Malibu School Newsletter - 2023 Term 2 Week 7

Principal's Pen

Dear families 

This newsletter features so many voices from our students, staff, families and community members. 

I start with a thank you to our new P&C for a tremendous effort in coordinating a very successful Mother's Day staff and raffle earlier this term. This is particularly special, as it is Malibu School's first P&C. One of the goals of our generous and dedicated parents is to increase the connection with our Malibu families. The P&C team are keen to host Coffee, Cake and Chat morning teas in the cafe, following each assembly. The next one is on the last Friday of term and we hope to see you there! 

With winter coming, we are always mindful of the health and wellbeing of our students, staff and families. As you know, staff shortages continue across the country and we encourage any one with symptoms to stay home, please. We are still experiencing staff absenteeism at the same rate as the peak of COVID and I commend our numerous relief staff for their willingness to learn about our students and school - and I praise our Malibu staff for their continued effort in maintaining routine and high standards each day. 

Teachers are currently undertaking assessments and completing reports to be sent home in the last week of term. With only three weeks to go before holidays, we are already planning our next semester IEP meetings, which will be held the first week back of school. Information about our upcoming events can always be found on our calendar, found via the webpage, on the Schoolzine App or on the side panel of this newsletter. 

Stay warm and dry and we look forward to seeing you at our end of term NAIDOC assembly.

Kind regards
Merrilee Wright

News from the Board

Hi families

I hope you are well. 

I like to welcome our Malibu P&C and I look forward to other projects they have install for us they have already held a beautiful Mother’s Day stall and a had a fantastic turn out.

Covid / Flu season is here and we all hope everyone stays healthy and well during this time.

Please find below a copy of the presentation made to the Board sumarising some of the school and student progress from last year. 

It is really pleasing to see how much work the staff put into knowing how the school and students are going. To all Malibu Staff I would like to thank you for keeping our school running smoothly and making it an enjoyable place for our students and families. You all show a level of professional leadership and never complain about anything that gets in your way, you all just work out the problem and get on with your job. 

You all should pat yourselves on the back for all your hard work.

Malibu School Board Chair
Leanne Stewart

News from your P&C

Hello Malibu School Family

It’s been a few weeks since our Mothers Day Stall. We had many donations come in for this and we also purchased some items to sell. A lot of heart went into preparing/purchasing/wrapping/selling all the great gifts for our Mother’s Day Stall and Raffle. I’m personally thankful for the ladies that put in a lot of time behind the scenes to make it all a great success. You ladies rock!

In just a couple of weeks we came together as our new P&C and put on our first fundraiser. We raised just over $1230.00 between the Mothers Day Stall and Raffle for our P&C. This was an amazing achievement for our first fundraiser of the year. I really loved seeing all the kids come to buy something for their special someone. Some with big smiles, some focusing hard on counting their money or making sure they got the perfect gift. For me this isn’t just about making money.

We have been working on opening a bank account to deposit all our P&C funds. This will be ready to use very soon. In the meantime Sandi in the office has been doing a great job handling the money that came in for the raffle tickets and storing it in the office safe. Thanks goes out to Sandi for all her support.

If you would like to become a member, to have a voice to be heard and voting rights, it’ll just cost you $1 for the calendar year. You can pay this directly to our treasurer Jon Phillips. From there you can choose how much you would like to be involved. But at a minimum you get help make some important decisions about resources for our kid’s school. The funds raised are to help support our kids, so we would love to hear your thoughts on what to spend our P&C funds on and what other fundraising ideas you may have.

Our main goal for our P&C is to grow steadily to be sustainable for years to come. With this in mind we are being mindful of what we are taking on whilst we are just starting out. We aim to grow our P&C team to be able to share the load. We are planning to have some morning teas throughout the year to build relationships with other parents and support one another. These will be held after school assemblies.

Our P&C now has its own email address. If you would like to contact the P&C directly about anything you can email us at MalibuPandC@gmail.com

Lastly I would love to acknowledge our Vice President Kelly. She has been so dedicated to not only to her role as Vice President but supporting others in theirs as well. I personally have been involved before in the running of a school P&C, but have never taken on the role of President. So to know how much she has all our backs has really helped towards establishing our P&C. Kellie has put in many hours of research on top of supporting us as a team and helping make our first fundraiser a success. Thank you you Kellie.

I’m really honoured to get to work with some amazing people and please if your not sure how you can help but you would like to, no matter what level… feel free to come talk to me.

