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Week 6 Term 3

Principal’s Report page 1

Primary News page 2

Secondary News page 2

Whole School News page 2

Community Announcements page 3

Coming up at Coleambally Central School

Week 6 Term 3 NAIDOC Week

Monday 17th

August

Tuesday 18th

August

Wednesday 19th

August

Thursday 20th

August

Friday 21st August

K-Year 2 Library visit Griffith

Primary touch football clinic

Kinder tree planting

NAIDOC Day

CHS Rugby Knockout Dubbo

Year 7 Scripture

CHS Rugby Knockout Dubbo

Peer Support

CHS Rugby Knockout Dubbo

Secondary Chess

Primary Assembly 12.45pm Year 2

Week 7 Term 3

Monday 24th

August

Tuesday 25th

August

Wednesday 26th

August

Thursday 27th

August

Friday 28th

August

Primary chess

2016 Kinder parent information

night 5.30pm

Trial HSC Exams

Peer Support

Year 5/6 Orienteering forest BBQ

Trial HSC Exams

Trial HSC Exams

Primary Assembly Year 3

Principal’s Report Last Friday, Coleambally Central School had a very busy

day indeed. The Minister for Education, Adrian Piccoli

came to school especially to present Andrew Evans in Year

9 with a certificate to acknowledge his outstanding

achievements as a Clay Target Shooter. Congratulations to

Andrew and his family. We are very proud of him and look

forward to hearing of his future successes in this sport.

18th

August 2015

Also on Friday was the much anticipated Science Fair in

keeping with the National Science Week theme: Making

waves – THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT. The day was an

outstanding success with all participants learning about the

complexity of light and generally enjoying the experience.

Thank you to the Science Department Mrs. Lamont and Mr.

Johnson for all their hard work and innovation in allowing

this great experience to come to fruition. Year 9 students,

who hosted the activities, should also be congratulated on

their enthusiasm toward the day and for their efforts to

thoroughly assist students, teachers and parents navigate

around the stations. Thanks to Ms. Sharon Breed for

offering her time to help out on the day and for her fabulous

cooking.

NAIDOC Celebrations Wednesday 19th

August.

This Wednesday our school will celebrate NAIDOC week

across K-10 to recognise the history, culture and

achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

peoples. The focus for this year’s celebrations is Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique and timeless

connection to land. The theme – We all Stand on Sacred

Ground: Learn, Respect and Celebrate – highlights

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ strong

spiritual and cultural connection to land and sea.

A full program of events will operate all day allowing

students to engage with the five stations of activities and

learning more about this fascinating culture. A program of

events is attached to this newsletter and parents are most

welcome.

Students K-6 are asked to wear their sports uniform.

Coleambally Central School

A quality education in your community school

Find us at: Kingfisher Avenue, Coleambally, NSW, 2707

Phone: 6954 4131 Fax: 6954 4396

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

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CHS Central School Knockout

25 students will travel to Dubbo on Wednesday to

participate in the 7-a-side Rugby League knockout from

Wednesday to Friday this week. I would like to wish these

students and accompanying staff the best of luck for this

sporting venture. I am very confident that these students will

be fine ambassadors for Coleambally Central School.

NAPLAN Results 2015

National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) results will be released to schools starting from

today. Parents will soon receive a report envelope

containing:

National Report

Additional Student Report

Letter from the Minister.

More information to assist in understanding these document

can be found at:

http://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/parent-carer-support.html

Trial HSC Examinations reminder Trial Higher School Certificate examinations will

commence on Tuesday 25th

August until Thursday 27th

August. Stage 6 students will resume normal classes from

period 4 on Thursday.

Past examination papers are available on the BOSTES

website http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/

And will be an incredibly useful resource to prepare for the

upcoming examinations. Please use this time wisely.

Kindergarten Discovery Days Program 24th

and 25th

August 2015.

Our 2016 Kindergarten orientation program will commence

next week with a Parent Information Night on Monday 24th

August 2015 from 5:30pm - 6:30pm. Following this will be

a Student Orientation Afternoon on Tuesday 25th

August

from 12:30pm – 3:00pm. A registration of interest sheet will

be attached to the newsletter for your convenience. We look

forward to seeing you next week.

Have a fantastic week.

Meagan Crelley

Principal

Primary News Assembly Awards

Kinder

Riley Boag Great enthusiasm during reading groups

Amber McGown Fantastic letter and sound recognition

Damon Pound Wonderful sight word knowledge

Nathan Vearing Excellent participation in TEN maths

Year 1

Tayla DeMamiel An enthusiastic work ethic

Wilkie Evans Writing interesting stories

Lilly Roberts Creating beautiful graphs

Year 2

Saige Mannes Confident and enthusiastic answers in

maths and spelling

Piper DeMamiel Fast and accurate answers in subtraction,

number sentences and mentals

Montanna Davis Fast and accurate answers in in subtraction

quizzes

Year 3

Nikita Passlow Trying hard to answer maths questions

Ebonie Conlan Showing confidence answering questions

in class

Sam Strachan Being a keen participant in all fitness

activities

Year 4

Andrew White A wonderful attitude towards his learning

Wyatt Anstice Fantastic application to all literacy

activities

Year 5/6

Adalita Simpson Class Award

Daniel Collier Class Award

Sausage Sizzle

Remember our lunchtime sausage sizzle in the forest on

Tuesday 25th

August.

Dave Watts

Assistant Principal

Griffith City Library Visit

Yesterday Kinder – Year 2 were all able to meet and greet

author Louise Park and listen to her journey as a writer.

Louise read through some of her stories including new

releases. The day was finished with lunch at Griffith City

Park. The students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed this

excursion, the students represented CCS beautifully.

Janine Foster

Assistant Principal

Secondary News 10W Geography

Year 10w Geography went out to the biodiversity block 2

with Coleambally Irrigations Mark Robb. Mark helped us by

sharing his extensive knowledge of the area’s history and

flora and fauna. We were investigating the quarry on the

block as part of our Land and Water management unit. We

compared the quarried site with the unquarried surrounding

areas. Our investigation focused on the human impact on the

land. Our research action plan will include ways of restoring

degraded land, such as the quarry.

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Emu Munro

Geography Teacher

Stage 5 Agriculture With all the rain, we have had much growth at the Ag Farm

this term. Stage 5 has delicious looking vegetable gardens

with many vegetables close to being ready to be harvested

(thank you to Mrs Burgess for her kind donation of

seedlings to help the students along with their gardens). Our

garlic is also growing strongly - we are hoping to be able to

harvest it and learn to plait it.

We now have our four goats and one sheep permanently

settled at school. It took a lot of work on Mr Woodman's

behalf to keep them fenced in, but now they are enjoying

their new luscious paddock! Our chickens are happy with

our two babies born this year growing healthily - one a

rather gorgeous looking Pekin/Silkie cross rooster. Mrs

Fattore kindly donated to us a Brown Silkie chook who has

grown into a beautiful rooster!

Our next major projects at the Ag farm are to plant out our

paddocks with the aid of our new watering systems. We

plan to plant one paddock with melons, pumpkins and the

like, and our other paddocks with a summer pasture for our

animals. Donations of any seeds would be most welcome.

Ann Pretty

Head Teacher Science

Whole School News Science Week Poster Competition As part of Science Week 2015 a poster competition was run

by the CCS Science faculty. The aim of the poster

competition was to develop a poster to advertise CCS

Science Week Fair, the theme of which was Making Waves:

The Science of Light. Many entries were received with the

winner being judged by Mrs Lamont and Mrs Woodman.

Congratulations Eloise Jay (Year 4) on being judged the

winner. She received a Cool Science: Build Your Own

Maze kit and a $20 iTunes voucher.

Science Fair

The Coleambally Central School Science Fair went off with

a bang, albeit safely. Together we celebrated National

Science Week with the theme Making Waves - the Science

of Light. We had a wonderful range of groups from the

community visit including students from St Peter's Primary

School and Coleambally Preschool. Year 9 shone brightly in

their presentation of scientific activities to make the day a

huge success. Thank you to all who attended and to those

who helped.

C. Apted

Science Teacher

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Community Announcements

Bendigo Bank School Banking

Congratulations to Dylan Walsh from Coleambally Central

who was the winner of the football for the month of June by

simply performing school banking. Don’t forget Bendigo

Bank will pick up banking every Wednesday from the

school office. Every time a student sends in school banking

they will go into the monthly draw to win a football or

netball. If you wish to discuss opening an account for your

child don’t hesitate to drop into the bank or call us on 6954

4192.