CROSSMAGLEN PUBLIC SCHOOL

384 Crossmaglen Road, Crossmaglen, Via Bonville NSW 2450

Phone: 02 66 534295 Fax: 02 66 534081

Email: crossmagle-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

www.crossmagle-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“Learning for Life”

Week 9, Term 3

Dear Parents and Community Members, Kindergarten Enrolments Kindergarten enrolments are now being taken. Please ring the school to discuss orientation and enrolling your child or children for 2014. If you know anyone with children who are eligible to start Kindergarten in 2014, please let them know we are now accepting enrolments for next year. Election Day P & C Stall Thank you to all of those hard workers who manned the stall on Saturday and the wonderful donations to make the stall a huge success. The P & C raised approximately $670 dollars, a wonderful effort by all. Mayor’s Visit On Tuesday 17th September the Coffs Harbour City Council Mayor, Denise Knight, will be visiting our school. We will be holding a Waterwise Accreditation Ceremony at 11:00 am under the C.O.L.A. The students will be presenting their findings of water use across the school and in the local area to the Mayor. They will showcase their virtual world builds on the blueberry, dairy and macadamia farms as well. Parents and community members are invited to attend. Following the ceremony there will be a morning tea. All visitors are welcome to stay and it would be appreciated if students could bring a plate of biscuits, slice or cake to share. Orienteering Last Tuesday the children travelled to Upper Orara Public School to compete in an orienteering fun day. They competed with over 90 students from other schools. It was a great day with everyone mixing in groups with the other schools to complete different activities around orienteering

skills. Read the student’s recounts about what they did on the day.

Vanessa Cavanagh

Principal Olivia - Year 1 I have been to orienteering. I had a good time. I went on a bus. We had Mrs Peart, Rom and Kim get on the bus with us. Then we got off the bus at Upper Orara. We had some food. Then we started our games and then we had recess. Then we played games again and then we had lunch. Then we got on the bus. I was a little bit nervous and excited! Lachlan - Year 6 On Tuesday the 3rd of September, the kids from Crossmaglen Public School got on a bus and left to go to Upper Orara because we were doing orienteering. Once we had arrived there we jumped out of the bus. The teachers that came were Mrs Peart, Rom and Kim, to help us through the day. After we had sat down, we had some recess or fruit. There were four schools there then we got straight into it. The big kids did orienteering first around the school. Vikram and I were the only kids to do the second course. On the first course Vikram and I slid into the barbed wire fence. The next activity was with Avon. We were in the COLA and we were playing Pacman and I was first in. We played

TERM 3 CALENDAR

Tuesday 17th September Waterwise Ceremony, 11am

Friday 20th September Last Day, Term 3.

Tuesday 8th October First Day, Term 4

another game where you had to dodge cow poo, birds and furniture. Also, we did a maze. First we did relays and Crossie kept on winning. I was on another team and my team kept losing. After that we got on to the maze and did it once and then did it backward in order. Finally we got on to the last activity and it was navigating. We did a practice run and then played around by looking at the cards. Once the Crossie kids had finished all their activities we got back on the bus, went back to school and played a bit more. We also got a wrist band and information about orienteering and our own flag. After all it was a great day and a lot of fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------

Lee Winkler’s Surf School

Vegemite/Quicksilver Surfgroms School Holiday Programs and Term 4 now open for bookings. September School Holidays Starts 21st September Weekend and mid week courses throughout holidays Levels 1 and 2

Term 4 Starts Oct 26th

Lessons available every day, weekends and after school. Levels 1, 2, 3

Ages 5 to 12 years Book now to secure your child’s spot!

Limited spaces per class All registrations receive a free surfgrom quicksilver pack www. Surfgroms.com and book with Lee Winkler’s Surf

School Enquiries Phone 66 500050

Crossmaglen Public School Uniform Shop

School Shirts with Logo $20.00

Sports Shirt with Logo $20.00

Embroidered Navy Jumper $20.00

Embroidered Hat $15.00

Photo Gallery

Orienteering Day 2013