Principal’s Report

CCC

Kingfisher Avenue, Coleambally, NSW, 2707

Phone: 02 6954 4131 Fax: 02 6954 4396

Email: coleamball-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 2 Week 9

Coleambally Central School

A Quality Education in your Community

25 JUNE 2019

Coming up in Term 2

1-5 July

Year 10 Work Experience

3 July

Tirkandi Inaburra Graduation

Tutroadshow Experience

Yr 7 & 8 Leeton

4 July

Whole School Assembly 10am

5 July

Primary Talent Show 2.10pm

This week at

Coleambally Central School

June 27 Stage 6 HSC Science Study Day Yanco Agricultural High School

PURPOSE Our purpose is to implement a relevant, innovative and dynamic curriculum through an integrated approach to quality teaching, curriculum planning and delivery, and assessment that meets the diverse learning needs of students, promotes ex-cellence and creates active and informed citizens.

Year 5/6

Canberra

Excursion

4th Payment due

Friday 28 June

Welcome to Week 9 of Term 2! Miss Cox has set up the school Facebook page! In having the page set up, it is important for the community to understand that the NSW Depart-ment of Education has a Social Media Policy that includes Rules of En-gagement for a school Facebook page, which we will adhere to. In joining our community on Facebook, Coleambally Central School fol-lows the Department of Education Code of Conduct and Facebook’s Com-munity Standards. Under Facebook Terms and Conditions no one under the age of 13 years should have a Facebook profile. Therefore, any com-ments or page fans from primary students on the Coleambally Central School page will be removed and, if warranted, users will be reported. Photos of students will only be published if the correct Department of Education permission to publish forms have been completed by the student’s parent or guardian and these photo’s must be removed after one year of publishing unless further permission from the parent is agreed to. For privacy and protection, please do not tag photos of children, and please do not name them in your comments, unless the previously mentioned permissions is sought. On rare occasions and with parental permission, students may be named by the school Facebook administra-tion team. Tagging of parents or friends within the comment box is per-mitted with the understanding that all other rules of engagement are followed. We encourage interaction from participants with the understanding that the school does not endorse comments or wall postings made by visitors to the page. We ask that visitors making comments on the page show respect for other users by ensuring discussions remain civil. Personal attacks, trolling or spam will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to remove comments that do not adhere to the rules of engagement of the page and Facebook’s community standards includ-ing comments that: are deemed racist, sexist, abusive, profane, violent, obscene, spam advocate illegal activity are wildly off-topic libel, incite, threaten or make personal character attacks on

Coleambally Central School students, employees, guests or other individuals.

We reserve the right to remove any participant that does not adhere to the rules of engagement or Facebook’s Community Standards. Remem-ber, your name and photo will be seen next to your comment, visible to

Assessment Task Due Dates

27 June

English Standard Task 2

28 June

PASS in Class Assessment

2 July

Year 7 PDHPE

4 July

CAFS AT2

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all visitors to the page. We will not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial, political or oth-er ventures. The page will be moderated from 9am to 3pm on weekdays. Aurora College As many people will already be aware, Coleambally Central School has partnered with Aurora College to ex-pand the opportunities for our students. In 2020, Aurora College will be offering Stage 6 subjects in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics Advanced, Mathematics Extension 1, English Advanced, English Extension 1, Italian Be-ginners, Japanese Beginners, Korean Beginners, Software Design and Development, Economics and Geography. These subjects will be included in Stage 6 subject selection early next term. Parents should also note that appli-cations for enrolment in Years 8 to 10 open Friday 21 June 2019 and close Friday 26 July 2019 if you are consid-ering this opportunity for your child. Further information is available on the college’s website http://www.aurora.nsw.edu.au/learn/enrol/. K-12 Whole School Assembly The Term 2 K-12 Whole School Assembly will be held next Thursday, 4 July 2019 at 10.30 am in the School Hall. All parents and members of the school community are invited to attend and we will have special guests from the Country Education Foundation in attendance to present some special awards. Tut Roadshow Experience Next Wednesday, 3 July 2019, students in Stage 4 History will travel to Leeton to visit the Tut Roadshow. The Tut Roadshow brings the wonders of Ancient Egypt into schools and is equipped with state-of-the-art multime-dia and enthralling displays of authentic artefacts from Ancient Egypt and other millennia-old civilisations. We are sure you will enjoy the excursion. School Improvements Visitors to the school over the past few months will have noticed worker’s on site completing this year’s maintenance program. Painting of the ‘Deni’ Block and the interior of both the primary and secondary student toilets has been completed and painting of both the interior and exterior of the School Hall will be completed this week. Stairs to the stage will also be installed as part of the maintenance program. An officer from assets has also visited the school to inspect the Primary Playground in preparation for the planned upgrade of this space. Semester One Student Reports Staff are busy at the moment completing the K-10 Semester One Student Reports. These will be sent home with students next Thursday, 4 July 2019. Reports for students who are absent the final two days will be deliv-ered via Australia Post. Finally…. This week I will be attending a meeting of the Griffith AECG with Mr John Breen on Wednesday afternoon. Our door is and always has been open – whether you are happy, sad or mad. We need to know if we are not doing something right, but I also need to know that you trust our motives and intentions. Everything we do, every single day is for YOUR children. Until next week, Timothy Allen Principal

