CLAIRGATE CHRONICLE

Colorado Drive, St Clair NSW 2759 P: 9670 1408 F: 9670 1409 E: clairgate-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Care, Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity

in a positive, dynamic environment

Term 2, Week 6 Wednesday 6th June, 2018

Welcome to the Clairgate Chronicle for Week 6, Term

2, 2018.

It is lovely to see settled and engaged classrooms as I

walk around the school. The teachers are busy

evaluating and assessing student’s work, and then

writing student reports. These mid-year reports will be

sent home in the last week of school this term.

I have also been happy to see children picking up

rubbish without being asked to do so…a wonderful

example of showing pride in our school.

Kindness on Purpose Launch

Last week we saw the Kindness on Purpose Launch at

Clairgate – what a great day – lots of singing, happy

faces and an excellent Parent Session in the library

with Clinical Psychologist Katrina Cavanough. We

will be running more Parent Sessions in the future.

Thank you to everyone who came to help us launch

this great program. Thank you also to those who

supported our family in need - we raised over $700

($440 from the cake stall and over $230 from the

“bucket”) which will certainly help with the petrol and

parking bills this family face daily while their little one

is in hospital.

Clairgate Happy Campers

Last week our Stage 3 teachers and students had a

terrific time at their camp at Morisset. The children

enjoyed the flying fox, canoeing, challenge ropes and

many other fun activities. Mr Blanch, Mrs Judge,

Mrs Veide and Mrs Mercer all said the children had a

wonderful time and had excellent manners. Well done

to all – and a special thank you to those amazing

teachers for giving up their family time so that our

children could enjoy themselves and build their social

skills in this way.

Clairgate Shines at the District Cross Country

Carnival

Congratulations to all our District Cross Country

competitors last fortnight. The day was a very

successful day for all children with everyone running

at top speed! Mr Blanch, Ms Paulic and Mrs Roberts

said they were so proud of our students who all tried

their very best and had their amazing Clairgate

manners evident – well done! This year we have an

outstanding 7 competitors going to the Regional

Carnival.

State Soccer Knockout Competition

A big congratulations to our Boy’s State Knockout

Soccer Team...and to their wonderful coach,

Mrs Judge. The boys played a tough match against

James Erskine Public School last week. The boys ran

out convincing 4-1 winners. A wonderful team effort

saw all boys give their best to help their team be

victorious. They are preparing for their next game –

Good Luck Boys!

Term 2 - Important Dates

to Remember

TERM 2 2018

Thur 14th June

3-6 Assembly 2pm

5/6T presenting

Tue 19th June Debate team at Clairgate

Thur 21st June K-2 Assembly 2pm 1S presenting

Wed 4th July STEPS Choir Rehearsal

Thur 5th July Merit Assembly

Fri 6th July End Of Term

TERM 3 2018

Tue 24th July Students Return

Wed 25h July Kindy Excursion – Mt Annan Botanical Gardens

Thur 26h July Wanderers Cup

A note from the Principal

Good Luck also to the Girl’s State Knockout Soccer

Team – unfortunately their first game was postponed

due to inclement weather – will let everyone know the

rescheduled date soon.

PAVERS

Don’t forget to order your Paver …we will be looking

at making our special memory path filled with these

pavers soon. What a lovely way for you and your

children to remember their time at Clairgate – a

lasting memory!

Just some Reminders…

Boot Sale bookings are being taken now…get

your name in for your stall – the day looks to

be a fun day with many stalls, food, face

painting and much more! Sat, 15th Sept, 2018

– 9.00-12.00.

No glass drink bottles allowed at school

please…this is a big safety issue for us!

No picking up or dropping off children in the

Staff Car Park without permission – certainly

those with a disabled permit are allowed to do

this.

Please ensure your child has on a jumper or

jacket in the mornings during winter. If you

wish your child to be exempt from this rule

please send me a letter regarding this.

I honestly can’t believe I have to have this next

reminder in the newsletter and I do apologise

for the 99.9% of parents this does not involve.

Many parents have reported that they continue

to see drivers doing the wrong thing around

our school…

PLEASE DO NOT PARK ILLEGALLY OR DO AN

ILLEGAL U-TURN AT THE PEDESTRIAN

CROSSING OR AT OUR SCHOOL GATES.

Thanks everyone, hope you have a kind fortnight.

