Week 10 Term 1 Newsletter 2022
Principal's Message
Dear Parents and Carers,
Get your smiles ready, school photos are on next Tuesday. 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 socks and black school shoes/ boots. All envelopes need to be returned to the school office before 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.
Year 6 Peer Support Camp notes and money are due by the end of this term. This is a wonderful camp which has been running for over 20 years and is designed to introduce our Year 6 students to many and varied skills to lead our Peer Support groups. Everyone is looking forward to the excursion at the beginning of Term 2.
Easter Hat Parade is next Thursday at 2pm in the hall. This is always a fun event and our Infants students love to show off their creations and there might be a surprise visit by Easter bunny.
The last day of term is Friday 8th April. The students have managed to fill our PBL rocket full to the brim with stars and as a result there will also be a surprise PBL reward for the whole school, that’s all I can say at this point in time.
Don’t forget the P & C AGM will be held tonight at the Canowindra Services club at 6:30pm. Looking to forward to seeing as many parents as possible.
Please remember that in the morning the drop off zone is not for parking in. If you need to leave your vehicle you will need to park out of this zone. There is also no standing along the Anglican Church boundary and opposite this area along Lola St. Hefty fines apply if you park in this area.
Have a great week!
Kind regards
Sharon Hawker
A friendly reminder about pick up at the end of the day at Belmore St gate. Please avoid parking in the church yard and along Lola St. All parking needs to be on Belmore St. This will ensure the safety of all our students.
State Swimming Representatives
Good luck to our State Swimmers competing in Sydney next Monday and Tuesday. Ava will be competing in the 11 Years Girls 50m freestyle and butterfly, as well as being part of the Senior Girls Relay team which consists of Lucy, Haylee, Claire and Ava. Congratulations on making it to this level girls, we wish you all the best and will be cheering you on.
Ava Thornberry has been invited to swim as part of the Western Region All-Age Girls Relay Team. Ava was selected for this team by being the fastest 11 year old girl at the Western Swimming Carnival.
Western Rugby League
Congratulations to Jay Burn for being selected in the 11 Years Western Rugby League Team. Jay participated in trials on Monday and was selected to be part of the team to represent Western. He will compete on the 7th, 8th & 9th June in Parkes. Well done, Jay!
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
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 12 weeks since the person finished their self-isolation period (up from 8 weeks 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Parents need to be aware that our school operates under strict guidelines from the NSW government concerning the attendance of students. A child must attend school every day of a scheduled school year. It is a parent’s responsibility to ensure that this happens, and it is the school’s responsibility to keep accurate records of attendance. The school is not permitted to approve leave for any reason other than illness, exceptional family circumstances or occasional absence for elite sporting or cultural participation. This may seem severe, but all schools must adhere to these guidelines. Most leave, other than sick will be designated as “explained but unjustified”. Please call the school or send a note in within 3 days of absence.
School Photo Day - Tuesday 5th April 2022
Summer uniform is to be worn for this years School Photo Day - Envelopes have been sent home with students. 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
1/2B have begun learning about procedures. They have been focusing on the purpose of procedures, to provide instruction, and discovering how important it is to make each step of the method clear. Miss Benjafield has ended up in some silly situations (even putting cheese on her head) when students have given her steps to follow that have not been specific!
EN1-UARL-01 - understands and responds to literature by creating texts using similar structures, intentional language choices and features appropriate to audience and purpose.
Year 5/6D participated in World Maths Day last week in mathletics. They challenged students from all over the world playing against them in live mathletics. MA3-5NA Selects and applies appropriate strategies for addition and subtraction with counting numbers of any size.
PBL News - C.P.S. Wellbeing Program
Healthy Snippets
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P & C News
AGM
Wednesday 30th March
6.30pm
Canowindra Services Club
All previous and new families are welcome.
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