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Newsletter - Monday 6th November 2017
Week 5 Term 4 Website: www.coolah-c.schools.nsw.edu.au
Last Friday night students here at CCS proved once again that we are all superstars, presenting Genie in the
Jukebox. With tickets selling out the school hall was packed to its total capacity. It was great to see so many parents, grandparents, and friends come to see the talent that CCS students have. It’s been a work in
progress for some weeks now and the students are to be commended on the effort and enthusiasm they have shown during our hours of practice. It’s been a real journey for all the students. Some children find it
easier than others to perform on a stage in front of a massive crowd like that, but on Friday night everyone
proved anything is possible and should be very proud of themselves, as the staff of CCS are very proud of you all. Well Done everyone! We hope you all enjoyed the show and can not wait until our 2019
performance!
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A FUN NIGHT!!!
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Parents or carers of children of compulsory school age are responsible for ensuring their child attends school every day. Children must commence school by age 6 and then complete year 10. After Year 10 and until they turn 17, students must be:
in school or registered for home schooling or
in approved education or training (e.g. TAFE,
traineeship, apprenticeship) or
in full-time, paid employment (average 25 hours/
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being sick or having an infectious disease
having an unavoidable medical appointment
exceptional or urgent family circumstances e.g. attending a funeral Parents must provide an explanation for absences to the school within 7 days from the first day of any period of absence. Where an explanation has not been received within the 7-day timeframe, the school will record the absence as unjustified on the student’s record.
Principal News with Mr George Frangos
CCS Calendar of Events - Week 6
All Week Year 7—10 Exams
14th Nov Early Birds 9-12noon
A Sneak Peak at the Week..
CCS Calendar of Events - Week 5
7th Nov Early Birds 1.30pm-3.00pm Cyber Safety
8th Nov TAFE Yr 11 Ag/PI Abattoir Exc
9th/10th Nov
Year 2 Zoo Snooze St Lawrence Horse Sports
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Congratulations to all students and staff for the excellent effort they put into the performance of Genie in the Jukebox. Seeing the whole school from Kindergarten to Year 11 come together to put on such an outstanding performance was fantastic. A big
thankyou to the P+C and their helpers who provided dinner on the night. I’d like to remind students and their caregivers that Year 7 – 10 Examinations are next week starting on Monday 13th November. A timetable for these examinations is included in the newsletter. Students
should be preparing for these examinations now both at school and at home. Students should be paying particular attention to the work covered in class this week as many teachers will be doing explicit revision for these exams. As always I can be contacted at the school should you have any concerns.
Deputy News with Mr Winston Hughes
Our class captains for this week are Holly and Malaki and our “Pupil of the Week” is Bailey. Our Homework unit is Unit 32. Our new sight words for this week are goes, left, right, could, would and should. As we have completed learning all of our sounds we will
now be revising all of them. Home reading will continue as normal. In Maths this week we will be looking at modelling numbers to thirty, adding to ten, using shapes to make pictures and mass and in Literacy we will continue developing our reading and writing skills by writing about our whole school performance and our chickens. In History we will continue looking at what museums are and what they tell us about the past and in Geography we will again look at parks and gardens and discuss how they can be cared for. In Science we will be looking at how different animals move and in Art/Craft we will be making some chickens from paper. Please send in a drink of water and some extra fruit each day for our sip and crunch. Tuesday– Early Birds –Session 4. It was wonderful to see all of our new friends again last week.
This week we will again welcome our little friends and we can’t wait until we get to do some more fun things with them. We will be doing some gardening and playing some fun games this week. This session will be held from 1.30pm until 3pm in the Kindergarten room. Friday-Library (please note the change of day). Our School Performance was sensational. All of the students were stars and I was very proud of all of them. They all looked fantastic in their costumes and they were wonderful performers on the stage. Thankyou to all parents and friends who came and supported the students on their big night. It was fabulous to see so many people. Our chickens have started to hatch and we are all very excited. We only have one chicken at the moment, but hopefully we will have more shortly. Thankyou to Mrs Rindfleish and Sophie for all of their help with our eggs and chickens. Congratulations go to Millie C. who has completed 175 nights of Home Reading . Congratulations also go to Bailey, Milly O. and Emily who each received a merit certificate at our K-6 assembly last Friday.
Kindergarten News with Mrs Simmons
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Miss Fahey’s Class
Welcome to Week 5! Wow, we have had a very busy term so far with the production of ‘Genie in the Jukebox’. Thank you to all students for the wonderful job they did, both on the night and in the practice
sessions prior. It was a wonderful night and you all deserve congratulating for your efforts. Our routine should return back to normal this week and numeracy and transition timetables should run as usual. Literacy: We will be starting a book study on Jackie French’s ‘Diary of a Wombat’.
Health: We will continue to look at the treatment of animal and insect bites. Art: As a part of our unit on the ‘Diary of a Wombat’ we will be creating some textured art pieces inspired by the illustrations in the book. Homework: Please complete the next contract in your book. Congratulations to Liam M who received an award at our assembly on Friday. Have another great week!
Welcome to the half way point of the last term for 2017. Five weeks to go and it will still be very busy 5 weeks. Huge congratulations to all the students and teachers involved in the Whole School Production on Friday night. You were all fantastic up there on stage.
Congratulations to Lily, Will and Makayla for receiving a merit certificate on Friday at the K-6 assembly. MATHS: This week we will be completing Unit 28 jump strategy, Rounding, Gathering and displaying data and rows and columns/area. ENGLISH: Spelling and sound for this week is ‘ch’ as in chicken, ‘sh’ as in shell, Writing, grammar and reading will continue every week throughout the term.
HOMEWORK: Thanks to everyone for returning their homework on Friday. I am enjoying reading all the wonderful sentences. Please complete Unit 27 and return it on Friday. A reminder to all students that it is important to read at home every night for at least 15 minutes. Also remember to practice your spelling words and complete the activities. Upcoming events: Don’t forget its Feast Day on Friday 10
th November. We will be cooking a baked lunch with
Mrs Rindfleish. This will consist of vegetables from our own garden and roast lamb. If your child cannot have any of these foods please let me know beforehand. Happy Week 5 everyone.
Year 1 News with Miss Watson
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Year 2/3 News with Mrs Ferguson & Miss Frazer
I cannot believe it is Week 5 already! Wow! What a spectacular night on Friday night. I am so proud of everyone at our school for putting on a great performance displaying our
schools’ cultural talent. All groups and students are to be to congratulated for their wonderful efforts and smiles! ENGLISH:- We continue to learn about and practice procedural writing. This week we spent time writing procedures about the day-to-day aspects of our lives. The spelling sound for this week is ‘sh, ch, ti, ci ch and tch’ as in rush, chef, station, musician, chicken and match. Super spelling improvers from last week are; Henry, Harry, Evan, Lakkita, Ebony, Angus, Isabella, Chase, Kade, Kobi, Sam, Sophia, Libby, Jessi, Chloe, Eryka-Lee, Claudia, Elke, Zoe, Amber, Matilda, Emma and Ryan. Well done 2/3, keep up the great effort with your spelling!
GEOGRAPHY:- We are finishing up our unit this week about mapping. We have learnt about the different types of maps, their purpose and how to use a compass. SCIENCE:- We will be finishing off our unit this week by making plant pets, they will be going home so students can grow their own plants. ZOOSNOOZ:- I will send home a quick reminder about what to pack so students know. Should you have any queries, please contact me at the school. HOMEWORK:- Well done to all students who have been handing their homework in, it is pleasing to see so many and please don't forget it is worth 2 PBL Stamps every time you hand it in. Homework this week is Contract 32. It is due
Friday and spelling words should be practiced daily at home as well.
Congratulations to all students who participated in the whole performance on Friday night, I am sure you would all agree that they put on a spectacular show! Well done to all!
