Term 2 Week 10

Inside this issue:

Yellow Class 1-2

Principal’s Message 3

General News 4-5

Awards 6

01 JULY 2019

Yellow class have had a fantastic second term, with a variety of activities to keep us busy. In Science we have been learning about our solar system, naming the planets and learning about the importance of the sun and stars. We are very excited to finish off the topic by visiting the Sydney Observatory this week with all the senior classes.

We have also been working hard in the Canteen program, which involves students participating in the weekly shopping, as well as learning about the importance of hygiene and food preparation. It is a great opportunity for the school and staff to purchase sandwiches each Wednesday for lunch.

We have been working very responsibly around the school, making sure every week the school jobs have been completed, including making deliveries to the classrooms of weekly supplies, collecting and doing the laundry and shredding documents.

We have been enjoying increasing our fitness with weekly exercise activities that include a 15 minute program each morning of stretching and light exercise. We also enjoy our Yoga lessons and Line Dancing throughout the week.

On Fridays a mixture of students from Green, Yellow and Red class travel together on a train and bus to and from Chatswood to play tennis and table tennis. This activity is part of our Community Access program that provides the students an opportunity to practice a variety of important skills required whilst out in public. It is a great chance for our students to put into practice skills they have learnt during the So Safe lessons at school. We are all learning to be independent with our wallet and Opal cards and how to appropriately behave whilst out in the community.

Angelique & Kerri

Cromehurst News Yellow Class

5 July—Last day Term 2

23 Jul—Students return for

Term 3

30 Jul—School photos

8 Sept—Bunnings BBQ,

Chatswood

27 Sept—Last day Term 3

Yellow Class (continued)

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Principal’s Message PAGE 3

Welcome to week ten

This is the final week of this term

and semester. It is so hard to

believe we are halfway through

the school year.

Today the secondary students will

be traveling by train or bus to the

Sydney Observatory. It is the

culmination of their term two topic

of “The Earth in Space” as well as

Aboriginal Studies, as these two

topics will be combined on our

tour. The students shared their

assignments last Wednesday with

all secondary classes. These will

continue to be on display at the

school at the beginning of Term

3. If you happen to be around

come and have a look at the extra

work the students have enjoyed

doing with their families at home.

Yellow class is featured in this

week’s newsletter. This

secondary class are involved in

many school programs like

canteen and school service jobs,

and have been working hard on

our important school PBEL

expectations.

The performance by the

Narrabeen Sports High School

last Wednesday was great and

enjoyed by all students as they

interacted with the music.

Following the performance on

Wednesday we were surprised to

be presented with a cheque for

$500 from the Commonwealth

Bank at Lindfield. We are very

grateful that community

businesses such as this

recognise and want to be in

partnership with us.

We also owe a big thank you to

the John Holland Mac Park

Foundation for presenting us with

a cheque for $2,500 during a

fundraising golf day on Friday.

Thanks to Lani and Nat for

attending the presentation. This

and the Commonwealth Bank

donation will both go towards

getting new school buses.

This Wednesday we will be

watching a band performance by

Lindfield Public School. We are

very fortunate to have other

schools share their talents with

us.

Speaking of our connections with

other schools: Newington Prep

School collected and donated lots

of the Woolworths Earn & Learn

stickers to us. The Earn & Learn

collection period has now finished

but if you happen to have any you

haven’t sent in, you can still do so

as we are still counting them up.

Thank you to the four boys from

St Ignatius who helped in the

senior classes last week. This

week we have 5 boys from St

Aloysius coming to help with the

excursion tomorrow to the

Observatory and then four will

stay around to help the rest of the

week. It is nice of them to give up

their first week of their break to

come to help us.

School photographs will be taken

in week two of next term. The

envelopes for orders were sent

home last week. If you didn’t

receive your order form please

contact the office or see the form

in the notes section of this

newsletter. Some reports also

were sent out on Friday and I am

sure you are very proud of your

child for their accomplishments.

The remainder of the reports will

be sent home today.

We will be welcoming Christine

back from her leave and I will be

very happy to hand the reins back

to her on Thursday. I am grateful

for the support of our wonderful

staff team while I have been

relieving principal during

Christine’s absence. A special

thank you to Lani, Mel and Nicole

for helping with all executive

things and also to Kylie Barter for

taking Pink class and continuing

and enriching the class programs

and keeping me informed. Also, a

huge thank you to our amazing

office staff Nat and Nimali.

We wish everyone a safe and

relaxing break and look forward to

seeing students return on

Tuesday 23 July.

Janice

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Sign of the week

Purple

With pointer and middle fingers extended together, form a circle with fingertips

in palm of other hand.

School Photos

School photos will be taken on Tuesday, 30 July 2019. Order envelopes were sent home in students’ bags last week. Please contact the school office if you require another order form.

Woolworths Earn & Learn

The Woolworths Earn & Learn promotion has now finished and we are in the process of counting our stickers.

If you have any stickers you’ve been meaning to send to school, now is your last chance. They must be received by the school office by Wednesday, 3 July 2019.

A big thank you to Newington Prep School for collecting and giving us their school’s stickers—much appreciated!

Thank you! Last Friday, the John Holland Group’s Mac Park Foundation held a golf day to continue to raise money for the community initiatives they support. Our school is lucky enough to be one of the recipients of the Foundation’s support and at the golf day they presented Lani with a cheque for $2,500 (on top of the $7,500 they have already generously given to us).

This donation will be added to our fundraising efforts for new school buses. Thanks very much Mac Park Foundation for your continued support!!

Thank you too!

At last Wednesday’s assembly, following the performance by Narrabeen Sports High School, staff from the Commonwealth Bank Lindfield Branch visited our school to present Janice with a cheque for $500.

It is wonderful to receive support from our local community businesses. Thank you Commonwealth Bank Lindfield for your support. We will add the donation to our new bus fund.

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Even more thanks!

What a week!

HUGE thank you also to Nevaeh’s family for raising the money we need to be able to replace the school’s very outdated pool hoist which is no longer in use.

Thanks to Franky’s Café Milperra, Sydney Direct Fresh Produce, the Icon Construction Group and to Michael Spiteri for their donations.

We will be sure to include photos of the new hoist once it has been fitted.

And more!

We were lucky enough to receive four large shredders from King & Wood Mallesons last week. The shredders will be very useful in the office and in our secondary classes where shredding is one of the school service jobs our senior students complete each week. Thank you!!

Assembly Awards

CROMEHURST SCHOOL

Term 2 Week 9

24—28 June 2019

Name Class Awarded For:

Aayushi Blue Using the toilet and keeping her nappy dry the whole day

Aliya Rainbow Great focus and arm reach during sport

Nathan Purple Speaking a few words in class

Sophia White Fabulous deskwork this week

Ashlee Orange Unpacking her bag in the morning independently

James Aqua For working hard with Proloquo2go during all class activities

Luke Red Playing the triangle in music with calm & grace

Jack Yellow Great participation in community access groups

Sevene Green Following instructions and increasing her stamina at the gym

Ben Pink Making sensible choices in school and in community access

Positive Behaviour Engaging Learners

To create a consistent whole school approach for safe and effective learning.

This week our students of the week are:

Aliya - All Rounder Gelo - Being Friendly Emily - Learning Together

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