PBL Award Beau Butler-Farley, Aylah Hill, Lara Hambly,

Ella Dwyer, Elli Cruickshank, Isaac Hetherington,

Lienke Janse van Rensburg and Isabelle Marsh

Gold Awards Hamish Green

Silver Awards Hamish Green and Jacob Cayzer

Important Dates to Remember Term 2 2020

Kootingal Public School

STAR NEWSLETTER “Caring, Learning and Achieving Together.”

Phone: 02 6760 3332 Email: kootingal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: https://kootingal-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 4 Week 1 Wednesday 14th October 2020

Executive Team - Principal - Cara Cracknell Assistant Principal - (Kinder to Year 2) - Nicole Chegwyn Assistant Principal (Yr 3 to 6) - Casey Kelly

P & C Executive President: Rebecca Pollard Vice President - Vanessa Johnson Secretary: Tina Sipple Treasurer: Ann-Maree McGrath

Friday 16th Oct - School Captain Nominations due Monday 19th to Friday 23rd Oct - BOOK WEEK Thursday 29th Oct - Book Club Due Friday 30th Oct - Kindy 2021 Transition 12:30pm to 3pm Friday 6th Nov - Kindy 2021 Transition 9:30am to 3pm Friday 13th Nov - Kindy 2021 Transition 9:30am to 3pm

Brooklyn-Grace Furney - Working hard in Mathematics, especially on adding numbers to ten Cienna Flemming - Improved results in her L3 dictation sentence Heath Green - Improvement in writing Grace Hamer - A huge improvement in reading and writing words Lacey Felsman - Working hard to maintain focus during recount writing, super effort Lacey. Chelsii Williams - Growing confidence in identifying the place value of 2 digit numbers Oliver Christensen - Working hard to use capital letters and full stops correctly during recount writing Ciara Cwach - Her great writing about her school holidays Zac Pollard - His focus and determination in Mathematics Harriet Bell - Her neat handwriting when writing her spelling words Keith Sichter - Accepting responsibility and performing his class role well Anastasia Rains - Being a polite and kind class member Cody Hudson - Showing initiative when answering questions in class Mia McMillan - Always giving her best effort Kaitlyn Hope - Working cooperatively with her group during Geography Brady Moses - Taking care and pride in his written work Connor Hilton - Persistence with weaving in CAPA Jacob Cayzer - Fantastic descriptions in his holiday recount Kahliah Day - Excellent application and improvement in writing Meika Haak - Being a happy friendly and helpful member of 5/6K Kobi Murray - A settled start to Term 4 William Lulham - Consistently working well in all key learning areas

* Parents are able to make payments online by going to our website www.kootingal-p.schools.nsw.gov.au and then clicking on make a payment (located on front page). Please email or send into the office a copy of the online receipt. If payments are made online signed permission notes must still be returned to the front office.

* Voluntary contribution fees can be paid at the front office or online. They are $50 per year per student.

Library Borrowing Days KL - Mrs Lawrence - Thursday K/1M - Miss Magann - Thursday 1/2B - Miss Booby - Friday 1/2S - Miss Semmler - Friday 3/4L - Mr Cracknell - Tuesday 3/4W - Miss Warden - Tuesday 4/5B - Miss Bennett - Wednesday 5/6K - Miss Kelly - Wednesday

Please encourage your child to return their library books each week to avoid books becoming overdue.

All students must have a library bag to borrow books to take home.

Thank you Mrs Dunn and Mrs Chegwyn

Clothing Pool will only be open on: Tuesday and Wednesday mornings

9am to 9:30am Please come to the office.

Weekly Bronze Awards

Library News

Messages from the Front Office

School Banking Thursday

Welcome back to term 4 at Kootingal Public School. During our holiday period we had work completed across the school in a number of areas. Our general assistant Mr Foody and our casual general assistant Mr Loftus worked hard to ensure areas of our school we both maintained and continued to improve. The roses along the front of our original heritage listed building are now encased in the heritage green colour that adorns all of our other buildings. Mr Loftus continued this painting and painted the edging of the playground equipment. Mr Loftus was very busy completing the shelving units for the greenhouse in our garden patch. Mrs Blinman and I met during the holidays to source new seedlings and equipment for our budding gardeners.

Kootingal Public School also had an upgrade and, in some cases, the installation of new electrical distribution boards across the school. While we were without power for a number of days in the administration block this will ensure that the power needs of Kootingal Public School are maintained for future situations. As yet there is no further news on the cooler classrooms project that will see reverse cycle air-conditioners installed in all learning spaces.

While Mr Foody was busy using the whipper snipper and mower, Mr Loftus put his carpentry skills to good use and put together the carcasses of our cupboards and install them including the doors in our Breakfast Club area. In these cupboards are our food items and equipment necessary for the operation of Breakfast Club. These cupboards replace the old open shelving units that were on the walls. The new cupboards provide a more pleasing aesthetic as well as keeping our food products and equipment dust free. Breakfast Club also took delivery of a new fridge. The old fridge had an extensive history of leaking. This new fridge should see us out of trouble for quite a number of years.

It is my great pleasure to announce that Miss Leticia Booby was offered a permanent position at Kootingal Public School during the holidays. Miss Booby placed second to Miss Magann in the open merit selection classroom position in 2019. As principal I used this with the department when they were unable to secure a permanent teacher to assume the position vacated by Mr Griffiths. Kootingal Public School is extremely fortunate to have the services of an outstanding teacher like Miss Booby. Congratulations Miss Booby and may you have many years with the students, staff and broader community of Kootingal Public School.

It is with great sadness that our school chaplain Mr Chuck Shave has come down with an illness that will see him leave the position of school chaplain at Kootingal Public School for

term 4. However we have a very capable replacement in Mr Gary Stuart. Mr Stuart comes to Kootingal Public School with extensive experience in chaplaincy out at Wee Waa. Mr Stuart worked in the Christian school and both primary and high schools in Wee Waa. Mr Stuart has also worked in the department as a general assistant. We look forward to continuing the work of Chuck through Mr Stuart in term 4 and we wish Chuck a very speedy recovery.

Next week is the monthly P&C meeting. This meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 20 October at 6 pm. This meeting will occur via Zoom. To attend this meeting you must have a reg is te red Zoom accoun t and ema i l ( koo t inga l -p.school@det.nsw.edu.au) or call Kootingal Public School (67603332) to obtain the details of the online meeting. The meeting will conclude on or prior to 8 pm. At this meeting I will go through our impending school plan including proposed strategic directions and outline the procedures to ensure the alternate girls’ summer uniform is ready for implementation in 2021.

While some of the restrictions placed upon schools from the department have eased, we are still unable to have large gatherings of adults within our school premises. This means our assemblies, as we normally would say pre-COVID, are still only an internal assembly without the ability to have families and community members present. We are hoping by the end of the school year we will be able to return to some normality for our presentation night. Myself and Mrs Dunn are working towards this, however I will keep our community abreast of any changes.

Principal’s Messages

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ARE YOU OVER 18? DO YOU HAVE A DESIRE TO SAVE TOWARDS YOUR CHILDS/OWN EDUCATION EXPENSES/ LESSONS/ CAMP OR EXCURSION? DO YOU WANT TO RECEIVE UP TO $500 SIMPLY FOR SAVING UP TO $500 FOR 10 MONTHS? DO YOU WANT TO GAIN QUICK AND EASY BUDGETING AND SAVINGS TIPS? DO YOU RECEIVE A COMMONWEALTH SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT, PAYMENT OR ALLOWANCE AND HAVE A HEALTH CARE CARD OR PENSION CARD? DO YOU HAVE AN INCOME (INCLUDING CASH AND HOBBY INCOME) OR RECIEVE CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS (INCLUDING PRIVATE COLLECT)? DO YOU HAVE A CHILD AT SCHOOL/ABOUT TO START SCHOOL OR ARE YOU STUDYING YOURSELF? IF YOU ANSWERED YES TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS, JOIN THE SAVER PLUS MATCHED SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL EDUCATION PROGRAM TODAY!

How to join the Saver Plus Program?

x Fill out an Online Enquiry Form - www.saverplus.org.au - your Local Saver Plus Coordinator (Claire Rowe) will make contact

x Or contact your Local Saver Plus Coordinator from The Smith Family directly: Claire Rowe – Phone: 0438 648 670 / 1300 610 355 Email: Claire.Rowe@thesmithfamily.com.au

x Or complete a Saver Plus Referral Form with your Organisation

Please note: you can only complete the Saver Plus Program once, and you must meet the above

eligibility criteria in order to join the Saver Plus Program and become a Saver Plus Participant.

Participants receive up to

$500 from ANZ in matched

savings for education costs for

themselves or their children.

Offered in communities

across Australia in every

state and territory.

What is Saver Plus?A free ten-month savings

program providing financial education, budgeting and

savings tips.

Delivered by Brotherhood

of St Laurence, Berry Street,

The Benevolent Society

and The Smith Family and

other local community

organisations.

* many Centrelink payments are eligible, please contact your local Coordinator for more information.

1 RMIT University, 2018. A number of Saver Plus program evaluations have been carried out since 2003.

For more information see anz.com/saverplus

Saver Plus is an initiative of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and ANZ, delivered in partnership with Berry Street, The Benevolent Society and The Smith Family and other local

community agencies. The program is funded by ANZ and the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Go to www.dss.gov.au for more information.

A Saver Plus Participant’s Journey

Who can join?

Participants must meet all of the below criteria:

• Be 18 years or over

• Have a child at school or starting next year, or attend vocational

education themselves

• Have regular income from paid employment (themselves or

their partner)

• Have a current Health Care or Pensioner Concession Card

• Be in receipt of an eligible Commonwealth social security benefit, allowance or payment*

EducationCompletes the MoneyMinded

financial education program with support from a Saver Plus

Coordinator

SavingOpens an ANZ

Progress Saver account

and makes regular

deposits

GoalTalks to a Saver Plus Coordinator

from a community organisation

and, if eligible for the program,

sets a goal to save a regular

amount of money over

10 months

MatchingReaches savings goal and

receives matched funds, up

to $500, for their own

or their children’s

education costs

Benefits for participants1

continue to save the same amount or more

3 to 7 years after

completing the program

87%were better equipped for unexpected

expenses

78%

reported increased self-esteem

had more control over their finances

80%88%

How did it start?

Saver Plus began in 2003 as a Brotherhood

of St Laurence and ANZ pilot program with

268 participants in three sites across Victoria

and New South Wales.

Since then, the program has expanded

to all Australian states and territories,

reaching more than 40,000 people, making

it the largest and longest-running program

of its kind in the world.

Since 20031

:

40,000+ participants

$23m+ total amount

saved by participants

$18m+ matched funds

paid by ANZ

Find out more1300 610 355

saverplus@bsl.org.au

saverplus.org.au

@SaverPlusAU