Whole School Events
ANZAC Day
Today Australia celebrated ANZAC day our most important national occasion. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and in 1914, when war broke out, the two countries joined forces to capture the Gallipoli peninsula and make their way to Constantinople which is now called Istanbul in Turkey. There were heavy losses on both sides as the ANZAC forces landed on the beaches on April 25th. The battle lasted for nearly 8 months before a stalemate was declared and the ANZAC troops evacuated. Over 8000 Australian soldiers died during this time and this great loss had a profound impact on the Australian people leading to ANZAC day becoming considered by many as our nations most important national holiday.
You can find more information about ANZAC day at the following websites:
Must See: Gallipoli: The First Day – Award winning 3D Documentary Site
Easter Activities
Our Early Stage 1 & Stage One students celebrated Easter with an Easter hat parade for their family & friends. Stage 2 created eggcellent works of art on real eggs while Stage 3 spent the day performing science eggperiments! We finished the day by drawing our P&C Easter Raffle which was won by; R.Dawn; 2nd place - Jason Curtis; 3rd place - Jamie Southwell; 4th place - Kevin Sole; 5th place-Taylah Mills & runners up - Riley Morrissey. Congratulations prizes were also awarded to Jason Davis & Betty Tesfamariam for their eggcellent behaviour!!
Brelsford Park Playground
Some of our students had the oppotunity to participate in a workshop during the design phase of the Brelsford Park Adventure Playground a few years ago. The company in charge of the project Geo Link, recenlty created a short film of the now completed playground featuring interviews with our students & staff.
2012 Swimming Carnival
Yesterday our school held this year's swimming carnival. It was a fantastic success and I would like to congratulate all our students on their excellent performances and exemplary behaviour. The weather was very kind to us – our thanks to Mr Woodham for organising the carnival and our staff for their excellent support and supervision. Congratulations to our individual champions and runners up and the champion house which was Phillip.
Term 4 End Of Term Rewards Day 2011
Our students celebrated their hard work & good beahviour throughout the term with the End Of Team AAA Reward day. Students went swimming at the pool & enjoyed games & pizza for lunch.
Christmas Pageant
Our students and staff had a wonderful time at our Christmas Pageant. Each stage performed a musical item & the staff performance was a huge hit! The P&C hosted a BBQ & raffle on the night,it was a great way to celebrate our achievements as a school community in 2011!
Annual Presentation Night
Our staff, students and community members joined together to celebrate the achievements of our students throughout 2011! Our thanks to Mrs Firkins and our staff for their organisation of this activity and Jetty High School for the loan of their school hall.
Christmas Scripture Concert
Our staff and students enjoyed our end of year scripture preformance with singing, dancing & even watching one of the students get covered in slime!!
Intensive Swimming
Students from year 2 and non swimmers up to year 6 as well as our ESL and Special Education students are participating in the Intensive Swimming Program daily conducted at the Coffs Harbour Pool. Because we live so close to the beach, this program is extremely important for our students to participate in.
Zoomobile
We had a visit from the Taronga Zoomobile. Our students really enjoyed the visit and lernt many new skills in helping to preserve Australia native animals.
Mini Fete
Our school community raised $1,378 from our Yr 6 mini fete. A great day was had by all the staff, students & their families.
Christmas Disco
Our students & staff had a fantastic time at out Term 4 school disco with the theme - Christmas or red & green. Students enjoyed dancing & playing games with all proceeds from the night going towards support out choir students who successful auditioned to appear in the 2011 School Spectacular - Imagine in Sydney.
CSIRO
When we walked into the hall where the CSIRO things were, we could tell there was going to be a lot of fire, loud noises, explosions and energy. The first thing he did with us was put some cats on catapults. Someone had to drop it on to this catapult and another person had to catch it. After that there was this thing where he told us that sherbit has energy so put sherbit into a balloon and put the balloon with the sherbit upside down onto a plastic bottle that had fizzy drink in it and poured the sherbit into the fizzy drink and then the balloon got bigger and bigger and then he got this propeller and separated the bottle and the balloon apart and then stuck the balloon and bottle together and then some time later we had a few more things and then it finished and we had a great time.
By Angus Croak
Flat Stanleys
Eairler this year our students were sharing the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. It tells the story of a young boy who becomes flat when a bulletin board falls on him. Beacause he is flat he can go on many adventures.
The students then made their own Flat Stanley and wrote stories about the adventures they had with him. Many students took photographs or drew pictures to accompany their stories.
These stories and pictures were then posted to other students around the world in Scotland, several schools in America and in Japan.
This week our Flat Stanleys came back from Japan with photos and stories written by Japanese students about his adventures over there. It has been a wonderful learning experience for all the students involved. New friendships have now been formed with some students continuing to correspond with their overseas buddy.
Crazy Hair & Dress School Disco
Our school held a Crazy Hair & Dress Disco last week to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis NSW. Students & staff looked fantastic in their crazy outfits & had a great time dancing & playing games to raise $99 for this worthy cause.
Footy Colours Day & The Violet Foundation
Our school recently held a fundraising day where students & staff dressed up in their favourite footy colours, or in purple dress. In support of Footy Colours day which raises money for kids with cancer & the Violet Foundation which supports Meningococcal research. A big thankyou to our students & their families who raised $174 towards these fantastic initiatives.
Education Week 2011 'Creating The Future'
Our school celebrated education week by being invited to participate in performances at Centro Toormina to highlight the fantastic work of our school performance groups!
District Cross Country 20th May 2011
Congratulations To Everyone! What a Great Effort!!!!
8/9 Years Boys 2KM - 5th Place - Mabior Garang
10 Years Girls 2KM - 5th Place - Gabrielle Mary
11 Years Girls 3KM - 3rd Place - Nara Donovan
11 Years Boys 3KM - 6th Place - Garang Garang
Anzac Ceremony 8.4.11
Anzac Ceremony Choir Performance 8.4.11
Coffs Harbour Public School Hawaiian Disco - 15.03.11
