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Term 2, Week 1

29th April 2020

Newsletter

Principal’s News

Welcome to Term 2, particularly to those students who had been self-isolating and we haven’t seen for a while. It is good to

have you back. This term has started a little differently than we had anticipated and planned for. Our staff spent a great deal

of time preparing for remote online learning, developing their knowledge and understanding of the Google Platform and

working with parents and students to successfully learn at home. That has all changed with over 90% of our students back

at school. We will still provide work for students at home; however, there will be less of an online component. Teachers will

still be using elements of the Google Suite to conduct lessons to ensure that they continue to develop their skills and those

of the students, should the need arise again.

I would like thank you all, as parents, for the positive way you communicated with, and supported our staff, school and your

children to work through these unprecedented times. It is in times like this that I am grateful to work in the community that I

do.

Welcome

We would like to welcome 3 students this term- Kruze (Year 6) and Bejay (Year 8) Kennedy, who have come to us from

Elliston and Lilliana Crettenden who is returning to us from Adelaide. Welcome also to Ms Duan Maguire, who has taken on

Art/English and Primary NIT, and Mr Bob Combes who is teaching Research Project. We are glad that you are all joining us

and hope you will enjoy being part of our school community

Anzac Day

Anzac Day ceremonies looked a little different this year with rules about social distancing and large gatherings, forcing us

all to conduct our own private services in memory of those Australians and New Zealanders who served in conflicts around

the world. Many in our community took part in the Light up the Dawn initiative, which created a great sense of personal

connection and reflection. Our Year 9 History students, along with Mrs Peters, recorded a service prior to the end of the

term which can be viewed on our Facebook page.

Rural Youth Ambassadors

We would like to congratulate Lachlan Turner and Jordan Lewis who have been selected to be part of the Rural Youth

Ambassadors Programme for 2020. They will join young people from across rural South Australia in a range of forums and

discussions exploring key areas of interest relating to rural life and education. They will also be provided with a range of

opportunities to further develop their leadership skills with other young rural people. Lachlan and Jordan attended an initial

online Orientation day and, dependent on the state of COVID-19 over the coming months, will take part in 3 more forums,

workshops and conferences across the year. They will have the opportunity to meet Government Ministers, senior

education sector leaders and key stakeholders, who they will present their ideas to.

We wish Lachlan and Jordan all the best as Rural Youth Ambassadors and are confident they will do themselves, their

families and our school community proud.

Facilities

We have recently been informed that, after much advocating for improved toilet facilities over many years, our Primary toilet

block will be undergoing a $50,000 upgrade. This will see the following occur:

Remove asbestos ceiling and eave linings.

Remove existing toilets, partitions, hand basins, urinal trough and sanitary hardware i.e. hand dryers.

Demolish existing concrete coving from perimeter of rooms and concrete floor as required to amend plumbing layout (it is thought that the trough would be replaced with another toilet pan).

Reinstate ceilings and eaves with new product.

Tile floors and walls throughout.

Have your details changed?

Recently moved

Changed phones or email address

Need to update your emergency

contacts?

Please contact the front office to update

your details 86 292 150.

Install new toilets, partitions etc.

Paint ceilings and external doors.

Thank you to the Governing Council for their continued

support in pursuing this matter.

Thank you

The school and Governing Council would like to give a big

shout out to Horrie Hornhardt for the time and effort he

puts in to support the school, by regularly helping out with

the Saturday Night draw. The Saturday Night draw (pre

COVID-19) is the Governing Council’s major fundraiser

and Horrie was consistently there to lend a helping hand

and word of advice. We look forward to catching up with

Horrie again, when things return to normal.

A big thank you to Nic Turner and his crew who have been

working throughout the holiday break to grade our oysters

and do some work on our lease. This has been a

tremendous help, whilst we don’t have a Farm Lease

Manager and we appreciate their support.

MAY 2/5—Austin Grund 7/5—Imogen Moffatt-Sleep

7/5—Drew Tonkin

The Library Scoop Cowell School Community Library Ph/Fax: 8629 2320

Email: cowell.library@plain.sa.gov.au Web: www.libraries.sa.gov.au/cowell

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our digital material? Don’t worry you can apply for a

digital membership online via www.libraries.sa.gov.au/

cowell

Go to the top right of this screen and look for the purple writing

that states join and follow the prompts from there.

Please don’t hesitate to call us if you require your library card or

pin number to access online services such as Libby for eBooks,

Pressreader, Ancestry and more, or need any help navigating the

apps.

Current Library Services

Although the library is still closed to community DON’T DES-

PAIR we are still here for you.

We are offering two services to our community, ‘Call & Collect’

and ‘Drop & Wave’.

‘Call & Collect’ - If you need some more books, magazines or

dvds, feel free to call or email us with an idea of the types of

items you’d like to receive or particular titles you might like.

We’ll then collect a selection and leave the items out the front of

the library at a designated time for your collection.

‘Drop & Wave’ - For those people unable to leave the house,

we are offering a local delivery service. Just call or email with

your preferred selection and we’ll organise delivery at an agreed

time. No need to wait for us outside, we’ll simply drop the items

on your doorstep with a wave.

If you’d like to stay up to date with what’s new in the library,

please email us to be added to our monthly newsletter. The

newsletter highlights new reads, books released the month prior

as well as pre-release news.

NEW DVDS

We’ve updated our collection with some new additions including

Downtown Abbey (Movie), The Good Fight (TV), Godzilla (Movie),

The Lake House (Movie) and Muriel’s Wedding (Movie). We also

have the titles below available now.

New Books

Children’s Picture Books

The grizzly itch by Victoria Cassanell

Clem and crab by Fiona Lumbers

#Goldilocks by Jeanne Willis

Anzac girl by Kate Simpson

Children’s Fiction

Cloudburst by Wilbur Smith

Wayside School beneath the cloud of doom by

Louis Sachar

The pug who wanted to be a bunny by Bella Swift

Toto the ninja cat and the superstar catastrophe

by Dermot O’Leary

Ninja Clones by Anh Do

Vote weirdo by Anh Do

Teen Fiction

Heroes of Tobruk by David Mulligan

What kind of girl by Alyssa Sheinmel

Adult Fiction

The Aosawa murders by Rike Onda

One moment by Linda Green

Murder at Blackburn Hall by Sara Rosett

Red dirt country by Fleur McDonald

Truths I never told you by Kelly Rimmer

Adult Non Fiction

Challenge accepted by Celeste Barber

Although we are closed, we are more than happy to

select a range of picture books for our library’s littlest

members. If you need some more books or a new

reading log for our 1000 books before school, don’t

hesitate to call us.

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