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Monday 19th February 2018

K / 1 / 2 – Kesha Pauling Our Star of the Week is Kesha Pauling. K/1/2 shared their thoughts about Kesha this week.

Kesha is my best friend. She lets me play with her.

She's kind and she's a good friend to me. I like her because she is nice. Kesha plays with me and she is kind and she loves me. She is a good friend to the whole class. She is a nice friend. We all love

Kesha.

3 / 4 – Oscar Ballantyne The magnificent Star of the Week for 3/4 is Oscar Ballantyne! Oscar thoroughly enjoys working outside with tools when we do gardening for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program and he often tries hard to solve problems. He is friendly, kind and is fair when playing games. Oscar has been a great mate to some of his peers since pre-school and they enjoy his funny jokes. Well done Oscar! 5 / 6 – Sonny Burgess Our Star of the Week is an excellent student and team player. He takes pride in his interests and is a dedicated and loyal fan of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He brings a smile to 5/6 students and he has a great worldly knowledge and sense of humour. Well done Sonny!

This week we had many guests from our community visit

Cobargo Public School to present some positive wellbeing

messages to the children. On Wednesday we had a visit

from Damien Kennedy, the local NRL Development Officer

who came and presented a message about respect and

fair play to the whole school. The children learnt about

how to manage their own mental wellbeing through

regular exercise and choosing to eat a healthy diet as well

as how important it is to show a respectful attitude when

we are playing games and sports. We are proud to

comment that our Cobargo Public School Key Values of

Respect, Safety and Responsibility complemented the

wellbeing topics that Damien presented to us.

CALENDAR FEBRUARY 20 – Book Club orders due 21 – Assembly 2:15pm conducted by 5/6 (all welcome) 23 – Swim4Sport 1:30pm – Cobargo Pool 27 – Zone Swimming Carnival – Candelo Pool MARCH 2 – Cobargo Folk Festival Concert 10am Swim4Sport 1:30pm - Cobargo Pool 2, 9, 16, 23 – Sporting Schools Hockey 7 – P&C Meeting 6:30pm - School Library 7, 14, 21 – AFL Auskick 2:00pm (Yrs3-6) 23 – AFL Gala Day – Bega (Yrs 3&4) Student Banking Monday Uniform Shop open 8.30 – 9.00 Tuesday Canteen Friday

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On Thursday we had a visit from Senior Constable Clarke,

who is the local Police Youth Liaison Officer in our region.

She presented students in Years 3 - 6 information and

advice about cyber safety when using technology, games

and apps that are connected to the Internet. Some

important tips that the students learnt from this session

was to always have their social media profiles on private,

turn off their location settings and to block anybody who

they do not know from chatting to them online.

Additionally, apps such as Facebook, Snapchat and

Instagram are for people over the age of 13, and

Senior Constable Clarke advised any child who may

have the Kik app installed on their device to delete it

straight away, as Kik is a public online chatroom that the

NSW Police classify as high risk for online predators.

All students received a Bullying No Way! Wristband, an

information card and participated in anti-bullying lessons

in their classes.

CLASS NEWS

K / 1 / 2 – Miss Burgess

K/1/2 have been learning all about addition in maths this

week. We have been playing lots of maths games and

solving some tricky addition problems. K/1/2 have also

been using Mathletics to practice numeracy skills.

Thanks to all the parents who came along on Monday to

‘Meet the Teacher’. It was lovely to meet you all! Don’t

forget to sign in to the Class Dojo so you can see what

your children are getting up to in class each day.

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3 / 4 – Miss Harding

There was plenty of learning happening in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program this week. Group 1 worked collaboratively in the garden to plan, design and re-establish a new garden at the entrance of our school, which you will find next to the office and library buildings. There was plenty of discussion around the placement of the new plants and how much space they would need to grow over their lifetime. Many thanks to our wonderful volunteers who always provide the children with so many interesting facts about gardening. Below: Alexis, Lucinda and Connie planning where the plants should go in our new garden bed. Below: Robyn and Marley discussing the planting process while digging a hole for the new plant to go in.

5 / 6 Class News – Mr Kerr This week in 5/6 we’ve been experimenting with some

different 3D rendering software. We started by planning

our own bedrooms and their features and then moved

onto designing our own dream home. The software is a

free program called 5D Planner and it can be accessed

from home. Well done to all my budding architects!

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2018 CPS Swimming Age Champions Well done to this year’s age champions. You have represented your school with pride and we wish you all the very best as you progress to the Zone Swimming Carnival at Candelo on Tuesday 27th Feb. From left to right- Alexis Allen, Flynn Groenewoud, Colt Croser, Isla Miller, Izhaya Cox and Riley Park.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Active Kids Program

Receive a $100 voucher to cover your child’s sporting fees!!

Through the Active Kids program, the NSW Government will provide a $100 voucher to parents/guardians/carers of school-enrolled children to use for registration and participation costs of sport and fitness activities. The Active Kids program is to help NSW families meet the cost of getting their kids into sport and active fitness and recreation activities. The program will not be means tested and one voucher will be available for each eligible child in the family annually. The voucher can be used for registration or membership fees at any approved Active Kids sport and fitness provider. Providers must offer structured activities of no less than eight weeks' duration that provide moderate to vigorous level of physical activity. Parents can apply for the voucher at any time of the year and the voucher is valid until the 31 December of this year. Unfortunately, the Active Kids programs and vouchers cannot be used on departmental / school sport, such as school excursions, zone, district or state carnivals. Further information about Active Kids is available at www.sport.nsw.gov.au/activekids

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FREE DENTAL

CLINIC The Pambula Community Health Service operates a full time free dental clinic, with dental therapists, for all children up to 17 years of age. To make contact with the service ring 1800 450 046 with your Medicare card ready (Pension or Health Care Card if you have one). This is a preventative based service. Currently there is no waiting list for this service.