Date Claimers

Wednesday 19 June 2019

PO Box 97M Manunda. 4870 Office Hours: 8.00am - 3.45pm Ph: 40379777

Dentist: 1300 300 850 School Watch: 131788 http://www.cairnswestss.eq.edu.au

STUDENT

ABSENCE LINE

Phone: 40 379766

Text: 0429 272 048

20 June Family Cultural Awareness Meeting — 1:30pm our library

24 June Reports go home

26 June Public Speaking w/shop school leaders - finish

27 June CWSS Rewards Day

28 June Last day term 2

15 July First day term 3

19 July Cairns Show holiday

Hello everyone

With only 7 school days remaining prior to the mid-semester break, I take this oppor-

tunity to thank the school community for their support during our Principal, Mike’s

absence. It has been a privilege to represent the school over the past 5 weeks as the

Acting Principal.

May I express my gratitude to all of the families who attended last week’s meeting to

form the Family Cultural Awareness Group as well as those parents who sent their apologies. It was

absolutely fantastic to share the room with such a wealth of knowledge and discuss in particular po-

tential elements of celebration for the school’s NAIDOC week which will be held during week 3 next

term commencing on July 29. A sub-committee was formed during this meeting also and all families

are invited to attend this meeting which will be held at 1:30pm this Thursday (June 20) in the library.

This meeting will be shared with our Parent community and Indigenous Leaders of the Future and

their support teachers. I look forward to seeing all interested family members at this meeting on

Thursday!

Next week will see the sharing of student report cards. All students will be handed their report cards

on Monday afternoon June 24. If any students are absent for the duration of the final week of term –

their report cards will be sent home. Please contact the school administration if you have any ques-

tions regarding the distribution of report cards.

With report cards being distributed next week, our school would like to meet with our families early

next term for our next round of Parent-Teacher-Student interviews. The set date for our semester 1

interviews will be Tuesday, July 23. More information with booking forms will be shared with all Par-

ents and Carers after the school holiday period.

Next Monday’s senior assembly June 24, has been extended to an invitation for the whole school and

school community. This assembly will commence at 1:50pm and will share some important cultural

celebrations from our Congolese and Rwandan families – Independence Day. Please feel free to join

us at this assembly where our students with a Congolese or Rwandan background will share some

celebratory activities on the assembly stage in the senior hall.

Finally, please have a wonderful, safe holiday break with your children and family! During the holiday

period, the Meriam Buai Torres Strait Islander Corporation Cairns will be holding their General

Meeting. Please see the invitation in this newsletter for more information. I look forward to seeing all

our students and families return after the school holidays on Monday, July 15 after an excellent

break!

Until next time…….Denny

HOMEWORK and

LIFE SKILLS CLUB

Years 4-6

2:30pm—3:30pm

Every Wednesday afternoon

Come along and get help with

homework and have some fun

too…..see Ms Ajak or Ms Annie

for more info.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT SEMESTER 1 REPORT CARDS

Only one report card will be printed per child for this semester. If you require a second copy

please advise the office ladies as soon as possible to arrange this.

Report cards will be sent home with your child on Monday 24 June 2019.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter…Lexelle Bray—Head of Curriculum

Year 5 teachers Mr Thomas and Mrs Nona were invited to the Microsoft Headquarters in Sydney last week to join the Innovative Teachers Acade-my. They brought back the latest educational tech-nologies, which are already working wonders in classrooms. Our Congolese students are now trans-lating text into Swahili, and students are using digital picture prompts and colour labels to learn sentence structure. New 3D paint software allows students to create 3D images which they can combine with real life video…….Mr Thomas - 5T

Astute Finance and Getting Kids Places

Please join us in thanking Astute Finance and not for profit organisation ‘Getting Kids Places’

for their generous donation of a brand new Tarago van to our school. This van will be used to transport Cairns West State School students and families to school, sports and meetings. We are so very grateful and would like to thank the local businesses of Cairns for their contribution to-wards raising funds to enable ‘Getting Kids Places’ to deliver the van to us. THANK YOU!!!!!

We are so proud of our Aspire Hockey - Cairns girls who attended the Opening Ceremony of the Girls State Championships this week.

Our students did the ‘Acknowledgement of Country’ and presented a gift to each team. They represented their school and families beautifully. Well done girls! Video on Facebook Mrs Cathy Nixon—Deputy Principal Student Engagement

Denis Ndale, Mr Max and

Remi Kwibe from 5T

Cairns West Hockey Girls

SUPER SESSION AND

FREE COMMUNITY BBQ see below

PBL Corner

Cairns West State school is a ‘School

Wide Positive Behaviour Support’ school

which fosters the social, behavioural

and academic development for all at our

school..

