RECONCILIATION WEEK

I would like to thank the Student Council for organising an active and fun filled day last Monday for Reconciliation Week. The students organised the activities and we all participated in a walk around the school.

Due to Covid-19 the annual Reconciliation Walk the school normally attends

in Kyogle was not held. The Senior class has also created a timeline on the

front fence marking memorable dates in Australia’s path towards

Reconciliation. We encourage all parents to stop and walk the timeline and

review the dates. The students collaboratively calculated the years in metres,

with every metre representing 10 years.

THANK YOU TO THE P&C

I would like to thank the P&C for being a productive and collaborative group of people.

The new Principal will be very lucky to have an involved, productive, collaborative and supportive P&C.

You and your children are what makes Collins Creek School such a success.

VIRTUE FOR TERM 2 WEEK 7

PERSEVERANCE

I HAVE PERSEVERANCE. I KEEP A STEADY PACE IN WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO. I KEEP ON KEEPING ON. I FINISH WHAT I START.

I AM A LOYAL AND COMMITTED FRIEND.

COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL Tuesday 9th June 2020

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• Choose your commitments wisely

• Set goals and stick with them until completed

• Pace yourself, and take one step at a time

• Don’t let doubts or tests blow you off course

• Stand by your friends and loved ones

PIZZA PARTY

The students have sticker reward charts and when a student fills their chart they can either pick from

the mystery box or if 2 people fill their chart, they can combine and have a party.

The students last week did an amazing job of hand pulling bindi’s and therefore earned themselves a

pizza party, as they combined their stickers to allow certain students to fill their charts.

The senior students will be making and cooking these. A permission note at the end of this newsletter

seeks permission for your child to participate in the pizza party, which will most likely be Thursday.

TREE LOPPING

Hopefully the school will have the tree loppers here this week to get rid of the dead and termite

infested trees in the front garden. This will involve removing some of the habitat boxes. If any parent

would like to volunteer to rehome the habitat box, please contact the school.

All the mulch from the trees will be used in the upcoming Landcare food and fibre garden that will be

funded by the successful grant application written and submitted by Tamar Cohen. Thank you, Tamar,

for writing and submitting the successful ‘What’s in the box’ and Landcare grants.

WEEK 7 8th - 12th JUNE

MONDAY 8 Public Holiday

COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL

Due to this Terms Sporting

Schools program not taking

place, we were allocated funds

for equipment.

One of the purchases was for

new soccer goals which the

students and Camilla made use

of last Friday. It was great to see

the students being active

A huge thank you to Gurpreet for helping with the school vegie gardens. Their new home is in a much better position for growing some delicious food and the new food and fibre garden project can now be started.

PAPER BRIDGE CHALLENGE

Last week Bianca challenged us to make a newspaper bridge. We were in teams of 2 and only had one

newspaper, one roll of sticky tape and 30 minutes. It had to be 30cm or longer and was not allowed to

be stuck to the table in any way. I was with Ruby and we

probably had the most peculiar bridge of them all, it was

looped around the table but not stuck to it so it was allowed,

after many attempts we finally got it to hold 8kg we lost by

5kg but it was still an achievement.

By Vera

On Thursday we had to make a paper bridge challenge with

Bianca. We had only one roll of sticky tape, one whole

newspaper and scissors. The sticky tape could not be stuck to

the table in any way. We were put into groups of two. My

team was Isaac and I. The other teams were: Tayla and Elsie,

Ruby and Vera and the kindies. Bianca helped all of us which

made it fair.

In challenge one

we built one bridge that couldn’t even hold 1kg. After, the

same rules applied except we got a whole new newspaper.

Then, Issac and I made a bridge that had held 13kg. We

made it like this: we got every sheet of newspaper and

rolled it up then wrapped it in sticky tape. Next, we left one

sheet of paper and folded it in half and wrapped the middle

up. That sheet of newspaper and stuck it all together. What

an improvement!

This is how Tayla and Elsie made theirs: they got 6 sheets and rolled

them up then they had half of the newspaper left and wrapped it

around the 6 poles. Their bridge held 13kg.

