Newsletter

Connecting to Country This week Mrs Bartlett, Mr Taylor and I are attending Connecting to Country Training in Coffs Harbour. This is a wonderful initiative that is being offered to all schools in the Coffs Harbour area. Literacy Café Thanks to those who were able to come along to our first Literacy Café. Year 2 and 1/2 will be hosting the next one on May 31. This coincides with our Biggest Morning Tea and parents are welcome to attend both. For catering purposes please fill in the attached slip and return it to school if you are able to come. Art Gallery exhibition We were very fortunate to be able to attend the Unfinished Business exhibition at the Art gallery last week. A huge thank you to Alison Williams for talking to the students about the exhibition. Chess Club Due to the large number of chess enthusiasts at our school we have started up a chess club. It meets every Monday in the library during second half lunch. We have a large number of very eager players who have commenced. An interschool chess tournament will be held on Thursday June 1 at Woolgoolga High School. A note has gone home to interested students in Years 5 and 4. Unfortunately students in Year 6 will be attending the GRIP Leadership course on the same day. Self-help raffle Thanks to those parents who have returned the self-help raffle forms. Students are asked to place them in the gold box in the foyer of the office.

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ICAS Students who nominated for the ICAS Science test sat this today. Further ICAS tests will be done as they fall due. See the back page for dates. Mrs Wright

Classy Cooks

Year 1/2 cooked Nachos this week. Students loved chopping and peeling the vegetables as well as assembling each plate for eating. It was delicious! In the garden we were able to harvest some of our corn crop and have a taste...yum! If your child has a pair of gardening gloves and would like to bring them in for their session this Wednesday please feel free, although not necessary. Also an old t shirt might be good to put over their school shirt as I noticed a lot of students quite dirty after their session in the garden. If you haven’t paid for Term 2 please pay $3 to the office.

Happy Cooking Mr Wiggins

This week 2H will be gardening and cooking

Year 1/2 cooking

and gardening

Students of the Week

Tyler Unicomb, Digby Kelsall, Nika Cook, Heidy Krejci,

Ruby Wright, Koby Kudrins, Chase Hemming, Noah Matthews, Natasha Williamson, Erica Munro,

Kirra Zelivs, Grace Endycott, Matt Johnson, Kirra Hardwick,

Bonnie Robertson

Bronze Awards

Lucas Ehsman, TJ Skinner, Grace Endycott

weekly winners

See you in our Library!

Mrs Davies

...LIBRARY NEWS...

IT’S TOMORROW!!

At 11am tomorrow, all our Corindi school students are joining thousands of others throughout Australia in experiencing the reading of “The Cow Tripped Over the Moon”. This delightful story was written for the author’s 4 year-old son Jack who has Cerebral Palsy, to encourage him to keep trying and never give up. Jack is learning to walk and talk. Teachers will be discussing the story with their class following the reading. You can view Tony Wilson’s website and see him reading the story to Jack on YouTube, just search for Tony Wilson & Jack reading 'The Cow Tripped Over the Moon'

Enjoy!

Stars of the Week

Ari Matthews, Jude Cronin, Thea Lee, Spencer Digby, Cody Gordon, Destanee Leach, Jakk Leach

5/6J News…

Spelling homework was handed out yesterday and is due back on Thursday. I would also like everyone to be reading for at least 15 minutes a night with their Home reading log filled in and returned on a Thursday as well. This week sees the end of Ms Hoban’s prac. She has been with us for 4 weeks, where she worked with us on poetry, 2D shapes, multiplication and some fantastic art work as well as teaching us a ribbon dance. We wish her well in her teaching. Peer Support started today. It will be held every Tuesday after scripture for the rest of the

term. Mrs La Coste

Win Bin Winners…

Madi and Aaliyah

Garby Class…

2H

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

The school staff will be holding our

biggest morning tea on Wednesday

31st May, from 10.30am. Please

come and join us to raise money for

this very worthwhile cause. Gold

coin donation and a continuous

raffle will be held.

GRIP LEADERSHIP Don’t forget to return your GRIP Leadership note and money by this Friday 26 May. All Year 6 students are expected to attend. The P&C have kindly subsidised the cost of this extremely worthwhile conference for 2017. It will be a great day!

Year 6 Shirts

Please send in your clean school shirt

and $8 for printing by Monday 29 May

so they can be taken for printing!

PEER SUPPORT

Corindi Public School

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Check us on our website:

www.corindi-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Subject Sitting Date

Writing

Tuesday May 30

Spelling

Wednesday June 14

English

Tuesday August 1

Mathematics

Tuesday August 15

Canteen News…

As of this week the canteen will be open

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

We will no longer be opening Mondays.

P&C News…

If there are any students in years 3-6 who

would still like to participate in the self help

raffle. Could you please return your purple

notes as soon as possible so we can start to

issue the raffle tickets.

We are also seeking prizes for the self help

raffle. If you would like to contribute to the

prize pool, all donations can be left at the

school office.

Katherine Winkler

P&C President

ICAS Test Dates

LITERACY CAFÉ May 31 Years 1/2M and 2H

If you are able to attend this week’s Literacy Café, please

return this slip to school for catering purposes Thank you

Number attending ………………………..