May 19 2011 TERM 2 WEEK 4

SCHOOL CALENDARMAY/JUNEWk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat/Sun

523Riverina Girls TouchOccupational TherapistSpeech TherapistActive Afters

24Stage 1 Assembly

25Scripture

26Primary AssemblyActive Afters

27CPS X CountryBorambola –payment due today

28/29

630Occupational TherapistSpeech TherapistActive Afters

31Stage 1 Assembly

1 JuneScripture

2Combined AssemblyActive Afters

3CDPSSA X Country

4/5

PRINCIPAL'S REPORT Mr Godman is currently on leave this week and Mrs Large and Miss O’Callaghan have been sharing the Relieving Principal’s position.

Mr. Len McNally

The school wishes to acknowledge the recent passing of Mr. Len McNally. Apart from being the grandfather of past and present students, Mr. McNally was known to our Yr1 and 2 classes in his role of sharing his Aboriginal heritage in their COGS unit. With their attention grabbed by his long white hair and beard, walking stick and different coloured shoes, Mr. McNally shared many fascinating stories of the dreamtime as well as his own childhood spent in the Blue Mountains. His generosity extended to showing the children artifacts that he had collected or made himself and allowing students to touch them and ask him questions. His visits to our school will be missed and we wish to extend our condolences to Mrs. McNally and the extended family.

District Athletics Carnival

Lots of our students will be participating in the District Athletics Carnival at Temora tomorrow. We wish them all the best and we are sure they will try their hardest and make our school proud.

The students will be accompanied by Miss Granger and Mr Hinde.

Student Executive

Ms O’Callaghan and our four Student Executive travelled to Canberra for the Impact Leadership day on Tuesday. The students proudly

represented our school in a very positive manner and look forward to putting their newly learned skills into practice. Students have written a recount of their wonderful experience which you will find in this newsletter.

New Students

A big welcome to our new students who started at Cootamundra Public School yesterday, Marcus Salmon (Kindergarten) and Isaac Hunt (Year 2).

Sharron Large/Letitia O’Callaghan

CANTEEN ROSTER – April/MayFriday 20th J Bateup, D HuntingtonMonday 23rd K Johnson, W BakerTuesday 24th CLOSEDWednesday 25th S Seckold, B Kennedy,

B SlavinThursday 26th R Butt, J Blackney,

M O’MaraFriday 27th J Rathmell, W McTaggart,

D FriendIf you are unable to do your roster duty, please ring Belinda on 69423638 or 0427 423628.CONGRATULATIONS TO ALLUNGA

House Captains Giaan Green and Tyronne Owen proudly accepting the trophy won by Allunga House at this year’s 2011 Athletics Carnival .

Congratulations to our age champions for this year:

BOYS GIRLS12 years Tyronne Owen Rickilee Munro11 years Joshua Hill Brigette HolderJnr Max Cameron Alyssa Armstrong

From back left: Joshua Hill, Rickilee Munro, Tyronne Owen, Alyssa Armstrong, Brigette Holder and Max Cameron.

AWARDSCongratulations to the following students who will receive Honour Awards at the next Combined Assembly on the 2nd June:

Jack Douglas and Abbey Bailey

CANTEEN NEWSIs it your birthday? Don’t forget to tell us it is your birthday on the day you order, so you can receive your special birthday lunch voucher.

Each Monday the canteen will be having $1.00 hot food specials to warm you up at recess. This Monday’s specials are:

Hot Chocolate and Patty Cakes$1.00

Fried rice $1.00Mince and Noodles $1.00Creamy Chicken Pasta

$1.00Potato Topped Party Pie $1.00

CPS CROSS COUNTRY – 27th

MayStudents are required to wear school sports uniform and suitable footwear (joggers). A hat and drink bottle will be needed for the walk up and back and it is advisable that the children wear sunscreen. The children will be supervised by class teachers and any parents who would like to assist (acting as marshals around the course) are asked to meet us at Clarke Oval 2.00 pm on Friday 27th May. This activity is part of our school sport program and, as such, all children are expected to participate. While it is not expected that all children will run the whole course, it is expected that they will compete at the level at which they are capable.If your child suffers Asthma, please ensure they bring their puffer with them to these events.

ACTIVE AFTERSCome and enjoy some fun activities and free afternoon tea from 3.30 pm until 4.30 pm every Monday and Thursday at Cootamundra Public School.

LEADERS TAKE ACTIONOn Tuesday, 17th May, Will Bailey, Penny Loiterton, Ebony Davey and Maddy Noack went to the Australian Institute of Sport for the Impact leadership conference. We played a variety of games including Loud Noises. We met lots of new people from different places.

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First, we did activities that were aimed to help us meet new people. The activities were in a booklet. We then moved on to watching examples of leadership that were in movies.In our second session we learnt about taking action. We learnt that some people do nothing, some people complain and that leaders take action! We also learnt about different methods of leadership. These are:Fire Fighter: actively does a taskPolice Officer: gives lots of good instructionsAmbulance Officer: cares for othersThey also taught us some great public speaking tips!Overall, it was a great day and we learnt loads of great leadership skills!!!Thank you to Miss O’Callaghan for driving us to Canberra.By Penny, Will, Maddy and EbonyCPS Student Executive

MEDICATIONIf your child requires medication to be given at school, please come to the front office and fill out the necessary paperwork. Thank you.

IMPORTANT NOTICECould you please refrain from using nuts/nut products (peanut butter, rocky road, biscuits) in your child’s/children’s lunch boxes. We have children at our school that have an allergy to these. This can be a life threatening condition if they come into contact with them. Thank you for your care and consideration.

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