Vera and Ruby made their bridge like this: they got newspaper that

they had 10 sheets of paper in between the middle of the desks then

they kept adding more and more to the sides of the paper in the

middle then they sticky taped all the extensions together. Then they

got their sticky tape and stuck the end of the extension, then bent it

down like hooks, it held 3kg. we all had so much fun making this.

By Jas

COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL

Bianca set us a paper bridge challenge where we had to make a bridge that could reach over two tables 30 centimetres apart and carry as much weight as possible.

We were divided into four teams, Jassy and I, Tayla and Elsie, Vera

and Ruby, and the kindergartens all fighting for glory. But there were

some rules, you could only have one roll of sticky tape and one

newspaper, also the tape could not be stuck to the table.

Jassy and I, on our first try, lost because our bridge would not even

hold one gram. But on our second try we won with 13 kilograms.

By Isaac

On Thursday Vera and I completed a paper bridge challenge. We had to try and make a bridge to go across a 30 centimetre gap that would hold the most weight.

We could only use one newspaper and one roll of tape. The rules were that we could not get any more paper and tape and nothing could be stuck to the table.

It was very hard because we had only 30 minutes to complete and construct, and the materials were not strong.

By Ruby

On Thursday Bianca gave us a paper bridge challenge we

were in teams of two. We had 30 minutes to build it but

Bianca gave us a couple of rules. That you can only use a

small role of sticky tape, a newspaper and scissors. It could

not be taped to the table, it had to reach across two tables.

We started, my team was Elsie and me. We had 5 minutes to

plan. Our strategy was to make hard poles and stick them all

together. We put all the rest of the newspaper around and

stuck it on the poles. Then we tested it to see if it would hold

one kilogram and it did. Next we just waited till the time was up, so we just had a look at other people’s

bridges. They were all so good. Vera and Ruby had like a sloth one with claws around the table but it did

not stick to the table so it was allowed. Isaac and Jasmeet did not make it in time so their bridge could

not hold one kilogram sadly. They still did good. Then the kindy’s did one with Bianca and it looked

awesome. Bianca just helped a little bit. Then we measured how many kilograms each bridge could

hold. Elsie’s and mine could hold 13 kilograms. The challenge was so fun we all enjoyed it.

By Tayla

COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL

Collins Creek PS Reconciliation Day

By Jasmeet Singh

On the first of June 2020, Student Council (Tayla, Vera, Isaac, Ruby, and I) held a Reconciliation day at

Collins Creek PS. It took 4 days for Student Council to

make this wonderful event. All students participated in

Reconciliation Day. We had one at school because of

Covid-19. Which means group gatherings weren’t

allowed, normally when we march in town there is about

100 people. But because we are a small school there is

only 10 of us in school. It is our principal’s last term here,

Ms Carter and she loves marching in town but we

couldn’t go, so we made march at school for her.

On Reconciliation Day, Student Council had made little workshops with diversity in the workshops.

Workshop 1 was mine with Aboriginal flag colouring templates, they had

to colour in the top black, the middle yellow and the bottom red. Red

means the earth, the yellow represents the sun, and the black for the

people. The kindies used crayon to colour in the templates.

Workshop 2, Tayla organised foot painting and hand paintings. She had

red, black, and yellow Aboriginal colours. She had a paint roller and she

would dip a little bit in black, red and yellow and press the kindies foot

onto white plain paper and do the same with the hands.

Workshop 3 saw Isaac on ochre painting. He had brought in ochre rock

and a big rock called a grinding rock to rub the ochre rock on. He had a

bowl of water and he let the rocks soak in the water and then he would rub it on the big rock. He made

patterns on the faces and arms and on the back of the hand.

Then we had Vera, while she didn’t hold a

workshop, she was in charge of the march. When

Vera had done organising the march she went

around to other workshops to help others. After all

the activities were done we had a march all around

school and we listened to Baker Boy’s song.

At the end of the day there was one last workshop

left. It was Ruby’s gratitude tin. Our teacher Bianca

got all the kindies at the end and had them say

what they enjoyed about the day, what did they like

and what did they not like. This feedback will help

us plan future events.

COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL