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Term 2 Week 4

23rd May 2019

May

24th Assemblies:

Primary - 11.30am

Infants - 2pm

Salvation Army -

‘Red Day’

PSSA Boys’ & Girls’

Soccer against

Canowindra

27th Bookfair

29th Choirs visiting

Bilyarra

30th Dance groups

performing at

Cowra Eisteddfod

June

10th Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Welcome to Week 4 and a special CPS welcome to Miss Laura

Rowston and Miss Kylie Halls from the University of Canberra. Miss

Rowston and Miss Halls have commenced a six-week teaching

practicum at our school and have had a terrific first week getting to

know the staff and students. Miss Halls is working with Mrs Skene and

the students in Guya, while Miss Rowston has joined Mrs Berry and Mrs

Montgomery and will be working with the students in Gilaa. We hope

they both enjoy their time at CPS!

Deepest Condolences

Over the weekend, we were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of

Tom Sharkey, son of our School Learning Support Officer Mrs Lyn Sharkey,

and brother of our Kindergarten teacher Miss Jayne Sharkey. Tom was a

former student and school captain of Cowra Public School, and our entire

school community has been devastated by this tragic event. As we mourn

the loss of someone so young and so well-loved, our love and support go

out to Lyn, Ross, Jayne and Peta and their extended family, at this

incredibly sad time.

GRIP Leadership Conference

On Tuesday, Mrs Johnson accompanied our school leaders to Bathurst for

the GRIP Leadership conference. This conference is held annually and is

aimed specifically at primary school student leaders. Our Year 6’s had a fun-

filled day learning about lots of different leadership skills and discussed some

great ideas that they plan on bringing back to our school. The stop at Annie’s

ice cream parlour on the way home was of course, also a huge hit! A big

thank you to Mrs Kylie Wood who stepped in at late notice to assist with

transport on the day.

CWA Public Speaking

Also, on Tuesday our public speakers; Tom Casey, Holly Fagan, Jock Casey

and Kiaya Blackmore travelled to Orange to participate in the regional CWA

Public Speaking competition and gave their best efforts in what is always a

very tough competition. Well done to all students who participated in both

events and proudly represented our school.

Choir Eisteddfod Update!

Huge congratulations to the Infants and Primary school choirs who performed

last Friday at the Cowra Eisteddfod. There were a few nerves before our

students took to the stage but both choirs performed with great enthusiasm

and skill, each taking out First Place in their section, resulting in Cowra Public

winning the Best Overall School Choir Trophy! Thank you to Miss Noal, Mrs

Oborn, Mrs Gibson and Mrs Eldridge for their work in coaching this year’s choir

groups. Thank you also to the large group of parents and supporters who

came down to cheer on our students. The Cowra Eisteddfod continued this

week with CPS students performing in the Special Needs category on

Wednesday. The students and teachers put in many hours of practice to be

Cowra Public

School

P & C

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday, 12th June

In the staffroom

Commencing at 6pm

All welcome

Our Infants Choir who won 1st place at

the Cowra Eisteddfod. Well done!!

ready to take to the stage and impressed their teachers and families with their talent and skill. Well done to

Bilbi, Budyabudya and Mirri who collected a whopping $235 in prize money for their verse-speaking

performance! I am sure these classes have already thought of lots of ways they can spend their prize

winnings. Next week our dancers will be performing on Thursday while our Band students take to the stage

on 6th June.

PSSA Soccer

Good luck to both our Girls and Boys PSSA Soccer Teams who will come up against Canowindra PS, at

Cowra tomorrow in the first round of the Knockout! All the action will be taking place at the soccer fields at

Edgell Park so why not pop on over and cheer our teams on! Thank you to Miss Dunk for coaching, training

and accompanying our students and go CPS!

Congratulations Mrs Tree!

Congratulations to Mrs Emma Tree and her husband Will, on the birth of their new baby boy Charlie Simon

Tree born on Thursday 16th May 2019. We can’t wait to meet baby Charlie and we wish Emma, Will, Tilly

and Ruby the very best, as they enjoy getting to know the newest addition to their family!

Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

Each year at CPS, we support the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal. Our annual “RED DAY” will be held

tomorrow. Students are encouraged to come dressed in red and bring in a gold coin for the Red Shield

Appeal. The SRC have some special activities and treats also planned for the day. How wonderful to see

our students giving back to our local community.

Kindergarten 2020

Next Tuesday our Kinder teachers and Mr Murray will be visiting Good Start Pre-school to meet the children

as part of our Kinder 2020 Transition program. At CPS we believe that ‘Every Day is Open Day’ and

prospective parents are more than welcome to contact the office on 63422400 to arrange a personal tour

and see what our wonderful school has to offer.

Week 4 Assemblies

Assemblies are on tomorrow! Primary Assembly will be held from 11:30am-12:30pm and we look forward to

seeing a class item from Miss Noal’s class; Ganyi. Infants Assembly will be held from 2:00-3:00pm and Mrs

Galea’s class; Dyirridyirri will be presenting an item. All parents are encouraged to attend!

Have a great week…

Jenny Lewis

Principal

Our School Leaders had a wonderful time at the

recent GRIP Leadership event in Bathurst.

Tomorrow is Red Shield

Appeal Day. Students are

encouraged to wear

something red and bring along a gold coin

donation for the Salvation Shield Appeal.

The Salvation Army do a wonderful job in our

community and they need all the support we can

give them.

Mrs White & Mrs Casey entertained the students

during the National Simultaneous Storytime yesterday.

The book was “Alpacas with Maracas”

Thursday, 2nd May 2019

Dear Parents/Carers

We are planning to streamline some of our administration procedures during the coming term. One of these is the emailing of

the School Newsletter.

Emailing the newsletter is a more efficient way to deliver news and happenings about Cowra Public School and you will receive

it in a more timely way. All that is required of you is to provide the email address you would prefer the newsletter to be sent

to.

If you would still like to have a hard copy of the newsletter, a small number will be available from the school office each Thurs-

day.

If you would like the newsletter to be emailed to you please fill out the request form below and return it to the school office by

Monday, 20th May 2019.

Kind regards

Jennifer Rowston Jenny Lewis

School Administration Officer Principal

Request for the Newsletter to be emailed

___ No, I still require a hard copy of the newsletter (to be picked up by my child from the office)

___ Yes, I would like the newsletter emailed to me. My email address is:

_______________________________________________________________________( please print clearly)

Name:______________________________ Youngest child’s name:_______________________ Class:___

Signed:_________________________________________________

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Please Note

The newsletter will be emailed to families from Week 5 ( 30th May). There will be printed copies of the newsletter

available from the office for those families who have indicated they wish to have a hard copy. If you haven’t sent in a

request form, please do so or have your child pick up a newsletter from the office.