Newsletter June 2nd 2017 - Cockatoo Primary School from Year 4, ... freshly cooked bucket of hot chips and a Cadbury Chocolate for $5.00. ... Newsletter June 2nd 2017 Author:

Cockatoo Primary School No 3535. Website – www.cockatoops.vic.edu.au

COCKATOO PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be!A Great Place To Be! NO. 15 Friday June 2nd 2017

Dates to Remember June

Friday 2nd

Monday 5th

Tuesday 6th

Wednesday 7th

Friday 9th

Monday 12th

Tuesday 13th

Tuesday 20th

Tuesday 27th

Special Friends Morning Tea 9:15am – 10:45am

Book Fair Week

Grade 5&6 Lightning Premiership

JLC Science works Excursion

Curriculum Day

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Divisional Cross Country

Ramingining Potato Cake fundraiser

World Vision Crazy Tshirt Day – Gold Coin Donation

Grade 5 Transition Emerald Secondary College

PFA Hot chip Day


Principals Report

Special Friends and Family Morning

Thank you to the many guests who visited our school today. It was a great experience for students to conduct school tours and be able to show off our school to their special visitors. There was a definite buzz and a hum around the school today!

EDEC Grade 5/6 Lightning Premiership

Good luck to our grade 5 and 6 students who will compete against our neighbouring EDEC schools at Worrell Reserve in Emerald next Tuesday. The competition is sure to be fierce but we are all very confident that our students will display the qualities of good sports people on and off all sporting fields. Good luck Cockatoo!

We Want Our Students to Tell Us What They Think

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our school. The Attitudes to School survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education and Training to assist schools in gaining an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school. Our school will use the survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your child's schooling experience. The Department has updated the survey for 2017 to include important new measures that are known to influence student engagement and performance. Students from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 at our school will participate in the survey. Your child will complete the survey online during school hours using a purpose built secure online survey tool. It is important to note that we are not in any way “testing” your child. Your child has the right to refuse or withdraw from the survey at any point before, during, or after completion of the survey.

Your child will be provided with a unique login to complete the survey. The student login is an assigned identifier that may be used by the Department to combine data for research purposes only. Your child’s privacy and the confidentiality of your child’s survey responses will be protected at all times. No identifiable personal data is included in the survey response file.

The survey results will be reported back to the school in term 3. No student can be identified in the results reported to schools or in any other report of the data. The survey results will be communicated to parents through annual reporting and will be tabled at School Council. Last year we used the survey results to plan further welfare initiatives that link back to main messages from the 2016 survey. For many years our results are well above State averages and well into the fourth quartile. This enables staff to celebrate the good work done and affirm our current approaches across the areas covered within the survey.

This year the Attitudes to School survey will be conducted at our school over the period 15th June 2017 until 22nd June 2017. The survey only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and occurs during your child's class time. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information or visit the Department of Education and Training website:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/management/Pages/performsurveyat.aspx.


We would like to wish the following students and staff a very

Happy Birthday.

Students: Staff:

Georgia Leitch

Eliza Owen

Cody Plaggemars

Reminder

SPECIAL: SUPREME Pizza’s $2.40 until sold out. (Not available on QKR as yet)

NEW ITEMS: Rainbow paddlepops $1.85 (not available on QKR as yet)

Menu’s

2017 Menu is available either via QKR, the schools website or from the office. Please do not google the menu as this is from 2016.

NO CREDIT

Please ensure payment is in all lunch orders to avoid disappointment.

OUT OF STOCK

Honey joys, SLUSHIES Unfortunately are no longer available.

We are receiving New Zealand coins as payment for purchases,

NO foreign currency can be accepted as the bank does not accept it therefore it is a loss for the school.


What’s happening next week……

To Contact O.S.H.C. call the School Office on 5968 8017 between 8.30am and 4.30pm or ring 0408 566 957or 5968 0256 at all other times.

Enrolment Forms

For 2017 are available at the office or Out of School Hours Care

June 16th Claire Dunbar

RETURN SLIP

SICK BAY HELPERS WANTED

Dear Parents,

If you are willing to help the school by stripping the beds, making them and washing

the linen from the Sick Bay on a Friday and returning the linen the next week, please

complete this slip so that we can make up a roster for the year.

I am willing to be on the Sick Bay Roster.

Name: ………………………………………….

Phone: …………………………….

Eldest Child: …………………………………..

Grade: …………..

Term 2 2017 Monday

Cooking

Tuesday

craft/free

play

Wednesday

Sport

Thursday

craft/free

play

Friday

computers

Art-Craft

Ideas/examples

week 8

5/6-9/6

vegie

pasties

plaster

craft badminton

plaster

craft computers


PFA Page

* Cooking Program Starts Wednesday 7th June (next Wednesday)

* PFA AGM Friday 16th June at 2pm

* Hot Chip, Cold Drink and Cadbury Chocolate Day Tuesday 27th June

The PFA Team are very excited to announce that a Cooking Program will begin at Cockatoo Primary School on Wednesday 7th June, and every Wednesday after that on a rotating timetable. It will take

approximately 4 weeks to get through all the grades in the school. We hope every student in the school will enjoy learning to cook some delicious recipes. All

recipes will be made “from scratch”, no jars of sauce or packets of pasta sauce etc will be used. We want all students to learn to cook, and learn the basic skills

required. Each grade will be divided into small groups, so that everyone is included and all group members get a turn to stir, mix, etc. While the items are cooking, students need to clean up and do their dishes. When the items are cooked, the students

will be able to eat what they have made......

We’re starting off making “Butterscotch Scrolls” with the grade 1’s to 6’s and the Foundation students will start off making sandwiches. All ingredients will be

provided on the day by the PFA team, you don’t need to send any ingredients. If you wish to contribute to the program, you can make a financial donation

at the Office towards the ingredients. The initial four recipes include: cinnamon scrolls, sausage rolls, tuna patties and choc chip cookies. The Foundation students have a different set of recipes (sandwiches, chocolate balls, dips with fruit sticks and flat bread and fruit salad). Each class will run for 2 hours on a Wednesday with the Foundation classes running for one hour. If you are interested and available to come in on any Wednesday to help with the Cooking Program, we would really appreciate your help. We would like to have one adult supervising each small group of students. All recipes are provided, and a copy of each recipe will be sent home with students. We would love you to come along and help teach the students at Cockatoo Primary School to cook.

Please return the section on the note sent home if you are able to help � � �


The Parents and Friends Association (PFA) are holding their Annual General Meeting on Friday 16th June at 2.00pm in the Breaky Club. Friends or Grandparents are welcome to come along too. The AGM is the most important PFA meeting of the year. We need EVERYONE who has been or who would like to be involved in PFA to attend this meeting (we really need bottoms on seats). We need to fill the following positions in order for the PFA to run at our School – President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and many positions for General Members. Unlike Kinder, parents are not “rostered” on to help at School, but we really need your help with the PFA to fundraise for our School. All profit raised by PFA goes directly to benefit the students at our great School. Please return the attendance / nomination form to let us know if you will be attending. Everyone is welcome. Toddlers or kinder kids are welcome to come with you, as we always have pencils, coloring pages, toys etc to keep them busy too. We have our own toddlers & kinder kids with us, so there’s always someone to play with…..

PFA Bucket of Hot Chips, Cold Drink and a Cadbury Chocolate Break

We’re fundraising this term with a

“Freshly Cooked Bucket of Hot Chips & Cold Drink plus a Cadbury Chocolate” on Tuesday 27th June.

Students will be able to purchase a cold drink (milo, cordial or water) and a freshly cooked bucket of hot chips and a Cadbury Chocolate for $5.00.

Please fill out the order form & get it back to the Office by Monday 26th June.


Student of the

Month

100% Attendance

Term 1


Reading Nights




Cockatoo Country Market This Saturday

8.30am – 1.30pm Pakenham Road, Cockatoo




Library

Cockatoo Primary School

7th June 3:30pm – 6:30pm

8th June 8:30am – 9:00am Date

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