SPELLING: The spelling focus this week is based around the sound ‘ch’’ as in chicken, ’tch’ as in match, ‘ sh’ as in shell, ‘ch’ as in chef, ‘ti’ as in station and ‘ci’ as in musician. Spelling lists went out today and the weekly test will be on Friday this week. Super spellers from last week were: Hamish, Geoffrey, Maddie, Amelia, Bonnii, Josie, Alice, Seth, Brendon, Lachie, Ben, Olivia, Sienna, Indie, Tia, Clare, Jack, Toby, KP, Sid and Asher. HOME READING: A reminder to all students that reading at home is a very important part of the learning process. Each student should be reading at home for at least 15 minutes a day either aloud or silently, all forms of reading are advantageous. Reading is the most integral part of all
literacy work as it helps to build on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension and also writing. YEAR THREE MATHS: We will move onto our unit on division this week. It is still really important that all students, at home, continue revising their known and new times tables. They need to know and remember 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 10x and 11x tables. HOMEWORK: Homework went home today, Unit 32 is to be completed and brought back in on Friday. There will be no homework for Week 4 due to the excursion. SPORT: Sport this week will be swimming. Students need to bring there swimmers, towel, thongs, hat, sunscreen and goggles to school ready for afternoon sport. This will occur over the next few weeks until swimming school commences in week 8.
Year 3/4 News with Mrs Burgess
What a fabulous night we all had on Friday night! A huge congratulations to everyone involved in the Whole School Production; both staff and students. I hope you enjoyed watching the performance as much as we all enjoyed preparing and presenting it. Now the
play is over, however, we can get back into our daily routine in the classroom. A huge congratulations goes to Isaac Curtis, Gabi Gibbons and Milly Van Huisstede who all received Merit Awards at our K-6 Assembly. A big Happy Birthday goes to Rhianna who celebrates her birthday on Tuesday and to Fiora who will celebrate her birthday over the weekend. SPELLING: Our spelling focus for this week is ‘ch’ as in ‘chicken’ , ‘tch’ as in ‘match’, ‘sh’ as in ‘shell’, ‘ch’ as in
‘chef’, ‘ti’ as in ‘station’ and ‘ci’ as in ‘musician’. Our super spellers from last week were: Isaac, James, Hallam, Lachlan, Kane, Phoebe, Indiana, Kiesha and Fiora. YEAR 4 MATHS: Last week we completed our topic on fractions and decimals. I was very impressed with the improvement shown in this topic by all students. This week we will continue working on our new topic which focuses on perimeter and area. HOMEWORK: Thank you to everyone who hands in their homework each and every week. Homework completion is worth x2 PBL’s. Contract 30 needs to be completed this week and is due back by Friday.
Year 4/5 News with Mrs O’Neill
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Year 5/6 News with Mrs Wesley What a night it was on Friday night! Congratulations to everyone who participated, you were all awesome. Lots of laughs and great memories were made through out the rehearsals and on the night. The next big one
will be in 2019. This Friday we will be holding our Remembrance Day Assembly in the hall at 11am. Home work and spelling have both been set for the week. Please return Homework books for marking on Friday.
Congratulations to Archie, Jyedan and Bonnie who all received merit certificates at last week K-6 Assembly. Our spelling champs with 100% were Jyeson, Taylor, Ardie, T.P., Jyedan, Xavier, Reginald and Maddie. Friday sport will be swimming. Please ensure you have your swimmers, towel, sunscreen, hat and $3 if you do not have a season ticket. Have a great week everyone and keep working hard.
Careers with Mrs Staniforth
POSITION AVAILABLE:
SEH Radiology Assistant Position (Permanent)
The Scone Equine Hospital’s radiology department is seeking a
motivated person to join their Radiology Team.
The successful applicant should be reliable, hardworking, safety
conscious and willing to become part of a small and efficient team.
Primary role:
• Assisting Veterinarians by holding x-ray plate for yearling sale
radiographs. ...
• Assist Veterinarians by holding x-ray plate for lameness
radiographs.
• Equipment cleaning & maintenance
Essential:
• Be comfortable working around weanlings and yearlings.
• Must be over 18 and hold a current drivers license.
Additional information:
• There will be some administrative tasks.
• Previous experience not essential, but will be helpful.
