Week 5 Term 2 Newsletter 2023

Principal's Message

Congratulations to our public speakers who are were chosen to represent their classes at our in-school competition which was held last Thursday. This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to get some public speaking practice in front of a larger audience and for the adjudicators (Mrs Howard and myself) to choose who goes through to the next round at Orange’s CWA Public Speaking Competition. Well done to all speakers, it can be a very daunting experience, and all performed very well and showed no sign of nerves at all. It was a very close contest but congratulations goes to Toby Henry - Year 3, Kayden Smith - Year 4, Emily Bullock - Year 5, Mack Pengilly -  Year 6.  

Our Stage 2 and 3 dancers will be performing at the Cowra Eisteddfod today. We wish them all the very best and a huge thank you goes to Miss Lander and Miss Groves for choreographing and organising this opportunity for the girls. They have been competing for a few years now and I’m sure they will have a great day and enjoy their visit to Holman Place for recess.

Kindergarten will be visiting the Pre-school today for Simultaneous Reading Day to celebrate Imogen’s birthday. This is a lovely gesture and I’m sure everyone will enjoy morning tea and story time.

Good luck to all our runners at this Friday’s district cross country carnival. The bus will be leaving school at 9am sharp. Please be prepared for the day with plenty of water, warm clothes and hat. Canteen facilities will be available on the day, run by our wonderful P&C. Please make sure you support as all profits go back to our school!

Lastly, I’d like to announce that I’m planning on taking long service leave for Semester 2. Mrs Pengilly has been appointed by David Lloyd (Director of Educational Leadership – Cowra network)) through merit selection. Lauren is a very worthy recipient and will do a wonderful job in the role. Lauren’s current position as Infants Assistant Principal will be filled internally by Mrs Miller and Mrs Howard who will be job sharing on Year 2.

I’m also pleased to announce that Mr and Mrs Howard are expecting their second child at the end of term 3. When Mrs Howard goes on maternity leave, Mrs Matic will be returning from maternity leave and will fill in for Kristy on Year 2 and as Infants AP, no doubt seamlessly. I’d like to thank these teachers for coordinating their babies and maternity leave so well!

I will be looking forward to returning in 2024 with fresh eyes and enthusiasm and I’m proud that I have staff who are willing to step into other roles and want to build their capacity in other areas that our school has to offer.

Have a great week!

Kind regards

Sharon Hawker

Boys to the Bush

Week 4

Mt Canobloas and Lake Canobolas, Mini Putt Putt and Borenore Caves.

BttB Gallery

Upcoming Events and Excursions

Term 2 

Wednesday 24th May - Dance Eisteddfod in Cowra, Kindergarten excursion to Canowindra Preschool for Simultaneous Reading Day

Friday 26th May - District Cross Country at Canowindra, Boys to the Bush

Wednesday 7th June - Year 5 Canberra excursion

Thursday 8th June - Year 5 Canberra excursion

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. Students 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.

PSSA Girls Touch Football

Congratulations to the touch football girls who won round 2 of the PSSA Knockout competition against Mulyan Public last Friday, with a convincing 10-1 score at the end of the game. We wish them luck for round 3 against Orange Public, date to be confirmed. 

Touch Football gallery

Infants Cross Country

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Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 had a fun day last Thursday running in their cross country carnival.

Class in Focus

Each week one of our classes will be chosen to showcase the great learning that is happening in our school. This week's class is: Kindergarten

Reading Groups in Kindergarten Using Decodable Texts  

What are decodable texts? 

Decodable texts are specifically written for beginning readers as they are developing their blending and segmenting skills and their knowledge of the alphabetic code. Decodable texts support students as they practise by using a continuous meaningful text. 

Decodable texts contain a very large percentage of words that incorporate the letter-sound relationships that students have been taught. Decodable texts increase in complexity as the student learns more of the phonetic code. 

ENE-REFLU-01 - reads decodable texts aloud with automaticity 

Mandatory School Visitor Check-in

School Visitor Check-in for School Visitors, Parents, Contractors is a mandatory reliable digital sign-in system for New South Wales' public schools.

Here's how it works, if you are visiting for 15 mins or longer:

· When you arrive at the school, you must go to the office and sign in on the Visitor Concierge iPad.

· Select the appropriate visitor category, such as parent or carer, contractor, or select other if you're           volunteering or holding a special event.

· Enter the reason for your visit and the name of your school contact person.

· Once you have checked in, the school will issue you with your Visitor Lanyard.

· When your visit is complete please return you Visitor Lanyard to the office and check out on the iPad.

· By checking out, you assist the school and emergency services in an evacuation event.

PBL Focus - CPS Wellbeing Program

Sentral Parents App

Please ensure you have your notifications TURNED ON (check in settings) for this app as we have been and will continue to send push notifications for all school actitivies and communication.

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.

Introducing our Learner Qualities

Parents received their brochures at 3 Way Interviews!

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

 District Cross Country - P&C canteen Friday 26th May

Canowindra Public School are hosting the District Cross Country this Friday 26th May at the Canowindra Showground. The P&C are running the canteen and we will be asking for helpers on the day plus reaching out for any baked goods. 

Keep an eye out on the P&C Facebook page for details. 

Community News

Please find the following events happening in our community: