From the Principal Only One You

Great news! Every student has completed painting his or her “Only One You” painted rocks and

will be able to take their decorative rock home this week. I hope you will be able to find a special

place for each rock as the students have used their imagination and design skills to create this

unique treasure.

Our “Only One You” garden display will be created early next term after the students have voted on

its best location. Hot favourites are outside the library, Hume Street side of the administration

block, alongside the buddy seat and outside the art room.

Team Colours Day

On Friday all students are invited to wear their favourite team colours to school. Year Six SRC are

hoping you may be able to donate a gold coin on the day towards cancer research. However all

students are encouraged to wear their team colours regardless of whether you choose to donate or

not.

First Semester Student Reports

First semester student reports will be distributed at the end of this week. I urge you to take the

opportunity to discuss the reports with your child to celebrate your child’s achievements and

learning journey.

Finally, I hope the students and staff have a relaxing and enjoyable vacation. I thank our parents,

P&C and school community for your continued support of our school throughout this semester and

I look forward to a very exciting second semester commencing with Term 3 on Monday 23rd

July.

4 T H J U L Y 2 0 1 8

Principal: Karen Kissell 158 Hume Street, Corowa 2646 Phone : 02 6033 1535 Fax: 0260334021 Mobile: 0499 265 657 Email: corowasth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Corowa South Public School

Newsletter

Success for all Learners

Positive Behaviours

Cooper Patten

Josh Bruce

Charli-Rae Watson

Lions Club Public Speaking Competition

Congratulations to Leticia True, Liam Smith,

Ella Webb and Zach Wemyss on their

excellent efforts and entertaining speeches in

the Lions Public Speaking Competition on

Sunday 1st July. The students were superb

ambassadors of our school and had the

opportunity to showcase their public speaking

skills.

Riverina Hockey

We had a great week at the Riverina Hockey.

We played 7 games, drawing the last one.

The highlight was when Bella from Corowa Public

scored our only goal!

Players got to move around and try different

positions.

It was a tiring week but we made lots of new

friends and really enjoyed the experience.

By Ella and Mackenzie

NADOC Week

On Monday we welcomed Hilda and Greta from Vic Parks to help our school recognise NAIDOC

week. Each July celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate the history, culture and

achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated by not only

Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all lifestyles.

Hilda and Greta provided a wonderful hands on information session about Aboriginal culture and

history of the Yorta Yorta people and our land. We heard stories about totems, methods of finding

and cooking food, endangered animals, the importance of hunting for what you need as well as

trade and communication across this vast country.

Important Dates to Remember

Term 2 30th April: First Day of Term 2—for all Students and Staff 6th May: P&C High Tea at 11am 8th May: School Cross Country K—Yr 6 11th May: Zone Athletics Carnival– Albury 15th May: NAPLAN (Years 3 & 5)— Language Conventions 16th May: NAPLAN—Reading 17th May: NAPLAN—Numeracy 21st & 22nd May: School Development days – No students at school—Staff attending Dylan Wiliam Conference in Albury 29th May: K-2 Kyabram Fauna Park Excursion Term 3 23rd July: First Day of Term 3– Students and Staff Term 4 15th October—First Day of Term 4—Students and Staff 23rd & 24th October: Yrs 3 & 4 Borambola Recreation Camp 28th-30th November: Yr5 & 6 Canberra Camp

EnviroMentors Visit

On Tuesday Abbey from the EnviroMentors group worked with each class group to

investigate effective ways we can reuse and recycle some of our daily rubbish

through composting. Students eagerly listened to the factors needed to create a

quality growth environment and learnt how we can compost our daily food scraps to

produce good soil quality in our vegetable and school gardens.

Skittle Experiment

On Friday 15th June, the Wilay students became classroom scientist looking at how Skittles appearance changes when hot,

warm and cold water is added to them. Students created their own hypothesis (guess) and had to record their finding into a

chart. The class then made predictions and looked at other variables for this experiment. We will be following up on this, on

Friday for more Science investigations.

Gulaangga Class - Finding our length in icy-pole sticks

P&C $5 Lunch

The P&C are offering the students a $5 lunch this Friday.

There will be a selection of party pies, sausage rolls and hot

dogs for the students to choose from.

Please bring your $5 to the office tomorrow or Friday if you

would like your child to participate.

This term in Wilay Class

How To Make A Compost Bin - By Levi

1. First Abbey tipped the soil into the bin.

2. Next we added straw into the bin.

3. Then Abbey mixed the straw and the soil

together.

4. Then we put in the food scraps and shut

the lid.

I learnt that egg shells can go in the

compost bin but not meat or eggs.

Quote of the Day

“Worms like coffee, they’re like grown ups.”

Angus

“Worms have three hearts and they breath through

their skin.” Nate

“I learnt that nail clippings can go in the bin,

but sweets can’t.” Cooper R

“I learnt that worms don’t like spicy foods.”

Cooper G

My favourite thing is learning about the

Australian animals on our Kyabram excursion.

- Vincent

My favourite thing was doing the science

experiments and I liked going on the

excursion. - Jayce

My favourite thing we did this term

was the “Walking Water”

experiment. I hope we do

experiments next term - Nathias

My favourite learning experience was

the skittles experiment because it

looked like a rainbow. My favourite

learning topic was the Australian

animals because we went on the

Kyabram excursion. - Stella

My favourite thing this term was the skittle

experiment because we got to see lots of

colours on the three plates. We used

science words. We used interesting

vocabulary. We used hypotheses to

predict what we think will happen in the

experiment. I hope we get to do more

experiments next term. Charli-Rae

“I liked the skittles experiment

because it was fun watching the

skittles dissolve.” Chevy

Snuggle Pot & Cuddle Pie Retold by James & Marshall

Snuggle Pot and Cuddle Pie went on an adventure and

then the Blue Wren told them where to see the humans.

They went up the tree to sleep in the nest. The greedy owl

thought Snuggle Pot was a pink mouse and snatched him

up. By James

The owl took Cuddle Pie to its nest to eat. The owl

dropped Cuddle Pie onto an ant nest and smashed several

baby ants. By Marshall

Lani

Important Dates to Remember

Term 2 30th April: First Day of Term 2—for all Students and Staff 6th May: P&C High Tea at 11am 8th May: School Cross Country K—Yr 6 11th May: Zone Athletics Carnival– Albury 15th May: NAPLAN (Years 3 & 5)— Language Conventions 16th May: NAPLAN—Reading 17th May: NAPLAN—Numeracy 21st & 22nd May: School Development days – No students at school—Staff attending Dylan Wiliam Conference in Albury 29th May: K-2 Kyabram Fauna Park Excursion Term 3 23rd July: First Day of Term 3– Students and Staff Term 4 15th October—First Day of Term 4—Students and Staff 23rd & 24th October: Yrs 3 & 4 Borambola Recreation Camp 28th-30th November: Yr5 & 6 Canberra Camp

Important Dates to Remember

Term 2 6th July: Last day of term Colours day, gold coin donation to Cancer Research P&C $5 Lunch Term 3 23rd July: First Day of Term 3– Students and staff return 7th Aug: P&C Meeting Term 4 15th October: First Day of Term 4—Students and Staff return 23rd & 24th October: Yrs 3 & 4 Borambola Recreation Camp. 28th-30th November: Yr 5 & 6 Canberra Camp

Term

Two

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Sunday

10

2 July

NAIDOC Activity

3 July

EnviroMentors

Composting

Day

4 July

5 July 6 July

Reports Home

Colours Day

P&C Lunch

7/8 July

HOLS

HOLS

1

23 July

Staff &

students return

to school

24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28/29 July

2

30 July 31 July 1 August 2 August 3 August 4/5 August