Term 3 Week 6 - Newsletter (pdf 2 MB)

Principal: Jenny Lewis
 Cowra-Carcoar Road, Cowra NSW 2794  63422172 0458 422 000
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@ holmwood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au  www.holmwood-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Term 3 Week 6 – Week Ending 26th August 2016
Students of the Week!
Congratulations to our Week 5 Students of the Week!
Fire Brigade Visit
On Monday afternoon students in Kindergarten and
Stage 1 had a very special visit from the Cowra Fire
Brigade as part of their HSIE Unit “Workers in the
Community”. The students welcomed firefighters
Chris, Laurie, Steve and Damien and were very
impressed and interested in the important and
dangerous job our Firefighters do! All students listened
respectfully and asked thoughtful questions! Getting
to look inside the fire truck was of course the highlight
of the visit, especially when the lights and siren were
put on! Thank you to the Cowra Fire Brigade for
visiting our school!
Daniel Hoy (Kinder), Micah Murphy (Stage 1),
Leetisha Nestor (Stage 2) and Matthew Russell (Stage 3)
Merit Awards were presented to;
Stage 1 – Jay Kennedy
Stage 2 – Charlotte Collins
Stage 3 – Briana Bates
Library – Samuel Lawler, Leetisha Nestor and Keinan
Judd
Congratulations to all students!
Micah, James, Jay, Samuel and Chelsea enjoyed the
visit from the Cowra Fire Brigade on Monday!
Citizenship Award Week 5 – Kyeisha Flett
Kyeisha was chosen as the
Week 5 Citizenship Award
winner by Mrs Kiely. Kyeisha
is in Year 3 and was awarded
the Citizenship Award for
always being happy and
helpful in both the classroom
and
the
playground.
Congratulations Kyeisha!
Stage 1 and Kinder LOVED their visit from the Fire
Brigade!
Creek PCYC building and enjoyed the opportunity to
build up their fundamental movement skills in an
enjoyable and fun way! Students were challenged with
some tricky work on the beams, mini trampolines, bars
and of course the bouncy air mat which enables
students to jump, cartwheel and roll with added lift!
Thank you to Shane, Kim and Mitchell from PCYC for
making our lessons so enjoyable – we can’t wait until
next Monday!!
The firetruck has so many lifesaving tools and machines!
The students were interested to see the ‘jaws of life’ which
are used to assist in car accidents.
Kinder Transition Class
We had a wonderful morning again on Tuesday with
our Kinder Transition class! This week however, was
extra special as we had Good Start Early Learning
Centre staff and students join us for our second hour.
It was great to meet the Good Start teachers and
students who will be heading off to Kindergarten in
2017! The students went on a school tour, visiting all
the classrooms as well as the Library, listened and
participated in an interactive story on the whiteboard
called “I know an old lady who swallowed a fly” and
made their own buzzing flies to take home! The
playground was also a big hit with the Pre-schoolers,
especially the sand pit and the tractor! Some of our
older HPS students also loved catching up with their
former pre-school teacher Amber Gidney-Bryant
during their visit!
Matt, Christian and Harry on the beam!
Congratulations Brittney!
Huge congratulations to Year
3 student and talented artist
Brittney Worth on her recent
2nd place award in the
Cowra Ca$h Card design
competition!! Brittney was
invited
to
a
special
presentation last week with
Mayor Bill West and Vice
President of the Cowra
Business Chamber Julian
Larsen where she was presented with a $30 Cash Card
prize. Well done Brittney...HPS students and staff are
so proud of you!!
Gymnastics @ PCYC!
On Monday we started our Annual Gymnastics
Program with the Cowra PCYC. Students were very
excited to have their first lessons back at the Binni
Lara, Lilly, Lily and Briana showing their flexibility!
Year 6 Graduation Jumper
Graduation jumper orders closed this week. Delivery of
the Year 6 jumpers is expected to be in the next week
or so. Thank you to Mrs Hubbard for organising these
again this year for our Year 6 students. Thanks also to
Jeremy at Mr Embroidery for the prompt delivery!
“Chicken Run” Construction Week!!
Book Club
Stage 3 and Ms Edgerton are ready
and raring to go with our Chicken
Run construction week due to
begin next Monday 29th August!
Thank you to all the parents and
community helpers who have
volunteered their time to assist
with the constrution – the Parent Helpers Roster was
sent home a few weeks ago and we are so excited to
have SO many wonderful helpers! Just a reminder to
ALL Stage 3 students and helpers – next week please
ensure you dress appropriately for building work –
long pants and sleeves, sturdy boots and old clothes!
This months’ Scholastic Book Club order is attached to
this week’s Newsletter. All orders and payment are
due by Monday 5th September.
Calendar
Term 3 Week 7
“Chicken Run” Construction Week!
Mon 29th Aug
th
Tues 30 Aug
Thurs 1st Sept
Fri 2nd Sept
Heather Brae Fund-raiser - Due 1st
September
This year we are again running a school fundraiser for
the whole school excursion. All items are well-priced
and fantastic quality. For each item sold, the
commission is $3.00 (which is an increase of $1.50 per
item from last year!) Please note that commissions
will be deducted from each child’s INDIVIDUAL
excursion fee – so the more your child sells, the more
savings they will make. Orders and payment are due
NEXT Thursday 1st September.
As part of Kinder and Stage 1’s work in HSIE on the
topic “Workers in the Community”, Mrs Lewis will be
taking the K-2 students to the Cowra Post Office on
Thursday 8th September. Students will get to see
‘behind the scenes’ at the Post Office, see the mail
sorting room and even have a look at the Postman’s
Motor Bike! Attached to this week’s Newsletter is a
Permission Note. There is no cost for this excursion
and parents are welcome to join us on the day.
Regional Premier’s Spelling Competition
This year we have entered a
Junior and Senior Team in the
Premier’s Spelling Challenge
to be held in Orange at
Calare Public School on
Tuesday 13th September.
Congratulations
to
the
following students who were successful in gaining a
place in these Teams following our School Spelling
Bee;
Junior Team – Layla Hood and Brittney Worth
Senior Team – Akiko Beatty and Christian Petty
Mrs Skene will be the staff member attending the
Spelling Bee this year. A permission note will come
out next week. In the meantime, I am sure all
students will be practicing hard!
KINDER Transition Class - 9:3012:00pm.
Heather Brae Bakery Treats Fundraiser
orders and payment due
Western Region Athletics Carnival Dubbo
Term 3 Week 8
Mon 5th Sept
Tues 6th Sept
Thurs 8th Sept
Fri 9th Sept
K-2 Post Office Excursion
GYMNASTICS @ PCYC
Miss Chloe Thompson starts Teaching
Prac at Holmwood PS (Stage 1)
Book Club due
KINDER Transition Class 9:30-12:00pm
North Cowra Childcare Centre Visit to
HPS 10:30-11:30am
Mrs Skene Professional Learning Day –
Orange (Mrs Kiely Stage 2)
K-2 Excursion to the Post Office
Scripture
Term 3 Week 9
Mon 12th Sept
Tues 13th Sept
Wed 14th Sept
Fri 16th Sept
GYMNASTICS @ PCYC
KINDER Transition Class - 9:3012:00pm.
Stage 2 and Stage 3 Regional Spelling
Bee – Calare PS (Orange) – Mrs Skene
attending (Mrs Kiely Stage 2)
MILO Cricket – Stage 3 - 9:00am2:30pm – Twigg Oval
Lily and Lara – NAIDOC Public Speaking
Regional Final – Tottenham CS
Ms Edgerton – Leave (Mrs Knight
Stage 3)
Kind Regards,
Jenny Lewis
Principal
Attachments
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K-2 Post Office Excursion Permission
Note
Holmwood Spring Festival Roster – one
per family
Book Club Catalogues
Kinder Class News
Another fun-filled week has zoomed by in the
Kindergarten class. We all had such a great day
on Monday attending Gymnastics for the first
time with our friends. Some of us have been to
Gymnastics before while for others it was a
new experience! Everyone enjoyed learning new
skills on the equipment and the bus ride to and
from school was also lots of fun!
