School News
Book Club
Book Club Issue 8 will be sent home this week. Orders need to be placed online via the Scholastic LOOP by Friday, 29th November. This is the last issue for 2019 and has some great Christmas present ideas inside! All orders must be placed online at www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP.
More information about LOOP can be found at the following link: www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP_How_to_Order_and_Pay
If you have any questions about LOOP or Book Club, please see Mrs. Brown.
Thank you to all of the families who have ordered books through Book Club this year. Your orders earn Scholastic Rewards for our school. These rewards are used to purchase new equipment such as classroom resources, big books, home readers and much more that benefit the students at MRPS.
Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th and Friday 15th November
After school in the Blue Hall
Are you on the hunt for some great books? Looking ahead to Christmas? Come along to the Book Fair! The Book Fair will not only build your home library, but build our school library as well. The total amount of books sold will go directly to increasing the number of books in our school library. This is a great opportunity that benefits both home and school. Hope to see you there!
2019 Year Book art competition
Closing this Friday, November 15 at 3.30pm
All students are invited to let their imaginations run wild and enter their artwork in our 2019 Year Book front and back cover competition. Please submit all entries on A4 paper to the office no later than Friday, November 15 at 3.30pm. Two winning entries will appear on the front and back cover of the 2019 Year Book and will receive a free copy of the 2019 Year Book.
News from the Junior School Council
The Junior School Council will be implementing the Reverse Advent Calendar program to our school to make a difference to those struggling with food insecurity in Ballarat this Christmas.
A Reverse Advent Calendar begins as an empty box in each classroom and staffroom. Each day from Monday, November 18th instead of taking something out of the box (like you do with a regular Advent Calendar) you put an item of food in. The seventeen filled boxes will then be distributed to several Ballarat organisations who will give the boxes to families in need at Christmas time.
Tomorrow at school, all students will be given the name of the food or product that we request that they bring to school to go into the boxes. If each child could bring one or two of the items that is requested then we will be able to fill the boxes before school concludes for the year.
News from the Kitchen Garden program
2019 has been an incredibly successful year for our Kitchen Garden program with students from Grades three to six being involved in preparing seasonal dishes representing many countries throughout the world. Our program has been blessed with an abundance of volunteers who ensure that our students feel supported by a caring and generous Miners Rest community. With this year’s Grade six students commencing secondary school next year, many of their parents and grandparents who volunteer in kitchen will also leave the program. For the future of the program we need to replace those volunteers. With this year’s Grade 2 students joining us in 2020 I invite the parents and grandparents of those children to volunteer. The classes are two hours long and the volunteer roster is made a term ahead so you will have plenty of notice. If you are interested in volunteering in 2020 or require further information please leave your name and contact details at the office as soon as possible.