P&C President
Sarah Phillips

Meet the team! Kathlaine Perkins EA

Kathlaine commenced at Malibu in 2017. She was born in a small village north of Ilocos Norte, next to the ocean. Her twin sons were picked up with speech delay and learning all about speech delay and other aspects of learning difficulties / spectrums and its effects, led her to work at Malibu school.

Kathlaine believes that "There is no "I" in TEAM" and her favourite thing about being at Malibu School is watching the children grow and become confident and independent. Her colleagues describe her as professional, compassionate and caring and she would like to be known as someone who has had a positive influence on students, guiding them to develop into being happy and a more independent person. Kathlaine loves what she does at Malibu and so do we.

Meet Jackie Watts - School Chaplain

Hi Everyone

My name is Jackie. As a qualified Counsellor and mental health first aider, nothing matters more to me than happiness and wellbeing. This is why coming to Malibu as a School Chaplain was such an exciting opportunity for me.

In my first 5 weeks I’ve had the opportunity to spend quality time with both the team and the students here. This has been both in the classroom and also on trips where I have really enjoyed seeing the students engaging in different environments. I have been really impressed by the work that the team do here at Malibu and how truly passionate they are providing the best level of care, support and education possible

It is my goal as Chaplain to ensure that I support students, parents and carers at Malibu with any NDIS support or just to listen to see if I can help with any concerns that you have.

If I’ve not met you yet, please do reach out to me. I work on Thursday and Fridays and I will be here for you and that I am located in the support team office in Middle block.

Junior 7

J7 have enjoyed a busy, fun-filled, hands-on learning term! In numeracy, we have been practicing our counting and early addition skills by adding one more to a small collection. We have also been learning about length and exploring different lengths using a variety of different materials too!

In Literacy we have been busy participating in our multi-lit program and have even been practicing our writing skills to recognise and celebrate all the wonderful mothers and special carers that look after us.

We were even lucky enough to have the circus come to Malibu School this term, and we all really enjoyed watching the performance and practicing our newly acquired circus skills!!!

Kellie, Jessica, Denise and Demelza

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Middle 1

Students in Middle One have been enjoying some great activities this term.  They loved going to the circus this week and had great fun joining in the activities.  They were able to balance plates on a stick while they were spinning and how to juggle with scarves.  This continues their wonderful work in art where they have been learning magic tricks. 

In maths they enjoyed doing some jellybean maths where they had to count the different coloured jellybeans and then show the data on a graph.  The best part of this activity was definitely the eating of the jellybeans at the end. 

Our favourite activity this week though was making Mother’s Day gifts for our beautiful mums.  Students made their mums a gorgeous coaster and some cookies to share with her.  Middle One hoped all the mums had a beautiful Mother’s Day with their families. 

Nicky, Sharon, Adam, Annette and Vicky

Middle 3

This Semester the students in middle 3 have been working on building friendships and social skills. The students have done this by taking turns and making song choices during movement breaks, playing games together and greeting each other every morning. We have had so much fun laughing, dancing and learning every day in middle 3.

Kate Sharp, Monica, Kylie, Sally, and Blair.

Middle 5

This Semester the students in middle 5 have been working on communication skills. The students have done this by practicing the use of high frequency signs in Auslan, saying hello to each other every morning and using various AAC strategies to make their voices heard. Everyone has tried their best and we had so many great moments in middle 5.

Carissa Apps, Jade, Gemma, Bettina and Fiona.

Senior 2

Our Senior 2 class has been busy planning various outings, places out in the community they would like to visit. We are planning a train trip to Mandurah Foreshore, where we will eat some hot chips. Students have voted to go bowling and to the movies in the next few weeks. We had an enjoyable sunny day at Kwinana Adventure Park where we cooked a BBQ and had a play. We are of to Bunnings this Friday to purchase some seedlings to plant in our garden bed at school, and then we will maintain our garden bed each week.

During our Tuesday lessons, we have been building on our Business Enterprise strategies in preparation to create our Market Day item. Students enjoyed reading the book Green Eggs and Ham, and then cooked green eggs and ham in the kitchen, there were many strange looks from students, and many saying they didn’t want to try the strange, coloured eggs, however after a few staff members sat down and ate their green eggs and ham, students happily gave them a try and thoroughly enjoyed their strange dish.

We are looking forward to many more fun adventures this term together. From all of us in Senior 2 have a wonderful weekend.

Kat, Angela, Moetu, Courtney, Katrin and Sue

Physical Education

The focus this term has been on learning new skills, participation in games and activities, teamwork… and having fun.

