Week 4 Term 1 Newsletter 2023

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the swimming carnival last Friday. It was a great day with lots of students participating for the first time and many others swimming PB’s and breaking records. Many thanks to everyone who dressed up, your all looked amazing! Miss Dixon and primary staff for another well organised event and thanks to all our parents who helped on the day. There will be a full report in this week’s newsletter.

I’d like to give a very warm welcome to Ms Bec Bouffler and Miss Natalia Jimenez who are our new school counsellors this year. They will be alternating every Monday and will be working closely with our Learning and Support Team.

This Friday we will be holding our first assembly of the year. Kinder will experience their first assembly where they will get to practice singing the school song and national anthem and our school leaders will be involved in the running of our assembly for the first time. Award recipients will be published in this week’s newsletter and House Captains will be given their badges. Parents/ carers are welcome to attend. Assembly will begin at 2pm in the hall.

Stage 3 AFL Paul Kelly Cup will be held in Cowra next Monday 20^th Feb. Information and permission notes were sent home via the Sentral app yesterday. Permission and money for bus is due by this Friday. Miss Chadwick and I will be supervising the 35 students who have nominated to play on the day. Some students have participated before, but no prior experience is welcomed. It will be a great day and is always a well organised by Central West AFL.

At the beginning of every school year we are required to have emergency drills. If your child comes home and mentions that there was an evacuation or a lockdown, this will be a practice. If it is a real emergency, the school will let parents know via our communication channels.  

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

Our Classes - 2023

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Upcoming Events and Excursions

Week 4 - School Assembly - Friday 17th February at 2.00pm

Week 5 - AFL Gala Day - Monday 20th February

Week 8 - P&C AGM - Monday 13th March

Week 10 - Cross Country - Friday 31st March

Week 11 - School Photo Day - Tuesday 4th April

School Assembly this Friday - 17th February 2023

Kinder                  Willow Cheney, Charlotte White, Tahlia Stewart, Ziggy Kemper

K/1                        Evie Carpenter, Brodie Fliedner, Kai Thornberry, Sophie Burn

Year 1/2                Bradley Leeson-Woolley, Isla Thompson, Jaiden Higgins, Archer Maere

Year 2                  Hunter Lawrence, Lewis Cupitt, Macie Adams, Tom Trengove

Year 3/4 A            Oliver Bushell, Cora Ryan, Alexa Roth, Noah Grey

Year 3/4 B            Kaitlyn Lees, Andy Wright, Aria Bowman, Oliver Maunder

Year 4/5                Thembe Jaffar-Knott, Maggie Hatton, Summer Walker, Kayden Smith

Year 5/6                Haylee Stanbury, Victor Perry, Charlie Scifleet, Chloe Carpenter

Year 5/6 Blue       Doug Monk, Joey Greenhill, Isabella Price, Ananya Joshi

Infants Sport

Please note that Infants Sport will be each Thursday. Students may wear their house coloured shirt and joggers on this day.

Book Club Issue 1

Issue 1 Book Club Order Forms went home with students last week. All orders MUST be paid for via LOOP.

Visit www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP

Orders close - this Friday 17th February 2023

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 have been emailed their access key.

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. 

Please note that quickcliq has now been disabled!

Attendance

Parents need to be aware that our schools operate under very strict guidelines from the NSW government concerning the attendance of students. A child must attend school every day from 9am to 3pm 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”. If we do not recieve an explaination within 2 weeks, it will be marked as "absent unexplained". Please respond to our absent SMS, they are free of charge. 

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

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. 

Our AGM will be held on Monday 13th March at Canowindra Services Club, all new and incumbant members welcome!

Community News

Please find the following events happening in our community: