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CLAIRGATE CHRONICLE

Colorado Drive, St Clair NSW 2759 P: 9670 1408 F: 9670 1409 E: clairgate-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Care, Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity

in a positive, dynamic environment

Term 1 - Important Dates

to Remember

Thurs 7th Mar Induction Assembly: Yrs 3 to 6—2pm

Fri 8th Mar St Marys PSSA District Team Trials Mark Leece Fields

Tues 12th Mar Area Swimming Carnival

Thurs 14th Mar Induction Assembly : Yrs K to 2—2 pm

Tues 19th Mar Harmony Day –Mufti day

Wed 20th Mar

Disco : Kindy to Year 2—4 pm to 5.30 pm

Years 3 to 6—5.30pm to 7pm

Thurs 21st Mar Lots of Socks Day-gold coin donatin

Mon 8th Apr School Photo Day

Thurs 11th Apr School Cross Country Yrs 2 to 6

Term 1, Week 6 Wed 6th March, 2019

A note from the Principal

Welcome to the Clairgate Chronicle for this fortnight – Week 6, Term 1 (06/03/2019).

Clairgate “Extra” Super Fish

Congratulations to our wonderful District Swimming Team who swam on Friday, 1st March at the District Carnival. As usual our “Clairgate” behaviour was outstanding and all swimmers gave their absolute best – well done!

Huge thanks go to our amazing teachers: Mrs Millevoi for organising the entire carnival, Mr Blanch for all his hard work on the day and behind the scenes, Miss Grace for being the data manager on the day, Mrs Whalan for being a great team manager and Mrs Grady for all her hard work on the day. Well done to Clairgate! We have 4 students representing our district at the Regional Carnival at Homebush next week – Good Luck everyone!

I was especially proud to be announcing (and of course silently cheering for Clairgate) on the day of racing – I am always so pleased to see our students displaying the outstanding qualities of respect, resilience and “having a go”….that’s the Clairgate spirit!

Parking Issues I know at Clairgate we all have the best interests of our children at heart and I urge you to be a good role model when stopping at the Kiss and Drop Zone – PLEASE DO NOT PARK in this zone for more than 2 minutes – and PLEASE DO NOT PARK in the No Stopping Zones in the streets near the school – especially Shearer Street. Apparently some people are parking in an illegal manner and then calling their children to cross the road. STAFF CAR PARK - the only people allowed to come into the staff car park for a very brief pick up or drop off are those with a current disability permit. This can either be the RMS official permit or our Clairgate permit which is issued under special circumstances. Some general reminders…

Induction Assembly – Yrs 3-6 – Thursday, 7th March – 2.00pm Hall

P&C Meeting – Monday, 11th March – 7.00 pm staffroom

Induction Assembly – K-2 – Thursday, 14th March, 2019 – 2.00pm Hall

Harmony Day – 19th March, 2019 Mufti/Cultural Clothes Day (no money collection)

Disco – Wednesday, 20th March, 2019 – 4.00-5.30 – K-2, 5.30 – 7.00 – Yrs 3-6

Lots of Socks Day- Thursday, 21st March, 2019 – gold coin donation to raise money for the Down Syndrome Association (World Down Syndrome Day)

School Photos – Monday, 8th April, 2019

TOPSTEPS – Tuesday, 9th April, 2019

Parent/Teacher Interviews – Wednesday, 10th April, 2019 (notes out soon about booking these appointments)

School Cross Country – Thursday, 11th April, 2019

Easter Hat Parade/Raffle – Friday, 12th April, 2019 – from 11.30 onwards

Have a wonderful fortnight,

Kind regards,

Mrs Michelle Lawrow

Principal

Clairgate Public School

Greetings to everyone in the school community,

A little information around attendance.

We thank parents and carers for ensuring that their child

attends school every day and on time. However, every

morning we have occasional students at Clairgate who

are late for school. It is very important for all students to

arrive at school on time every day. Every class

commences their reading, writing and spelling learning

activities promptly at 9:00am after rolls are marked.

Students who are late miss out on this important

learning. If a child is just 10 -15 minutes late for school

every day this will result in one hour of lost learning time

every week totalling 10 hours a term. Students who

arrive late are disadvantaged because they miss out on

crucial learning time. This also applies when students are

collected early and they miss out on afternoon learning

activities.

It is a legal requirement that all children attend school

every day. The exceptions are: illness, injury or infectious

disease. Periods of nonattendance will affect a student’s

educational progress. Regular non-attendance will result

in failure to obtain the continuity in their education that

is desirable and necessary for them to succeed and

achieve.

Thank you for supporting your child and their

educational journey.

