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 10 Wednesday, 28th June 2017

Welcome to the last Clairgate Chronicle for Term 2

(28/06/17). This has been a busy and successful term

with our school successfully participating in lots of

sporting, curriculum and social events. I would like to

sincerely thank all our wonderful students, teachers,

office ladies, parents, teacher aides, canteen helpers,

P&C members, cleaners, clothing pool helpers and

Toddler Group helpers who support our amazing

school by:

learning, participating, sharing, caring, being resilient,

planning, organising, teaching, assessing, reporting,

meeting, coaching, running courses and activities,

buying, cooking, sewing, cleaning, nursing, budgeting,

transporting, fixing things, financially supporting,

working “behind the scenes”, helping out ‘on the day’,

generously giving of their time and energy….the list

goes on.

Well done to our students who have demonstrated

Respect, Responsibility, Resilience and Care – so many

students have received their silver horseshoe (98% of

children!) – we are celebrating this wonderful

Clairgate behaviour on Friday.

TOPSTEPS

Congratulations to all our students who participated

in this great day’s activities – and huge thanks to Mrs

McInally, Mrs Whalen, Mr Wilkinson and Mr Yang (a

visiting colleague from Erskine Park HS) for all your

hard work and support of this great program. Our

School Education Director – Mrs Deb Summerhayes –

came to visit and see all the activities happening at

our school and at all the STEPS Learning Community

schools. She was very impressed with the activities

she saw today.

Awards Ceremony

This Thursday (29/06/17) we will hold our Academic

Merit Celebration for those students who have

received a Principal’s award or higher – Bronze, Silver,

Gold or Platinum Merit Award. This celebration will be

at 2.00pm in the hall.

Girl’s State Soccer Knockout Team Success

Congratulations to the Girl’s State Soccer Knockout

Team – they played an excellent game against Pitt

Town on Monday and came away with a win – 1-0!

Well done everyone – what a hard game.

They play Crestwood PS next term. Good Luck Girls!

Police visit to Clairgate

Unfortunately last fortnight we had a small break in at

the school – this occurred during the weekend – most

probably around 2.00am Sunday morning. This

involved several classrooms but fortunately there was

no damage to these rooms. The wonderful St Marys

Police came to investigate and we also had a forensic

officer to take fingerprints of several items. A few

small items were taken and the police have the details

Term 2 - Important Dates to Remember

Thurs 29th June K-6 Merit Assembly 2pm

Fri 30th June Last Day for Term 2

Reports home today

Term 3

Mon 17th July Staff Development Day

Tues 18th July

Students resume school today

Fri 21st July PSSA Sport

Tues 25th July Athletics Carnival

A note from the Principal

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

of these items. We did have some reports of young

people jumping the fence and entering the school

grounds illegally at other times. The police have also

taken these details.

If anyone does notice any intruders or anything

untoward, please contact School Security on

1300 880 021.

What’s coming up early next term…

Primary Athletics Carnival – Blair Oval – Tuesday,

25th July, 2017

STEPS Music Festival – Thursday, 10th August, 2017

at the Evan Theatre – Penrith Panthers

Come and join us as we celebrate MUSIC in our STEPS

Leaning Community at the STEPS Music Festival. Our

combined choir has a wonderful repertoire and our

Dance Groups are certainly going to impress you with

their performance.

Celebrating Education during Education Week – 31st

July – 4th August, 2017

Our Junior Dance Group and Junior Choir will be performing at Mt Druitt Westfield Centre Stage on Wednesday, 2nd August at 10.00am to celebrate Education Week.

Clairgate Open Day, Book Fair and Book Week Parade will be held on Wednesday, 23rd August, 2017.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

Kind regards,

Mrs Michelle Lawrow

Principal

Clairgate – Care, Commitment, Creativity

Cross Country Assembly

Clairgate’s annual Cross Country Assembly was

held in our school hall last week. All place ribbons

and major trophies were presented. Well done to

all the students who competed at the carnival. It was

the highest participation at a carnival I’ve seen!

Congratulations to the following superstars who

received the major awards this year:

Junior Girl Champion: Jessey Bektas

Junior Boy Champion: Joshua McGeorge

Senior Girl Champion: Jada Taylor

Senior Boy Champion: Jenovic Tubashiku

Champion House Team: Jackson!

Regional Cross Country Carnival

Our school is extremely proud of the following

students who represented the St Marys District team

at the Sydney-West Regional at Eastern Creek

Raceway on 14th June:

Cohan Bonanno

Navreet Sandhu

Jada Taylor

Jack Histon

From all reports, the above champions ran extremely

well and tried very hard in their races on the day.

Well done and congratulations!

Winter Sport News

The Winter Sport program (PSSA Rugby League,

Soccer, Netball & AFL as well as Gymnastics and

School Sport) has finished for Term 2.

The same teams and groups will

recommence their Winter Sport

activities first week back next term!

****Cancellation!****

Unfortunately, the proposed State Knock Out Touch

games (Boys & Girls) planned for this Thursday 29th

June have been CANCELLED! Our opposition school

have informed us that they will be unable to

participate. The games will be rescheduled

for early next term!!

Sport Report by Mr Blanch

Excursion Brewongle

The excursion to the Brewongle Environmental Education Centre was linked to the work

for Geography taught to Stage 2 in Term 2. The name of the unit is, Places are Similar

and Different. At the Brewongle Environmental Education Centre, the students

compared the similarities and differences of the sites found there. They also

participated in various activities to learn about geographical concepts, skills and tools.

Thank You,

Mrs Tegjeu

Recount of Excursion Brewongle Education Centre

On Wednesday 21st of June Year 3 both went to Brewongle for their excursion.

Firstly, on Wednesday morning when we came to school and the first thing we did was

go to the hard court and line up in our class lines and mark the roll. Then we got onto

the bus. My partner was Alexis. It took an hour and a half to get there.

Secondly, we had to walk down a trail to get to the place. When we got there we put

our bags on the table and spoke about what we were going to do.

Thirdly, we got onto our first activity and I was sketching the Brewongle Nepean River.

The next activity was going bush walking and writing all the plants names down.

Finally, we got onto our last activity and it was looking at the temperature and using the

mirror to see how much sun was coming through the trees. After that we had our lunch.

We got on the bus to get back to school again.

My favourite part of the day was sketching the river.

By Ella Ida 3CG

Brewongle Excursion

On the way to Brewongle we played Spotto. We had to find yellow cars. I found 20.

The horse hunt was 109. On the bus I made a new friend.

In Brewongle we saw a humongous river with a lot of mud. The whole river was muddy

from all of the rain. We did three activities with a Brewongle teacher and a Clairgate

teacher. We learnt about North South East and West. The river was in the North.

By Karim Sinno 3G

Recount of Excursion Brewongle Education Centre

At Brewongle we had heaps of fun and this is what we did first. Firstly, we lined up at

the hard court and only one person was away. Secondly, we got on the bus and I sat

next to Eloise. We talked about what we thought it would be like. We thought it would

be nice and quiet.

Thirdly, we arrived at Brewongle. We walked through a nice shady bush to get to the

meeting area. When we got there we talked about the rules and everyone promised to

do the right thing.

The first activity I did was drawing a line picture of what we saw. Then we got to use

compasses and look at the map to find North, South, East and West.

Next we went for a bush walk and we got to look at some different types of leaves. We

also got to feel possum fur!

After that we got to see the temperature, how much light and we looked at the density

of the ridge top and the gully.

I had fun at Brewongle. My favourite part was the bush walk.

By Matilda Saunders 3CG

Brewongle Excursion

On the way to Brewongle we played Spotto. We had to find yellow cars. I found 20.

The horse hunt was 109. On the bus I made a new friend.

In Brewongle we saw a humongous river with a lot of mud. The whole river was muddy

from all of the rain. We did three activities with a Brewongle teacher and a Clairgate

teacher. We learnt about North South East and West. The river was in the North.

By Karim Sinno 3G

3T’s Excursion to Brewongle Environmental Education Centre

Last Wednesday 21st June, I saw lots of horses and dogs on the way there. I talked to

my friends and I had fun.

When we got there, we split up into three groups. We looked at types of gear to see

the temperature and measure sunlight.

After the first activity we had recess. In the second activity we learnt about North

South East and West. In the third activity we looked at things you can find in the

bush.

In the booklet, we drew a sketch from the top of the hill. Then we had the first letter

and had to solve it by looking at information slips.

By Ines Hickman 3T

3T’s Excursion to Brewongle Environmental Education Centre

On the bus drive to Brewongle it was really fun and my partner was Janina but we had

to sit at the front as we sometimes get car sick.

It was on Wednesday 21st June and the teachers who went were Mrs Camilleri, Mrs

Gabriel, Mrs Roberts and Miss Nassif. The classes that went were 3T and 3CG.

When we got to the car park Mrs Roberts got off and went to look at the path. When

she came back we all walked down the path. And when we got there the Brewongle

teachers introduced themselves to us.

We started to walk off with the Brewongle teacher at the front and saw a wallaby

called Wendy. Then we learnt to use a compass. After we sketched we had recess.

The groups rotated and had lunch. After lunch we went on the bus again and my

partner was Ella.

When we got back to school I was exhausted. The Brewongle excursion was really fun.

By Amerie Resonable 3T

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability

Notification for Parents and Carers

From 2015, all Government and non-Government schools across Australia are required to

participate annually in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with

Disability (NCCD).

All Australian schools will collect data on their students who are receiving adjustments to meet

additional learning and support needs in accordance with their obligations under the Disability

Discrimination Act 1992 and Disability Standards for Education 2005. This data will be provided

to the Australian Government to assist in the development of a consistent, national picture of

the education needs of students with disability.

The data provided to the Australian Government by the NSW Department of Education and

Communities is provided in such a way that it cannot be used to identify any individual student

or school.

General information about the national data collection can be found on the Australian

Government Department of Education and Training website at http://education.gov.au/fact-

sheets-nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability.

Privacy Protection

The NSW Department of Education and Communities follows the requirements of the Privacy

and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and the Health Records and Information

Privacy Act 2002. Schools will collect, record, store and use data about individual students in

line with these requirements. Data security and protection is a priority and students’ personal

details will be kept confidential.

Under Clause 52 of the Commonwealth Australian Education Regulation 2013, data collected

by the NSW Department of Education and Communities for the NCCD must be provided to the

Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This includes the number of

students at each level of education, the number in each category of disability and the number

at each level of adjustment. The information is provided to the Commonwealth as a series of

number sets that cannot be used to identify any individual student or school.

The Australian Government Department of Education and Training follows the requirements of

the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 when handling any data provided by NSW Department of

Education and Communities in connection with the national data collection. A privacy notice

has been developed to by the Australian Government to provide students, parents and carers

with important privacy information in relation to the data collection. This notice is available on

the department’s website at http://education.gov.au/notices

If you have any questions about the data collection, or would like to “opt out” of this process,

please contact the Mrs Lawrow or Mrs McInally.

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