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Copa Village News

Effort Earns Success

Pueblo Street, Copacabana NSW 2251 Ph (02) 4382 1766 Email: [email protected] www.copacabana-ps.com

Term 3 Week 1 2016 A Proud Member of

Kincumba Learning

Community &

Tjudibaring AECG

Coming Events:

20th July Footsteps

(K-4)

27th July

- Footsteps (K-4)

- Athletics Carnival

28th July Netball Gala

Day

29th July Values

Assembly

30th July Copa Trivia

Night 7pm

2nd August

-ICAS English

- P&C Meeting 6.30pm

3rd August

-Kincumba Shines

Footsteps (K-4)

4th August Touch

Football Gala Day

5th August

-Stage 1 Excursion

- 3-6 Assembly

Dear parents,

Welcome back to Term 3. We are looking forward to another productive term with lots of opportunities for our students to experience a range of activities. Some of the major events this term include our Athletics carnival, Kincumba Shines, Book Fair and Book Parade and our K-2 Musical. A full list of events is included in this newsletter in the Term 3 calendar. The teachers will continue their training in the Focus on Reading program throughout this term. Focus on Reading is an intensive professional learning program that supports teachers to understand and explicitly teach reading and comprehension strategies that will enable students to access a range of 21st century texts. The program is also designed to enhance student motivation to read and reading performance beyond the early years. Finally this week, I would like to thank our hard working P&C. The BBQ on election day was again very successful and our fabulous volunteers have been busy throughout the holidays painting and preparing our new school canteen. It is looking amazing!!

B. Thomas Principal

Quote of the Week

“Every morning is a chance at a new day.” – Marjorie Hinckley

http://www.copacabana-ps.com


Mr Thomas’ Wall of Fame

COPACABANA PUBLIC SCHOOL Effort Earns Success

Mr Thomas wall of fame

My wall of fame has been cleared, ready for Semester 2. The first pieces of work for this semester

have come from 2M. Finn, Ruby, Jett and Ruby have done some amazing NAIDOC artworks.





News

Attendance

Last term I put a poster in the newsletter, which highlighted the importance of attendance and punctuality at school. In Semester 1, there were only 5 students who did not have one day off or one partial absence. Ruby P, Cooper, Ruby M, Charles and Sophie were rewarded in the last week of term with “lunch with the Principal”. We had a lovely pizza picnic! This term we will focus on uniform. To reward those students who always wear full school uniform, we will be doing a weekly draw for a canteen voucher.

Student Teachers

This term we welcome 3 student teachers from the University of Newcastle. They will be working in classrooms for 10 weeks to complete their final internship before becoming fully qualified teachers. Miss Anderson will be working with 3W, Miss Green with 2D and Mr Goard will be with 2M. Mrs Braund is also finishing her internship with 5/6W over the next 3 weeks. We welcome these student teachers to our school and look forward to supporting them to become the best teachers they can be.

It’s a Girl!!

Mrs Lucas is very proud to announce the birth of her beautiful baby daughter. Natalia Lucas was born on 15th July at 11.20pm. She weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces. Mum and bub are doing very well. All happy and healthy

Message from the office

Scholastic Book Club due 2nd August to front office. All orders after this date must be completed online.

Don’t forget we now accept online payments, visit the school website and click on the make a payment button

Gabe Smith

A separate note was sent home this week explaining the fight that our amazing Yr 5 student, Gabe, is battling against a cancerous tumour. It has been overwhelming, the support that our community has already given to Gabe and his family. As mentioned in the letter, we are attempting to centralise our fundraising efforts and as such a family friend, Esther Davidson, has taken on the role of coordinating what we are doing for Gabe and the family. She has set up a Go Fund Me page, which can be accessed at the following link- https://gofundme.com/2cf7y23k

If people are wanting to support Gabe, this page is the best way to do that at this point in time. Other than that, we will all be sending our best wishes and warmest thoughts to Gabe and his family during this challenging time. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and we wish Gabe a speedy recovery.

