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Principal’s Message
Yesterday our students from Yrs 2‐6 participated in our annual swimming carnival. It was a great day where students stepped out of their comfort zone and participated in races and/or novelty events. Team spirit was alive and well and our students certainly displayed their talent in the pool. Thank you to Mr Jardine and his organising committee for their hard work in creating a day which ran very smoothly. Once again our students displayed the values of Cardiff South and presented themselves with pride. I hope everyone had a great day and slept well last night‐ I know I did! Last week our students in Yrs 1‐6 nominated and voted a class representative for our SRC. One student from each class was elected to attend regular meetings with the team, led by Mrs Conrick. The SRC at our school is involved in putting forward ideas to help improve our school through the eyes of our students. It is a great honour to be elected as an SRC Representative and I congratulate the successful students. Please see further on in this newsletter for names of each classes SRC member. Badges will be handed out at our first assembly this week if parents wish to attend.
Term Statements
Today, all K‐6 and preschool families should receive their Term 1 statement of account. For those not familiar with our school procedures, at the beginning of each term we send home a statement and enclose subsequent permission notes for each of the expected activities for the current term which involve some form of payment. The Term 1 statement always includes the cost of the student’s book packs. From past experience, some families like to pay their term invoice in full as soon as they receive it, others like to pay them off a little bit at a time (eg $5 a fortnight) ‐ the choice is yours. However, students must have paid for individual activities such as excursions and performances by the payment deadlines listed on each note in order to participate. We request that book packs are paid in full by the end of Term 3. Please remember that you can pay for school expenses online using POP (Parent Online Portal). There is a ‘Make a Payment’ link to this on both the Skoolbag app and school wesbite. Just remember that if you choose to pay this way, you still need to return the permission notes to school as well. If at any stage your family is experiencing hardship, some support is available, in which case, please make an appointment to have a confidential discussion with Mrs Stallard.
I hope everyone has a lovely week! Alison Stallard Relieving Principal
Term 1, Week 3
Tuesday 12 February,
2019
Congratulations Students of the
Week!
Term 1 Week 2
Junior Student Award
Bianca Lennox 1M
Senior Student Award
Lucas Wise 5/6C
At the beginning of the year teachers at Cardiff South participated in Seven Steps to Writing Success training. In our classes over the past few weeks we have been working hard on inspiring our students to widen their vocabulary to make their writing more interesting and succinct. You may have heard your child talk about ‘Ban the Boring’. Below are a few posters that the classes and teachers have designed together. This step focuses students’ attention on taking out all the extra bits in their writing. Not just words, but actions and descriptions that distract the reader from the main story and that make writing flat.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Wk 3. 11.2 Swimming Carnival Yr 3‐6
CANTEEN CLOSED
12.2 NRL Cyber Bullying presentation 10am
13.2
14.2 First School Assembly for 2019
15.2
Wk 4. 18.2 Kindergarten commence full days Zone Cricket Trials Banking commences today
19.2 Scripture/Ethics classes begin
20.2 P&C Meeting 7pm
21.2 Zone Swimming Carnival
22.2 Stage 1 Basketball 9.10am
Wk 5. 25.2 26.2 27.2 Meet the teacher evening
28.2 29.2
Kindergarten finishing time
This week is the last week for our Kindergarten students’ early finishing time. All Kindergarten parents are
advised that as of next Monday 18th February, the students are expected to attend 9‐3pm just the same as all
other students. This also means that for safety reasons, our gates are kept locked until 2:50pm. Parents are
asked not to come onto the school grounds before this time.
Student Representative Council – SRC
Congratulations to the following students who were elected by their class mates to be the class Student
Representative Council (SRC) members:
5/6E Matylda Luck
5/6H Nate Wright
5/6C Jasmin Howell
3/4J Isabella Gibson
3/4S Larni Andrews
3/4M Brianna Rittchen
2T Sienna Zane
2W Addison Wright
1C Harry Appleby
1M/S Alira Newman
Volunteering at School Volunteers and parent helpers play a vital role in our school and the education of our children. Volunteers help
in classrooms, in the canteen or uniform shop and sometimes at specific events. As is Department of Education
policy, in order to volunteer in any public school, volunteers must first complete a working with children
declaration at the office. This has to be done annually.
So even if you did this last year, it must be done again at the commencement of each new school year. When
you complete a declaration you also need to provide proof of identification up to 100 points (just like when you
renew your driver’s licence). Any volunteers or helpers that have not completed their working with children
declaration will politely be declined access onto school grounds to assist. Your assistance with this is
appreciated.
