Dear Parents, Carers and Students

From The Principal

Congratulations to our Relay Swim Team on their fantastic performance at Riverina PSSA Swimming Carnival. It was a wonderful experience to swim against the best in the Riverina. I know all four competitors are keen to compete again next year! Congratulations also to Cooper for another personal best time in the 50m freestyle.

Thank you to the Khaki Vehicle Enthusiasts (KVE) who generously invited our school to Morris Park last Friday to enjoy their lovingly restored khaki vehicles. This year is their 40th Anniversary of the club. The men and women chatted with our students about the uses and heritage of each vehicle. The KVE allowed

the students to carefully inspect and sit inside their precious vehicles. Students were encouraged to honk the horns! Just about every student climbed up the LARK amphibious vehicle to get a bird’s eye view of its potential on land as well as on the water. We look forward to seeing them again next year.

Finally you may have noticed some extra visitors and a little more paperwork on display in the office last week. We were being audited! I am pleased to announce that we successfully passed at a very high level. The areas of audit were Finance, Assets, WH&S, Child Protection and Enrolments. A huge thank you to Mrs Mathews, Mrs Elliott, Mrs Dyson and all the staff for an excellent effort.

Riverina Swimming Results Congratulations to our students who participated at the Riverina Swimming Carnival at Albury. Cooper Patten representing Corowa South Public School and Albury Zone at the Riverina Swimming Carnival in 50m freestyle came 1st in his heat and 8th overall, achieving a PB of 46.07 seconds. Our relay team—Will Douch, Macy Douch, Cooper Patten and Maddison Ryan will be competed in the 50m freestyle All Age PP5 Schools relay race. They came 11th in the Region producing a time of 3.46.20. These student are eligible to compete in this division for the next two years.

Karen Kissell, Principal

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Principal: Karen Kissell 158 Hume Street, Corowa 2646 Phone : 02 6033 1535 Fax: 0260334021 Mobile: 0499 265 657 Email: corowasth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Corowa South Public School

Newsletter

Success for all Learners

Gilaa Class News Mr McIntyre, Class Teacher

Baryugil Class News

Mrs McDonald, Class Teacher

Gilaa Class News Students have been continuing their focus on learning over the last 2 weeks. Class Gilaa have enjoyed the change from tennis skills to cricket skills for sport. The students have created yet another wonderful art piece, which focused on the use of different lines and contrasting colours. The students enjoyed the trip to Morris Park where the students got to look at a range of khaki vehicles. Students enjoyed the challenge to write about the unique adventure. Thankyou class Gilaa for your continued effort to do home reading.

Reminders: Sport on Friday; Library on Tuesday

Mr McIntyre, Class Teacher

Hands on learning

Important Dates to Remember

Term 2 30th April: First Day of Term 2—for all Students and Staff 6th May: P&C High Tea at 11am 8th May: School Cross Country K—Yr 6 11th May: Zone Athletics Carnival– Albury 15th May: NAPLAN (Years 3 & 5)— Language Conventions 16th May: NAPLAN—Reading 17th May: NAPLAN—Numeracy 21st & 22nd May: School Development days – No students at school—Staff attending Dylan Wiliam Conference in Albury 29th May: K-2 Kyabram Fauna Park Excursion Term 3 23rd July: First Day of Term 3– Students and Staff Term 4 15th October—First Day of Term 4—Students and Staff 23rd & 24th October: Yrs 3 & 4 Borambola Recreation Camp 28th-30th November: Yr5 & 6 Canberra Camp

Burral-gang Class News Friday 15th March, 2019 Pineapple Art

First we started our pineapples art by drawing a pineapple. Mrs Taylor helped guide us. Mrs Taylor drew hers on the whiteboard and we drew ours in our art book as a draft.

The next week we drew our pineapple on art paper as our final draft. Then we had to paint our pineapples with water colour paints. Next we had to draw our interesting patterns on our pineapples with water colour pencils or sharpies. We had to make our pineapples’ colours pop! Written by Kieesha

Mrs Taylor, Class Teacher

Baryugil Class News—PE session

Homework is usually distributed on Tuesdays. Homework is to be returned on Friday to enable marking over the weekend.

Our major PE day is Thursday. Sport uniform can be worn on Thursdays.

Dear KVE Members

Thank you for showing us your restored vehicles. I enjoyed looking at them al. I liked how at the end the Lark blew the horn. Nobody found the horn in the Lark but they found the horns in all of the other vehicles. The loudest was the Lark.

My friends and I went in the back of a vehicle where the dog Toby sat. There was a ball and a leash.

My favourite vehicle was the Lark. The Lark’s tyres were bigger than me!

The Amphicar was white. Mrs Mac went in the Amphicar and went for a drive down the road.

I would like to do it again because I got to learn a lot of new things. I also went in vehicles that I had never been in before.

I think that the Jeeps and Landrovers were used to carry soldiers and supplies around. Written by Hannah

Mrs McDonald and Mrs Hicks, Class Teacherers

World’s Greatest Shave

Help Macca in her Quest to find a cure for cancer. Mackenzie’s donation tin is in the school office until June if you would like to contribute.

SRC Crazy Hair Day: $94.55 was raised to go with Mackenzie’s World’s Greatest Shave. We are proud of Mackenzie’s personal and community effort to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation.

School Attendance

Students will achieve their educational best and increase their career and life options through regular attendance at school. In NSW, all children from the age of 6 are legally required to attend school or be registered for home schooling. All students must complete Year 10, or its equivalent. Young people below the age of 17 must be:

in school, or registered for home schooling

in approved education or training, such as a traineeship, apprenticeship or TAFE

in full-time paid employment (average 25 hours a week)

in a combination of work, education and/or training.

