RECONCILIATION WEEK
I would like to thank the Student Council for organising an active and fun filled day last Monday for Reconciliation Week. The students organised the activities and we all participated in a walk around the school.
Due to Covid-19 the annual Reconciliation Walk the school normally attends
in Kyogle was not held. The Senior class has also created a timeline on the
front fence marking memorable dates in Australia’s path towards
Reconciliation. We encourage all parents to stop and walk the timeline and
review the dates. The students collaboratively calculated the years in metres,
with every metre representing 10 years.
THANK YOU TO THE P&C
I would like to thank the P&C for being a productive and collaborative group of people.
The new Principal will be very lucky to have an involved, productive, collaborative and supportive P&C.
You and your children are what makes Collins Creek School such a success.
VIRTUE FOR TERM 2 WEEK 7
PERSEVERANCE
I HAVE PERSEVERANCE. I KEEP A STEADY PACE IN WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO. I KEEP ON KEEPING ON. I FINISH WHAT I START.
I AM A LOYAL AND COMMITTED FRIEND.
COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL Tuesday 9th June 2020
480 COLLINS VALLEY ROAD, COLLINS CREEK 2474 E: [email protected] PH: 02 66 331 278
W: collinsck-p.schools.nsw.gov.au PRINCIPAL - TONI CARTER Fax: 02 66 331 331
• Choose your commitments wisely
• Set goals and stick with them until completed
• Pace yourself, and take one step at a time
• Don’t let doubts or tests blow you off course
• Stand by your friends and loved ones
PIZZA PARTY
The students have sticker reward charts and when a student fills their chart they can either pick from
the mystery box or if 2 people fill their chart, they can combine and have a party.
The students last week did an amazing job of hand pulling bindi’s and therefore earned themselves a
pizza party, as they combined their stickers to allow certain students to fill their charts.
The senior students will be making and cooking these. A permission note at the end of this newsletter
seeks permission for your child to participate in the pizza party, which will most likely be Thursday.
TREE LOPPING
Hopefully the school will have the tree loppers here this week to get rid of the dead and termite
infested trees in the front garden. This will involve removing some of the habitat boxes. If any parent
would like to volunteer to rehome the habitat box, please contact the school.
All the mulch from the trees will be used in the upcoming Landcare food and fibre garden that will be
funded by the successful grant application written and submitted by Tamar Cohen. Thank you, Tamar,
for writing and submitting the successful ‘What’s in the box’ and Landcare grants.
WEEK 7 8th - 12th JUNE
MONDAY 8 Public Holiday
COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL
Due to this Terms Sporting
Schools program not taking
place, we were allocated funds
for equipment.
One of the purchases was for
new soccer goals which the
students and Camilla made use
of last Friday. It was great to see
the students being active
A huge thank you to Gurpreet for helping with the school vegie gardens. Their new home is in a much better position for growing some delicious food and the new food and fibre garden project can now be started.
PAPER BRIDGE CHALLENGE
Last week Bianca challenged us to make a newspaper bridge. We were in teams of 2 and only had one
newspaper, one roll of sticky tape and 30 minutes. It had to be 30cm or longer and was not allowed to
be stuck to the table in any way. I was with Ruby and we
probably had the most peculiar bridge of them all, it was
looped around the table but not stuck to it so it was allowed,
after many attempts we finally got it to hold 8kg we lost by
5kg but it was still an achievement.
By Vera
On Thursday we had to make a paper bridge challenge with
Bianca. We had only one roll of sticky tape, one whole
newspaper and scissors. The sticky tape could not be stuck to
the table in any way. We were put into groups of two. My
team was Isaac and I. The other teams were: Tayla and Elsie,
Ruby and Vera and the kindies. Bianca helped all of us which
made it fair.
In challenge one
we built one bridge that couldn’t even hold 1kg. After, the
same rules applied except we got a whole new newspaper.
Then, Issac and I made a bridge that had held 13kg. We
made it like this: we got every sheet of newspaper and
rolled it up then wrapped it in sticky tape. Next, we left one
sheet of paper and folded it in half and wrapped the middle
up. That sheet of newspaper and stuck it all together. What
an improvement!
This is how Tayla and Elsie made theirs: they got 6 sheets and rolled
them up then they had half of the newspaper left and wrapped it
around the 6 poles. Their bridge held 13kg.
Vera and Ruby made their bridge like this: they got newspaper that
they had 10 sheets of paper in between the middle of the desks then
they kept adding more and more to the sides of the paper in the
middle then they sticky taped all the extensions together. Then they
got their sticky tape and stuck the end of the extension, then bent it
down like hooks, it held 3kg. we all had so much fun making this.
By Jas
COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL
Bianca set us a paper bridge challenge where we had to make a bridge that could reach over two tables 30 centimetres apart and carry as much weight as possible.
We were divided into four teams, Jassy and I, Tayla and Elsie, Vera
and Ruby, and the kindergartens all fighting for glory. But there were
some rules, you could only have one roll of sticky tape and one
newspaper, also the tape could not be stuck to the table.
Jassy and I, on our first try, lost because our bridge would not even
hold one gram. But on our second try we won with 13 kilograms.
By Isaac
On Thursday Vera and I completed a paper bridge challenge. We had to try and make a bridge to go across a 30 centimetre gap that would hold the most weight.
We could only use one newspaper and one roll of tape. The rules were that we could not get any more paper and tape and nothing could be stuck to the table.
It was very hard because we had only 30 minutes to complete and construct, and the materials were not strong.
By Ruby
On Thursday Bianca gave us a paper bridge challenge we
were in teams of two. We had 30 minutes to build it but
Bianca gave us a couple of rules. That you can only use a
small role of sticky tape, a newspaper and scissors. It could
not be taped to the table, it had to reach across two tables.
We started, my team was Elsie and me. We had 5 minutes to
plan. Our strategy was to make hard poles and stick them all
together. We put all the rest of the newspaper around and
stuck it on the poles. Then we tested it to see if it would hold
one kilogram and it did. Next we just waited till the time was up, so we just had a look at other people’s
bridges. They were all so good. Vera and Ruby had like a sloth one with claws around the table but it did
not stick to the table so it was allowed. Isaac and Jasmeet did not make it in time so their bridge could
not hold one kilogram sadly. They still did good. Then the kindy’s did one with Bianca and it looked
awesome. Bianca just helped a little bit. Then we measured how many kilograms each bridge could
hold. Elsie’s and mine could hold 13 kilograms. The challenge was so fun we all enjoyed it.
By Tayla
COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL
Collins Creek PS Reconciliation Day
By Jasmeet Singh
On the first of June 2020, Student Council (Tayla, Vera, Isaac, Ruby, and I) held a Reconciliation day at
Collins Creek PS. It took 4 days for Student Council to
make this wonderful event. All students participated in
Reconciliation Day. We had one at school because of
Covid-19. Which means group gatherings weren’t
allowed, normally when we march in town there is about
100 people. But because we are a small school there is
only 10 of us in school. It is our principal’s last term here,
Ms Carter and she loves marching in town but we
couldn’t go, so we made march at school for her.
On Reconciliation Day, Student Council had made little workshops with diversity in the workshops.
Workshop 1 was mine with Aboriginal flag colouring templates, they had
to colour in the top black, the middle yellow and the bottom red. Red
means the earth, the yellow represents the sun, and the black for the
people. The kindies used crayon to colour in the templates.
Workshop 2, Tayla organised foot painting and hand paintings. She had
red, black, and yellow Aboriginal colours. She had a paint roller and she
would dip a little bit in black, red and yellow and press the kindies foot
onto white plain paper and do the same with the hands.
Workshop 3 saw Isaac on ochre painting. He had brought in ochre rock
and a big rock called a grinding rock to rub the ochre rock on. He had a
bowl of water and he let the rocks soak in the water and then he would rub it on the big rock. He made
patterns on the faces and arms and on the back of the hand.
Then we had Vera, while she didn’t hold a
workshop, she was in charge of the march. When
Vera had done organising the march she went
around to other workshops to help others. After all
the activities were done we had a march all around
school and we listened to Baker Boy’s song.
At the end of the day there was one last workshop
left. It was Ruby’s gratitude tin. Our teacher Bianca
got all the kindies at the end and had them say
what they enjoyed about the day, what did they like
and what did they not like. This feedback will help
us plan future events.
COLLINS CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOL