18 june 2020 · 2020. 6. 25. · rhonda dunn, jade livingston, tina cheney. previous meeting...

At Cargo Public School, we value the learning of every student, and the best interests of your children are at the heart of all we do. We started this term in a most unusual way, but I'm glad to say that the students have all settled in beautifully to our school routines and we are all learning together. All classes concentrate on teaching English for the morning session, and Maths in the middle session each day. These are routine-based and allow stu-dents to practise and refine the skills they will need throughout their lives and careers. As teachers, our priority is always your children. The amount of time that is involved in preparing activities and tasks, organising and cleaning up after group work and supervising on the play-ground means that we are often stretched for time and trying to do several things at once. If you need to meet with myself or teachers, please contact Mandy in the office to make an appoint-ment. This means we will be able to put time aside so that we are only concentrating on the meeting and makes for a much more successful meeting as we can give you our full attention. We are always happy to meet with parents and carers by appointment. This week has also seen the introduction of our new rewards sys-tem – The Cargo Cattle Dog! Voted on by students on Monday, students will receive a ‘cattle dog card’ whenever staff see them working hard, being a great friend or helping out around the school. At the end of each week, 1 name will be picked to be our ‘Students of the Week’. Look out for our first ‘Student of the week’ in the next newsletter! Students are also collecting Cattle Dogs towards a whole class reward. Keep collecting kids!

Maths Term 3 From Term 3 there will be a change to the way in which Maths is taught. We will be moving away from the use of textbooks, and instead concentrate more on hands-on activi-ties, discussions and personalising learning to meet the needs of every student. Students will work in groups based on their current lev-el of understanding rather than their year group, and will move between groups. This will allow us to support and extend every stu-dent’s understanding.

Semester 1 Reports Mid-year reports will

be coming home in Week 10. Please note that due to COVID-19, these will look different from usual. There will be no A-E grading, and instead there will be 3 comment boxes, 1 each for English and Maths and 1 for the oth-er KLAs. We’re also asking all families for their input into the Learning from Home as-pect of Terms 1 and 2. Attached to the end of this newsletter is short checkbox. Please discuss the areas with your child, tick the most appropriate box and return to school (signed) by Wednesday 24th June. These will be included in our mid-year reports to acknowledge the enormous effort students, parents and carers put in to Learning from Home.

“The Beautiful thing about

LEARNING is No-one can take

it away from you” B.B King

18 June 2020

Cargo Public School loves learning! As well as the

students, our teachers value learning and we are

all continually aiming to improve our teaching. Our

teachers Miss Pearce & Miss Garlick, are currently

involved in professional learning aimed at linking

talking, reading and writing in the K-2 grades. On

Monday they participated in a state-wide video

conference, led by Dr Noella Mackenzie that ex-

plored the links between drawing and writing in

children up to eight years of age. This week, the

new 'Draw, Talk, Write, Share' activi-

ty implemented in the classroom was received

positively by the Infants students. As part of this,

with parent permission, student work samples will

be collected and shared with other teachers com-

pleting the same professional learning course. A

permission note was sent home earlier in the

week to parents regarding this, If you are happy

for your child's work samples to be shared, please

send the signed note back into Mandy.

NEW SCHOOL REWARDS

This week has also seen the introduc-tion of our new rewards system – The Cargo Cattle Dog! Voted on by students on Monday, students will receive a ‘cattle dog card’ whenever staff see them working hard, being a great friend or helping out around the school. At the end of each week, 1

name will be picked to be our ‘Students of the Week’. Look out for our first ‘Student of the week’ in the next newsletter! Students are also collecting Cattle Dogs towards a whole class

COOKING CLASS

Cooking this fortnight has been very

educational with the children learning

to make butter and bread, plus a

range of Wednesday dishes.

Last week -

Chicken, Bacon & Mushroom Carbonara

Chocolate Weetbix Slice

This Week-

Pizzas with homemade pizza dough bases Pizza

(using radish and baby spinach leaves from our gar-

den)

slow cooker butterscotch self-saucing pudding

TRANSITION

Transition read 'The Rainbow Fish' and

created their very own rainbow fish to

hang up in the classroom.

Transition also had fun practicing their

alphabet and numbers using play

dough.

Cooperative play at transition, creating

their own farms.

CHARLI

We also had a very special visitor last week – Miss Stone brought her dog Charli to school! She was very excited to meet all the kids, and was exhausted by the time she went home at lunch. I suspect the kids were too…

Shout out to local buSineSS’

If you want to share your business with us—

please email it to the school.

