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CLERGATE PUBLIC SCHOOL

Term 1 Week 9 Monday 22 March 2021

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORTOver the past few weeks, our senior students have been excelling as leaders of their Leadership Groups organising activities, in the classroom engaging in learning and on the sporting field. Last week student leaders held their first meetings with their teams. Students presented ideas for each of the groups including Peer, Community, Eco and Sport. Our leaders are excited to have actions to follow up after hearing ideas from the student body. Some of the initiatives include: fun Friday, tug of war at lunch, planting seeds in the vegie patch and later this week making friendship bracelets with interested students at lunch.Rory and Beau will be travelling to Sydney during the last week of this term to compete at the NSW PSSA Swimming Championships with their relay team. The other two members are from Cumnock. Congratulations boys and best wishes to you both. We will be watching via livestream as a school cheering you on!Rory was again named as a member of the Orange District Soccer Team to compete at the Western trials, however the fields were flooded and this will take place at a later date.Last week Beau and Oliver P trialled for the Orange District Rugby Union team and were successful! They will compete at the divisional day competing against other districts and will trial for the Western team next term.On Friday Oliver F, Beau, Jack P and Oscar were selected in the Orange District Rugby League Opens and 11 Years teams to play in Parkes on 29 March.I would like to congratulate all of our senior students for being role models and demonstrating responsibility by showing initiative to make Clergate a wonderful school. Thank you, leaders.

HatchesCongratulations to the Cooper and the rest of the Stanford family on the arrival of their new beautiful baby boy Leo - he’s a cutie!On another note we became parents at Clergate over the weekend when Chocolate, one of our hens, hatched 3 little chicks. She’s doing a wonderful job as a first time mum and we look forward to seeing them soon (she’s a bit protective at the moment).

114 Gazzard Lane, Clergate PH 02 6365 8256 EMAIL [email protected] WEBSITE clergate-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

What’s On?

Tuesday 23/03/2021P&C Hot Cross Bun orders due

Thursday 25/03/2021Online NAPLAN trial

Thursday 25/03/2021Whole school swimming - collect students from pool

Friday 26/03/2021CoS cross country at Cumnock - all students attend

Monday 29/03/2021Easter raffle tickets sold and unsold due back at school

Tuesday 30/03/2021Easter Hat Parade & Easter raffle

Wednesday 31/03/2021Hockey Gala Day at Molong Years 3-6 attending

Thursday 01/04/2021Last day of school for Term 1 - enjoy your holidays ☺

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RESPECTFUL RESPONSIBLE ACHIEVERS

2021 Tell Them From Me Survey - Years 4-6 This term, we are pleased to share that our school is taking part in the Tell Them From Me student survey once again. The survey will provide us with valuable feedback on what our students think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help them improve. The survey is completed online and is run by an independent research company, The Learning Bar which specialises in school-based surveys.

Staff in schools will not be able to identify individual students from their responses. To ensure confidentiality, participating students will receive a unique username and password. Where fewer than five students respond to a question, the results will be suppressed. The survey typically takes 30 minutes or less to complete and will be administered by the school during normal school hours. Once the surveys are completed by students, reports are prepared and in most cases are available to schools within three business days.

As well as schools getting student feedback, the Department of Education, through the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation (CESE), has access to data from across NSW and is running a research project to look at state-wide patterns of student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices. The research is looking at how these things impact on student outcomes, including academic performance. Individual students will not be identified in any CESE publications, and all information will be handled in accordance with the relevant privacy legislation. Students’ personal information will not be disclosed by the department to any other person or body other than as required by law.

This research will help schools in New South Wales to better understand how to improve student wellbeing and engagement. It will also help teachers and principals discuss what works to improve student outcomes. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary and open to students from Year 4-6. Your child will not take part if either you or your child do not wish. If, during the survey, your child is uncomfortable, he/she can choose to stop the survey at any time. The majority of questions in the survey can be skipped.

If you do not want your child to take part in the survey, please let Mrs Philpott know and a non-consent form can be provided.

More information about the survey and the research is available in English at education.nsw.gov.au/student-wellbeing/tell-them-from-me.html

Clergate is a BeYou School

http://education.nsw.gov.au/student-wellbeing/tell-them-from-me.html

http://education.nsw.gov.au/student-wellbeing/tell-them-from-me.html

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DON’T FORGET!Bring in your Easter raffle donations by this Thursday 25 March 2021. Remember the more donations we receive the more prizes we’ll have to offer!

Please return all sold and unsold raffle tickets no later than Monday 29 March 2021.



Merit AwardsK/1

Sam - his focus when completing history work

Aria - persisting with forming the letter ‘Y’

Marlee - working hard to use finger spaces between words

1/2Letty - consistent effort and persistence learning her sight words and sounds then applying her knowledge to advance her skills in reading and writing

Eddy- great critical thinking during problem solving about fractions in maths

Joe - his development in writing independently and for becoming a fluent reader

3/4Teneeya - showing persistence when learning about equivalent fractions

Gracie H - enthusiastic and engaged participation in spelling mastery groups

Ava - using adjectives and other descriptive language in her writing

4/5/6Keegan - using great strategies when reading

Oliver F - valuable contributions to his group project on ‘Grasslands’

Lachlan - engaged discussion in our novel study

Our student of the week for Week 9 is Brooklyn. She received her award for

• being a strong leader within her class

• using initiative to make sure others know where things are and understand what to do

• demonstrating our learning value of persistence by improving letter formation in handwriting and producing excellent pieces of writing

• always being responsible and helpful

• being a wonderful friend to your peers

Well done Brooklyn!

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Athletics CarnivalThe OSSA Gold Athletics Carnival will now be held on Wednesday 21 April at the Cumnock Recreation Grounds. We will organise a bus for the students to travel to Cumnock and return to Clergate in the afternoon. The bus will leave Clergate at 7.30am and return approximately 4.00pm. Permission notes will be sent home this week. Cross CountryOnce again, all students from Kinder to Year 6 will travel to Cumnock on 26 March for our CoS Cross Country day. We will be travelling to Cumnock by bus and returning in time for children to catch the afternoon bus. Permission notes are due back tomorrow. Please note that no teaching staff will remain at school on this day.

Hockey Gala DayAll students in Years 3-6 will be travelling to Molong by bus for a hockey gala day on March 31 for a fun day of hockey. No previous hockey playing experience is needed. Permission notes are due backthis Wednesday 24 March.

Easter Hat Parade and RaffleThe Easter hat parade will be held on Tuesday 30 March 2020 and will commence at 11.00am, this will be followed by the raffle draw. This year as in previous years students will be making their Easter hats at school. Don’t forget to send in your donations of Easter Eggs, chocolates, fluffy bunnies etc. to make up prizes for our Easter raffle that will be drawn after the parade. Raffle ticket books sold and unsold are due back at school Monday 29 March.

P&C NewsHot Cross Bun orders are due back at school tomorrow, please support our first fundraiser for the year. Unfortunately late orders cannot be accepted. Easter buns will now be ready for collection on Tuesday 30 March.We’ll soon be sending home information about our Jolly Sole sock fundraiser for Term 2, please keep an eye out for it.

The Resilience Project LaunchThe Resilience Project has officially launched across schools throughout the Orange network. Next term students will be involved in the launch as well. The K-2 students will attend a webinar and introduced to the key program strategies through a digital launch from school on 29 April. Years 3-6 will be attending a launch at the Orange Function Centre on 27 April, and teachers will attend professional learning on 26 April. Parents are also invited to the free launch at the Orange Function Centre on Thursday 29 April on a first in first serve ticket basis and register using the following link:

www.ticketebo.com.au/theresilienceprojectorange

http://www.ticketebo.com.au/theresilienceprojectorange

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