Corrimal East Public School 

                                                   Newsletter  

Term 1 Friday 9th February, 2018 Week 2

Upcoming Events

Saturday 10th February Working Bee starting at 8:30am Tuesday 13th February P&C Meeting @ 6:30pm in Library Friday 16th February Assembly starting at 2:00pm Friday 2nd March Clean Up Schools Day Assembly at 2:00pm Tuesday 13th March P&C Meeting at 6:30pm in Library Friday 16th March Assembly at 2:00pm

Week 8 Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews Monday 26th March School Photographs Thursday 29th March Easter Hat & Grandparents Day Wednesday 4th April Opening Ceremony & Cross Country Friday 13th April Last day of Term 1 Term 2 Tuesday 1st May All students (K-6) return

Well Done Kindergarten!

Our wonderful new Kindergarten students are se ng a cracking

pace! They have really se led into ‘big school’ life. Thank you to the

many Kindy families who were able to make it to our Meet&Greet on

Monday a ernoon. I hope you found the session valuable. My

sincere thanks to Mrs Brown, Mrs Yewen, Mrs Bexterman and Mrs

Jackson for providing our Kindys with such a well‐prepared, fun

introduc on to school. Well done ladies!

Well done to everyone who par cipated in the Swimming Carnival

yesterday. I know I was only there for a short me, but it looked like

so much fun (the water was very temp ng!) I loved hearing the very

loud cheers of encouragement: we certainly have a special school!

Well done everyone on a great start to 2018. As I walk around the

school I see se led classrooms, engaged learners and lots of laughs

and fun! 

Bede Darcey

Day 1 at Kindergarten, 2018  

Respect

Safety

Excellence  

Phone: 4284 4582 Email: corrimale‐p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: h p://www.corrimale‐p.schools.nsw.edu.au Facebook: h ps://www.facebook.com/corrimaleastps/ 

Sports Captains & Vice Captains– 2018 

Melinga Captains‐ 

Makenzie‐Rose Klerks Max Varda  

 Vice Captains‐ 

Ella Smith Zoe Brakenridge  

Iluka Captains‐ 

Maddison Brown Conrad Reed  

 Vice Captains‐ 

Amity Longbo om Preston Hadfield  

Euroka Captains–  

Peter Kefford Cooper Kemp  

 Vice Captains‐ Lylabel Walton

Taylah Josephson

Wirega Captains‐ 

Charlie Burke Maria Dimitriou  

 Vice Captains–  

Zak Neilson Chad Morgan  

 

Class Student Representa ve Council– 2018

K‐Australia  Nikia Thackray                   Erik Vidakovic                

K‐Malaysia Kaitlin Hines                             

Jordan Tummers 

K/1‐Fij Riley Spears   Tess Geaney  

2/3‐Jamaica James Asma                     Abbie O’Brien  

1/2‐Bahamas Tyla Avery &                             

Eanna Singh‐Brennan 

1/2‐Samoa Leia Horrell &                                Keo Booth  

1/2‐Kenya  Nate Kerr & Jade Neilson  

3‐Belize Piper Crutchley &                  Stevie Callahan  

4/5‐NZ Anika Marsh                             

Isabelle Langley  

5/6‐India  Ruben Kefford                       

Ashton Sommers  

5/6‐South Africa  Cooper Jobson                     Brooklyn Hudson  

3/6‐Vanuatu  Enzo Couto‐Frontado                     Charlo e Whant 

2018 Office Assistants  

At our special Assembly on Wednesday morning, we inducted Kalob Hilton, Tempaney‐Rose Woon, Hoang

Nguyen and Lewis McLennan as our inaugural Office Assistants. This is a new role at our school keeping Mr Darcey on

his toes! (among lots of other ‘office’ jobs to help the smooth running of our school)

Notes & Newsle ers 

The weekly CEPS Newsle er is now

produced on a Friday. If you do  not 

wish to receive a hard‐copy of the

Newsle er (because you receive it via

Skoolbag, Facebook or School Website)

please  ensure  you  have  returned  the 

no fica on slip sent home last Friday.

