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Newsletter Term 2 Week 7 June 1 2021

Corindi Public School Coral St Corindi Beach P: 66 492 734 F: 66 492 332 E: corindi-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal: Mrs Heather Wright

Upcoming Events

Thur June 17 Athletics Carnival Fri June 18 Years 3-6 Winter Carnival Mon June 21 Field Events Day Fri June 11 Stage 3 Dance Eisteddfod (selected students)

Find us on the web… www.corindi-p.school.nsw.edu.au

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Last week we were given the very sad news of the passing of local Gumbaynggirr Elder and knowledge holder Uncle Mark Flanders. Over the years Uncle Mark shared his vast wealth of knowledge with our staff through Connecting to Country training. His passing is a great loss to the Coffs Coast community and we send our sincere condolences to his family and community. Athletics Carnival I hope everyone is organising their house colours in preparation for our athletics carnival on Thursday June 17. We will assemble in class lines at the Amble Inn to mark the rolls before we gather under the Sharks, Eels and Dolphins banners for the march to the oval. We will stop at the garage for the juniors dance and the shop for the seniors dance. If your child is riding their bike we encourage them to decorate them in house colours. This year there will be no trucks or vehicles in the march with the children, in line with our risk assessment. Please encourage any houses along the route to support their favourite house.

Mrs Wright

win bin winners Jarvis, Bonnie, Humraj

Garby Class BILBY

Canteen Open Thursday and Friday

Reading Tutor Program

I am looking for volunteers to come and run some reading tutor programs that I have set up at school. Parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, neighbours etc would be very welcome. It will involve spending approximately an hour and a half per week (or more if you want!) at school working with students individually helping them to improve their reading. The program is very easy to follow and training will be provided. Please contact the school office if you are interested in being part of this program. Thank you for your support Deb Wiggins Learning and Support Teacher

SHARKS blue EELS yellow DOLPHINS red

Stars of the Week

Sage Scheuer Ayla Boyce Logan Yarnold Humraj Rai Lucas Ehsman Marlee Baythorpe Oliver Corcoran Timothy Allardyce

Students of the Week Lily Marsh Nico Perry Jak Hallgath Zain Coey Liliana Arnaiz Lilly Landrigan Vinnie Perry Mackenzie Stoneham Zahli Stacey Connor Watson Sara Evans Kiara Edwards Wyn Hallam Jayda Craig-Rogers Ruby Want Alex Evans

Silver Award Benji Pledger Mason Breed

Jahrya Stewart-Ripia Kelso Stewart-Ripia

Bronze Award

Marlee Pickstone Edward Kerton Avril Murdock Darcy Wright Brodie Barnetby Sophia Eggins Mea Stoneham Jude Cronin Jackson Paterson Addison Golsby-Smith Tayla Meagher Koby Kudrins Harry Chapple Adelaide Dunning Taj Cruise Ruby Want Roman Buchan

Possum News… Sawubona’ (Hello in South African ‘Zulu’) from Year 1 Possums… In Year 1 Possums, we have different family backgrounds and this week we embrace and celebrate the language and culture of South Africa! ‘Zulu’ is the most widely spoken language in their country. In Week 7, we are focusing on the letter and sound for / l / ll / within our spelling words and sound work, along with fluent reading. During maths, we will learn about ‘Fractions’ and halves as being one of two equal parts and we will also begin learning about collecting and tracking ‘Data’ using tally marks. The learning at home idea for this week is…to ‘talk about halves in the kitchen’ when cutting up fruit or vegetables to show 2 equal parts or when folding the washing, they can fold a shirt/shorts in half. Also, counting up and down by 5s (using tally marks) is another great home learning idea that will support their school learning. Have a great week! ‘Sala kahle’ (Goodbye or Stay well in South African ‘Zulu’) Mrs T and Ms Hearne

CLASS NEWS Koala News… Our focus sounds this week are Vv for violin and Yy for yoghurt. It is great to see so many students doing home reading and sounds/sight words in the red folder. Keep it up. Our number this week is 15 and we will look at 3D shapes. We will be recording the weather each morning over the next two weeks and record the temperature on a chart. Mrs LaCoste

BASKETBALL On Monday our school participated in the PSSA Basketball competition in Grafton. Both Girls and Boys teams played four games in total winning some and losing some. It was a great experience for everyone. Both teams played exceptionally well and showed great sportsmanship. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful effort. Ms Connie

Stage 3 News… Last week both classes participated in a the virtual excursion "Waves of Migration" which focused on the reasons why people have migrated to Australia in the past. This week we will continue to learn of modern migrant stories and how they found themselves to be living in Australia. We are about to begin our term 2 project on a significant Australian. In class, students will complete a multimodal presentation and once complete we will have an open day on the 17th June 2021 from 2:15pm. If anyone has any shoes boxes or old gift boxes we would love them for our presentations.

Mrs Freudenstein and Mrs Bartlett

Do you have any shoe boxes or old gift boxes? Please send them in to Stage 3 as they need them for upcoming presentations! Thank you

TOUCH FOOTBALL On Thursday 21st May, our touch football players played their first game in the PSSA Knockouts. We had a good turnout as many of our classes came up to the fields to cheer us on! First game was the girls who put up a good fight against Gilwinga Public School. Our girls played impressive in defence and held off the opposition team to score 4 tries. However, they were able to sneak through and score 6 tries to take out the win. Our boys side battled it out against Mullaway PS and it was admirable to see them score 2 tries even though they had no subs! They all played a full 40min game and should be so proud of themselves! All of our players showed fantastic sportsmanship and represented Corindi with pride. Well done teams!

Platypus Ponderings… Phew, week seven already! This week we will be continuing our journey around Australia and heading to the far north. Our vocabulary includes the words echidna, drover and beachcombing. We will also be looking at one of Jeanie Bakers fabulous books. She creates her books through collage and they are the most visually spectacular books to look at. ‘Where the forest meets the sea’ continues our examination of the effect that the human race has on the natural environment. The students have been complaining about internet coverage and speed in class. I have suggested that they could practise their times tables instead... Ms Connie