Date of Publication: 4th August 2020

SCHOOL CALENDAR August 3 - 7 Education Week 7 Jeans for Genes Day

Our Focus At CVPS we are responsible learners who are safe by successfully solving

problems when they arise in play situations

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

Education Week

This week is Education Week, the theme for 2020

Education Week is Learning Together. This week we

celebrate the many achievements of our public schools

and the critical role they play in equipping our students

for the future. Keep an eye on our school Facebook

page which is being updated daily to show how we are

celebrating Education Week here at CVPS.

Semester One Reports

Semester One reports will be sent home on Thursday.

As mentioned previously, due to the learning from

home circumstances last term, reports have been

prepared with a revised approach. This revised

approach focuses on the learning undertaken in English

and Mathematics and will provide information about

your child’s learning across the other Key Learning

Areas, as well as their learning behaviours.

Please take the time to go through your child’s report with them over the coming days to identify their learning goals for Semester 2. It’s important to remember that one of our expectations at CVPS is that our students are responsible learners, this includes identifying where they are at in their learning journey and what they need to do next to improve. If you would like to discuss your child’s report with their class teacher then please either phone to office or contact them via Class Dojo. Phonics Screening Check

Students in Year 1 will take part in a Phonics Screening

Check next week. This is a short assessment that tells

teachers how students are progressing in phonics. The

Phonics Screening Check is carried out by classroom

teachers with each student individually and takes

between 5 -7 minutes. The check complements existing

strategies to identify students’ progress in developing

foundational literacy skills.

Update on excursions and school camps

This is the latest advice regarding excursions and school camps - School camps and excursions remain on hold for Term 3 given the recent increase in community transmission of COVID-19 across NSW. Updated advice on when school excursions and camps can recommence will be communicated to all schools following further discussions with NSW Health later in Term 3. In the meantime, schools can continue planning for excursions and camps to resume from Term 4. Our re-scheduled excursions to Red Hill EEC can go ahead due to the fact that they are a DOE site. Absentees

As mentioned in last weeks newsletter coming to school

every day is extremely important, however, on

occasion, your child may need to be absent from

school. Justified reasons for student absences may

include;

* being sick, or having an infectious disease

* having an unavoidable medical appointment

* exceptional or urgent family circumstances e.g.

attending a funeral

Following an absence from school you must ensure that

within 7 days you provide the school with a verbal or

written explanation for the absence. If no explanation is

provided the absence will be recorded as unjustified.

Absences can quickly and easily be explained via the

Skoolbag app, if you require any assistance with this

please contact the office.

School Photos

Last Friday individual and class photos

were taken of each student who was at

school. If you are yet to place your order

for photos this can still be done by

contacting our photographer and placing

an order online. MSP Photography can

be contacted by calling their office on (02) 6360 2008 or

sending an email to; centralwestnsw@msp.com.au

online orders can be placed up until this Friday 7th

August. Any orders placed after this date will incur a

late fee. The school cannot accept orders, this must all

be done via MSP Photography.

Notes sent home last week: Year 4 Red Hill Excursion note, Year 1 & 2 Red Hill Excursion update, Recorder Group note

P&C AGM

Last Wednesday we finally held our 2020 P&C AGM via

Zoom. Congratulations to Nikki Amphlett and Kierra

Lamb who have both been elected in as President, and

Treasurer respectfully again this year. Also, a big

welcome back to Jenni Buckley who has been elected

in as Secretary. The position of Vice President was not

filled. The next P&C meeting will be held on the 20th

August via Zoom.

Jeans for Genes Day

This year Jeans for Genes day takes place this Friday,

7th August. CVPS will be supporting this worthy cause

again this year which raises money for medical research

to help find cures for childhood genetic diseases. To

support this cause, students are encouraged to wear

jeans to school on Friday. The children must wear either

red sports shirt or green shirt and school jumper. The

only part of the uniform to change is the wearing of

jeans. Those students who choose to wear jeans are

asked to donate a gold coin to the Jeans for Genes

appeal.

This year’s Jeans for Genes Day posters feature a

photo of Charlie. Charlie and his family are local to

Mudgee and we are looking forward to welcoming

Charlie to start Kindergarten with us at CVPS in 2021.

We have recently been in touch with Charlie’s family

who have given us an insight into the importance of this

very worthy cause. A few key messages about the

importance of this charity are shown in the article over

the page.

I have recently had communication from the Children’s Medical Research Institute with the great news that a group of generous donors will match every donation made, dollar for dollar. So together let’s see how much we can raise for this important charity. Michelle Neaverson - Smith Principal

Deputy’s Desk

Wear Red Day

Last Thursday our SRC held a

fundraiser "Wear Red" with all

donations going towards Ronald

McDonald House in Orange.

