Latest News Updates

New Playground Equipment

The new playground arrived on two trucks on Tuesday afternoon!  The busy task of now installing each part of the playground will continue until at least Friday. There has been plenty of interest shown by the students at the diggers, concrete trucks and progress of the build. We look forward to the grand opening next week. Stay tuned!!

NAIDOC Week

It’s been an amazing week of celebrating NAIDOC Week at West – a time where we celebrate the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our children have taken part in many cultural activities during the week, and we thank the following people for running these educational events:

·           Corey Payne and Elisha Mangal  - Rock Paintings

·           Christina & Kristy Brims & Jane Barnes – damper making

·           Billie Brims – traditional dance

·           Colleen Johnson – story telling

·           Willie Hannah – aboriginal artefacts

·           Clontarf Academy – sporting games

·           MDAS – BBQ lunch

We will hold a Special Assembly on Friday morning in the gym. All parents/carers are welcome and encouraged to attend.

As part of our celebrations, we will have a FREE BBQ lunch on Friday.  Students will need to bring their snack for recess, as usual, and the canteen will have the usual snacks and drinks for sale, but there will be NO LUNCH ORDERS on Friday.

 

DISTRICT MINI OLYMPICS

The District Mini Olympics were held on Tuesday 29th August.  A team of 36 students competed against all of the schools in the District and did Mildura West PS very proud, both on and off the track. 
 Many students finished in the top 2 of their events and will now be invited to compete in Bendigo in the Regional Athletics Carnival.  More information will be sent home soon! 
 A very special acknowledgement to XAVIER KAUFUSI who smashed the District discus record by more than 2m!! 
 See below for those who received a placing (ribbon) in their events:
 
80m Hurdles       
2nd Max Morgan 
2nd Maddison Goldsworthy 
3rd  Darci Eastmond 
 
High Jump
2nd Jordan Ward 
 
Long Jump 
1st   Lili McHugh 
2nd Harmony Brougham 
 
Triple Jump 
3rd  Laci McHugh 
3rd Summer Roberts 
 
1500m
1st Kael Purdue
2nd Gabriela Marrone 
 
800m 
2nd Kael Purdue 
 
100m 
2nd Kate Crouch 
 
Shot Put 
1st Xavier Kaufusi 
nd Ashlyn Garraway 
2nd Harry Beavis 
3rd Francies Naquto 
 
Discus
1st  Xavier Kaufusi (NEW DISTRICT RECORD!!) 
3rd  Lachlan Meaney 
 
Relay Teams 
2nd 11 years Girls:   Kate Crouch, Harmony Brougham, Imogen Morgan, Gabriela Marrone 
3rd  11  years Boys:   Heath Riley, Daniel Robertson, Taz Riordan, Jack Jessup 
3rd  9/10  years Girls:   Ryleigh McDonald, Summer Roberts, Maddison Goldsworthy, Kayla Higgins 
 
A big thank you to Lisa Saunders, David Hall & Donna Kane for their support and hard work and also to the many parents who came to cheer.  It made for a wonderful day
 

 

STUDENT ACTION TEAMS

It has been wonderful to see students use their initiative and create activities for each other at  Lunch times. Here is a picture  of the ‘Language Club’ where  students have been teaching  others about their own languages  such as Maori, Tongan and  Chinese.  

ABORIGINAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

This week Corey Payne and Elisha Mangal have been working in the school painting our Totem poles for our Indigenous garden. We can’t wait to see the finished product. They will also be working with all the students in Art next week. The students will be painting stones that will be laid at the base of the totem poles. 

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