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Principal’s messageI hope all our mum’s had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday, you all deserve it! Thank you to the P&C who organised the lovely stall with lots of gifts and flowers, there was a great selection at very reasonable prices. Winter is on its way; please make sure your child/ren have warm school clothes for all occasions including sport. We have all the uniforms here at school and some good

second-hand options from the clothing pool. If your child is sick and or contagious with illness please keep them at home as we would all like to try and keep healthy and well over these colder months.Have a great week!Regards Sharon Hawker

Governor of NSWLast Tuesday our school leaders were invited to a concert and morning tea at Cowra High School in order of His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Linda Hurley. His Excellency was in Cowra to open the CWA Conference and also to visit other organisations including Cowra High School and meet principals, captains and P&C Presidents from the Lachlan Valley Learning Community. It was a great concert and a wonderful opportunity to meet such an inspirational leader such as His Excellency.

Canowindra P U B L I C SCHOOL Striving for SuccessTerm 2, Week 3

9th May 2016

Tilga Street Canowindra NSW 2804Phone: 02 6344 1403 | Fax: 02 6344 1462canowindra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.auwww.canowindra-p.school.nsw.edu.auNurture Grow FlourishProud member of the Lachlan Valley Learning Community

Upcoming Events10th May Breakfast Club 8.30am

NAPLAN for Year 3 & 511th May Student Banking

NAPLAN for Year 3 & 512th May NAPLAN for Year 3 & 513th May NAPLAN for Year 3 & 5

Primary Assembly 1.45pm17th May ICAS Digital Technology

Girls Soccer at GrenfellPBL Focus Play FairWeekly Winners Hannah Greenhill, Eliana

McMillan, Ethan Burling and Mitchell Stephens

Canowindra P U B L I C SCHOOL

Rugby League after school Sporting Schools GrantStarting this Tuesday 10th May NSW Rugby League will be hosting a skills, drills and games afternoon for K-2 at 3-3.45pm and Years 3-6 at 3.45-4.30pm for a 5 week period. If you are interested in this initiative for your son or daughter please meet at our school oval under the COLA. These sessions will be run by NSW Rugby League, not the school and are free. Richardson Cup and Peachy Shield

Congratulation to all the boys who participated in Richardson Cup and Peachy Shield last Tuesday. The boys had a great day and several teams made it to the semi’s which is a great effort, and all games were played in good spirit. Peachy Shield non competitive team won all their games,

there were lots of run away tries and some great tackling. The competitive team made it to the semi final against St Raph’s the boys ran well and had good support in attack unfortunately they were beaten 28-12.Richardson Cup Team suffered only 1 loss, they had some very convincing wins and showed great passing and tackling. Thanks to Andrew & Nathan Whatman for coaching. Thanks also to Canowindra Junior Rugby League Tigers for loaning us their jerseys. NAPLANWeek 3 Tuesday 10th - Friday 13th May is the National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy for students in Year 3 and 5. Please ensure your child is at school on time during these days, has had a big breakfast and a good night’s sleep. We do not “teach to the test” however the students have had some practise at answering the multiple choice questions and filling in the answer booklets. The tests are designed to give parents an idea of where their child is in regard to the rest of Australia for children in the same year. It also ranks the school’s performance in relation to other similar schools, which helps us determine our strengths and weaknesses for the cohort/ individual and track progress from Year 3, 5 and 7.Stewart House DayWeek 3, Friday 13th May will be a wear Blue & Yellow Mufti Day to raise money for Stewart House - Children who participate are asked to make a gold coin donation. There will also be handballs for sale at a cost of $3.

Walk Safely to School DayWeek 4, Friday 20th May is Walk safely to School Day. Miss White will met all students who wish to participate in this activity at the bottom of the hill on the corner of Tilga and Charlotte Streets, below the bus bay at 8.20am.

Book Club Orders for Issue 3 Book Club close on Friday 13th May.

