7 Salamander Street Phone: 6652 3355

Coffs Harbour NSW 2450 Fax: 6651 3991

Email: coffsharb-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web Address: www.coffsharb-p.schools@nsw.edu.au

Coffs Harbour Public School

1st March, 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

Today students in years 1 and 2 enjoyed a visit from Sandy who spoke of Koalas and some of their behaviours and characteristics. This information has aided the students in their unit of work - Living and Non- living Things.

Congratulations to the students, parents and staff who braved the horrible weather to attend the District Swimming Carnival on Monday. Thanks to Ms Lansley, Mrs Bullen and Ms Wilfert for their great organisation and supervision.

This Friday is Clean Up Australia Day at CHPS. Each class has a designated area around our school that they keep clean. Please feel free to send in gloves if you would like. Students are fully supervised by their class teachers during the clean-up. Thank you to all students for taking such pride in our school. We are very fortunate to have such beautiful grounds to come to each school day.

Lake Ainsworth Camp is next week for Year 5 and 6 students. Information has been sent home regarding what to pack and departure times. Students are expected to return at 4pm on Friday 10 March. If there is any change to that time we will post the changes on our skoolbag app. Parents, please ensure you have downloaded the app beforehand. If you need help with downloading the app, please come to the office and the lovely ladies can help.

I have some wonderful news to share. Our school canteen will be operational from next term. Alison Haley has successfully tendered for the canteen. Alison will be operating the canteen on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays each week. Alison has had many years as canteen manager at Narranga Public School and we wish her all the best in her new venture at our school. I will send home the canteen menu in the next few weeks.

Have a great week, Leonie

Swimming ribbons & champions

Students will be presented at this Friday's 3 - 6 assembly starting at 12:15pm with 1st, 2nd, 3rd ribbons for all events. Trophies will also be presented to age champions for boys and girls in Junior, 11yrs & Senior categories.

Swimming

On Monday 36 students and 3 teachers braved the inclement weather conditions and attended the District Swimming Carnival. A big thank you to Mr Matthews for assisting with the shelters for the day. Our students were very supportive of each other displaying great sportsmanship. A few students have reported personal improvements on the day. Ms Langsley will notify anyone who may have made it to the Zone carnival which is Thursday 2nd March. Congratulations to all students!

Mrs Leonie Buehler — School Principal

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work and we pay

our respects to the Elders both past and present

Aboriginal PLP’s

We would like to invite all Aboriginal parent/carers to a PLP yarnup afternoon on Tuesday 14 March from 2:30pm - 4:00pm. Please come along to discuss your child’s goals for the year and how we can best support them.

School Leader News

The focus school rule for this fortnight is RESPECT. The teachers will be rewarding students with this focus in mind, at this Friday’s assemblies in the hall.

News from the Library

Your child will need a waterproof bag, preferably with their name on it for their library day please.

Library Days: Monday - 1M 1G 6K 5/6H Tuesday - 2M KD 6B 5M Wednesday - 3/4O 1P 3L Thursday - 3M KM KG 2E 4H 4M

Thanking you -

Kath Leeson Teacher / Librarian

Lake Ainsworth Raffle

Our raffle for the Stage 3 Excursion to Lake Ainsworth will now be drawn on Monday 6th March at the morning assembly. If there are any last minute raffle tickets, please have them returned to the office by Friday morning.

Parent Community Liaison News

Hello Parents

This is an exciting week for Parents. It is the start of our signing classes on Friday! Miss Tahlee will be showing us “Hands On Learning” from 2:30 - 3:00pm in the Library on Friday afternoons this Term. We are starting as a Beginners Class and you aren’t obligated to attend each week. Babies and Toddlers are welcome. Tell us if you are planning to attend or just show up on the day and get ready to move your fingers, learn some signs and make a friend.

Surfing was a great success. Photos are up on Facebook but all of our parents stood up! We will be holding another Learn To Surf class on Friday 10th March at 10.15am. Sign up at the Office if you want to join us- all our parents from the first class were excited to come back!

A reminder that Vanessa will be leading a Parent PT session on Friday 17th March at 9.30 down at the Jetty. Hope it is a fine day for a swim afterwards too!

Might see you at Friday’s assembly?

Thanks

Caitlin Mackie Parent Community Liaison Officer

P&C News

It’s been a wet and miserable week weatherwise so far, but at least we have the P&C’s Annual General Meeting next week to look forward to! It will be held on Wednesday March 8 at 6pm in the staffroom of the school. The AGM is when we choose our office bearers for the year, and it will be followed by our ordinary meeting where we be looking to plan ahead for our major fundraising events for 2017. So if you would like to get involved, or even if you would just like to meet some of the school’s committed parents please come along.

