Dear Parent/Carers

School Photos

Our school photos will be held this Monday, 13 May. We ask that students wear their full school uniform and remember to bring their envelopes. Family photo order forms can be obtained from the office.

Office Hours

Unfortunately our School Administration Manager hours has been reduced from full time to a 7 day fortnight position. As a result the office will be open from Wednesday to Friday each week and every Tuesday even weeks. Please keep this in mind when making enquiries or payments. Any enquiries or messages on Mondays and odd week Tuesdays should be made before 9.30am and after 2.30pm. Thank you for your understanding and we are sorry for any inconvenience.

2019 NAPLAN Online

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) assesses literacy and numeracy skills that are essential for every child to

progress through school and life. Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will be participating in the annual NAPLAN tests in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy throughout the next two weeks. The assessment provides parents and schools with an understanding of how individual students are performing at the time of the tests. NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process - it does not replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance.

Stage 2 & 3 camp

The note with final costings and payment plans for both Stage 2, Jenolan Caves Camp and Stage 3, Adventure Land Camp to be held in September were sent home this week.

Small Schools Cross Country

What a fantastic day! Our Small Schools Cross Country was held on Friday 3 May here at Central Mangrove PS. We were joined by Somersby PS, Peats Ridge PS, Kulnura PS, Wyong Creek PS and Jilliby PS. It was a wonderful opportunity to show off our beautiful school. We greatly appreciate the support of the parents who helped in the kids kitchen. Thank you to the hard work of the teachers, particularly Mrs Gilmore for her organisation and Mr Pugh for preparing the grounds. A big congratulations to our students for their sportsmanship and participation on the day.

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Pin Pioad

Smithville NSW 0000

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E smithville@det.nsw.edu.au

Basketball

This term the school is using Sporting School Funding to provide basketball skills training by a specialist coach. This program will be conducted each Friday for a period of 8 weeks.

Volunteers I would like to thank the parent and community members that volunteered their time to help at the Small Schools Cross Country and the preparation and selling of the Mother’s Day gifts. Without your ongoing support we would be unable to offer these opportunities to our students. Your contribution and assistance is greatly appreciated. If you would like to be involved in any of the school activities please discuss it with your child’s teacher or myself.

Central Mangrove Public School

Respect, Safety, Personal Best

Central E-cho 1708 Wisemans Ferry Road

Central Mangrove NSW 2250

T 02 4373 1156

F 02 4373 1051

E centmangro-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Student Leadership Camp

Central Mangrove Public School student leaders will be joining with their community of schools next Wednesday to identify, encourage and develop leadership skills in our young student leaders so that they are more able to meet the challenges of their leadership roles in the year 2019. They will learn more about communication skills, leadership styles, decision making and action plans, problem solving, team building activities and peer support.

School Development Days

This year all students will finish school on Wednesday 18th December, with the following Thursday and Friday set aside for school development days. As you are aware our teachers have elected to come to school at another time to complete Professional Learning. We will be having our final Saturday training on 11 May. The focus will be on differentiating number concepts in mathematics. A guest presenter, Anita Chin will be conducting this training at Central Mangrove Public School and teachers from our local small school will be joining us on the day.

Intention to Apply for Year 5 entry to an opportunity class in 2020

If you would like to have your child considered for Year 5 opportunity class entry in 2020, you need to apply now. You will need to apply on the internet using a valid email address (not the student’s email address). Detailed instructions on how to apply online can be found at https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5 The application website closes on Friday 17 May 2019. You must apply by the due date.

Variety’s Just Like You Variety, The Children’s Charity will be conducting workshops to our students in weeks 4 and 5. Variety’s Just Like You program is a series of free and fun disability awareness workshops, which aim to build understanding, acceptance and inclusion of those living with a disability. Over 37% of school children with a disability were reported as having difficulties fitting in socially at school. Studies from around the world have shown that more than 60% of students with disabilities are bullied. The Workshops celebrate what makes a person different through interactive activities whereby students learn that people with a disability are the same as everyone else. They are... JUST LIKE YOU!

Mother’s Day

We wish all mothers in our community a Happy Mother’s Day this Sunday. We hope you are spoilt and have a special day. Libby Cullen Principal

Library News

Last term we had a very successful Scholastic Book Fair, with thanks to all our enthusiastic families. Through the Book Fair sales we earned a commission of $210, which was spent on new books for the library. We have new fiction and non-fiction books to loan. A special thank you to Ms McDonald for all the book covering she did in her own time and to Mrs Quinlan (Mrs Q) for getting all the books ready for borrowing. Covering and accessioning books is a lengthy process! Students can look out for the new books in the library this term!

Kerri Jones

Cross Country

Last Friday 3rd May, We had all 6 small schools at our school for the Small Schools Cross Country. Jilliby, Somersby, Peats Ridge, Kulnura, Wyong Creek and Central Mangrove student all participated in events. K-2 did activities and students 8 years and older ran the cross country. 8/9/10 ran 2km and 11/12/13 ran 3km. It was an exciting day. We ate, sat down and watched cheered on our school mates who were running. We also did a cheer competition and we came 2nd last. It was a great day and we all had fun.

3-6 report by Emmiline, Jemil and Mariah

We ran races. We ate our fruit and we played games with kids from other schools. We ran the cross country. We also did activities in groups. We had numbers on our hands and we played games with people from different schools and it was fun.We did different activities. We went into the sandpit. We did an obstacle course in the library, we did just dance and we built lego. K-2 report by Relena, Layla and Lolha