Regards,

Mrs Michelle Lawrow

Principal

Clairgate – Caring, Committed, Creative

It appears that not all of our parents are aware of the Parents online payments (POP) facility that is available through the Clairgate website. The link on the webpage takes you to a secure Westpac Banking site. If you make a payment prior to 6pm the payment will appear in the schools financial statement from Westpac the following day. Payments made after 6pm do not appear until the day after e.g. payment

made at 7pm Wednesday 6th June will not appear in the schools financial statement until Friday morning, 8th June. You will notice on notes that there

is a section at the end of the permission note where you can indicate if you have made a POP payment. This is a safe, secure and convenient way for you to make payments; you do not have to find the correct

change and can do it at your leisure. A cheat sheet on how to use the site is attached later in the newsletter. Most, but not all notes are also uploaded to the website for your convenience.

District Cross Country Carnival

Well done to our wonderful 65 students who

participated at the annual St Marys District Cross

Country Carnival at The Kingsway last week. All of our

Clairgate athletes tried hard and competed well.

Clairgate’s Team is to be commended on coming 3rd

Place overall out of 12 schools at the carnival!

Ms Paulic, Mrs Roberts and Mr Blanch were very

proud of everyone’s behaviour, effort and

enthusiasm.

Thank you also to our parents and supporters who

cheered us on during the day and provided Eskys and

ice for valuable hydration.

A huge congratulations to the following students who

achieved a Top 8 place in their race and will be

representing the St Marys District team at the

Sydney-West Regional Carnival at Eastern Creek on

13th June:

* Cohan Bonanno (8/9 Yrs Boys)

* Navreet Sandhu (11 Yrs Girls)

* Zachari Hanson (12/13 Yrs Boys)

* Jessey Bektas (11 Yrs Girls)

* Abbey Bektas (11 Yrs Girls)

* Chloe Nancarrow (11 Yrs Girls)

* Billy Higgins (10 Yrs Boys)

Winter Sport News

All Winter PSSA teams (Rugby League, AFL, Netball,

Boys Soccer & Girls Soccer) have been selected by our

Clairgate coaches. PSSA permission notes as well as

Gymnastics notes have been sent home and should

have been returned to coaches by now! All PSSA

Winter sport competitions will start this Friday 8th

June.

Sports Report

News from the office

Clairgate Goes Outdoors!

On Wednesday the 30th of May, Week 5, Stage 3 went

to Morisset Adventure Camp near Newcastle. It was

around a 2 hour drive from Clairgate to Morisset.

At 10:00am we arrived in Morisset. We were greeted

by our three camp instructors Al, Emily and Doc. For a

snack at 11:00am we had snow cones.

We all had a meeting in the meeting hall and

discussed what groups, cabins and what we were

going to be doing throughout the week.

There were four activities: Archery, Dual Flying Fox,

Canoeing, Abseiling and Challenge Ropes.

Al’s group (my group) did the Dual Flying Fox first.

It is 150m long and goes up to 50-60 km. On the first

day it really got your adrenaline pumping.

At 5:00pm we had dinner. We had spaghetti. An hour

later, at 6:00 pm, we had a night activity. It was called

County Fair. County fair is a night activity. There are

seven shops that one group of 10 kids ran. There were

shops for hair spray, face paint, cotton candy and

bakery (doughnuts). You could also do the Bungee

Run and ride the Wild Surfboard. I was in the group

which did hair spray. There were these things called

tokens. You earnt them from people coming to your

shop. You can then spend them at different stores.

We were going really well until our hairspray started

running out, but then we switched to nail painting.

Then at 7:30pm we had a campfire where Doc told

scary but funny stories. Then at 8:00pm we went to

our rooms and went to bed.

Thursday (2nd day), we woke up at 7:00am and had

breakfast which was pancakes, spaghetti, toast and

baked beans.

At 8:30am we had Multi-Climb. It had four climbing

poles, two had bars on the side, one had a rope with

knots you can climb on and there was an action movie

helicopter ladder.

2 hours later we did Archery. Unfortunately I didn’t

hit a single shot. It was fun though some of my

friends got into the grand final, and I cheered them

on.

At 3:00pm we did canoeing which was very cold. We

played Shark vs. Fish, where one team starts off as

Sharks and tries to tag other canoes which become

Sharks too.

At 5:00pm we had dinner and did Challenge night.

Challenge Night which is when you do all types of

crazy things. We tried dual foot hopping where you sit

on each other’s feet and race to a part of the room.

At 9:30pm we then went to bed.

Friday (3rd and last day), 6:30 am we had to get up. At

6:45 we had breakfast. It was the same as the second

morning.

At 7:30 we started to pack up our belongings and

started to move to our next activity, Abseiling.

We had a choice of a five metre and a ten metre wall.

Most people went on the five metre, but the

daredevils went on the ten metres. Personally I’m

afraid of heights. I just say I’m not so I sound cool.

Later that day at 1:00pm we started to load our things

on to the bus and said goodbye to the camp staff and

left for St Clair.

It was an amazing Camp overall and I hope and think

everyone that went there loved it.

Liam Ross 5/6A

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Kindness has landed on Clairgate

Last week, on Tuesday 29th May, Clairgate had a

Kindness on Purpose launch and all of the Stages had

a great time in doing so. All of our students had a sing

along. Kindergarten sang ‘You Got a Friend in me’,

Stage 1 sang ‘Kindness Counts’, Stage 2 sang ‘Kindness

is a Muscle’ and Stage 3 sang ‘You Can Count on me’.

After our sing along we had a guest whose name was

Katrina Cavanough and she gave a wonderful speech

on Kindness. She told us how she was delighted that

Kindness is spreading across the globe.

After the sing along, the parents went to the library

and sat down with Katrina to discuss more Kindness

and how it affects people. Back in class we read a few

books about kindness and discussed heavy and light

feelings. We then felt some sandpaper and our

teacher said how every time someone hurts your

feelings it’s like being scratched by it.

We then discussed how when someone says

something nice to us it’s like feeling a cotton ball nice

and soft. 56A’s favourite book was called ‘The

Invisible Boy’. It was about a boy called Brian who was

never included so he thought that he was invisible but

then a new kid came to school.

Student Reviews

He became Brian’s best friend. He started including

Brian. Then after a while Brian wasn’t so invisible

anymore. At the end of the day the whole school

learnt a lot about kindness and how it affects people’s

feelings.

By Yousof Arjmand 5/6A

Assembly Awards Term 2 2018 2K Assembly

Aaron .W Mason A Cooper L Blayne H

Avarii.C Celina B Jacob P Aubrie A.H

Alexis.M Cody-Lee B Ryac P Jacob E

Nash.F Chelsea S Charlotte M Taylan M

Riley.T Jarryd M Ellie-May G.W Evie-Anne G.W

Ryan R Luca K Zarah T Jack H

Ruby R Levi I Fabian A Marcus L

Emma T Dominic B Lexi B Oscar H

Ranvir S Ezel K.N Thomas B Melita D

Amelie B William R Bridie H Romey C

Caleb W Kiandra L Lucas S Iftkhar B

William B Manseerat S

Kindness on Purpose Symbol

Katrina Cavanough

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What’s On at Penrith Observatory in June?

Following Light to the Beginning of the Universe – 9th June

Speaker – Dr Luke Barnes

How do we know what the Universe is made of? And what shapes its parts into the stars,

galaxies and clusters of galaxies that we see around us? Starting from the very early

universe, Dr Luke Barnes will discuss how the fundamental factors of our universe, its forces,

particles, and the dynamical stage that they tread (space time), compete and cooperate to

fashion the Universe today.

Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky

through a range of telescopes (weather permitting).

$18.00 Adult

$12.00 Child/Concession

$50.00 Family (2 adults + 2 children)

Children under 3 years of age free.

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1282338418563881/

From Darkness to Light: Star Birth in the Milky Way - 23rdJune

Speaker – Dr Nick Tothill

Stars like our sun are still being formed all around us in our Galaxy, although they're

sometimes hard to see. Some of them are going to be like our own Sun, some of them will

be smaller, and some will be much, much bigger. I'll talk about new stars and the places we

can see them, and what this means for our understanding of our Sun and our place in the

Galaxy.

Includes presentation, short 3D movie, tour of the dome and viewing of the night sky

through a range of telescopes (weather permitting).

$18.00 Adult

$12.00 Child/Concession

$50.00 Family (2 adults + 2 children)

Children under 3 years of age free.

BOOKINGS VIA OUR WEBSITE ESSENTIAL

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Venue Address: Penrith Observatory (Building AO), Western Sydney University, Werrington

North campus, Great Western Highway, Werrington

Contact phone or website for public enquiries and bookings:

https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/observatorypenrith/penrith_observatory/whats_on

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/469203220181770/

Dear Clairgate Community, We’re excited to commence our Paver Fundraiser. This is a great way to leave your mark on Clairgate Public School and make a donation at the same time. There are 2 styles to choose from, the details are listed below and there is a sample in the office for you to look at. Please pass on the word to anyone who you think might be interested, past students, families, staff or even community members are welcome to participate in the venture. Orders are open until JUNE 15

TH 2018

Thank you.

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OFFER 1: $40 INDIVIDUAL PAVER

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Clairgate Public School proudly showing your

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Size: 230 x 115 x 40mm

Please print clearly in CAPITAL letters. Each box represents a character (letter, number, punctuation mark or

space). Max 16 characters per line, three lines per paver. See over the page for Hand Drawn Paver template.

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Clairgate Public School proudly showing your

donation

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1. ONE NAME PER PAVER. 2. Draw your image using a good quality medium thickness black marker pen (about 2mm thick).

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