Number 27 30/08/2017 WEB: www.congupnaps.vic.edu.au PHONE: (03) 5829 9286 EMAIL: congupna.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Dear School Community, Our Healthy Smiles Dental Program took place last Friday and by all accounts, the session was very informative and well presented. All Grade Prep to Three students had the opportunity to participate in discussion and activities around good dental hygiene and even got to take some free fridge magnets and toothbrushes home with them. Our Sporting Schools Golf program also continued last Friday and students enjoyed the better weather on offer. All groups were able to whack some balls around on our school oval and enjoyed participating in modified golf games that promoted the specific striking skills being learnt. Despite our Athletics taking place in Winter this year, we really were quite lucky with the weather. It was a cool start to the day but as the sun came out, the ground thawed and everyone had a terrific day. A highlight for me was hearing about our success in the Parloof Relay at the end of the day and in seeing the many smiles from our students throughout the day. Thank you to all of our staff and organiser Kate Nicholls for providing such a great day of fun and exercise for our students. Mrs Woolley has organised a Cluster Chess Tournament at Katandra West Primary School today and we have five competitors from Congupna Primary School attending. We wish them all the very best and look forward to hearing how they have done. Don t forget about our Father s Day Stall on Thursday. Children are encouraged to bring a maximum of $5 for Dad or a maximum of $10 for Dad and Grandfathers. Thank you to the P & F Group for providing this opportunity for our students. send students to school dressed as a favourite book character and we will have a parade at the end of the day at School Assembly to celebrate! Finally, at the time of publication my family has still not welcomed a third child! In an effort to minimise disruption to the grade 2/3 classroom in my absence, I have invited Amy Van Popering to return once more and teach over the next two Wednesday/Thursdays while I will be on Paternity Leave. This will ensure that students have no more than two teachers throughout these two weeks. Thanks for Reading, Adam Cleary - Principal This Friday afternoon there will be an end-of-season break-up for the mighty Congupna Cruisers at the Congupna Public Hall at 4:45pm. Pizza and some presentations will follow concluding by 6pm. It has been a fantastic year on the pitch and will be a great opportunity to thank everyone that makes our weekend soccer matches a possibility. Unfortunately, a clash of dates has rendered our annual Cluster Book Week Day un-attendable. We do recognise how much children love participating in Book Week activities however, so we will be holding our own Book Week celebrations on Friday 8 th September. Families are invited to Thought for the Week Leave everything a little better than you found it. We are KIND We are BRAVE We are CURIOUS
Classroom Update 4/5/6 The Solar Boat Challenge is on again and the senior room is again participating with a goal to get more technical. With the guidance of Tony Uniacke, the class are using his expertise to shape their boats into streamlined shapes. The boats start out as a block of foam and are cut using the hot wire. The use of a special solar panel to measure the strength of the sun shall give the student s the ability to change the size of the propeller to adjust to the conditions. This should give the students more data to crunch to get the best from their boats. This year our team names are: The Sea Smashers Warrior Power Danger Zone Sea Shockers How do you find the Solar Boat Challenge? Mason: It s pretty fun because you get to work as a team Josh R : Fun and I enjoy the building of our boat Charlotte: It s fun to build your very own solar boat.
From left; Piper Rogers, Bodhi Luvara, Mason Papadopoulos, Chelsea Osborne, Mason Uniacke We are BRAVE Award For displaying qualities at school that make this student a BRAVE person. Bravo! Piper Rogers - For becoming very Brave in learning to Have a go at new things. Keep it up! Mason Uniacke - For for being Brave and having a go at everything in class. Mason Papadopoulos - For being Brave and sticking up for what he knows is right. Great job! Kiwanis TERRIFIC KID of the Week Chelsea Osborne - For being such a Brave student giving everything a red hot go! Being a responsible and caring class member. STEM AWARD Bodhi Luvara - For paticipating, concentrating and following all instrucitons during our lesson.
From left; Josh Rogers, Tate Thorn, Mason Papadopoulos, Maddelyn Fletcher, Chase Adams We are CURIOUS Award For displaying qualities at school that make this student a CURIOUS person. Well done! Tate Thorn - For showing interest in wanting to learn more and asking questions. Chase Adams - For showing curiosity with the Cinderella excursion and best of all asking questions about how to improve his learning. Josh Rogers - For looking at things in a curious way. Well done! Kiwanis TERRIFIC KID of the Week Maddelyn Fletcher - For being a positive, pleasant and caring student who enjoys herself at school! STEM AWARD Mason Papadopoulos - You worked well in your team to complete your Minecraft Map.
