Mil Lel Primary School

Heat ups will now be on Thursdays (not Mondays). This is to allow the SRC to run the service. Please do not send heat up food on Monday. Please remember…

If you wish to make a time to meet with class teachers, please visit www.schoolinterviews.com.au and enter the event code g2d55. Once again, these face to face conversations are a…

Just a reminder that SAPSASA swimming is being held tomorrow at the Mount Gambier aquatic centre from 12:15 until approximately 2:30 p.m. If your child is signed up to compete…

Some important information was left off of the pink stumps day note that came home yesterday. Also for sale tomorrow to raise vital funds for the McGrath foundation are: Pink…

Interviews will be held in Week 10 this term. Whilst I know that many parents communicate with class teachers on a regular basis, these face-to-face conversations are a very valuable…

SAPSASA athletics tryouts are currently being held on Wednesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime and after school. So far children born in 2010, 2009 and 2008 have tried out for the…

Just a reminder that school interviews this week for years 4 to 7 are designed to be a three-way interview. Please encourage your child to come along to discuss their…

T-ball has been cancelled this Friday 29th March ‌due to forecast weather conditions

We have just received advice that the District Sports Day scheduled for tomorrow Friday 29 March WILL be going ahead. Please ensure students have suitable clothing for the predicted rain.…

Mil Lel PS currently does not have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device Policy). Students are not to bring any personal devices to school. This includes phones, Ipods and all…

Unfortunately many staff and students have recently been affected by a gastro virus. Just a reminder that students can only return to school 24 hours after their last vomiting episode…

A reminder that this Friday, 8th of March, is a pupil free day. Teachers will be engaged in professional development along with other schools in the region, hearing about and…

Dear parent or caregiver A total fire ban has been declared for 1 March 2019 in your area which means that it is a day of extreme danger and possible…

Dear parent or caregiver A total fire ban has been declared for 28 February 2019 in your area which means that it is a day of extreme danger and possible…

Reminder that Term 1 commences on Tuesday January 29th. We look forward to seeing all students for the new school year. We would also like to extend a warm welcome…

Dear Parents/Caregivers A letter is being sent home today regarding Mrs Kylie Walkom's Funeral. Please ensure that you read and return the reply slip by 9am tomorrow to the front…

Dear Parents and Caregivers Please see the attached letter that outlines how AEU Industrial Action will affect Mil Lel Primary School on the morning of 29 November 2018. A paper…

Families of students on the R-2 day trip to Cape Bridgewater are advised that students are expected at the school at approx. 3.30-3.45pm.

Dear Parents, MATERIALS & SERVICES CHARGES 2019 The Materials and Services Charges for 2019 will be presented at the next Governing Council meeting on Wednesday 5 December at 7.15pm. School…

Dear Parent/Caregiver The Australian Education Union (AEU) is in the process of balloting its members in governing schools and preschools to determine support for a ½ day strike on the…

The weather is looking rather bleak on Thursday so our program on this day will need to be modified. There is a large swell forecast for this day and therefore…

The Council advised us that a 1.6km section of road construction work on Mingbool Road, from Kennedy Avenue to Attamurra Road, was scheduled to commence last week. It is expected…

Dear Parents, We are looking forward to the new School Stream update being released on the Apple and Google Play Store next week. Please check that you update the app…

ANZAC Day reflections in the 6/7 class

As a school we spent the morning cleaning up not only our school, but our surrounding areas, including the cricket oval, hall area, and the tennis club grounds. Each class…

We had an amazing time making kites yesterday, and an even better time flying them! We wrote wellbeing messages on them and named things that make us feel happy. Our…

The Year 4/5s are putting the final touches on their geometrocity projects. The process has involved applying for planning permission to council (the teacher), thinking about what elements to include…

On Monday 12th November the Yr 4/5 class are bringing teddies (or a soft toy) to school as a reward which Lachie won for the class.   A reminder that…

We had an amazing day yesterday at Mount Gambier High School for SAPSASA Athletics Day. The weather was kind to us and the kids enjoyed their events and got some…

The year 4/5 class is currently working on a lemonade stand project for maths . As part of this project we are asking if anyone is able to lend us…