This week we have been continuing our learning
about the topic “Position”, with a strong focus
on left and right.. We discovered that if we face
one of our friends and hold up our right hand –
it looks the opposite! We played lots of
positional games such as Simon Says and
enjoyed playing an online game called Baby Chick
Maze on the ABCya website. This was such a
tricky game as we had to memorise the
obstacles and then guide the baby chicken
safely through the maze to the mother hen by
turning left and right!
The “Baby Chick Maze” game website address is
- http://www.abcya.com/baby_chick_maze.htm
Kinder LOOOOVE using the netbooks in English
and Maths lessons this term!
Just a reminder that Homework is due
tomorrow, along with Humpty Sightword books.
Kind Regards,
Mrs Jenny Lewis
Kindergarten Class Teacher
Stage 1 Class News
“On Monday I went to Gymnastics and I loved the
beam. I can balance very well.” – Lucas
“On Monday I went to Gymnastics and I learnt to do
a handstand.” – Madison
“At gymnastics I did a bear walk on the bars.” –
Makayla
This week started with our first Gymnastic Session
for the year. We left straight from school and
headed to the PCYC on Binni Creek Road. The
students experimented with jumps, balances and
turns on a range of equipment. Stage 1 used this
to create pieces of writing about what they did,
what they learnt and their favourite part of the
Gymnastics Session. The students came up with
some fantastic sentences!
This week we read Koala Lou by Mem Fox. Koala
Lou is loved by everyone especially her mum.
However, mum has more children and becomes
very busy! Koala Lou decides to compete in Bush
Olympics to make her mum proud. I will let your
child tell you the rest of the story. After reading
and discussing the text the students got a work
sheet with parts of the story on it! Unfortunately it
was a little mixed up! We had to cut up the sheet
and put it back together so it made sense!
Kindergarten and Stage 1 were very good at this
sequencing task.
The focus in Maths this week was position. We
looked at the language associated with this
concept. The students revised the terms forward,
backwards, left, right, up and down. Year 1 had to
use the directions to determine the position of
certain objects. Year 2 used a set of directions
and a map to find the way to various houses and
shops.
On Wednesday, the students worked
together to create a 3D model of ‘Muldoon Primary
School’. Stage 1 used Lego and blocks to create
the school grounds.
Until next week…
Mrs Amylee Knight
Stage 1 Class Teacher
Stage 2 Class News
Week 6 already!! Wow, how quickly this term is
flying by! On Monday we welcomed the start of
our Gymnastics lessons at the PCYC. Everyone
thoroughly enjoyed it, performing acts that not only
surprised themselves but also me!! Everyone was
swinging, turning, balancing, flipping and jumping on
and off the beam and parallel bars!! Lots of
different jumps, rolls, hops and flips were being
performed on the Air-Track. We can’t wait for
next week’s lesson!
Thank you to everyone who has brought in their
favourite family recipes for our class Recipe Book.
For those that haven’t please remember to bring
one in ASAP. If that task is too difficult, some have
been researching recipes at school. The typing up of
our Procedures is coming along nicely and we are
looking forward to the finished book. The designing
of the front cover has also started.
Money and Problem Solving have been the focus in
Maths this week. We have played games with ‘play
money’, been shopping with Woolworths and Aldi
catalogues, used calculators to help calculate our
shopping, added and subtracted money, worked out
the change and rounded money to the nearest dollar
and the nearest 5 cents. I have been very impressed
with how proficient everyone is with calculating
money!
have a few showers! Hopefully we can continue to
work. Students will need to wear leather work boots,
jeans, long sleeves tops, jumpers and a rain coat.
During the week we have taken delivery of the
timber kindly cut to order and delivered by
Jamieson’s Joinery as well as the bird mesh
delivered by Lachlan Steel. It was very much
appreciated that they could deliver all our products.