The CSPS swimming carnival was held yesterday, Monday 11th February, at Wallsend Pool. The weather was warm and sunny as busloads of students excitedly rolled into the pool ready for the day’s events. To begin proceedings each house loudly and passionately presented their cheers that they had been practising all week. Afterwards, events began with the 50m freestyle age races with some great times being swum across all age groups. Next up were the stroke events of backstroke and breaststroke with great participation from students in all houses. After a recess break students were back in the water with the open 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly for our elite swimmers to try and make qualifying times for zone. In between these events was the hectic splash and dash 25m freestyle races which thrilled the crowd. Students enjoyed the opportunity to be involved in some structured games to relax after their competitive races. To end the carnival the boys and girls relay events took place after lunch, with some close finishes in both races. Standout swimmers on the day included Tasha Banek, Nikki Banek, Nate Lambert, Isabella Rose, Riley Neill, Charlie Ivey and Alfie Ivey. A massive thank you to all students who attended and participated, family members who cheered on their children and staff who assisted to make the day a success for everyone involved. We will send a large team to the zone carnival on Thursday 21st February. We wish them the best of luck against tough competition.
Library News
This week celebrates Library Lovers Day nationally. Our library has a competition where students are
encouraged to write 25 words or less about why they love the library. Entry forms are in the library and the
winning entry will be announced next Tuesday.
Book Club
Reminder that book club is due next Tuesday 19th February, 2019. Book orders can be made online via LOOP or
payment through the front office. Please see Mrs Conrick if you have any questions about book club.
We are in desperate need of volunteers to help with the Uniform Shop on both Wednesday mornings between 8:40 and 10:00am and Thursday afternoons between 2:50 and 3:15pm. Unfortunately, if we do not get some volunteers we will have to look at reducing our opening hours to one day a week.
If you are interested in volunteering, please leave your details at this link http://signup.com/go/qYrHqib and someone will be in touch shortly. Thank you.
Canteen Roster Wednesday 13/02 Friday 15/02 Monday 18/02
Karen Nesbitt Janette Catalovski Cindy Redpath
Linda Lavelle Rachel Jones
Kristy White
19/02/19
Unearthing kids’s strengths
POSITIVE PARENTING
by Professor Lea Waters (PhD) Personality strengths – our character – play a big role in helping us build our talents. Think about anyone who has built a talent and imagine if it could have been done without character. Imagine Einstein without curiosity, The Beatles without creativity, Mother Teresa without compassion or Neil Armstrong without bravery.
Yet for decades, scientists were blind to character strength. We focused on talent, often on physical strength and skills. In fact, when I first ask young children what they think strength is they almost always point to their biceps or talk about being able to lift something heavy.
Once you get familiar with the language of strengths and a framework for seeing them, you’ll see character strengths easily in your child. In fact, you may find your child calls on their character strengths more often than on talent to meet life’s challenges.
Three key elements of a strength.
You’ve probably seen a child joylessly perform at a piano recital. They may hit all the right keys, but there’s no energy or enthusiasm. It’s as if they don’t want to be there. On the flip side, we’ve seen the child onstage who’s clearly motivated and energised and who fearlessly flails through every mistake – of which there are many.
It turns out that three elements come together to form a strength. For purposes of strength‐based parenting, we need to keep our eye on all three:
1. Performance (being good at something).
Watch for when your child shows above‐age levels of achievement, rapid learning, and a repeated pattern of success.
2. Energy (feeling good doing it)
Strengths are self‐reinforcing. The more we use them, the more we get from them. They fill us with vigour. You’ll notice your child has abundant energy when using a strength.
3. High use (choosing to do it)
Finally, look for what your child chooses to do in their spare time, how often they engage in a particular activity, and how they speak about that activity.
For true strengths, these three elements form a beautiful feedback loop: great performance provides the child with a shot of high energy, so the child naturally chooses to do more. In turn, high use – also known as effort or practice – improves performance levels. So, for example, if you notice that your child is energised when they play the piano, and you provide enjoyable opportunities for them to play, if they’re mining a true strength they will likely practise more, which improves their performance, which then energises them … and so the loop continues.
Keeping this triad in mind will help you avoid pushing your child into an area that seems like a strength just because your child is good at it. It will also help you differentiate between whether your child is bingeing on an activity in an escapist way or expressing a true strength.
For example, when a parent asks me, ‘My son is great at computer games and wants to play all the time. Is that a sign of a strength?’ I reply, ‘Observe his energy levels at the end. Is he drained and cranky? Or energised and full of life? Are you seeing the full triad?’ Computer games can tap into a child’s strategic and problem‐solving skills or stimulate creativity (in some games, you invent whole new worlds). Or they might just be about filling time.
So look for all three signs. When you see your child do something well, with energy, and repeatedly, you’ll know you’ve unearthed a strength.