A recreation of an important Ancient Greek scientific discovery

Computational Thinking in the 2/3 and 6/7 classes

The Year 4/5 class have enjoyed our two weeks of swimming, but it will be great to get back to normal next week! "Move It" starts next Monday, with each…

This Thursday 1st November is Outdoor Classroom day. Our school has registered to take part in learning in the outdoors throughout the day. Our learning will look different across the…

  The Yr 4/5 class will be having a crazy hair day next Tuesday 4th of September. This is a reward won for the class by Mia, who wanted to…

To celebrate the end of winter on Friday the 31st of August the Yr 4/5 class will be having a winter fun day!   Students are invited to bring slippers…

3 students make Mil Lel Primary School Proud

Lions Mad Minute School Competition

District Sports Day March Practice

ESafety visit from SAPOL in 4/5 and 6/7 classes Thursday 14/3

This Friday, 1st February, Frank Monger will take our whole school photo. Please ensure that all students are sent to school in their yellow polo T-shirts. All new students will…

Our Blue Lake Bouncers will be busking at the Marketplace, tomorrow - Saturday 10/11, from 12.30pm near Big W, raising funds for the Heart Foundation. Please come along to support…

Blue Lake Fun Run, Sunday 2nd December Mil Lel Primary School is participating in the Blue Lake Fun Run this year, led by Belinda Seaman. Students and parents can register…

Dear Parents and Caregivers Please ensure you click on the link below to view the final roster for the Mil Lel Show. There are a couple of families yet to…

Today, students in the Year 4/5 class are making kites that will be flown at Vansittart Park Oval on the 9th October. All families are welcome to attend the event.

This year we are running a colouring in competition in conjunction with Book Week. Students can use whatever equipment they like to colour their picture (e.g. pencils, crayons, textas etc.)…

Students will be coming home with a bright yellow Last Minute Camp Reminders notice. If this doesn't make it home, please click on the link below to access. If you…

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Update your details registered with the school

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Week 1 Newsletter

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The movie is scheduled to start at 6.15pm but if you can please arrive between 5.50 - 6.00pm so drinks and lollies can be handed out and the lucky door…

Tickets for 'Small Foot' are now on sale and are available from: Mil Lel Primary School Front Office - please try to bring correct money, Evolve Hair Salon or Liza…

Please join the school community to celebrate the Mil Lel Parent Club's 79th birthday. Click on the link to view the invitation: 79th-birthday-invitation-B5

Good Evening Parents/Caregivers Only a few more sleeps until the summer holidays! We have a couple of busy days to get through before we can all relax and eat too…

A reminder to return any outstanding SAPSASA notes on Monday to the front office in order to arrange carpooling for Tuesday, thanks

The SRC will be selling Lemonade Icy Poles for $1 and Ice sticks for 50c every Tuesday and Thursday at lunch time. There are limited lemonade icy poles, so students…

Parents and carers are reminded of the following dates: School Closure - Mount Gambier Show: Friday, 19th October Pupil Free Day: Monday, 29th October First Whole School Assembly: Week 3,…

Please note: Invoices sent home recently for the camp to Cape Bridgewater provided an option to return your slip with credit card information. Due to limitations with our EFTPOS machine…

Parents and Caregivers are reminded that students will be dismissed from school at 2.30pm on Friday 28th September. Term 4 commences on Monday 15th October. Friday 19th October is School…

Order forms went home with students yesterday and need to be returned by Monday, 17th September by 9am. Late orders can not be accepted as buns and burgers need to…

In term 1 we have icy poles for sale at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Lemonade icy poles $1 (limit 1 each), Quench fruit juice icy poles 50c (limit 2…

  This term, the SRC will be running a number of activities for students to participate in at lunch times. From next week on Tuesday and Thursday, students will be…

At our school stall at the Mil Lel Show we ran a competition to guess how many lollies were in the jar. We need more children to guess how many…

Fight Cancer Foundation’s Footy Colours Day is a national fundraising campaign held during the month of September to support kids living with cancer. Students are encouraged to wear their favourite…

Today the SRC led 4 games of Round Robin Soccer. All students who participated had a lot of fun. Winning teams will play off one another next week, as will…

To cut down on the amount of plastic waste that we produce at Mil Lel Primary School, and what our 'Waste Warriors Inc.' find, the SRC are asking that all…

Today we enjoyed the performance Especially On Birthdays at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. Two of our class members, Lincoln and Wyatt, were lucky enough to be involved in the…

Today we enjoyed the sunshine and used some of the new construction items. We all enjoyed being outside developing our problem solving skills to create tee-pees, chairs, motorbike, couches, tents…

In small groups we investigated different materials including paper, cardboard, alfoil, plastic and wood. We had to describe how the materials felt, if we could change the shape by bending,…

On Thursday 21st March we have the World of Maths incursion. We are looking for parent/grandparent volunteers to help the Foundation/ Year 1 class. Our time is 9:00-10:10am. Please let…

Our science learning is focused around our impact on the environment and how we can help the environment. We talked about Clean Up Australia Day and its importance and then…

We have been counting the days that we have been at school. Each day we add the next number and talk about what we know about the number, practise counting,…

We had a great week at swimming!

We enjoy reading with a variety of people. We use our sound cards in book making to help us write words in our books. Learning and consolidating sounds and letters…

We have all enjoyed our swimming lessons this week. All children have done a wonderful job listening to their swimming teachers, learning swimming skills and having fun in the pool.…

This week our learning will focus on the following topics.   If you have any time in the mornings to listen to children read this would be greatly appreciated.  …

We made a mud kitchen area at the rock circles to explore mixing different items. The children had a great time experimenting with making runny solution, thick solutions, adding hard…

We collected either 30, 50 or 100 natural objects, then created something only using what we collected.

To start our outdoor classroom day, the Year4/5s and F/1 classes buddied up to make nests. Children worked in pair to create nests using natural items they found around the…

This week in our Discovery Learning the children have set up a role play area using the police dress ups. They have shown great strength to be sensible in their…

In science, we are exploring ways objects can move. We found and discussed ways to move objects by pushing or pulling. Then we used the lego kits to create an…

As part of learning about procedures in literacy, we made playdough . We followed the instructions, cooperated, discussed the steps involved and ended up making two batches of playdough, which…

This week our social learning focus is around the value of "it takes great strength to be sensible" Below is an image of our learning intentions for the week. These…

Some of us tried on the bullet proof vest.

This morning George's dad Owen and 2 of his colleagues, Simon and Sophie, came to our school to talk to us about what they do as Police. They showed us…

Today we went on our excursion to the library, cave gardens and the theatre to watch ‘The Cranky Bear’. We were given a tour of the library where we were…

Today we made balance scales using a cylinder shaped container (like a pencil pot or cardboard roll,) and a cardboard egg carton or small box. We then tested how to…

This week we will be focusing our learning on the following... If you are able to come in and listen to children read their books and sight words please come…

Today we were lucky to have Amberlie's family bring in their baby goats. The children asked questions, patted and feed the goats their milk. The children were also the photographers…

We have been exploring light. Yesterday we used black cardboard to make a telescope. We put a sticker on another piece of cardboard and had to explore how many holes…

Our learning intentions for this week have been the following... Also, I will be out of the school tomorrow and Monday as I will be attending STEM Professional Learning days.…

We created maps for the BeeBots. We used grid paper and materials to create obstacles for the BeeBot to move around. We then used our coding arrows to show the…

Thank you to all the families who came to our Book Making Celebration. The Foundation/Year 1 children are so proud of the books they have made. It was lovely to…

In our classroom we have a display showing the topics of learning for the week. Here is a photo of the board with the topics we will be exploring this…

On Friday we checked the habitats we had created. We found lots of worms! We noticed some of the food had been eaten and we think by snails, but we…

On Tuesday we created habitats for worms and snails. We had researched what snails and worms need to survive and found out that they like to eat scraps. Mrs Cameron…

We had fun using the BeeBots in technology. We prgrammed the BeeBots to go forwards and make turns. Then we included obstacles for the BeeBots to move around.

So far this term we have had a focus on working together and getting along. We have participated in hands on learning experiences to practise working as a team and…

We have been exploring patterns. We went outside to see what patterns we could find around the school. We noticed lots of different patterns.  

The Foundation/Year 1 children had a great week at swimming. Here they are practising being safe wearing PFDs.

