Relieving Principal: Kim Smith Cowra-Carcoar Road, Cowra NSW 2794 63422172 0458 422 000 63411247 @ holmwood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.holmwood-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 4 Week 7 –Week Ending 25th November 2016
Students of the Week! Congratulations to our Week 6 Students of the Week!
Thank you to the HPS staff, Brooke McFadden and Pascal Gindy-Bryant for all your assistance during swimming. Special thanks to Mrs Corrie Bryant who will come to the pool today to assess all our Lifesaving students. Students will be informed of whether they passed their Level after today’s assessment. Once this has been completed the Lifesaving Awards will be ordered.
Year 6 Farewell
Ruby Light (Kinder), Lily Hood (Stage 1)
Hayley Cameron (Stage 2), Matt Russell (Stage 3) Merit Awards were presented to; Kinder - Mia Kiss Stage 1- Lucas Sandry Stage 2- Liam Beaumont Stage 3 - Lara Collins
Today, Thursday 24th November we will be having the Year 6 Farewell Party at the Cowra Pool. All Year 5 and Year 6 students are invited to attend. The Year 5 & 6 children will stay at the pool after swimming and begin their celebrations. A scrumptious afternoon tea and dinner will be provided (courtesy of the Year 6 “Wish List”!). HPS Staff will be supervising this activity and parents are asked to collect their child from the pool at 6pm. It will be a great night!
Presentation Night Holmwood Public School’s Annual Presentation Night will be held on Thursday 8th December 2016 starting at 6.30pm at the school. All students and families are encouraged to attend to celebrate the achievements of our students in 2016. It is expected that the Awards Ceremony will conclude at around 8:00pm, with supper to follow.
ALL FAMILIES ARE ASKED TO PLEASE BRING ALONG A PLATE FOR SUPPER
School Swimming Scheme Congratulations to all students on their excellent achievements over the past two weeks of swimming. Everyone has made excellent progress and learnt new skills…whether they are beginner swimmers or are the more capable Lifesaving group!
At around 8:30pm, “Santa” will make an appearance and will present each child with a lolly bag (to HPS students, friends and siblings). Parents do not need to provide a gift for their child. Presentation Night will conclude after Santa’s visit and before it gets dark so that Staff can lock up. We look forward to seeing you there!
Report Folders Could all parents please return the red HPS Student Report Folders which were sent home with Semester 1 Reports in June. This is so we can add your child’s latest report to the folder to ensure it stays safe, ready to be handed out on Presentation Night. Thank you!
Calendar Term 4 Week 8 Mon 28th Nov
NO CANTEEN
Tues 29th Nov
STEM Showcase – Ms Edgerton, Mrs Skene, Mrs Knight and Mrs Mayo to attend Canowindra High School Family BBQ at 6.30pm Year 6-7 Social at Cowra High School
Wed 30th Nov st
School Magazine Pre-orders This year we will again be compiling a Holmwood Public School Magazine. Each student in the school will have their own page where they create a personal profile and submit a piece of writing which they are proud to have published in the magazine. As well as student pages, we feature photo pages of some of the events we have participated in during the year, P&C, Student Leader and Principal Reports and a special page to welcome our new Kindergarten students for 2017. The magazines are printed in colour and bound and as such are expensive to produce. To cover the costs of printing and paper, the school charges $6.00 per copy. If you would like to pre-order a copy of this year’s School Magazine, please complete the order form attached to last week’s Newsletter and return with $6 payment to the school office by Wednesday 7th December. Magazines will be distributed on Presentation Night. There will be some copies for sale however once we run out, there will be no further copies available.
Thurs 1 Dec nd
Fri 2 Dec
Canteen open today
Term 4 Week 9 th
Mon 5 Dec Tues 6th Dec
No Canteen Order your School Magazine $6 LAST KINDER TRANSITION TODAY!
Wed 7th Dec Thurs 8
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Dec
Fri 4th Dec
PRESENTATION NIGHT 6.30PM Canteen open today
Term 4 Week 10 th
Mon 12 Dec Tues 13th Dec
No Kinder Transition today
Wed 14th Dec Thurs 15th Dec Fri 16th Dec
Last day of Term 4, 2016.
Kind Regards, Kim Smith Relieving Principal
Dates for your Diary End of year events are rapidly approaching. Please note the following dates for your diary… Year 6 Farewell –Thursday 24th December Presentation Night – Thurs 8th December Last Day of Term – Friday 16th December
Attachments
Sport & Rec information New canteen menu for the rest of 2016
Kindergarten News
Recently the new chickens have produced an increased supply of eggs! It is most likely due to the excellent care and management by the students’ and staff at Holmwood. Kindergarten are responsible for collecting the eggs each day. Just this week the children counted one dozen eggs! This is a special occasion for the school. We are also taking the egg collecting each day as an opportunity to add, subtract to 10 and 12.
This week Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 have been busy learning about Brazil. We have taken a virtual flight to Brazil and enjoyed the sights, sounds and delicious food. The children have all participated in cooking Brazilian Bananas. Yum! In the Kindergarten room we are using some new friends to learn storytelling, counting, drama and social skills. The children enjoy using and working with puppets to help them with their work.
Stage 1 News This week in Stage 1 we have continued to read our class novel ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’. The students worked on writing adjectives and descriptions about the four main characters – Boggis, Bunce, Bean and Mr Fox. We also discussed the language and imagery Roald Dahl uses throughout the text and how this information creates a picture in our mind. The students are thoroughly enjoying the text. In writing, Year 1/2 have been writing expositions. The topic was ‘All school students should participate in after-school sport.’ The children came up with some terrific reasons why this should occur including it makes children fit and healthy, it helps children socialise, keeps children out of trouble and children get to play team sports. The students also learnt about paragraphing, correct punctuation and editing. The students also have been working on comprehension skills by looking for clues on the page and inferring what is happening by the descriptions, words used and the accompanying picture. In Maths, Stage 1 have been doing independent revision activities. The focus of this was to look at the strategies used to complete questions. Some strategies used include mental strategies, counting on, bridging, use of concrete materials and number lines. The students are working well through the challenges. All of the students are working well in swimming. There was been improvement noted as the days progress. The children have been working on correct technique, safe entries and exits and endurance. Well done, Stage One. Until next week… Mrs Knight Stage 1 Teacher
Stage 2 News No doubt there were some very tired children after our whole school excursion. I know I was! I hope you have enjoyed hearing all of the fabulous stories. Everyone had a fantastic time at Borambola Sport and Recreation Centre, participating in activities they had never experienced before including: Low Ropes, Orienteering, Initiatives (the team work this required was phenomenal), Rock Climbing (so many students and adults extended themselves outside their comfort zones to conquer this wall!!), Archery, Mud Run, Raft Building (again the team work was extraordinary) and Kayaking, just to name a few!! The night time activities, of Mini Olympics and
Borombola Show, were so much fun!! Everyone had a wonderful time interacting with each other and the students from the other schools that shared the centre with us. Now the excursion is out of the way it is ‘business as usual’ in the classroom as we are working hard to complete units in our core subjects. The excursion offered us an excellent recount writing experience and after reading these recounts it is evident that they all thoroughly enjoyed the experience. ‘The One and Only Ivan’ novel is still enthralling us all in the class, providing us with countless opportunities of learning new vocabulary to add to our ‘Picture Vocabulary’ activity. We are gradually completing activities in our ‘Lap books’. In Maths we continued our focus on subtraction, with the Year 4 subtracting and trading numbers up to 5 digits. There have been several quotes in the classroom during these lessons of “this is so much” and “I couldn’t do this at the beginning of the year but now I love it!” So I can safely say the entire class is demonstrating some excellent subtraction skills. We have also been focusing on Volume and Capacity which has provided us with lots of fun hands-on activities. I have included a picture of Jaydan, Katie and Liam placing measurement cards from smallest to largest.
Homework is due back in tomorrow. News topic for next week is: Free Choice. Have a fabulous weekend! Kind Regards Mrs Fiona Skene Stage 3 News After almost two weeks of swimming students are improving their strokes and building up their stamina to increase their distance in swimming. Some of the skills students are developing are stroke correction, back sculling, safety step, diving, breathing correctly and improving their personal best distance. This week in the classroom we had an exciting STEM challenge on Friday, the aim was to build a roller coaster from straws, foil, paddle pop sticks, masking tape and cardboard. Students were paired together and had to collaboratively design and construct a roller coaster so a marble would roll more than 50 cm. It had to include a tunnel and a loop for the marble to go through. Lilly Whitty, Lily Lawler, Taylah and Akiko were successful at the task, well done girls. In maths this week we have been exploring Cartesian coordinates, using grid references to navigate a map, drawing objects using a scale for enlarging drawings.
Swimming for the last 2 weeks has certainly provided the students with the opportunity of improving their swimming skills. They have all enjoyed the opportunity to get wet during this warmer weather!
In English we have started our school magazine pages, editing stories and writing our year six reflections on our time here at Holmwood. We are ploughing our way through our My Place unit learning all of the interesting events in history. Regards Ms Edgerton
A variety of craft and physical play experiences will be on offer to the children throughout each day with the following highlights,
Student Council Helping Hand Hamper The Student Council has had another very productive and successful year and greatly appreciate the generous support of our students and families which has enabled each activity and event to be a huge success. WOW….what an incredible year it has been!! Our final activity for the year is to collect non - perishable food and items for our Helping Hand Hamper. A basket has been located in the foyer where items can be left or given to a member of the Student Council on morning assembly. Thank you for your continued and generous support. Every act of kindness counts and combines to make a big difference in someone else’s life. Kind Regards, Mrs Kiely
Community News Cowra Early Childhood Services OOSH (out of school hours care) Vacation Care Program Bookings for the upcoming school holidays are open now and filling fast Call now to avoid disappointment Admin on 63422338
Thursday 17th Dec - Giant movie day with all the trimmings Friday 18th Dec – Snow Globe making, Totem tennis, cricket in the park Monday 21st Dec – Christmas cooking, sock wrestling Tuesday 22nd Dec – Bunnings visit us Christmas craft, Christmas Owls. Wednesday 23rd Dec – Cooking Christmas pudding, making Christmas cards Thursday 24th Dec – To be advised due to numbers Service is closed 25th December 2015 to 3rd Jan 2016 Monday 4th Jan – Skipping competition, Woodwork Tuesday 5th Jan – Technology Day bring your own devices if you choose Wednesday 6th Jan – Nerf Gun war in the park BYO Nerf gun Thursday 7th Jan – Karate Shidoin David Simpson will demonstrate and teach basic self-defence techniques Friday 8th Jan – Skate Park excursion Monday 11th Jan – Candle making Tuesday 12th Jan - Excursion to Bunnings to participate in DIY workshop Wednesday 13th Jan – Super hero dress-up day, Scavenger hunt Thursday 14th Jan - Water play day, sprinklers & slip n slide in the park, sausage sizzle lunch Friday 15th Jan – Laser Tag in the park Monday 18th Jan – Cooking Day Tuesday 19th Jan – Pottery Cassie Scammell will bring her pottery wheel Wednesday 20th Jan – machine sewing making treasure bags and curtains Thursday 21st Jan – Little Athletics competition Friday 22nd Jan – Water war in the park, photo frame making Monday 25th Jan – BBQ and Lamingtons to celebrate Australia Day Tues 26th Jan – Closed Australia Day Wednesday 27th Jan – Last day party, dressup day