Dear Students, Parents, Carers and Families

HAPPY AND SAFE TERM 3 HOLIDAYS

Thank you, students, parents, carers and staff for a great third term! We have learnt so much and enjoyed many great experiences together. It isn't until we take a moment to reflect on this that we realise how much we have achieved.

As a community, we have had many great events and celebrations this term such as:

Foundation100 Days of School
Mother's Day Celebration
STEAM Incursions
Science Works Museum Excursion
Melbourne Museum Excursion
Year 4 - 6 Aladdin Performance
Two Special Food Days
Father's Day Celebration
Science Week with Deadly activities
Book Week Dress-Up
Districts and Divisions Athletics
Footy Colours Day and Game

On behalf of all the staff at Maramba, we would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday. Recharge, re-energise and all being well we look forward to seeing everyone return to school for Term 4 on Monday 2nd October.

HEALTHY HAROLD INCURSION

We were lucky to have a visit from Healthy Harold in Term 3. Some students from Foundation to Year 6 were able to participate in a workshop with Harold Junior and our facilitator, Kate. Students enjoyed learning about how to make responsible choices for their well-being. These sessions tied in to our Me & You sessions (F-2) and Innovation Meets (3-6) on Monday morning. We also had a very special assembly where Harold Senior came to promote his message well-being to all students.

SCHOOL ATHLETICS TEAM

Last Wednesday, 34 of our students competed against many inter-school rivals representing Maramba at the Districts Athletics competition. It was a great day and a pleasure to see our students compete against the best athletes from our neighbouring schools. In addition to some excellent results was the support students showed each other. Fist bumps, cheering, yells of congratulations and caring encouragement for nervous students was all on show. I would like to congratulate them for representing our school and our community with distinction.

Congratulations to the students who participated at the District Athletics carnival at Casey Fields Reserve on Wednesday 6th September. All students’ named below possess great athletic ability and should be very proud of how they performed on the day.

From our District Team, four students qualified to progress to the next stage of Victorian School Athletics - Divisions. To qualify, students had to finish in the top 2 of their events at Districts. An amazing achievement from between 30 - 60 competitors in each event.

STUDENT	EVENT	Place
Kristian	100m	5th
Kravitz	Shot Put	4th
Zainullah	Discuss	4th
Luka	200m	6th

ALADDIN JUNIOR PRODUCTION EXCURSION - FOUNTAIN GATE SECONDARY COLLEGE

On Thursday 7th September the Year 5/6 and some selected year 4 students went to River Gum Theatre to see Fountain Gate Secondary Collage’s production of Aladdin Jnr. All of the student were excited to go. Some highlights of the show were: The Genie and her amazing singing to open the show. when Aladdin stole a baguette from a Background Characters stall then in the aftermath Aladdin got chased by the guards and began singing “One Jump Ahead” ending the song ‘jumping’ off a building. then there was the scene where Aladdin and Jasmine went for a magic carpet ride the scene had fog to make it look like they were floating on clouds.

This is what some of the student had to say about the show.

Nisar- really enjoyed watching Aladdin, I really liked watching his singing and dancing.

Caitlyn – I really enjoyed the chases scene, because of the quick singing and acting.

Millie – I liked the singing and acting, I just liked the whole show. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Parker- I really enjoyed the acting and the theme of the play.

Lucas- It was cool because the Genie and Aladdin shook our hands.

Syrus- I liked the cast and how they acted.

Ivy- I liked the props and the way they express they feelings.

Madison- I liked the acting and it was colourful.

Kaylee - I liked the songs.

Rudrani - I loved how musical it was and magic carpet.

Have a wonderful and restful holiday!

Take care and stay safe!

Kind regards,

Darren Wallace

Principal

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Term 3 Issue 10