Latest News
Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment!
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Jo Jingles in Nursery
Fri 26 Feb 2021Jo Jingles Zoom meet for Moneyrea Nursery today.
Some of our keyworker kids joined the fun.
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Key worker Application for Supervised Learning
Fri 26 Feb 2021Monday 1st March - Friday 5th March
Forms must be submitted by 6.00pm on Saturday 27th February.
Click here to access the form
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Well Done Phoebe
Wed 24 Feb 2021👏🏻 WELL DONE PHOEBE 👏🏻
Congratulations to Moneyrea Primary School’s very own Greta Thunberg.
It’s nice to have your hard work acknowledged Phoebe; well done!
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Key Worker Application for School Morning Places
Thu 18 Feb 2021KEY WORKER APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL PLACES
22nd February - 26th February
Forms must be received by 6.00pm on Saturday 20th February
Click here to access the form
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Pancake Day
Tue 16 Feb 2021It’s Shrove Tuesday ... pancake day ... yay!
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Normal People
Fri 12 Feb 2021This guy just gets better and better 🎸
NORMAL PEOPLE
Have a listen 🎧 in to former Moneyrea pupil, Andy Patt’s new single.
Andrew Patterson is a teacher by day and a musician 🎼 by night. Last June at 5 minutes notice he, along with Jimbo McDowell and the Granshaw folk pulled us out of a hole when our planned Yr7 Drive-in Movie 🍿 didn’t quite work out.
Support our local and up and coming singer songwriter 🎶
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Half-Term Holiday Club
Fri 12 Feb 2021Holiday Club is available during half-term for pupils who have previously registered with After School Club.
As school is under strict lockdown restrictions, and we only have a skeleton staff available, we would ask parents only to avail of this service if no alternative provision is available.
The booking form must be received by midday on Saturday 13th February (available below and the on the school website page).
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=
Normal fees apply.
Opening hours: 9.00am - 5.00pm (Please note hours are reduced)
Earliest drop off 9.00am and latest pickup 5.00pm
Please ensure our usual covid mitigations are adhered to:
Adults to wear face masks on the school premises, social distancing, use of sanitizer, not entering the school building other than the foyer, not sending children in to school with minor ailments or Covid symptoms, taking children's temperature before setting off for Holiday Club etc.
Children must bring a packed lunch, break and drink bottle.
Kind regards,
R Greer
Principal
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Our Own Little Superheroes
Thu 11 Feb 2021Thanks to AK for posting this on Facebook. It is a piece by a writer called Christine Derengowski. It is well worth a read.
I’ve lost a year with my kids battling over school and I’m done.
My seven year old and I were in the midst of our usual asynchronous day battle. I had his writing homework in my hand from school. He’d written several full, well-thought-out sentences.
But he won’t do the same for me, at least not without a fight.
I told him he didn’t have to write about his best day like his teacher asked, he could write about his worst. He could write about whatever he wanted as long as he wrote a few sentences.
He said he’d get in trouble. He said he was doing a bad job in first grade. He was on the brink of tears but didn’t know why.
And it hit me.
Instead of getting frustrated and pushing the assignment, I sat down with him at his desk in his superhero bedroom.
I said “you won’t get in trouble and you can’t fail first grade. In fact, you’re kind of a superhero yourself.”
He sat up in his chair just a little and looked at me with disbelief.
I said, “Do you know that no kids in the history of kids have ever had to do what you’re doing right now? No kids in the history of kids have ever had to do school at home, sitting in their bedroom, watching their teacher on a computer. You and your friends are making history.”
A visible weight lifted from his seven year old shoulders, “What does that mean?”
I told him it means I haven’t given him nearly enough credit for rolling with the punches. I told him how proud I am of him and his friends. That kids this year are doing the impossible and they’re doing a really great job.
I apologized for not saying it sooner and more often. A little tear fell down his cheek.
We’ve thanked everyone from healthcare workers to grocery store employees but we haven’t thanked the kids enough for bearing the burden of what we’ve put on their shoulders this year.
We’ve said kids are resilient, and they are. But they are the real superheroes in this whole scenario for having ZERO say in their lives but doing their best to adjust every day.
We closed his school-issued laptop and spent the rest of the day playing. This was supposed to be temporary and here we are a year later still trying to hold our head above water.
This is our home and I won’t turn it into a battle ground anymore over something we can’t control. Something that no longer makes sense.
Hug your little superheroes today and don’t forget to cut them the slack we’ve given everyone else.
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Streamvale Farm Learning Live
Tue 09 Feb 2021Streamvale Farm have launched Learning Live on Facebook. Go to Facebook for details!
Make Homeschooling more fun with... LEARNING LIVE! 🐷
Look at this throwback of Shannon & Penny! 🥰
This week you will get the chance to see how big Penny has got with our NEW Live Video Series!
For the next 4 weeks tune into our Learning Live Series and make home schooling more engaging!
We will go ‘Live’ on Friday Mornings to learn about all of our animals!
This week’s theme is... PIGS! 🐽
Shannon will show you around the farm and teach you all about our pigs. This is for younger kids .... but big kids are always welcome!
Tune in this FRIDAY at 11.30am and be introduced to all of our lovely pigs! 🐷
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Safer Internet Day
Tue 09 Feb 2021Mrs Goudy has added some great resources in our school website to help parents initiate conversations with their children about staying safe online.
Online safety has never been more important given the additional time our children are spending on the internet and social media.
Check out the link below:
