WELCOME TO WEEK 3 TERM 2 2021

Principal’s Message

PBL ASSEMBLY

Thank you to all the family members who attended the outdoor PBL assembly Week 2 Friday to celebrate the students who have reached BRONZE for being STRONG, SMART and PROUD during

Term 1.

FORMAL ASSEMBLY

Our first formal assembly is this Friday, 7th May. We still need to abide by NSW Health and NSW DoE COVID guidelines as these assemblies will take place in our Hall, invitations will be given to the families of the class who is running assembly and to Award Recipients to come and be the live audience. Invitation only is to assist with maintaining social distancing for all adults whilst on site and in the hall. Assemblies will be held at 2.15 pm.

Week 3 Formal Assembly will be run by 1/2B!

Week 5 Formal Assembly will be run by 4N!

STRATEGIC IMPROVEMENT PLAN (SIP) 2021-2024

NSW DoE schools have now commenced the new planning cycle for School Improvement. Each school has undergone rigorous evaluation and planning to develop new Strategic Directions.

Condobolin Public School’s 3 Strategic Directions (SD) are:

1. Student growth and attainment. (Literacy and Numeracy achievement—this is the same acrossall schools)

2. High impact teaching practice. (student growth in learning )

3. High expectations culture to maximise student learning and wellbeing.(attendance & wellbeing)

Principal’s Message Continued:

PBL FOCUS: Attendance

One of the targets for the SIP, is to have an increased percentage of students attending school more than 90% of the time . We understand that at times things happen for students to be away like being sick or unexpected events happen, all absences need to be explained and communicated as soon as possible with the school. If your child is absent We Notice, We Care and We Act .

We Notice: classroom teachers mark the roll daily and absent notes are justified or unjustified by Mrs Neilsen, in line with NSW DoE requirements for attendance. Good attendance is celebrated.

We Care: a staff member will make contact with home if there is no explanation for an absence or it has been 2 days in a row.

We Act: conversations are had with families to provide support in improving attendance at a school level, DoE Home School Liaison Officers engage with critically low attendance and an Attendance team meets weekly.

Student learning and wellbeing will improve with regular attendance and with families working together

with staff to overcome any barriers.

Kind Regards,

Mrs Jessica Neilsen

Good attendance, that is, attendance that is 90% or higher and all absences are justified is celebrated by a:

Prize draw for a canteen voucher each term per class

PBL & Attendance excursion each semester which celebrates positive behaviour and attendance

Principal Award for individual students acknowledging their 90% or above attendance and for students

who have shown improvement from Term to Term (starting Term 2, 2021)

Early Stage 1

&

Stage 1

Ms Kelly Seagrott

Supervisor

Mrs Kobi Fyfe

Supervisor

STAGE 1

2FB Ms Buerckner

1C—Miss Cusack

STAGE 1

2L Mrs Leslie

1/2B Mrs Barby

VOLUNTARY SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS

Our school contribution remains at $50 per student. This payment contributes towards:

Technology subscriptions including Mathletics and Typing Tournament

Art and crafts for special events e.g. Easter Hat Parade

Visiting performers.

There is financial support for families who need assistance, just make an appointment to

speak with Mrs Neilsen through the office.

MUSICA ARIOSO

MISS GAIL & MISS LEONIE

This term we have welcomed back Miss Gail , and her mum

Leonie, who will be taking a Ukulele group and a Choir group

during recess and lunch times. Students were able to put their

names forward to participate in these groups. We are excited

to have music back in the school!

ANZAC DAY MARCH

Our school captains were great role models representing Condobolin

Public School at the ANZAC Day March on Sunday 25th April.

Mrs Neilsen and Mrs Jones were very proud to be marching alongside

such fine ambassadors in memory of the soldiers who have fallen.

Lest We Forget.

Photo:A Atkinson

Snapshots from the Easter Hat Parade

On the last Thursday of Term 1, students in Kindergarten, Year One and Year Two participated in the annual Easter Hat parade. Family and friends were invited to enjoy the eggstravaganza! Thank you for the wonderful support from our community. Congratula-tions to all class teachers and students for the creative hats.

