Principal's Report Term 2 Week 9

STAFF UPDATE

A warm welcome to Mrs Suzi Johnson who has joined Carlingford Public School this week as our new Interventionist Teacher. Mrs Johnson is replacing Mrs Kim who left at the end of Term 1. She will be working with our Learning and Success Team, assisting students with Literacy and Numeracy across the school.

REGIONAL CROSS COUNTRY

Well done to Jolin, Julia, Cooper, Joshua, David, Erica and Asher who represented Parramatta / Merrylands Zone at the Sydney West Regional Cross Country Championships at Eastern Creek last week.

Competing against the best athletes in Western Sydney, our students achieved great results, with many recording personal best times.

CPS DEBATING TEAM

Yesterday, Tuesday 15 June our two debating teams competed against Beecroft Public School to compete in Round 3 of the Premier's Debating Challenge.

For the first debate the Carlingford Public Lions (1^st speaker - Samantha, 2^nd speaker - Mathias, 

3^rd speaker - Amy and 4^th speaker Shreya) presented as the negative team debating the topic 'That Stage 3 students should do two hours of community service a week.' Our Lions delivered some great arguments presenting a strong case. After a tough decision, the adjudicator awarded the debate to Beecroft PS.

In the second debate, the Carlingford Public Tigers (1^st speaker - Myra, 2^nd  speaker - Elsa,  

3^rd speaker - David and 4^th  speaker - Spogmay) who presented as the negative team debating the topic ‘That children should be paid by their parents for doing chores’. The adjudicator was thoroughly impressed with our Tigers strong rebuttals and awarded CPS the debate.

Well done to both Carlingford teams on a great performance.

KINDERGARTEN 2022 - OPEN MORNING

We will be holding an Open Day for 2022 Kindergarten families this Thursday, June 17 commencing at 9:45am. The morning will consist of a ‘Welcome to Carlingford Public School’ address in the hall, a tour of the school, a visit to the Kindergarten rooms and will conclude with morning tea.

We look forward to meeting our new students and their families.

Please inform any potential 2022 Kindergarten families of our Open Day and our wonderful school. 

P&C DISCO

Our P&C will be running an Olympic themed school disco this Friday 18 June. The K-2 disco will run from 3:15 - 4:15pm, with Years 3 - 6 being held from 4:45 - 5:45pm.  K-2 teachers will bring their class to the disco.

K-2 students are able to come to school wearing Mufti on the day. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through Qkr!

During the disco, the P&C will be holding a social event for parents under the COLA from 3:30-5:30pm.  It will be a ticketed event, the ticket will include a sausage sizzle, (vegetarian option available), sweet treats and a drink, free tea and coffee will be available throughout the event for ticket holders.  Tickets will be available for sale through QKR!.

Students will be given a lollipop and water as they leave the disco.

Any students attending after school care on Friday afternoon are to confirm disco arrangements with Camp Australia.

Please email Emily Wong on cpspcfundraising@gmail.com if there are any queries.

PREMIER’S SPELLING BEE

Stage 3 finals of the Premier’s Spelling Bee will be held next Tuesday 22 June at 9:30am. Parents are most welcome to attend after signing in at the front office.

FIELD OF MARS EXCURSION

Yesterday Year 4 attended an excursion to the Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre as part of our Science Unit.

Students had an enjoyable day where they went on a bush walk to find observable features of living things in their environments. They learnt how to classify animals and plants and locate useful bush resources that can be used for medicine, food, tools and shelter. 

They conducted an Invertebrate investigation where they predicted and collected a variety of invertebrates. Students collected different types of insects using bug catchers and then classified them into categories.

Students then took part in a close-up encounter with a variety of leaf and stick insect species. Students drew and labelled the observable features of a phasmid.

Neil Hinton

Principal.