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:

cowra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

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: info@cowrabus.com.au 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

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