Date of Publication: 27th November

At Cudgegong Valley Public School we are safe learners by making sure we are in the correct areas of our school. We stay in areas where the duty teacher can see us. We ask permission to leave play area (e.g. if a ball goes out of bounds). We report back to duty teacher on return to play area.

Safe, Respectful, Responsible Learners

CUDGEGONG VALLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL

PART OF THE CUDGEGONG LEARNING COMMUNITY

47-65 Madeira Road, MUDGEE 2850 PHONE: (02) 6372 3466 FAX: (02) 6372 6314

SCHOOL EMAIL ADDRESS: cudgegongv-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au SCHOOL WEBSITE: www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL: Michelle Neaverson-Smith

GENERAL NEWSLETTER – TERM 4 WEEK 7

SCHOOL CALENDAR November 28 MHS Yr 6 Orientation Day 29 Rainbow Mufti Day 29 P&C Disco (New times this term) December 4 Gold Assembly 11 Kinder - Yr 2 Presentation Day 12 Yrs 3 - 6 Presentation Day 12 Year 6 Farewell 19 Last day of term for students

From the Principal

From The Deputy Principal

Nia Miller, Caeden Turner, Arlo McGreal, Tasman Kane, Zach Anderson, Charlotte Rayner, Molly Turner, Taylor Holt, Cambell Leadbitter, Alexandra Green, Mason Lonergan, Gabriella Smith, Sharlee Collingwood, Tully Robertson, Maddy Campbell, Arya South, Amelia Bates, Dominic Lucas, Allen Drakeford, Demiah Ainuu, Alixis Chalmers

This week at Cudgegong Valley Public School, our PBL focus of the week is:

Be in supervised areas

2019 Excursions To help with your 2019 planning, we are sending a flyer home today with an outline of our Term 1 major excursions for students in Years 4, 5 and 6 in 2019. Payments can be made from now until

a date to be confirmed prior to the actual excursion next year. If making cash payments now, please send money in an envelope clearly marked with student’s name and excursion title. Further information will be sent home early in 2019. Term 4 Gold Assembly

Our Term 4 Gold Assembly will be held next Tuesday, 4

th December at

12.00pm in the COLA. Mrs Neaverson-Smith is looking forward to presenting 21 students with their Principal’s Medallions. This assembly is also an opportunity to share with many students their success as they receive

Gold, Red Gold, and Green Gold awards. Mrs Jenni Buckley will also be presenting seven students with the P&C PBL Awards for upholding our values throughout 2018. Parents/carers are most welcome to attend all our special end of year assemblies. Wendy Hogben Deputy Principal

Whole School Rainbow Mufti Reward Congratulations to all of our students who have been working hard to adhere to our school wide expectations by being responsible learners who are safe and respectful. During last week our student leaders sought feedback from all of our students on what they would like as their whole school reward. It was decided that the students would like to have a Rainbow Mufti Day. This will be on Thursday this week. Presentation of Kindergarten and Year 6 Graduation Certificates This year we have made a couple of changes to how things have historically been run at the end of the year. One of these changes is when the Kindergarten and Year 6 Graduation Certificates will be presented. Historically, these have been presented during the Presentation Day Assemblies. This year we are inviting all of our Year 6 parents to attend the presentation of the Year 6 Graduation Certificates at 8:30pm on Wednesday 12

th December at the Year 6 Farewell. All Kindergarten parents are invited to attend a special Kindergarten Graduation Assembly which will be held on Friday 14

th December at 2pm before our P&C Raffle assembly at 2:30pm on this day. Michelle Neaverson-Smith Principal

Kinder, Years 1&2 - Presented 2:45pm Thur 29/11 Millie Carr, Elsie Dolanski, Zaidyn Meszaros, Tommi Endacott, Alyssa Price, Lincoln Pritchard, Lola Purcell Years 3&4 - Presented 3:00pm Wed 28/11 Tyler Tomlinson, Alexander Robeson, Evan Wilson, Kiarly-Grace Flick, Zach Osborn Years 5&6 - Presented 2:40pm Mon 26/11 Liam Westley, Byron Diener, Tara Wilson, Lola Stewart, Toby Burnard, Suri Althofer, Madolyn Beesley, Mia Riley, Zahli Gray, Monique Devenish, Sarah Stewart

Gold Assembly 12.00 Tuesday 4 December Madolyn Beesley, Lara Cocks, Mia Riely, Allen Drakeford, Alarna Reid, Brock Roe, Zach Osborn, Alexandra Green

Gold / Red Gold / Green Gold Certificates

Red Certificates

Notes sent home last week: Year 6 Farewell, MHS Orientation Day

Parent Online Payments Parent Online Payments can be made via the school website. http://www.cudgegongv-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Year 1 Red Hill Excursion

Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Year One visited the Environmental Studies unit at Red Hill in Gulgong. The children were very excited about the trip and thoroughly enjoyed the bus ride out to Gulgong. The children were divided into two groups, and set off to learn about life in ‘the olden days’. One group found out what school was like in an old bush school. They even had to dress in olden day clothes! They discovered handwriting was very tricky with chalk and a slate or even with a pen and ink. Many turned their hand to knot tying and needlework. The second group learnt about games children played long before Playstations and ipads! It was great fun doing three-legged races, sack races, quoits and the good old egg and spoon race! After a quick break, the children swapped groups and experienced a little more of what life was like in the ‘olden days’. After lunch, the groups went off to make a camp on the goldfields and pan for gold. Many of the children were sure they had struck gold and would be very rich. It look a great deal of concentration to do this task correctly. Meanwhile, the other group learnt about household chores, made butter and ate damper. Many children enjoyed trying their hand at churning the cream to make butter. They especially liked eating the damper with the butter and golden syrup! The excursion was a great experience for all the children and the staff at Red Hill made us feel very welcome. Well done Year One. A great day out!

This years participants in the ‘Let’s Connect’ Kindergarten Orientation Program enjoyed four sessions of fun and learning. Pictured are some of our Little Lions who found their ROAR!

P&C News DISCO this Thursday, 29

th November 2018!!

The last disco for the year will be held in the school hall this Thursday evening. Kindy – Year 2 5pm – 6pm Year 3 – Year 6 6.30pm – 8pm Entry is $4 and there will be glow products available to purchase $2 - $3 Parents are requested to drop off their child and return at the end of the disco for pickup. The disco is supervised by teachers and children are not permitted to leave the hall, unless accompanied by a teacher. CHRISTMAS raffle The green raffle books will have arrived home in school bags on Monday. 1

st prize –iPad mini

2nd

prize –A bike from Ride Mudgee 3

rd prize - $200 gift card from Woolworths.

We hope to add one or two more prizes to those, and will keep you posted. Every family will receive a raffle book of 10 tickets to sell. Tickets are $2 each. You may collect more raffle books from the Front Office at any time. All raffle books are to be returned by Wednesday 12

th

December ready for the draw on Friday 14th December.

Disco Bags If your child did not hand in their order for a disco bag, please send them with money on Thursday night and we will be able to make up a bag for them. There will also be a variety of hot food, ice blocks, chips and drinks available to purchase.

Important: All raffle books must be returned to the school whether the tickets are sold or not. This is a requirement from the Dept. of Gaming who keep an eye on all school fundraising activities. Golf Day Results A great day was had by all at the CVPS P&C Golf Day on Sunday 18

th November. The day raised a fabulous

profit of $8100. This money will go towards our all- weather sports court project, so watch out for a rise on the thermometer chart. Results of the day were: Golf winners 1

st place - B. McKenzie, M Valentine, M McKenzie, N

Hadden - score 56.75 2

nd place – J & D Campbell, C Kenny & M Campbell -

score 57 3

rd place – Rob, Tim , Mick & Tim Lonergan – score

57.5 Longest drive – Man member – Josh Campbell Longest drive – Man non member– Nick Cavanagh Longest drive - Lady member – Jo Anderson Longest drive – Lady non member – Alyssa Blamire Nearest the pin male member – Mitch Stait Ladies hamper raffle – M McKenzie Mens hamper raffle – N Slade Local produce hamper – V Bartlett Thank you to our major sponsors; P&A Engineering, Kelly’s Irish Pub and Plumbing Worx. Thanks also to our 18 hole sponsors and gift donations for making our day a great success. Jenni Buckley

School Bus Pass To apply for a school bus pass go to:

https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/

Cudgegong Valley Public School P&C

Uniform Shop

OPENING HOURS (During School Terms)

Tuesday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Morning: 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday Afternoon: 2.45pm – 3.30pm

Flexischools online ordering -

www.flexischools.com.au Orders will be processed within 3 days and can either

be picked up from the Uniform Shop during opening

times or sent home with your child.

Additional Holiday Opening Times

Wednesday 23/1/19 9.00am -12noon

Friday 25/1/19 2.00pm -5.00pm

Tuesday 29/1/19 9.00am -12noon

Wednesday 30/1/19 8.30am -10.00am

Then normal opening hours from Thursday 31/1/19

Classifieds While we accept advertising from commercial enterprises, the

school does not endorse these.

Garden Club News As we started in Week 5, the Garden Crew are exploring ways busy families can reduce landfill waste coming out of our kids lunch boxes. The key to reducing lunch waste is using a reusable container. Tip #2: Buy your favourite yoghurt in a big tub and serve portions in a reusable container with a spoon. Yoghurt pouches do not get recycled, so pretty much every pouch that is sold ends up in landfill. The good news is making the change to a larger tub (that you can recycle) is pretty easy! If you're a pouch-loving tragic why not give this a go before end of term! Good luck! Find CVPS Garden Club on Facebook.