Carenne School Newsletter...learn new and creative techniques to implement in the classroom. The feedback was all very positive, with everyone leaving the session thinking about exciting

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Carenne School Newsletter

23rd March 2018 Term 1 - Week 8

CALENDAR DATES

22nd & 23rd March

Rhythm Village

29th March:

2pm — 2.30pm

Easter Hat Parade

30th March:

Good Friday

2nd April

Easter Monday

3rd April

School Photos

13th April

Term 1 Ends

1st May

Term 2 Start

Don’t Forget your

School Photo

Order!!

FUN FACTS

There are over 500

million cats in the

world!!

Cats sleep about 13

hours per day.

A group of cats is

called a clowder.

Domestic cats

weigh around 4 kg.

The heaviest cat on

record is 21 kg!

Cats have excellent

hearing.

RDA Funding

This week we were pleased

to be involved in a visit

from Paul Toole and

Graham Hanger as they

presented Bathurst Riding

for the Disabled with

$153,522 for much needed

upgrades to the facilities. It

was great to see our

students show the guests

around, work with the

animals and of course

become TV stars! They

were all wonderful

representatives of Carenne

and they certainly did us

proud! We are also proud

of our many staff who also

volunteer at RDA not only

during the week, but on

weekends and holidays to

make sure the animals are

well cared for and RDA runs

smoothly.

National Day of

Action against

Bullying

We were excited to take

celebration of Harmony

Day. The school was alive

on Thursday with the beats

of many drums! Everyone

loved making as much

noise as possible while still

making a great sound.

part in this important day

last Friday where we

celebrated our friendships

and remembered how

important it is to treat

everyone with respect.

Thank you for all the very

generous donations which

raised $122.75 for Kids

Help Line. We continue to

focus on speaking nicely to

each other in all areas of

Carenne and congratulate

everyone who is working

hard towards their end of

term reward activities for

wonderful playground

behaviour.

Rhythm Village

It was great to

have Josh from

Rhythm Village

back again this

year to work with

our students as

part of our

We look forward to seeing

everyone at our Easter Hat

Parade next week.

Have a great week,

Jane


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students in Classes F and S for

completing their healthy food

chart. This is an example of

one of the informative fact

sheets from Live Life Well

@School.

Healthy lunchbox

Take Care

Nadine

Professional Learning

During the day our students

have had a wonderful time

playing drums and percussion

instruments with Josh,

however after school our staff

spent some time with Josh to

learn new and creative

techniques to implement in

the classroom. The feedback

was all very positive, with

everyone leaving the session

thinking about exciting new

ways to engage our students

in every subject through the

use of music.

Live Life Well @ School

Live Life Well @ School is a

collaborative initiative

between NSW Department of

Education and the NSW

Ministry of Health. Carenne

School has been an active

participant of this program

since 2014. This program

focuses on healthy eating

habits and increasing activity

levels of our whole school

community. Our classes have

continued to improve their

efforts and I would like to

congratulate all of the


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CLASS T Aimee Sutton (Teacher)

Yvette Smith (SLSO)

Tick tock, tick tock, Class T are learning about clocks! For the last two weeks Class T have been

super clever and have learnt to tell the time to the hour! We have made our own clocks to help

us with reading analogue time.

This term we have also been focusing on letter sounds, sight words, shapes and how we grow and

change. We have started pet therapy and we love visits from the Digger Dogs.

Last Friday Class T took a stand against bullying and we created amazing posters to support the

‘National Day of Action’ against bullying and violence.

‘Before you speak, think and be smart. It’s hard to fix a wrinkled heart!’


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CLASS Mc

Kylie McDonald (Teacher)

Marg Rowe (SLSO)

Class Mc have had a very busy Term 1 for 2018 and we are so impressed with how well all of the

children have been working on all learning activities each and every week.

Class Mc continue to work on their daily learning of letter names and their sounds, counting,

number recognition and completing daily fine motor tasks with ‘Busy Jobs’.

Wednesdays continue to be very busy with our Wednesday Morning Workshops in Art and

afternoon lessons are all about the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

On Friday Class Mc took a stand against bullying and we created cut and paste posters advertising

‘Be a Buddy, Not a Bully’ to support National Day of Action against bullying and violence.

