CHURCHILL PRIMARY SCHOOL

LABOUR DAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY A reminder to all parents that next Monday, 8th March, is the Labour Day Public Holiday and school will be closed on this day.

STUDENT FREE DAY Next Tuesday, 9th March, will be a Student Free Day and no students will be required at school. Teachers and staff will be involved in Professional Development on this day focusing on Student Wellbeing processes and support. These days are extremely important and valuable and enable our staff to provide the best possible support for all students within our school environment.

PREPS START FULLTIME! Our Foundation students (Preps) have made a great start and will begin coming to school fulltime as of next week! We look forward to seeing their smiling faces EVERY DAY!

SCHOOL PHOTOS Please note that School Photo Day will now be held a day early on

Wednesday 10th March! Students are required to wear full school uniform on the day and any hair ribbons etc must match in with school colours. We request that all Grade 6 students please wear their Grade 6 tops for a special commemorative photo for graduation. Order forms were sent home with students a couple of weeks ago. These forms can be returned along with payment prior to the day, they will be distributed to the photographer on the day OR they need to be handed straight to the photographer on the day. If you would like to order family photos there are special forms available at the office. Please keep

these forms separate to individual photos so that there is no confusion on the day.

NB: The school endeavours to keep minimal cash on premises and therefore we remind parents that we are unable to change notes/coins in the office. Please make sure you organise correct change for your envelopes prior to the day. Thank-you for your co-operation in

this matter.

HOUSE CAPTAINS A few weeks ago our senior students were given the opportunity to nominate and run for the position of House Captains. The students then gave speeches in front of their peers and voted on. Congratulations to the 2021 House Captains:

RED Brooke Macrae &

Chayce Bowie

BLUE Harper Baker &

Maddie McKinnell

GREEN Milla Towers & Natalie Baker

YELLOW Mia Jones & Kai Seddon

HOUSE ATHLETICS SPORTS DAY The CPS House Sports Day is scheduled for Thursday 18th March. The day will run like a typical school day with events starting at 9:10am. Timetables will be available from the office a few days prior to the event. Please make sure students are wearing their house colours as well as shorts and runners. Coloured t-shirts can be purchased from the uniform shop for $8 each or students can wear something appropriate that they already own from home. A good lunch and water bottle is also important to keep up energy levels. Parents are most welcome throughout the day but MUST sign in on a contact register sheet which will be set up outside the office on the day .

CALENDAR DATES

Monday 8th March:

LABOR DAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Tuesday 9th March:

STUDENT FREE DAY - NO SCHOOL

Wednesday 10th March:

School Photo Day

Foundation Students commence full time

Thursday 18th March:

School Sports Day

Thursday 25th March:

Yinnar & District Sports Day

Thursday 1st April:

Easter Club - Gr 1-4

Last Day Term 1 (school finishes @ 1:30pm)

Monday 19th April:

First Day Term 2

ISSUE NO: 3 4th March 2021

We are looking forward to another great CPS Sports Day.

SPECIAL UNIFORM ORDERS Notices have been sent home with students today for our special order uniform items. These items are only ordered once a year and we do not keep them in our main uniform stock so please consider carefully if you wish to make an order. The CPS spray jackets are light weight and very popular amongst the students and the winter tunic/skirt are a great alternative for the girls during winter. All orders will require a $20 deposit per item and MUST be received at the office by Wednesday 24th March to ensure we can get our school order in before the end of term.

MEET WINNIE Towards the end of 2020 Churchill

Primary School held a Krispy Kreme fundraiser which was extremely well supported by the families and our wonderful Churchill community, raising a little over $2000. This money was put towards securing a very special (and fluffy) new addition to the Churchill Primary School team – Winnie! Winnie is a 5 month old Border Collie who will be trained as a therapy dog once she reaches a year old. When not at school she lives with Mrs McColl who is really looking forward to doing the training alongside Winnie when the time comes! I hope everyone enjoys the extended long weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday for our school photos!

KURNAI NEWS

Hello everyone, it is great to be able to introduce myself as the Campus Principal at Kurnai College, Churchill Campus. Following a very interesting year in 2020, I certainly hope 2021 will be much more ‘normal’ for us all.

Even though we had a disrupted year, the relationship with Kurnai Churchill and our feeder Primary Schools continued to strengthen. Whilst many of our Transition programs were put on hold last year, we are certainly looking forward to the first transition activity known as ‘Awareness Day’. On this day students in Grade 5 and 6 will spend the day participating in activities and classes at Churchill Campus.

We are always looking for ways to improve transition for students from Primary school into a Secondary setting and would love to hear any suggestions from our Primary families.

I would like to invite any Grade 5/6 parents to have a cuppa and chat with myself and Darren Campbell, Year 7 Team Leader on Friday, March 5th at 9.30 am as an opportunity to discuss anything about Kurnai College and Secondary School.

Kind regards,

Churchill Campus Principal

Cleo Lazaris

Jacquie Burrows