Cowra Public School
NEWS 30 May 2013 Term 2, Week 5
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
FOR YOUR DIARY
JUNE
4 St 3 Verse Speaking Eisteddfod
5 UNSW Science Test
5 E2-3 & H2-3 Eisteddfod
6 Movie Night (postponed)
10 QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY
17 UNSW Writing Test
18 UNSW Spelling Test
28 END OF TERM
JULY
15 PUPIL FREE DAY
16 Students return
Dear Parents
In what could only be described as great
organisation and management, Mrs
Duncan has been able to run the athletics
prior to the rain. Mrs Duncan, who is well
known for being able to create rain in
drought conditions, held a wonderful
carnival yesterday with all children enjoying
the day. The speed displayed during the
finals of the age races was very impressive
and the skill level of the field events was a
sight to see. Outstanding performances
included a photo finish in the Senior Boys
800m race between Kohan Kachel and
Matthew Booker and some family rivalry
between Danielle and Hannah Wright in the
track events.
This week the school has been reviewing
student progress through the first part of the
year and all classes have been conducting
assessment tasks in preparation for the
reporting period towards the end of the
term. School reports will be distributed to
parents on Monday, 24 June.
Our Kindergarten classes were on show to
the Lachlan District L3 coordinator on
Tuesday. The role of the coordinator is to
review and guide the delivery of the L3
program into schools. The progress of the
students and staff in the implementation of
the program were highly praised, with great
results being evident in all Kindergarten
rooms. The school is delighted with the
progress of the students and are positive
that the program has provided a firm
fundamental start to literacy for all students
involved. I would like to recognise the work
being undertaken by Mrs Ryan, Mrs
White, Mrs Bowen, Mrs Eldridge, Mrs
Pulling and Ms Hyde in providing such
quality teaching.
A few weeks ago I announced the
retirement of the Regional Director of
Western Region, Mrs Carole McDiamid.
The NSW Department of Education and
Communities have been undergoing a
structural change and last week Ms Dail
McGilchrist was appointed one of four
Executive Directors and will lead the
Directors, Public Schools NSW with
responsibility for the following principals’
networks: Albury, Bathurst, Cootamundra,
Deniliquin , Far South Coast, Far West,
Griffith, Lachlan, Macquarie, Orange,
Queanbeyan, South Coast, Southern
Tablelands, Wagga Wagga, Western
Plains, Wollongong and Wollongong
North. We wish Ms McGilchrist the very
best in the role and look forward to
working closely with her.
The scheduled movie night for Week 6
has been postponed at the moment. The
school is electing to hold the night later in
the year in order to provide a current
movie that will appeal to a wide
audience.
In Week 8 on Tuesday,18 June the school
will be holding the second Adventure
Day. Fourteen Stage 2/3 children will be
going with Mr Tom and other staff
members to complete challenging
activities including waterfall climbing,
bushwalking and possibly caving. These
days are seen as a highlight to the term
CONTACTING THE SCHOOL Mail: PO Box 285, Cowra
Phone: 6342 2400
Fax: 6341 1357
School Counsellor: 6341 3078
Support Teachers for:
Vision/Hearing/Behaviour: 6342 4147
Dept.Health Dental Clinic:
1300 552 208
Internet Email address:
Internet WEB address:
http://www.cowra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
and are part of the PBL rewards
process that recognises students who
are consistently on task and attend
school always. Teachers will choose
two students from their class and
notes will go home to these children.
Our tennis team played in Parkes on
Monday and played well, but were
beaten by the Parkes group. A huge
thank you to the children involved,
Jacqui Dresser, Danielle Wright, Sam
Long, Drew Willis and their parents
who have travelled with the children
during the year. A big thank you to
Mr Lewis, who has given his time to
coach and transport the team.
Regards
Brad Tom
Page 2 Cowra Public School
PRIMARY AND INFANTS
ASSEMBLIES
PRIMARY: Primary Assemblies are held
every Wednesday at 2.30pm in the
auditorium.
INFANTS: Infants Assemblies are held
every Friday at 2.30pm in the
auditorium.
KB will be running the Assembly
tomorrow and G1 will be performing
items.
The following students received their
awards at last week’s assembly.
PRIMARY
Korriarnah Simpson-Murray, Isaiha
Bridge, Sharlee Williams, Kimball Sullivan,
Ruby McKeown, Abby Wilson,
Madeleine Mulligan, Hayley Harding,
Kyle Murray, Jade Lanham, Hollie Baker,
Joel Edgerton, Peter Hardwick, Alex
Shaw, Harlee Simms, Courtney Wright,
Kayla Hall, Sally Roberts, Jack Burns,
Mitchell Hatch, Diana Stojanovic,
Teagan Drage, Marcus O’Connor, Lily
Hoppe, Jaylan Simpson.
INFANTS
Tallis Bell, Krystal White, Tom Coghlan,
Josie Muddle, Lucy Scammell, Nikolai
Paki, Jaz Dunlop, Ryan Matijak, Zac
Sheehan, Charlie Peterson, Maddie
Brown, Lindsey Barlow, Connor
McMahon, Murray Devlin, Felicity
Bolton, Annaray Watson, Olivia
Kacarovski, Alannah D’Elboux,.
PBL AWARDS
The following students have gained
sufficient gotchas on the school’s PBL
Program to receive an achievement
certificate. The students received their
certificate for being respectful, on task
and safe.
Triple Blue Achievement Certificate (200)
PRIMARY: Lindsay Munro
Double Silver Achievement Certificate (140)
PRIMARY: Lacie Mckeown
Double Blue Achievement Certificate (120)
INFANTS: Jacquie Long
Gold Achievement Certificate (80)
INFANTS: Vye Singleton
Yellow Achievement Certificate (20)
INFANTS: Jumyah Simpson, Erin Moy
UNIVERSITY OF NSW
COMPETITIONS
This year, Educational Assessment Australia,
the University of New South Wales is
celebrating the delivery of International
Competitions and Assessments for Schools
(ICAS) for 30 years. ICAS is the largest
independent competition and assessment
program for schools in Australia. It is also
delivered to over 20 countries.
Dates for sitting the exams
Science: (Wednesday, 5 June)
Writing: (Monday, 17 June)
Spelling: (Tuesday, 18 June)
English: (Wednesday, 31 July)
Mathematics: (Tuesday, 13 August)
EISTEDDFOD
PARTICIPATION
STAGE 3 VERSE SPEAKING
Tuesday, 4 June in the 9.30am session
E2-3 & H2-3 PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, 5 June in the 10.00am session
E2-3 & H2-3
E2-3 & H2-3 will be performing at the
Eisteddfod on Wednesday, 5 June in the
9.30am session. The students will be
performing two items.
Children are to come to school in a shirt,
blue denim jeans and joggers.
They will depart school at 9.15am to walk to
the Civic Centre.
Parents and friends are most welcome to
come along to support, cheer, clap
applaud etc! There will be a small charge for
entry into the Civic Centre.
WOOLWORTHS EARN
& LEARN
Woolworths Earn &
Learn promotion is on
again this year. The
promotion goes from
8th April until the 9th June.
Parents and friends can continue
collecting stickers from Woolworths.
1 point earns 1 sticker. Collect your
cards from Woolworths.
Remember .. .. The more stickers
collected the greater the number
of resources the school can
purchase. Send in your completed
cards or just send in the stickers and
we will place them on a card.
More cards available at the school
office.
Earn & Learn points so far ~ 16,000
STAGE 2 EXCURSION
TO BLUE MOUNTAINS
Planning is under way for the Stage 2
excursion to the Blue Mountains. This
excursion will take place on
Thursday, 12 & Friday, 13 September.
The excursion involves travel by bus
to Katoomba.
While there the students will take
part in:
A Discovery Rangers Tour
A Blue Mountains Cultural and
World Heritage Centre A Walk to see the Three Sisters
A Scenic Cableway and Railway
ride
A visit to the Jenolan Caves
The children will be staying at the
YMCA, Katoomba overnight.
The cost of the excursion will be
approximately $170.00 per student.
The final cost will depend upon the
number of students attending.
As soon as costing has been
finalised, a more detailed note will
be sent home with the itinerary and
payment options.
The excursion is open to all students
in Year 3 and Year 4.
An expression of interest note has
been sent home and this needs to
be returned to the class teacher as
soon as possible so final numbers
and costing can be done.
RED SHIELD
APPEAL
Once again this year, Cowra
Public School will be supporting the
Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal. We will
be holding a RED MUFTI DAY on Friday, 31
May.
Those children who wish to wear RED and
support the Salvos are asked to bring a
gold coin donation which will be collected
at morning assembly.
Shavaughn Duncan
MOVIE NIGHT
The P & C Movie Night set down for
Thursday, 6 June has been postponed
until the release of the movie “Croods”.
A new date will be advertised later in
the term.
SPORT
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STAGE 3 EXCURSION
TO ACADEMY OF
SPORT;
Date: Monday, 18 November until
Friday, 22 November 2013.
The focus of this excursion is on
outdoor education with planned
activities selected from canoeing,
archery, rock-climbing, kayaking,
orienteering and bike education.
The cost will be $360.00.
Instalment payments are due:
Thursday, 29 June $50.00
Thursday, 27 July $50.00
Thursday 19 August $50.00
Thursday, 25 September $50.00
Thursday, 31 October $50.00
Full payment by Thursday, 31
October. A part refund will be
made on medical grounds only.
DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY
Congratulations to all of our students who competed at the
District Cross Country last Friday. Your efforts were fantastic and
your behaviour was commendable. A special congratulations
to those 14 students who have qualified to represent Cowra
District at the Regional Cross Country in Wellington on
Wednesday, 12 June, 2013. The Cowra Public School members
of the Regional team are as follows:
Ella Meeuwisse Joel Edgerton
Danielle Wright Zach Pollard
Jasmine Edgerton Sam Long (1st 11 yr boys)
Chloe Lanham Kohan Kachel (1st 12/13 yr boys)
Jacqui Dresser Jaylan Simpson
Ginger Oliver
Courtney Wright
Isabella Scammell
Madeleine Mulligan (1st 10 yr girls)
Well done and the best of luck for Wednesday, 12 June.
MAY AUSSIE OF THE MONTH
Chloe Nash
Chloe is pictured with her mother and the
presenter, Maria Curtale from Woolworths
Chloe received her award for being a
responsible, reliable and diligent student.
She is always polite and considerate. Her
uniform is worn with pride and her
behaviour consistently reflects the PBL
school wide expectations of our school.
She promptly returns notes requiring
responses and is an attentive listener.
Krystal White
Krystal is pictured with her family and the
presenter , Tina Rainbow from Woolworths
Krystal received her award for being a
diligent student who works to the best of her
ability at all times. She is a kind and caring
class member, respectful of all with beautiful
manners. Krystal wears her uniform with
pride. She is a reliable and responsible
member of Cowra Public School.
PSSA TENNIS
Last Monday, the Cowra Public School tennis team played
Parkes Public School in Round 3 of the PSSA knockout
competition.
Our team played as hard as they could but were defeated by a
very strong Parkes team, 6 games to 2. Reaching Round 3 was
an excellent result and this is the first time a Cowra tennis team
as gone this far. It was my pleasure to take the team for the day.
They are a credit to their families.
Paul Lewis
Tennis coach
The team was:
Drew Willis Danielle Wright
Sam Long Jacqui Dresser
Page 4 Term 2, Week 5
P & C
CLOTHING POOL
HOURS: Tuesday afternoon
2.15pm - 3.00pm
In the school auditorium
Lisa Willis, the canteen supervisor is in
charge of the Clothing Pool and if you
can’t make it on Tuesdays you can
contact Lisa at the canteen during
school times (please be aware that
Lisa is busy with orders before school,
recess and lunch times).
CANTEEN
ASSISTANCE
Lisa, the canteen manageress
is looking for volunteers to
assist in running the canteen.
Please consider spending one day a
month volunteering. It is a great way to
keep in touch with your children and their
friends.
The canteen is a great fundraiser for the
school and all profits from this source are
shared evenly between the Infants and
Primary divisions of the school, and are
expended on equipment for pupil and
teacher use.
Although we have a full-time Manageress,
Mrs Lisa Willis, we also require a volunteer
each day to assist with the preparation
and sale of food.
Volunteer assistance is needed from 9:00
a.m. until 2:00 p.m. daily OR perhaps
9.00am until 11.00am to make the lunches.
VOLUNTARY SCHOOL
CONTRIBUTION
Voluntary contributions are set each
year by the P.&C.
This year, these are the same as in the
past, namely $30 per child. Less than
15c a day!
Thank you to parents who have made
this contribution to date.
DONATION OF SPARE
CLOTHING
As the weather is getting colder the
school is running low on spare clothing
for children who have little accidents.
We are in need of good quality
clothing for all sizes.
Girls and boys underwear
Tracksuit pants/trousers
School jumpers
Shirts (boys & girls)/skivvies
Socks
Shoes (any size)
COMMUNITY Cowra Learning Difficulties
Support Group
Date: 18th June, 2013
Where: Cowra Family Support Building
5 Vaux Street
(Opposite Cowra Public School)
Time: 6.45pm for 7pm- 8.15pm
More information contact 63423432
Guest Speaker
Karen Trengove
Speech Therapist
LIGHT SUPPER AVAILABLE
We would like to invite interested Parents, Professionals and
Community Members to an Inaugural Meeting to gauge
interest in forming a Support Group in Cowra
Does your child-
Struggle with following instructions?
Have difficulty recognising or reading words?
Struggle to stay focused?
P & C MEETINGS
The P & C meet on the 3rd Thursday of
every month
at 7.00pm in the school staffroom.
Everyone is welcome to come along
and have an input into their child’s
education.
PO Box 900, Cowra NSW 2794 T/A Lic 2TA5695 Phone: 6342 1021 Fax: 6342 4597
Email: [email protected] Website:www.cowrabus.com.au
DISNEY ON ICE: Princesses and Heroes: Thursday, 11 July, 2013 - Allphones Arena, Sydney - $125.00
ANDRE RIEU: Wednesday, 16 October, 2013 - Allphones Arena, Sydney - $280.00
DON MCLEAN IN CONCERT: Thursday, 29 August, 2013 - Canberra Theatre - “A” Res-$200.00: “B” Res-$170.00 - Expression of interest
GREASE: Saturday, 9 November, 2013 - Lyric Theatre, Sydney - $190.00
2014 AUSTRALIAN TENNIS OPEN: January, 2014 - Melbourne - Book early to secure you sessions. Expressions of interest
MRS BROWNS BOYS: 31 March, 2014 - Canberra: Expression of interest
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