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CALENDAR DATE

Tuesday 12th March

Vaccinations

Friday 15th March

Relay for Life

Thursday 11th April

Easter Hat Parade

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Carenne School

Newsletter

TERM 1 WEEK 4 2019

School Captains and Leaders Induction

We had a wonderful day on Tuesday with the induction of our two school captains

Will and Aidan and our leaders, Cain, James H, Jake, Ethan, James R, Sage and

Henry. We were very proud of the boys and the leadership they are already

showing. Thank you to all that attended and to the families for being involved in

such a special event. A big thanks to Mrs Luther and Mrs Kennedy for all the

organisation and of course, making our young men look so terrific.

Relay for Life

This year we will be holding a mini relay for life on Friday 15th March. We will

have a continuous relay for 6 hours from 8:30am—2:30pm. We hope you can all be

involved and join us for a lap or two and to raise funds for this worthy cause. See

the flyer in the newsletter and more information will be sent home soon.

Sickness

We have had a few cases of the vomiting and diarrhoea bug in the Junior School.

Just a reminder NSW Health recommend students do not return to school until 24

hours after the vomiting and/or diarrhoea have stopped. We do have a number of

students with low immunity and their health is easily compromised. Thank you for

your assistance with this. Have a great week, Jane

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional

custodians of our lands, Australia. We acknowledge the Wiradjuri nation as the

traditional custodians of these lands we now call Bathurst, and we pay our respects to

their Elders both past and present.

www.carenne-s.schools.nsw.gov.au

https://www.swimmingpool.com/pool-living/pool-fitness/benefits-water-aerobics


2 Assisted School Travel Program

This is a very busy time of year for Assisted School Travel and we are endeavouring to make sure

all of our students’ needs are met with minimal disruption to routine. To assist us with this, please

make sure you let us know of any changes to your child’s needs as soon as you can. This includes

change of address, change of days transport is required due to respite or visitations, change to

student level of assistance required and temporary withdrawal of transport. Changes to transport

arrangements take a minimum of 2 weeks to occur and longer for new applications. Please

remember the sooner you notify us of your requirements the less disruption to your child's

transport.

Vaccinations

Each year NSW Health works in partnership with schools to offer the vaccines recommended by

the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for adolescents as part of the school

vaccination program.

In 2019 the following vaccines will be offered:

Parent Information Kits that include an information sheet, consent form and privacy statement will be sent home to parents/guardians. To consent to the vaccination of their child, parents/guardians are advised to: read all the information provided complete the consent form, including signing their name next to the vaccine/s they would

like their child to receive return the completed consent form to their child’s school ensure that their child eats breakfast on the day of the school vaccination clinic Please note that students who commence HPV vaccination in school clinics in Year 7 but do not complete the course during the school year may be offered catch-up doses at school in Year 8. To improve vaccination completion, students will be opportunistically offered any missed doses throughout the year where possible. A Record of Vaccination card will be provided to each student vaccinated at each clinic. Vaccinations for year 7 students and year 8 catch up students will be on the 12th of March, I will send home vaccination packs on the 5th of March. Please send back all completed consent forms by the 11th of March. Swimming Carnival Thank you to Kerry Rowley for her assistance with record keeping on the day and congratulations to our champions.

Take care, Nadine

YEARS VACCINE NUMBER OF DOSES

Year 7 Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine 2-doses at least 6 months apart

Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (whooping cugh) vaccine Single dose

Years 10 Meningococcal ACWY vaccine Single dose


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Class K Janelle Kemp (Teacher)

Yvette Smith (SLSO)

Class K have had a wonderful start to the year and have settled really well into their daily routine.

We have almost finalised our weekly timetable and it is jam packed full of fun learning activities.

The students of Class K are great workers and have shown that they have great skills in a range of

areas. We have started a Unit of Work on Australian Icons and Places and we are also linking this

to our Friday Cooking Program.

Each week we have 2 Key Word Signs and 2 Jolly Phonic Sounds that we are learning. If you visit

our room ask us what they are!! Group story time has been a hit with the students and we have

enjoyed completing activities based on the books: Hairy Maclary and the Three Little Pigs.

Volunteers from Quocka also come to our room on Mondays and we love listening to the stories

they read. But the biggest hit with our students so far have been our trips to the park, our gym

and Tuesdays sport (cricket skills).


4 CLASS Mc

Kylie McDonald (Teacher)

Marg Rowe (SLSO)

Welcome to the new 2019 school year and welcome to

our students and their families in Class Mc, Sebastian,

Richard, Rayne, Kai, Liam, Poppy, Noah and Ardor.

We are continuing to learn all about Carenne School,

our new friends and teachers. We are learning our

school rules of Being Safe, Being Respectful and Being a Learner.

During the last three weeks we have been learning about phonics, shapes, colours and numbers

each day. Class Mc have made Letter A– Ants, Letter B– Butterflies and Letter C– Cats.

Class Mc have been learning some new action songs during morning greetings; our class

favourites include “If you’re Happy and you know it”, “The Wheels on the Bus” and “Open Shut

Them”. Well done to Class Mc for being great friends, waiting and taking their turns and sharing

our new trampoline in the top courtyard.


5 CLASS C

Kerryn Cafe / (Teacher)

Steph Cupples (SLSO)

Class C have settled in beautifully to school life for 2019. We are all working well each day and we

enjoy many activities including maths and literacy groups, sport, music and library lessons. We

have lots of fun on Thursday morning doing our Health Hustle dance in the cola.

As part of our unit of work on Australian Places in HSIE we have really enjoyed learning about our

town and how we are connected to other places. As part of this unit we enjoyed finding our

homes on goggle maps and also posting a letter to our house.


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CLASS F

Sue Flude (Teacher)

Emma Rush/Katherine Porter (SLSO)

The students of Class F have settled into our classroom and class routine very quickly. This term

we are doing lots of exciting work. We are reading lots of books and completing book studies

including spelling, grammar and comprehension activities. The book we are reading at the

moment is called Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley which looks at how people can be great friends

even though they are different. In maths groups we are focusing on numbers, place value,

addition and subtraction. Students have enjoyed participating in science experiments discovering

sound and light sources with Ms Couchman. In geography we are learning about our place in the

world, exploring our town, state and country. We were all very safe cutting our strawberries for

our fruit and jelly cups last week. In the mornings we enjoy exercising our fingers in our fine

motor activities. Then we exercise our bodies in our weekly Health Hustle on Thursday and

develop our cricket skills on Wednesdays. Wow! Lots of learning and fun.

Learning


7 CLASS D

Dezarae Bastow (Teacher)

Emily Smith (SLSO)

Class D have settled into Term One really well! We’re working hard to get into a class routine,

follow the PBL Rules and learn lots of new skills like Key Word Sign.

We are enjoying reading ‘A Different Dog’ by Paul Jennings and exploring narratives through HOT

(Higher Order Thinking) activities. We’ve also written a short narrative about some children who

got lost in the forest and encounter a bear. We’re enjoying using Reading Eggs and the hands on

activities that were made to accompany the program.

In Mathematics we’re exploring whole numbers and beginning to use Mathletics which is a lot of

fun. We’re doing a lot of hands-on activities using number lines and hundreds charts.

Every Wednesday we enjoy cooking and expanding our food preparation skills. Although we

mostly don’t like to try the foods we thoroughly enjoy cooking for others. We’ve made cookies, a

celery/cream cheese snack, an egg salad and a fruit salad. Yummy!

Every afternoon we come in from the playground and listen to Smiling Minds Mindfulness which

helps us to focus on the ‘right now’ and control some of our stronger emotions. We feel so much

more relaxed afterwards.

What a great start to the year!


8 CLASS M

Arlene Monaghan (Teacher)

Wendy Lynch (SLSO)

Class M are making it a habit of trying

new things. And suddenly, what we

learn with pleasure brings the magic of

new beginnings.


9 CLASS B

Anne Baskerville | Myles Woodward (Teacher)

Kym Tattersall (SLSO)

Well another year has started and we are off and running at our usual frantic pace. All the

students and staff are ready to spend a fun filled year together.

Kaydee is still not very well but we are looking forward to seeing her back at school very soon

when she is up to it. We welcome a new student to the ‘Resort’ this year and a new teacher, Aatif

has come to us from Class Mc, he is fitting in really well and Mr Woodward is class teacher on

Wednesdays and covering my RFF.

Our program this semester has a very strong sensory focus and incorporates themes of the Circus

- under the big top. Communication and therapy are always a priority.

IEP’s are underway and are a great opportunity for all stakeholders in our very special students

lives to come together and set their priorities for the year.

We would like to congratulate Will on being one of Carenne’s 2019 School Captains.

Until we catch up next time, take care and stay safe from all of us in Class B.

