Week 2 Term 3 Newsletter 2022

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

It was remise of me not to mention the wonderful activities which took place at the end of last term. These included our PBL Reward afternoon, class rewards and our SRC visit to the preschool. The PBL reward afternoon was filled with fun, games and prizes and a special visit from “Twinkle”. We all had lots of fun and look forward to doing it all again when we fill the rocket. I also had the pleasure of organising lunch for 5/6D and everyone enjoyed delicious sausage rolls, wraps and sandwiches from Canowindra High School canteen. Miss Rinaldo’s class were treated to a picnic lunch and the SRC had a memorable visit to Canowindra Preschool where they read stories and helped out with activities for the afternoon, which we haven’t been able to do for a few years.

As we are all aware Covid and influenza are still “floating” around in our community and we are all obliged to do the right thing in order to stop the spread. Please ensure you inform the school if your child/ren are away due to Covid, we are still required to send out email alerts to inform parents of current cases. Additional RATs were sent home with the eldest child on Monday. If you require any more throughout the term, please contact the school and see updated information in the newsletter.

Education Week is next week and we have a few busy weeks of activities planned. First up, on Monday August 1, Years 3-6 will be watching a Tony Bones performance in the hall about the CBCA shortlisted book The imaginer. Permission notes have been sent via the Parent Portal app. We are moving to electronic notes and everyone should have downloaded this by now. If you haven’t downloaded the app, please see further information in the newsletter.

Thank you to everyone who has downloaded the app and given permission to the Tony Bones 3-6 incursion. The next step is to pay by cash or POP through our school website by Friday. If we do not receive permission and payment, we will presume you do not want your child to attend. The performance is on Monday morning at 9am.

Our Open Day/ Colour Fun Run will be on Tuesday 9^th August at 12 pm. Parents, relatives, neighbours are all encouraged to come and see our wonderful classrooms and the work the students have done throughout the year. This will be followed by a free sausage sizzle at 1pm, where visitors can join us for lunch. Then the P&C Colour Fun Run will start at 2 pm. Students can change into their white shirts at lunch. Fundraising information and prize booklets were sent home last week.

Kinderbounce for 5 year olds, will begin on Monday 1^st August for 4 weeks. Information re. this special program has gone out to all prospective families via Pre School and other outlets. Please see additional information in the newsletter. Please ensure you RSVP to the school office by the end of the week.

Last Friday we enjoyed the glorious sunshine and warmer weather and participated in our Peer Support NAIDOC games afternoon. Our Year 6 peers support leaders guided their groups through the games and everyone enjoyed learning new games. Thanks to Mrs Matic for coordinating and to our leaders for doing a great job.

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

End of term fun!

Years 3 to 6-Excursion

Tony Bones 'The Imagineer' - Books To Life - 2022 CBCA Notable - listed Picture Book of the Year performed live on stage.

WHEN - Monday 1st August 2022 - 9am

WHERE - School Hall

WHO - Years 3 to 6

COST - $7.00 per student payment via POP or Cash to the office

Permission is to be given via the Sentral Parents app (see below)

If we do not receive permission and payment, we will presume you do not want your child to attend. 

Sentral Parents App

Download the Sentral Parents App from the App store on your mobile and follow the prompts.

Log in with the email address or username and password previouly used to book you 3 Way Interview.

If you have not previously logged in - go to register now and create your account.

You will then receive an verification email to the email address you entered. Go to your emails and click on  verify. 

You are then taken to the Canowindra Public School Student and Parent Portal Log in. Enter email address or username and password and log in. Then go to My Access and type in your access key, if you are unsure of your access key, please call the office for assistance.

Vision Screening - Kindergarten

Hanson's Optometrist will be here to conduct vision screening on Thursday 18th August. Parents completed permission notes for this last term.

Class in Focus

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

Year 4 played a fun basketball game in PE this week. They were working on their bouncing and shooting skills, as well as increasing their fitness. 
PD2-11 combines movement skills and concepts to effectively create and perform movement sequences.

NAIDOC Week games

Last Friday to celebrate NAIDOC week students participated in several games with their Peer Support groups.

Introducing our Learner Qualities

These qualities will be referred to in all lessons and will give students the necessary skills to become lifelong learners. Stay tuned for more news on these learner qualities via our newsletter and Facebook next term.

Kinderbounce

Canowindra Public School funds a special step into Kindergarten introduction called Kinderbounce. 

The program is available for children who are 5 or turn 5 before September 30th 2022, but aren’t yet attending primary school. They will be able to join us for Kinderbounce every Monday for 4 weeks. Kinderbounce sessions are listed below:

Monday 1st August 1:50-3:00pm

Monday 8th August 1:50-3:00pm

Monday 15th August 1:50-3:00pm

Monday 29th August 1:50-3:00pm

Thanks to those families who have already booked their child in.

Book Club - Issue 5 2022

Issue 5 Book Club Order Forms have been sent home with students today. All orders MUST be paid for via LOOP.

Visit www.schloastic.com.au

Orders close Thursday 4th August 2022

Latest COVID-19 Advice

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P&C News

It's time to start FUNdraising! The 2022 Colour Fun Rus is coming up.Creating your child/ren's online fundraising page at www.schoolfunrun.com.au is the easiest way to earn great prizes and raise money for our school. Click on the student sign-up page to register or login Let them create their profiles! (The class with the most profiles registered by next Tuesday gets to run first!) Select their FUNdraising target Share their link to family and friends Tuesday 9 August the students get to enjoy the colour fun run!

P&C meeting Monday 1st August - Canowindra Hotel (dining room) 6.30pm Everyone is welcome to the P&C meetings and we extend a special invitation to all new families of the school to meet the P&C team, parents and carers.
Although we have some formalities to run through, it is a casual environment. A table will be set aside for any children who are coming along with their parents/carers. We would love to see as many people as we can! 😀
It’s never too late to sign up and help out, or come along and check out what we are doing for our little school.Dinner is available. You are welcome to call hotel and order in advance.

Healthy Snippets

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

Community News

Please find the following events happening in our community: