1 Carenne School Newsletter · 2019-10-17 · Carenne School Newsletter. Term 1, Week 5. 24th...

Quality Education ~ Towards Independence

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Medical Students

Over the past five years

we have had a number

of medical students

from Western Sydney

University visit the

school as part of their

Paediatric cycle while

spending the year

working in Bathurst and

Orange hospitals. We

have found this to be a

valuable experience for

the medical students,

our students and our

staff. This year again we

have the students

visiting on a number of

Wednesday afternoons.

We look forward to

continuing this

beneficial program.

Sport Sport Sport

On top of our regular

weekly sports program

we have our swimming

carnival, two indoor

cricket carnivals and

regular visits from the

local Cricket Australia

representatives. We

are very active!

Take care, Neil

IEP Meetings a Winner

My thanks to everyone

who has been or will be

attending Individual

Education Plan

meetings. These have

been very successful. It

is so important that

families and carers

have input into the

planning and

determining priorities

for our students. I

enjoy seeing so many

happy faces coming and

going as the teachers

meet with each of you.

It is also very important

for your children to

know that you have an

interest in what

happens to them at

school. A great start to

the year!

Sentral Data Software

Some of you may be

familiar with this

through other schools.

Carenne is now using

this software to safely

manage our data

collection, analysis and

storage.

PBL High Flyers

It has been wonderful

to attend the

assemblies this term

and see so many

students earning

awards for Being Safe,

Being Respectful and

Being Learners. It has

been such a successful

start to the year that I

have already presented

three Principal’s PBL

Bronze Awards! What

an effort! Our new

students have really

settled in well and have

been amongst the

weekly award winners

too. We are already

looking forward to our

first PBL reward Day

later in the term. My

thanks to Mrs

McDonald and Ms

Okello who have taken

a break from the PBL

committee this year.

They have both made

significant contributions

over their years of

involvement. Mrs

McDonald was our

original and only PBL

Creative Director.


Carenne School Newsletter

24th February, 2017 Term 1, Week 5

CALENDAR DATES

28th February

Indoor Soccer (Sec)

Bathurst

2nd March

Captain and Leaders

Induction

6th March

ASPIRE - Class R

AGM & General

Meeting - Carenne P&C

7th March

Indoor Soccer

(Primary) Bathurst

23rd March

Tribute Night for Doug

Rowe - Charity

Fundraiser for Carenne

School

24th March

Science Questacon

Circus

6th April

Easter Hat Parade

2pm

7th April

Last day of Term 1 for

students


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PBL Super Stars

Our PBL Super Stars wall is

back up and running this

term. Our Super Stars wall

showcases those students

and staff who have shown

great commitment to PBL.

So far we have celebrated

students who are “being a

good friend”, “being calm”

and “caring for things”. We

have also thanked Mr Ryan

for watering the grass

during the holidays and Ms

Baskerville for making sure

all of our staff are up to

date with their CPR and

Anaphylaxis. Even Ollie

featured on our PBL Super

Stars wall for “being a good

friend” and helping

students on the bus. Make

sure you check out our PBL

Super Stars board!

Mandatory Training

On our first day back this

term, all staff were involved

in professional learning

focusing on student

wellbeing and our

mandatory training that we

undertake at the start of

every year. This included

Code of Conduct, CPR and

Anaphylaxis. A big thanks

to Ms Baskerville who spent

a number of days last year

being trained so she could

train us!

Great App

Talking about keeping

ourselves safe, a great app

that you might be interested

in is Emergency +

It is a free app for Apple and

Android phones developed by

emergency services. It uses

your phone’s GPS to give you

your location. Might just

help you out in an emergency,

especially if you’re unsure of

your exact location.

Easter Hat and Art Parade

This year our Easter Hat and

Art Parade is on Thursday 6th

April at 2:00pm. All parents,

friends, and Carenne

Community are invited to

attend. Students will be

making hats or art work in

class for this parade. We look

forward to seeing you then.

Carenne Facebook hits 1000!

When we launched our

Carenne Facebook page back

in May 2015 we hoped that

this would be a good way to

reach our parents, carers and

the greater community. We

anticipated that if we got 200

likes then we would be

considered a success on

Facebook! But a year and a

half later, 100s of posts and

even more photos, we have

now hit 1022 likes!

We love being able to share

not only the wonderful things

our students do each and

every day but also some of the

events that impact us as a

school. The students love

having their photos taken,

helping to write the posts and

then sharing their stories with

you at home. If you would like

to see any stories from our

school, that we haven’t

covered, please let us know.

See you in cyber world!

https://www.facebook.com/

CarenneSchoolNSWDEC/

Have a great week, Jane.

https://www.facebook.com/CarenneSchoolNSWDEC/

https://www.facebook.com/CarenneSchoolNSWDEC/


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CLASS E Tiffany Mahon (Teacher)

Angie Cranston (SLSO)

WOW! What a great few weeks back. Our new friends Lachlan and Noah are settling into

Kindergarten and love coming to big school every day.

This term we have been learning about farm animals. James and Noah are very good at

remembering what sound each animal makes. DJ and Adison always remember the signs for our

animals too. We are back into practicing our counting and number recognition. Tallon loves

counting activities, especially when we use our blocks and jumping frogs. Lachlan enjoys singing

our daily jolly phonics and counting songs too. We are doing so much great learning and are so

excited for the rest of the year.

Look at me

colouring

independently.

First time!!!

Cooking up a storm!

I love coming to

Carenne.

Stir, stir, stir!

James and Lachlan love

reading together. DJ says: “Work,

Work, Work!”

Time for some

counting songs.


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CLASS Mc

Kylie McDonald (Teacher)

Yvette Smith (SLSO)

Class Mc have had a very settled start to

the new school year and as our new

Superhero Minion display says “A Minion

reasons to Love Class MC”.

Our learning timetable is very busy with lots

of work in literacy, numeracy, PBL, music,

bike riding, sport, handwriting and

shopping, to mention just a few!

Class Mc are learning the names of the

days, months and seasons and our

classroom noticeboard reminds us of those

extra special activities that we have

throughout the week.

We have been working on our daily diary tasks each morning with improved handwriting and

scissor skills by everybody, well done Class Mc! Class Mc have been practising our PBL rules to be

Safe, Respectful SUPER Learners. Congratulations to Gus, Saxon, Bligh, Alex, Adam, Seth and

Anthony for being such SUPER Learners!


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CLASS C

Kerryn Cafe (Teacher)

Karina Molenkamp (SLSO)

Class C have had a great start to the new school year. We have been so impressed with how

effortlessly all of the students have settled back into the school routine.

This year we continue to combine with Class F in the middle session for literacy and numeracy

groups. We complete writing activities, sight word activities, read readers, play number games and

complete written tasks. We have been pleased to see how well all of the children are participating

in these activities. We have been impressed with their group work skills as well as the time and care

they are taking with their work. Well done everyone!

Each Friday we have use of the school bus and we go to Bernardi’s to buy our shopping for the

week. We have been buying ingredients for our cooking session each Friday afternoon. So far we

have made Pikelets, Fruit Salad Skewers and Mini Pizzas. We have some fabulous chefs in the class

who both cook and devour their cooking with great enthusiasm! We look forward to preparing

some other yummy creations during these sessions.


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CLASS F

Sue Flude (Teacher)

Emma Rush (SLSO)

Class F are having a busy term. We are continuing to work with Class C in literacy and maths

groups. We are amazed at how well everybody has adapted to the new group structure and are

working really hard. Class F have been completing a PD unit on ‘making the right choice’ in the

classroom, in the playground, in the community and at home. We are having wonderful

participation and group discussions using pictures of people and whether they are making the

right choice and how we can do the same. Whilst it has been hot we have been keeping fit by

doing kids cosmic yoga and following ’just dance’ video clips. Its been great to have Lisa come

back and teach us music and share her instruments. We have had fun cooking on Fridays. We

have used new cooking skills to measure and prepare gingerbread men, fruit kebabs and pikelets.

All the children are being very safe using kitchen utensils and taking turns. Most of all they have

enjoyed eating their masterpieces!


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CLASS W

Myles Woodward (Teacher)

Stephanie Cupples/Donna Kennedy (SLSO)

Class W have been discussing the similarities and differences of our homes and family structures,

looking at our family members and the different areas we live in. To illustrate these differences we

have begun to construct models of our individual homes out of cedar strips. We searched on the

internet to find images of our homes and have used these to plan and create our models. The

construction process will be ongoing throughout the Term and we are eager to see the

development of our homes by utilising sand from the playground and colouring it to represent the

grass, concrete and dirt areas. It is fascinating to see the details that all the children insist on

having.

Class W were very lucky to experience bushwalking through Aspire on Monday, 20th February. All

of the students were fantastic and were wonderful representatives of Carenne School!


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CLASS M

Clare Moore/Sandra Lynch (Teacher)

Sally Reedy/Wendy Lynch (SLSO)

We’ve had a wonderful start to the new school year with everyone settling happily into high

school and their new classroom. Our first few weeks have been busy with student assessment

tasks, daily math's and english activities, music, sport with Class W, bike riding, morning fitness

and visits to the school library with Mrs. Smith. Thank you to Class M parents and carers for their

valuable contributions during our IEP meetings. We’re looking forward to a very productive term

and some cooler weather.


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CLASS B

Anne Baskerville/Meg Turner-Mann (Teacher)

Kym Tattersall (SLSO)

Hi everyone, Class B have been very busy so far this term. We are learning all about Mini Beasts

and focusing our activities on the book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. We have made some very

delicious eatable caterpillars and butterflies using a variety of fruit. Another fun activity we did

as a class was to make a life cycle of the butterfly sensory bin. We used spiral, shell and bowtie

pasta and dyed them different colours and then mixed them all together in a tub. Its great fun

playing with it and we can sort it into colours and in shapes.

We have had a fun filled start to the year. See you soon, take care.

Anne, Meg, Kym and Crew.

Caterpillar Chrysalis Butterfly


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CLASS K

Janelle Kemp/Meg Turner-Mann (Teacher)

Juliette van Emmerik/Donna Kennedy (SLSO)

Class K have had a great start to 2017. We have a wonderful group of students who are all

working very hard. This term we have started a unit of work on the ”Big Things in Australia”; and

gosh there are lots of them. We are lucky to have our very own “Big Goldpanner” in Bathurst. All

the students in Class K enjoyed visiting him and having their photo taken. We are looking at

famous monuments from our history such as the Colosseum in Rome and the Pyramids in Egypt.

Miss Meg has started a cooking program with the students on Friday and they have already

enjoyed making banana cake. We also look forward to our Year 10 and 11 students starting

Work Experience next week.


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CLASS R

Adam Ryan (Teacher)

Paula Hundy/Julie Buining (SLSO)

It has been a fast paced start to 2017, with everyone settling in to Class R nicely. We have

completed some fantastic art works which have been used to decorate our lovely new

classroom . This year Class R will be doing regular maintenance on the pushbikes that are used by

the whole school. The boys have learnt how to check the tyre pressures, grease the chains and

clean the shed. In the coming weeks we will progress to changing tubes and fixing brakes. We

have started a unit in Agriculture on beef and lamb and we will focus on how our food goes from

paddock to plate. In addition the class will be helping class A prepare the cattle for the Royal

Bathurst Show. We have had a frequent visitor to class R, in the form of Ollie the Therapy Dog.

His presence has been great and the class really enjoy having him around. The swimming carnival

has come and gone and we couldn't be more proud of how the boys conducted themselves. They

all tried their best, competed strongly and displayed great sportsmanship. This year we will

continue to learn about healthy eating, food preparation, hygiene and how to cook for ourselves.

We have already cooked some tasty dishes and the boys and the executives look forward to our

weekly creations.


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CLASS S

Peta Sykes/Sue Wark (Teacher)

Kathleen Matheson (SLSO)

Class S has been busy getting to know our daily timetable and our three new students. Along with

our usual class subjects we have had Dogs for Diggers visiting which all the boys took great

enjoyment in. They will be joining us ever three weeks this term. The boys learn how to approach

the dogs and how to act around them. The dogs also showed us some really awesome tricks.

Class S have also been practicing our food preparation and hygiene skills for next term when we will

be running the Canteen Program for the whole school every Wednesday. The boys have made

pizzas and Spaghetti Bolognese so far. Other things the boys will take part in are our weekly

shopping visits on Tuesday, cricket practice skills on a Tuesday morning for the next 4 weeks and

bike riding on a Friday.


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CLASS N

Terry Neal (Teacher)

Marg Rowe/Sam Schofield (SLSO)

We have had a great start to Term 1 and have begun to start our Stage 5 and 6 curriculum work.

It was great to meet and talk to all our parents at our recent IEP meetings. We would like to

welcome Matty to Class N, Matty is completing school in Year 12 this year, and has become a

School Leader as well! We look forward to the start of our Work Experience program plus our

weekly community access trips, visits to the supermarket, sport and cooking lessons. Great to see

Jess and Gabe enjoying their participation in the Carenne Swimming Carnival.


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CLASS O

Christine Okello/Sue Wark (Teacher)

Di Klavins/Julie Buining (SLSO)

This term we have taken time off class to visit the Bathurst Library. During our visits, we saw lots

of people lined up to borrow books, while others were spending time on laptops and computers.

It is important that those who wish to read to improve their minds or provide themselves with

new skills can have access to books to do so. They also have access to computers, where good

material is now available on the net. We are indeed grateful that Bathurst has such facilities for

us to use. While we were there, we also had a chance to try our skills on the humongous

chessboard.

In science, we have a 3D Mira-scope. The equipment captures light of an object and then

project it as a three-dimensional image. We have lots of fun seeing how light is reflected and

the image of a toy frog is lifted, giving an impression of a frog sitting on top of the dish.

Amazing!


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CLASS L

Ros Luther/Ellen Sutton (Teacher)

Melinda Gavin/Donna Kennedy (SLSO)

Class L have been so busy settling in and are keeping extra busy with lots of work already.

Assessments have been completed and we are looking forward to a fantastic year this year. Our

new School Leaders are very excited about helping their fellow school mates and are looking

forward to their Leaders Induction in Week 6. We hope their families and friends can make it to

celebrate with us.

This term we have been learning about the history of Great Britain with Mrs Sutton and Mrs

Kennedy and have made a life-sized model of a knight in shining armour, as well as looking at

castles and designing our own.

We have also been learning about water and how important it is for our daily lives.

At lunchtime some of us have been using the library as an alternative to going out to the

playground. We have lots of things to do in there such as craft, jigsaws, colouring in and just

relaxing!!


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CLASS A

Michael Auld (Teacher)

Michael Phillips (SLSO)

Class A would like to welcome three new students to Class A - Michael, Cain and Jacob.

The students have been discussing activities and programs that they would like to participate in

during the year.

The beginning of the term the class has been working their way through an online program called

Brainology. This program teaches the students how the brain works and how it gets stronger and

smarter through effort and learning. They also learn about and practice effective strategies to

accelerate learning and growth. We have all achieved “Brain Master “ level and are attempting to

put some of the practices and strategies into place.

A number of students have already commenced TAFE including Hospitality and Motor Mechanics.

TAFE provides a wonderful education experience for our senior students. I would like to thank Mrs

Luther for organising the TAFE programs.

The students also had a great time at the school swimming carnival. Class A students not only took

part in the swimming but also helped the other students. Mr Adam Ryan and Ms Peta Sykes did a

wonderful job organising the carnival.

Class A would like to congratulate Will. He is one of the final eight students from over 200 people

who have competed for a scholarship for a pilot’s licence. He has undertaken interviews and a

trial flight. We wish Will all the best in the final rounds.

We would like to thank Matt Rattray. We were invited to his farm where the students fed his herd

of miniature horses and played on his pinball machines. Matt is a collector of old arcade

technology and rebuilds these machines. The students were very interested in his hobby.

We would like to thank all the parents and carers who have provided the time and input into the

child’s program for this year. It is great to be able to talk to parents about their child’s educational

needs.


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Macquarie Tutorial Centre

Nadine Dwyer/Adam Lange/Stephen McKinley (Teacher)

Jodie Toomey/Khiara Ryan (SLSO)

Welcome back to all of our Macquarie Tutorial Centre community. It has been lovely to see the

students return to school with an enthusiasm for school.

This year we welcome Mrs Khiara Ryan and Mr Aaron Lange to the Tutorial Centre. They are both

proving to be exceptional people who have a love of learning and an exceptional dedication to

the students.

We do have a busy term ahead of us, beginning with some students who were assistants at the

Carenne School Swimming Carnival held the 22nd of February. These students have been chosen

to assist due to their outstanding behaviour and empathic attitude to others. Finally I would like

to remind everyone that we are a PBL school and our expectations are Be Safe, Be a Learner, Be

Respectful.

The students have been

experimenting with colours that

clash and have re-worked a van

Gogh masterpiece. Starry Night

has never looked so psychedelic.


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Sport and Recreation

Terry Neal

We have had a hot and dry start to our sport and recreation, but we are still participating and enjoying

playing our summer sports and fun. The junior school have started their own class sports programs each

week as well as the senior school. Great to see so many students participating in the Carenne Swimming

Carnival, trying their best to swim strong and competitively and most of all having fun in the cool water.

Miss Sykes has organised it this year and done a great job, with a really exciting and fun day, for all. We

have also begun our regular weekly sports sessions and have begun with cricket. Matt Taberner, from

NSW Country Cricket, has been booked for our School Sports Australia program for this Term, and has

assisted with cricket at George Park each Tuesday morning with the senior school students. We also start

our representative sports program next Tuesday, with the secondary aged students school rep team

contesting the 2017 Regional Indoor Cricket Carnival, at the Bathurst Indoor sports Stadium. Mr Ryan and

Mr Woodward will be selecting their teams, this week.


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CARENNE NEWS

Dear Parents and Carers, You are invited to the

Carenne School

Easter Hat and Art Parade On Thursday 6th April at 2pm in the COLA

Students will be making hats or art work in class for this parade.

If you wish to take your child home after this event please let your class teacher

and special transport know. Thanks


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CARENNE NEWS

School Fee Reminder

Parents are reminded that school fees for students at Carenne are $25 per term or $100 for

the year.

Payment of fees makes a significant impact on our school budget and allows us to purchase

more resources for the students of Carenne.

It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for

students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either

a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer, tablet or mobile

phone. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website http://

www.carenne-s.schools.nsw.edu.au/ by selecting $ Make a payment

The fees can also be paid at the front office or send a cheque by mail or through your child's

communication book. Thank you!

Carenne P&C

The Annual General meeting to take place

When: Monday 6th March 2017

At: 7pm for 7:30pm start

Where: Carenne School

All Positions to be filled.

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