THE CFS WEEKLY “GROWING AND LEARNING TOGETHER”

To Parents and Carers,

Hello CFS Family

Attached to this newsletter is the annual parent

survey. These surveys are important as it gives all

parents a voice and provides the school with

valuable feedback on what we are doing well and

what we need to improve upon.

The survey will take about 15 minutes, which is a small investment of time that could result in significant change within the school in the future.

If you have any issues with the survey please call, our administration staff on 897333844. If you would like to talk to me on any matter, please contact the school to make an appointment.

For those who do not wish to do the paper version, there is an online version available at: https://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/cfs18

Please complete and return the survey by 31 August 2018.

There are a number of children wearing roller-skate shoes to school. Some of these shoes have a permanent skate wheel at the back of the shoe, some have retractable wheels. Neither type is acceptable foot wear for school.

Under our WHS guidelines, any shoe with wheels attached is deemed inappropriate foot wear for school as they present too great a risk of injury to the wearer and to other children. If your child presents at school with roller-skate shoes we will loan them a pair of our shoes, and keep the roller-skate shoes safe until home time.

Please support us and send your child to school in appropriate footwear. As always, I am happy to discuss this matter further with parents.

We have had a few instances lately in which we have not been able to contact the parents of a sick child because family contact details have been out of date. Please ensure when you get a new phone and/or change address that you let the school know, so that we can contact you if we need to.

We are fortunate to have Marilyn Holmes as a guest in the school this week. Marilyn is a distinguished academic from the University of Otago, NZ, and has expertise in the NZ Maths pedagogy that we use in the school. I anticipate some real growth in our numeracy across the school as a result of this visit, and it’s great to have back Marilyn back in our CFS family. This is Marilyn’s 14th visit to Katherine!

I hope you have a pleasant week.

Jeff

Term 3, Week 5

Week 6 — Tuesday 28th

Father’s Day Stall

Week 6 — Friday 31st

Book Week

Dress as your favorite Book Character

Merits at Assembly

~ Term 3 — Week 4~

Congratulations on your 10 Merits.

Astin McDonald

Darren Dawson

Joe Kossack-Chulung

PELICAN 8919 points

KINGFISHER 8432 points

JABIRU 7274 points

BROLGA 7389 points

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Assembly

Presenters— Jessica & Tabetha

Calendar — Term 3 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

20

Meaningful

Maths Week

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Cyber

Safety

Years 3, 4

5 & 6

21

Meaningful

Maths Week

Mobile

STEAM Bus

Whole

School

(Science,

Technology,

Engineering,

Arts &

Maths)

22

Meaningful

Maths

Week

23

Meaningful

Maths

Week

—————

NRL Darwin

Teaching

PE

24

Meaningful

Maths Week

Whole

School

Assembly 8:30am

--———————- Book Club Due

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Interschool Sport

Gala Day

27

Book Week

Pre School

Morning Tea

10am—

11am

28

Book Week

Buddy Class

Father’s

Day

Stall

29

Book Week

Rotations

30

Book Week

Community

Visitor

Reading

NRL Darwin

Teaching

PE

31

Book Week

Dress as your

favorite Book

Character

Interschool

Sports

Golf and

Lawn Bowls

03 04

Pre School

Visit to

Tindal

8:30m—

10am

05 06 07 Whole

School

Assembly

8:30m —————————————————————————-

School Sports

Cross Country

Katherine Show

Grounds

8am—11am

TERM

3

Week

5

Aug

——

Week

6

Aug

——-

Week

7

Sept

Buy a Day with a Teacher ( Friday afternoons)

Layleeshia with Mr Dehnert

Chloe & Patreace

With Miss Taylor

Declan with Miss Marz

Alisha with Mrs Buda

Whole School Average Mainstream Average

73.4 % 85.5 %

Best Week 4 Attendance

3/4 TAYLOR = 90.%

Remember to go to bed early

so you are ready and fresh for school each day.

Best Term 3 Attendance

3/4 TAYLOR = 92.76 %

Attendance School Missed over the years

Rate 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years 5 Years 10 Years

100% 0 0 0 0 0 0

90% 4 weeks 8 weeks 12 weeks 16 weeks 6 months 1 year

80% 8 weeks 16 weeks 24 weeks 32 weeks 1 year 2 years

70% 12 weeks 24 weeks 36 weeks 48 weeks 1.5 years 3 years

60% 16 weeks 32 weeks 48 weeks 64 weeks 2 years 4 years

50% 6 months 1 year 1.5 years 2 years 2.5 years 5 years

40% 24 weeks 48 weeks 72 weeks 96 weeks 3 years 6 years

30% 28 weeks 56 weeks 84 weeks 112 weeks 3.5 years 7 years

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Transition Buda

ILU Wallace

1/2 Jones

1/2 Rankine

3/4 Gillings

3/4 Lake

3/4 Taylor

5/6 Dehnert

5/6 Everett

5/6 Rawlings

Whole School

CFS Attendance Term 3 Week 4

Term average Weekly attendance

Transition Term 3 so far...

We’ve had

some special

visitors: ILU

have been

joining us on

Friday after-

noons, and Ali-

sha W. joined

us on a Buy a

Day.

We have also

been learning

about how to use

our

new

Buddy Bench.

We have

joined

Performing

Arts with

Health and

made skits

showing

the

CFS Way.

We have been hard at work, assessing Literacy and Numeracy

and so many are coming along with reading and number work!

Pre School Pirates

Due by this Friday

24th August Week 5

After School Care Fun

with Miss Jenna

Father’s Day Stall

Tuesday

28th August

All Gifts are under $10