QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL · facts. By Leeroy. My favourite thing was the toboggan, but I nearly fell off. It was fun because Matika and I had a lot of turns on the toboggans. Stargazing

Small School with a Big Heart — every student, every day

QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL

CALENDAR

NOV

22 Swim for Sport

Parliament (10:50-11:30)

25 Preschool transition (9:30-12:00am)

25 SCLC Band visit

29 Swim for Sport

Assembly (10:50am)

DEC

2 Swimming Scheme (12-12:45pm)

3 Bega HS transition (YR6)

Kinder Transition (includes parent

info session)

Swimming Scheme (12-12:45pm)

4 Sea Country excursion Bermagui

(YR5/6)

5 Volunteers morning tea 11.30am

11-13 Peer support camp (YR6)

16 Presentation night 7pm

17 Orchard opening 9.30am BBQ break-

fast

Phone: 02 6493 8213 Email: [email protected]

website: https://quaama-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Dear Parents and Carers,

New Principal Announced

Once again it has been a busy fortnight since the last newsletter. The relieving principal for next year has been announced. His name is Daniel Roe. He is very experienced and looking forward to living in our beautiful part of the world and meeting the Quaama School community.

Book Fair

From all reports Book Fair was a great success

and it was terrific to see the excitement generated

in the students when choosing their books. My

thanks to Mrs Summers and friends for hosting

the event. Book Fair was a huge success and Mrs

Summers asked me to especially thank parents

for buying so many books for their children. As a

result the school was able to choose $658 worth

of books for the library and to use as book prizes

for Presentation Night. A big thank you to parents

who bought books for the library from Mrs

Summers ‘Wish List” book display. Donated

books to the library will feature a book plate

noting the name of the child and family posted in

the front of book.

Wonders of Living Program

Earlier in the year Mrs Summers hosted the

YPEP Program which has been a terrific lead in to

the stage 3 Year 5/6 Human Sexuality unit called

the “Wonders of Living”, which Mrs Summers

began delivering last week. The program will run

over a 5 week period.

Life Skills Program

The Life Skills Program continues to be highly popular with the students. This week the gardening group continued the planting of shrubs around the school gardens and cultivation of

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seeds. The aroma wafting out to the playground from the cooking group excited the taste buds. The sewing group under the direction of Ashton and Mrs Hobbis are busy creating place mats which will feature embroidery.

SCLC Band Visit

Next week the SCLC Band will be visiting the school on Wednesday at 11.30am. Their last performance at the school was most entertaining. Parents and carers are more than welcome to come and join us.

Special Swim Scheme

Yesterday a note was sent out on School

Stream for the Special Swimming Scheme

which entails 10 lessons over two weeks, (all

year 2 and 3 students plus selected students

in Years 4 and 5).The cost per student is $30

unless students have a season pass at

Cobargo Pool. Cost of the bus travel has

been paid for through a Sporting Schools

Grant.

Thank you to those parents who are

continuing to pay monies owed for the Swim

for Sport program.

Peer Support Camp

The Year 6 Peer Support Camp is looming. This is a terrific transition camp to high school with students making friends with future classmates at Bega High School from other small schools and meeting future senior high school buddies and teachers. Please pay the $50 dollar non-refundable deposit so that numbers can be confirmed for the team planning the camp. Total cost of camp to parents is $75 (actual cost $154). Year 6 students will conduct fund raising activities at the orchard opening day hoping to fundraise around $500 to cover camp costs.




Furtastic Escape DVD

DVD orders of the Furtastic Escape close this

week. Get your director’s cut edition for just

$10! Cash only please to be paid at the front

office.

Nit Season

Look out folks nit season is upon us. Please

monitor heads.

Regards

Mark

A few Twists and Turns at the Bournda

Camp

Unfortunately last week’s catastrophic rated

bushfire warning resulted in the national park

being closed which dramatically changed our

camp plans. Thanks to the extraordinary

dedication of the Bournda Environmental

Education Staff we still had 3 amazing days of

fun and learning. Our planned activities could

no longer take place but thanks to the quick

thinking of the Bournda team we all piled into

the bus and cars Monday morning and hit the

road.

The first activity was a guided walk by

Bournda’s marine biologist, Luke, who took us

on a walk on the boardwalk at Merimbula. We

all learnt a great deal from Luke and saw many

things including a sea slug that shot purple ink,

mangrove plants and Neptune’s Necklace

(beaded sea weed).

Then a detour to Spencers Park to play

2/3 Classroom News

I was really impressed with our kids as we

waved them goodbye on the school buses to

go home for the night. They understood that

our plans had changed but were accepting that

tonight was a night at home and not camping

in the bush.

Day two and we met up with Luke at the Bega

River mouth. Two teams of student marine

engineers took on the task of building rafts

from a limited supply of materials. Amazingly

both rafts held together and the teams floated

away into the distance. Much energy was

expended and lunch devoured quickly before

we were off to the rock pools on the south end

of Tathra Beach. This involved a bit of rock

climbing which tested Mr Sull out, but didn’t

seem to be any problem for the kids. Again

Luke had lots to talk about and the kids had a

ball exploring the rock pools. A large rock or

two, cliff like ledges and we were back walking

up Tathra Beach to the playground. We said

goodbye to Luke and the adults had another

opportunity to watch kids burn more energy. In

fact it was so tiring I needed hot chips to eat

while supervising them, (the kids got some

too!) Not satisfied with that burst of activity we

then completed 30 second rotations on the

fitness equipment which we passed on the

way back to our transport.

Back at school and the kids put up tents or set

up sleeping bags in the classroom and then

the chefs in the gang cooked rissoles,

sausages and onions complemented with a

side salad. The meat was cooked to perfection

and I think I ate too many sausages, but I

really needed the energy that they provide.

Dinner done and games on the oval ensued.



(expend a bit of energy) on our way to the

Merimbula Aquarium. We had a great tour

there and Luke was really in his element

talking about the fish and creatures that lived

in our local seas.




As the sun dipped below the western ranges

Doug from Bournda appeared with boxes of

interesting items! We looked at stars with

ipads that had an app which identified the

planets and constellations, viewed the moon

through binoculars and spotted a few

satellites. The night finished off by watching a

few dance routines through a night vision

scope.

Bed time and all were asleep by 10pm (nearly

all). Laying in my swag in the darkness I

awoke to the sound of early morning bird calls.

No, not birds, but the in depth discussion from

a boys tent next to me. Quite entertaining until

I checked the time…….3.45am. The boys

talked till sunrise.

More chefs were discovered that morning and

all enjoyed a bacon and egg roll. Tents and

swags were packed away and off to another

park to burn a little more energy before arriving

at Magic Mountain. A fun day was had and I

sharpened my driving skills on the go-karts,

beating all the kids and proving to be pretty

fast on the toboggan ride.

Our students behaved beautifully and were a

pleasure to be with. My thanks to Barb and

Shannon and their fantastic efforts during the

camp to keep the students safe, happy and

entertained. I have been on many camps over

the years and this one was up there with the

best of them.

Musings from our Campers

My favourite thing on camp was the toboggans at Magic Mountain. I was nervous at first but when l got used to it l was fine. Tom and l had at least ten races, l won most of them though. When l was going up the tow wire l fell off and Tom had to push me up. By Django

My favourite thing on Monday was visiting Spencer Park and climbing on the dragon’s snout. On Tuesday the thing I loved was raft making, because we got to test if it floated by sitting on it in the water and Mr Sull said I am a true scout. On Wednesday at Magic Mountain my favourite thing was the toboggans. By Abbi My favourite part of the camp was when we went to Magic Mountain and rode the Toboggans. They go super-fast and that made me feel really happy. I liked the rollercoaster too, because it went really fast downhill and the black hole was a lot of fun, because it was really dark. By Adam

One of my favourite things on camp was cooking. I enjoyed it because we got to cook food for dinner and it was really fun and yummy. I learnt to not put your hand near the BBQ because it is hot and it will burn you. By Tommy At Magic Mountain I went on the black hole waterslide, the toboggan ride and the roller coaster. The rollercoaster was insane! We also slept at school. At school we cooked dinner and after dinner we went stargazing out on the top oval. Barb also gave us glow sticks to use in the dark. The next morning we had a big breakfast and enjoyed a day at Magic Mountain. By Reace






I enjoyed lots of activities. Stargazing was one of the interesting activities and I enjoyed learning how to use the app on the iPads to show what the name of star was in different locations. The aquarium had many fun, colourful and interesting creatures and the teachers were able to tell us lots of interesting facts. By Leeroy.

My favourite thing was the toboggan, but I nearly fell off. It was fun because Matika and I had a lot of turns on the toboggans. Stargazing was also something I enjoyed. We used the iPads to look through at the stars which told us the names of the stars. We got to camp at the school with the teachers and it was fun. By Willa

Last Monday we said farewell to our student

teacher Shannon Wornock who had just

completed a five week practicum. She will be

missed by all and we all wish her the very best

in her teaching career.

Hello from the 4/5/6 Classroom,

It’s hard to believe that we are past the half

way mark in the term! We have been very

busy in our classroom over the last few weeks

engaging in lots of hands on work. We have

designed products for our Mappen product

stall, ready to be sold at the end of year school

fair. Everyone has been working through the

design process in their collaborative learning

groups to design, create a prototype and

budget for what they have decided to make.

It’s been a great learning experience and has

enabled everyone to think outside the box and

be creative.

We have been continuing to enjoy our

Japanese sessions with Mayumi and are all

developing a fantastic Japanese vocabulary.

This week, we participated in some Japanese

nature art, we used a selection of plants to






4/5/6 Classroom News

K/1 Classroom News create images on paper. These all turned out

fantastic and it was very hard to have to pull

the masterpieces apart at the end of the

session.

This term, we have been fortunate enough to

be able to borrow a 3D printer through the

Department of Education’s STEM Share

Program! Yesterday, everyone in the 4/5/6

class explored the 3D printing design program

‘Tinkercad’ and have started to design our

creations decorations ready to print. It will be

very exciting for everyone to see the amazing

technology at work.

This week,

everyone has

started planning

stalls for our school

fair that will be held

in the last week of

term. Last year, the

fair was a huge

success, with lots

of people attending

and enjoying our stalls. I am sure that this year

will be equally successful, especially with the

orchard opening on the same day!

Have a great week!

Mrs Ferris

Hello from the kinder and year 1 classroom, where we are all busy completing assessment tasks for our December reports. The end of the year is drawing close – we can’t believe how quickly the term is disappearing!

Every week lots of great things happen in our classroom and in our school. What a busy day we had yesterday when all of the children from Cobargo Preschool visited us for their annual excursion! What fun we had helping and playing with the pre-schoolers and what delightful children they are! Many of our students commented about ‘how tiring the pre-schoolers were!’

In our Mappen unit this term, we had to create a character from a fairy tale and design background scenery for the story. Can you guess which stories these characters are from? Our next task is to create a diorama about our chosen story in a box. If anyone has any smallish boxes (no smaller than shoe boxes), it would be great if you could send them into school!











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QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL · facts. By Leeroy. My favourite thing was the toboggan, but I nearly fell off. It was fun because Matika and I had a lot of turns on the toboggans. Stargazing