Date of Publication: 26th February 2019

CUDGEGONG VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL

PART OF THE CUDGEGONG LEARNING COMMUNITY

47-65 Madeira Road, MUDGEE 2850 PHONE: (02) 6372 3466 FAX: (02) 6372 6314

SCHOOL EMAIL ADDRESS: cudgegongv-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL: Michelle Neaverson-Smith

GENERAL NEWSLETTER – TERM 1 WEEK 5

SCHOOL CALENDAR February 27 Zone Swimming Carnival March 1 CVPS Cleans Up 4-6 Myuna Bay Excursion 7-14 Mini Bookfair 7 School Photos

From the Principal

Students of the Week

Austin Sutherland, Poppy Peake, Harper Fehon, Savannah Taylor, Jax Usher, Cody Hasler, Evelyn Roberts, Aleira Cox, Tiffany Demirel, Brooke Whitty, Millie Sinnett, Simrat Kaur, Madison Williams, Ronan Field, Lily Fehon, Ryan Oldfield, Kiarly Flick, Phoebe Jeeves, Amy Ioane, Georgie Baggett, Taylor Meurer, Mirabai Brown

Our Vision

At Cudgegong Valley Public School we do our best by being responsible learners, who are safe and respectful.

Zone Swimming Carnival I would like to take this opportunity to wish the 39 students representing our school at this Wednesday’s Zone Swimming Carnival in Gulgong all the very best. It’s a wonderful accomplishment making it away to Zone and I look forward to cheering each and every one of you on as you compete on Wednesday evening. Here’s hoping you are able to achieve your personal best!! Congratulations to Nargoon the winning house. Swimming School Carnival Champions for 2019 Senior Girls – Phoebe Virgona Senior Boy – Bobby Pascoe 11 Yrs Girls – Lauren Rowe 11 Yrs Boy – Samuel Buckley Junior Girl – Georgia Stanley Junior Boy – Dusty May Mudgee Show Don’t forget to make your way to the Pavilion this weekend when you attend the Mudgee Show to see all of the wonderful entries from CVPS. The talent that we have here amongst our students and teachers is endless. Entries are going in from the following classes; Kindergarten – Together our worries go away Stage 1 – Showtime 3R and 3D – Foil Art 4A – Kaleidoscopes 4C and 4M – Ganguddy Stage 3 – Eyes on the world 6B – My Style

School Photos Payment envelopes were sent home last week for our 2019 school photo day on Thursday 7

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March. All students are required to wear full summer uniform and not their sports uniform on this day. Please make sure that if students are wearing hair accessories for the photos, that they are in school colours. School hair accessories are available for purchase from the Uniform Shop. Meet the Teacher and Welcome BBQ feedback – survey closes this Friday!

Thank you to the 33 people who have already completed our survey. The typical time spent completing the survey is currently 1m:41s. So it literally will take you only a couple of minutes to complete!! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/769CGPT

This survey will close this Friday 1st March.

Here are some interesting comparisons to last year. In total we had 275 parents/carers attend the evening this year (106 attended across the four sessions in 2018) ES1 Meeting had 46 parents/carers (33 in 2018) Stage 1 Meeting had 92 parents/carers (23 in 2018) Stage 2 Meeting had 68 parents/carers (29 in 2018) Stage 3 Meeting had 69 parents/carers (21 in 2018)

Michelle Neaverson-Smith

Principal

Kinder, Years 1&2 - Presented 2:35pm Mon 4/3 Chase Buckley, Arlo McGreal, Edward McGilvray, Zaria Lonergan, Evelyn Roberts Years 3-6 - Presented 12:00pm Wed 6/3 Jack Hill, Byron Rosier, Summer Carter, Zara Ward, Hugh Rohr

Gold Assembly - 12:00pm Tues 2 April

Gold / Red Gold / Green Gold Certificates

Red Certificates

Councillor Trip to Red Hill On Tuesday, 19th February our eight CVPS School Councillors attended the Leadership program at Red Hill, accompanied by Mudgee Public School and Gulgong Public School. They learnt how to lead and take on the roles and responsibilities of being a School Councillor. They also acquired the understanding of acknowledging the Aboriginal heritage of our lands and the importance of doing so. They were educated about the skills of using body language, eye contact and interacting with the audience to enhance their public speaking. The Councillors cooperated and interacted well with their peers while understanding their strengths and weaknesses.

Chloe, Oliver, Maddie, Ben, Skye, Dominic, Brianna and James all look forward to implementing their new found skills to improve the school for all students.

