2019 CALENDAR—TERM 2 WEEK 2 FRI 10 MAY District Cross Country in Molong

FRI 10 MAY School Lunch Day

TUE 14 MAY NAPLAN Writing Test for Yrs 3/5

WED 15 MAY NAPLAN Reading/Language Test for Yrs 3/5

THU 16 MAY NAPLAN Numeracy Test for Yrs 3/5

WEEK 4 MON 20 MAY BOOK CLUB ORDERS DUE

TUE 21 MAY CWA Public Speaking in Orange

FRI 24 MAY District Athletics Orange

WEEK 5 THU 30 MAY Yr 5/6 Ability Links Incursion

WEEK 6 THU 6 JUN Yr 5/6 Ability Links Incursion

FRI 7 JUN School Lunch Day

WEEK 7 WED 12 JUN Western Region Cross Country

WEEK 8 TUE 18 JUN SCHOOL PHOTO DAY

FRI 21 JUN Semester 1 STUDENT REPORTS sent home

WEEK 9 MON-FRI PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS

WEEK 3 MON 13 MAY Dance program resumes

FRI 17 MAY Walk Safely to School Day

FRI 17 MAY ASSEMBLY

FRI 31 MAY ASSEMBLY

Cordens Store will be hosting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea on Tuesday 21st of May at 10am. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend in support of the CANCER COUNCIL

ASSEMBLY FRIDAY 17th MAY @ 2:30PM Cross Country Champion Trophies will be

presented and Speeches from School CWA public speaking

representa ves.

C S R R L D R It was that me of the year again, when our fantas c school community band together to host the OSSA Cross Country Carnival. On Monday 6th May, over 600 people convened at the Cudal showgrounds for this carnival. Five hundred (500) of these were compe ng students from Cudal, Cargo, Borenore, Manildra, Euchareena, Spring Terrace, Nashdale and Canobolas schools. All children thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine and socialising of the day with their mates from other schools. Cudal students did excep onally well, taking out 6 of the 10 age championships, along with many more ge ng final placings. Thank you to parents who helped out on the day in the canteen and on checkpoints. A special thank you to Terry Dover for his voluntary services in slashing the track. We have hosted this event for many years and it is s ll only made possible by the support from parents and community body.

Students who finished in the first (4) placings will now compete at the District Cross Country in Molong this Friday 10th May. Best of Luck to our team:‐ Sam Thomas, Archie Roberts, Texas Lake, Tom Frankham, Sylas Henderson, Billy Bowden, James Lawry, Adelaide Pi s, Skye Mitchell Alloway Whi le, Clare Wood, Bec Kearney, Sienna Adams, Zoe Wood, Jocelyn Roberts .

The School Cross Country Champions for the day were:

5/6/7 yrs ‐ Georga Pi s, Ben Kearney

8/9 yrs ‐ Adelaide Pi s, Sam Thomas

10 yrs ‐ Alloway Whi le, Archie Roberts

11 yrs ‐ Rebeckah Kearney, Tom Frankham

12/13 yrs ‐ Zoe Wood, James Lawry

Wednesday 8th May 2019

Toogong Street, Cudal NSW 2864 6364 2101 6364 2246 Email: cudal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: www.cudal-p.schools@det.nsw.edu.au

OSSA WHITE CROSS COUNTRY

CHAMPIONS L‐R Rebeckah Kearney, Alloway Whi le Adelaide Pi s, Ben Kearny, Tom Frankham, Zoe Wood

O A C Cudal hosted yet another successful OSSA athle cs carnival at the end of term 1. Student par cipa on was outstanding on the day and some amazing results were achieved. Students showed off there athle c ability and earnt the Overall Percentage School Trophy. They are all to be congratulated for their sportsmanship on the day. A big thank you to all parent helpers both on the track and in the canteen. It is a team effort and the parent support is greatly appreciated as always.

Students who place in the first (3) placings at this carnival, will go onto represent OSSA White at the PSSA District carnival on Friday 24th May.

Details and informa on for the PSSA District Carnival has been sent home with qualifying students today.

A D S Cudal students par cipated in a School ANZAC Service on their first day back of term. Our school leaders James and Zoe conducted readings at the morning assembly before all children walked to the Memorial Gates at the park to lay a wreath and listen to the “Ode” and “Flanders Fields” recited by James and Zoe.

OSSA WHITE ATHLETICS AGE

CHAMPIONS L‐R Georga Pi s, Ben Kearny, Adelaide Pi s, Rebeckah Kearney, Tom Frankham, Joshua Tyson (Cargo), Zoe Wood

SCHOOL ATHLETICS CHAMPIONS Sub Junior‐ Ben Kearny, Georga Pi s

Junior ‐ Adelaide Pi s, Texas Lake / Archie Roberts

Sub Senior‐ Rebeckah Kearney, Tom Frankham

Seniors‐ James Lawry, Zoe Wood

ks3 & 4

T B V C

Students all set for the Simultaneous Crunch

E C

Students enjoying the Easter Carousel ac vi es

ks3 & 4

O H Congratula ons to the OSSA White Hockey Team who managed to defeat Perthville PS 5‐1 in yesterday’s first round match. This is an outstanding effort by our team, who have not played together before today. In addi on, they only had 10 players to take the field, with the other team having 3 reserves. Thankyou to Mrs Adams for organising and coaching the students. Her con nued commitment to the girls hockey is appreciated. The girls now move to the second round of the compe on, playing against Calare Public School date and venue TBA.

P S T ‐ On Wednesday and Thursday of Week 1, the Year 6 students spent 2 days at the Cudal showgrounds par cipa ng in peer support training conducted by Mrs Campbell. This training was to prepare them for their roles as Peer Support Leaders. The students took part in many fun ac vi es to assist in developing skills that they will use running their groups. Students learnt about communica on and all the different ways we can deliver informa on. They learnt about empathy, decision making, being asser ve, problem solving and team work. Some words from the students to describe the 2 days training were: fun, interac ve, important, worthwhile, new, exci ng, awesome and informa ve. All year 6 students should be extremely proud of their efforts throughout the training and we have no doubt that they will be outstanding leaders during our Peer Support Program.

Week 3 – Lesson 1 Being Friendly

We are commencing our Peer Support lessons in week 3. The whole school par cipates in Peer Support for 30 minutes each weeks. Two Peer leaders facilitate a small group of 8‐10 younger students, who work together through a number of structured ac vi es. Each teacher will supervise 2 groups in their classroom. We are working on a module called Keeping Friends helping us explore the concept of friendship, build rela onships and develop skills in empathy and cri cal thinking. The module runs for 8 sessions. Our first session enables the children to get to know everyone in their group, agreeing on how they will work together and interact coopera vely with others. They will also begin to think about the meaning of friendship. We encourage you to talk to your children about Peer Support every week as it will help to reinforce the concepts learned in each session.

L ‐ R ‐ Clare Wood, Adelaide Pi s, Laylah Doherty (Cargo) Rebeckah Kearney< Alloway Whi le, Zoe Wood, Madeline Squire, Blythe Alchin, Sienna Adams, Mrs Adams Front ‐ Jocelyn Roberts

Year 6 students all smiles during this task which involved the students working together in groups to create a pirate costume with newspaper.

K L U ‐ K/1/2 students enjoyed their first lesson in the newly carpeted and rearranged library. The staff room is also very fresh a er being fi ed with lino throughout during the holidays.

D V D R ‐ During the last week of term 1 , eight students from Cudal a ended the da Vinci Decathlon, an academic challenge hosted by Scots All Saints in Bathurst. The decathlon required students to work in pairs to solve some extremely challenging problems covering ten different subjects, ranging from Mathema cs and Engineering, to code breaking, Science and Poetry. Our students displayed impeccable behaviour (as always) and the whole school can be super proud of their efforts and achievements. Compe ng against schools considerably larger than our own (some have one hundred students in Year Six alone!), we achieved some amazing results. We were awarded a third in a very challenging General Knowledge. Anyone able to recognise Fidel Castro or Che Guevera? Or name the countries they came from? (Cuba and Argen na) Or name federal poli cian’s por olios and discuss the state of NSW budget? In Science we achieved a very impressive second place. What makes this result so remarkable is the fact that much of the content involved subjects not encountered un l high school. Subjects included Year Nine Physics and Year Ten Chemistry. Some of the material would even be familiar to Year Eleven students!!

An enormous thank you must go to the parents and grandparents of the students involved in ge ng everyone there. Thank you to the students who a ended as well‐ you were simply amazing. L E V ‐ The students will all agree Life Educa ons annual visit was once again a success. Thank you to the P&C for funding this very valued program for our students.

N Students in years 3 and 5 will par cipate in their NAPLAN tes ng during week 3 of this term on the 14th, 15th and 16th of May. This tes ng will be conducted online this year. Mrs Adams has been se ng up computers and working with students giving them trial runs in prepara on for these tes ng days.

O A Informa on was sent home in term 1, giving students the opportunity to a end external Opera on Art Workshops. A endance to the workshops was to be organised privately by parents. Rebeckah Kearney, Blythe Alchin, Gabby Alchin, Ebony Lawry, Wil Gillespie and Chloe Irvine have all taken up this opportunity, a ending workshops today and tomorrow in Orange. Thankyou to parents for organising their child’s a endance, transport and suppor ng this wonderful program.

CWA P S

Congratula ons to Sienna Adams, Alloway Whi le, Nathaniel Hargrave and Sam Thomas who have been selected to represent our school at the CWA Public Speaking compe on on Tuesday the 21st of May at James Sheahan Catholic School.

3 & 4

MERIT BADGES CLASS MERIT AWARDS

Kindergarten/Yr 1: Emily Wood, Jaxon Townsend, Florence Hough, Jack Irvine,

Year 2: Skye Mitchell, Ivy Lewis x2, Rupert Hough, Olivia Gordon, George Whi le, Lillee Sansom x2, Chase Dean, Gabby, Jock Spra ,

Year 3/4: Gabby Alchin, Hunter Finney, Chloe Irvine x2, Emyleigh Sansom, Nathaniel Hargrave, Archie Roberts x2, Adelaide Pi s, Samuel Stevenson, Will Gillespie,

Year 5/6: Sienna Adams x2, Jocelyn Robertsx2, Madeline Squire x2, Billy Bowden, Luke De Hamer, Clare Wood, Jonah Poihakena –Jackson, Blythe Alchin, Sylas Henderson, Tilly Wenban, Gus Lewis,

Term 1 Week 11

Assembly AWARDS

Kindergarten/ Yr 1 Sophia Upton, William Frankham, Tully Chase, Clara Whi le Year 2: Jock Spra , Piper Chase. Year 3/4: Angus Griffith, Year 5/6: Willow Mar , Sienna Adams, Ethan Kerby, Gus Lewis, Jonah Poihakena– Jackson, Sylas Henderson, Tom Frankham, Joshua Hargrave, Madeline Squire, Lisa Walker

Kindergarten/ Yr 1 Emily Wood, Halle Whiteman, Noah Shaw, Merryn Roberts, Jack Irvine, Florence Hough, Sam Curran, Patrick Gordon, Harriet Mitchell, Sane Frecklington, Year 2: George Whi le, Lillee Sansom, Skye Mitchell, Ben Kearney, Rupert Hough, Olivia Gordon, Chase Dean, Sasha Adams,

Year 3/4: Riley Townsend, Emyleigh Sansom, Archie Roberts, Adelaide Pi s, Charli‐Rose Jones, Nathaniel Hargrave, Sam Thomas, Jesse Shaw, Ebony Lawry, Hunter Finney, Chloe Irvine, Charlie Curran, Gabby Alchin

Year 5/6: Jocelyn Roberts, Bec Kearney, Jordan Griffith, Blythe Alchin, James Lawry, Hamish Mitchell, Lachlan Gordon Maddison Shaw, Alloway Whi le, Zoe Wood, Clare Wood

STUDENT RECOGNITION 25 NIGHTS OF READING

STUDENT RECOGNITION 50 NIGHTS OF READING