Term 3 Uniform Awards

This term we are having a focus on wearing school uniform and showing pride in our school. Each week we will draw names out of a hat and if that student is in full school uniform, they will receive a canteen voucher. Congratulations to Kai in K/1S, who won our first ever canteen voucher on Tuesday, for being in full school uniform.


https://gofundme.com/2cf7y23k




Cross Country

Well done to Copa students Liam, Dylan, Cleo, Chloe, Maya and Paris-Lily who represented the Southern Central Coast Zone at the Sydney North Carnival at Gosford last term. All the students gave their best effort and achieved some great results. A big congratulations goes to Liam who came 5th overall in his age group and has quali-fied for the NSW PSSA Cross Country at Eastern Creek on Friday 22nd July. Good luck Liam!

School Sport

Congratulations to the Girls Basketball team who were undefeated at the PSSA knockout gala day at Gosford Basketball Stadium last term. The girls played extremely well as a team, always showing the Copa spirit. Thank you to all the parents who drove and came to support. The girls have now moved onto Round 5 (Southern Central Coast fi-nal), which will be played early this term. Well done team!!

Sports Enthusiast

Mr Chris Mensforth

The way people communi-

cate via social networking is ever increasing and is part of our daily lives now, but it can be a real issue in schools. Sites like Facebook and Instagram are the most popular but it is important to note that users must not be under the age of 13 years! Unfortunately, cyber bullying has been an increasing issue in our society and it is something that our school wants to address early on, to ensure that it doesn’t happen to our students and if it does, that our students are aware of how to deal with cyber bullying. Bullying in any way, shape or form is unacceptable and will not be tolerated at Copacabana PS. The best advice for students who are attacked on social media sites is: 1. Don’t respond! 2. Tell someone and report the incident. Save

or screenshot the content as evidence. 3. Block the person being inappropriate.


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Canteen News



CANTEEN VOLUNTEER APPLICATION - 2016

NAME: ………………………………………PHONE: …………………………email…………………………….

YOUR CHILDS NAME: …………………………………….. CLASS: ………………………………….

Please tick the day and frequency that suits you below: (if you are available for a casual one off date please also advise below or contact Kirsten on 0499 236 636 or [email protected])

Wednesday Thursday Friday Casual date: …../…../…..

Weekly Fortnightly Monthly

We are up and running!!! There were lots of very excited children queued up across the COLA on Wednesday. Seeing all the smiling faces made all the hard work worth it.

We had such a wonderful response to the “Name the Canteen” competition. The children really put a lot of effort in and came up with some great ideas. Congratulations to Jasmine Wenzke, for the

winning name SEASIDE SNACKS.

In the last few weeks we have managed to give the building a ‘new look’ inside and out. We would like to say a big thankyou to all the families who have donated their time and skills to make this possible.

A special thank you to Sile Molloy for designing the exterior mural and not to forget those who assisted with the painting of it. A great job!

We are developing our new menu in accordance with the NSW Government Healthy Canteen Strategy Fresh Tastes @ School Guidelines and we are offering a lot more Canteen made items and healthy

options. We will need some time to find our feet and see what works. Watch the School Newsletter/Facebook and the Canteen Specials boards for any menu changes and updates. Once we are up and

running we will be introducing online ordering!!

Our Canteen is P&C run and relies on Volunteers to keep it in operation. We are always looking for help, so please consider joining our volunteer team. Volunteers and ideas are always welcome!

Please drop in and see Kirsten at the canteen, complete the form below or email [email protected]

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING YOUR SCHOOL THROUGH THE CANTEEN


mailto:[email protected]


Pueblo Street, Copacabana NSW 2251 Ph (02) 4382 1766 Email: [email protected] www.copacabana-

SNACK FOOD - not all items available

everyday, although we do ensure there are plenty of choices.

Banana Bread - Homemade GF available $1.50

Muffins - Homemade GF available $1.50

Pikelets - Homemade x 3 $0.30

Fruity Bix Cereal Bag $1.00

Sultana Box $0.50

Cheese & Crackers $1.00

Vege Sticks & Dip $0.80

Fruit salad tub $1.50

Slinky Apple $0.50

Popcorn (warm) $0.50

Fruit & Vanilla custard $1.00

Boiled egg (order only) $0.50

Nachos - corn chips, salsa, & cheese $2.00

Hot corn cob $0.80

Homemade Garlic Bread $0.80

Red Rock 28g (Plain/Chicken) $2.00

Pretzels 30g $1.50

HOT FOOD - (LUNCH ORDER ONLY)

Lasagne Bolognaise - Homemade $4.00

Mini Pizza - Hawaiian OR Meatlovers - Homemade

$3.00

Mini Pie or Sausage Roll $1.50

Beef Burger - Homemade, with tomato, beetroot, lettuce

Choose your sauce, BBQ or Tomato

$4.00

Chicken Nuggets x4 or x6 (GF available) $2.50/$3.50

Quiche - Lorraine or Vegetarian $3.00

TOMATO OR BBQ SAUCE $0.30

SANDWICHES / ROLLS / WRAPS Lunch order only

All sandwiches served with one slice white & one slice wholemeal bread.