For further information please contact Dr Penny Dow,
Applications close 22nd Nov 2017
2018 Rural Undergraduate Scholarships
Scholarships of up to $5,000 are available for
people from rural NSW who are undertaking first year
studies of a Bachelor of Nursing or Bachelor of
Midwifery degree in 2018.
Applications open 30th October 2017 and close
19th January 2018.
Mrs Staniforth has more information if anyone is
interested in this great opportunity.
First Aid Course
WHEN: Thursday 22nd & 23rd November 2017
WHERE: At Coolah Central School
COST:-$80.00
Students need to let Mrs Staniforth know ASAP if they are attending.
Reminder– Primary Sport will be Swimming this week. Please ensure you have your swimmers, towel, sunscreen,
hat and $3 if you do not have a season ticket.
Scone Beef Bonanza
The Secondary students travelled to Scone on the Thursday ahead of the Year 6 students who were still to
return from their Canberra excursion, so with tents pitched, it was off to the movies at Muswellbrook and
then out to dinner. It was a great night had by all and we were glad our tents were still standing upon return
to White Park in a wooly thunderstorm.
Friday saw the Waverley competition start. Back in May, 35 schools went into the draw for a Waverley steer
and a tonne of feed from Alexander Downs. Each steer then went to their new school home and was broken in
and fed for the upcoming Upper Hunter Beef Bonanza Competition. The Coolah Central School steer was
paraded well by Charlotte Porter and won the Primary steer section. “Vladamir” (named by Miss Fraser),
then went on to win Grand Champion Waverley steer over the other winner. The students did a great job
with the help of Mr. Paul Glynn in getting the steer shining on the day.
Each school then elects a parader from Primary and Secondary to show their parading skills on the Waverley
steer. Skyla Wicks did a great job, narrowly missing a place in the Primary section with Abbie Glynn leading
into a well deserved 2nd place. Well done to both girls on an outstanding job.
The Saturday competition saw all our steers in their classes. Competition was of a high standard with most
schools from across the state competing along with private producers and farmers.
Congratulations to our students who led these steers out in the HOOF competition. Ribbons were awarded to:
Jack Glynn who led “JT” (bred by Kurrajong Park) into a Highly Commended ribbon, Korina White lead
“Curly” (bred by R and N Worth) into a Highly Commended ribbon, Brody Pettet picked up a Highly
Commended ribbon with “Smokey” (R and N Worth and our Unled steer “Peanut” received a Highly
Commended ribbon also. Well done to Tom Moore, Ed Cox, Jacob Sternbeck and James Williams who
presented their steers well but were out of the ribbons.
Saturday afternoon saw paraders classes followed by more paraders on the Sunday. Many of our students
picked up ribbons in their heats. Congratulations to:
Ardie Curtis (4th), Bella Gibbons (4th), Jessica Mason (4th), Jack Glynn (2nd), Jordy Sternbeck (2nd), Edward
Cox (3rd) and Harriet Nolan (4th) who picked up ribbons in their paraders heats. Well done to those students
who were out of the ribbons- you all did well considering there were over 600 competitors going around!
A special thankyou to all the parents who came and supported us. A special mention to Erin Williams who
kept us very well fed and Paul Glynn who worked tirelessly grooming steers with our students all weekend.
Thank you to everyone.
Mr. Glynn’s awards for fitting and grooming go to- Gwyn Webb, James Williams and Ryan Miller. Well done
on a great job. Mrs. Thompson’s grooming awards go to Pheobe Ellis for her wonderful steer washing and Abbie
Glynn who worked tirelessly all weekend fitting and grooming.
Scone Carcase Results- Another Broad Ribbon!!! The Carcase (HOOK) results are in from the Upper Hunter Beef Bonanza with some exciting results from our
steers.
• 1st Heavy Middleweight Carcase- “Smokey” bred by Rob and Narelle Worth
• 1st Heavyweight Carcase- “Vladamir” bred by Waverley Station and Reserve Champion Heavyweight
Carcase
• 3rd Light Middleweight Carcase- “Lucky” bred by Nathan, Katy, Caitlin, Sophie and Lachlan Cook
• 5th Heavy Middleweight Carcase- “Django” bred by Hunday Herefords
For anyone interested in viewing the carcase results, please go to www.beefbonanza.org.au. hit on judging and
results to view the spreadsheets.
