Caves Beach Public School Newsletter

Welcome to Week 8 Term 3 Caves Beach Public School for 2023! 

Book Week and Art Show.

I would like to thank all our staff for the very successful Book Week event and amazing student Art Show. It is always fantastic to invite our community into our school to share these special days with us, but they do take some work. A particular mention to Mrs Tiananga for her vision and effort in making the Art Show a reality and Ms Tonks for her passion and organisation to create a magnificent Book Week event.

Father’s Day BBQ Breakfast

A huge thank you to Mandy Tyndall and her team who organised a wonderful Father’s Day BBQ breakfast last Friday. There was a huge turn out of fathers, grandfathers and significant males who came along to enjoy breakfast and some time with their children. Mandy was even able to manage the weather keeping the rain at bay till the last minute!

Make My Day

Over the past weeks I have had some very talented students visit to share their work. Today I even had two ‘farmers’ from the environmental group show me an impressive cauliflower they have nurtured through to picking.

Robbie, Grace, Tyde and Lewis from 1H shared their poems about clouds. All the poems rhymed and had accompanying illustrations. What an impressive job!

Koby from 5/6L shared his remarkable opening paragraph which set the tone perfectly. His use of similes, personification and descriptive language was most impressive. Well done, Koby.

Parent Visitors

To maintain safety for all our students, parents who assist in classrooms or bring students into school late, please remember to sign/check in at the office and leave promptly after the classroom session. Students who are late arrivals or are returning to school after appointments are to be left at the front office and escorted to class if necessary by office staff.

Sue Gibson

Principal

• Monday 4th - Wednesday 6th September - Year 6 Canberra Excursion
• Tuesday 5th September - Kinder Transition Playgroup
• Thursday 7th - Friday 8th September - Year 4 Blue Mountains Excursion

Week 9

• Tuesday 12th September - Kindergarten Oakvale Farm Excursion

Congratulations to the following Merit Award recipients:

Week 6

Congratulations to the following Merit Award recipients:

Week 7

Congratulations to the following Gold Award recipients:

        Macaulay J - 3D

        Toby Y - 3/4B

        Aiden P - 4P

        Stefan C - 4P

        Hayley C - 5/6L

Congratulations to the following GYM Award recipients:

Week 6

Congratulations to the following GYM Award recipients:

Week 7

Dear parents and carers,

During Term 3 and Term 4, students will participate in the Check-in assessment.

The Check-in assessment is a NSW Department of Education online literacy and numeracy assessment available to support schools to assess and monitor student learning.

The assessment can supplement existing school practices to identify how students are performing in literacy and numeracy and to help teachers tailor their teaching more specifically to student needs. Students with disability may receive the same level of support during the assessment they would normally receive in the classroom.

• The assessment will be scheduled for our Year 6 students during Term 3 Weeks 8 – 10.
• The assessment will be scheduled for our Year 3, 4 & 5 students during Term 4 Weeks 1-4.

• All students complete a reading assessment and a numeracy assessment. Year 6 students will also complete a writing assessment.

Thank you to all the visitors who came to see our ‘2023 Art Show’ today.  The quality of the students' work was outstanding. 

Last Thursday there were plenty of colourful characters at Caves Beach Public School for the 2023 Book Parade! We aren't sure who had more fun ... the students or the staff.

Write a shopping list together with your children to involve your children in healthy choices for school lunches. Discuss healthier food and drink choices. Go for variety and colour with different coloured vegetables, hard boiled eggs and fruit. Healthy lunches and snacks

Find out what fruit is in season. Teach children to love leftovers and using leftovers is a great way to minimise food waste. Leftover pasta or fried rice or noodles in a thermos make a great healthy satisfying lunch.

Discover more tips for eating for a healthy mind.

https://www.kelloggs.com.au/en_AU/articles/school-lunch-box-ideas.html

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/find-recipes/kids-school-lunch-ideas

Congratulations to Isla from Year 6 who competed for the Hunter Team at the NSW PSSA State championships last week. Isla had a fantastic tournament and helped the Hunter team finish 5th in the State. 

OLD THONGS WANTED THIS WEEK!

The Enviro Group have been looking after our plants for the competition garden bed that is being entered in the Living Smart Festival on the 16th of September. We are making a flower sculpture for the festival out of old bicycle wheels and thongs and would love donations of old rubber thongs destined for the bin. Please send them into the office or to Miss Heap. Our school garden beds are thriving and we have harvested another cauliflower that students are looking forward to eating. Our members have been monitoring our collection of empty drink bottles for return and earn so that we can raise funds for our gardens and other sustainable initiatives.

