Date of Publication; 6th August 2019

CUDGEGONG VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL

PART OF THE CUDGEGONG LEARNING COMMUNITY

47-65 Madeira Road, MUDGEE 2850 PHONE: (02) 6372 3466 FAX: (02) 6372 6314

SCHOOL EMAIL ADDRESS: cudgegongv-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL: Michelle Neaverson-Smith

GENERAL NEWSLETTER – TERM 3 WEEK 3

From the Principal

SCHOOL CALENDAR Aug 9 Biennale - 5:30 to 7:30pm 15 P&C Meeting 16 Zone Athletics Carnival 22 Book Character Parade and Open Classrooms - 12pm 28 Fathers Day Stall

Our PBL focus at CVPS this week is

We keep our hands, feet are other objects to ourselves.

Education Week This week is Education Week, where across the state we celebrate NSW public education. The theme for 2019 Education Week is Every student, every voice. It is a celebration of student empowerment and how we give our students the skills they need in order to have and express a voice during their own educational journey and as engaged global citizens. Education week will culminate at Cudgegong Valley PS with our Biennale celebration. There are a number of key messages when we consider this theme “Every student, every voice”; Authentic participation, Partners in learning, Respectful relationships, Connecting communities, Change makers This week will be celebrating how, as a school, we embrace each of these key messages.

Biennale As you would have seen on our Facebook page the countdown to Biennale is on. Looking forward to celebrating the work of our students with all of you on Friday night.

Game Changer After a delayed start yesterday morning (due to fog) the team took off for Sydney where they will join around 150 students and teachers to solve the 2019 Challenge question, How might we humanise technology? Today the challenge was launched at the Australian headquarters of Google with a Q&A panel, moderated by Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott. Our Game Changers asked questions of a panel that included some of the nation's leading thinkers on technology and ethics alongside leaders from global tech giants Google and Microsoft who are at the coal face delivering innovation. On Thursday you can watch via the Departments youTube livestream from 9am as our Game Changer team, along with the other 8 primary school teams, pitch their solutions to the Challenge question to a panel of judges including industry and education leaders. Be sure to follow their journey this week on our school Facebook page.

Time Performance Place

5:40 Stage One Choir-‘Octopus Garden’, ‘Yellow Submarine’ ‘A Sailor went to

Sea’

COLA

5:55 Performance Band COLA

6:15 Dance Group Hall

6:30 Kindergarten-Poetry Recital Canteen Area

6:40 Recorder Group Canteen Area

6:50 ‘Star Wars’ Behind 4A classroom

6:50 Stage Three Singing, Poetry and Dancing

Hall

7:10 Stage Two Singing Group Hall

LOST PROPERTY Our Lost Property is located outside the Library and is cleaned out at the end of each term. Please have a look if you are missing an item.

Students of the Week

Tori Holland, Rylstone Shorter, Harper Clegg, Shane Demirel, Edward Shoemark, Jack Jessop, Noah Standish, Obike Coghlan, Noah Roberston, Amity Ryan, William Murdoch, Simrat Kaur, Taylor Holt, James Maloy, Oscar Ryan, Zach Osborn, Reece Stewart, Jesse Nelson, Phoebe Warton, Lauren Roe, Zahli Gray, Ashleigh Glew

Kinder, Years 1&2 - Presented 2:35pm Mon 12/8 Gabriel Beasley, Edward Shoemark, Asher Tull, Zaidyn Meszaros, Toby McFarlane Years 3-6 - Presented 12:00pm Wed 14/8 Ruby Dawe, Georgia Howorth, Aleah Hasler, Georgina Stanley, Nelle Goodlet, Rex Speakman, Oliver Roe, Harry McFarlane, Benjamin Azar, Kaylee Oldfield, Lance Speakman, Henry Orr, Chloe Green, Alexander Wojciechowski, Skye Simpson, Maddison Bissell

Gold Assembly - 12:00pm Tues 17 September 2019 Ryan Oldfield, Emerson Foxall, David Neely, Holly Hill, Henry Orr

Red Certificates

Gold / Red Gold / Green Gold Certificates

Notes sent home last week: Biennale program

Term 3 Sports Update We have one team remaining in the PSSA State Knockouts this year - our boys touch football team plays Rylstone PS in Round 3 this week. Good luck boys! Best wishes also to our CVPS team at the Zone Athletics Carnival next Friday. We know that all our students will represent Cudgegong Valley with pride! Zone cricket trials will be held on Monday 12th August at Victoria Park Cricket Nets. Any boys from the school cricket team earlier in the year need to see Mr Wilson this week to collect a note if they are interested in attending.

First Reconciliation St Mary’s Catholic Church is offering the Sacrament of Reconciliation to Catholic students in Year 2 and above. Please contact the parish office on 0263722122 or by email to office.mudgee@cdob.org.au to register your child. Parent session 1 is this Thursday 8th August 1.30-2.30 pm or a repeat session 7.00 pm-8.00pm in the Church.

Mimosa Concert Sydney Opera House On Thursday, 1

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August 11 students travelled down to Sydney to perform at the annual Festival of Instrumental Music, which is held at the Opera House. They have spent the past 9 months working hard to learn 3 challenging pieces of music on the recorder. This year we had 1 student playing the Tenor recorder, 8 students playing the Descant 2 section and 2 students playing Descant 1 (a more advanced arrangement). We joined with 700 other musicians from public schools around the state for our performances. The students not only played spectacularly, they also represented our school with dignity and maturity, maintaining outstanding performance etiquette for the entire 20½ hours that they were on the stage. It has been a rewarding experience to be able to prepare these fine musicians for their performance on such an elite world stage. Mrs Lynn

Jeans for Genes Day Thank you to all the students who supported the Jeans for Genes Day fundraising effort last Friday. The Student Representative Council raised $516.50 which will be donated to The Children’s Medical Research Institute. Well done! Michelle Neaverson-Smith Principal

Whole School Waste Audit Guess how many pieces of plastic food packaging is thrown out EVERY day in our school? 1135 - yikes!!! Last week our school's Eco-Committee including 18 students and 5 teachers/parents conducted a whole school waste audit. This involved collecting all the rubbish from the classrooms, playgrounds, canteen and staffrooms that was generated in one day. The audit was an outstanding achievement by the team who all worked together to sort, weigh, record and clean up in great time. Over the coming weeks the students will be sharing the results with their class and are already developing ways to help our school community both REDUCE waste and RECYCLE more! YAY! The waste audit caught the attention of the Mudgee Guardian and ABC Western Plains who did a story and interview about our school! Great work Cudgee!

Kindy kids in the Garden And we’re off again for another term! We had a fresh crop of Cudgee students start Thursday lunchtime gardening last week. These students were elected from each class during Week 1 and form the Garden Club group for the second half of this year - taking us through Winter to Early Summer. Some Kindy kids are giving gardening a try too! For the next few weeks they will be tending the Sensory garden outside their classroom. If your child has started in the garden club and you'd like to visit one lunchtime, please do! Call or send a message to the Coordinator 0417 074 673. Find CVPS Kitchen Garden on Facebook and Instagram.

Cudgegong Valley Public School P&C

Uniform Shop

OPENING HOURS (During School Terms)

Tuesday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Afternoon: 2.45pm – 3.30pm

Flexischools online ordering -

www.flexischools.com.au Orders will be processed within

3 days and can either be picked up from the Uniform

Shop during opening times or sent home with your

child.

Parent Online Payments Parent Online Payments can be made via the school website. http://www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

School Bus Pass To apply for a school bus pass go to:

https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/

Classifieds While we accept advertising from commercial enterprises,

the school does not endorse these.