Week 10 Term 1 Newsletter 2024

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter with your family and friends, and it was nice to get some rain yesterday which has freshened everything up. The break has allowed everyone to recharge their batteries in readiness for the last week and half of term.

Get your smiles ready, school photos are on next Tuesday 9^th April. Please ensure your child is in full summer uniform. Girls can wear either their school dress or yellow shirt with emblem, black skirt/ skort, white socks and black school shoes. All hair ribbons need to be school colours. Boys are to wear their yellow shirt with emblem, black shorts, grey/black socks and black school shoes/ boots. All envelopes need to be returned to the school office before or on Tuesday as they need to be collated into class groups and given to the photographers on the day. Please ensure your child is at school on time, photos will be commencing at 9am.

Tomorrow our Year 6 students will be attending the Peer Support camp at Moorbel Hall. Miss Pritchard, Miss Dixon and Mrs Townsend will be running the program for the students which will prepare them for leading our Peer Support groups in Term 2 and 3. This program continues to be a long standing whole school wellbeing activity which is built into our school culture and everyone looks forward to it every year.

Friday is going to be a busy day of Cross Country (weather permitting). Primary Cross Country will be held at the Canowindra Showground, all students will be buses down at 9am. Infants’ Cross country will be held at 12:30pm on the school oval. Spectators are welcome to both events!

The last day of term is next Friday 12^th April. In the holidays Canowindra is going to be a very busy community. Our students are encouraged to march in the Balloon Glow Parade on Saturday 27^th April (Aviator theme) as well as ANZAC Day parade on Thursday 25^th April (winter uniform). Additionally, our P&C is running the annual Balloon Glow Trivia night to kick off Balloon Week festivities on Monday 22^nd April. Get a table together and support our P&C and have a great night out. Please book via the QR code on flyer.

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

100% Attendance Gallery

Congratulations to Charlotte Mill, Oliver Bushell and Sophie Balken for 100% attendance in Week 9. 

Weather permitting !! 

A message will be sent via the Sentral for Parent portal of any cancellations.

MSP School Photo Day - Tuesday 9th April

Please make sure students wear summer uniform, including their best yellow polo or school dress. Black school shoes are essential!

Peachey Shield/Richardson Cup and League Tag Gala Day

Last Wednesday selected stage 2 and 3 students travelled to Cowra to participate in the Peachey Shield/Richardson Cup and League Tag Gala Day. It was a great day, all students had lots of fun. Each team played 3 games and we came away with some wins. Best and Fairest on the Day was Oliver Maunder, Hunter Bowd and Lara Cheney. A big thankyou to our parent helpers, we could not have done it without you!

Peachey Shield/Richardson Cup and League Tag Gala Day Gallery

Class in Focus

Each week one of our classes will be chosen to showcase the great learning that is happening in our school. This week our class is: Kindergarten

Easter Hat Parade

Our Easter Hat Parade is always full of lots of colour, fun and happiness. Thank you to everyone for making it such a great afternoon. It's always a wonderful way to start our Easter break, we hope everyone had a great time!

Easter Hat Parade Gallery

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P & C Disco - Hawaiian Theme

A wonderful night was had by all. Thank you once again to our wonderful P&C for pulling it all together. It was great to see so many students and parents attend.

Disco Gallery

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Our Learner Qualities

Aurora applications now open - Year 5 2025

Applications for Year 5 opportunity class placement in 2025 open 4 April and close 20 May 2024. Opportunity classes are an important way for us to support high-potential and gifted students. It's important we let parents and carers know they need to apply for Year 5 opportunity class placement while their children are in Year 4. The tests will be held in designated government high school test centres or other facilities. Please see additional information below.

Digital Child Safety Handbook

Click on the link to access the Digital Child Safety Handbook 

https://issuu.com/associatedmediagroup/docs/cshb_2024_final?fr=sYzg3NTcxODI1MDA

The Resilience Project

Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives – this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, and helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits – let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!

Whole Family Activity:

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

• As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:
• Something that makes you happy
• Something you love to smell
• Something you enjoy looking at
• Something that is your favourite colour
• Something you like in nature
• Something that is useful for you
• Each member of the family uses the list and has to find as many things as they can.
• You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
• After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.

Sentral Parents App

Please ensure you have your notifications TURNED ON (check in settings). We use this app to send push notifications for all school activities.

The HUB - Canteen Lunches

Can parents please update their child/s class or details before placing an order.

Healthy Snippets

Healthy "Snippets" from NSW Health covering a range of topics including; healthy eating, lunchbox ideas, drinking water and food budgeting. 

P & C News

For tickets and more details follow the link below.

 www.123tix.com.au/events/42664/trivia-night

Community Notices

Hot Air Balloon Art, Sculpture and Lego Competition for children ageed 4-17

No entry fee, entry forms (1 entry per student) are avaialbe at CPS front office. Entries plus entry form go to Canowindra Connection Centre on 17th April, between 3-5pm. Winners announced at Opening on Friday 19th April at 6pm, at the Canowindra Connection Centre, 38 Blatchford St. For more info contact Sue Hodge ph 0419 571 765