Students 17 years and over who are enrolled in school are required to attend school regularly to meet HSC course requirements.

Parents must explain all absences to the school within 7 days, including a Doctors certificate if applicable.

For partial absences—Students arriving late or leaving early must be signed in / out at the school office giving a valid reason for doing so. Eg—student has a medical appointment.

Woolworths Earn ‘n Learn is back again for 2019. Our school has been registered. Stickers will be handed out at Woolworths checkouts between 1 May and 25 June.

Please collect your stickers and save them for our school to purchase much needed resources for the students.

Lunch Boxes, Child Welfare and the Impact on Learning.

Please ensure that your child comes to school with a healthy crunch n slip, recess and lunch. It has been observed that children who do not eat at recess and lunch breaks experience a negative impact on their learning for the afternoon. We want your children to be happy, healthy and successful in their learning.

Icy Poles

Well done to all the students to remember to wear their hats outside as part of our sun safe policy. They were rewarded with an icy treat today for the last fortnight’s consistency in remembering to be sun safe.

Halogen Young Leader Day

On Monday 18th March, Ella Webb travelled to Melbourne to attend the Young Leader Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Ella enjoyed the day and found the guest speakers very interesting.

Ella is pictured with Holly Ferling, Guest Speaker (Australian National Cricket Team).

Upcoming Events Tuesday 19th March:

P & C AGM—5.30pm in the School library. All executive positions are declared vacant.

P&C will be holding a Cake Stall and BBQ at our school on Election Day Saturday 23rd March.

Cakes stall donations to be brought to school early Sat morning. Any donations of ingredients need to be back by Friday March 22nd.

Monday 25th March:

Regional Hockey Trials. Mackenzie Bunt, Year 6 will represent the school.

Wednesday 27th March:

NAPLAN online.

This year our Year 3 and Year 5 students will be completing NAPLAN on line Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy will be on line for all students. . Year 3 will complete their writing test on paper whilst Year 5 will be completing their test on line. Our students will sit an omnibus practice test on Wednesday March 27th to prepare for the actual NAPLAN tests in May. This will ensure students are familiar with the online test environment. Mrs Taylor and Mrs Hicks will be coordinating NAPLAN 2019 at our school.

Friday 29th March:

All Easter Egg donations need to be back at school by Friday March 29th. A free ticket in the raffle is given for each donation of an egg, 5cm or larger.

Friday 5th April:

Boomerang Bags Poster Designs

Reminder to all students that the REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE A4 posters need to be back at school by Friday April 5th for collection by Mrs Sally Hughes. Someone from our school could win a double pass to the Corowa Cinema with their creative design for a Boomerang Bag!

Friday 12th April:

Easter Hat Parade and drawing of P&C Easter Raffle at K-6 Assembly on Friday 12th April 2019.

Assembly will commence early at 2:00pm to allow plenty of time for students’ enjoyment of the Easter Hat Parade festivities. Students will create their special hats during class time in Weeks 10 and 11 to add to the surprise and joy of the parade. However if you have some spare decorations to share we will gladly accept any donations to spruce up our creative designs.

Easter Colouring Competitions

Our annual Gyles Newsagency Easter colouring competition has been distributed to all students. Please return completed artworks directly to Gyles. Entry forms for Miegel’s Alliance Pharmacy are also available from the office.

Please ensure your child’s name and school details are written clearly on the competition forms.

Upcoming Major Excursions

We have finalised bookings and costs for our major excursions this year:

K/2 Altina Wildlife Park, Darlington Point – one day excursion on September 13- cost is $50 per student

3/ 4 Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement- two day excursion on Nov 28-29- cost is $200 per student

5/ 6 Bendigo /Sovereign Hill Ballarat – three day excursion on Nov 18-20- cost is $300 per student

Each excursion is being financially supported by the school and Corowa South P&C to help keep costs down. We feel these extra curricula major excursions offer very valuable learning experiences for your child. They are structured so that your child has authentic hands on learning opportunities for your child to develop deep understanding and knowledge.

You are welcome to commence instalment payments from this week at the office to help your family budget. If you have any concerns about the excursions or need assistance with finance. Please do not hesitate to speak confidentially with your child’s class teacher or the Principal.

KVE Visit

NAPLAN 2019

Students do not need to be computer experts to take the NAPLAN test online. Making sure students have computer skills is part of our school curriculum, and our teachers will ensure your child is familiar with the online format. To see the types of questions and interactive features of NAPLAN Online, visit the public demonstration site.

If you have any questions about NAPLAN Online, please contact your child’s teacher.

For more info:

How to support your child during NAPLAN

information for parents and carers

Watch a video that explains NAPLAN Online

Subscribe to ACARA’s monthly parent newsletter, Parent Update

Thank you for your support of our school:

Corowa South Parents for your contri-bution to the cake stall and sausage

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

18 March

Young Leaders-

Melbourne

19 March

5.30pm P&C

AGM in Library

20 March

Newsletter

Principal

Conference

21 March

Principal

Conference

21 March

23/24 March

NSW Election

P&C BBQ &

Cake stall

25 March

PSSA – Hockey

Trials @ Albury

26 March

27 March

Online NAPLAN

Practice Test

28 March

29 March

Hockey Skills

Morning

K – 6

ASSEMBLY

30/31 March

1 April

2 April

3 April

Newsletter

4 April 5 April

6/7 April

8 April

9 April

Athletics Gala @

Morris Park

10 April

10.30 ANZAC

Service @ CSPS

11 April

Back up CSPS

Athletics Gala

12 April

Last day of

School

2.00 pm K – 6 ASSEMBLY Easter Hat

Parade

P&C Raffle Draw

13/14 April

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