Our Junior students have been engaged in taking turns, following simple routines and using gym equipment appropriately. Typically, a lesson starts with a short walk round the bike track (weather permitting), an action song in the gym, then the main activity and finally, a relaxing mindfulness session on the mats.

The Middle school students have been practising throwing and passing skills – overarm/underarm, rolling and bouncing balls to a partner and aiming at a target. The students then utilise and refine these skills by participation in team games. So far this term, these have included dodgeball, bocce and beach volleyball.

Senior students have engaged in a variety of games with the aim of encouraging participation and teamwork. Examples include dodgeball (always a favourite), volleyball and modified soccer. In addition, all Seniors are completing their Asdan sports booklets. S3 are enjoying learning the techniques of yoga, and are practising posture, stretching and calm breathing techniques. S2 is concentrating on ball control (kicking skills, working with a partner, working as a team etc). Finally,  for S1 and S4, the themes are on choosing and using a variety of sports equipment, playing games with a partner of their choice and also performing regular warm up exercises using music as a motivator.

A lot of ground has been covered so far, and I am pleased by the students’ positive attitude and willingness to have a go. I also would like to acknowledge and thank the EAs for their invaluable support and assistance in helping the students work towards their goals in sport.

Peter  PE Teacher

Music

The Music room has been buzzing with new sounds as students explore electronic drum kits and keyboards as part of the Middle program this term. We are learning to play high and low sounds with the drums to create different rhythms. On the keyboards, students are using their knowledge of colours to explore sounds and move up and down in pitch. We are also listening to different styles of music such as boogie woogie, swing band and percussion groups.

Primary and Early Childhood students have been exploring tapping and shaking instruments and are enjoying playing in small ensembles with drums, triangles and tambourines. Students are learning about different percussion instruments and how they are used by musicians in professional settings.

Our Malibu Drumming group is going from strength to strength with weekly rehearsals now focussing on an upcoming combined schools performance for WAGSMS in Mandurah later this year. We are learning new songs with some new moves in preparation for this event.

Debbie Smith

Hear us on the radio!

We are so grateful for the support of Inspire Radio who host our students each Wednesday as part of Workplace Learning. Check out Amelia and Riley on the airwaves! Thanks Lana and River!

Please visit the Inspire Radio for more information about their great program and services! 

National Simultaneous Storytime

On Thursday week 6, the whole school participated in National Simultaneous Storytime - we were part of 2 million students across Australia who read the book The Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young and Health McKenzie together. The story teaches us that we don't have to come first to be a winner. Each class joined online, to hear our Principal Merrilee read the story.

You can download the PDF below to read with your child!

If you would like more resources based on the story, you can: 

• View the Auslan video reading of the story
• Watch Gabrielle Wang, Australian Children's Laureate, reading the story 
• Access amazing CleverPatch resources to support your storytime
• Access brilliant teacher lessons and resources from Cleverbean
• Visit Learn From Play to download teaching resources and activities
• Access the teachers' notes from Scholastic Australia
• Key word sign recording, sign links guide and information sheet 
• Watch the zookeepers at Singapore Zoo read the story to their resident sloths 'Indigo and Bubba'
• Watch the zookeepers at Marwell Zoo read the story to their resident sloth 'Santos'
• Watch Grant Denyer reading the story in 720p, 1080p or 1440p

Your donations are welcome

We are doing a food collection for a Mandurah based charity who are in desperate need of supplies at the moment. If you have any spare items in your pantry that you are happy to donate, please drop them off at the front office. 

The Halo Team Mandurah is a locally run charitable organisation that supports the people in need and at rak in our local community. 

Items needed: Pasta, Pasta sauces, Baked beans, Spaghetti, Soups, Sugar, Milk, Tea, Coffee, Marinades, jar sauces butter chicken ect, Noodles, Tinned veg, Tinned tomatoes, Tuna, Salad dressings, mayo, Rice, Passata, Soy sauce, Oil, Custard, Meats, Cordial, Cereal.

Visit them at 3 Gibson St, Mandurah
9586 2245
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Zoilascommunityopshop/

Second hand uniforms!

COMMUNITY NEWS

Have your say - Survey

Teachers, parents and students are asked to take part in a national survey to help shape the future of school education.  

This is to ensure those directly involved in the education system get a say in how we make it better and fairer.

Survey participants can have their say on range of issues including:

• Improving education outcomes
• Supporting student health and wellbeing, and
• Supporting and retaining teachers.

The Expert Panel will report to Education Ministers at the end of October on the practical reforms that should be tied to funding in the next National School Reform Agreement.

