Lake Cathie PS Newsletter T1 Wk 4

Jock Garven - Principal
1240 Ocean Drive, Lake Cathie NSW 2445
PO Box 279 Lake Cathie NSW 2445
T (02) 6584 8060 F (02) 6584 8070
E [email protected]
W lakecathie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
RED HEART DAY
We are supporting Wear Red Day at Lake Cathie Public School.
As we have someone very close to our hearts with a significant
heart condition at our school we will raise money on Friday
26 February to support research into heart disease. Everyone
is encouraged to wear RED on this day and donate gold coins
to make a huge heart in our playground. There is a RED meal
deal from the canteen and a selection of red foods are also on
sale. The children will participate in RED activities on the day
to help build awareness and support from our local school and
community. Parents and families are encouraged to join us
on Friday 26 February between 11.30 and 1.00pm to support
our little mate and this fundraising campaign for research into
heart disease.
LOCKDOWN PROCEDURES
Currently, schools up and down the coast are being targeted
by individuals making bomb threats. These threats are taken
seriously on all occasions and a set of procedures implemented
by the safety and security directorate at the Department of
Education are used in all schools. If an “impending” bomb
threat is received, the school will go into immediate lockdown
where all children, staff and visitors will move into classrooms
quickly and safely where the doors and windows will be locked
and blinds pulled down. If the situation is appropriate, the
front gate will also be locked. The police will be called, the
Director of Schools will be notified and we will notify parents as
soon as possible and practical via facebook, the Skoolbag app
and email as to the logistics of the situation. Student safety and
remaining calm will be our number one focus.
DATES TO REMEMBER
Thursday 25 February
Kindy Colour Day -Blue
Friday 26 February
Red Heart Day
Thursday 3 March
Kindy Colour Day -Green
CANTEEN RED HEART DAY
The canteen will have the following items available
over the counter along with a
Pre-order Hot Dog Meal Deal on
Red Heart Day Friday February 26.
Red Velet Cupcakes
Red Frogs
Red/Green/Lemonade Ice Blocks
Red Jelly and Custard with a Red Frog
Watermelon
Strawberries
Red Grapes
Red Apples
If the threat is an immediate “onsite” bomb threat, we will take
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measures to safely evacuate the site. We have consulted with
Cowarra Park Preschool who we have a reciprocal arrangement
with in the event of an “Off-site” evacuation. If we evacuate
to Cowarra Park Preschool we will follow our risk management
procedures to safely get the students across Ocean Drive just to
the north of the roundabout with staff controlling traffic, then
proceeding along Houston Mitchell Drive then right into Forest
Parkway and safely into the Preschool where support facilities
are available including toilets and safe play areas. At that time
we would advise parents through the above communication
channels as well as telephone services for pick-up.
Lock-down will again be practised with our students tomorrow
and again next week. Please feel free to call me to discuss the
risk management procedures we have in place.​
PARKING
Now that our numbers have increased, could all parents
please observe the “Kiss and Drop” parking instructions on
the side of the internal road closest the classrooms. This is a
5-minute drop-off area designed to have a movement of traffic
continually. If you like spending a few minutes with your child
or children in the playground or talking with other parents, we
would greatly encourage this as this builds friendships and our
school Spirit. If so please secure parking on the south side of
the long parking area or on the grass overflow parking area near
the bus bay. Please remember to always enter the school via
the walkway next to the kindergarten rooms and toilet block.
Please do not use the gates at the bus bay as we insist these are
only for access to the buses.
CAMDEN HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL YR 5 AND 6 PARENT
INFORMATION EVENING
Wednesday 2 March – 5.00pm to 6.30pm – Staff Common Room
A letter is being sent home to all Year 5 and 6 Students. Details
will follow as to the onsite visits students and families will be
involved in throughout the year.
HASTINGS SECONDARY COLLEGE
A comprehensive information session was provided by staff and
students of Hastings Secondary College on Monday this week
after the Class Information Sessions held here at Lake Cathie
Public School. Staff and students spoke passionately and in
detail about the innovative and student needs-based programs
on offer at the College. Details will follow as to the onsite visits
students and families will be involved in throughout the year.
and our carnivals certainly reinforce that. Well done to our
competitors and a huge thanks to the parents who came to
volunteer and also to support our children with loud cheering
and support.
SKOOLBAG APP
Please remember to download a free copy of the “Lake Cathie
Public School” Skoolbag App from the relevant App Stores for
your smart phones. It is the easiest way to send in a note if
your child is absent from school. These notes must be sent
to the school within 7 days or they automatically become
an “Unexplained Absence”. You can send in a notification of
change of contact details and the newsletter can be accessed
also through this app.
SPECIAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – SCRIPTURE
Thank you to our wonderful scripture teachers who started
this week providing a very broad view of religion in a very
appropriate way for our students. The workbooks used are
great for our kids and are provided free by our local churches.
Classsroom teachers stay in the classes during scripture to
assist with supervision and to ensure the content of the lessons
is appropriate for the age groups. Quality Special Religious
Education is part of our curriculum and we are fortunate to have
lovely local volunteer scripture teachers to provide this at our
school.
BUS BEHAVIOUR
We have had an incident on Bus 71 – to Lake Cathie one afternoon
this week where a few of our students encouraged younger
students to participate in entirely unacceptable behaviour. This
will not be tolerated. Our buses provide safe passage to and
from school for all of our families. Our students should feel
happy and safe during these times of unsupervised travel. The
role of the bus driver is to drive safely to the conditions of the
road and to ensure the safety of our children. Their job should
not be to discipline students for unacceptable behaviour.
Busways have been notified of this situation and encouraged to
provide warning letters to parents of students who do not follow
the code of conduct whilst travelling on the bus. If your child is
not following the requirements of safe and happy bus travel, we
will contact you to work with you and Busways to ensure your
child displays appropriate behaviour when travelling on the bus.
KINDERGARTEN COLOUR DAYS
Wow! What a sea of Red last week. It is marvellous to see how
many parents and family members came to join in the fun of
our first colour day for the year. Thanks to Ms Gray and Mrs
Haste for all the fun and friendship generated through these
great colour days.
SWIMMING CARNIVAL
Mrs McCleary certainly organised one of the best carnivals I’ve
been to last week with high levels of motivation for participation
and a great feeling of support for all of our students to have a
go. Swimming is certainly an essential skill for all of our children,
particularly in the area we live. We are fully supportive of the
need for our children to develop skills in and a love of swimming
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READING HELPERS
Last year our school was fortunate to have been given funding to
do the Reading 4 Life program. This entailed tutors volunteering,
being given support and guidance and then being buddied
up with a student. Tutors worked with the same student, at a
convenient time for them, for approximately half an hour once
a week. A kit was provided including sight words, games and a
record book for the tutor with students having their own book to
ensure parent to school communication.
All tutors found this to be a rewarding and positive experience,
and the children made a new “big” friend to support their reading
progress.
We would like to follow the same structure this year and are
seeking expressions of interest from parents or members of the
wider community who would like to be involved.
We do have a request that it be in the mornings where possible
as this is the literacy time across the school, between 9:00am
and 10:45am. If you cannot come then, we will work around
your availability as we’d love to have you! You will need to have
a working with children screening check and be available at the
same time one day per week for approximately half an hour.
If you are interested, please email [email protected].
au with your preferred time, day and request boy or girl. I will
confirm times with everyone next week and have an information
session/ meet and greet morning tea next Friday for those who
sign up.
Many thanks for your anticipated interest,
Canteen Roster
Friday 19 February
Neeve Steel
Thursday 25
Kylie Short
February
Friday 26 February
Eve Gillbanks
Thursday 3 March
Donna Fiorenza
Friday 4 March
Eve Gillbanks
CHHS Robotics Team Expo
WHERE:
WHEN:
Camden Haven Surf Life Saving
Club Nth Haven Beach.
Sat Feb 20
10am-3pm
The Camden Haven High School Robotics Team
will be holding an Expo at Camden Haven Surf
Club.
Visitors to the Expo will be able to watch the
team as they put their latest Megabot through its
paces.
Also on show will be the Robocup Soccer Robot
squad who are preparing their player bots for an
exhibition game at the National Future Schools
Expo in Sydney in March.
