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COCKATOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be! NO. 9 Friday April 22nd 2016

Dates to Remember April Monday 25

th ANZAC Day – No School Today

Tuesday 26

th Grade 5/6 Camp Forest Lodge – Depart

Wednesday 27

th Grade 3/4 EDEC Cross Country

Thursday 28

th School Banking

Friday 29

th Grade 5/6 Camp Forest Lodge - Return

May Thursday 5

th Mother’s Day Stall 9am -11am

School Banking

Friday 6th

Mother’s Day Stall 1:30pm – 2pm

Thursday 12th

School Banking

Thursday 19th

Alpha Dental Visit *Date Change

Grade 5/6 EDEC Cross Country

School Banking

Friday 20th

Alpha Dental Visit *Date Change

Tuesday 24th

Grades 3 – 6 Incursion Basketball Clinic

Thursday 26th

School Banking

PRINCIPALS REPORT On Wednesday night it was with great pride that Sarah Abraham, Tim Stapleton, Sarah Wintle and I

witnessed Kerry Champness, our much loved bus driver, receive the Emerald and District Rotary Pride

of Workmanship Award. The staff were unanimous in supporting Kerry’s nomination for this award and,

therefore, provided the following citation:

“Kerry is our school bus driver and has been ‘forever’! He is VERY patient with everybody and will go out

of his way to pick up and drop off extra students even if it makes his bus route a little longer than usual.

He doesn’t hesitate to drive smaller groups of students to activities during the school day if it can save

the parents a little bit of money in doing so. As long as he has a car magazine or book to read he is

happy to wait all day before making the return trip to school.

Kerry takes his job very seriously and will not compromise the safety and wellbeing of the students.

Thank goodness his standards are very high as he carries very precious cargo!!!

He never, ever gets rattled, is always calm and focussed on keeping the students on the bus safe.

Our whole school community; parents, staff and students alike have the utmost respect for Kerry and the

job that he does. We are very, very proud to have Kerry as our bus driver and we couldn’t think of a

more deserving recipient for such a prestigious award.”

Congratulations Kerry!

Grade 5/6 Camp

Next Tuesday 26th April, our senior students will travel to Forest Lodge, Yarram for a four day camping

experience. Forest Lodge is an adventure camp which provides the students with many ‘thrill seeking’

activities. The favourite is the giant swing which really gets the adrenaline rushing as you free fall

through the air before the slack is taken up…. certainly a favourite of mine! Other activities include the

ropes courses, canoeing, bush cooking, flying fox, night hike, swimming and archery. The camp provides

fully qualified staff to supervise the adventure activities.

Everyone will have a wonderful time! Please keep your fingers crossed that the beautiful weather that we

have had for most of the week will follow the students to Yarram!

Curriculum Day

There will be a Curriculum Day on Tuesday June 7th 2016. Students are not required at school on this

day. The staff will be listening to Glen Pearsall as he facilitates training centred around the giving and

receiving of feedback, to and from teachers and to and from students.

We are VERY excited to secure Glen as our facilitator as he is renown across our network of schools for

providing outstanding professional learning sessions.

ANZAC Day

As there is a public holiday on Monday 25th April 2016 there will be no school. Enjoy the long weekend

and please stay safe!

We would like to wish the following students and staff a very Happy Birthday.

Students: Staff:

Matthew Noble Megan Pearton

Brooklyn Young

Hayley Eyers

Lachlan Van Leeuwen

Sarah Chawkley

NEW MENU – Don’t forget the 2016 Menu has been sent home, if you misplace and need another copy please go to the office they are NOT available at the canteen

****Brown Paper are FREE of charge***

Canteen News

Reminder

We are receiving New Zealand coins as payment for purchases, NO foreign currency can be accepted as the bank does not accept it therefore it is a loss for

the school.

QKR – Please direct all questions about QKR and prices to the office staff.

Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – www.cockatoops.vic.edu.au

What’s happening next week…

Term 2

2016 Monday

cooking

Tuesday

craft/free

play

Wednesd

ay

sports

Thursday

craft/free

play

Friday

Art-Craft

ideas

Endangered animals

week

3

25/4-

29/4

ANZAC DAY

make an

animal

habitat

netball Our endangered

animals

computers endangered

animals

game

To Contact O.S.H.C. call the School Office on 5968 8017 between 8.30am and 4.30pm or ring 0408 566 957or 5968 0256

at all other times. Enrolment Forms For 2015 are available at the office or Out of School Hours Care

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RETURN SLIP SICK BAY HELPERS WANTED

Dear Parents, If you are willing to help the school by stripping the beds, making them and washing the linen from the Sick Bay on a Friday and returning the linen the next week, please complete this slip so that we can make up a roster for the year. I am willing to be on the Sick Bay Roster. Name: …………………………………………. Phone: ……………………………. Eldest Child: ………………………………….. Grade: …………..


PFA Page * Mothers Day Stall – Thursday 5th & Friday 6th May

* Hot Jam Donut / Cold Drink Break – Tuesday 31st May

* Silicone Shoelace Fundraiser Coming Soon…..

A huge THANKYOU to the Mums who helped cook and deliver all the buckets of hot chips and cold drinks to the grades on Tuesday. We couldn’t

have these special days without your wonderful help.

PFA will be holding a Mothers Day Stall at school on Thursday 5th May (and the first half of lunchtime on Friday 6th May). We have sourced

some amazing gifts from all over Australia (and beyond) so students at our school can purchase gifts for their Mum, Grandma, Nanna, Special Person….. at very reasonable prices.

We have gifts ranging from $1 to $10. Please send your child along with their spending money & a plastic or carry bag to put their purchases in.

Grades attend the Mothers Day Stall one at a time with their Teacher. If any Dads (or Mums) want to pop in to do their own shopping the stall will be open from 9 ‘til 11am on

Thursday 5th May & from 1.30 ‘til 2pm on Friday 6th May. Please help support our School and do your Mothers Day Shopping at our Stall.

If there are any Mums or Dads out there who can help us set up the Mothers Day Stall on

Wednesday 6th May from 2pm onwards we would really appreciate your help. If you’re able to help Wednesday 4th May from 2pm, Thursday 5th May from 9.15am ‘til approx

11.30am or Friday 6th May from 1.30pm onwards please come along to the Brekky Club Room. We really do need your help to make sure these events can run for the kids at our

school.

Silicone Shoelace Fundraiser coming soon….. Kids and Adult sizes available at great prices ☺


Mail Order Eftpos Credit Payment

Cardholder’s Name: ……………………….…………...…….

Card Type: □ Bankcard □ Mastercard □ Visa

Card Number: □□□□ □□□□ □□□□ □□□□

Expiry Date: □□/□□

Amount to be Debited: $□□□.□□

Payment for: …………………………………………………………

Cardholder’s Signature: ……………………………….. Date: ……/……/……

Please Note: $10.00 minimum

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Your children are missing their library!!!! LIBRARY HELPERS WANTED

Dear Parents, We are looking for parent helpers who are able to come in and re stock our library shelves with the library books, it can be 1hr, 1 day, as little or as long as you are able to help. Please send this form back to the school office and Megan Pearton will contact you when she gets back from school camp. I am willing to help in the library. Name: …………………………………………. Phone: ……………………………. Eldest Child: ………………………………….. Grade: …………..

Grades 5 & 6 Mondays 6—8pm

@St Marks 1 Church St Emerald

Phone 5968 4046

May 2—Super Awesome Happy Fun Night

May 9—Chocolate Night

May 16— Pajama Party

May 23— Family Movie Night

Wednesday 29 June—Sleepover

STARTS MAY

2nd

$6 per night 4 weeks this term plus a

sleepover! Includes DINNER!


Qkr! is coming to Cockatoo Primary School

The new Qkr! app is now up and running here at Cockatoo Primary School. Qkr!

by MasterCard can be downloaded for free from Apple’s app store for iPhones

(iPads should download the iPhone app) or from Google Play for Android phones

and tablets. After downloading the app and registering, simply scan the QR code

on the left using the Qkr! Code scanner or type COCKATOO after tapping the

magnifying glass in the top right of the home screen of Qkr!, and then the app will

always recognise you as part of Cockatoo Primary School in future to make

payments even easier. You can purchase ADD WHAT YOU WANT HERE from the

commencement of Term 1 2016 using Qkr! to make payments immediately, so

why not download it today and take a look at our school on Qkr! - all feedback

to the school office is very welcome. More information will follow – both this year and next.

SCAN THIS CODE ON Qkr!


Student Achievements 2015

Cricket:Best Batter Milo Cricket

100% ATTENDANCE TERM 1


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