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PBL Winners Week 9

Delilah Filmer, Jack Cooney

William Perkins and Josh Collier

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Primary Awards Kindergarten Abbigail Mannes: For working collaboratively with peers in L3 groups Ross Appleford: For working hard to edit and publish his writing Hayden Boldiston: For creating pleasing artworks Year 1 Nathan Mannes For great focus in his informative writing about trains. Harriet Bolton For consistently using neat handwriting in all learning areas. Kai Inggs For using teacher feedback to improve his writing Year 2/3

Brock Williams-Jenkins: For making links in his learning and self-reflecting on what he has learnt Alec Roberts : For excellent results in his Maths test Zoee Steinhardt: For focussing hard on learning her dance routines Declin Little : For showing progress in his reading and beautiful colouring in his Literacy book. Harvey Pound : For being an enthusiastic and hard-working student Year 4/5 Nathan Vearing: For demonstrating great problem solving skills in Maths. Hayden Payne: For a fantastic effort and great improvement with his spelling. Layla Filmer: Creating a great monochrome artwork by using a range of lines and patterns. Jessie Pound: A great improvement with her spelling. Hayley Pound: Writing detailed persuasive texts. Gabrielle Perkins: Using interesting, relevant examples to convince her audience when writing persuasive texts. Year 5/6 Lucy Bolton: Outstanding PBL - Being safe, Being Respectful and Being Responsible in the learning environment. Georgia Perkins: Outstanding PBL - Being safe, Being Respectful and Being Responsible in the learning environment. Pia Fattore: For her excellent replicate of Pro Hart’s art work ‘The dragonfly’ and being helpful by assisting others with their art work. Cooper Payne: For his efforts and art appreciation of Pro Hart’s art work ‘The dragonfly’ . Hannah Pound: Fantastic enthusiasm during dance and demonstrating great maturity. Dylan Walsh: Real participation during class dance and demonstrating great maturity. Justin Little: Trying hard to manage his distractions and an improved effort, focusing on his work. Keep it up! Elyssa Scott: for her contributions to conversations and sharing ideas during writing transformation tasks

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South West Zone Athletics

Last week 22 secondary students travelled to West End Oval to participate in the South West Zone

Athletics Carnival, competing against five other schools in the district. Coleambally performed out-

standingly throughout the day and demonstrated exceptional sportsmanship, with many of our stu-

dents busy all day competing in 5+ events. Congratulations to the following students who placed 1st or

2nd in their events and now go on to compete at the Riverina carnival in Albury next term:

Makayla Newman – 800m (2nd)

Lachlan Wilson – Javelin (2nd)

Giaan Cullen – Javelin (2nd)

Charlotte Young – Javelin (2nd)

Laura Mannes – Discus (1st), Shotput (1st)

Josie Moore – Javelin (2nd)

Phoebe White– 100m (1st), 200m (1st), High Jump (1st), Long Jump (1st), Triple Jump

Jack Cullen – Discus (1st), Javelin (1st), High Jump (2nd), Shotput (1st)

Congratulations also to Phoebe White who was the Opens Girls Age Champion, placing first in all of

her events on the day and to Laura Mannes and Jack Cullen on placing second in their respective age

groups; an outstanding achievement!

Well done to all the students for your cooperation and participation and thank you to those students

who helped Mrs Tupou on Discus throughout the day!

Careers news

On Tuesday June 18, students from Years 10, 11 and 12 travelled to Leeton High School to

participate in the Western Riverina Careers Expo. The students were able to talk to people

from universities, TAFE, local businesses and other groups, to discuss their post-school

options. It was a very informative experience and those students who attended now have a

better understanding of their future career choices.

Jackie Young

Entry forms for Name the Crane have been sent home with all primary students. Please

return signed completed entries to the Coleambally Central School Office prior to

9am Friday 28 June. Entries will be forward-ed to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital by bulk postage for competition close 5 July 2019.

The annual Primary Talent Show will be occurring on Friday, 5th July at 2:10pm. It will be held in the school hall. Parents, carers, visitors and students are welcome to attend. There will be an audience admission fee of a gold coin donation, which will be sent to Bear Cottage to aid funding for the care of seriously ill children. All participants in the Talent Show will be informed at the end of this week, once the auditions are finalised. Next week will be an opportunity for the performers to practise their items, and prepare for the show. Mrs Lothian

Coleambally Central School Primary Talent

Wear Red for Ronald McDonald House

The Secondary SRC is asking all students (K – 12) and staff to wear red and bring a

gold coin donation on Friday 5th July. All money raised will be donated to Ronald

McDonald House in Wagga Wagga. Ronald McDonald House Wagga Wagga

supports seriously ill children and their families providing them with a home-away-

from-home while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Penny White

Secondary SRC Co-ordinator

Local volunteers supporting local families affected by cancer

COLEAMBALLY CAN

ASSIST ANNUAL

MORNING TEA 27TH JUNE 2019

Guest speaker- Emma Phillips

@ COLEAMBALLY COMMUNITY CLUB

10.30 AM START $10.00 ENTRY FEE Lucky door prize & continuous raffle

EVERYONE WELCOME