IMPORTANT NOTICE

The P&C Meeting which was to be held today has been postponed.

4 June 2018 Week 6, Term 2, 2018

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK: Dear Parents and Friends of Cawdor PS

A big thank you to the families who came along to the working bee on

Saturday. Thanks to your incredible efforts on a cold and windy day, we have

made excellent progress toward the completion of the Landcare project and

the front of the Admin building is looking fabulous. Thank you also to all of

the parents who have been supporting the school by helping in the canteen,

working in the classrooms and transporting children to sports events. Your

generosity in giving up your time to help with the students’ learning

programs is greatly appreciated.

In the past two weeks we have been very proud of the achievements of our

students and of the school spirit shown by the many students who have been

representing our school. Congratulations to our School Captain, Flinders

Crimmins, who received a Youth Recognition award for Academic Excellence

from Wollondilly North Rotary. Flinders is a wonderful role model to other

students by demonstrating an excellent work ethic and is a worthy recipient

of the award.

Last week I had the pleasure of accompanying four of our school leaders to a

student leadership conference at Wollongong University and was very

impressed with their level of involvement on the day. I was also very

pleased with the sportsmanship and level of participation shown by the cross

country team members and would like to congratulate all of our students for

their achievements in the Zone carnival.

In the newsletter today you ill find information on downloading the School

Stream App to your mobile device. We have begun using the App again as

another means of effectively communicating with

the school community. We will be sending out

regular notifications to parents so we encourage

you to get onboard and keep up to date with

school news!

Finally, a huge thank you to our enthusiastic and

dedicated staff who have been working hard to

meet the needs of all of our students and to

provide a nurturing learning environment.

Cawdor truly is a great school!

Kind Regards,

Ms Sharon Ihlein

Inside this newsletter:

Year 6 Performance 2

Zone Cross Country 2

School Stars 3

School Stream information 3

Attachments 4

Dates to Remember 4

Winter has arrived!

Emily (Year 5) enjoying her hot chocolate last Thursday morning. See

more pics inside.

CAWDOR PUBLIC

SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

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NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME was celebrated with a very entertaining performance

by the Year 6 students. The students acted out the

story ‘Hickory, Dickory, Dash” which was the book selected for 2018 Simultaneous Storytime. Year 6

organised their costumes and props themselves, with

a little help from Ms Ihlein. All the staff and students

from Kinder to Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed the play.

Week 11, Term 1, 2017

FREE SOFTWARE

Under an enterprise agreement software such as Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2016 are available to all DoE students.

Go to the Students portal > Learning> Office 365> Install Office 2016

Students will need to use their @education.nsw.gov.au student email address to register for the software.

Students can also access additional free software for their devices from the students’ BYOD software website.

Cawdor Zone Cross Country Report

Look at these winners! They all ran their little hearts out last Friday at the cross

country carnival. I took 20 of our best long distance runners to compete and they

can all be very proud of their efforts. I certainly am. There were over 90 competitors

from 25 different schools in each event. All Cawdor representatives completed the very difficult race. Our best result was in 10 year old girls with Autumn Crimmins

coming 16th. 1st across the line for Cawdor in other age groups was Caitlin Parker,

Hewson Crimmins, Anthony Di Natale, Jessica Lee, Noah Fitzgerald and Flinders

Crimmins. Well done!

Enrolments Enrolments are now being

taken for 2019. There are

vacancies across the school

so spread the word!

Small schools are great

schools.

WINTER HAS ARRIVED…………

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iPhone/iPad iOS 7.x-9.x

1. From your mobile device go to the App Store search for School Stream

2. Tap the FREE/GET button to the right of the School Stream listing

3. Tap the INSTALL button

4. Enter your Apple ID and passwork and tap OK

5. Wait for the install icon to change to OPEN

6. Tapthe OPEN button

7. You will be prompted to accept notifications, you will need to select OK

8. Start typing school name into the search then SELECT school name

FOOTSTEPS DANCE PROGRAM STARTS THIS THURSDAY

Snippets of Cawdor’s History

Cawdor Public School was opened on 1st

June 1858 in premises leased from the

Wesleyan Church of Cawdor. At the end

of the year the number of students

enrolled totalled 46.

The first teacher in charge was Mr James

Humphreys who was a baker with a huge interest in arithmetic. Mr Baker retired

from teaching in 1883 and he was

succeeded at Cawdor by Mr John

Fletcher.

1858 was the year in Australia in which

the “Welcome Nugget” (gold) was found in

Victoria and Australian Rules football

was born!

Cawdor Public School

685 Cawdor Road Camden NSW 2570

Phone: 02 46366133

Email: cawdor-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

ATTACHMENTS:

Classroom Buzz, School Awards system

Week 6

Mon 4 Jun P&C Meeting 3.20pm

Wed 6 Jun 9am Assembly: SRC

Thu 7 Jun Footsteps Dance program begins

Week 7

Mon 11 Jun Queen’s Birthday Holiday

Wed 13 Jun ICAS Spelling

Thu 14 Jun ICAS Writing

Footsteps 2-3pm

Week 8

Wed 20 Jun 9am Assembly: Year 1

Thu 21 Jun Footsteps 2-3pm

Star Students

Congratulations to the recipients of the

following awards:

Values

Possums— Alicia Parker

Wallabies— Ceyda Fahri

Echidnas— Autumn Crimmins

Koalas— Mila Gaiyich

Writer’s Award

Sydney Martin (Yr 2)

ICAS COMPETITION TEST DATES

Spelling Wed 13 June

Writing Thu 14 June

English Tue 31 July

Maths Tue 14 August

What’s Due:

Gymtastics payment overdue

Musica Viva payment overdue

Footsteps note due 28 May,

payment due 15 June

Year 6 shirt order due 15 June

Buddies enjoyed designing a raft for the

Gingerbread Man in a STEM activity.