Week 2 Term 1 Newsletter 2023

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back to all our wonderful families and a special welcome to our new families who are joining Canowindra Public School, we look forward to getting to know you and your children. Please ensure you read our newsletter which is sent out via email each week and can be found on our school website. If you don’t have email or internet access, please let the office know and your eldest child can collect a hard copy from the office each week.

Years 1-6 started yesterday and it was great to see everyone’s smiling faces. A lot of time and effort has gone into placing students into their classes. Kindergarten is the only year group where some changes might be made within the first four weeks. Kindergarten will start their adventure into “big school” tomorrow. Many of you will be aware of the tragic passing of little Imogen Lennon. We are all completely devasted that we won’t be seeing her smiling face tomorrow. We have a teddy which we have called Imogen and we know that she will be part of the class and in our hearts forever.

Staffing for 2023

Once again we are very lucky to have wonderful teachers at our school and 2023 is no exception. We warmly welcome Miss Georgie Pritchard, Miss Charlotte Groves, Miss Phoebe Chadwick and Ms Jade O’Malley who are all new to our school this year. Charlotte and Phoebe have worked casually over the past year or so, but we welcome them as full-time teachers this year. Georgie comes from Bletchington PS in Orange and Jade returns to the classroom after being on maternity leave from a school in Cowra. We also welcome Mrs Miller and Mrs Howard to the relieving role of AP C&I (Curriculum and Instruction) whilst Ms Toovey is on maternity leave.

Our classes for 2023 are listed below. Please remember the class teacher is the first “port of call” to discuss any issues you may have as they are with your child every day and know them very well. Teachers will be sending home a class newsletter later in the week and they will be meeting all parents via 3 Way Interviews which includes teachers, students and parents later in the term. Bookings for these will be made through our Sentral Parent Portal.

Kindergarten – Miss Rinaldo

K/1 – Miss Lander

Year 1/2 – Miss Groves

Year 2 – Miss Benjafield

Year 3/4 A – Mrs Swords

Year 3/4  B – Ms Laurie

Year 4/5 – Miss Chadwick

Year 5/6 – Miss Dixon

Year 5/6 Blue – Miss Pritchard

Library – Mrs Clements (Wed-Fri) Mrs Pearce (Tues)

Learning Support/ RFF – Mr Bates (Mon-Wed), Mrs Townsend, Ms O’Malley (Tues – Thurs),

Learning and Support/AP Infants– Mrs Pengilly

AP Curriculum & Instruction Mrs Amanda Miller (Mon- Tues) and Mrs Kristy Howard (Wed- Fri)

SLSOs - Mrs Slattery (Mon-Fri), Mrs Gersbach (Mon, Tues, Thurs), Mrs Daly (Wed), Mrs McCaffrey (Fri)

Swimming Carnival

Next Friday, 10th Feb. is our annual swimming carnival. It is compulsory for all 3-6 students to attend and any competitive 8 year old swimmers are encouraged to swim. House meetings will be held later in the week for students to enter races and elect house captains. All parents/ carers are welcome to attend/ help and cheer everyone on.

Primary will be swimming for sport every Friday, including this week, until the weather turns cold. Please ensure that your child has money and swimming gear every Friday.

Voluntary School Fees

Once enrolments have been finalised, school fees will be activated. These will be set at $55 per student with discounts for multiple children. Some classes will also be using Maths texts books, these will cost $28 and will be added to families accounts and sent out in the next couple of weeks. 

Have a great week!

Sharon Hawker

Upcoming Events and Excursions

Week 3 - Healthy Harold is back again!

Life Education Van - Monday 6th - Wednesday 8th (This will be subsided by school and P&C. All students will be attending, if you don't want your child/ren to particiapte, please let the office know.

Friday 10th February - Primary Swimming Carnival

PBL Focus - C.P.S Wellbeing Program

Sentral Parents App

All new student parents/carers that are yet to download the Sentral Parents App. Please go to the App store on your mobile and follow the prompts.

Log in with your email address or username and password previouly used to book your 3 Way Interview (new parents will need to create their password).

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. All new student parents/carers will receive your access key via email this Friday.

The HUB - Canteen Lunches

Canowindra High School Canteen provide lunch orders to our school from Monday to Friday. This year they have moved to a new online ordering app called 'Spriggy Schools'. This is the ONLY payment method accepted. Please follow the instructions below to register your child/ren for online ordering.

For any parents that need to retrieve funds from their 'quickcliq' account go to: https://quickcliq.com.au/

Click on FAQs then go to FAQs for Parents and scroll down to credit refund and follow the instructions. See image below.

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.

HOT OFF THE PRESS !!! Big Childcare

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

Welcome back and a warm welcome to our new families. We hope all your children are settling in well at Canowindra Public School. The first P&C meeting for the year is Monday 6th February at 6.30 pm - at Canowindra Hotel. Everyone is welcome to the meetings and we extend a special invitation to all new families of the school to meet the team.
If you have any suggestions, or questions or would like to get involved - please email CanowindraPandC@gmail.com or speak to any of our committee members. 

Community News

Please find the following events happening in our community: