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*Please note that this will be sent home tomorrow with students as I am waiting on the Council to send through the map of Vansittart Park Saturday 16 November FLOAT…

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…

This year our theme for the Christmas Parade is Angels and Elves! So start getting some costume ideas together! The parade will be held on Saturday 16 November. We are…

SRC will be selling icy poles this term once again. They have decided to have them on sale at lunch times three times a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Long…

If anyone has any glass jars with lids (any size) lying around, the Year 45 class needs them! Any donations appreciated

Parents and Caregivers are reminded that the school is a construction site over the holidays and that no one, unless permitted, is to enter the site during this time. We…

Book Sale 2019

Next Monday some of the year tthrees and fours will be taking part in ANZ Hot Shots Tennis. If your child is attending please make sure that they have a…

To the parents of Canberra Camp Kids: We are now leaving Hamilton (5.45am), so we will see you at approximately 7.15am at the Glenburnie Hall.

Any last minute donations of plastic bottle tops, please give to Mrs Schutz tomorrow morning!

Mil Lel Show Raffle Tickets All families should have received their tickets to sell for the Mil Lel Show today. When your book is sold, please return to the Front…

In a previous post I had said that we were going to collect plastic bottle lids for three weeks only, this has been extended until the end of week 5,…

Please respond by Wednesday 31/7 to the survey regarding funding for a Pastoral Care Worker 2020 - 2022 Without our school community endorsing the position, we will not receive funding…

This letter was sent home with all eldest students yesterday. Please ensure you make arrangements for your student(s) as there will not be staff available to supervise on Monday 1…

Dear Parents and Caregivers I am writing to inform you of potential industrial action on Monday, July 1st next week. Please be advised to make tentative care arrangements for your…

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Due to our Move It matinee performance this Thursday there will be no heat ups this week

Governing Council met last night and discussed and approved a Pupil Free Day on Friday 7 June, Week 6. Staff will focus on feedback, learning intentions, success criteria and student…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Grace, Alice and Sarah lead a cooking lesson today. The girls taught us how to make chocolate cups which we filled with cream and strawberries. Needless to say everyone enjoyed…

A wonderful day of learning and challenges for the Lego League team from Mil Lel PS

Descriptive writing with a twist

The adventures of Mrs Pratt in the F/1 class

Local Member of Parliament Brings Civics Learning To Life For The 6/7 Class

F/1 students create hand puppets for French oral language practice.

For buddies today, the F/1s and 4/5s planted some vegetables and flower seedlings. We look forward to harvesting them next term. Chris from unisa came in to collect our bottle…

Today in Maths, the Yr 4/5s were using toilet paper to work out area and perimeter. The students were engaged I the learning and gained lots of new understandings through…

On Monday we will be working on creating photo collages/scrapbook pages about our Canberra trip. For this project, students will need to bring in their favourite photos from the trip.…

As a continuation of our book week activities the year 4/5 class enjoyed making comic strips yesterday and today. First they needed to roll a dice to decide who was…

In Science today the Yr 4/5s enjoyed making and playing with Oobleck. Oobleck is a non-newtonian substance which is both a solid and a liquid depending on the force applied…

Our school is participating in Jump Rope for Heart. Families are encouraged to fundraise to support the Heart Foundation. Notes on how to fundraise were sent home earlier this term.…

This term for science the Year 4/5 class are exploring chemical reactions. We began our enquiry into this last term when we blew up balloons using vinegar and bicarb soda.…

Science To The Rescue: A Crime Scene Investigation In The 6/7

On Tuesday three students attended the Mad Minute Grand Challenge at Mount Gambier High School. Thomas Shephard, Caelin Hayman and Evan Clark were selected from the Year 5 students to…

In science, the 6/7 class has been investigating separation techniques of mixtures and solutions. Chromatography was found to be a most interesting technique that allowed the students to separate the…

This afternoon the Yr 4/5 class had a great time making iMovies, the time was won by Grace, who used dojo points to spend on the class.

Digital Tech Learning and Competition

Lunch Time STEM explorers

Continuing on with our week of cool experiments, today we used full fat milk and dishwashing liquid to show the separation of matter. Then we used oil, water and antacids…

Some pics of our matinee performers today...

This term the year 4/5s have been looking at pollution for our enquiry project in HASS. Today we looked at the effects of air pollution through an experiment using water…

On Friday the Year 4/5s participated in two experiments. The first one was using bicarb soda and vinegar to blow up balloons. Even though the children had predicted that the…

Chemistry in the 6/7 class

Excursions are the best!

Our number is a song from the Disney movie Coco. Our costumes will colourful as well as simple. Boys will need to wear black pants and colourful tee-shirts (plain tee-shirt,…

ANZAC Day reflections in the 6/7 class

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…

A recreation of an important Ancient Greek scientific discovery

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

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…

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…

Pet Day is coming! On Friday 15th Nov Mil Lel will be holding our annual Pet Day Parade at 9am under the shelter. Parents are encouraged to attend so that…

Jump Rope for Heart Jump Off Day Our Jump Off day is Wednesday 11th September at 1:45pm-3:30pm. The whole school will participate in a rotation of skipping activities and a…

This Friday, the following students in F - 3 are completing a Lego challenge at lunch time: Harrison / Evan Asha B / Asha G Emmie / Aynslee Travis /…

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving…

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…

Not sure about you guys, but we are loving the weather.  

Everyone is having a great time. Splendid weather. Great experiences.

A lovely day with excellent weather. Informative and entertaining sessions.

Everything going well, a few photos taken on the way.

The environmental leaders are having a great time so far on our camp at Naracoorte. Here's a few pics...

25 students travelled to Naracoorte today to compete in the regional cross-country event. The students enjoyed some outstanding results with most finishing in the first half of their age divisions.…

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Being little French kids on Wednesdays

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  Parent Club Bunnings BBQ Roster Can you please spare 2 hours on Saturday 26th October to assist fundraising for resources for our children. If you have any friends or…

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Our float is located near the BP petrol station on commercial street east. see you at 1030-1045.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is pet day. We will meet under the shelter at 9 a.m. with our favourite pet. Please ensure that there is an adult present to…

If your child is participating in scrapbooking for Mil Lel show electives tomorrow, can you please send at least two photos for me to photocopy to use for their scrapbooking?…

Tomorrow is our Jump Rope for Heart Jump Off afternoon. We will start the afternoon of skipping at 1:45pm, please come along and watch the bouncers and join in with…

Dear Parents Just 2 more sleeps until you are child free for the week! Here are a couple of reminders to ensure that you can get them on the bus…

Hamburgers orders closed today 21 August. If you have forgotten to return your note with payment, orders through Qrk! are still open until tomorrow (Thursday 22 August). Haven't downloaded the…

Dear Students and Parents Please join us for Mrs Hogg & Mrs Harradine's last Morning Tea at Mil Lel Week 10, Thursday 4th July at 10am What to bring: Plate…

On Monday we have our Move It dress rehearsal at school. 6/7 boys: black pants and a colourful tee-shirt (no markings on the tee-shirt please). 6/7 girls: a white tee-shirt…

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

Order forms for Hamburger Day on Wednesday 18 September have gone home today. All cash orders must be returned by 9am on Wednesday 11 September. Orders made through the new…

Don't forget to send your plastic bottle caps to school! Please give to Mrs shoots before the end of week 3. Mil Lel Primary School is taking part in a…

Mil Lel Primary School is taking part in a competition run by UniSA to collect the most bottle lids. Uni SA Mount Gambier are running a recycling initiative in partnership…

I am currently putting together some teams for the Mount Gambier school cricket cup. These teams should be made up of boys or girls in years 5, 6 and 7.…

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…

As the weather was so windy and wet, we decided to bring the outdoors into our classroom by creating nature mandalas. We quickly collected outside nature parts before the rain…

Tomorrow is Outdoor Classroom Day. Outdoor classroom day is a global initiative. In Australia more than 2500 schools are registered to participate in learning outdoors on November 7th 2019. We…

We created monsters using craft materials, then used the iPad app Chatterpix to animate our monsters. IMG_0145

In writing, we have been writing procedures. Today we wrote our own procedures for making a spell or potion, then followed the procedures to make the potions!