Captain Clown and his happy troop in Class B


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CLASS E

Rebekah Ravesi (Teacher)

Kathleen Matheson (SLSO)

Class E have had a great start to the year with everyone settling in well. Our focus this term is

movement, exercise and self regulation.

We take regular walks to the garden, gym and exercise around the oval.

We have been riding gyro bikes and really happy with everyone’s ability to steer and navigate the

bikes.

We are delighted to see all students engaged in our sensory art lessons using the blender

independently and also making beautiful coloured playdough using aromatherapy oils and

glitter.

All students enjoyed our swimming carnival. They particularly loved the whirl pool. It was

impressive to see their strength and agility. Well done Class E.


11 CLASS R

Adam Ryan (Teacher)

Mick Phillips (SLSO)

We have enjoyed the start of the year, getting to know each other and adjusting back into school

life. We have started a Science unit on ‘The Environment’ which has involved us continuing the

recycling efforts from last year, by utilising the Return and Earn Program. In Food Technology we

acted as food critics, tasted all different fruits and ranked them by flavour, before creating our

own yummy fruit salad and yoghurt. The School has had its new basketball ring installed and the

class all enjoy using it during their breaks. We are playing cricket for school sport on Tuesdays

which will be used as practise for some students to attend the indoor cricket carnival later this

term. The school swimming carnival has been and all students who attended really enjoyed the

day. The ‘big splash’ and ‘best dive’ were favourite events. We would like to congratulate Stanley

on performing his first Acknowledgement of Country at the School Captain’s Induction. Well

Done. We are looking forward to a fantastic year of learning, fun and adventure.


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Class S

Peta Sykes (Teacher)

Karina Molenkamp (SLSO)

Class S have settled in really well to our daily routine. We have welcomed a new student to the

school and our class, Jackson. A few of our favourite things to do so far is our bus trips to do

shopping for the classroom and also for our cooking lessons on Tuesday after sport. Each week

one of our students chooses a recipe to create and they find the recipe online. We focus on

healthy but delicious recipes and the students really enjoy the ownership of creating their own

cooking ideas. This year we are also focusing on movement and physical exercise to promote

healthy bodies and waken up our brains to learn. We are enjoying our Health Hustle Program

every Thursday where we move our bodies to music. We also love our warm ups and cool downs

and finish it with a big high five to encourage a positive attitude and a happy day at school. We

are looking forward to a lovely year in Class S.


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CLASS N

Terry Neal (Teacher)

Samantha Schofield (SLSO)

We have had a great start to our first Term. We would like to welcome Angela, Logan and Lily to

Class N, who have come from other primary schools, to their new Year 7. They are settling in well

and made some great class and school fiends, very quickly. We have enjoyed talking to all our

student’s parents and carers, with the IEP meetings, and sharing some important information

about their children and working out where we should go, for this year.

We have been establishing our class subject, lessons and routines as well as having some fun

both in the class and in the playground. We had a great time at the Bathurst Aquatic Centre—at

the Carenne Swimming Carnival.

We have also had a few students and staff’s birthdays lately, and enjoyed showing our new

students the RDA and Pets as Therapy Complex—as well as the Greenhouse that we are going to

use soon with our Agriculture subject, of growing winter vegetables.


14 CLASS O

Christine Okello (Teacher)

Robyn Staader (SLSO)

Welcome back to school this year! We hope that you had a really enjoyable holiday and are ready

for the school year ahead. We have had a great start of the year and students have settled to

their routine. We have been meeting with parents and carers to discuss Individual Educational

Program. It was great showcasing the work that the students have been doing since the

beginning of the term and we were able to discuss work planned for the year. For classroom

strategies and behaviour management, students in my class are enrolled in the ClassDojo, a

program that uses a reward system and keeps record of students’ achievements and engagement

in class. Students need to earn 3 Bronze Medals (30 ClassDojo points for each Bronze Medal), 3

Silver Medals (30 ClassDojo points for each Silver Medal) and 30 ClassDojo points for a Gold

Medal. Parents can be included and they can access their child’s progress at home. We look

forward to another year of great work.


15 CLASS L

Ros Luther | Myles Woodward (Teacher)

Paula Hundy | Melinda Gavin (SLSO)

What an awesome beginning to the year with everybody settling in so well to either their new

class or new classmates.

We have been very busy getting to know each other as well as reminding everybody of class and

school expectations. As we are a Senior class we are encouraging independence as much as

possible in readiness for either leaving school at the end of this year or in the next couple of

years.

We have 4 School leaders in Class L who celebrated with family and friends on Tuesday at the

Leader’s Induction Ceremony. Aidan Bedwell, Henry Ryan, Sage Kalayzich and Ethan Kavwenji.