Clean Up Australia Day This year our school will be participating in the annual Clean Up Australia Day. This event will take place at school on Friday, 1st March. Each class has been allocated a section of the school to tidy, and we are all looking forward to the positive impact this will have on our school environment. We are asking parents to please provide their children with a pair of gardening gloves for use during our clean up. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Rebecca Daniell

Sports News

Inter-School Sport

Each year CVPS enters competitive teams in several sporting knockouts run by the NSW Primary School Sports Association (PSSA). This year we have entered teams in the Australian Football, Cricket, Tennis, Softball, Rugby League, Netball, Rugby Union, Football (Soccer) and Touch knockouts.

These competitions are run as an ‘Open Under-12s’ age classification, for students in Years 3-6. Students sign up on the noticeboard next to the canteen to indicate their interest in a sport. Try outs for the following sports have begun at school during recess and lunchtime:

Cricket – boys and girls – Mrs da Roza

Australian Football – boys and girls – Mr West and Miss Fitzgerald

Tennis – boys and girls – Ms Shady

It is each student’s responsibility to attend the try outs, where the most competitive team will be selected to represent the school. If selected, students will be given information and a consent form for their next game.

School Sport Calendar

February March April

CVPS Swimming Carnival 14

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Zone Swimming Trials 27

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PSSA AFL 13th

Western Swimming 14

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Peachey Shield Rugby League (Y3-6) Gala 21

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TBC: PSSA Cricket PSSA Tennis PSSA Softball (girls)

Mudgee Hockey Gala Day (Y45) 3

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Mudgee R.Union Gala Day (Y3-6) 11

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State Swimming 11

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May June July

CVPS Cross Country 10

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Zone Cross Country 24

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TBC: PSSA Netball PSSA R.Union PSSA Softball (boys) PSSA R.League

Western Cross Country 12

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CVPS Athletics Carnival 14

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TBC: PSSA Soccer PSSA Touch

State Cross Country 26

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August September November

Zone Athletics Trials 16

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Western Athletics 13

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Mudgee Cricket Gala Day (Y56) 20

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Mudgee Touch Gala Day (Y3-6) 24

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Mudgee Cricket Gala Day (Y34) 1

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State Athletics 6

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(Note- Nil events for October)

Library News Our ‘Mini Book Fair’ will begin on Thursday, 7th March and finish Thursday 14th March. It will be open each morning from 8:30am to 9am and at recess and lunch times. Come along and ‘Catch the Reading Wave.’ EFTPOS will be available for purchases.

A HUGE thank you to the Cooke family for their kind donation of books to our Library. Also, A BIG thank you to Marie McLean for all the book covering she has done already this year. You’re amazing!!

School Bus Pass To apply for a school bus pass go to:

https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/

Cudgegong Valley Public School P&C

Uniform Shop

OPENING HOURS (During School Terms)

Tuesday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Afternoon: 2.45pm – 3.30pm

Flexischools online ordering -

www.flexischools.com.au Orders will be processed

within 3 days and can either be picked up from the

Uniform Shop during opening times or sent home with

your child.

Parent Online Payments Parent Online Payments can be made via the school website. http://www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Notes sent home last week: Home Reading - Kinder, Stage 1 & 2, Myuna Bay reminder, Head Lice - 6W

P&C News It was wonderful to see all the new faces at last week’s monthly meeting. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to come along and be a part of your school P&C. A few things were decided upon and can now be added into your school calendar. Term 1 Election Day BBQ & cake stall – Saturday 23

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March. Our school is a polling booth site for the NSW state election. We will be calling on all our bakers, young and old, to bake some goodies for our cake stall. At the last election we had over 100 cakes and biscuits donated, which all sold out within 2 hours and raised $1000 for the school. We are keen to see if we can break that record this year. We have some committee member’s keen to fire up the sausage sizzle as well this year, so the kids can have breaky or lunch while you vote. More info will come on the details in the 2 weeks before the day. Disco There will not be a Disco held in Term 1 due to the busy schedule already in place. There are 3 large excursions happening before the end of the term which means there is not really an evening left for Disco night. Feel welcome to come along to our next meeting to discuss what other dates and options may be available during the year. Term 2 Cross country / Fun Run - Friday 10

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This year the Cross country is going to be lots of fun for everyone! As well as being the school cross country competition which will lead onto Zone and Regional competitions, we are also going to use it as our annual Fun Run event. The aim will be to raise the remaining funds needed for our All-weather sports court. We have partnered with School Fun Runs, and everyone will have the opportunity to raise money while running the course. Plans are underway to make it a big, colourful and fun day for everyone. Fun Run packs will arrive soon and the kids can start phoning up family members and friends to donate and support them while they run. AGM – Thursday 21

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All executive positions will be advertised in the newsletter and on our Facebook page over the next few weeks, so have a read and a think about whether you would like to be more involved at CVPS. Please don’t hesitate to contact me on FB or via the school if you have any questions about P&C or our events. Regards, Jenni Buckley

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