Dear parents,

Today we were blessed with perfect conditions for our athletics carnival. It was wonderful to see everyone participating and enjoying themselves even though it did not look like it at the end of the 800 metre races.  The tug-of-war competitions seemed to be a favourite among many students.  Thank you to Mr Roweth and his team for running another successful carnival and thank you also to our parent volunteers who assisted on the day.

Last Friday we held a highly successful and well attended Wine and Cheese Night. As a sZapp notice has already been sent to parents regarding the event I will not elaborate on the evening. I will however thank all of the parents that came together to make the evening so wonderful. I especially thank Tanya Bolton and Michelle Scott for all of the preparation before the event as well as hosting on the night.

While the school’s official enrollment dates are from the 3^rd to the 28^th May, we have begun processing enrollment applications for the 2022 school year.  Parents that wish to enroll their child at MTS next year are more than welcome to submit their forms prior to the official enrollment dates.  All applications will be considered at the conclusion of the official enrollment period.

As you can imagine, the annual enrollment period is an extremely busy time for the office staff and we are hoping that by taking applications earlier we can spread the demands over a longer time frame.  Please advise families from outside our school that may be interested in submitting an application to please do so via the online enrolment link on our website.

Birthday Celebrations

While we celebrate the birthdays of students, we do not allow parents to send in cakes, lollies, ice blocks or treats to be shared with classmates.  This is due to the high number of students in our school that have allergies, some of which can be life threatening. We ask you save your party food for celebrations at home.

We also ask parents not to send in gifts to be distributed at school. Children see one child distributing gifts and it leads to other children wishing to do the same.  This in turn puts pressure on families, some of whom are not in a position to do so.

We appreciate the positive motivations behind these acts and thank you for your generosity, however, we ask you to display this outside the school setting.

Math’s Problem

Congratulations to Nikos Vassiliotis who was last week’s winner.  Nikos is a first-time winner so please keep entering! This week’s problem is below.

Bracelets

At last week’s senior disco each child was given a fluorescent bracelet when entering. Each bracelet measured 16cm in length.  If we joined each bracelet together and made one enormous bracelet, what would its total length be in metres?  There were 240 children at the disco.

God Bless

Peter Hughes