Thank you to families for their eggscellent donations supporting the P&C Easter Raffle. Congratulations to Benji Anderson who was eggscited by winning first prize.

Other winning tickets were

Jacob Doyle Ruby Wainwright

Ryda Ireland Oliver Thorpe

Rubie Haworth Saige Elliot

Thank you to all those friends and families who purchased tickets in the raffle.

Monday 10 May

Library Happenings Term 2 Week 3

Overdue Books: Many students have books showing up as ‘overdue’ when they come to borrow books. Can I kindly ask parents and carers to help their children check at home for any school library books before I send home ‘overdue’ notices in a couple of weeks. Anyone returning overdue books will receive ‘good ones’ to count towards their PBL Blue awards no matter how long they’ve had them.

National Simultaneous Storytelling: on Wednesday 19th May at 11am students will have the opportunity to take part in a national story telling session with over 1 million children across Australia & New Zealand. The book being read is “Give Me Some Space” by Philip Bunting will be read by an astronaut from the International Space Station.

Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC): I would like to see some students from stages 2 & 3 take part in this year’s PRC challenge so as an incentive any student who completes the challenge by end of August will go into a draw to win 1 of 6 $15 vouchers. Students in 3-6 need to read 15 books from the PRC book list plus 5 free choice books. That’s 20 books in total. There are 1000’s of books on both the stage 2 stage 3 lists to choose from. These lists are available once students have registered. Students can register online:

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/studentExperience.html

using their school login details. I am happy to help any student with registering and logging the books read, in the library during any at any lunch or recess break or in their class library session. The challenge started in March so any books read since then can be added to their Book Log.

Book Fair: Our first book fair for 2021 will be held in Week 8 this term. Students will view the books during week 7/8 to write their ‘wish list’. Books will be purchased on Friday 4th June.

# If you have any questions about anything to do with the library please contact me through the school office.

Kim King

CPS Teacher Librarian

Lunch time fitness groups Last term, students started attending the Willow Bend Sports Centre at lunch time for group fitness. These sessions proved very successful in developing students strength, fitness, resilience and self-confidence. Staff are very proud of the goals students achieved in Term 1 at the gym. The timetable is as follows: Stage 2 girls Tuesday with Miss Norrie, Stage 3 girls Wednesday with Miss Norrie and Stage 2 and Stage 3 boys with Mr C on Thursdays.

Netball Gala Day In Week 10 of Term 1, Mrs Cronje and Miss Norrie took 60 Strong, Smart and Proud

students to Parkes for the Netball NSW Gala Day. Students played a number of

non-competitive games on the day, building their skills and teamwork as the day pro-

gressed. Students had a lot of fun! Multiple staff from other schools spoke to Mrs Cronje

and Miss Norrie about how amazing our students were and particularly about how they

are great sports. Great job to all students involved!

Stage 2 visited the Water and Birds

Art exhibition and enjoyed the talk

given by conservationist and

wildlife photographer Mr Warren

Chad.

MCP harvested carrots from the garden last month during garden club and Skylah and Mrs Dargan took them around and shared them with some other classes.

CPS “Speak Up’ public speaking competition is on this Thursday with over 20 students

participating. Stage 3 will speak at 1pm and Stage 2 at 2pm. Adjudicators for the event

will be Mrs Judy Blatman and Mrs Heather Blackley. Parents and family members of

participating students are invited to come and watch the event held in the school hall

and follow Covid safe protocols.

HEALTHY LUNCH

Due to student allergies and the risk of anaphylaxis we kindly

ask that parents and carers do not send peanut or nut based

products to school. Alternate suggestions to peanut butter or

Nutella include cheese and vegemite or tomato and lettuce or

the ever popular Devon and sauce. Ideas can be found at

https://healthylunchbox.com.au or

https://healthyschoolcanteens.nsw.gov.au