Banksia Bits Colo Vale Public School

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Week 3 Term 3 29nd July, 2015

From the Principal’s desk:

Welcome to Education Week 2015! We hope that you will be able to enjoy some of the events that are taking place this week as we celebrate the wonderful things that are hap-pening here at Colo Vale PS.

Education Week is a time to celebrate the achievements and successes of our students, teachers and support staff across all NSW public schools.

Public education is undergoing significant trans-formation with a clear agenda of reform to pro-vide the best possible education for our children.

The reforms are aimed at improving student re-sults by providing more resources for schools through a fairer needs-based funding model and a focus on quality teaching.

The Great Teaching, Inspired Learning policy is raising the standard of teaching at every career stage.

Education Week 2015 is an opportunity to cele-brate our successes and show how our schools are improving to benefit every student in NSW.

Celebrating Local Heroes The theme for this year’s Education Week is “Celebrating Local Heroes”. Each class or group of classes is focussing on a local hero of their choice, and they are learning about what qualities their hero possesses which have enabled them to achieve all that they have achieved.

Our school’s own local hero is Mrs Dulcie Waite. The beautiful native garden at the front of our school is named in her honour. Perhaps even more significantly, our most pres-tigious award at the end of the year is the

Dulcie Waite Shield for Citizenship. Some of the qualities that Dulcie embodied in-clude loyalty and steadfastness, kindness, com-mitment, humility, generosity, compassion and a capacity for hard work.

NSW Australians of the Year Tour of Honour

This morning I was very proud to accompany our SRC councillors and their deputies to Bowral High School where we listened to Reverend Gra-ham Long from the Wayside Chapel speak about being non judgemental when meeting people who are down and out or sleeping rough or dealing with addictions; Deborah Lee Furness who spoke of her work towards ensuring that all children have a loving family in which to grow up and Genevieve Clay-Smith who spoke of her film making and the inspiration she derives from working with people with a range of disabilities including intellectual disabilities. We were all very moved and inspired by their presentations.

Please take note of the special Education Week events on the flyer accompanying this newslet-ter. I look forward to seeing many of you this com-ing Friday during our Open Classroom sessions and special Assembly.

Anne Donaldson

Relieving Principal

Phone: 48894 250 E-mail: colovale-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Fax: 48894 285 Website: www.colo vale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

The District Athletics Carnival looks set to go ahead this Friday, with the ground currently open and hopefully not too much rain around. Good luck to all of our competitors, and don't

forget to bring back the new note if you haven't already done so. Congratulations to our rugby league teams. Last Thursday our seven's team went to Campbelltown Sta-dium for the Group 6 Wests legends finals. After a 10-10 draw with St Pauls Camden (Mitchell Bayliss Man of the Match) and a 36-6 win over Greenway Park (Danial Webb Man of the Match) they won the John Skandalis Cup. Unfortunately they didn't qualify to go through to the next level after St Pauls scored a try in Golden Point extra time. Well done Daniel Webb, Jasper Murphy, Saxon Carruthers, Mitchell Bayliss, Boyd Roberts, Nathan Hansen, Liam Bayliss and Kody Davis. Our 13 a side Rugby League team travelled to Tregear on Monday to contest the all schools final, accom-panied by Mr Freeman. Mr Freeman said that the boys played really well, and only lost to the team that went on to win the final, which included beating the team that made it to the semi-finals. Congratula-tions Nathan Hansen, Liam Bayliss, Mitchell Bayliss, Daniel Wood, Saxon Carruthers, Boyd Roberts, Jasper Murphy, Kyle Murphy, Joshua Thorne, Connor Miller, Josiah Smiltnieks, Jack Parsons, Blake Tickner, Cameron Sharp and Samuel Huer.

From the Sports desk

Uniform Shop July 31st Kylie W

August

4th Kylie H

Banksia Bites Canteen

July 31st Sarah, Jenny M, Rebecca

Tk 1/2 August

5th Grace Tracey R, Leya D

Colo Vale PS Proud to be Public

STUDENT WELFARE - From www.kidsmatter.ed.au

Mindfulness is a whole body-mind state of awareness that involves ‘tuning in’ to the present moment, with

openness and curiosity, instead of ‘tuning out’ from experience. Mindfulness is a state of being fully awake to life

being aware and undistracted in the present moment. It is about focusing attention on the present, rather than

thinking about the past or worrying about the future- which is often our brain’s default mode.

Mindful awareness is something that we all possess and that can be strengthened through practice. Mindfulness can

be developed through formal sitting meditation practices, or through informal everyday mindfulness activities that

use the senses to anchor the attention: such as mindful walking, listening to music, eating or conversation.

Mindfulness is a clinically proven tool to support wellbeing and mental health by reducing stress and allowing life to

be experienced more fully.

The way we interact with our kids has a huge impact on the way they think about themselves and their levels of

personal resilience. Ellen Langer and team, a world-renowned mindfulness researcher found that children not only

prefer to interact with mindful adults, but actually devalue themselves following interactions with mindless adults

(Langer, Cohen & Djikic, 2010).

•Research shows that mindfulness training increases connectivity in the frontal lobe of the brain, which is linked to

improved attention, memory processing and decision making abilities.

•Mindfulness training involves tuning in to internal and external experiences with curiosity resulting in increased

self-awareness, social awareness, and self-confidence.

•Mindfulness training increases children’s ability to self-regulate their emotions, especially difficult emotions such as

fear and anger, through breathing and other grounding techniques.

•Mindfulness has been shown to improve empathy or the ability to understand what another person is thinking or

feeling, which improves children’s awareness of others and helps them to build positive relationships.

•Mindfulness training has been to shown to reduce the severity of depression, anxiety and ADHD in children.

•Mindfulness builds resilience by giving children skills to help them to cope better with stress, as well as engage

more fully with themselves and the world.

Netty Dubokovich…Pastoral Care Worker….SpeakLife!!

Week: 2 WEEKLY CLASS AWARDS GREAT BEHAVIOUR AWARDS

KZ

Skye Alexander

Caleb Holland

Samuel Reyder

Kevin Reynolds

Mia Cook

Indigo Schouten

Taylah Shields

1/KP

Nash Doyle

Levi Hosan

Lilli McGannon

Sean Murphy

Clayton Johnson-Koski

Yvette Krueger

Sienna Leary

1G

Felix Capps

Tyler Ellison

Jai Gwilliam

Olivia Rebbeck

Paige Alexander

Thomas Hatton

Blake Hill

Lucas Hosan

1/2N

Amy Henry

Lilly O’Neill

Alexander Savin

Jessalyn Smiltnieks

Saxon Young

Amari Beninca

Amy Henry

Hugh Rudd

Dani Tarabay

2C

Theo Ameria

Michal Krueger

Nash Linsley

Amy Littleton

Emily Coleman

Byron Henderson

Jaime Luckman

Bailee May

3G

Imogen Holland

Grace McMullan

Lauren Sharp

Tom Williamson

Kaleb Bennett

Shyla Facey

Ella-Rose Flink

Callum Morison

Ava Sweeney

3/4A

Charlie Gill

Connor Henderson

Jordan Uecker

Charlotte Walsh

Connor Holdsworth

Marnie Ross

David Sinclair

Bianca Wyeth

4/5DS

Elijah Afamasaga

Taeya Davis

Lucah Hill

Rory Sweeney

Megan Johnson

Kazuki Norimura

Hannah Reyder

Rory Sweeney

5/6F

Halle Beninca

Ryan Easter

Lilly Henry

Kyle Murphy

5/6P

Jade Alexander

Sarah Legg

Connor Miller

Stephanie Russell

Saxon Carruthers

Kody Davis

Abbie-Rose Powell

Stephanie Russell

RAFFLE TICKETS

SILVER BADGE WINNERS Amy Littleton

Briavana Martin

Kosaki Norimura

Notes and Money due

Canberra Camp Final payment 31/7

Gymnastics $34.00 or instalments ASAP

Opera House notes (for those involved)

$20 meal $20 participation fee

ASAP

Wollongong Science Years 3 & 4 25/8

ED WK

27 Gruffalo Excursion K-2 All Schools Rugby Finals

28 29 SRC to Tour of Honour event at Bowral HS

30 Debating Gala Day

(Colo Vale PS vs Hill Top PS)

31 Open Classrooms 11:50—12:20pm

Ed Wk Assembly 12:30 Bowral’s Got Talent 6:00pm

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Term 3 Calendar

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS—2016

We are now taking enrolments for Kindergarten 2016. If you have a child who will be turning 5 by June 2016, please complete the form below and return it to the school office. Early next term we will forward an “Expression of Interest” form to parents. Details of our Kinder Expo and Orientation Sessions will be advertised in the coming weeks.

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Child’s Name_________________________________ D.O.B______________________________________

Parent’s Name/s _________________________________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________Phone: ___________________________________

Wk 4

3 4 Opera House Recorder Concert

5 6 Police visit Cyberbullying

7 Jeans 4 Genes 8 9