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Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Newsletter No 1 2013

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. 21 Friday July 24th 2015

Dates to Remember

Monday , 27th July Book Fair sale. 3:30 – 6pm Music Room

Tuesday, 28th

July PFA Recess Break

Thursday, 30th

July KMOTION Returns

Tuesday 11th August Students Leave for Ramo

Friday 14th August PFA Free Dress/Spinning Wheel

Wednesday 19th August 5/6 EDEC Basketball Day

Monday 24th August 5/6 Story Teller

Tuesday 25th August PFA Recess Break

Notices Sent Home Since This Week:

Cockatoo Primary School No 3535.

PRINCIPALS REPORT

Ramingining Family Disco Only one more sleep to what should be a fun filled night with lots of dancing, yummy food, great

raffles and awesome auction items. We hope to see you at the Cockatoo Community Centre

tomorrow night. Disco starts at 5:00pm and ends at 10:00pm.

Football Clinic There was much excitement in the office on Monday morning around 9.30am when we were told that

two footballers from Richmond Football Club were coming to our school to run clinics with our

students. Corey Ellis and Troy Chaplin arrived at 1.00pm to find many thrilled students and staff.

From all accounts the clinics were fantastic and a great time was had by all.

Lamont Book Fair Once again we have organised a book fair through Lamont Books. On Monday 27th July, families will

be able to purchase books at the book fair from 3:30pm until 6:30pm. This year the book fair is being

held in the music room. Students that are unable to make it that evening will have the opportunity to

bring money and purchase books the following day. The more books we sell the more books we will

be able to get for our Library which is currently in the process of being revamped thanks to our

Library committee.

Education State Education influences every corner of our society and is the key to ensuring our state remains one of

the world’s best places to live in decades ahead. It is vital that to ensure we remain the Education

State we are able to put our ideas forward and have them heard. A website has been set up for

anyone wishing to have their say about Victoria’s Education. Any ideas that you may want to put

forward can be done so at www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/educationstate.aspx

Parent Opinion Survey Every year a random computer generated group of families are asked to complete the Annual Parent

Opinion Survey that is conducted by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

(DEECD). All information remains confidential and is sent to DEECD for analysis. Later this year we

will receive the results of this survey which is then discussed with the staff and presented to school

council. The results assist us in setting targets and goals to improve our school. Please check your

child’s bag on Monday for an orange envelope. If you find one it means that you were one of the

lucky ducks randomly chosen to complete the survey. Please return them to school as soon as

possible. Thank you for your anticipated support.

Cyberbullying As technology has become such an integral part of life there are continuous changes with policies

and parliamentary Acts. A newly formed Office of the Children’s eSafety and has been established

under the Enhancing Online Safety for Children Act 2015. This office will follow up on complaints of

cyberbullying and work in conjunction with social media sites. For further information please go to

www.esafety.gov.au

Hope you all have a great weekend and a wonderful week ahead.


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

Students: Staff:

Tahlia Waller

Aofie Hunter

Jude McAllister

This year the program will be staffed by me, Janine McLellan, Deidre Pollard and Kelly

Stovold will join us once a fortnight on a Friday.

We will run our activity programs again this year. If you have any concerns or questions

regarding OSHC please feel free to contact us on the numbers listed below or leave a

message at the Office and we will contact you.

To Contact O.S.H.C. call the School Office

on 5968 8017 between

8.30am and 4.30pm

or ring 0408 566 957

or 5968 0256

at all other times. Enrolment Forms

For 2015 are available at the office or Out of School Hours Care


31.07.2015 Kerryn Turner

14.08.2015 Lynda Chiaruttini 28.08.2015 Leighta Bennett 11.09.2015 Clair Dunbar 09.10.2015 Bindie Ritchie

Monday Open Tuesday CLOSED Wednesday Open Thursday Open

Friday Open

Help Required

No helpers are rostered, but feel free to drop in anytime and give a helping hand.

Canteen News

Canteen Duty commences at 10.30am and runs until approximately

2.00 – 2.30pm.

NOTE Classic Popcorn has been discontinued.

We now stock COBBS Popcorn. Larger bag.

Cobbs Popcorn $1.60 Fandangles are now $1.60

� As end of term nears the canteen will be running perishable items down therefore some stock may not be available.

