Dear Families,  

Hang in there everyone! The cold weather has arrived and so have all the cold and flu bugs. It’s hard to believe there is only 3 weeks of school left for the term. Thank you to our wonderful teachers who have been working hard on student reports. It's a stressful time for teachers and students but I'm so proud to see all the progression students have made in the first half of the year.   

Mt Buller Campus 

This week we welcomed back Sue Steel to lead our Mt Buller Campus team. Sue’s 20 years of experience and wealth of local Buller knowledge has made my job very easy. We are so grateful that Sue comes back year after year to run our very unique and complex campus. This year our Mt Buller campus will have 3 classrooms with teachers Kate and Mike joining Sue on Mt Buller in the next few weeks. This year we have 5 local students heading up the mountain to join our Mt Buller campus for the winter. What an amazing opportunity!  

School Uniform  

I know it’s cold and I know children lose their jumpers daily but, there are many students out of uniform lately. Uniform is compulsory. If you need support to buy a uniform or find a secondhand uniform, please come and see me.   

Have a great long weekend, we will see all students back on Wednesday 12th June!

Take care,

Nicole. 

These are the bricks to commemorate our 150th. We would like to do another brick drive as we wish to continue with bricks around our flags. They look amazing. Details around another brick drive for our school will be communicated soon. 

Tuesday 11th June - Common Professional Practice Day - no students required

Monday 15th July - Student Free Day

Monday 4th November - Student Free Day

Absences

If your child is absent from school we ask that you contact the school by 10am on the day or as soon as practicable. Absent messages can be submitted through our school app Audiri, by phone or email. 

Audiri

In an emergency our school app Audiri will be used as our main source of communication to our families. This is a reminder to families to download Audiri.

Please note (if you have not already updated)  to update your child/s year level on Audiri. This is done by opening Audiri selecting resources, groups, & then selecting your child/s grade including whole school. 

Family Details

If your family contact details have recently changed - residential address, contact numbers & or emergency contacts please update via Audiri by selecting resources, forms & then change of details. 

MEDICATION

All medication required during the day at school must be handed to the front office. 

REMINDER

A reminder to families that the school day finishes at 3.30pm. Please ensure your child/children are collected from school in a timely manner. If you are running late please notify the front office. 

AFTER SCHOOL ARRANGEMENTS 

Please ensure your child is aware of what is happening after school, where they are going, who is picking them up and they know plan B if a after school activity is cancelled. 

BUS TRAVEL 

Any changes to your afternoon bus travel arrangements are to be made by 2.30pm for the day of travel. This can be made via the Audiri App by selecting Resources, Forms, then Bus Travel or calling the front office on 5775 2325 & follow the prompts. 

If your child has started a new after school activity for the Term, football/netball/cricket training  for example, please update their regular bus travel arrangements. 

SCHOOL UNIFORM

Uniform to be ordered through Spartan School Supplies.      

We have a full range of uniform on display at the front office for you to view before making your purchases online. 

LOST PROPERTY

Please note we cannot return items that have no name. Please ensure uniform & drink bottles are clearly labelled with your child's name. 

SPARE CLOTHES

If your child has come home in spare clothes from school we ask that you please wash & return these items. Thank you. 

HEAD LICE

A reminder to families to be checking for head lice & taking the appropriate steps to treat hair if lice are found. 

On Friday the 24th of May, 28 students from Mansfield Primary School competed in the Division Cross Country at the Yea Golf course. It was a cold, foggy morning as the bus departed MPS, we picked up students from St Marys and Steiner school and started our hour-long drive to Yea. We hopped out of the bus and the grass was still frosty, fog was laying low across the course, but Jack Frost would not stop the red and the blue!

We walked the course so that the 9 and 10 year old competitors would know their 2km track and the 11 and 12 year old competitors would know their 3km track. All the competitors ran extremely well on the day, especially the following students who made the top 12 and will go on to compete at Regionals in Benalla on the 21st of June: in the 9/10 year old category, Sienna Vivash, Scout Gardner, Hannah Dunn and Luca Scott. In the 11 year old category Olga Schierholter, Ruby Le Cerf, Matilda Evans, Lara Harrop, Cooper Hoebergen, Roy Mercieca, Hunter Day, Charlie Howie, Ryder Neely and Paxton Smith. In the 12/13 year old race Arrie Turner, Heidi Stumpf, Zac Borg, Angus Vasey, Jack Forrest, Will Hewitt and Will Friend. An amazing 21 students in total!!

Special shoutouts to these runners who also competed on the day and did really well representing Mansfield Primary School, Paris Hopwood, Audra McCallion, Georgia Crowe, Mali Smith, Levi Mccombe, Noah Heaysman and Raph Picone. 😊

Written by Zac Borg, Arrie Turner, Mali Smith, Levi McCoombe, Will Hewitt and Heidi Stumpf