SCHOOL ORACY COMPETITION
This Thursday, 3rd September our Oracy finals will be held in the school hall. This is an important day for each of the finalists as they receive the opportunity to present their speeches in front of a larger audience.
We run Oracy at Corrimal East Public School so as to:
· Promote public speaking skills across the school K – 6.
· Allow all students the opportunity to appreciate the presentations of others and recognize the strengths of their peers.
· Develop effective listening skills and the knowledge that listening to others is a valuable learning experience.
· Encourage students who display special abilities in this area to perform to their personal best and promote this as an activity for the enhancement of Gifted and Talented programs.
· Encourage confidence in students and the ability to speak in front of an audience.
Grade Finals will take place on Thursday 3rd September. Finalists will have been notified by separate letter.
Times are as follows:
K – 2 : 10.00 – 11.00
3 – 6 : 11.30 – 1.00
The duration of speeches for each grade are as follows:
Kindergarten - 1 minute long
Years 1 and 2 - 2 minutes long
Years 3 and 4 - 3 minutes long
Years 5 and 6 - 4 minutes long.
Good Luck to all finalists!
NATIONAL LITERACY and NUMERACY WEEK
This week is also National Literacy and Numeracy Week and we will be coordinating several activities with a focus on Reading and Writing. Today we had a cartoonist work with our students and on Wednesday we have invited various community members to share stories with our students. Mrs Bland has reported on these events later in this week’s Carooma.
Thank you again, Mrs Bland, for your terrific organization.
SCHOOL ZONE ROAD SAFETY
A reminder to parents that from 1 July 2009 the government has increased fines and loss of demerit points for all driving offences occurring in school zones. We are committed to providing a safe environment for all our students and visitors, so please observe the 40km/h speed limit during school hours and stop in designated drop off areas only.
STARTING SCHOOL
If you have a child starting school next year it’s important to enrol your child and to attend Kindergarten orientation later in the year. Watch a vodcast on starting school and Kindergarten orientation at www.schools.nsw.edu.au/news/ezine/yr2009/issue03/watch/index.php . You might know of other families that would like this information.
NEW MONEY PAYMENT SYSTEM
Our new money collection system seems to be working really well and I have received very positive feedback from staff, students and parents. Mr Auchterlonie made this unit, and as with all of his work, has produced an outstanding result. We are very lucky to have Mr Auchterlonie at our school. Thank you Mr Auchterlonie for your continued hard work!
SCHOOL FETE
Thank you to the many parents, staff and students who supported our Family Fete Day. A huge show of support by our school community was in full evidence and it was a great opportunity to talk with so many of our community members.
A bit windy but what a relief no rain! All in all a perfect day for a fete.
A special thank you to Sharon McFarlane and her committee who worked tirelessly to ensure the Fete was a success.
In anyone’s terms this was a great success and again this can only be attributed to the fantastic work of our whole school community.
Again, thank you very much for your support!
Library News
Cartoon Dave’s Visit: today, many of our students have enjoyed a fun session with Dave Hackett (Cartoon Dave)learning to draw cartoons, and hearing about his life as an author of 8 books. Thanks, Dave for coming to our school.
Everyone reads! – reading sessions with invited guests; On Wednesday this week, we will be hosting 12 members of our school community as they each talk to a number of classes about their reading experiences. These sho7uld also be fun and informative sessions, and we thank each of them for donating their time to our school and helping us to promote reading as an enjoyable and worthwhile activity. Thank you to Ron Heffernan, Bruce Dowling, Patrick Flanagan, Carol Bond, Sharon McFarlane, Jenny Hayward, Chris Cranny, Paul Dorin, Scott Penning, Leanne Smith and Mr Schofield.
Premier’s ReadingChallenge; Congratulations to Ellen Z for completing the 2009 PRC. All entries have now been processes and sent to Sydney for official certificates to be printed.
Kim Bland – Teacher/Librarian
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