Today we made models to help us understand how we see the moon's different phases. We placed a sun at one end of the model and then we placed 8…

Thursday was Harmony Day and also the day that we had the World of Maths incursion. For Harmony Day the children made a Harmony Day mobile. The World of Maths…

On Friday we had a challenge to design and make sunglasses. They had to be able to stay on our heads and they had to let light through the lenses.…

Hi Parents/carers. As I mentioned in the note home, we will be doing a dance performance with a boxing theme. For the performance I'd like my class to wear a…

On Thursday November 1st our class participated in Outdoor Classroom Day. The day was hotter than expected at 30 degrees. To start with our class joined Ms. Pratt's class in…

This week we have harvested the vegetables growing in our vegetable garden. A few days ago we harvested our carrots and beetroots, and the children all got to take some…

The weather today was so lovely that we thought it would be good to do our journal writing outside today. Many of the children said that they found it very…

Year 2/3 Visual Arts

Mrs Johns' visit

Chiropractor visit

HASS/Design & Tech in the Year 2/3 class

Year 2/3 excursion to Woolworths

5/6/7s and 2/3s buddy up and use 3D technology to help fairy tale characters.

Year 2/3 water talks

Year 2/3 guest speakers

Macroinvertebrates (water bugs) in the Year 2/3 class

Year 2/3 excursion

We finished the NAPLAN testing this morning! The children gave their best efforts over the three days, and I was really proud of their willingness to have a go. We…

Year 2/3 vegetable planting

This morning the Year 2/3 class did some further work about mixtures.

Year 2/3 Science

Year 2/3 class Clean Up Australia Day photo and Sizzling Starts

Today the Year 4/5 class were given the challenge to work in teams of three or four to design and build a marble run. The objective was to engineer the…

For PE we are going to be looking at and playing hockey in the next few weeks. This will be a modified version, with softer balls and no goalie. The…

Can you please save and send to school in the next two weeks any empty paper rolls (such as glad wrap), meat trays and small cardboard boxes (such as cereal…

The Year 4/5 class has had a lot of fun designing and building our ice-cream shops for Maths. Look out for them coming home this week!

Last week the 4/5 students created an Indigenous Art piece with their F/1 buddy. Students created an Art piece that needed to have a hand print and Aboriginal symbols for…

Last week the 4/5 students worked their F/1 buddy to create a card for Mothers Day. Siblings were able to buddy up and spend their time creating one card for…

On Thursday, the 4/5 class worked on an Easter themed problem solving activity. A container filled with 15 hollow Easter eggs, was emptied and then re filled with solid mini…

In the 4/5 class we have been working on equivalent fractions and placing them on number lines. Today in small groups students made a Hawaiian pizza and used an app…

On Friday, the 4/5 students assisted their F/1 buddy with cricket skills in preparation for our Pink Stumps Day. Students first participated in throwing and batting stations, then ended by…

I am really looking forward to our interviews next week. Please remember that these interviews are especially valuable if they are attended by the student along with their parent(s). It…

Explaining Day Time and Night Time in the 6/7

Faux Stained Glass Artwork in the 6/7

Black Out Remembrance Poetry In The 5/6/7

Romero Britto Artwork In 5/6/7 Class

Ancient History comes alive in the 5/6/7 class.

Investigating Circuits & Electricity

Technology Challenge For Science Week

Students in Year 6/7 have been given nomination forms this week. Please ensure the nomination forms are returned as soon as possible to be emailed to Tony O'Connell. If you…

Readers Theatre Entertainment

French cartoon characters come to life in 5/6/7 class.

5/6/7s and 2/3s buddy up and use 3D technology to help fairy tale characters.

Our beloved maths warm up.

Real Life Project For 5/6/7 Graphic Designers!

Woman Scientist Visits 5/6/7 Class In Context Of Science Learning.

Y567 PE

Infographics and posters on the topic of plastic pollution by the 5/6/7s.

The 5/6/7s tackle plastic pollution on a local beach in the context of their Science learning.

Artworks from the 5/6/7s

French Autumn Craft in the 5/6/7

Easter Peer Teaching

Maths Problem Solving In The 5/6/7 Class

5/6/7 students' writing selected in International Writing Challenge!

5/6/7 Mystery Class Video