This week we are celebrating Harmony Day and participating in music workshops with Rhythm

Village and next week Class Mc will begin making their Easter Hats for the upcoming Easter Hat

Parade.


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CLASS C

Kerryn Cafe (Teacher) Rebekah Ravesi (Teacher)

Stephanie Cupples (SLSO)

Class C have continued to work hard and have had a very busy term. We have been learning all

about the upcoming Commonwealth Games. We have learnt about the events as well as which

athletes to look out for during the Games. We have continued to enjoy completing drawing

activities in art as well as cricket coaching on Tuesdays.

Community access excursions on Thursday are another highlight as well as bike riding at the bike

track on Friday’s.

We wish everyone a wonderful Easter break,

Kerryn, Steph and Rebekah.


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CLASS F

Sue Flude (Teacher)

Emma Rush (SLSO)

Students in Class F have been super healthy. In sport we have enjoyed improving our cricket

skills. Everyone is hitting the ball with more accuracy and a lot of students are participating more

in fielding. On Fridays we have been going to the bike track where Ella, Tyron and Rose are

learning to balance on a 2 wheel bike. In the mornings individual students go for a 10 minute

walk with Miss Linda and every afternoon we finish the day with either dancing or yoga. Kaiden

is enjoying his hydro sessions with Sam on Fridays. Once a week we have boys groups and girls

groups and this term we are discussing healthy body hygiene. We all love having fitness in the

park. This week we finished our ’healthy food chart’ and we are looking forward to a special

outing as a reward. On our ‘healthy food chart’ students get a square coloured in every time they

eat a healthy meal so keep encouraging your child to bring healthy snacks and lunches to school.


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CLASS W

Myles Woodward (Teacher)

Wendy Lynch (SLSO)

Class W has come together this term to create a fantastic learning environment in class. All of

the students are consistently trying their best and are producing some fantastic work.

We are continuing to learn about the Commonwealth Games in our HSIE lessons. Our focus has

been on the different events, Australian athletes and past stars in some of the sports. We have

also been looking at our amazing Paralympian's! Our Literacy and Numeracy groups with the

other primary classes at Carenne has been progressing well. It is wonderful to see the students

interacting with a different mix of peers.

Class W has really enjoyed their weekly session with Kylie McDonald during the Dance/Drama

activities. They have now begun investigating different Art/Craft activities with Kerryn Café to

finish off the term. As part of our class program to encourage connection with our community we

will be entering the Waste-2-Art Exhibition again this year with an artwork featuring a sculpture

of ‘Borobi’ the 2018 Commonwealth Games mascot.

We wish everyone a safe and fun-filled Easter weekend!


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CLASS M

Clare Moore / Rebekah Ravesi (Teacher)

Juliette van Emmerik / Katherine Porter (SLSO)

Every Tuesday Class M visit Mrs Smith in the school library to listen to a story and

complete literacy and art and craft activities associated with the story. This term, Mrs Smith’s

lessons have focused on authors and the books they have written for children. The students have

explored two books by the same author and learnt about the author’s background. Our last

library session involved the book by the prolific author, Bob Graham. The book, titled “Rose

meets Mr Wintergarten” included a range of characters, two of which were named Rose and

Faith. Class M, including Faith, found this very amusing as Faith has a sister called Rose!

We have also celebrated Ruby’s 13th birthday and have been busy creating unique and colourful

art works for the Easter Parade.


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CLASS B

Anne Baskerville / Erin Mouatt (Teacher)

Kym Tattersall (SLSO)

Hi to all our lovely families, Class B has been busy as usual. We have been working on

our “colour of the week”, so far we have made RED planets, BLUE whales, GREEN frogs, YELLOW

suns, ORANGE pumpkins, a big PURPLE octopus, PINK flamingos and this week we are making a

big BROWN bear.

Last week we made a wonderful display for the anti bullying assembly. Our theme was “Class B

shouts out against bullying”. We found some posters and we made them into speech bubbles

attached to our photos.

We have had some fun sensory activities during our Wednesday workshops. Some of the things

we have done are painting with cake mix, making Gelli Baff, playing with shaving cream, bubbles,

cooking cupcakes and experiencing different textures using fabric, balls and other tactile items.

We love having Ms Smith for Library every Monday, she always reads a great story and then we

do a craft activity. Mrs Gavin and her helpers visit our room with some very special visitors from

Pet Therapy on Wednesdays, we met ‘JOJO’ the guinea pig last week he was very cute.


