Principal’s Report

CCC

Kingfisher Avenue, Coleambally, NSW, 2707

Phone: 02 6954 4131 Fax: 02 6954 4396

Email: coleamball-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 9

Coleambally Central School

A Quality Education in your Community

17 September 2019

COMING UP IN TERM THREE

Tue 24 Sept - Yr 7 & 10 Immunisation

Thu 26 Sept - Primary Spring Concert 1pm Coleambally Community Club

This Week at

Coleambally Central School

Wed 18 - Fri 20 Sept - Stage 3 Canberra Excursion Thu 19 Sept - Stage 6 Primary Industries Henty Field Days.

Welcome back to Week 9 of Term 3! In last week’s newsletter I informed parents and carers that Individual NAPLAN Student Reports for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 would be distributed to parents and carers by the end of this month. I can confirm that reports have arrived and will be sent home with students today and each envelope will include the 2019 individual student report, a 2019 addi-tional student report and a letter to parents and caregivers. I am happy to announce that this year our school’s NAPLAN results are very pleasing and continue our solid improvement over the past few years. The amount of students in the top two bands is above similar schools for Reading and Numeracy in all years and again in Writing, except for Year 7. In an outstanding result our Year 3 Reading and Numeracy and Year 5 Numeracy is above the entire state for the amount of students in the top two bands. When comparing students in bands, over time we are moving students out of lower bands and into higher bands, with less students in the lower bands and more in higher bands for Years 5, 7 and 9 in Reading and in Numeracy for Years 3, 5 and 7. There is still some improvement in results to be had for Years 7 and 9 in Grammar and Punctuation, but we are heading in the right direction and students and staff should be proud of these results. Congratulations. Student Footwear In this week’s newsletter there is information on acceptable footwear for secondary students. Due to WHS procedures, especially in metalwork, woodwork and food technology subjects, students HAVE to wear fully enclosed leather, lace-up, buckle or fastened shoes covering the whole of the foot. Elastic side work boots, such as Redback’s, are acceptable to be bought to school to wear into practical subjects, but should not include steel capped toes. Unfortunately secondary students with the incorrect footwear are unable to participate in practical subjects. Please see the photographed examples in the attached information. Primary Effort Reports At the end of next week parents and carers of primary students will again receive a Student Effort Report. This is a new initiative to improve our reporting to parents and carers. This does not replace the Semester One and Two student achievement reports, but is aimed to provide information to parents on how their child is faring in subjects, lessons and routines.

Assessment Task Due Dates Wed 18 Sept - Yr 7 Dance Assessment Thu 19 Sept - Yr 10 History Assessment Task 1 Fri 20 Sept - Stage 5 PDPHPE Task Year 7 Japanese Task 3 Tue 24 Sept - PASS Assessment Thu 26 Sept - Year 8 History Task 2

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Stage 2

Dubbo Zoosnooz

Excursion

All payments now

due

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Spring Concert A reminder that this year’s Spring Concert will be held at the Coleambally Community Club on Thursday, 26 September 2019, commencing at 1.00 pm. Primary teachers have been sending notes home with students requesting parent assistance in having their child dressed in the appropriate costume for their performance and students have been busy rehearsing their items for what should be another outstanding concert. Stage 3 Canberra Excursion Stage 3 students depart for their excursion to Canberra bright and early tomorrow morning! Highlights will include visits to the National Film and Sound Archive, Black Mountain Tower, the National Museum of Austral-ia, the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Institute of Sport and Parliament House. Parents will be kept informed with regular posts on our school Facebook page, which will also be used to confirm our estimated time of arrival on return, which is scheduled for 7.30 pm on Friday. VET Placements This week Primary Industries VET students are participating in work placements as part of their mandatory 70 Hour Work Placement. The addition of Primary Industries to our curriculum in the school has been a great suc-cess, with Mrs Fattore providing engaging activities for students to complete in order to achieve the relevant competencies. Last week students commenced fencing in the school farm as part of Competency AHCINF202 - Install, maintain and repair farm fencing, with assistance from a Waratah Fencing representative. 2020 School Captains It is again that time of year when we commence the election process for 2020 School Captains. Year 11 students have been provided with copies of the Student Leadership Policy and the nomination process. Nominations closed on Monday, 16 September 2019 and a special assembly will be held at 9.00 am on Tues-day, 24 September 2019 for students to present their Captain’s Speeches. After this students will be asked to cast their votes and the 2020 School Captains will be announced at the conclusion of the Year 12 Graduation Assembly on Friday 27 September. ICAS Competitions The last ICAS competition for 2019 will take place today, with students sitting the Mathematics competition. This is a few days earlier than scheduled to allow for Year 5/6 students going on the Canberra excursion to complete the assessment. School Principals will be notified by email when reports and certificates are availa-ble online in the UNSW Global Results and Reports Portal and printed student certificates will be sent out approximately two weeks after the results appear online. Finally…. I am looking forward to spending some quality time with students this week while on the Year 5/6 excursion to our nation’s capital, Canberra. Please contact the relevant Executive Team member for any enquires in my absence this week. Our door is and always has been open – whether you are happy, sad or mad. We need to know if we are not doing something right, but I also need to know that you trust our motives and intentions. Everything we do, every single day is for YOUR children. Until next week,

Timothy Allen Principal

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PBL Winners Week 9

Regan Cullen & Harriet

Bolton

Congratulations!!

James from Athletes Foot Griffith Store

travelled to Coleambally on Friday to

present a donation of $355.00 raised through the ‘The

Athletes Foot School Rewards’ Program. Our school,

when nominated receives $5 for every pair of shoes

bought at Athletes foot Griffith.

Thank You Athletes Foot!!!

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Kindergarten Brock Shields For being an enthusiastic participant in PE lessons. Chloe Little For being attentive and interested throughout the visit to Altina. Raedn-Pearl Martin For trying hard with sentence writing in Literacy lessons.

Yr 1 Isabella Shields For great thought and imagination in creative writing. Blaine Byrne For taking on feedback to improve his writing. Harriet Bolton For greater confidence in using the bridging to 10 strategy in Mathematics.

Yr 2/3 Jack Cooney For pleasing attendance and better application in class. Qyarna Martin For improving her Handwriting and Reading Comprehension results. Zoee Steinhardt For fluent Oral Reading during Reading Groups. Lachlan Hardy For putting extra effort into completing his Handwriting task.

Year 3 For having excellent behaviour, attitude and application during

lessons with Mrs Popovich and Mrs Breed, while Year 2 were on the excursion.

Yr 4/5 Lily Shields Fantastic research about the Sun and Moon. Damon Pound Making great contributions to writing lessons about the solar system. Pippa Wilson Great improvements in solving subtraction algorithms when trading is required. Hayden Payne Making great contributing to writing lessons about the solar system. Chelsea Hibbert Working well in all class activities. Layla Filmer An interesting piece of writing about life on Mars.

Year 5/6 Cooper Payne For his improved effort, attitude and self -persistence to overcome difficulties during

Mathematics. Well done! Ashley Robertson Great participation in conversations and listening to the guest speaker during the

World War One talk. Joseph Rossato For his participation in the tongue twister speaking during the Parliament Virtual Classroom experience. Marli Simoes For his fantastic persuasive text and reasons for why ‘Summer is the best season’. Elle Bedard For being a respectful, kind and considerate classroom member.

Primary Class Awards

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Stage 6 Visual Arts

Body of Work Exhibition

School Audio Visual Room

Tuesday 10 September

& Wednesday 11

September

Open to the Community

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Footy Colours Day 2019 Friday the 13th of September was Footy Colours Day at

Coleambally Central. It was once again an enjoyable

day for all with all students and staff getting right into

the footy spirit. The SRC would like to thank all who

kindly helped donate to the Fight Cancer Foundation

to help kids with cancer. We are pleased to say we

raised $205 which is a great achievement by our

school. Well done everyone!

Danielle Mannes and Natalia Burgess

Year 12 SRC Representatives

WW1 Living History - Students from Year 6, Stage 4 & 5 learnt

about the types of clothing soldiers wore and the conditions

they experienced during World War 1.

Regional Spelling Bee

Last Thursday on the 12th of September Xavier Jones and Andrew Fattore

represented our school in the regional spelling bee competition at

Griffith East Public School.

We had some difficult words and there were heaps of others students in our stage 2 group. We enjoyed the spelling bee

and made it to the level 5 wordlist and this is where we both got out.

Hopefully we can do it again next year.

By Andrew Fattore.

Cooper Payne and Tayla DeMamiel represented the stage 3 group in the senior regional spelling bee competition. I got

out on the level 5 wordlist and Cooper got out on the level 3 list.

It was a great experience and I enjoyed competing against all the other school students around the Riverina.

Thanks Miss Lyons for organising and the parents for taking us.

By Tayla DeMamiel

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Community Announcements

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Teachers Needed

Being a Swimming Instructor can be a great part time job whilst study-ing. Check out austswim.com.au for upcoming courses or contact me on 0402268683 if you’d like to know more. I’m happy to mentor or assist you in gaining your qualifications. Kristy Payne

Coleambally Junior Touch Commencing Thursday 17th October 2019 and will run for

6-8 weeks during term 4 Games from 5pm At Coly No 1 Oval

For kids turning 10 in 2019 to kids turning 17 years in 2019

Cost is $40 Go to the Coleambally Junior Touch Facebook page and

follow the link to register Registrations will close on 27th September

(Last day of term) Talk to Demi Evans, Trudy Hickey or Nicola Clarke for more

information.

Year 12 HSC Prayer Service

Uniting Church

Monday 14 October

11am

Community members welcome to attend