Striving To Make The Difference Coomandook Area S

“Striving To Make The Difference”

Coomandook Area School

Term 1, Week 4 Newsletter 18th February , 2020

Principal: John Fitton Governing Council Chairperson: Louise Pitt Phone: 85 733007 Fax: 85 733185 www.coomyas.sa.edu.au [email protected]

Respect

Honesty Persistence

Welcome to week 4 We have had a busy start to the year, which has seen the Coop near completion, our swimming carnival, some changes to staffing and teachers focussing on their teaching and learning programs. In focussing on the swimming carnival let me say I was suitably impressed by the attitude of our senior students in Years 10, 11 and 12 and the way they organised their teams and supported our younger students during their events. It certainly made me proud. Last night was our schools AGM and Open Night, where parents had the opportunity to meet their child’s teacher and get an understanding of how the classroom operates and classroom expectations. I would like to congratulate our teaching staff, who spent considerable time preparing for the night, having student work on display and class newsletters prepared outlining class expectations and course outlines for semester one. Thanks also to those parents, who took the time to take an interest in their child/ children’s work At the AGM the 2019 Annual Report, 2019 finance statement and 2020 Site Improvement Plan were signed off. Congratulations to Louise Pitt, who is our Governing Council Chair, David Peter, our Vice Chairperson, Shannon McPhee, our Secretary, Lee Slape, our Treasurer and Joy Little our Community representative for 2020. Congratulations also to our new and existing Governing Councillors Fleur Kleinig, Leah Kowald, Cristy Spry, Marie Peterson and Karen Schmerl. Lisa Rowntree is the Coorong District Council Representative. Thanks for taking an active interest in your child’s schooling.

From the Principal John Sutton Calendar Dates Term 1

February

18th Interschool (USE) Swimming Carnival

24th/26th Year 8/9 Renmark Camp

24th SAPSASA Swimming Selection Day at M/B

March

2nd /4th PE Surf Camp

2nd SSSSA USE Swimming – Adelaide

3rd 800m running race

5th GRIP Leadership Conference in Adelaide

5th Immunisation for Year 8 & 10

6th 1500m running race

9th ADELAIDE CUP – PUBLIC HOLIDAY

10th PUPIL FREE DAY

13th CAS Athletic Carnival

16th/19th SAPSASA Cricket/Tennis Carnival

20TH Pedal Prix Quiz Night

21st Mallee Schools Formal in Murray Bridge

23rd Interschool (USE) Athletic Carnival at KAS

27th SAPSASA Swimming Carnival – Adelaide

April

3rd SSSSA USE Athletics at Santos Stadium

9th END OF TERM 1

27th START OF TERM 2

Items for the newsletter must be submitted by 9am,

Monday morning. Newsletters are printed every

fortnight. Thank you.

PLEASE NOTE: CAS Interhouse Athletics Carnival will

be held on Friday 13th March 2020,

not as advertised in the diary notes.

Please make the change in your personal diary.

Coomandook Area School Newsletter


We are still in urgent need of 2 volunteers to take up a 2 year School Governing Councillor role. Please strongly consider giving up your time to enable our Governing Council to be effective. If you are interested in joining us please contact the school or anyone of our current councillors. Our next meeting is Monday 16th March at 7:30pm. There is also an Aboriginal Community Representative position to be filled on Governing Council. Thank you to Leah Kowald for organising the BBQ and Jared Wallis for cooking the meat. Currently this week I am meeting with all teachers to discuss the students in the care and how they are supporting them to access their particular subjects, what support is needed and how students are being challenged in their learning. After these discussions teachers will write their Personal Learning Plans to align their work with the school Improvement Plan. Another aspect of my work will be to review the 2 client opinion surveys conducted last year and put in place plans to meet the thoughts and ideas of parents. Some of the positives include the subject range offered to students and the subsequent interactions between students and teachers. Areas noted as needing improvement include our grounds and communication as needing a major overhaul whether that be notifying parents around student issues, length of warning on costings for camps or relevant communication between staff and parents. Our recent Coop opening, class subject overviews, newsletters and the open night (whilst still in its infancy) are examples of that improvement.