Students and teachers came to

school wearing red and donated a

gold coin, we had a fantastic response to this fundraiser

and are very pleased to say we raised a total of

$617.85 for this wonderful cause.

William Lindsay

Deputy Principal

Environmental Education

In Term 3 CVPS will be fortunate to

have an Environmental Education

officer, Mrs Natalie Bowen, visit the

school to teach the students about

the importance of recycling.

She will be visiting each class across the school

throughout the term. Mrs Bowen provides a variety of

activities including hands on, small group work and

interactive tasks for the students to improve their

knowledge of the recycling process and how important

it is to look after our environment.

This week she has spent time with Year 4 and Stage 3

and the students were very engaged with her lessons

and learnt lots of interesting facts about recycling. It

was great to see and hear

students clearly explain the

benefits of recycling and

the positive impact it has

on the environment.

The CVPS Environmental Team

Parenting Ideas This weeks topic is:

Developing young people’s emotional

smarts

You can find some helpful information in the attached

article.

Have you used your free Parenting Ideas voucher

to access the Understanding Techno Tantrums

Webinar yet?

Instructions on accessing the voucher are included in

this newsletter.

Kinder, Years 1 & 2 Charlie Jackson Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 Dakotya Johnson, Sebastian Kelly, Savenneah Forbes—Milson

Jason Lucas

Gold / Red Gold / Green Gold Certificates

Red Certificates

Environmental Team News

Last week we were very fortunate to receive a

generous donation from Bunnings in Mudgee. They

kindly donated gloves and tongs for our recycling

program. Students in our Eco Team put these to use

last week while participating in our return and earn

recycling program.

Trash Free Tuesday

Last week we had a total of 623 pieces of rubbish.

In Term 2, Week 10 we had 596 pieces of rubbish. Re-

member our school goal is 500. Each week we have to

really work together to reduce the amount of rubbish we

have in our lunchboxes every day.

The following classes improved this week;

KS, 1R, 3R, 3T, 4/5A, 5/6B and 5/6A.

Our ECO Warrior Class of the

Week for each stage were;

Kindergarten- KS on 19

Stage 1- 2D on 26

Stage 2- 3T on 19

Stage 3- 5/6B and 5/6A both on

6.

Did your class reach their achievable rubbish goal this week? If you didn't, what could you do to reach your goal next week?

Don’t forget to give us your

feedback on Breakfast Club

We would like to hear your thoughts and

suggestions by completing a quick google

form at the following link;

https://forms.gle/tA58UaieXP7ygceT9

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

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

CVPS currently has access to vouchers that allow parents of students at our school to access certain webinars on the Parenting Ideas website for FREE!.

If you would like to take advantage of these vouchers, here is what you need to do:

1. Go to the Parenting Ideas website. The link to the webinar page is here: https://www.parentingideas.com.au/parent-resources/parent-webinars/ 2. Find the webinar that matches the current voucher. (Voucher can be found below). Then add it to the cart by clicking the little cart icon or if you have clicked in to the page for the webinar, click the "Add to cart" button. 3. View the cart by clicking the little cart icon in the top right corner then clicking the "View Cart" button when it pops up. 4. Enter the coupon code in to the coupon code box then click the "Apply Coupon" button. 5. Click "Proceed to Checkout". 6. If you have previously used a voucher or already have an account with Parenting Ideas, click the "Click here to login" link at the top next to "Returning customer?". If not, then fill out all of the details on this page along with the School details in the Billing section: Cudgegong Valley Public School 47-65 Madeira Rd Mudgee, NSW, 2850 7. Click the "Place Order" button. 8. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to the webinar. Please note that it may take some time to appear. If after a while you still haven't recieved the email you may need to check your "Junk Mail" folder.

Jeans for Genes Day - Friday 7th August

An account from Cassie - Charlie’s Mum

Charlie's family are part of Jeans for Genes

because they can see what research has already

done. “Research is really important because

we're so close to a cure” Cassie said “Treatment

for Cystic Fibrosis has come along in leaps and

bounds in such a short time, and we’re nearly

there, and if we can get there in Charlie's lifetime,

then that would be fantastic. It would just mean

the world to us and to anyone that's born with

Cystic Fibrosis that they can have a long and

happy life.’’

One of the big things we're passionate about is

advocating for Charlie and raising awareness of

Cystic Fibrosis as well as

awareness and funds for the

amazing work that

organisations like Children’s

Medical Research Institute

(CMRI) do. We hope that by

sharing our story, it will benefit

families like ours in the future.

CMRI encourage people to

donate or get involved

because you never know if it could happen to you

or to someone you love.