Mrs Lisa McInally

A note from the Deputy

Sports Report

St Marys District Swimming Carnival

Clairgate were honoured to organise and run this year’s St Marys District Swimming Carnival last Friday at Mt Druitt Pool. The carnival involved all 12 schools from our local area competing to hopefully be crowned District Champions and for students to gain selection in the St Marys District Swimming Squad. The finalised St Marys team will be announced shortly and will participate in the Area (Sydney-West) Swimming Carnival at Homebush on Tuesday, 12th March. Clairgate’s talented swimming squad participated extremely well. All of our Clairgate teachers present were very proud to see our swimmers competing with great effort and determination. Our school team’s enthusiastic support for all of their team mates was particularly pleasing. Thank you also to Clairgate supporters who cheered on our team at the pool. More details will be published in our next school newsletter. A huge well done and thank you to the following

Clairgate staff who made this carnival so great:

Mrs Millevoi & Mr Blanch (Organisers), Mrs Lawrow

(Announcer), Mrs Grady (Chief Finish Judge), Ms Grace

(Recorder), Mrs Whalen (Team Manager), Ms Paulic

(Tech Advisor), Mrs McInally, Mrs Younan & all the

canteen staff (organised and delivered drinks & lunches

to all district teachers officiating at the pool).

Finally, the following students did an amazing job as

helpers at the carnival: Layla-Rose Battah,

Paige Leonard, Nathan Jenkins & Mitchell Perry.

Swimming Carnival Assembly

Clairgate’s annual Swimming Carnival Assembly was held

in our school hall yesterday (Tuesday 5th March). All

ribbons, trophies, shields and special awards were

presented in front of Yrs 2-6 students as well as many

parents and supporters. Congratulations to all of our

Clairgate Superfish! A detailed summary of the main

awards and winners will be published in the next school

newsletter!

2019 Sport House Leaders

Our Sport House Leaders for 2019 will be presented with their

badges at Clairgate’s annual Induction Ceremony in the School

Hall this Thursday 7th March (2pm)

School Cross Country Carnival

Clairgate’s annual Cross-Country Carnival (Yrs 2-6) will be held

on Thursday 11th April on school grounds. More information

to follow later this term.

PSSA District Teams Trials Day

Congratulations to our Clairgate students who will be

attending the St Marys PSSA District Team Trials Day at Mark

Leece Fields this Friday (8th March). Students attending

received a blue note last week. All notes should be returned to

Mr Wilkinson ASAP. Mr Wilkinson will be supervising our

Clairgate students on the day.

Our students are hoping to gain selection into the St Marys

District Teams for Rugby League, Soccer, Softball, Netball, AFL

and Touch. It is expected that the coaches/selectors for each

sport will be handing out notes to their selected team

members on the day.

A huge thank you & well done to the following Clairgate staff

who will be District Team coaches/selectors for various sports:

Ms Grace (Girls Soccer) and Ms Bartlett (Girls Softball) &

Mr Blanch ( Girls Touch) Finally, a big thank you to Mrs Judge

& Mr Wilkinson who will be escorting our student

Library Report

We have had a wonderful time in Library lately. There

have been a stack of new books come in to our

classrooms and Library thanks to a generous donation

organised by the Grima family as well as some lovely

books purchased with the rewards earned in Book Club.

Our new Library Monitors have been enjoying their

responsibilities at lunchtime.

Stage three have been creating fantasy bikes on the

computers and laptops then using their figurative

language skills to describe them with similes.

Our friends in the Toddler Group are very excited to

borrow books each week to take home and enjoy.

Stage one have been investigating some of our favourite

characters such as the pigeon who does not want to take

a bath and Elmer the elephant.

Don’t forget to encourage reading by borrowing books

from the Library each week.

Stewart House envelopes have been sent home today,

Please return them by 16th May to ensure that we get your

entry into the $4,000 draw.

Stewart House Donation Drive

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Kindness On Purpose is included in the

Beyond Blue National Mental Health Initiative

Perfectly Imperfect Parenting Q & A Facebook Live Events

Perfectly Imperfect Parenting Q & A Facebook Lives will be occurring every month

in 2019. Whilst these special Facebook Live events are a public event they have

been specifically created for the parents, carers and families within each Kindness

On Purpose school community.

I love to be LIVE Online as it is an additional way I can be directly available to your

school communities.

The next one is on Monday 25th February, 2019 at 8pm on the Kindness On

Purpose Facebook page.

The following one will be on Monday 18th March, 2019 at 8pm on the Kindness

On Purpose Facebook page.

When you click on the graphic below it will take you to a page where you can

access your own copy.

Please note you will need to add the date, time and location (the Kindness On

Purpose facebook page) each time you promote the live events. For those who

miss the live event a copy is downloaded to the Kindness On Purpose You Tube

Channel.