Thank you to the following supporters of our School Cattle Program:
To the Year 11/12 Primary Industries class who start the breaking in process and feed and tend
the cattle all year at school. (Sorry Brandy you were not allowed to buck one out!!)
Roseamba Partnership- thank you Les and Wendy Williams for your generous donations of
hay. We appreciate your donations and support over the many years of cattle club.
To Paspaley Pearls Properties for the 100% donation of our Hereford steer “JT”, so pleased he
picked up a ribbon!
To our cattle suppliers- The Cook family, Rob and Narelle Worth, Scott Mitchell, Hunday
Herefords and Waverley Station- thank you for selling us great steers!
To the team of parents who helped at Scone, in particular Erin Williams for cooking with her
helpers Lenore and Ange, Paul Glynn for doing a fantastic job with the steers and our
students grooming and preparing the cattle all weekend and to Danny Miller for his cool
room and help on the weekend.
To Frank Wright Transport who carts our steers to all the shows- thank you!
Thanks to Terry Bailey for his continuous help throughout the year and taking great care of the
steers over the holidays
Thank you Grant and Karen Arden for taking our heifer to your place to join to Millah Murrah
“Leo”, unfortunately it was not to be.
To Craig Schiemer for transporting our heifer to sale. Unfortunately after many attempts and
different bulls, she was still empty. We hope to buy something in the future with the funds.
To Coolah Vet Clinic who support us all year. Thank you to Kelsey and Ralph for giving our
students a great Preg Testing lesson.
To Jarrod Bennetts for helping us practice our meat judging at the butcher shop.
Thank you Miss Fraser and Miss Watson for being a part of Cattle Club afternoons and Miss
Watson for her great photography at Qurindi Show and Scone.
To all the students and parents who put in effort throughout the year, well done and thank you.
We hope you enjoyed the program and the students get to take away some skills for the future.
As always, our students adapt well when put in any situation, whether it be large crowds,
behind a microphone with little preparation and they are always well presented and polite.
Congratulations!
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Secondary PBL
Raffle Winners
Brody Pettet Jarrod Douglass
Bonnie Size Ben Cox
Students receive a $5.00 voucher to spend at the School Canteen
Secondary Sport
This Wednesday for secondary sport will be swimming. Students need to remember,
swimmers, towel, sunscreen and $3.00 if they do not have a season ticket.
7-12 Maths Tutoring
Thursday
3.30-4.30 in the Library
SECONDARY SCHOOL ASSESSMENT/ASSIGNMENTS
Year 7
English-Weekly Spelling
Tabloid Assessment-PDHPE 10th November
History-Ancient China PowerPoint Due Tues– Wk. 5
Year 8 History report Due 8th November
Year 9
Year 10
Geography– Community design Project Term 4
English– Heroes & Villains Portfolio Week 5
History– Vietnam War topic summary.
Year 11 Year11/12 Advanced English -Weekly Essay - Weekly Blog Post - Discovery Portfolio Due Term 1 2018
Can parents and guardians please check students diaries as there may be additional homework or teacher correspondence
7 –10 EXAMS
Year 7-10 Exams are in
week 6. All students
should be developing
study notes and revising
course content.
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Parental advice concerning head lice - Kindergarten to Year 12 Dear Parent/Carer
I am writing to advise you that we suspect that nits (eggs) or head lice are present in the hair of some students in the classes shown above.
Please check your child’s hair tonight for nits/lice and if you find any nits or lice commence treatment Further information on head lice is available in English on the NSW Health website at http health.nsw.gov.au/environment/headlice/Pages/treatment.aspx://www.
or through the Department’s website at http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/studentsupport/studenthealth/conditions/headlice/index.php
If you would like more information please call the Deputy Principal.
I appreciate your assistance in this regard. Yours sincerely,
George Frangos Principal
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