Week 3 Term 2 Newsletter 2024

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

As the winter months close in, it’s important that all school clothing is labelled. We are already accumulating a collection of lost property and would like to ensure lost property can be returned to students. Please check that all clothing is labelled correctly. Year 6 shirts arrived this week. They look very smart and the group has decided they can wear them Tuesdays and Fridays, with a wash in-between!

Prue McCarthy is visiting our Stage 3 students today. Prue has cerebral palsy and has been visiting our school for many years to talk to our students about living with a disability. Prue is a well-recognised advocate for people with disabilities and donates her time to visit many schools in Orange and our local area. We always look forward to having Prue at our school and I thank her for all she does for people with disabilities.

Final call for Aurora applications for any Year 4 students who would like to be considered for the gifted and talented online classroom at our school next year. These applications close next Monday 20^th May and must be completed online by parents. See information in newsletter.

District Cross Country is being held on Friday in Boorowa. The bus will be leaving at 7:45am, please make sure all students are at the bus bay before this time. Miss Dixon and Ms Laurie will be ready and waiting for everyone. All information about the event can be found on the Parent Sentral app attachments. Cross Country carnivals generally proceed if it rains, so please be prepared for this.

A friendly reminder to reply to all absent text messages. Your response if free of charge and goes directly into Sentral as an explained absence. It is requirement by law to respond within 2 weeks of an absence, otherwise it is marked as unexplained and cannot be changed.

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

100% Attendance Gallery

Congratulations to Isla Wise, Breeze Kemper and Noah Murphy on 100% attendance for Week 2. Well done everyone!

CWA Public Speaking

This term, all students in our primary classes have prepared and delivered a speech for the CWA Public Speaking competition. Eleven students were then selected and presented their speeches to primary students on Monday afternoon for our school final. All students have done a fantastic job and should be very proud of themselves. An extra congratulations must go to the 4 students who were selected to represent Canowindra Public School at the competition in Orange in Week 6; Taliesin Bullock, Ruby Harris, James Morrow and Emily Bullock. Best of luck! 

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Walk Safely to School Day

Thank you to everyone who paticipated in Walk to School Day last Friday. It was great to see everyone getting some exercise before school!

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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: 1/2 A

Peer Support

Peer Support for 2024 commenced last week. This whole school program is designed to equip students with the skills and tools to build strong peer connections, strengthen a sense of belonging and positively engage with others. Our Year 6 students have been trained as leaders and lead small groups of younger students in weekly structured sessions.

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Kindergarten - Australian Early Development Census (AEDC)

Our school will take part in the AEDC between May and July this year. The AEDC is a national census that is conducted every three years by the Australian Government, in partnership with state and territory governments. It measures how children have developed by the time they start their first year of full-time school.

The AEDC is voluntary and it does not measure how well children are doing at school, nor how their school compares to other schools. Instead, it shows how children are growing and progressing in five key areas, what is being done well and what can be improved. AEDC data is used by schools, early childhood organisations, researchers and governments to help plan and improve services and supports for children and families. This is why it is important for all children in their first year of school to be included in the AEDC. You can learn more about the ways AEDC data is used at https://www.aedc.gov.au/.

What does this mean for your child?

The AEDC is completed by teachers based on their knowledge of the children. Children do not need to do anything to be included in the census and will attend class as usual while the census is conducted. The census will start on 6th May 2024.

Teachers will answer questions about the five key areas of early childhood development, which are: physical health and wellbeing, emotional maturity, social competence, language and cognitive skills (school-based), and communication skills and general knowledge. You can see all the questions at https://www.aedc.gov.au/avedi.

You can be confident that your child’s privacy will be protected.

We understand how important it is to keep your child’s information private. This is why the AEDC uses a secure website to collect and keep their information.

More information about how AEDC data (including your child’s information) is collected, protected and used is in the Fact Sheet.

What do parents need to do?

For the purposes of the AEDC, the Australian Government Department of Education seeks your consent to collect personal information about your child from our school. This includes known information about your child’s health.

If you consent to the collection of your child's information, you do not need to do anything.

If you do not consent to the collection of your child's information, please contact the school before Monday 6th May, and no information about your child will be collected.

Book Club - Issue 3

Issue 3 Book Club order forms were sent home with students last week. All orders MUST be paid for via LOOP.

The school does not accept cash.

Visit www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP

Orders close this Thursday 16th May 2024.

PBL Focus - CPS Wellbeing Program

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.

The Resilience Project - Empathy

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling. When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness.

Whole Family Activity:

Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge

As a family, choose an act of kindness from the list below that you would like to do for a neighbour or family friend. Each family member can select one to commit to, or you can choose to do one together.

• Cook them something delicious like a cake, hot bread, or cookies.
• Write a note to put in their letterbox thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
• Design them a Thank You card.
• Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
• Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
• Make them a gift from things around your house.
• Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
• Offer to take their pets for a walk.
• Invite them over for afternoon tea.
• Invite them on a walk.
• Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
• Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
• Say hello next time you see them, and ask them how their day is going.

Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!

Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person thank another family member for something they’ve done or said today, or give another family member a compliment.

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. 

Community Notices