Chickens For SaleYoung chickens are available to purchase for $5.00 each, there are a

smll number of older chickens available for $10.00 each. Please see Mrs Pearce and parent per-mission is needed !!

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T E R M 2 C A L E N D A R

M O N T U E W E D T H U F R I

9th May

WEEK 3

10th May

Break fast Club 8.30am

NAPLAN Yea rs 3 & 5

11th May

Student Banking

NAPLAN Yea rs 3 & 5

12th May

NAPLAN Yea rs 3 & 5

13th May

Primary A ssembly 1.45pm

NAPLAN Yea rs 3 & 5

16th May

WEEK 4

PSSA Rugby Leagu e 12 No on in

Cowra

17th May


Infants Assembly 2.20pm

ICAS Digital Technol ogy

Girls Socc er at Gren fell

18th May

Student Banking

19th May 20th May

Distric t Cro ss Country

23rd May

WEEK 5

24th May

Brea kfa st Club 8.30am

25th May

Student Banking

Canteen Day

26th May

27th May


30th May

WEEK 6

31st May



ICAS Science

1st June

Student Banking

Year 5 Canbe rra Excu rsi on

2nd June


3rd June


6th June

WEEK 7

7th June

Brea kfa st Club 8.30am

8th June

Student Banking

9th June 10th June


13th June

WEEK 8

14th June



15th June

Student Banking

Weste rn Cro ss Country

16th June 17th June

20th June

WEEK 9

21st Jun e


22nd June

Student Banking

23rd June 24th June


Athletic s Carn ival

27th June

WEEK 10

28th June


29th June

Student Banking

Whole School Assembly 1.45pm

30th June 1st July

Pie Driv e O rde rs Delive red



BandThere will be NO Senior Band this week or next week. Senior Band will re-commence Thursday 26th May.Student BankingCommonwealth Bank Youth Saver account holders have the oppotrunity to win a Dollarmite prize during A deposit blitz, where the student banks 3 times between Week6 - Week9 they will go into a draw. This will assist with encouraging students to bank, assists their deposit numbers towards the major competition and also means that someone at yourschool will win a prize.Year 6 Fundraising - Ice BlocksOn Tuesdays and Thursdays during lunchtime Year 6 will be selling ice blocks on 1st Level if weather is fine or they will visit classrooms if Wet weather, the costs of ice blocks is 80c each.

PSSA Boys Soccer On the 2nd of May Canowindra Public School boys Soccer team went off to play PSSA Soccer at Henry Lawson Oval in Grenfell against Grenfell Public.We left school at 11.20am and kicked off at 12.50pm.We ar-rivedat Grenfell at 12.10pm. We had 40 minutes to get warmed up. At 12.50pm we ran on. We didn’t get off to the best start will Grenfell leading by 1 goal in the first half.After the half time whistle went our coach Miss Dixon had a talk to us and we were ready for the 2nd half. About 5 minutes in Connor Munroe scored to make the score 1-1.In another 5 minutes Jordey Smith (me) scored to make it 2-1

about 2 minutes later they scored to make it 2-2. Our team doesn’t back out of a fight so Con-nor Munroe scored an amazing goal to make it 3-2 then 5 minutes later Dusty Smith made it 4-2 and we won! The next game is in Week 5 Tuesday 24th in Canowindra.

By Jordan Smith

Earlier this term in Week 2, the Canowindra School Soccer Team went to play in Grenfell at Henry Lawson Park. All of us were excited to play our first proper game as a team. We arrived at rough-ly 11.30am. We then got ourselves ready and warmed up.At 12.50pm we ran onto the field all excited. We did underestimate the other team in the firat half, the score showed it as well, 1-0.Our coach (Miss Dixon) had a talk to us at half time and we went back on better in the second half. It was a tough game but we won in the end, 4-2.Grenfell had a very fast team and were very accurate with their passes, so they were tough but we pulled through thanks to, Connor Munroe scoring the 1st and 3rd goal. Jordey Smith who scored our second goal and Dusty Smith who scored our last goal.Our next game is being played at Canowindra Oval, Tuesday Week 5!