Jane Egan
KINDER COLOUR DAYS
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SWIMMING CARNIVAL RESULTS
OPEN BOYS 100M FREE
1.Kingsley Brown
2.Jonathon Pikett
3.Lachlan Ulph
OPEN GIRLS 100M FREE
1.Georgia Hodges
2.Brooke Instrell
8YR BOYS 50M FREE
1. Archie Hill
2.Sean Robinson
8YR GIRLS 50M FREE
1.Jazmyn Everingham
2.Ellie James
9YR BOYS 50M FREE
1.Jye Cochrane
2.Ryan May
9YR GIRLS 50M FREE
1.Brooke Instrell
2.Faith Brown
3.Jordyn Miller
10YR BOYS 50M FREE
1.Robert Forenza
2.Quinn Carmichael
3.Hayden Wallace
10YR GIRLS 50M FREE
1. Isabelle Leiper
2. Molly Cicak
3.Brianna Hosemans
11YR BOYS 50M FREE
1.Kingsley Brown
2.Sonny Crisp
3.Kaden Marshall
11YR GIRLS 50M FREE
1.Skie McDonald
12YR BOYS 50M FREE
1.Jy Garvey
2.Jonathon Pikett
12YR GIRLS 50M FREE
1.Georgia Hodges
2.Jemma Joyce
3.Amber Deakin
JNR BOYS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Quinn Carmichael
2.Denver Dixon
3.Tobias Lee
JNR GIRLS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Brooke Instrell
2.Rachel Cook
3.Isabelle Leiper
11YR BOYS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Lachlan Ulph
2.Kingsley Brown
3.Takoda Pemberton
11YR GIRLS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Skie McDonald
SNR BOYS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Jonathon Pikett
2.Jy Garvey
3.Jordan Thorne
SNR GIRLS 50M BREASTSTROKE
1.Georgia Hodges
2.Jemma Joyce
3.Amber Deakin
JNR BOYS 50M BACKSTROKE
1.Robert Forenza
2.Quinn Carmichael
3.Denver Dixon
JNR GIRLS 50M BACKSTROKE
1.Brooke Instrell
2.Faith Brown
3.Elli James
11YR BOYS 50M BACKSTROKE
1.Kaden Marshall
2.Kingsley Brown
3.Bailey Molenkamp
11YR GIRLS 50M BACKSTROKE
1,Skie McDonald
SNR BOYS 50M BACKSTROKE
1.Jy Garvey
2.Jonathon Pikett
SNR GIRLS 50M BACKSTROKE
1.Georgia Hodges
JNR GIRLS 50M BUTTERFLY
1.Brooke Instrell
2.Faith Brown
3.Jazmyn Everingham
11YR BOYS 50M BUTTERFLY
1.Kingsley Brown
2.Kaden Marshall
11YR GIRLS 50M BUTTERFLY
1.Skie McDonald
SNR BOYS 50M BUTTERFLY
1.Jy Garvey
2.Jonathon Pikett
SNR GIRLS 50M BUTTERFLY
1.Jemma Joyce
JNR BOYS 4X50 MEDLEY
1.Quinn Carmichael
JNR GIRLS 4X50 MEDLEY
1.Brooke Instrell
2.Molly Cicak
3.Isabelle Leiper
SNR BOYS 4X50 MEDLEY
1.Kaden Marshall
2.Takoda Pemberton
3.Jonathon Pikett
SNR GIRLS 4X50 MEDLEY
1.Skie McDonald
AGE CHAMPIONS
Junior Boy
Quinn Carmichael
Junior Girl Brooke Instrell
11YR Boy
Kingsley
Brown
11YR Girl
Skie McDonald
Snr Boy
Jonathon Pikett
Snr Girl
Georgia Hodges
HOUSE CHAMPION
1.YELLOW
2.BLUE
3.RED
4.GREEN
What a great day was had by all! A big
thank you to family and friends who
helped with the timekeeping, we
couldn’t run the carnival without your
help. Thank you to the parents, family
and friends who came and cheered
and enjoyed the day with us. The
Lake Cathie spirit is growing stronger
all the time. A fantastic effort by
all the children for your exemplary
behaviour, loud cheering and having
a go. So many children went in every
event they could.
At the District Swimming Carnival
all of our children showed the spirit.
Congratulations to Georgia Hodges
who has qualified for the LNC
carnival.
Good luck, Georgia!
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ASSEMBLY AWARD WINNERS
TERM 1 WEEK 2
Class
Student of
Week
Work of Week
Class Award
K Green
Eva Butler
Georgina Keogh
Otis James
Jorjah Warrick
K Blue
Jikyha Vitnell
Talia Kapila
Eli McDonald
Lenni Ridgeway
1P
Brenton Mance
Marli Carmichael
1/2 B
Lexi Drury
Chloe Kapila
Max Fellowes
Haidyn Taylor
Nicholas Hodges
Teagan Cook
Laci Garvey
Charlotte Blackhall
Robbie Fiorenza
Rocky Cutting
Brianna
Hosemans
4/5/6M Jonathon Pikett
3/4 J
Zoe Bulmer
Tobias Lee
Jemma Joyce
Sport Award
Charli Miller
Liam Henderson
Sarah Fiorenza
Ben Spencer
Tao Connors
Archie Hill
Jy Garvey
Kingsley Brown
Citizenship
Sonny Crisp
TERM 1 WEEK 3
Class
Student of
Week
Work of Week
Class Award
Sport Award
K Green
Kaitlyn Latham
Dakotah Coleman
1P
Ayla Cross
Nate Stricker
1/2 B
Lily Fellowes
Summer Waite
Madeline Morgan
Cooper Boese
Evie Hall
Jude Stricker
Ruby Arnold
Rylan Rogerson
Lucca Coleman
Mitchell Whiting
Bailey Haste
K Blue
Ekana
Pemberton
Misty Connors
Citizenship
Maydee
Anderson
Drew McCabe
Hayden Gunn
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Bonny Hills Physical Culture
Runs fun and friendly classes for girls from
preschoolers through to ladies on a Wednesday
afternoon at the Bonny hills Community Hall.
All are welcome and for any enquiries please
call Ann Drury on 0429 855 014 or
email [email protected]
Contact Kylee on 6584 8060
to place your advertisement in
the School Newsletter
HEADLICE
1 in 4 primary school children have head lice, which is
incredibly frustrating as a parent!
Head lice have a 14 day life cycle therefore it is important
for 3 treatments on day 1 day 7 and day 14
Treatment can be either with an insecticide or plant base
product to kill the live lice. It is important that the directions
are followed for each product. Resistance to products
can occur so it is a good idea to change chemicals with
further re-infestation
The most important step is removing the eggs. I suggest
coating the hair with lots of conditioner and detangle hair
with a normal comb. Separate hair into sections and fine
tooth comb with a metal lice comb. I suggest wiping what
comes off the comb onto a tissue so that you can see
the dead lice and eggs that are being removed. Keep
combing each section until no more lice or eggs are
removed
It is easy to miss an egg or too, which may hatch a few
days later, so It is a good idea to fine tooth comb the hair
every 3-4 days
Lice don’t jump, they need head to head contact to
spread therefore pulling back hair and avoid sharing hats
and brushes.
Call in and see me if you need help choosing chemicals,
are pregnant or just need further advice
Karen
Lake Cathie Medical Centre Pharmacy
Our Aussie Hoops learn-to-play
program is kicking off again in
2016, with the Term 1 program
commencing on Tuesday 16th
February and going through to Tuesday 5th April.
Aussie Hoops is Basketball Australia’s official junior
game development program for children aged 5 - 12
years.
Once again, PMBA will be running an 8-week
program at the Port Macquarie Indoor Stadium for
first term. The session are held between 3.45 pm 4.30 pm each Tuesday afternoon and caters for Yrs.
1-2 kids and Yrs. 3-6 kids with separate programs/
courts for various ages and skill levels.
•Program commences Tuesday 16th Feb - 3.45pm 4.30pm
•$85 for all new players, which includes an exciting
Participant’s Pack (backpack, basketball & singlet)
•$65 for any returning players from the 2015 program
(no Pack)
For more information you can contact Andrew
Lister on 0406 316228
CAMDEN HAVEN BOMBERS
Wednesday 24th February - 5pm - 6pm, Training
for juniors planned to start but rego info can be
provided for any new kids who come down to Laurieton Oval.
Sunday 6th March - 9am -10am Auskick ‘come and
try’ / rego day
The club website is www.chjuniorafl.sportingpulse.
net and their FaceBook is Camden Haven Bombers
AFL -Juniors
Any further information about the Club please contact Paul Mance on 0413 938 361 or chjuniorafl@
gmail.com.
PLEASE RETURN WITH MONEY BY TUESDAY 23 FEBRUARY