Band Update week 8

 Well done on another wonderful performance last week at the book parade!  

The senior band will now prepare to perform at the Celebration Assembly on the last day of this term! 

 Save the date for Bandfest week 2! Both bands will travel to Newcastle City Hall to perform. Senior band (and Mallet Group) Monday 16th October, 12pm performance time with Mallet group at 2pm. The Junior band will play on Wednesday 18th October at 2pm. A detailed note will be sent home soon with students after the finel details are confirmed regarding transport and the day's plan. For those who have attended in previous years, please note the change of venue!!  

Reeds 

See Mrs Scott on a band morning for reeds. 

Clarinet - $3.50 

Saxophone - $4.00  

Correct cash or transfer to band account

Please make sure you have notifications turned on for seesaw, this is the easiest way for us to communicate last minute changes to band families.  

Rehearsals Week 8, 9 and 10: 

Senior Band - Wednesday morning - 8am  

Junior Band - Tuesday morning - 8.15am  

Reminder! Please send your child to rehearsals with a display folder each week.  

Music Tutors: 

Please ensure you contact your child's tutor if they are unable to attend a scheduled lesson.  

Due to the works being undertaken at school there may be changes to room allocations for tutor lessons, this will be communicated with students on the day changes need to occur, this is not something easily planned for at the moment! Thank you for your patience with this issue.  

Music Tutors:

Tuesday 

Isabella O'Brien - Flute and Bass Guitar  

Bethanee Swilks - Keyboard   

Thursday

Lance Verdon - Clarinet, Saxophone and Percussion 

Bryn Wilson Kellaway - Trumpet and Trombone (Brass)  

Friday 

Lance Verdon - Clarinet, Saxophone and percussion   

 Fees 

 Fees for Term 3 are now due: 

Senior band - $65 

Junior Band - $55 

Yearly instrument hire fee $100 - only for members who hire from the school and take the instrument home - clarinets, flutes, trumpets, saxophones, trombones, bass guitar.  

Please use your child's name as the reference, eg ScottT1fees  

 Example of fees for term : 

Junior band member playing the clarinet and hiring from the school. Term 1 fees: $55 plus instrument hire fee for 2023 of $100. Total $155.  

 An instrument hire fee is only payable once per year. Please ignore if you paid earlier this year. 

 If you are needing clarification or support with fees, please email Mrs Scott: Kelsey-anne.scott@det.nsw.edu.au   

The band is happy to support payment plans for fees throughout the year.   

 Remember! The band collects fees separate to the school, see bank details below:

 Caves Beach PS Concert Band  

BSB: 062820Account: 00903319 

 Communication 2023 

If you are yet to connect to Seesaw, please contact Miss Lawson at taylah.lawson1@det.nsw.edu.au.  

Friday night at the Caves Coastal Bar and Bungalows was a success with the meat raffle raising over $450 for our school. 

We invite all families and friends down to the meat raffles each Friday this September to get together and grab some raffle tickets to help support our beautiful school!

Keen to help ? 

Each week we need a few volunteers to help sell the raffle. All we need is an hour or so of your time and a convincing smile. 

We would like to welcome our newest members to the P&C committee. If you would like to know what’s happening in our school, want to assist in bringing about positive change or even just want to be a fundraising guru, we would love to see you! We would also like to thank all current committee members for their time and effort in running our P&C and helping create such wonderful occasions for our children’s school. 

If you have any questions or would like to volunteer please email us at:  cavesbeachpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au 

Contacting the P&C and staying updated is as easy as:

- Finding us on Facebook - 'Caves Beach Public School P&C' and 'Caves Beach Public School BUY SWAP SELL'

- Emailing us at: cavesbeachpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au

Thank you to the fabulous volunteers who kindly donate their time. Without your help our canteen would not be able to operate! If you would like to be added to the roster and a part of the fun, please call into the canteen and speak with Jo, or email us at cavescanteen@gmail.com

Place your order via the Qkr! App (quick, simple & our preferred option)

**You can link a credit card or debit card to the Qkr! App

If you need an order form to order/pay via direct deposit OR have ANY questions regarding uniforms prior to ordering - please let us know via email and we are happy to help! cavesuniformshop@gmail.com

If your uniforms are too big/too small, please email us and let us know - we can arrange an exchange to ensure that you have the right ones.