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COROWAPublic School news

TERM 1 | WEEK 4 | 21 FEBRUARY 2018

So much to smile about at CPS!

What's Coming up?11-13 Mar Borambola Camp (Yr 4, 5 & 6)

244 Honour Avenue Corowa 2646OFFICE (02) 6033 1606

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C A R I N G | R E S P E C T F U L | R E S P O N S I B L E

Meet & Greet

Last night, parents had the opportunity to meet with their child’s 2019 teacher, get to know where their children’s classrooms are located and find out a little more about class routines and expectations. Open communication is vital in education – our staff care about your children and are looking forward to an amazing year supporting them in their academic, social and emotional growth. If you have any concerns, please make contact so that we can support you and your children.

Thanks P&C!

We would like to offer a huge vote of thanks to our hard-working P & C committee, who organised and ran the sausage sizzle for last night’s Meet & Greet. There were many comments of ‘yum’ and ‘Mum, can I have another one?’. It takes many hands to run these events and we value and appreciate the time and effort that our parent supporters put into making our school a great place.

Random Acts of Kindness Week – showing that we are a caring school

This week, led by our Wellbeing Officer Wendy Thompson, we have recognised Random Acts of Kindness Week. Studies have shown that kindness is indeed contagious. When a person does an act of kindness for another person, it makes the person receiving it more likely to do an act of kindness for someone else. This can unfold exponentially – like a ripple on a pond. Students have been writing down acts of kindness they see and putting them in a kindness bucket. They are showing that they notice, and perform, acts of kindness every day.

Home Reading

Home reading has begun in most classes, with students being asked to read every night for between 10 and 30 minutes. Reading at home allows your child to practice the important skills that they are learning in class and also gives them an opportunity to talk with you about books that they are reading. Reading aloud allows children to develop their expression and fluency.

Parents sometimes ask, ‘Why is this book easier than what they read in class? The answer is that the guided readers that they use in class are used to teach reading and comprehension skills. Home reading is a chance to practice these skills and should be enjoyable for parents and children!

Did you know, that by reading for just 20 minutes per day a student will read 1,800,000 words a year and read for 851 hours by the end of Year 6?

Dream Cars

Mrs Creamer has been working with all the classes to design dream cars with features that will help our environment. Some of these designs will be entered into a national competition. Our students are going to make the judges jobs very difficult! They have had some great ideas including:

• ‘grab-it’ arms to pick up rubbish and replace it with grass or a tree

• Giant vacuum cars to suck rubbish off the ocean floor

• Environmental police cars that will keep their eye on the public to make sure they are doing the right thing!


Corowa Connectswith Ms Stanton



Which words start with 'O'?Kindergarten students in Miss Baring's class were learning all about the letter 'O' in class today! They

practiced writing the letter and learned lots of words that start with 'O'.

Dodge this!Bandicoots got their hearts pumping with an exciting game of dodge ball in their PE last Thursday!

Online lunch ordering has begun!QuickCliq is now live! QuickCliq can be used to order from our school canteen online. Check out the back page for more info!

Congratulations to these awesome students on being awarded Citizen of the Week!

Levi Arnold, Lara Brown, Jake Rhodes, Rubie-Rose Wells, Addison Strachan, Axel Rogers, Evie Fischer, Phoenix Wight, Chelsea Brown.

Citizens of the Week!



Borambola School CampThe final payment of $80.00 is due to the front office by Monday 25 February.

Please contact the office on (02) 6033 1606 if you have any queries.

Assembly RosterWeek 2 Week 4 Week 6 Week 8 Week 10

Term 1 Captains Induction

Bilbies Flying Fox Kangaroos Quokka

Term 2 Platypus Bandicoot Possum & Sugar Glider

Echidna Koala & Wallaby

Term 3 Kangaroo Bandicoot Bilbies Koala & Sugar Glider

Echidna

Term 4 Quokka Flying Fox Wallaby & Pos-sum

Platypus Staff

Bandicoots endeavour to learn about Cook!Bandicoot students have been working on both their History knowledge and their drawing skills this week as they

researched and then sketched Captain Cook's ship, the HMS Endeavour!


Planting CalendarWe would like to extend our thanks to the students at Corowa High School who created and donated our new planting calendar! It details planting schedules for loads of our favourite vegetables and fruits.

Now we will know exactly when to plant and harvest everything in our garden!

Canteen lunch special, 28 Feb - curried sausages with rice!


Term 1 Canteen RosterDate Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

25 Feb - 1 Mar J Lavis B Barber M Hanrahan

4-8 Mar S Waterson E Bilney J Doody

11-15 Mar Georgette B Ray

18-22 Mar S Waterson

25-29 Mar J Doody J Lavis

1-5 Apr Elissa Bilney Georgette

8-12 Apr E Just B Barber B Ray


Get to know our staff!Name : Role:Mrs Baily Principal

Mrs McDougall Sugar Glider

Mrs Pilcher Sugar Glider (Thursdays)

Miss Baring K/1 Wallaby

Miss Lieschke K/1 Possum

Miss Sheridan K/1 Koala

Miss Doughty 2/3 Platypus

Miss Huggett 2/3 Bilby

Mr Strachan 2/3 Kangaroo

Miss Moores 4 Flying Fox

Mrs Johnston 5/6 Bandicoot

Mr Cook 5/6 Quokka (Assistant Principal)

Mr Creamer 5/6 Quokka (Thursdays)

Mr Boyer 5/6 Echidna

Mrs Brewster Library & Personal Development/Health

Mrs Creamer Personal Development/Health, Visual Arts & STEM

Mrs Pirnag Program support on Fridays

Mrs Grigg Learning Support and Wellbeing (Assistant Principal)

Ms Stanton Instructional Leader (Assistant Principal)



Teacher meet & greet

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