoll
Grade 2 Girls
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1 – Georgia Newton
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2 – Maddison Block
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3 – Kiara Wood-Dawson
8/9/10 Boys
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1 – Ben Ogley
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2 – Jake Meerten
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3 – Tom Glen
8/9/10 Girls
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1 – Katie Urban
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2 – Courtney Charleton
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3 – Bethany Koster
Please submit your recipes AND return the
attached Order Form by: Friday 26th June
If you have any queries please call: Mel
McCarthy (0468514117)
We look forward to seeing all of your delicious
recipes!!
FOOTY TIPPING COMPETITION
The footy tipping competition is full steam ahead and
there isn’t much separating the top 10 with only three
tips the difference after 6 rounds.
The top 10 tipsters to this point are
Team Name
Number of tips
Jeffa
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Ainsley Hall
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Sabrina Murphy
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Eric Murphy
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Kerry Glen
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CHKB
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Zane Tasevski
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hope to receive recipes from ALL families (and
Monty
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staff)!
Blake Brammall
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How to submit your favourite family recipes:
Luke Prouse
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Hello Families!
Just a little
reminder to get
your recipes in for
this year’s Cookbook fundraiser!
Please help us compile this wonderful cookbook
by submitting your favourite family recipes. We
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Simply complete the attached Recipe Card
and return to the office by Friday 26th June;
or
Email your recipes to: [email protected]
‘PIRATES OF THE CURRY BEAN’
PRODUCTION TEAM REQUEST FORM
I____________________________________am able to assist in
the production in following area/s –
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PROPS / SET PREPARATION
COSTUMES (some making, adjusting & fitting)
MAKEUP
CHOREOGRAPHY
TRANSPORT (OF PROPS/SETS/COSTUMES)
OTHER (Please specify)________________________________________________________
PLEASE INDICATE YOUR AVAILABILITY__________________________________
CONTACT DETAILS – DAYTIME PHONE NUMBER________________________
SIGNATURE________________________________________________________________
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Mountain Gate Primary School
OSHC Times are:
OSHC Phone:
OSHC phone: 9758-0531
BSC - 7.00am – 8.45am Monday – Friday
ASC – 3.30pm – 6.00pm Monday – Friday
9758-0531 Call anytime and leave a message
Hello parents,
This fortnight the children have been busy in cooking, card making, making presents for mum, painting
and much more.
Parents please feel free to come in while we have a session and see what we have on offer. You can
also call Franca or Jenny on 9758-0531 during 7am -9am or 3pm – 6pm Monday to Friday and we will
be happy to answer any questions that you might have on our OSHC program.
Kind regards
Franca & Jenny
How to get started before using our programs register online for an account. Registering is quick and easy. Visit
our website to begin www.campaustralia.com.au
Once registered you can make bookings and cancellations, view your statements and manage your details
anytime of the day online.
Save on Care You can save 50% or more on Before and After School Care fees with the non-means tested Child
Care Rebate. Almost all families are eligible. To find out more call our Customer Service Team on 1300 105 343
Monday to Friday.
Program Costs
Out of Pocket
Opening Hours
Before Care
$7.14 - $10.11
7.00am – 8.45am
After Care
$9.37 - $13.61
3.30pm – 6.00pm
To find out more call our Customer Service Team on 1300 105 343 Monday to Friday
Emergency and Same Day Bookings
To ensure we have the correct staff:children ratio of 1:15 could you please book your child/children in prior to the day of
care. If this isn’t possible please contact Franca at BSC prior to 8.45am on the day of care. If you need to book care
after this time please contact Camp Australia Head Office who will know the staff ratio for the session you require and
organise an assistant for the session. The Department of Education (DEECD) has very strict guidelines on staff:
children ratio. Also please leave a message on our answering machine so we are aware you child/children will be
attending and chase them up if they forget to attend.
Non Attendance of child/children booked for the session
Please leave a message on our answering machine if your child/children won’t be attending as we require under our
Duty of Care to account for all children booked in.
Permanent and Casual (Not same day bookings)
All other bookings via Camp Australia
Our answering machine is on 24/7 no matter what day or time so you can leave us a message.
MOUNTAIN GATE PRIMARY SCHOOL
SATURDAY 23RD MAY 2015
(9.00 – 12.00PM)
Jobs
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Sweeping
Weeding
General tidy-up
We will be having a Working Bee on Saturday 23rd May 2015 to give the school a general tidy and
clean. If you are able to attend please complete the slip below and return it to the office. The more
helpers we have, the easier our work will be.
Thank you.
Building & Grounds Committee
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WORKING BEE
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I / We will be attending the working bee on Saturday 23rd May 2015
I require vegetarian options for the BBQ
Name _______________________
Phone ____________
Child’s Name ___________________
Number of persons attending:
Adults_______
Children ____________
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STAR OF THE WEEK
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Week Ending 1 May 2015
GRADE FB
AJ Vethecan
GRADE 3S
Riley Northcott
GRADE FH
Rori Driscoll
GRADE 4D
Alecia Gaskell
GRADE FV
Tina Le
GRADE 4H
Paige Cooper
GRADE 1B
Lauren Mason
GRADE 5H
Cameron Hill
GRADE 1D
Kyah Fischer
GRADE 5S
Josh Zealand
GRADE 2M
Bailey Driscoll
GRADE 6G
Shayla Dihood
GRADE 2Y
Cindy Zou
GRADE 6W
Grace Gardner
GRADE 3H
Jasmin Allen
Music Award
Grade FV
Chelsea Lawrenson (6W)
Library Award
Grade FH
STAR OF THE WEEK
Week Ending May 2015
GRADE FB
Jack Johnson
GRADE 3S
Daniella Blackwood
GRADE FH
Tate Hughes
GRADE 4D
Jamie Ridd
GRADE FV
Shanae Veal
GRADE 4H
Zac Donnelly
GRADE 1B
Mitchell Jackson
GRADE 5H
Harley Meerten
GRADE 1D
Jett Falzon
GRADE 5S
Dillon Martin
GRADE 2M
Trista Campbell
GRADE 6G
Mitch Pendergast
GRADE 2Y
Trevor Lee
GRADE 6W
Tommy Kwon
GRADE 3H
Amelia Hodgman
Art Award
Grade 4H
Library Award
Grade 1D
Music Awards
Grade 6G
Luke Tomazin (6G)
P.E. Award
Grade 2M