The survey is available to complete here and will be open until Friday, 23 June 2023.

https://ministers.education.gov.au/clare/teachers-parents-and-students-encouraged-have-their-say-future-education

Managing Big Behaviours

Kelly Oldfield from Child Development and Behaviour Specialists will provide information, resources and professional development to support Early Childhood Development. Please note that while this workshop is primarily aimed at Educators, parents are also able to attend

For parents/carers with a child 7 years of age or under who are concerned about their development, or is pending an assessment. Free sessions delivered by a therapist who will provide information, resources and professional development to support Early Childhood Development.

Bookings are essential for both,  https://www.connecting4kids.com.au/events/

Autism Awareness for Families Workshop

For families supporting autistic children/young adults in your community, we’d love for them to join us for a powerful 4-hour workshop on Saturday 17^th June from 10.30am – 2.30pm at LT Block, Fremantle Hospital. Please feel free to share this information with them.

Learn how to positively reframe autism and gain valuable strategies to support your loved ones. Connect with other parents and build a sense of community and support. Facilitated by individuals with lived experience, this workshop is an enriching and empowering experience. Register now to secure your spot https://events.humanitix.com/autism-awareness-for-families-workshop

Circus Quirkus Event

The Immune Deficiences Foundation Australia is thrilled to provide a high-quality theatre experience to the students and families at Malibu School.

Quirkus Quikus is a perfect excursion for families, schools and community groups. All tickets are FREE, thanks to the support from local businesses.

Check out the attached 'Circus Quirkus Event Flyer' for more details, including dates, times and how to book tickets.

Bulk and individual ticket orders from schools, families and carers are welcome, including tentative bookings.

EASYBEATZ - a FREE inclusive social event

The event is hosted every 2 months with a capacity of 100+ participants.

To register or find out more go to: EASYBEATZ - A Welcoming and Inclusive Social event in Mandurah Tickets, Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite

APM Communities is also seeking Individuals, families and teenagers who may like to join a working group with the goal of setting up EasyBeatz events for Teenagers with disabilities in and around Mandurah and Rockingham. We’d love your help in presenting ideas, solutions and assisting in running events.

If you have any question or would like to join the working group please contact

Jimmy Mouritz | Local Area Coordinator
T 1800 276 522  M 0439 957 790 | W apm.net.au
E James.Mouritz@apm.net.au

Sim Sam Fun For All Abilities

Entry is $15 and Carers are free. Our disco runs from 6pm-9pm and there is a full food and drinks menu available on the night. 

Come and dance the night away, sing your favorite song, meet new friends or catch up with old ones. 

Developmental Disability WA

‘The Friendship Project’ Launch

DDWA invites you to join us "On the Couch" to watch the Friendship Project videos and chat about making and keeping friends.

DDWA "On the Couch" group sessions have been running since 2019. They are an opportunity for adults with intellectual disability to talk about set topics of interest in a safe social setting.

Mytime - Marilla Community Centre

This is a great opportunity for carers of a child with  additional needs, developmental delay or chronic illness to have some 'me time'. They can meet other families in a similar circumstances, socialise and relax. They are more than welcome to bring pre school age children with them as we do have a play help to engage young children in activities but they can also attend without their children too!

Kiind - Supporting Families

Kiind (formally Kalparrin) supports thousands of families each year by providing practical assistance, emotional support, connection to other families and help to find the most appropriate services and supports for children and their families.

More information about the services of Kiind can be found by following the link below.

Navigate the world of disability | Home | Kiind.

Motor Mouth Camp

Motor Mouth Camp applications are now open, closing on the 18^th June.

The camp is held in October this year and open to children aged 6-17 who use AAC. Family members who use AAC, carers, teachers and education assistants are also encouraged to consider applying for volunteer roles as a great opportunity to learn more about supporting AAC use. There is an information session on the 6^th June for anyone who wants to learn more.

https://www.variety.org.au/wa/programs/mmc/

Variety - the Children's Charity WA | Facebook

Telethon Holiday Makers Program

We have opened enrolments for the July Telethon Holiday Makers Program groups in Fremantle and Rockingham for autistic participants with groups that cater for under 10s, 10 to 15 year olds and 13 to 18 year olds. Places are allocated on a first come first served basis, and we would love to welcome some of your students to the Program.

Dates: School holidays (weekdays only) from 3^rd July to the 14^th July 

Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm

U10s: 9:30am – 12:30pm

Enrolment: All participants must be enrolled before attending the Program. To enrol, please fill in the expression of interest form here or to call us on 9431 2111.

More information about our groups and services visit our website click here

Fathering Programs

NDIS Wanslea Early Childhood Info