Congupna Cruisers Round 14 Wrap Under 6 s What a beautiful day for soccer last week and we had all 8 players ready for action. Hamish was our captain and he lead by example showing us all the great dribbling skills he had been practicing at training the day before. It was a tough game against Tatura as they were good defenders, but we wore them down and Tate got 2 great goals: 1 from a sideline kick in and the other from a centre kick-off. Spirits were high and fun was had by everyone. Awards went to Asim for getting more kicks than he has ever had in a game before and almost getting a goal. Hamish got an award for his dribbling skills and Cooper got the pizza award for his effort and putting his body on the line time after time to stop Tatura getting a kick. No training this week but I look forward to seeing all players and parents at the soccer breakup Friday night. Go Cruisers! Coach Jason Under 7 s A lovely morning greeted us on Saturday for our penultimate game and the team had its best game for the year so far! It included what was easily goal of the season where all players were involved in the lead-up play followed by a lofted pass that was centred and the ball being controlled off the striker s chest with a clinical one-touch finish! Needless to say the coach was very impressed. More than this though, was our player s resilience in the face of some quite physical opposition play. Despite being pushed to the ground, all players kept bobbing up and continuing to go in after the ball and play team soccer. The passing and dribbling was a highlight. The end result was a very impressive 12-1 victory with all players scoring at least one goal. It was decided then and there to award all players an award for their outstanding efforts! Well done Cruisers! Coach Cleary Under 8 s The under 8 team played St Brendan s. We had a great start to the game with James scoring to first half goals and we went into the second half even with 2-2. The second half saw a number of fast breaks and many attempts at goals from both sides, unfortunately the Cruisers were unable to make any count ( although we do think one may have made it over the line before the goal keeper stopped it if only with had video review technology ). St Brendan s were able to hit the back of the net once in the second half to come with a win 3-2. Coach Linton Under 10 s U 10's played against Bourchier St with final scores 2/1 Bourchier St way. Again well done to the whole team, you are all passing the ball and really working together as a team, great to see. Our goal kicker this week was Sean. Our goalies did a wonderful job again, thanks Deacon Josh J. Well done team for playing an amazing game. GO CRUISERS! Kylie CRUISERS Break Up Party Friday 1st September See flyer attached!
Cruiser s Soccer Break up It is that time of year where the soccer season is coming to an end and where all Cruiser s can come together for their break-up after playing hard and having fun during the soccer season. We will have the soccer goals set up and football handball set up to try your luck. Come and enjoy some food and fun with your team mates. When: Where: Time: Details: RSVP: Friday 1 st September Congupna Hall 4:45 pm Start 5:30 pm Pizza 5:30 pm Presentations approx. finish 6ish Pizza, Drinks and Snacks included, Siblings WELCOME Please RSVP to your Team Manager
2017 SCHOOL COUNCIL MEMBERS President Geoff Jacobson, Secretary - Wendy Sidebottom (DET Representative) Members - Adam Cleary (Principal), Andrew Fletcher, Narkea Rogers, Fiona Davis, Andrew Miles, Tracy Gauci (Parents & Friends Representative) 2017 SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING DATES TERM 3 6:30pm on Tuesday 5th Sept 2017 TERM 4 6:30pm on Tuesday 24th October 2017 6:30pm on Tuesday 5th December 2017 Fathers Day Stall THURSDAY 31st AUGUST Bring along a maximum of $5 to buy your Dad or the special person in your life something great! August 31st September 1st 4th 5th 5th 10th 14th 19th 21st 22nd TERM 3 CALENDAR Fathers Day Stall 9am start Cruisers Soccer Break up CFA Mobile Van at school Playgroup 9:30 11:30am MACC Art Display at Eastbank Begins Sunday Working Bee 9:30am AFL 9 s Cluster Day Playgroup 9:30 11:30am Martial Arts @ Koryo Taekwondo Centre Last Day of Term (Early finish at 2pm) Grandparent Gifts If your child would like to purchase Grandfather/s presents at the Father s Day Stall as well they may bring an additional $5. (Maximum $10 for Dad and Grandparents) We are KIND We are BRAVE We are CURIOUS
Year 7 2018 Enrolment Forms Enrolment forms must be completed and handed into the secondary school where your child will be attending Year 7 in 2018. These forms are now overdue and need to be returned for processing to your allocated school. If you have misplaced your enrolment package please contact the school directly and they will send another package to you or alternatively go to the school. We thank you in advance for your assistance to help process of our new Year 7 for 2018. SHEPPARTON NORTH JUNIOR TENNIS Interested in playing Junior tennis on a Saturday morning or know of anyone who may be interested?? Student Banking Day is TUESDAY The Club will be entering a 10 and Under team and other age groups (depending upon interest). Season starts 14 th October. The club will also be holding a Hot Shots program for beginner players later in the year. For further details contact Clark Pettigrew 0408 174275. Players need to register an intention to play BY TUESDAY 5 th SEPTEMBER 2017. Don t forget our Father s Day Stall is tomorrow, Thursday 31st August starting at 9am. Children can bring along a maximum of $10 total to buy something for their Dad and Grandparents if they wish.