Positive Thought for the Week...15th Foundation Students - No school 21st School ouncil Meeting 22nd Foundation Students - No school 27th 6-7pm Evening Workshop with Michelle Trudgen

Dear School Community,

Firstly, thank you for the many families to sub-scribe to the new smartphone App, Updat-Ed. The response was very good and we hope to be ‘pushing’ you important information and reminders each week. Please make sure you ‘allow notifica-tions’ so that at least a ‘badge’ appears on your App when you receive new information.

On Friday afternoon after assembly, there will be an information session for parents in the Grade Prep/1 classroom with Mrs Sidebottom. This short information session will outline the expectations of parents to help support learning in the classroom at home. The Grade 2/3 and 4/5/6 classrooms will send home a short letter with this information in-stead. If parents from these classrooms require more information, please organise a time to meet with the teacher to get answers to your questions.

Students in all classrooms will be setting learning goals over the coming weeks that will be reflected upon at a Learning Goal Conference later in the Term. This will be an opportunity for all parents to ‘touch base’ again with the classroom teacher to ensure children are settled and achieving the goals they have set out to achieve.

Michelle Trudgen is back (http://www.actcurious.com/). After our successful ‘Lighthouse Evenings’ last year to help set our school values, the school has engaged Michelle again to help us determine what actions reflect be-ing Brave, Kind and Curious. The dates have now been set for two workshops in Term 1 that I have assured Michelle we can get 5o staff and parents attending.

These sessions are ‘adults only’ this year and the school will provide a supervised room with a movie

and some activities in order to help parents attend. Like I have mentioned before, this is not something that happens in many schools but is something I am passionate about.

This is a program being developed specifically for Congupna Primary School and already has many other local schools interested in our approach. Please help make these workshops a success and our school community one that supports student learning at school and at home. Please save the dates for Mon-day 27th February and Monday 6th March from 6-7pm.

Please also see the attached flyer regarding our new Congupna Primary School Chess Club. We are seeking any unused complete sets from home if you have them...

Thanks for Reading, Adam Cleary - Principal

Number 2 08/02/2017

We are KIND We are BRAVE We are CURIOUS

WEB: www.congupnaps.vic.edu.au PHONE: (03) 5829 9286 EMAIL: [email protected]

Positive Thought for the Week Ask your child to name three

great things that happen at

school each day.

2016 SCHOOL COUNCIL MEMBERS

President – Geoff Jacobson, Secretary - Wendy Side-bottom (Teacher Representative) Members - Adam Cleary (Principal), Narkea Rogers, Damien Scott, Jar-rod Osborne, Andrew Miles & Tracy Gauci (Parents & Friends Representative)

2017 SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING DATES - NEW!

TERM 1 6:30pm on Tuesday 21st February 2017

6:30pm on Tuesday 14th March 2017

TERM 2 6:30pm on Tuesday 2nd May 2017 6:30pm on Tuesday 13th June 2017

TERM 3

6:30pm on Tuesday 1st August 2017 6:30pm on Tuesday 5th September

2017

TERM 4 6:30pm on Tuesday 24th October 2017 6:30pm on Tuesday 5th December 2017

TERM 1 CALENDER 2017 February 10th Scholastic Bookclub - Forms due 15th Foundation Students - No school 21st School Council Meeting 22nd Foundation Students - No school 27th 6-7pm Evening Workshop with Michelle Trudgen 28th Bangerang Education Centre Excursion March 2nd Hockey Clinic at School 6th 6-7pm Evening Workshop with Michelle Trudgen 8th School Photos 13th Labour Day Public Holiday 14th School Council Meeting (AGM) 17th Aquamoves Cluster Day 20th Student Goal Conferences 27th Athletics Sports Day at McEwen Reserve, Shepparton 31st Last day of Term 1

We are KIND We are BRAVE We are CURIOUS

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‘We are KIND’ Award For displaying qualities at school that make these students

KIND people. Well done!

EMILY O’TOOLE ° JHET GUTHRIE ° JED SCOTT

Kiwanis TERRIFIC KID of the Week

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What is on at Mooroopna Education & Activity Centre 2017.

COURSES 2017

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Congupna PS Chess Club

Do you enjoy playing chess? Do you want to learn more about strategic

thinking and playing chess competitively? If you answered YES to these questions then Mrs

Woolley wants you for the Congupna PS Chess Club.

The club will meet every second Monday at Lunchtime in the STEM Lab.

We would love to see you there!

WANTED... CHESS SETS!! Have you got a chess set in the cupboard collecting dust? We would love any donations of complete sets to help us

start our club. Please bring the sets to the office or Mrs

Woolley on a Monday. Thankyou!

CONGUPNA NETBALL CLUB – JUNIOR NETBALL

The Club is inviting all interested players, old and new, to attend the upcoming trials and trainings.

15/U trials - Monday 13th and Wednesday 15th February – 5.45pm-7pm at

the Congupna netball courts. 12/U and 13/U training to start on Wednesday 22nd February from 5.30-

6.30pm at the Congupna netball courts. Please note- trainings will change to Tuesdays/Thursdays once the season be-

gins (April 8th).

All new and continuing 12/U, 13/U and 15/U players should register via Survey Monkey as soon as possible (link below).

If there are any questions, please contact Bev Bell 0424513992

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FTGVDMS

The Congupna Tallygaroopna Landcare Group are looking

for new members and could do with your assistance!

The Group's monthly meeting will be held on Tues the

21st of February at 8.00pm at the Congupna Hall. BYO

supper to share.

New members are most welcome. Contact Trish Moss

0358298255

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