We’ve settled into a great routine in 3-6. Our new spelling sorts mean that every student is learning to spell words at the right level for them, and our Friday spelling test results have been great so far! Each student is able to state what the spelling rule is that they’re practising, and words range from pet to recklessness depending on the spelling level you’re at. We’re also concentrating on understanding what we read. Each day we get into our pairs and do ‘Partner Read and Think’. This allows us to practise our comprehension by discussing what we read with a partner, then writing a short summary. Finally, we learning to ‘Tighten Tension’ in our stories by focussing on what our character can see, hear, smell, taste and touch, and dis-cussing how our character feels. In Science and Geography we’re learning about sustainability, and how to reduce our waste.

Last week the Infants class were learning about proce-

dure writing. Last Friday we learnt how to make home-

made butter. We put cream, salt and some marbles into

jars, closed the lids tightly, and then shook the jars until

the cream separated into butter and buttermilk. We

made some fresh bread to spread our butter on. Deli-

cious!

We have been doing lots of hands-on activities to help us

develop our counting and number skills.

We are very excited that, with school continuing to re-

turn to normal, we are able to have Mrs Denham visiting

us again at school for our weekly Friday music lessons.

Cooking will resume week 5 on Wednesdays. Please pay your term 2 $10 per

child.

Chinese lessons are on Mondays at 11.30

Sport this term will be physical fitness on Fridays after lunch.

Term 3 will be 10 weeks of a range of fitness and games run by exergames

The Exergames' team aims to create highly engaging PE sessions through the implementation of flexible and adaptive programming tailored to your school’s needs. With a strong focus on the con-cept ‘TGFU’ (Teaching Games for Understanding) and Positive Behavioural Learning, Exergames cre-ates an environment that is fully inclusive allowing for all students to achieve success.

Music will now be at school on Fridays starting this week.

Class times will be Years 4-6 at 12 and K-2 at 12:30.

Scripture will resume in term 3 on Fridays as usual. 9-9.30am

The P&C ran a meeting recently at Timber Tales enjoying a face to face catch up over great

coffee. Thanks to Michelle for opening her shop for the meeting.

We discussed what this year looks like in terms of fundraising and Covid.

Please see the attached minutes for your information.

Parents and Community, Cargo P&C needs your help!

We are aiming to hold a wood raffle early in Term 3. We are currently seeking kind and gener-

ous volunteers to donate their time, energy and equipment in providing enough wood to fill a

trailer. Please note that we are raffling the wood, not the trailer!

If you can help, please contact a P&C member.

Name :____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

P&C minutes P&C Meeting

10/06/2020 Meeting Time: 3:41pm Meeting Location:

Timber Tales

President Rebecca Shields

Vice President Belinda Barrett

Minutes Kellie Stone

Attendees Rebecca Shields, Belinda Barrett, Kellie Stone, Robyn Price, Alice ,

Rhonda Dunn, Jade Livingston, Tina Cheney.

Previous meeting minutes

Time allotted 5 minutes

Discussion Previous meeting minutes read.

Conclusions All agreed.

Treasurer’s Report


Discussion $492 raised through Easter Raffle.

Other fundraisers cancelled due to COVID-19.

Need for new treasurer.

Conclusions Total funds currently $5084.83.

Belinda offered to act as treasurer. All in favour, none opposed.

Action Items Person Responsible Deadline

Add Belinda as signatory to account. Belinda 29/7/2020

Principal’s Report


Discussion Cooking has resumed with a healthy food focus.

Life Education van has been rescheduled to T3.

Conclusions N/A

Year 6 Jumpers


Discussion Design has been submitted. Should be back with next 2 weeks.

School Photos


P&C minutes Discussion Rumours circulating that school photos have been cancelled. Kellie

Stone stated that they have not been cancelled, but that the school is

looking into alternative photographers. Belinda has submitted a quote

from Courtney Walker, a locally-based photographer.

Conclusions School photos will occur this year. Photographer yet to be decided.


Obtain additional quotes from school photographers. Kellie 29/7/2020

Teatowel Fundraiser


Discussion Brochure and teatowel sample sent around.

Possibility raised of adding local landmarks to increase customer base.

Teatowel – Navy on white @ $15; Apron – Sky on navy @ $20; Tote –

Sky on black @ $20. Suggestion of bundle (1 of each) for $50.

Initial suggested outlay $2524. Possibility of getting a smaller initial

order run raised.

Conclusions EOI to be placed in T3 newsletter to inform initial order request.


Publish EOI in newsletter Kellie Mid T3.

Wood Raffle Fundraiser


Discussion Suggestion raised of running a wood raffle early T3. Parents to donate

wood.

Conclusions Request for volunteers to be placed in end T2 newsletter.


Publish request for volunteers in newsletter Kellie 18/6/2020

Resignation


Discussion Rebecca Shields offered her resignation as President.

Conclusions Position declared open.


Call for nominations carried over to next meeting. 29/7/2020

Meeting declared closed at 4:44pm

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