The Biggest Morning Tea
We will again be holding “The Biggest Morning Tea” for the Cancer Council on Thursday 28th May at 10.45am – 11.30am in the staffroom. There will be a lucky door prize and a raffle. Please come and support this worthy cause.
Athletics Carnival
The P & C will be holding a sausage sizzle on this day in place of the normal canteen.
Peer Support Training Day
Wednesday 20th May at Corrimal Surf Club. Peer support begins on Thursday 21st may. Please see attached form.
Year 6 Farewell Committee
We will be forming a farewell committee and welcome any Year 5 or Year 6 parents to assist in the organisation of this very special event. To become a member of the committee please come to our first meeting on Monday 1st June at 3.10pm in Mrs Gonzaga’s classroom. Hope to see you there.
Year 6 DVD
As part of our farewell to our Year 6 students, we are going to prepare a DVD of the student’s special memories from Primary School. A copy of the DVD will be presented to each student at the farewell. This is a very BIG job and I need your help. Can you please send in photos of school events, parties with friends, sporting carnivals, dance festivals, Easter hat parades book week parades etc. This is only for Year 6 students.
Mrs Gonzaga
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Congratulations to Shannon N (6P) and Ebony P (3/4C) for completing this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. Great Reading!
Book Fair
As part of Corrimal East Public School’s Open Day, our annual Book Fair will be held in the Library on Wednesday 27th May (next week).
With books priced from just $1.00, there will be hundreds of books to choose from. Students will have a chance to look at all the books on the day before the fair, and create their own ‘wish list’. Parents are then invited to visit the Library with their children between 8.30am and 11.00am on Wednesday to view the wide selection of books available.
The books may be bought and taken home on the day or a book may be bought and donated to our school if you wish.
Thank you,
Mrs Kim Bland
A special welcome to Gumnut Village Preschool and Pioneer Road Long Day Care who will be visiting our school this week. This is part of our extended orientation to school program. Other Preschools will be contacted shortly.
This will provide families the opportunity to visit their child/ren’s rooms and observe them in a formal class situation. The P & C would like to invite family and friends to enjoy morning tea with the children after the classroom visits. A note will be sent home today so families can pre-order cakes for the morning tea
This year’s Education Week takes place in Week 5. On Tuesday 26th May our students will work during the day with a special group of talented musicians incorporating a “60’s Happening” Theme.
Our students will learn songs, dances and create various improvised musical instruments during the day. That evening a special concert will take place commencing at 6pm and finishing at approximately 7.30pm. This is a great opportunity for parents to interact with their children all under the 60’s Happening Theme. Students and parents are encouraged to dress in a 60’s theme clothes for the night concert.
Please note there is no cost for the night concert. Our P & C will be running a BBQ on the night between 5 and 6.00pm. To help with catering, a note is being sent home today for families to pre-order hot dogs, and drinks from the school canteen for the night.
On Friday 5th June our school will be participating in Healthy Harold Day.
Students will be able to wear Mufti on this day for a gold coin donation.
All proceeds will go to the Life Education Centre which ensures that this important program is able to operate in the Illawarra region
Thank you to Sharon, Jodie and their hard working team for their terrific effort in providing our 2009 Mothers Day Stall. Our students were provided with a wide array of gifts and the decorated bags again proved very popular. Thank you again.
1st placing: Shannon M [8/9 year girls], Jonathan C [12/13 year boys].
2nd placing Mikayla H [11 year girls].
3rd placing, Lachlan A [8/9 year boys], Daniel SG [12/13 year boys].
5th placing, Claytyn G [10 year girls], Matthew T [12/13 year boys], Carole B [12/13 year girls].
All these children will go to the area cross country at Nowra on 12th June. C.E.P.S won the overall trophy for the 6th year in a row. Congratulations to all the children who participated on Friday and did their best earning points for our school. They were all well behaved and a credit to Corrimal East.
Mrs Flanagan
Last week our Year 3 and Year 5 participated in the second National testing. This test took the place of the Basic Skills Test which was previously confined to just NSW. Our results were compared to schools right across NSW, the National Test, as the name suggests will allow results to be compared to other schools right across Australia.
As there are variances in curriculum content in other states it will be interesting to see how the NSW system, and in particular, our students compare to students the same age in other states.
Thank you to our Year 3 and Year 5 teachers for effectively administering this test and also to Mrs Gonzaga, Mr Chapman and Mrs Murphy for their overall outstanding organization.
David Schofield
This system has been running since last term with great success. As with everything new we had a couple of glitches but once I knew of these, they were fixed immediately. There is no cost to register or use this system so register and have a look around. Just remember the actual ‘ORDER’ option does not appear until there are funds in your account.
Go to https:www.scamps.com.au/online_canteen_registration01.asp
Our school reg ID is 2554963. You can also send me an email at : jodieaj*at*hotmail.com and I will forward the link and talk you through the process if need be. Funds may be added to your account via direct deposit into Westpac (Corrimal EastPublic School Canteen Account) details on site or through school via canteen (over counter, through slot), or through classroom. Please remember if you are having any sort of problem contact me via email so I can fix the problem.
Jodie Jenkinson
Clothing Pool is located at the eastern end of Block B. It is open from 8.30am – 9.00am on Monday and Thursday mornings. New and used uniforms are available for purchase.
Please come and socialise while you support fund raising for Cancer Research.
Where: Corrimal East Public School
Time: 10.45am – 11.30am
Also: Lucky Door Prize and Raffle Draw for some great prizes!
Congratulations to Cleopatra M of 3/4C for reading 20 books this year to complete the 2009 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Well done, Cleo!
Kim Bland
If your child is absent, you need to write a note within seven days:
It must explain why your child missed school
Include how many days your child was away
Include your child's name and roll class
If your child is going to be away for more than three days please call the school to let the teacher know. You will still need to write a note when your child returns to school.
Include other information, perhaps they have an injury and cannot play sport.
Your child can return it to the school office or roll call teacher.
Extra absentee booklets are available at the office if you require one.
More information at: www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/gotoschool/ttsy7.pdf
It is great to see so many parents around the school volunteering their help. Parent involvement at our school is one area I regard very highly and helps give our school an authentic school learning community feel.
As part of our Occupational Health & Safety policy we have asked all visitors to wear the easily identified lanyards, which are located in the office foyer. The reason for doing this is to ensure, in an emergency, that all people on school grounds are safe.
The enormously popular Life Education van will be conducting lessons for our students Wednesday and Thursday this week and on Monday and Tuesday in the following week.
Our P & C have generously subsidized this program for every student in the school. Please take advantage of this opportunity provided by both the school and the P & C and bring your note and money in as soon as possible.
This program is part of our Student welfare and incorporates specific elements of Drug Education. It is therefore strongly recommended that each child participate in the program.
If you have any concerns please do not hesitate in contacting me.
David Schofield
Next week we have invited groups of interested parents and children from the Pioneer Rd Long Day Care and Gumnut Village to visit our school as part of our initial links to the community orientation visits.
Gumnut Village Preschool will be visiting our school on Tuesday while Pioneer Road Long Day Care will visit our school on Wednesday.
That brings me to the point that we are now officially taking enrolments for Kindergarten – aged students for the 2010 school year.
If you know of school aged students ready to start school next year please encourage them to contact our school and pick up an enrolment form.
This week our Year 3 and Year 5 students will be participating in the National Skills Testing. In past years our students have participated in the Basic Skills Test which was an assessment process uniform to all schools within NSW.
The National Testing process will incorporate students from right across Australia and will occur on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in Week 3.
David Schofield
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