We have been exploring procedures. Last week we created a procedure to make fruit kebabs, we then enjoyed eating them for fruit break. This week we have followed procedural texts…

In Science we investigated how sound vibrations travel and how different materials make different pitches. We use a coat hanger with two pieces of string attached, we tapped the coat…

Today we continued exploring transport and how objects move. We watched a short clip about building a boat and discussed reason why people use boats as transport. The children then…

On Monday we were lucky to have Travis's Dad, Justin, come into our class to talk about Truck transportation. He showed us photos of different sized trailers and what they…

The F/1 class have enjoyed Book Week this week, especially the parade on Wednesday, where we got to show off our costumes and see all the other classes costumes. We…

We have been exploring Rainbow Facts to 10. Rainbow Facts are two numbers that when added together make 10.The Foundation children have been practising and representing Rainbow facts in different…

This week we began our inquiry in to how and why things move. We began with recording our first thoughts about things that move and then recorded our wonderings and…

We are exploring how seeds grow and what plants need to live. We planted 2 seeds in a wet cotton ball. We will observe how they grow and record our…

This morning we were lucky to have a policeman, Rob, and his German Shepherd, Nero, visit us at school. We learnt that the Police use dogs to help find people…

  On Monday the F/1 and Yr 4/5 classes have the Nature Play SA incursion. If you would like your child to wear gum boots for the afternoon please pack…

This week our social focus is "pursue your personal best no matter who you work with'. We discussed ways to pursue your personal best and the children came up with…

Today we set up our recycling station to help us care for the environment. The children decided what we could recycle at school and made labels to show where to…

F/1 Move It Costumes reminder Our class is dancing to a song from the Disney movie Moana. The children will need to wear a plain red t-shirt and black shorts.…

F/1 Term 2 Week 1 We have all settled back in to school well and had a busy week of new learning. On Wednesday we enjoyed a visit by 3…

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,…

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.…

After school today we decorated a Xmas tree at The Marketplace with decorations that we made in class last week. While we were there The Border Watch came and took…

Last week for visual arts we conducted an experiment with food colouring in the primary colours (red, yellow, blue) to see how well combining them would create the secondary colours…

Today we went to Echo Farm, as we have been exploring how daily life has changed over time. While we were there we saw many relics from the past in…

Last week we used information we learned in Science, about how different living things grow and change, to create some Bee Bot mats. The children had to: 1. Use measurement…

Measuring length in the Year 2/3 class

Year 2/3 paper mâché characters

For our Science unit, we have been exploring how forces and simple machines work. So far, we have explored ramps, levers and pulleys. In the weeks to come we will…

Thank you very much to Ashley and Shaylah for coming to our classroom today to talk to us about Reconciliation Week. The children were very interested in what they had…

Today Mr Gilbertson from the Rotary club came to Mil Lel to present the Year 3 students with a dictionary each. The children were very excited to receive their dictionaries…

Today we planted some seedlings in our vegetable garden: silverbeet, spring onions, and beetroot. The children enjoyed the chance to get their hands dirty and everyone had a chance to…

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.…

Ahoy! Today the 4/5 class celebrated International Talk Like a Pirate Day. We found out our pirate names, used coordinates to find objects, created treasure maps, drew pirate portraits and…

Dear Parents and Students, I hope your holidays are going well. Just a heads up that the students will need to bring a shoe box into school at the start…

Winning 3D designs in Grant High Digital Tech Competition

Explaining Day Time and Night Time in the 6/7

Faux Stained Glass Artwork in the 6/7