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CLASS K

Janelle Kemp / Erin Mouatt (Teacher)

Angie Cranston / Donna Kennedy (SLSO)

Class K have settled into a busy routine. Every week is action packed with activities ranging from

sport to shopping. We have been shopping every week at IGA and have been purchasing items

for cooking on Thursdays. The students of Class K are great helpers on community outings.

Recently Carenne students attended an indoor cricket carnival and PJ participated in this team.

We are very proud of his performance on the day and his great sportsmanship.

Other students in Class K have been participating in a range of activities including tennis, hydro

and technology activities. We are looking forward to the Easter Parade next week and have been

working hard with our art work.


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CLASS R

Adam Ryan (Teacher)

Paula Hundy / Mick Phillips (SLSO)

Class R have continued to learn, laugh and work throughout Term 1. We have been learning all

about the human body in science. Did you know, that an adult human body has 206 bones and

over 650 muscles, wow!

Work experience has started again and the Class R boys are doing lots of different things. These

jobs include; peer tutoring in junior classes, helping with the pets during the pet therapy

program, working in the gardens, fixing the bikes, doing inside jobs around the school and

helping out at RDA.

Three boys from the class were lucky enough to compete in the Regional Senior Indoor Cricket

Carnival. They competed very well and had a lot of fun! They even managed to come 3rd place in a

strong field of competitors.

In Agriculture we have begun cultivating our garden beds to get ready for planting some winter

crops. In PDHPE we have been looking at how to make and keep friends. We have learnt that

good communication is a simple but effective skill that contributes to having healthy and long-

lasting friendships.


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CLASS S

Peta Sykes (Teacher)

Karina Molenkamp (SLSO)

Class S are enjoying the routine of the classroom and all the special programs in place this year.

The students have enjoyed our focus on eating healthy this term and filling up our apple chart by

eating fruits and vegetables, yoghurts and cheese for recess. We will be celebrating our efforts

with a small excursion to Peace Park this week.

Some of our class got to participate in the indoor cricket competition last week at the Indoor

Basketball Stadium and they did very well. We still have lots of other sporting events coming up

throughout the year including the Athletics Carnival next term. Special mention goes to Benson

who competed in the Swimming Carnival at Dubbo last weekend and is now moving on to

Homebush to represent Carenne. Congratulations Benny!

Class S are excited for the Easter Hat Parade coming up and also looking forward to a well

deserved break. The students should all be very proud of their efforts this term. Well done to all.


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CLASS N

Terry Neal (Teacher)

Kathleen Matheson (SLSO)

This term we have been doing lots of work for English and Maths, and have started our

homework program. Thanks to all our wonderful parents and carers who are assisting with this

new program and helping to get it all finished by Friday mornings. We have started our work

experience program and are involved in three different work crews. Some of our children are in

Ms O’Kello, Mrs Kemp and Mr Ryan’s groups while the rest are with us at the canteen program

where we provide nutritious and healthy food for all Carenne students and staff on Wednesdays.

We have achieved a fantastic PBL goal of 50 playground PBL recognition stickers and after prior

negotiation we are off to the Bathurst Ten Pin Bowls for some bowling and lunch next week.

We also hope to go on our excursion to O’Connell, the Lagoon, Chifley Dam and Perthville, as

part of our biomes lessons in geography before the end of the term. Mrs Matheson has been

working well with the students in art to produce the School's Easter Celebrations Parade ‘Bunny

Rabbit’ artwork.


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CLASS O

Christine Okello (Teacher)

Di Klavins / Julie Buining (SLSO)

Class O cannot believe it is week 8 already! In the past few weeks of this term, we have been chefs,

scientists, artists and explorers. We prepared a beautiful salad, learnt about Captain Cook’s voyage,

made a model of Earth’s orbit and also learnt about artwork, with specific reference to the

paintings and work of Vincent Van Gogh. Finally yet importantly, Geoff took us to a well-deserved

“exploration” of the Antarctica. On this trip, he shared with us videos and photos of his great trip

that saw him visit the land of penguins, seals and whales.

Thank you Geoff for sharing your experience with us. Maybe one day we will also have a chance to

visit the Antarctica! This week we wish Ethan, Ryan and Kasey a Happy Birthday!


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CLASS L

Ros Luther (Teacher)

Melinda Gavin / Mick Phillips (SLSO)

The term is flying by fast with us learning so much. Mrs Sutton has been teaching us about

Vikings and that the houses were called a ‘longhouse’ and were made from grass. They came

from Norway and Sweden. If you come into our room you will see the village being constructed.

We’ve also started Coffee Club for staff on Fridays which we always look forward to. Last Week

Mrs Kemp’s cooking crew made a cookies and cream slice for staff to enjoy. We also celebrated

Dylan’s birthday last week.

We have had a lot of lessons on Respect, speaking nicely and we have earned many points on our

class DOJO award chart. We can’t wait until the end of term class reward of a Picnic at the

Aquatic Centre.


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CLASS A

Michael Auld (Teacher)

Donna Kennedy / Julie Buining (SLSO)

On Monday, Class A students were invited to help out at the RDA presentation from the local

member Paul Toole, who has excitedly announced that the Government has granted the RDA

$153,522!

Some of the students were interviewed by WIN News Network, about what they thought of about

the site. Bathurst City Life Magazine also came along and took photos of the students and the

facility. The Western Advocate also came along for the presentation and interviewed the students.

Paul Toole talked about the grant and how it’ll improve accessibility to the site for students and

clients. The students were excited about being interviewed by WIN News, all the students spoke

very well, one of the questions that the reporter asked was “what did we think of RDA?”

Everyone had a good time doing the retake for one part of the news where the students had to

walk towards the camera.

Please visit the WIN News Central West Facebook page to see our interviews.

Written by Will Tatnell and helped by Keith Pracy, photos by Cain Kay


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Macquarie Tutorial Centre

Leanne Graham / Kim Baker / Katie Moss (Teacher)

Jodie Toomey / Khiara Ryan / Joshua Way (SLSO)

Term 1, Week 8

Date: 23/03/2018 29th March between

10:00am and 11:00

am This will give

everyone the

opportunity for

visitors to have a look

around the Tutorial

Centre, for parents

and caregivers to have

a look at the great

work their children

have been doing and

for the Fed-Up Café to

offer barista made

coffee to our visitors.

The students are

looking forward to

baking muffins and

cakes on Wednesday

and are excited about

hosting visitors on

Thursday.

We will be asking for a

gold coin donation for

We had a very busy

start to the term and

are continuing to keep

active with fresh

activities.

Last week the MTC

had two permanent

teachers appointed.

Myself and Katie Moss

are excited to have

been given this

opportunity and are

looking forward to

working closely with

all staff to deliver

quality education to

our students at the

Tutorial Centre.

This week the Tutorial

Centre had the

pleasure of

participating in an

Aspire Outdoor

Adventure. All

students went

canoeing at Lake

Canobolas in Orange.

The weather was

perfect and the

students had a great

day canoeing and

swimming in the lake.

Next week the

Macquarie Tutorial

Centre will be opening

their doors and

inviting parents,

caregivers and

homeschool executive

to our open day. This

very special event will

be held on Thursday

Calendar

Thursday 29th March:

10am-11am Open Day

2pm-2:50pm Easter Hat Parade

Easter Long Weekend:

Good Friday 30th March

Easter Monday 2nd April

Last Day of Term:

Friday 13th April

Term 2 Starts:

Tuesday 1st May

Macquarie Tutorial

Centre


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Sport and Recreation

Terry Neal

Carenne has participated in many different sports this term. We started with whole school sports

— starting with the cricket program from NSW Country Cricket co-ordinators each Tuesday. We

also had a visit from the Sydney Thunder Bus promoting the Big Bash Cricket. Then we had the

Carenne Swimming Carnival at the Bathurst Aquatic Centre for the middle and senior school

students, with some remarkable swimming efforts and a lot of fun. We then had two fun days

competing at the Regional Indoor Swimming Carnival, for both our primary and secondary aged

teams.

Last Friday Benson competed at the WSSA Swimming Trials at Dubbo and it was pleasing to learn

he was a placegetter in all his three events and has qualified to represent Western NSW Region

at the State Championships at Homebush in Week 11.

We will be looking forward to changing our whole school sports in Term 2 — to football (soccer)

as well as starting to organise the School Athletics Carnival. In Term 2 we also have Regional

Indoor Soccer and netball carnivals to attend.


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