For the convenience of parents, this

year all notes will ONLY be sent home

on a Wednesday and Friday. Checking

school bags on these days is most

important! From me‐to‐ me notes

will need to be sent home outside of

these days but we will try hard to s ck

to this arrangement.

Please download the App if you have

not already done so! This is our

primary means of communica on with

our community.  

Food & Drink at School 

As is custom at most NSWDoE schools, we ask that students are not sent to school with any food that contains nuts 

(this includes peanut bu er & Nutella). Some students are highly allergic to nuts and nut products and our aim is to

ensure safety for all. Thank you for your understanding.

It is important that every student is sent to school each day with adequate amounts of food and drink/s to sustain

him/her for an ac ve day at school. We con nue to have Crunch&Sip at our school so students need to have water 

and chopped fresh fruit or vegetables in a separate container every day!  

Please visit h p://www.crunchandsip.com.au/ for more informa on.

Posi ve Behaviour for Learning  

Your son or daughter may have come home and talked about Clint Eas e? We have launched our Posi ve Behaviour for Learning (PBL) for 2018 and Clint Eas e is our mascot! PBL is included in our 2018‐2020 School Plan and we are very excited to launch this NSWDoE ini a ve at our school this year. Over the next few pages, we have included snippets of our new NSWDoE Student Welfare Policy Implementa on for your reference. You will note (if you were at CEPS last year) that there are numerous changes to our award prac ces. Miss Munro (our PBL Leader) and I will be discussing our new procedures at our P&C mee ng next Tuesday evening.

Respect Safety Excellence

These values are devised to directly link in with our school values each week. We will focus on a specific school value and introduce this to the children at assembly each Monday morning. The value of the week system provides clear step by step instruc ons in learning how to manage many day to day issues that impact on us all. Such behaviour responses include coping with anger, disappointment, frustra on, asking ques ons, saying thank you etc. Teachers will be introducing these skills explicitly each week to the students in their classes. The students will have the opportunity to par cipate in role‐plays and discuss their thoughts on ways they can transfer these skills into everyday life. They will be strongly encouraged to generalise their skills into the playground and at home. Beside is a roster of what the whole school will explicitly focus on for each week of this term. Teachers will also remind the students during class

me and throughout the week at lines. Parents are reminded to spend some me each week discussing the ‘value of the week’ with their child. This process is not intended to be onerous but rather clear, concise and specific. This is intended to provide a connec on to the value award presented at the end of each week and encourage the students to develop a sense of responsibility for their own social, academic and emo onal development.

Week   Value of the Week 

Focus Rule and Core Value 

2 Respect  

We play by the rules of a game

3 Safety  

Walk on the concrete areas

4 Excellence  

We look a er the equipment in the classroom, library, CEPS space

5 Respect    

We always put the rubbish in the bins

6 Safety We eat our food under the COLA

7

Excellence  

We keep our toilets clean

8 Respect We acknowledge others’ success

9 Safety We move around corners safely

10 Excellence  

We seek permission to go to the office

11 Respect We are polite towards our peers and teachers

Entry & Exit from CEPS 

Parents are reminded that the small pedestrian gates located on Duff Parade and Pioneer Road are the only entry and

exit points from our school. No one should be using the carpark entry gates nor the bo om driveway gates. We wish

to ensure the safety of our en re school community. Please help us by adhering to these regula ons.

The Pioneer Rd gate is locked each day by 9:30am. During the day, the Duff Pde gate is the only entry point. In the

a ernoons, the duty teacher will walk all students using Pioneer Rd to the gate and ensure they safely cross the road. If

a child’s pick‐up is running late, a phone call to the office is essen al. Students are to wait for their pick‐up on the

admin veranda. We wish to ensure the safety and welfare of every child at our school!

Labelling Belongings 

Parents are reminded that every item your child brings to school including lunch boxes, drink bo les, hats etc need to

be clearly labelled with his/her name, this includes Stage 3 students! This really helps us in safely returning any

misplaced items to the correct owner.

2018 Library Days  

Each class at CEPS has an alloca on of 1 hour per week in our lovely school Library with Mrs Taylor or Miss Sobiesiak.

Please ensure your child/ren has his/her library bag each week so that they can reborrow from the library. Library

borrowing will begin NEXT WEEK.

Monday: 3/6‐Vanuatu

Tuesday: 1/2‐Kenya, 1/2‐Samoa, 5/6‐South Africa, 5/6‐India,

Wednesday: K/1‐Fiji 2/3‐Jamaica, K‐Australia, K‐Malaysia,

Thursday: 3‐Belize, 4/5‐NZ, 1/2‐Bahamas

CEPS School Uniform  

Our school community is very proud of our school uniform. Our students look fantas c when everyone is in

correct uniform. Parents are asked to please ensure their child/ren come to school each day dressed in full

school uniform, this includes the school hat and black shoes. If for some reason your child can not wear the

school uniform one day, please ensure you write a note to be handed to the class teacher so that he/she is

aware of the situa on. Our school enforces No Hat=COLA Play which means if a child does not have a school

hat, they are to play under the hall COLA area.

This term students are to wear their Sports Uniform on Tuesdays & Fridays.  

Clean Up CEPS ...

When: THIS Saturday 10th

February

Time: from 8:30am

(For how ever long you can 

make it!)

Who: CEPS parents, carers,

family & friends

What: Weeding and dying

our beau ful school gardens

What a What a spectacular day for a Swimming Carnival! Well done to all competitors. Thank you CEPS for your cheering and encouragement of others!

Thank you so much to the parents that came along and to those that helped out. Your help was greatly appreciated. Congratulations Miss Randall! Very well organised!

P&C News

Our first meeting for 2018 - Our first meeting of the year is on Tuesday 13th February at 6:30pm in the library, we hope to see lots of new faces ready to kick off the year! We will get an update from Mr Darcey, discuss canteen options and discuss our fundraising plan for Term 1 among other things!

P&C Membership – To become a member of the P&C for 2018 please complete a membership form with a payment of $1 membership fee. These will be available at our first meeting or from the front office next week. You must be a paid member to be able to be nominated for and vote for the election of positions on the P&C.

P&C Roles – We are looking for new recruits into formal roles this year. To give you an idea of what the roles are and how much work is involved we’ve created the table below. All roles will be up for election at our Annual General Meeting in week 7 Tuesday 13th March at 6:30pm in the library.

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook! Joanne Harle Jayne Ellis Sarah Crutchley P&C President P&C Secretary Vice President 0412 325 452 0419 293 763 0403 371 156

ceps.pc.president@gmail.com ceps.pc.secretary@gmail.com ceps.fete@gmail.com

Book Club 

The closing date for Issue 1 of Book Club is Wednesday 21st February. Please ensure you have placed your order

online before this date to avoid disappointment. A reminder that orders are place online only.

If you wish to purchase any books for your child as a surprise please let the office know you would like to pick them

up from the front counter and not have them sent home with your child.

The NSW Government is helping kids get active with the new Active Kids program.

From 31 January 2018, parents, guardians and carers can apply for a $100 voucher per calendar year for each student enrolled in school.

The voucher may be used with a registered activity provider for registration, participation and membership costs for sport, fitness and active recreation activities.

The voucher can be used at any time during the calendar year it was issued.

https://sport.nsw.gov.au/sectordevelopment/activekids

DUE TODAY! All families received hard-copies of this note on Friday 2nd February

DUE TODAY! All families received hard-copies of this note on Friday 2nd February

DUE TODAY! All families received hard-copies of this note on Friday 2nd February

All families received hard-copies of this note on Friday 2nd February

All families received hard-copies of this important information on Friday 2nd February