Week 8 Term 2 Newsletter 2024

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any colder, it did. I can’t remember a day in Canowindra when the fog hasn’t lifted until after lunch and that’s what happened yesterday. Hopefully everyone is keeping warm and bear in mind that our shortest day is on Friday and then the days will gradually become longer and warmer!

Our school chess teams have been competing in Orange on Monday and today. All students have been playing very well and enjoy the experience. Thanks to Mr Bates for coordinating and coaching our students and to parents for driving the students over and back each day.

Thank you to Miss Dixon and primary staff for organising our athletics field events last Friday. The students had a wonderful time rotating around all the respective field events and as a result we have been able to announce our age champions for athletics. Please see full report in newsletter.

Our students and staff thoroughly enjoyed for our Super Science Day last Thursday. The Jollybops Science Show was a quintessential old fashioned science show where the mad scientist and his robot alien helper conducted amazing mind-blowing science experiments. They were conducted with lots of audience participation, and everyone left feeling totally engaged with the world of science. Our teachers also organised a plethora of hands-on science experiments which all students were totally engrossed in. A huge thank you to Mrs Townsend for organising, collecting and purchasing all the equipment for each experiment, well done everyone!

Lastly, our Week 8 assembly will be held this Friday with our usual awards and athletics ribbons will be presented to students. The assembly will be followed by Mrs Swords and Rev Jonno who will be having their heads shaved as we have well and truly raised over $5500 for childhood cancer. A huge thank you to our SRC and Miss Rinaldo for coming up with the idea and to staff for getting on board and losing/ colouring your locks!

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

100% Attendance Gallery

Congratulations to Ruby Nash, Travis Pritchard and Joey Greenhill for 100% attendance in Week 7. Well done everyone!

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: Year 6

School Assembly - Friday 21st May 2.00pm

Kinder                          Harvey Wildman, Kenna Scifleet, Lawson Duguid, Georjia Webb

Year 1/2                        Ziggy Kemper, Jack Skipper, Eli Forbes, Mikalah Maunder

Year 1/2 A                    Betty Wythes, Evie Carpenter, Kai Thornberry, Archer Maere

Year 3/4                        Anna Morrow, Daisy Riley, Ada Carpenter, Brennon Hughes

Year 3/4 B                    Savannah Creevey, Byron Walker, Evie Daly, Daniel Greenhill

Year 4/5                        Ebony Street, Oliver Bushell, Ollie Hogan, Cooper Nash

Year 5/6                        Jiro Flores, Anna Willis, Jack Nash, Ryleigh Bowd                     

Year 6                           Sophie Balken, Hunter Pearce, Addison Ryan, Finn Grey

Responsible Pet Ownership Program

Living Safely with Pets

Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 attended Living Safely with Pets lessons with our classes on Friday 14th June at school.The program educates children on what it means to be a responsible pet owner and how to live safely with dogs.Our educator was Pauline and we loved meeting her Labrador Abbey.Our lesson included role play, song and story-telling.We learnt about how to stay safe around dogs and what it means to be a responsible pet owner in the home and wider community including:

● when dogs should be left alone

● things we should not do to dogs

● how can you tell if a dog is happy, frightened or angry

● a safe way to approach and greet a dog

● what to do if approached by an unknown or aggressive dog

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Science Day

Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to all students who participated in both the field events and running events.

Cowra Small Schools are hosting the Cowra District Carnival at Cowra. First and second place have made to through to District, this will be held on Friday 16th August, Week 4 Term 3. We will be transporting children to the carnival via bus. Permission notes to come next term.

Place ribbons will be handed out at Assembly this Friday 21st June.

Thank you to all the High School students who assisted with timekeeping, place judging and at our field events, your help was invaluable.

3 records were broken at this year’s carnival, they were:

Noah Grey – Junior boys 1500m

Finn Grey – Senior years boys 1500m

Tom Trengove – 9 years boys 100m

Relay Teams for District will be:

Junior Boys – Tom Trengove, Fletcher Duguid, Hunter Bowd, Noah Grey

Junior Girls – Emmeline Nicka, Ivy Milton, Zoe Neville, Mia Burn

Senior Boys – Jack Daly, Sam Markcrow, George McKenzie, Jack Trengove

Senior Girls – Poppy James, Zoe Milton, Amelia Balken, Sophie Payne

Athletics Champions for 2024

Congratulations to this year’s age champions.

Junior           Noah Grey                    Elsie Trengove

11yrs            Jack Trengove              Amelia Balken

Senior           Finn Grey                     Poppy James

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Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place every year. The NCCD is a collection that counts: 

• the number of school students receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability in order to access education on the same basis as a child without disability.

• the level of adjustment they are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students. Students are counted in the NCCD if they receive ongoing adjustments at school due to disability. 
The information in anonymous and will be collected at the end of this term For more information you can go to https://www.nccd.edu.au/tools/fact-sheet-parents-guardians-and-carers

SRC - Lose Your Locks Fundraiser

The SRC are still accepting donations for The Kids Cancer Project. Thank you for your donations! This amount means Mrs Hawker will colour her hair in the coming weeks and Ms. Laurie has coloured her hair purple. Mrs Swords will lose her locks this Friday at Assembly!

PBL Focus - CPS Wellbeing Program

Our Learner Qualities

Game Changer Challenge

 Over the last 5 weeks, Year 6 students, Finn, Zoe, Harvey, Joey and Indie have been working together to in effort to 'Make life better for all without harming the planet.' Last Friday, the 'Cano Yabbies' submitted their entry into the Game Changer Challenge. They would like to share their work with you.

The Resilience Project - Emotional Literacy

Working on our emotional literacy gives us opportunities to develop our ability to understand and express different emotions. When we improve our emotional literacy, we can work towards recognising our own feelings and our ability to manage them. This allows us to cope with different life situations, such as managing conflict, making friends, coping in difficult situations, and being resilient when dealing with change.

Whole Family Activity:

Feelings Charades

• Gather together as a family, this might be around the dinner table, lounge room, or around the fire outside.
• Take turns to act out a feeling or emotion. Use your face and body language to act this out, For example: Make an angry face and stamp your feet or
• Other family members need to guess the feeling/emotion.
• After someone has guessed the feeling/emotion, have family members discuss a time they have felt this way before and why. If it was a negative emotion, how did they overcome it?

Family Habit Builder:

Around the dinner table, ask everyone to share a feeling they felt during that day. Discuss how they dealt with that feeling and then discuss and share strategies you could use when faced with particular feelings.

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. Any enquiries please call Sheryn : 0402 441 263

Healthy Snippets

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

Community Notices