Joe Gibbs has taken

over the maintenance

of the kitchen garden.

The vegetables beds

are productive with

summer vegetable.

The new timer has

been a big help with

watering over

summer.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce

myself as the new teacher at

Coomandook Area School. My name is

Avelin David and I am the class teacher

for Year 4/5/6. I enjoy teaching and it’s

an honour to be a part of this school.

As a teacher, I focus on developing students in all areas

of life. I teach them to respect and value each other. I

am a very positive person and believe that nothing is

impossible in life as long as you focus and put in the

hard work. My role models are Nick Vujic and Mother

Theresa as their legacy are very inspirational to me.

Thank you for welcoming me to your school.

Darryl Hewitt – P.E./Outdoor Ed/PLP

teacher. I have an interest in sport

and horses. I like to see students

actively involved in P.E. lessons

where they can learn new skills and

feel a sense of achievement.

My name is Crystal Berling and I am the preschool teacher this year. I live in Murray Bridge with my husband Tim and 2 year old daughter Ella. I am passionate about working with children and seeing them grow into confident lifelong learners.

My name is Eleanor Binney and I am

happy to introduce myself as a new

primary NIT teacher at Coomandook

Area School. I am working with the

4/5/6 class teaching Australian Sign

Language (Auslan), Health and P.E and with the 2/3

class teaching Humanities and Social Sciences. I have a

strong passion for all the subjects I teach, and I believe

my passion can inspire students to take academic risks

and grow as learners. Coomandook is an extremely

welcoming school and I am excited for my year here.

Kitchen Garden

New Staff



Coomandook Area School would like to welcome the following students and their families to the school: Charlie, Henry and Darcy Woolfitt, Lucas Piggott, Oscar and Matilda Knight, Lethabo and Katlego Chuene, Amelia, Harley and Charlotte Harris, Mikayla Young, Shilo Lloyd, Tayri Ait-Touati, Jackson Kowald, Joel Wilson and Fredrick Shillier. We have six boys who have started their school in the Pre School class – welcome to Nathan Cobian, Rory Knight, Levi Marrett, Ollie McArdle, Finn Mickan and Leo Spry. We wish you an enjoyable time at Coomandook.

The Pre School students

enjoying some play time in

the sandpit.

The annual swimming carnival was held on 11th February with Coonalpyn Primary School joining us for the day. It was wonderful to see families come to cheer on the competitors and encourage the Splash Day students. Congratulation to Parkin – winners of 2020 Interhouse Swimming Carnival with 815 points with Dukes coming second with 697 points. Well done to all students for participating and earning points for their house.

On the day, five records were broken. Congratulations to Alistair Neumann, Cherifa Ait-Touati and Asher Neumann. Alistair’s records are: Open 100m freestyle, Open 50m Freestyle and Open 4x25m Individual Medley. Cherifa’s record is: Under 16 50m Backstroke. Asher’s record is: Under 12 Individual Medley.

Medal winner for the age groups are;

Sub Junior Girls:

Gold – Esther Neumann Silver - Ashlyn Kleinig Bronze – Nellie Kowald

Sub Junior Boys:

Gold - Owen Thomas Silver – Reef Gregor Bronze – Blake Thompson

Junior Girls:

Gold – Miszty Walters Silver – Tahlia Kleinig Bronze – Inca Gregor

Junior Boys: Gold – Asher Neumann Silver – Micah Thomas Bronze - Charlie Woolfitt

New Families

Swimming Carnival



Intermediate Girls: Gold – Ruby Ballard Silver – Vicki Batten Bronze – Lola Allen

Intermediate Boys: Gold – Lincoln Pitt Silver – Jake Thomas Bronze – Stewart Schillier

Open Girls: Gold – Cherifa Ait-Touati Silver – Georgia Ballard Bronze – Bridget Watson

Open Boys: Gold – Alistair Neumann Silver – Harrison Stott Bronze – Max Gogel



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