Our other classmates are Connor Drewe, Matthew Read and Dylan Cowan.

Class L will continue to run the Coffee Club each week and our ‘newbies’ have slotted in very well

to the program already. Matthew and Connor being an awesome help with delivering the goodies

to staff at their tables at recess and Mrs Gavin has been learning to use our new coffee machine

which last years school leavers donated to the school as their end of year gift.

We have been very impressed with the work ethic in the classroom and can’t wait to see how

much we can get through this year.


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CLASS A

Michael Auld (Teacher)

Donna Kennedy (SLSO)

Welcome to Class A for 2019. It’s already been a busy start to the year for Class A with the

Leader’s Induction last Tuesday and the Carenne Swimming Carnival.

The students have discussed their goals for this year:

James will continue with his goal with working at

RDA.

Cain will complete his automotive course at Tafe, he

would like to learn to cook!!

Cody wants to do well with his Tafe course,

Animal Studies and he would like to improve his

reading.

P.J would like to learn more about

photography and video editing

Jarad has set his goal to improve on his reading skills

Lachlan wants to continue with

all his sports and learn how to

cook.

Josh wants to work with the

animals.


17 Macquarie Tutorial Centre

Leeanne Graham / Katrina Johnston / Katie Moss / Tania Pringle (Teacher)

Jodie Toomey / Khiara Ryan / Julie Buining (SLSO)

Macquarie Tutorial Centre students have been using their creative abilities through the use of

STEM challenges. Every fortnight all classes are provided a STEM challenge design brief. Students

are provided with a variety of materials, requirements, specifications and time allocations. So far

students have been challenged with the requirement to design and build a cantilever and a

bridge. It has been wonderful seeing the sportsmanship, participation and dedication in meeting

the design briefs. Well done to all of the fabulous creators. We look forward to seeing your

future creations.


18 Sport and Recreation

Terry Neal

We have started to do our regular sport and recreation, and we had a great time with our regular

whole school cricket sport sessions and also at the Carenne Swimming Carnival. Coming up soon, for

both our primary and secondary aged students, is the Regional Indoor Cricket Carnival.


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CARENNE NEWS

Carenne Relay for Life – Friday 15th March

Many school communities, including Carenne, are affected by cancer – teachers, par-

ents, students and families.

When: Join us on Friday 15th March for our Mini Relay for Life. We will be holding a

continuous relay for 6 hours from 8:30am – 2:30pm.

Each class will have a set time they will be relaying. Come along and join your child’s

class or just come anytime! Bring your friends, family and loved ones.

How can I be involved: You can join our Carenne team or just bring a gold coin dona-

tion, do a lap or two, have a go at carrying our lap mascot around and help us fund-

raise for Cancer Council.

If you would like to join our Carenne School team go to https://www.cancercouncil.org.au/

relayforlife/events/it0000789/

and click: Join our Relay – Find a Team – Search for a team – Carenne School then click Join our

Team. The cost is $25 and you get a free Relay shirt to wear on the day.

On the day: There will be prizes for:

Guess the number of laps we will complete – gold coin entry

Most laps completed by a student

Most laps completed by a staff member

Most laps completed by a family/community member

If you choose to walk with us, we will be having a BBQ lunch at 1:00pm.

What do I wear: Be bright, be colourful, be purple!

It’ll be a great day of fun and a chance for us to raise funds

for this worthy cause.

https://www.cancercouncil.org.au/relayforlife/events/it0000789/

https://www.cancercouncil.org.au/relayforlife/events/it0000789/


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COMMUNITY NEWS

… To make Japanese vegie pancakes

Makes: 12 I Prep time: 15 min I Cook time: 10 min

Ingredients

½ small cabbage, very thinly sliced

4 medium carrots, grated

2 cups baby spinach, thinly sliced

4 spring onions, thinly sliced

½ cup wholemeal plain flour

6 large eggs, lightly beaten

Pinch of salt

Olive oil spray

Method

Place the vegies in a bowl and mix together. Toss with the flour, coating all

the vegies. Stir in the eggs and pinch of salt.

Lightly spray a large non-stick fry pan with olive oil spray and heat over med-

high heat. You may need to re-spray between batches. Add heaped table-

spoons of the mixture to the fry pan in rounds. Gently press to flatten. Cook

until golden, approx 3 minutes, and then turn to cook the other side.

For a video on how to make this recipe, visit our website.

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