Week 8 Term 1 Newsletter 2022

Assistant Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Week 8 - Mrs Hawker is on long service leave this week and is trekking through the beautiful Tasmanian wilderness. The Boys to the Bush program started last week and from all accounts the boys had a fantastic day on the river and are looking forward to this week’s activities.

Well done to our swimmers who travelled to Dubbo last Friday for the Western Region Trials. All students represented our school and the Cowra district with pride. 

Today Year 6 participated in the first of two check-in assessments. Over the next three weeks, Year 4 and Year 6 students will be completing their check-in reading and numeracy assessments. Year 6 will complete their second check-in assessment on Wednesday 23rd March. Year 4 will complete their check-in assessments on Tuesday 22nd and 29th March. Students are required to have headphones for this test.

This Friday I will be taking 11 primary students to Twigg Oval in Cowra to play cricket against Cowra Public School. The cricket team are eager to put some cherries on their bats and send those bails flying.

Next Tuesday 22nd March, Mr Bates and I will be taking students to the Rugby League Gala Day in Cowra.  Mr Bates and the students have been working hard during their lunchtime training sessions and are keen to put their practice to good use.

A quick reminder that class teachers will be contacting parents to organise PLSP meetings. These meetings will be conducted before the end of this term.

3-way interviews will be held early next term. To ensure you’re prepared for this, please ensure that you have access to our Sentral Parent Portal.

Have a wonderful week and remember to wear something orange for Harmony Day on Monday.

Kind regards

Lauren Toovey

Congratulations to Ava Thornberry who took out first place and qualified for state for 11yrs 50m Freestyle and 11yrs 50m Butterfly

Check-in Assessment

Students in Year 4 and Year 6 will be completing the Check-in assessment over the next few weeks. The check-in assessment is a NSW Department of Education online reading and numeracy assessment. Student are required to use headphones for the assessment. If your child has a set of headphones or earbuds that plug into a computer, we ask that they please bring them to school in Week 8, 9 and 10.

Latest COVID-19 Advice

Last week you may have heard that the Minister released the Public Health (COVID-19 Self-Isolation) Order 2022 (PDF 1,814KB), which commenced at 5pm Wednesday 2 March 2022. The Order revokes and remakes the current Public Health (COVID-19 Self-Isolation) Order (No 4) 2021, with the following amendments relevant to our schools:

• A household contact will only need to self-isolate for 7 days commencing from when the diagnosed person took the test, rather than 7 days from last contact with the diagnosed person.
• A household contact is not obligated to self-isolate as a contact more than once in a 21 day period (if the person is diagnosed with COVID-19, they will need to self-isolate again).
• A person who had COVID-19 and later becomes a close contact or household contact does not need to self-isolate as a contact if it has been less than 8 weeks since the person finished their self-isolation period (up from 28 days in the current Order).

While the source of truth remains the NSW Government website, we have gone ahead and updated references to self-isolation on the relevant department internal and external COVID-19 webpages, as well as linking our staff and families to further information on the NSW Government’s Testing positive to COVID-19 and Information for people exposed to COVID-19 fact sheets.

Refer to Response protocols for COVID-19 cases for further information.

If you test positive with a rapid antigen test

Report through the Service NSW websiteExternal link and Service SNW app.External link  so you can be linked to important health care support and advice based on your COVID-19 risk. If you or someone in your family can’t register online, please call Service NSW on 13 77 88

If you test positive with a PCR or rapid antigen test, you must:

1. Isolate immediately for 7 days. Your household must also isolate for 7 days. If you have a sore throat, runny nose, cough or shortness of breath after 7 days, please remain in isolation until 24 hours after your symptoms have resolved.
2. Tell people who you spent time with from the 2 days before you started having symptoms or 2 days before you tested positive (whichever came first) that you have COVID-19. This includes your social contacts, workplace and/or school.
3. Monitor your symptoms. If you are concerned you should call your GP, the NSW Health COVID-19 Care at Home Support Line on 1800 960 933 or the National Coronavirus Helpline on 1800 020 080. If symptoms become severe call 000.

All positive COVID-19 cases should be reported to the school if they have attended school recently.

Unwell at school

Any student or staff member who is unwell and/or displays symptoms of COVID-19 will be asked to go home and stay until they can complete a RAT or PCR test.

• If symptoms continue, they should stay at home and take another RAT in 24 hours or have a PCR test.
• If the second RAT or initial PCR test result is negative and they are displaying no symptoms OR they are diagnosed as another condition such as hayfever, the student or staff member can return to school.
• In NSW, positive COVID-19 cases are provided a Medical Clearance Notice after 7 days and allowed to leave self-isolation as long as they do not have COVID-19 symptoms.

 Students who are isolating at home

If a student tests positive or is a close contact they must isolate for 7 days. School work can be accessed via the class' online platform and through the Digital Learnig Resource Hub. This involves learning at home without a teacher.

Book Club - Issue 2 2022

Issue 2 Book Club Order forms went home with students last week. All orders MUST be paid for via LOOP.

Visit www.scholastic.com.au

Orders close Friday 18th March 2022

Harmony Day - Monday 21st March

Harmony Day celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. 

It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone.​ 

Wear something orange to school to celebrate. It could be an orange shirt, hair ribbon or socks.  

We look forward to seeing you at school in something orange next Monday.  

Western Swimming trials - Dubbo

Last Friday 19 students travelled to Dubbo to compete at the Western Swimming Trials against the best swimmers in the Western Region. All students swam wonderfully and lots of great PBs were made.

Congratulations to Ava Thornberry who made it to State Swimming in two individual events. Ava came 1st in the 11 Years Girls 50m Freestyle and 1st in the 11 Years Girls 50m Butterfly.

Congratulations also, to our Senior Girls relay team (Lucy Neville, Haylee Stanbury, Claire Pengilly & Ava Thornberry) who had a fantastic swim and came in 1st. These four girls are all 11 years old this year, competing against 12 year old girls, what an achievement.

Good luck to our 4 swimmers who will compete in Sydney at State on the 4th/5th April.

Well done to all swimmers who competed in Dubbo, you are all amazing.

Rugby League Gala Day - Tuesday 22nd March

The Rugby League Gala Day is Tuesday 22nd March 2022 at River Park, Cowra. Students from Years 3 to 6 will be participating. Permission notes and payment for the bus are due in by this Friday.

The bus will leave from the main Tilga St gate at 8.15 and return before 3.30pm, all children are to pay for the bus regardless of travel arrangements

Mouthguards and football socks are available from the office at $10.00 each

Sacraments for 2022

Parents of children who have been baptised Catholic and wish for their child/ren to participate in the sacraments for 2022, please contact Fr Laurie Beath for more relevant information.

Phone: 0427 421 043 

Email: lbeath@exemail.com.au

School Photo Day - Tuesday 5th April 2022

Envelopes were sent home with students last Wednesday. Family photo envelopes are available from the office. If paying online (www.msp.com.au) for photos please return your envelope to the office ASAP with your order reference number included.

If paying via cash (correct money as NO change given) or cheque please return your envelope on school photo day.

Class in Focus

Every morning, 1/2L are busy completing lots of activities during reading groups. We use lots of hands-on objects to blend sounds together to help us write and read words.  We have lots of fun working together as a team! 
EN1-PHOKW-01: uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts. 

PBL News - C.P.S. Wellbeing Program

Term 1 - The Hub Menu

The Hub - Order Online

The High School canteen preferred ordering method is via QuickCliq. In 2022 this will be the ONLY payment method accepted........please register now.

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

AGM

Wednesday 30th March

6.30pm

Canowindra Services Club

All previous and new families are welcome.

Community News

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