Week 5 Term 3 Newsletter 2022

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

I’m pleased to announce that our school will have a Before and After School Care service run by Big Childcare, commencing in 2023. The service will run from 7am - 8:30am, 3pm - 6pm. The next five months will be spent planning and working with Big Childcare to put in place this much needed service. Not only will they be looking for school age children to attend, they are also looking for quality educators to run the service. We are in the preliminary stages of planning and more information will be disseminated in the coming months. 

Finger’s crossed district athletics will be taking place in Cowra this Friday. A bus has been organised to transport everyone to the event. All students are required to pay for the bus regardless of travel arrangements. Thank you to everyone who has given permission via the Sentral Parent app. If there are any changes to this event, we will let you know via the app as soon as we hear anything.

A reminder that Voluntary School Contributions and any monies outstanding for textbooks, excursions etc. are due now. Accounts were sent out last week. If you are having difficulty in paying these please contact the school to arrange a payment plan.

As we all know Cyber Safety is always an important topic for our students and it’s important we teach our students about this. We cover this topic thoroughly in PD/H and we access the local services of police and DoE personnel to talk to our students. Several flyers will be included in the newsletter over the coming week’s for parents from the eSafety Commissioner https://www.esafety.gov.au/ which is a one stop shop for anyone to find out anything they need to know about cyber safety.

There are several excursions which are coming up in the next couple of weeks, please see the newsletter for more information. All permission notes are to be completed via the Sentral Parent app. Payments can be made via the school website, see flyer regarding the new and improved access to online payments.

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

Opera Australia Regional School Tour Presents: Cinderella

Strap yourselves in and get ready to be transported to the floating city of Venice for a story that will remind you to shine bright and stand out from the crowd.

Angelina is a designer, costumier and seamstress of unparalleled skill. She longs to design bold, beautiful clothing but is stuck making ugly garments for her social-climbing step-father Don Magnifico and sister Tisbe.

Prince Ramiro has been charged to host a grand ball during the Venetian Carnival and wants to wear something wild and unusual to prove his uniqueness. He announces a city-wide competition, but is there anyone in Venice who can rise to the challenge?

Based on Rossini’s Cenerentola, this brand new production has been especially devised for school students of all ages. Complete with striking costumes and vibrant scenery, our professional opera singers perform live and in English.

A range of dynamic and interactive curriculum-based teacher resources are available online to help classroom teachers explore the music and broaden their student’s appreciation of the opera form.

Cinderella is designed as a school incursion and available throughout Metropolitan and Regional New South Wales and ACT from May 2022. Cinderella is coming to Cowra Civic Theatre on Tuesday 30^th August. Canowindra Public School has reserved 55 tickets for our students. Students who expressed an interest will be sent permission notes today. They will have until next Tuesday to 23rd August pay.

Upcoming Events

Week 6 - K-2 Athletics Carnival is to be held on Thursday 25th of August on Level 3 at school from 11:40 to approximately 12:45pm. Weather permitting!

Children will be participating in a running race and events like high jump and long jump. Parents are welcome to attend. Students will need to wear their sports uniform on this day and will be required to wear a hat.

Week 7 - Tuesday 30th August 2022 - Opera Australia Cinderella - 55 students - cost $15.00 per student

                                   Where - Cowra Civic Theatre between 10.45 and 1.00pm

Who -  55 Students 

Week 8 - Meerkat Productions Stellaphant - K to Year 2 - Thursday 8th September 2022 cost $8.00 per student

Week 8 - Scott's BMX Trick Bike Show  K to 6 - Friday 9th September 2022 - cost $5.00 per student

Week 9 - Year 4 Blue Mountains - Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September 2022 - cost $210.00 per student

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: Kindergarten

Kindergarten have been working hard to improve their writing everyday. We are using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces to make sure our writing is easy to read.  

 ENe-2A composes simple texts to convey an idea or message 

Dietician Visit - Stage 1

Stage 1 classes were joined by Courtney our local dietician to discuss what a balanced diet looks like to accompany the PDH nutrition unit the students have started learning about this term. The students worked collaboratively together to categorise foods into the food groups. They then learnt about the amount of serves needed for each food group. Thank you Courtney for visiting and sharing your knowledge with us! 
PD1-6
understands contextual factors that influence themselves and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity

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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.

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.  Kinderbounce sessions are listed below:

Monday 22nd August 1:50-3:00pm (last one!)

Book Club Issue 6

Issue 6 Book Club Order Forms have been sent home with students today. All orders MUST be paid for via LOOP.

Visit www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP

Orders close Wednesday 7th September 2022

Big Childcare Coming Soon

Starting 2023 at Canowindra Public School 7am – 8.30am | 3pm-6pm – Educators and students needed. Watch this space, more information will be coming soon!

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Community Health Centre

In Canowindra, we are very fortunate to have access to a speech therapist and other vital services at our Community Health Centre. In support of the 2022 Speech Patholgy Week, students in K-2 are entering a colouring competition. Our local speech therapist, Bianca, will be judging the entries and announcing a winner later in the month.

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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: