Corrimal East Public School Newsletter Term 2 Friday 29th May, 2020 Week 5 Respect Safety Excellence Phone: 4284 4582 Email: [email protected]Website: hp://www.corrimale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Facebook: hps://www.facebook.com/corrimaleastps/ Dear Parents / Caregivers Thank you for helping make our first (full time) week back such a smooth transition. Thank you for being patient at pick up time and keeping your distance from other adults at the front gate. The staff have enjoyed seeing the students everyday. I know some students are finding it hard to return to school 5 days a week (especially those in Kindergarten). Hopefully by next week they will remember just how fun school is. I hope those families that joined our first Zoom assembly enjoyed seeing some of our students being acknowledged for the hard work they have put into their school work this week. We are hoping our PBL stamp chart box is filled very soon so the whole school can have a reward day. The canteen is re-opening next week from the 1st June. It’s open every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at recess and lunch. See attached flyer for more details. We are happy to answer any questions or queries you may have. Kind regards Michelle Munro Upcoming Events Term 2 Monday 7th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Friday 3rd July Last day for Term 2 Term 3 Monday 14th September School Photo Day Book Club Ordering has now returned to normal for Term 2! Catalogues have been sent home today with your child. Please place any orders through the usual LOOP plaorm. Orders will be delivered to Corrimal East Public School as usual and will be sent home with your child.
Thank you for helping make our first (full time) week back such a smooth transition. Thank you for being patient at pick up time and keeping your distance from other adults at the front gate. The staff have enjoyed seeing the students everyday. I know some students are finding it hard to return to school 5 days a week (especially those in Kindergarten). Hopefully by next week they will remember just how fun school is. I hope those families that joined our first Zoom assembly enjoyed seeing some of our students being acknowledged for the hard work they have put into their school work this week. We are hoping our PBL stamp chart box is filled very soon so the whole school can have a reward day. The canteen is re-opening next week from the 1st June. It’s open every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at recess and lunch. See attached flyer for more details. We are happy to answer any questions or queries you may have. Kind regards
Michelle Munro
Upcoming Events
Term 2
Monday 7th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Friday 3rd July Last day for Term 2 Term 3 Monday 14th September School Photo Day
Book Club Ordering has now returned to normal for Term 2!
Catalogues have been sent home today with your child. Please place any orders through the usual LOOP platform. Orders will be delivered to Corrimal East Public School as usual and will be sent home with your child.
We will continue our staggered pick up times. The front gate pick-up times will be as follows;
Kindergarten – 2:50pm
Stage 1 – 3:00pm
Stage 2 & 3 – 3:05pm
Our school routines will still include many COVID – 19 related routines that will remain until further notice.
They are;
Parents/Carers/Family members
•Continue to drop off and pick up your children at the front and back gates
•Do not go to your child’s classroom
•Only go to the office if you need to (call the school if you have any questions or queries)
Students
• Wash their hands before entering the classroom, before and after eating, and when necessary.
• Will wipe down and clean their own working area at the end of each day
School
• There will continue to be no events where parents and family members are able to attend
• There will be Zoom assemblies that the school community can attend.
I clean my desk at the end of the day.
I wash my hands when I enter the classroom and before I eat.
The Protestant SRE teachers have been missing the opportunity to meet with the students in their classes each week. They have also been liaising with the producers of the Scripture curriculum to see what could be made available to students and their families while most CEPS students are at home. They are now pleased to offer those families some “learning at home” Scripture lessons which parents can access with their children. Just click on the following link: https://cepconnect.com.au/learningathome/
Happy, healthy kids, how good! The footy returned to our TV’s last night, how good! Even if you are not a fan of the NRL though, it is still a huge step forward towards the return of kids and community sport which is fantastic news. In our school playground, the students have been excellent in their adaptation to the new rules and routines around sport and physical activity. They are playing, laughing, running, jumping and most importantly happy which is fantastic to see. One thing I have noticed over the past few weeks is a huge interest in skipping. I can’t tell you how many kids come and ask to borrow skipping ropes everyday, it’s fantastic. Not only is skipping a lot of fun, it is also an excellent form of physical activity. Now that we are back at school, the Easties 100 Point Challenge will no longer be taking place. In saying that, the activities and resources will remain available for any student who wishes to use them whenever they like. I was so impressed with the response of the students with over 70 students joining the page in the past few weeks, almost a third of the whole school! Well done everyone and especially these students who made the top 10 overall. You are awesome!
Healthy Habits This week - Hydration Water is the best drink you can have to quench your thirst. It helps the blood to
transport oxygen around your body and helps it convert food to energy to play and
learn. It is important to drink water everyday, especially when it is hot or when you
are participating in physical activity.
Hydration Tips
• Aim to drink between 1.2L and 1.4L of water a day
• Try to limit sugary drinks like soft drinks, juice, sports drinks and energy
drinks
Easties Heroes
Name Ciara Nickname (none) Age 7, nearly 8 Favourite sport Swimming What do you love most about swimming? I love doing lots of laps, especially freestyle and breaststroke. Sporting highlight Making it to the state PSSA Swimming Carnival this year for my first year of competitive swim-ming. Unfortunately it was cancelled due to covid-19. Most challenging thing about sport Getting up early in the morning when it is cold. Favourite sports person I don’t really know yet. I do like the Australian netball team (The Diamonds) and I also love playing netball.
P & C News – 2020 - Term 2, Week 5
What a crazy time its been, but welcome back to school everyone! We hope you are all safe and well and survived HOME-SCHOOLING relatively unscathed!! Firstly, the P&C wish to extend our immense gratitude to Miss Munro and the CEPS Staff for their hard work and dedication with helping us all through our HOMESCHOOLING experience. We literally couldn’t have done it without you all. And the numerous amusing videos were fantastic and well received by both the adults and the students. Thank you!! As you know, we’ve had to cancel a lot of fundraising over the last few months. This has been disappointing for our hard working Fundraising committee. But rest assured we are preparing for the day when we can continue organising the events we had planned for the coming terms. However, at this stage they are all still on hold. We have GOOD NEWS. The CANTEEN will be back as of Monday 1st June!! We thank Linda and Deb for agreeing to come back on board. Unfortunately no volunteers can help out at the moment, we will confirm once we can resume this. See our flyer for further details.
