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JUMBUNNA
63 - 101 Chester Street WARREN NSW 2824
Ph: 02 6847 4438 Fax: 02 6847 4419
Email: [email protected]
Website: warren-c.schools.nsw.edu.au
Relieving Principal Bryce O’Connor
Deputy Principal Wade Greenwood
Executive Staff Head Teachers
Robyn Taylor - Secondary Studies Dianne Hamilton - Science/Maths
Christopher Perry (Rel) - English/HSIE Jenny Brooker - Wellbeing
Assistant Principals Elyse Perry (Rel) Lyn Westgarth
School Administrative Manager Roz Hunt
IT Manager Cade Wilde
Learning and Support Teacher Suzanne Mayger/Jade Lovelock
Teacher Librarian Narelle Whittaker
Aboriginal Education Resource Teacher
June Hawkes
Aboriginal Education Officers Phyllis Oates Allison Fuller
School Counsellor Gemma Martel
School Chaplain Stephen Bignall
Canteen Manager Janice Oriel
Breakfast Club Coordinator Joanne Lincoln
Term 4 Issue 13 2017
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Celebrating 150 Years of Education
WIN News Central West
A Warren teacher is up for a national award, nominated for her dedication to teaching
and going that extra mile to inspire her students.
A DAY MADE BETTER TEACHER AWARDS.
A Day Made Better rewards, recognises exceptional primary and secondary school
teachers across the country. www.adaymadebetter.com.au
Message from ex WCS student Olivia Hamblin
Mrs Westgarth is easily the most hard working teacher I have ever had the privilege of
knowing. I was lucky enough to have her for Kindergarten, Year 5 & 6 and to this day I
know her passion for educating and challenging students had an incredible impact on
my life. She worked tirelessly to ensure her students were continually supported in
their strengths as well as dreams and always brought out the best in those she taught.
She encouraged me to dream big, and was just as much a role model and a mentor as
she was a fantastic teacher. Throughout my schooling life and beyond, I look back to
the incredible support and encouragement she gave me because it helps every time.
Her farewell message to me, "Shoot for the stars. You're sure to reach them." never
fails to inspire, even now.
Media visits Warren Central School
Agri-robotic with University of
Mrs Lyn Westgarth and Alison WIN News
What’s On in Term 4 October/November Week 3 27 150 Year Celebration Weekend
Week 4 30 Marathon Health - Hearing day
31 School Development Evening
1
Year 7 Orientation Day 2, BBQ lunch for parents + year 6+ staff
2
Rock and Water
3
2018 Kindergarten orientation LAST DAY OF HSC EXAMS
Week 5 8 K-6 Assembly—Prefect nomination speeches Yellow band reward
9 Rock and Water
10 Year 7 orientation Day 3
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into a comprehensive literacy program that includes
practise with decodable text as well as exposure to
literature with a rich vocabulary.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, blend and
manipulate individual sounds in words. Children must
first understand that words are made up of separate
speech sounds that can be blended together to make
words before they can make sense of using the
alphabet to read and write. For example, if I ask you
how many sounds can you hear in ‘cat’, with good
phonemic awareness you would hear that it is made up
of 3 speech sounds c/a/t. This is a skill called
segmenting. If I were then to say the sounds d/o/g, and
ask what word you hear, with good phonemic
awareness you would be able to blend those sounds
together and tell me the word is dog. This is a skill
called blending.
We are very excited about having these new books.
You can read more about them at
https://www.decodablereadersaustralia.com.au/
Celebrating 150 Years of public education
This week sees the celebration of 150 years of public
education in Warren. It starts with an assembly on
Friday at 1.30pm, school tours then off to the Golf club.
Saturday sees our formal event getting underway from
6.30pm. Finishing off the weekend will be a breakfast at
Warren Services Club. What a great moment in the
history of Warren Central School.
School plan
We are currently undertaking planning for our new
school plan. So far we have run a survey for our current
school plan and a brainstorming session for ideas for
our new school plan. We are hoping to have a draft
available for review in the next couple of weeks. Thank
you for everyone’s support so far.
From the Principal
Lots of exciting things are happening at Warren Central
School in term 4. Teachers and students are busy
learning and I would like to commend the positive
behaviour of our students. Teachers are also busy
planning for 2018 and looking at ways to improve
student learning. There has been some great
professional learning
occurring that will benefit all students.
New Decodable Readers
One area that I am really excited about is the work
happening to improve the quality of our literacy
programs. We have recently purchased 800 new
decodable readers to support us in delivering quality
instruction of reading here at Warren Central School.
Explicit teaching of phonics is a cornerstone of effective
early reading instruction. Around one third of children
will have difficulty learning to read without systematic
teaching in how to ‘crack the code’ of written English,
and another third will not learn to read at all without it.
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WARREN JUNIOR CRICKET 2017/18 SEASON:
Welcome!! Junior cricket will be on Thursday afternoons Beginners 5.15 - 6.00pm / Intermediates 5.15 -
7.00pm
All players require supervision. The volunteer coaches CANNOT supervise all the players and parents/carers
must ensure there is an adult present who is responsible for their child/children.
We need 3 volunteers to run/coach the beginners.
Helmets: All players batting, wicket keeping or standing up to the stumps are required to wear helmets and are
responsible for ensuring they have a proper fitting helmet on at all times.
Venue: At present the main oval at Victoria Park is unavailable to play on due to council still undertaking works.
The junior oval and nets at Victoria Park are available as is Carter Oval. We will advise on Facebook as soon as
it is decided where beginners and intermediates will be meeting.
Facebook: All notifications will be via Facebook. Like the page and check it for announcements. There will not
be separate text messages sent to parents for wet weather notifications or cancelled sessions. If you aren’t on
Facebook then find a friend who is to keep you updated.
If required email communications will be via [email protected]
Online Registration:
There are 2 types of membership available – you can choose either one:
Milo In2 Cricket $80.00 – includes Milo In2 Cricket bag
(Cricket NSW takes $65.00 and Warren Junior Cricket gets $15.00)
Junior Membership $40.00 – no bag and $40.00 goes to Warren Junior Cricket.
To complete your online registration:
Go to playcricket.com.au
Top right corner: where can I play? Go to Search by Club name, type “Warren Junior Cricket”. Don’t search by
suburb – it won’t work.
Chose the type of membership you want: $80 or $40 next/register/continue
Scroll down to ‘New Participant’
Enter name and DOB where required
You will then be prompted to select a person that might be/is you.
If you are listed it will send an email to your
email to reactivate your profile. Go to your email
account and follow the prompts to continue reg-
istration.
If you have changed your email since last regis-
tering you will need to say its not you and add a
new profile by clicking ‘Not you? Don’t have a
mycricket account …skip this step’.
Enter all the information required and follow
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WARREN JUNIOR CRICKET
Registrations for 2017/18 season now open. Come along to
Victoria Oval at 5:15pm Thursday 26th October.
If you can’t make that check out our Facebook Page “Warren Junior Cricket”
There are 2 types of membership available – you can choose either one depending on wheth-
er you want a bag or not:
Milo In2 Cricket $80.00 – includes Milo In2 Cricket bag
Junior Membership $40.00 – no bag
WARREN JUNIOR CRICKET ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
President: Sam Lawler Ph: 0457 847 622 Secretary / Treasurer: Janine Nielsen Ph: 0419 945 137
Email: [email protected]
Like us on Facebook to keep updated with all announcements
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K—6 News
We value RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE
LEARNERS
Kindergarten Orientation 2018
Dates and times for children attending the
Kindergarten Orientation Program at Warren Central
School are:
Friday 20 October 9:30am – 12:30pm
Friday 27 October 9:30am – 12:30pm
Friday 3 November 9:00am – 2:50pm
Children must have enrolment forms completed and
handed in to the office at Warren Central School to
attend these sessions.
If you have not already collected an enrolment package
they are available at Warren Central School Office or the
Preschool.
Kin- dergarten
Ori- entation
Day on Friday
20 October
Stage 3 Excursion
This year the Stage 3 excursion will be held from Mon-
day 20 – Tuesday 24 November at Lake Keepit Sport
and Recreation Camp, Tamworth. Places have now
been filled. The remaining amount is $300 and is due by
Friday 3 November 2017.
Rainbow Day Term 3
Last term on Tuesday 19 September students from K-6
who had earned a rainbow reward went to Dubbo Zoo to
celebrate. The students all had a very busy and
wonderful day. Thank you to Mrs McCormack for all her
organisation and making the day possible. We love
recognising these students who are so deserving of this
reward.
Gobondery/NARRAF Tennis
Unfortunately due to inclement weather the Gobondery/
NARRAF Tennis gala day was postponed from last
Friday 20 October to Wednesday 25 October.
Congratulations to Lily Higgins, Eliza Hansen, Zephyr
Nielsen, Coby Hall, Tiffany Brown, Matilda Hansen,
Harrison Leach and Jack Reid who were selected for
the teams. We would like to acknowledge and give a
Mrs Perry
Noah Cobcroft, Darnell Nelsen, Mason Hall, Isabella Watton,
Alice Lovelock, Fallon Lake, Duncan Oates, Eric Mauger and
Riley Booth.
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NAIDOC
On Thursday 12 October the students, staff and community celebrated the NAIDOC
activities at WCS.
The day started with a smoking ceremony, performed by Lachie Dennis and his team.
Students then participated in a variety of activities, which included dance workshops, Aboriginal art, Dreamtime stories
and talk about Bush Tucker throughout the day.
The Secondary students also took part in an interactive trivia based on Aboriginal culture called Kahoot. This activity
was very successful and really stretched our student’s cultural knowledge.
K-6 students were also involved in cultural activities prior to this day; they included bead threading, NAIDOC mugs,
cultural research projects, Aboriginal art, bangles and much more.
Thank you to Ms Rush and her small band of Aboriginal students who took the time to gather and set the questions for
the activity/event.
Thank you to all Staff who actively helped to celebrate our NAIDOC. Ms Oates and Mrs Hawkes in particular should be
congratulated on their wonderful organisation of the day.
A great
day was
had by all.
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From the Deputy
Principal
Attendance is crucial in the development of your child. We
encourage you to ensure that your child attends school
every day possible so they can continue to grow and de-
velop their educational abilities and socialisation skills. If
your child is absent would you please contact the school
by phone or in writing to explain their absence so we can
monitor the attendance
of your child.
Remember; the greater the attendance the greater the
results for your child.
We have had staff trained in MiniLit and Macqlit to focus
on the literacy needs of our students. Below is the outline
and overview of the programs.
We as a staff see the importance of literacy in our students
and the need to ensure that we can assist and develop all
of our students in the area of literacy.
MiniLit
MiniLit is an evidence-based, effective early literacy pro-
gram. It is a practical, systematic, explicit and effective
model for teaching reading skills.
MiniLit is a Tier Two school-based small group program
(up to four students per group) within a Response to Inter-
vention Framework.
MiniLit is an integrated and balanced program of 80
carefully structured lessons, divided into two levels of forty
lessons each:
Level 1: Teaching the basics of letter/sound knowledge
and decoding skills for CVC words
Level 2: Extending word attack knowledge by teaching
commonly used digraphs and longer words
Program Overview
The program takes around 20 weeks to complete, with four
lessons of up to 60 minutes per week. Each lesson com-
prises three main components:
Sounds and Words Activities
Text Reading
Story Book Reading
The decodable readers have been written to provide chil-
dren with practice in working out words in connected text
using their phonic knowledge.
MacqLit
MacqLit provides teachers with a comprehensive se-
quence of lessons that includes all the key components
necessary for effective reading instruction: phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehen-
sion.
Program overview
Readers develop rapid, automatic and efficient word
recognition strategies. The primary focus of MacqLit is on
phonics, or word Identification, supported by connected
text reading to ensure skills are generalised to authentic
reading experiences.
The carefully constructed sequence of lessons teaches
essential skills such as:
Letter-sound correspondences presented in an easy to
hard sequence,
Strategies for decoding multi-syllable words,
Prefixes and suffixes,
Generalising component skills through connected text
reading.
Each lesson is designed to last one hour, and is delivered
four times a week.
Students are given extensive opportunities to practise their
skills by reading one-on-one with a tutor for 20 minutes,
daily. Student progress is monitored through regular cumu-
lative reviews built into the program.
School Counsellor
We are fortunate enough at WCS to have access to the
departments counselling services which is available to all
students at WCS. Our counsellor is able to assist with stu-
dents issues that they may be trying to deal with on their
own.
This is a free service and very well received by the
stu- dents
who attend
the ses-
sions. If
you feel
your child
could
ben- efit from
the service
please
don’t hesitate
to contact
the school
to arrange
an appoint-
ment.
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Instructional
Leader Update
As I’m sure you are all aware I have been working at WCS in the Instructional Leaders role since the beginning of last term. As a part of this role it is my job to work with staff and students to continue to strive for improved results in all areas. This term we have introduced Progressive Achievement Testing across the school from Year 1 right through to Year 10 to allow us to see where our students lie in the areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, spelling, grammar and punctuation and vocabulary development. This allows us to compare our students results to similar cohorts across the country and also identify specific areas of need so that teaching can be specifically tailored to meet student needs. We have also identified writing as a particular area of focus for improvement in our school so this week I am attending a training course for a program called Seven Steps for Writing Success which I will then be training all staff to implement within their classrooms over the coming months. This program is designed by an actual author and has seen great improvement in the overall NAPLAN writing results of schools who have implemented it in recent years. More information on the
‘Seven Steps’ will be forthcoming over the remainder of this term and into next year.
WARREN STUDENTS PERFORM WELL IN RUGBY On the weekend 13 -15 October Mr Hinton, Mr Murray and John Azar travelled with students from Warren, Nyngan and Brewarrina
to Narrabeen to represent Western Plains in the Country Rugby Sevens Championships.
Jessie Toomey
Tom Fuller
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October
All children deserve to lead safe and healthy lives
2017’s Children’s Week National (21-29 October) theme is ‘Education should develop each child’s personality and
talents to the full. It should encourage children to respect their parents, their cultures and other cultures’ (UNCRC
Article 29). Life Education believes that all children deserve to lead safe and healthy lives. By placing preventive
education at the core of our work we want to instil in children the confidence to make safer and healthier choices now
and in the future. Our program today reaches over 640,000 children across all seven states in Australia, with over 100
mobile learning centres and 95 specially trained educators. By getting involved with Life Education, you are helping us
28 October 2017
Dinner/Dance
6.30pm
Year 7 Orientation Day
Tuesday 24 September 2017
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150 Years
Celebration logo on
umbrellas.
Umbrella $25
Mug $15
Pen $ 5
Water Bottle $10
Stubby Holders $ 5
Magnets $ 1
As part of our celebrations the Students have been
involved in a variety of classroom activities centred
around the last 150 Years in Warren. Students will
also take part in a day of fun later in the term.
We have approximately 277 people attending the
dinner which has now been closed.
School Tours will be held on Friday afternoon and
Saturday morning from 10am.
Breakfast is on Sunday Morning at Warren Services
Club, 8.30 to 9.00am. There will be breakfast availa-
ble for anyone who hasn’t paid with a gourmet bacon
and egg roll worth $7.50. There will also be comple-
mentary tea and coffee for everyone.
Thankyou to all who have been involved in any way
and we hope you enjoy our Celebration of 150 Years
of Pub- lic Ed-
ucation at
Warren Central
School.
Program
Friday 27 October
1:30pm Assembly Warren Central School Hall
Followed by afternoon tea.
School Tours
6:30pm Drinks and nibbles Warren Golf Club
Saturday 28 October
10:00am tours WCS, TAFE and Community
6:30pm Dinner / Dance
Dress: Cocktail
Sunday 29 October
Full breakfast Warren Services Club
Please advise for catering purposes
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“Agri-Robotics Day”
Robotics has been an integral part of the advances in technology that has made significant
impact in medicine, engineering and agriculture with huge advantages over performing tasks
manually.
On 19 October, 14 students from Years 8, 9 and 10 participated in the Agri- Robotics day organised by the Universi-
ty of Sydney. This event was significant for the students as they used computer programming and coding for the first
time to instruct the robot to perform simple tasks.
The robot could be programmed to perform functions, such as moving forwards, backwards or at angle using
distance and directional sensors. They could be used to identify plants from the ground level and programmed to
spray chemicals on plants using a spray tank loaded onto the robot. The students were presented with the challenge
of writing programs that could perform such a function.
The University of Sydney program was being made into a documentary by ABC Catalyst to look at the impact of
technology in Agricultural practices in the near future. The filming crew had been interviewing farmers around the
Central Western regions followed by Warren Central School’s interest in developing technologies that could help the
farmers in the near future. The ABC catalyst documentary will be aired later around February showing the impact of
incorporating programs in schools to develop technologies in the future.
It was all exciting as students were learning something new and being part of a documentary as well. The University
of Syd- ney
staff were
really im-
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Year 12 Formal, Assembly and Last Day
Karl George, Matt Marks, Daniel Stanley, Katie Brown,
Claudia Clark, Georgia Robinson, Jessie Hanley,
Bailey Freese, Peter Edwards and Tristan Gale.
A night of fun and glamour was in order for Warren Central
School Year 12 students on Monday 18 September 2017.
Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Hinton and his band of
helpers. Thank you to Mrs Robertson for the amazing
cake.
The Year 12 final assembly was held on Wednesday 20
September 2017. Well done Mr Perry, Mr O’Connor and
students representing their year groups. Morning tea was
Year 12 Hospitality were asked what they wanted to cook
for their last practical lesson and they chose Swagman’s
Roll. This is the first recipe students make in Year 7.
Best wishes Year 12.
Year 12
final
assembly to
celebrate
the
graduating
class of
2017.
Peter Edwards, Tristan Gale, Bailey Freese, Daniel
Stanley, Karl George, Matt Marks, Jessie Hanley,
Katie Brown, Georgia Robinson and Claudia Clark.
Mr Perry and
Year 12.
Claudia
Clark’s
final
speech
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Love Bites
LOVE BITES is an extremely successful school-based Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault prevention program which particularly focuses on reducing the violence against women.
Over 100,000 high school students throughout Australia have participated in this interactive and innovative program aimed at 14 -16yr olds. Students from Years 9 and 10 participated in the program at Warren Central School on Tuesday 9 October 2017.
The LOVE BITES program consists of two interactive education workshops on Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault followed by creative workshops that consolidate the information from the morning. The program was facilitated by Senior Constables Craig Skein and Mardie Paice, the Police Youth Liaison Officers for our school, Jess Locke and Fleur Stubbs from Barnados, who also generously supplied a BBQ lunch for the students.
A huge thank you is extended to the facilitators for their presentation and congratulations to the students who actively participated and demonstrated our core values of respectful, responsible learners.
Mrs Taylor
English
At the end of last term, 9/10 Commerce completed a
‘Starting a Business’ assessment task. Students were
required to plan and implement small business ideas
and sell a product or service to the local community.
Thank you to everyone who supported these ventures
from students in Commerce. Many ideas were
impressive and executed successfully. Well done to the
Commerce class for your creativity and implementation
of your ideas!
Good luck to Year 12 completing their HSC exams!
English and PDHPE have already been completed.
Classes in the English faculty are currently working hard
to complete coursework with Yearly Examinations just
around the corner.
Japanese
7/8 Japanese with Lovelock Sensei
Students have been enjoying learning about Japanese
cuisine. In these pics students are revising key
vocabulary and structures in preparation for their
as-
sessment in Week 5. Ganbatte kudasai (Please do your
best)!
Hospitality
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Congratulations to our Star Students. Week 10: Primary Krysta Casey and Secondary Sophie Hopkin.
Week 1: Primary Charlotte Hopkin and Secondary Tyler Pratt.
Week 2: Primary Matilda Hansen and Secondary Stephen Owens.
Students
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Students reaching rainbow level for Term 3 were treated to excursions. On Tuesday 19 September, Primary
students went to Taronga Western Plains Zoo and on Thursday 21 September Secondary students went to Lake
Burrendong Sport and Recreation. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed these days. Many thanks to teachers Mrs
McCormack and Mrs Taylor for organising fantastic days for both Primary and Secondary.