Also this week we have been madly working on our
Recycled Art Projects for the Cowra Shire Council
Recycled Art Competition. Kindergarten students
have been very busy building ‘Robot Men’, Year 1 and 2
have made a milk bottle lid artwork titled ’You are
My Sunshine’, Year 3 and 4 have been flat out building
a ‘Funky Town’ from cardboard boxes and Year 5 and
6 have made recycled tile mosaics titled ‘Fireflies’.
Entries will be submitted next week. In Science each
class has been learning about the processes of
recycling different types of products such as milk
bottles, aluminium cans, paper and PET bottles.
After our visit to the Cowra MRF facility the Cowra
Council kindly donated a Worm Farm to Holmwood
Public School to use as part of our Sustainability
Program. This will be a project for the Stage 2
Science Class in conjunction with our Chicken Run
Project! Huge thanks to Cowra Council for supporting
our school!
Jaydan, Jake and Brittney enjoyed playing Money Games in
Maths this week!
We have had some very interesting ‘smaller than
your hand’ items brought to class for News this
week. Thank you everyone for taking the time and
effort towards presenting your News items. News
topic for next week is: Bring in something from the
garden and explain it to us.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Mrs Fiona Skene
Stage 2 Class Teacher
Stage 3 Class News
Once again it has been a busy week all round. We
are excitedly getting ready for the construction of
the Chicken Coop next week. We have resolved our
technical issues and have been given the all clear to
begin construction on Monday. Hopefully the weather
will hold out during next week, although we might
Enjoy your weekend and fingers crossed for lots of
sunshine for our build week next week!
Ms Heidi Edgerton
Stage 3 Class Teacher
P&C News
Thank you to the P&C Members who turned up to
Monday night’s meeting regarding the Holmwood
Festival! It appears that the Festival has almost
doubled in size with around 50 stalls, rides, live
entertainment,
fireworks!!
games
and
of
course
the
Community News
All families will be requested to assist with the
running of the Festival, which will be our MAJOR
Fundraiser for this year – whether helping on stalls,
baking cakes or working behind the scenes – there
are plenty of jobs to do! The P&C work very hard
throughout the year to provide extra funds that
benefit ALL students, so your assistance is needed!
Attached to this week’s Newsletter is a
parent helper roster for each family. We
require one parent from each family to
assist with various jobs on the night
Please write your name on at least ONE
time slot (or more if you are able!!) and
return the form to the school. If you
have any concerns or questions about
the roster please contact Kelly Murphy
on 0455 456543
WANTED NOW – JAZZY JARS - any glass jars with lids
that can be filled with goodies for a Jazzy Jar
stall at the Festival. Some ideas could be….
Stationary – textas, gel pens, stickers, rubbers
Lollies – must be wrapped in paper
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Girls Jars – clips, hair bands, beads, nail polish
Boys Jars – toy cars, army men
Party Jars – whistles, balloons, party poppers, glow
sticks
Please ensure all items are new/unused.
ALSO WANTED!!
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EMPTY GASS JARS with LIDS – we have
crates
of
fabulous
toys
and
stationary donated by Central West
Pest Ex which we can use to fill empty
glass jars to make more Jazzy Jars
– please send these in to school!
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OLD BLANKETS/PICNIC RUGS to be used
for additional seating at the Festival!
Michelle Whitty – P&C Secretary
COWRA NETBALL ASSOC
2017 REPRESENTATIVE TEAM TRIAL
DATES ANNOUNCED.
Junior Development Squad (10 & 11 yrs)
will be held 27th August & 3rd September
from 11am till 12.30pm
 12 YRS REP TRIALS will be held 27th
August & 3rd September from 11am till
12.30pm
 13, 14, 15 & 17 years will be held 4th &
11th September with times to be
announced.
Nomination forms are available on our website
http://cowrana.nsw.netball.com.au/ under the
Representative tab.
Please hand in completed nomination forms
PRIOR to trial dates at the canteen or
alternatively you can email them to
cowra.netball@hotmail.com or post to PO Box
367, COWRA.