Add 50c to sandwich prices for Bread Roll

Vegemite OR Cheese $1.50

Egg & Mayo $2.50

Chicken OR Ham OR Tuna $3.00

Salad - Lettuce, Carrot, Tomato, Beetroot, Cucumber & Cheese

$3.00

Chicken & Salad $3.50

Ham & Salad $3.50

Ham & Cheese $2.50

Cheese & Tomato $2.00

GLUTEN FREE Wrap/ Bread add…….. $2.00

TOASTIES - (LUNCH ORDER ONLY

Ham & Cheese $3.00

Ham, Cheese & Tomato $3.50

Cheese $2.00

GLUTEN FREE Bread add……. $2.00

DRINKS - All $2 except Water

Spring Water 600ml $1.50

Hot Chocolate $2.00

Plain Milk 250ml $2.00

Norco Flavoured Milk 300ml - Choc, Straw- $2.00

Macquarie Valley Fresh Fruit Juice 200ml - $2.00

FROZEN ITEMS

Twisted Frozen Yoghurt 120ml GF - Chocolate & Vanilla, Strawberry & Vanilla,Mango & Watermelon (No artificial flavours or sweeteners)

$1.80

Quelch Fruit Sticks 70ml $0.50

Moosies - Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana $1.00

Canteen Menu


Teacher Profile



Hi, I am Jocelyn Drennan and I teach 2D.

I grew up on the Central Coast attending a local primary school and high school. My childhood was filled with fond memories of playing lots of sport and going on family camping trips. My parents were very devoted to providing the best they could for my brothers and I. As I grew up, I always wanted to be a teacher. There are a few teachers in my family and they provided the inspiration and also made me aware of the amount of work that was required in teaching. The first few years of my teaching career were spent working casually and on temporary blocks at Avoca Beach Public School. At the end of 2007, I was successful at interview and received a permanent job at Mosman Public School. This meant it was time to leave the Central Coast and start commuting. We considered moving to Sydney but it wasn’t where we wanted to live. I started at Mosman in 2008 and it was a fantastic school with great children, parents and teachers. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and learnt a lot. After 3 years, I decided that it was time to return to the Central Coast. I still remember the day, when my principal at Mosman came to my classroom and told me that I had successfully received a transfer and to Copacabana Public School. I couldn’t believe it. Not only was the commute about to end but I was lucky enough to get a job in the community where I live. My trip to work is very different now. It only takes 5 minutes and I can walk and enjoy the fresh air. In 2011, I started working at Copacabana. The last 5 years have been awesome. I have taught a range of children across stage 1, 2 and 3. Each day is different and constantly there are new challenges. It is a very rewarding job when you see the growth in children and the smiles on their face when they understand a new concept or have enjoyed an activity that they have completed. During my time here at Copacabana, my family has also grown. We have welcomed two boys and a dog into our lives. Our boys are now 2 and nearly 5. I try to provide an innovative classroom where the children feel welcomed and confident in attempting new things. This year I have changed the design of my classroom and have created a 21st century learning space which is engaging for all children. Within the room, I have opportunities for the children to work collaboratively, student to teacher and individually. I recognise the important role of parents and the wider community in our school and I enjoy having parents assist within my room on a daily basis.




A message from Busways

Please help us supply appropriate bus services by reminding students to tap on and tap off with their School Opal cards.

One of the more significant changes created by the recent introduction of the School Opal card is the need for students to tap on and off when they travel to and from school.

Opal data gathered by tapping on and off is used to determine demand for bus services. If students don’t tap on and tap off, services may be cancelled due the lack of recorded patronage.

With this in mind, we ask for your assistance in reminding your students that tapping on and off at the beginning and end of each trip is one of the conditions of using a School Opal card.

Your assistance helps us ensure we are able to provide the appropriate level of service to your students.


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