If you would like any further information, please contact the P&C by email at chpspandc@gmail.com or contact Sam Bergen on 0421 374 911. You can also get regular updates on what’s going on at our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/chpspandc/

Coffs Harbour Public School is getting involved with

this year’s Clean up Australia Day on Friday 3rd

of March 2017. The students are welcome to bring

in some bags and gloves to help clean up our

school grounds.

Student of the Week - Week 4

Student of the Week certificates are awarded to students who demonstrate behaviour consistent with our school rules of Excellence, Safety, Respect and Responsibility.

Class Name Awarded for:

KM Antoneti Impressive maths work with 3D shapes.

KD Jesse Working hard and listening carefully at all times.

K/1 G Aung Trying really hard in his writing.

1P Faith Always on task and working independently.

1A Frankie Valued contributions to class discussions.

2E Ari His fantastic writing efforts.

2M Xavier Great listening and putting in a fantastic effort.

3L Eli Welcome to Coffs Harbour Public School.

3M Matilda Having a go in every event at the swimming carnival.

3/4 O Anthony His consistent contributions.

4M Jesse Great work in maths in geography.

4H Nevaeh A constant effort in all areas.

5/6 H Merlin Always being dedicated to completing learning.

6B Chloe Working ever so conscientiously.

6K Lindal An excellent research assignment on Vietnam.

3/6 C Jayrlie Being caring and co-operative.

K/3 B Omega Being a happy, friendly member of our class.

District Swimming Carnival

Good news story of the week! Stage One was very excited today to have a visit from Cassie the Koala and Sandy the Koala carer from

National Parks and Wildlife. Harper and Kannitha from 2M couldn’t wait to share with Mrs Buehler all of

the interesting facts they had discovered from the visit.

Koala Talk 1.3.17

Today Sandy came to our school to talk to us about Koalas. We learnt a lot of new interesting facts.

Koals are nocturnal, they sleep in the day time and are awake at night. The baby koalas eat the mother

koala’s poo. The mother koala has a upside down pouch. The koalas have double thumbs. Koalas are

marsupials. The males scare away the other males. Koalas sleep for nineteen hours a day. Koalas eat a

whole shopping bag of leaves a day. Koalas get their water from eucalyptus trees. Koalas are

endangered. HELP SAVE KOALAS.

- by Harper

Koala Talk - 1/3/17

Today Sandy came to our school to talk to us about koalas. We learnt a lot of new interesting facts.

Some facts we learnt was that baby koalas east their mother’s poo. Female pouches are upside down.

These marsupials have double thumbs. Male koalas scare away other males rom their territory. Koalas

sleep for nineteen hours a day and their eyes are dreadful when they are sick. They are mostly

endangered from cars. Koalas eat a shopping bag full of leave. They are nocturnal which means they

sleep in the day and eat at night. Their diet is eucalyptus leaves or gum leaves. There are less than one

hundred koalas in Coffs Harbour.

- by Kannitha

Tigers Soccer Registrations

WE NEED YOU!!! Are you a 11/12 year old girl??? Coffs Coast Tigers is in desperate need of a few more girls to join our 12 girls team in a Girls only competition. Contact Mellesa Bennett on 04327579528 ASAP

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

6

27/2

District Swimming

Carnival

28/2

1/3

2/3

Guitar Lessons

3/3

K - 2 Assembly (11:30am)

Performance by 2E

3 - 6 Assembly (12:15pm)

Performance by 3/4O

Signing for parents

7

6/3

7/3

8/3

Lake Ainsworth Excursion

Years 5 & 6

P&C Meeting

9/3

Lake Ainsworth Excur-

sion Years 5 & 6

Guitar Lessons

10/3

Lake Ainsworth Excursion

Years 5 & 6

8

13/3

14/3

Netball Carnival

15/2

16/3

Guitar Lessons

17/3

Bullying - No Way Day

K - 2 Assembly (11:30am)

Performance by 1A

3 - 6 Assembly (12:15pm)

Performance by 4M

Parent’s PT Session

9 20/3

21/3

22/3

23/3

Guitar Lessons

24/3

10

27/3

28/3

29/3

30/3

Guitar Lessons

Disco - In school during

lunchtime

31/3

PB Assembly

11 3/4

PSSA MNC Basketball

4/4

5/4

Easter Hat Parade

Rewards Day

6/4

Guitar Lessons

7/4

Last Day of Term 1

Coffs Harbour Public School

2017 Term 1 Calendar

Science in 3/4 O

The students in 3 / 4 O have been embarking on an experiment in their Living Worlds Unit. We

began the unit with the questions: What do living things need? What do plants need to grow? Can

a seed grow without water, sunlight or soil? As part of the inquiry process, we chose to eliminate

soil and see if a black bean seed would germinate without soil in either a plastic cup or plastic bag.

What differences or similarities would we see between the two experiments? Here is a little bit of

the process before we transplanted our germinated seeds.