Cobar Public School

Newsletter

Term 2, Week 2 Thursday, 5th May, 2016

6-8 Blakey Street Ph: 0268 362 039 Email: cobar-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

COBAR 2835 Fax: 0268 362 187 Website: www.cobar-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

We pay our respects to the Wangaaypuwan Ngiyampaa people on whose land we meet and learn.

GENERAL INFORMATION Administration Office Hours - 8.30am - 3.30pm School commences at 8.55am—School finishes at 3.05pm Students are not supervised before 8.30am

Parent Reminder

Student Allergies

Cobar Public School is an ‘ALLERGY AWARE’ School.

Nut and nut based products are banned on the

Cobar Public School site. Please keep this in mind when packing

recess and lunch for your children.

Thank you

AWARDS

5 Award - Rhys Cull, Sosie Barton, Lachlan Edwards,

Mackenzie Eves, Jocelyn Behan, Tyler Clark, Dakota Connol-

ly, Nicholas Hodges, Clancy Dunne, Jackson Eves, Rowdy

Barton, Maddie O’Shannessy, Amelia Behan, Corban Colling,

Piper Allen, Mollie Flood , Angus Amidy, Sam Dunne, Khloe

Harpley-Oeser, Mitch Allen, Jack Brettell, Harrison Riches,

Jordyne Brilley, Arisha Mahnoor, Jackson Muldoon, Takai

Cantrell, Levi Dunn, Jaxon Waugh, Dakota Hall, Kayden Ait-

ken, Jordan Bain-Meadows, Lola Knight, Anja Kok, James

Turner, Kai McCosker, Jamillia Barnes, Raymond Jones, Sam

Turner, Bayleigh Young

15 Award - Piper Allen, Arisha Mahnoor, Harrison Riches,

Jaxon Waugh, Lucy Turner

25 Award - Brooklyn Kirwan

50 Award - Amber Whittaker-Goodwin, Corban Colling,

Ashton Dietrich

75 Award - Drew Barton, Tayla Brilley, Hannah Brettell,

Jackson Muldoon, Lola Knight, Anja Kok, Kai McCosker

100 Award - Clancy Dunne, Maddie Bruce, Nicholas Hodges

125 Award - Dakota Connolly, Tyler Clark

175 Award - Lucy Scott, Henry Knight, Niamh Ohlsen,

Jaidyn Connolly

200 Award - Jordyne Brilley

225 Award - James Turner

300 Award - Raymond Jones

MERIT AWARDS

Hammam Nahantchi, Will Oborn, Esha Khan, Siena Hurst, Issy

Tiffen, Hazel Rauahi, Te Aroha Te Para, Tannya Cohen-Quayle,

Ruby Chandler, Abby Marshall, Chase Milligan, Nate Strong,

Kayden Aitken, Ashton Dietrich, Charlotte Sylvester, Sam Turner,

Lily Rodda, Tahlis Schofield, Rebel Bliss, Brian Lonergan, Riley

Fitzsimmons, Zaiden Saunders, Cassidy O’Sullivan, Bridgette

Negfeldt, Lilly Hunt, Chris Williams, Amber Whittaker-Goodwin,

Jacob Gilbert, Isabelle Almeida, Brodee Mills, Tommy Bryan, Ebony

Aumua

Road Safety Award - Amabella Harvey & Brodee Mills

Principal’s Report

Welcome back and we hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday.

We look forward to another busy and productive term and we have started

already with an AFL workshop and the Fun Run and Cross Country last week.

This week, we have been thrilled to host performances from the Bell Shake-

speare Theatre Company of “Bottom’s Dream”, a child friendly version of Shakespeare’s classic “Mid-Summer Night’s Dream”. The 4 performers gave

us an exciting and fast paced performance and it was great to see that even the

younger children were able to engage with the content and theme of treating our friends well. Staff and all students K-6 thoroughly enjoyed viewing this

world class company in action and this is another example of how Cobar Pub-

lic School is able to provide outstanding educational opportunities for our students. As Claude and Mario would say, “We’re out west, not out of touch”.