By Jordan Lorford-Reid

In Week 2, on the 2nd May the school boys soccer team went to Grenfell to play Grenfell at Henry Lawson Park. At 11.20am the players and parents left for Grenfell hoping for a good result.We got ready at the oval and had a warm up before playing at 12.50pm.We kicked off and we didn’t get the best start. We were 1-0 down at half time. We had a talk with Miss Dixon and went back on the field guns blazing.



In this half we started off with a goal from Connor Munroe, and minutes later took the lead with Jordan Smith smashing it in as we got really pumped up. Soon after Grenfell got a goal back and we played even harder. We got another goakl by Connor Munroe to get his double and Dustan Smith put the nail in the coffin when he scored to make it 4-2.It ended like that, and we went through to the next round, which will be against Orange East Public School at the Canowindra Oval in Week 5 on Tuesday the 24th May.By Harrison Warn

P&C News Mothers Day - Thank you to the wonderful parents that helped on Thursday and Friday, it is always great fun to see the excitement and determination in the children trying to choose the “perfect gift.” The addition of plants this year was a big hit, we hope everyone had a great Mothers Day! Canowindra Players - Again this year we are serving the meals for the Canowindra players. This will be on Friday the 13th May. If you are available to help with this please contact Julie for more information.5 cent Fundraiser – Wow! We have classes who have already filled their jar. Well done.......keep collecting. The winning class will receive lunch from the P&C!

Canteen Day - P & C will holding a canteen day on Wednesday 25th May. This is also our monthly Crunch and Sip day so take the opportunity to “have the morning off” packing lunch boxes! Donations of recess options would be very much appreciated, this can be dropped to the office on the Tuesday or Wednesday. An order form for lunch options will be attached to next weeks newsletter. If you have a child with a food allergy but they would still like to be able to order lunch please contact Belinda on 0427441138 to discuss other menu options. Please note that we require orders to be in no latter than Monday the 23rd of May for ordering reasons.

Back to Billimari Day for the

Billimari Hall Centenary

Celebrations When: May 28, 2016 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Where: Billimari Hall Sloan St, Billimari,

NSW, 2804

Contact: Cowra Tourism 6342 4333

Billimari was settled and the local farming community established the Hall through a committee circa 1916. Coinciding with the centenary celebrations for the locally significant ‘Billimari Pubic Hall’, the village will host a ‘Back to Billimari Day’ featuring a panorama of local photographs and memorabilia. The Cowra Antique Car Club will chauffeur participants who make bookings to and from Billimari on the day (bookings essential as the choice of vehicle is limited). Horse and Cart rides will also be available on the day

You are invited to come and help celebrate the centenary of this marvellous Hall on Saturday May 28th. Activities include a photographic display of the many activities that have occurred at the Hall, the unveiling of the recently restored World War 1 Honour Board and old fashioned games for the children such as 3 legged races, Tug of War, Egg and Spoon Races, sack races and a Gumboot throwing competition. The Cowra M &D society will also be providing entertainment! A barbeque lunch will be available as well as tea, coffee, cakes, slices and scones.

Cost: Free, however a Gold coin donation to Billimari Hall Trust Fund is appreciated.

Tickets: Tickets are required if participating in the chaueffered trip in an Antique Vehicle. Capacity of 25

people MAX for the chauffeured experience.

Presented by: Billimari Hall Committee

For more information or booking enquiries contact Cowra Tourism on

[email protected] or 63 424 333



Class in Focus: Year 2

Year 2 students were busy making their Mother’s Day gift last week. They painted the background of their canvas, posed for a photo, glued it on the canvas then glued on the love hearts. They did a fan-tastic job and were very proud of their efforts. I hope all the mum’s

had a wonderful Mother’s Day!

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