Our school rules are;

Be Respectful

Be Safe

Be A Learner

CWSS has its' own Facebook page,

CAIRNS WEST STATE SCHOOL

Please like this page as it will be a useful tool to keep up to date

with what's going on in our school. It will feature upcoming events, school notices, links to community, photos and much

more. Find us on Facebook.

School Times

Play Bell 8.00

Morning Bell 8.15

Morning Session 8.30—10.30

Healthy Eating Time 10.30—10.45

First Play Time 10.45—11.15

Middle Session 11.15—12.45

Second Play Time 12.45—1.15

Afternoon Session 1.15—2.30

PCYC Cairns West School Age Care

cnr Hoare and McCormack Street

0437 170 515

cairnswestsac@pcyc.org.au

PF Josiane Nyiragatuje PH Carlinda Fred PJ Reuben Thaiday PR Divakar Gautum 1A Whitney Thomas, Mathais Asera 1N Kailunani Treloggen, Ka’iulani Maurangi 1R Jackson Smith, Dieu Veut Ishimwe 1W Joel Rai 2A Unskaka Adhikari 2B Nara Lamont 2M Ethan Baister 2P Benjamin Benioni 3C Apson thapa 3D Roman Scott 3K Xavior Pierce 3M Oshen Tapau 4C Benjamin Sailor-Tabuai 4L Ivan Berbenio 4M Plamedie Saleh 4T Mana Daniela 5C Rory Stewart 5M Si Thu, Sidhant Buda

5N Monique McPherson 6F Obediah Lenoy 6H Amrit Rai, Elvis Aruba ART Daniel Kamili (3C) Nisha Karki (2M)

ART Trichelle Dugong (3D) James Adams(4T) ART Johannah Banu (4M)Travis Hodge (1W) ART Mefic Titigiong(6O)

Student of the Week 7 & 8

Successful Students Afternoon tea

These students will enjoy an afternoon tea with the Principal. The following

students have been given an invitation for their fam-ilies to join them: Ziva Pep (PF) Isireli Gusuna (1W) Georgina Tapaitau (1R)Sophia Ross-Sabatino (2P) Oshen Tapau (3M) Jimarcus Sebasio (4C) Natrese Jacobs (6M)

We would like to CONGRATULATE the following students for their efforts in

demonstrating positive behaviour:

Helpful information about Cyber Bullying

https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/index.html

A reminder to all parents about check-ing in on their children’s social media, the above website could be useful.

Social media is a great tool, but like everything children need to be taught how to use it.

Cathy Nixon - Deputy Principal Student Engagement

HPE News Well done to Derek Ahwang for winning the age champion medal at the recent District Athletics carnival.

Well done also to Kariesha Mc Inerney Hobbler, Tessa Kanai, Maynard Sagigi, Bronson Talbot, Andreas Cloake, Eliza Sailor Tabuai, Elishama Suavai, Jeremy Amban and Derek Ahwang on their selection in the TCC District team.

Rugby Union

Well done to Elsiyah Laumatia-Suavai on his selection in the Peninsula team.

Peninsula Athletics

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who have been selected in the Peninsula Athletics team

Derek Ahwang (100m, 200m, HJ) Bronson Talbot (1500m, 800m) Tessa Kanai (100m) Jeremy Amban (100m)

Best of luck at the QLD state championships

As we reach the mid-way point of the season our Cairns West Edge Hill Tigers team are steadily making progress.

We recently played two games over the weekend, playing two of the top four teams. I was proud to say as the coach that we were very competitive and just ran out of puff in the second half. We currently sit in 7th position out of 10 teams in the competition which is a fantastic result consid-ering our team has only been together for a few months and most of our boys have never played an official game before.

Most importantly, our boys are having a heaps of fun each week and really gelling as friends.

More updates soon…….Mr L’Orange soccer coach

3 Way Interviews - note change

3 Way interviews will now be held in week 2 at the beginning of term 3 and term 4 not in week 10 as in

previous years

Interview times will remain between 2:45 and 6pm, notes to organise these will go home at the beginning of next term.

Sausage sizzle and pencils for students attending.

Cairns West Edge Hill Tigers Team

YEAR 2 EXCURSION - CAIRNS AQUARIUM (term 3)

When: Thursday 25 July 2019

Time: First group leaves at 8:30am - Second group after lunch

returning by 2:30pm

Wear: School uniform and enclosed shoes

Permission forms to be given to your child’s teacher

NOW so you don’t miss out…..

For more information please see Ms Tania Moore (2M)

The Meriam Buai Torres Strait Is-

lander Corporation Cairns (MBTSICC)

extends an invitation to all its mem-

bers to attend its General Meeting.

Date: Saturday, July 6

Time: 10am – 1pm

Venue: MaraWay Hub -

86 Anderson Street, Manunda

(Opposite Brothers Leagues

Club)