� Slushies will be unavailable from next week but they will be back with new exciting flavours next term.

Tomato sauce is

included in the pricing;

if you DON’T want

sauce please write this

on your order


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REMINDER

In the past week we have had a number of slips and spills in the playground resulting in wet dirty clothes. Can we please ask that you supply a change of clothes in case of any little accidents.


IT’S COOL TO BE AT SCHOOL!

REMINDER

STUDENT MESSAGES

Please ring all urgent

messages into the

Office before 3.15pm

LOCAL ELECTRICIAN LIVING & BASED IN COCKATOO

– NO JOB TO SMALL- CALL GRANT


PFA Page * Hot Jam Donuts & Cold Drink Day Next Tuesday 28th July

* Cadbury Chocolates Coming Soon

* Spinning Wheel Grocery Item Day Friday 14th August

* Fathers Day Stall Thursday 3rd September

*Kids Artwork Fundraiser this term

PFA Hot Jam Donuts & Cold Drink Break

We’ll be fundraising this term with “Hot Jam Donuts & a Cold Drink” on Tuesday 28th July (that’s next Tuesday).

Students will be able to purchase a cold drink (milo, cordial or water) and two hot jam donuts for $4.00. Please fill out the order form & get it back to the Office by Monday

27th July.

PFA are running a fantastic Cadbury Chocolate Fundraiser this term. Your family will be sent one box of Cadbury

Chocolates to sell. Selling price for the chocolates is $1.00 each or 5 for $5.00. There is a collection envelope in each box of chocolates to place your money. This price is excellent value, and all profits will go to the students at our

school. We suggest you could sell them to family members, friends, neighbors, or take them to your workplace. If children are selling the chocolates – please make sure they are adequately supervised. The money from the sale of the box of chocolates ($50.00)

is to be returned to the Office by Thursday 27th August. If you would like extra boxes of Cadbury Chocolates to sell, please ask at the Office.

PFA will be giving a prize to the Student who sells the most Cadbury Chocolates & returns the money to the Office by Thursday 27th August.

PFA will hold two Free Dress Spinning Wheel / Grocery Days during third term in

preparation for making hampers for our School Carnival (to be held 4th Term). Notes will be sent home soon….

Our Fathers Day Stall will be held Thursday 3rd September. We have already started

sourcing special products from within Australia, and from all over the world so the students can get their Dads, Grandpas, Pops, Special Person something wonderful for

Fathers Day.

The Kids Artwork Fundraiser will be held a bit earlier this year, to help you plan & get organized for your Christmas list….. There will be Calenders, Diaries, Notebooks, Mouse Mats all with your own childs artwork professionally printed on them. Wendy

Dene has already done lots and lots of work with the students to make sure their artwork is absolutely stunning…… Thankyou Wendy


We have some FANTASTIC news to share with you- Woolworths Earn and Learn is back!! The Earn and Learn program is a wonderful opportunity for our school to ‘earn’ points that we can redeem with one of the leading school supply stores. These points will be shared across the school and will allow levels to get ‘bonus’ items that they would like. We need your help though. We have set a target of 20, 000 points. Which means that as of Wednesday the 15th of July, when the earn and learn program opens at all Woolworths stores we would love it if your family, extended family, neighbor’s etc. could collect stickers for our school. These stickers can be sent to school, either on a sticker card or we will put them onto a card. The Earn and Learn program will run until Tuesday the 8th of September. This gives us 55 days to collect as many stickers as we can. We can do it!! We will let you know, via the website our weekly total. So make sure you start collecting the stickers. Remember every $10 spent earns you a sticker. Thank you in anticipation Sarah Wintle


Cockatoo Little Athletics presents…..

Hills Challenge Cross Country 2015 Entries on the day from 8.30am till 9.45am. Races start 10.00am.

Entries Cost $5 per athlete

Saturday 1st

August

Cockatoo LAC, Mountain Road Reserve, Cockatoo

Event 1 Under 6 Boys & Girls 500m

Event 2 Under 7 & 8 Boys & Girls 1000m



Event 5 Under 13 to 15 Boys & Girls and OPEN 3000m

Canteen & BBQ available on the day

Additional enquiries phone – Lisa 0408 338 724 or Russ 0458 771 622


Student

Achievements 2015


Richmond Football

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