MASTER PLANNING

We welcomed Maree Edwards MP to CNPS for a short visit this morning; she was receptive to our “pitch” for various projects around the school that we require funding for, including the basketball court upgrade, and a portable building for after school care!  We are going to put a master plan together, to imagine all the school facilities improvements for the short/medium/long term.  Maree and her team were able to suggest a couple of avenues we can pursue for funding applications, and we will also contact our federal MP Lisa Chesters’ office, to share our hopes and dreams.  Watch this space!  Thanks to Kate, Ciel and Heather, for representing our parents in this meeting.

PARENT MEETINGS

Thank you to our teachers for their efforts this week, meeting with parents for academic progress reports.  We will share student Semester 1 reports with parents during Week 11 of this term.  Please email your child’s teacher if you were not able to make a time this week.  Hannah Ryan and Louise O’Brien’s interviews have been rescheduled to next Thursday.  The booking link is available now.

UNIFORM

Can I please ask for your support, in observing the CNPS uniform policy:

• CNPS T-shirts/jumpers.

• Navy or black pants/shorts/skirts.

• Shorts and skirts to be mid-thigh to knee length please.  “Bike short” styles are not suitable, nor are leggings/activewear/running shorts or footy shorts.

• Students to wear school shoes or runners.  No ugg boots/crocs/ballet flats/skater shoes, etc.  (They are bad for the kids’ feet as well as not being conducive to being active safely at school.)

Thank you!

REGIONAL CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to the following students who participated in the regional cross country at St Arnaud this week:

• Mary Challender - 12th - qualified for state

• Ted Cordy - 4th - qualified for state

• Remy Vellacott - 6th - qualified for state

• Grace Frederiksen - 16th, Heidi Frederiksen - 17th

• Arlo Alexander-Reynolds - 24th

Have a great weekend,

Sam C

Prep News

Hello from the Prep rooms!   

This week in Literacy, we were excited to meet the last of Milos’s friends, Max the fox (x) and Wilbur Whale and are now eagerly awaiting his surprise birthday party at school!  It’s amazing how many CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words we can read and write, now that we know all the letters of the alphabet and their sounds!  We have been introduced to writing books with lines and have been diligently practising where capital and lower-case letters sit on the line. We have been using descriptive words (adjectives) to create simple sentences that describe people, characters, or things. In Maths, we explored naming 3D shapes and sorted various objects from our environment into their corresponding  3D shape categories.      

As part of Reconciliation week, we visited to the Boorp Boorp Boondyil exhibition at The Castlemaine Market Building to learn more about the Dja Dja Wurrung history of the area.  We also read “Somebody’s Land” a picture story book by Adam Goodes and enjoyed discussing its themes.  

Thank you to all the parents who supported our Parent Teacher Interviews and took the time to discuss your child’s achievements.  If you were unable to attend your interview, please reach out to us to arrange a suitable time. 

Next week in Literacy, we will revise all letters and continue practising reading and writing words and sentences. We will focus on using capital letters, spacing between words, and correctly placing full stops.  We will also continue to use adjectives to describe nouns. In Maths, we will work on using language to describe the position and location of objects.   

Enjoy your weekend!  

Nicole and Lauren 

Hello from the Ironbark team, 

In Literacy, we recognized Reconciliation Week by reading and writing about the two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey – the successful 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision. We have also continued our reading and writing unit on force. Students have been enjoying the experiments that are connected to the Literacy sessions. 

In Maths, students have been exploring fractions and have completed some fun and engaging activities such as designing a flag that has ½ red, ¼ blue and ¼ yellow.  

As part of our Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, students have been focusing on self-calming strategies when they are faced with overwhelming strong emotions and the effectiveness of them when they are used regularly. 

Next week we will continue to explore fractions, and will begin our novel study of Storm boy!  

Have a wonderful weekend! 

The Ironbark team!  

P.E.

Region Cross Country 

Congratulations to our seven athletes who competed at Region Cross Country this week. They achieved great results and we have four students progressing on to the State Cross Country in Term 3. 

Goldfields Division Soccer 

Our students have been training since Term 1 for this event on Friday 7th June. Thank you to Mr Scott, who gifts so much of his time and expertise to prepare our soccer teams. Notes have been handed out to students and are due back early next week. Parent/Carer assistance is required.