Staff have continued with a range of professional learning activities this term. Myself and Mr Finn travelled to Dubbo on Monday to learn about the new

School Staffing Agreement which came into force from day 1 this term and

runs until 2020. We also undertook further training in the new Performance Development Framework for teachers. Mrs Fennamore continues her training

in Autism Spectrum Disorders, the whole school staff have received further

training in the Disability Standards in Education which are aligned to the Disability Discrimination Act and we have also undertaken training in dealing

with extremist and anti-social behaviours.

At this week’s P&C meeting a motion was moved regarding what should be done with the mountains of lost property, clothing, that accumulates in the red

lost property bins. The accepted motion is that: lost property bins will be emp-

tied by the P&C every second week, these will be even weeks, with lost prop-erty with no name on it being immediately cleaned and put up for sale. If an

item has a name on it, that item will be held for a period of 5 weeks and if

during that time the item is not claimed, the item will be cleaned and put up for sale. Please understand that neither the school nor the P&C have any

responsibility for returning lost property, it is the sole responsibility of parents

and carers to follow up if they discover if items have not made it home.

Finally, we are beginning to collect data around how families, and staff, use

the mid-term break. We will need to re-apply for this again next year and we

will require data to support the need for the break. With this in mind we

request that you please notify the school either by word of mouth or in writing

when: 1. You make appointments (even for travel to shop) on the mid-term

break, simply let us know the type of appointment (medical, business,

personal) and a location, or 2. You attempt to make an appointment for the

mid-term break dates but are unable to get one and instead need to take time

off during the school term to attend the appointment. Neither of these circum-

stances need to be for out of town appointments, they can include appoint-

ments made for here in Cobar.

Jonathan Harvey

Principal

We are a school of

Responsible, Respectful, Learners

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT CPS

DATES TO REMEMBER

6/5 Mothers Day Stall Time: 11.30am Where: School Hall

Mothers Day Moring Tea -

Come down for tea, coffee, & cake @ 11.30am

13/5 Book Club Orders are due back

17/5 ICAS - Digital Technologies

25/5 National Simultaneous Story time

Book— I got this hat (by Jol & Kate Temple) Where: CPS Hall Time: 10.30am

27/5 - 30/5

Mid-Term Break

31/5 ICAS - Science

13/6 - 17/6

ICAS - Writing

15/6 ICAS - Spelling

4/7 - 15/7

School Holidays

2/8 ICAS - English

10/8 Premier’s Spelling Bee Where: CPS Hall Time: 12 noon

16/8 ICAS - Mathematics

19/8 - 22/8

Mid-Term Break

26/9 - 7/10

School Holidays

11/11 - 14/11

Mid-Term Break

Copper/Zinc Team Assembly

12.55pm to 1.35pm

Week Date Class

2 06/05/16 Copper/Zinc

4 20/05/16 5/6B

6 03/06/16 3/4C

8 17/06/16 MCF

10 01/07/16 3/4S

Week Date Class

2 06/05/16 KM

4 20/05/16 2K

6 03/06/16 1/2B

8 17/06/16 1S

10 01/07/16 K/1C

GOLD TEAM ASSEMBLY

12.05pm to 12.45pm

Canteen Roster

Monday, 9th May

Help Required Monday, 16th May

Help Required

Tuesday, 10th May

Help Required Tuesday, 17th May

Help Required

Wednesday, 11th May

Help Required Wednesday, 18th May

Help Required

Thursday, 12th May

Help Required Thursday, 19th May

Help Required

Friday, 13th May

Help Required Friday, 20th May

Help Required

Assembly is on even weeks of the

term

Merit award books must be handed

in no later then 9am Tuesday of

assembly weeks or they will be held

over until the next assembly

Please label student’s clothing, lunch

boxes, water bottles etc

No hat no play

Book Club

If, you would like to order Book Club, Scholastic has introduced a

system called ‘Loop’, (Linked Ordering Online and Payment). Just

go on the Scholastic website, go to the parent payment section,

choose Book Club & order what books you would like & pay with

your credit card. (Scholastic will notify me that you have placed an

order).

If, you prefer to use the order forms, fill them out and return then to

the admin. office. Orders need to be back to school by Friday 13th

May, Week 3.

Mrs Whiteman

Teacher Librarian, Book Club Coordinator

Stewart House Envelopes

Stewart House Envelopes need to be handed into the admin. office

by the 9th May, 16. So, the money and envelopes can get to Sydney

in time of the prize draw.

Cobar Public School 2016 Voluntary School Contribution

Cobar Public School P & C are having a raffle for the Voluntary School Contributions. Every child/family who pays before the end of

Term 1 will go into the draw to win $50 in Cobar Quids.

The Voluntary School Contributions for 2016 have remained the same as last year.

$25.00 for one student or $40.00 for a family.

As in previous years, funds raised will be accumulated over the next twelve months. Cobar Public School P & C will then determine what

major capital works project will be supported by these funds.

If electing to contribute, please complete the slip below and return with funds to the Admin. Office. Thank you to those parents and carers

who have already elected to contribute for the benefit of our students. Your support is

appreciated.

Parents can also pay through Flexischools.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cobar Public School

Please find enclosed $25.00/$40.00 as the 2016 Voluntary School Contribution for my child/children

Student Name: ___________________________________ Student Name: _____________________________________

Student Name: ___________________________________ Student Name: _____________________________________

Parent/Carer: ____________________________________ Date: ________________________

Tuesday 10 May, 2016 Wednesday 11 May 2016 Thursday 12 May 2016

Year 3

Language conventions

40 minutes

Writing

40 minutes

Reading

45 minutes

Numeracy

45 minutes

Year 5

Language conventions

40 minutes

Writing

40 minutes

Reading

50 minutes

Numeracy

50 minutes

NAPLAN 2016 TIMETABLE

Cobar Show Pavilion Results 2016

Fine Arts Section

Sophie Chandler: 1st mixed media

Portia Roarty: 1st free choice

Brilea Amidy: 1st painting mixed media/any media

Darcy Crotty: 1st painting free choice/any medium

Jaxon Sime:1st landscape painting

Drew Barton:1st abstract

Corban Colling:2nd mixed media

Raymond Jones: 2nd painting/abstract/ any medium

Chad Buckman: 2nd painting still life/any medium

Sharni Jones:2nd sculpture/any object

Congratulations for your efforts to the following students who also entered constructions and artworks: Flynn Kuiters, Jayden Morris, Latisha Roarty, Anja Kok, Joe Webster, Malina Bottom, Sam Dunne, Sienna Kelly, Kai Mc Cosker, Cheyenne Hall, Eli Martin, Issy Tiffin, Letisha Roarty, Ruby Chandler, Lally Hogarth, Justin Bruce, Jeremy Thornton and Tiana Jones.

We had some successes with fruit and vegetables harvested from our gardens:

1st prizes for: lemons, herbs, succulent pot plant, green tomatoes;

2nd prizes for: collection of vegetables, lemonades, herbs.

Our Cobar Public School Show display, based on the theme of “Christmas” can be viewed in the foyer in the Admin Office. Come along and take a look at it if you missed it at the show.

Mrs Jermyn

Premier’s Spelling Bee

Starting learning your words …. The Premier’s Spelling Bee is on again in 2016

CLAIM THE DATE for Cobar Public School In-School Premier’s Spelling Bee Finals

Term 3 Week 4 Wednesday 10th August 2016

At Cobar Public School Hall

Starting at 12 noon

The official word lists, provided by Macquarie Dictionary, are now available:

http://www.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/speaking-competitions/2016-premiers-spelling bee

Password: puzzle

Please note: Junior words begin at Level 1 and go to Level 5 and Senior words begin at Level 2 and go to

Level 6.

Mrs Jermyn

Coordinator 2016

The TEN (Targeted Early Numeracy) Initiative

About the initiative TEN is an early numeracy initiative focused on supporting students who are experiencing difficulty in numeracy in the

early years. It recognises that even where a quality whole-class mathematics program exists, a small percentage of stu-

dents may be at risk of not meeting expected targets. Children who start ahead in mathematics generally stay ahead, and

children who start behind generally stay behind. The longer we leave it the bigger the gap and the harder to catch up.

The goal of the TEN program is to ensure all students are on track with numeracy by the end of Year 2.

The TEN initiative is designed to be implemented in a whole-class setting. TEN is an intervention program but does not

involve the withdrawal of students or the use of an additional specialist teacher.

How it Works Students are assessed by the teacher every five weeks. They are placed into ability groups according to the information

from the assessment. Students participate in activities at their level of development, which are designed to move them on

to the next step.

TEN Groups occur for ten minutes daily. The activities are fun and engaging and usually involve cards, dice and

dominoes.

How Parents Can Help Practise counting, both forwards and backwards. Steps, apples at the supermarket, pencils.

It is important that every time you count forwards, count backwards too.

Identify numbers in the environment. Road signs, price tags, sports people’s jerseys.

Practise identifying patterns on dice, cards and dominoes. Count on from the biggest number.

If you would like any more information, please contact me through the Administration Office.

Simone Knight

TEN Facilitator

COBAR PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C ASSOCIATION NEWS

NEW UNIFORM SHOP PRICE LIST- Please find attached to this newsletter the new Uniform Shop price list. Due to an increase in costs from our supplier, we have had to increase the prices of some of the items by a small amount to ensure we are not selling them at a loss. Please keep a copy of this price list or find it on the school website in the P&C section.

Uniform Shop- the Uniform Shop opening hours are Monday 2:45-3:15pm and

Wednesday 8:45-9:15am. You can also fill out the uniform order form available on the

school website and have your child drop it into the canteen with payment. The order

will be filled and sent home with your child next time the uniform shop is open. Bank

details are on the form if you wish to pay by bank transfer.

Dustin Crotty

RESPONSIBLE RESPECTFUL

Anton Punzet Ata Haronga

LEARNER

Ernie has been spotting Dustin around the school throughout the Term 1. He is a responsible student

in and outside of the classroom. Dustin has been

seen helping his peers during maths groups without

being asked by a teacher. He takes the time and

patient explaining things to others when they are

not quite sure what to do. An excellent role model

for our school. Well done Dustin!

Wow, Anton has been spotted by Ernie for displaying respect for teachers and classmates

in the classroom. Anton has been particularly

respectful to other students during class time by

helping them out whenever they require it. Anton

always does as he is asked and was spotted wearing

full school uniform. Well done Anton.

Ernie has been keeping a watchful eye on Atamarie for some time.

Ernie has observed Atamarie both in class and around school showing a

high level of interest in her learning. Ernie sees Atamarie working hard to

complete her classwork even when it may be difficult. Atamarie has learnt

a lot and shares her knowledge about the school garden with her peers.

Ernie has listened to Atamarie talk with her friends, peers and staff at

school and he hears that she knows that how you say things to people

matters. Atamarie is always calm and uses a quiet voice when sharing in-

formation. Keep up the great work Ata!

Dustin Crotty Anton Punzet

Atamarie Haronga

Bike Safety CPS had Senior Constable Craig Skene visit the school on Tuesday

to talk to the senior students about Bike Safety. Constable Skene

discussed road rules and bike maintenance also where the appropriate

place to ride a bike. He covered some interesting facts on legal

requirements that a bike must have and also that helmet's are a

must at all times. The children were very engaged and asked lots of

questions regarding bike safety.

Bell Shakespeare