Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

Just 25 school days remain for the term and we have plenty to get done, explore and experience.  This starts this week with inter-school sport and Under 8s day.

Your stuff misses you

It is a really good idea for parents to check the lost property baskets we have at the  school office.  Next Friday they will be emptied and remaining items will be given to charities or families who would benefit from the items.  Jumpers, hats and drink bottles are all many in number.  

A yummy start to the day

Than you to Woolies at Coomera East and our super P&C for providing breakfast for Year 2 students this week.  Nutrigrain is still the favourite cereal and bananas the preferred fruit.  

Inter-school sport begins

Our teams are off to inter-school sport next week - the first of four Mondays.  The draw is shown  below.  Thank you sincerely to staff for their coaching, umpiring and holding the fort back at school.

Uniform blitz

We will be holding a uniform blitz from next Monday. Each day across the week we will be checking for correct uniform. Every family who has enrolled at Coomera Rivers has spent time at an induction where the uniform requirements were explained. Every family has then completed an agreement at enrolment to show that they will meet the requirements. Please read the code to familiarise yourself with what is required. Click here for the document.

You can avoid problems simply by having your child in correct and complete school uniform or, if there is a problem, by sending your child's teacher an email or note to explain the problem.  The focus in Week 6 will be socks.  The focus in Week 7 will be jumpers and the focus in Week 8 will be correct shoes.  

Coomera Rivers play

Creativity is intelligence having fun - Albert Einstein

Play times and areas

We are changing our playtimes from next week and more significantly, we will be promoting multi-age play in most areas of the school.  We will still be having some segregated areas but most will be open to all students.  I will send home some photos from the week in the next issue but I am really confident that this trial will be very successful.

Next week we will enjoy Queen sending us back to class from play as well.  (The class with the best attendance gets to select the bell song each week).

Loose Parts play

Our Loose Parts zones are quickly becoming the place to be during play times.
Every day is something different and the possibilities appear to be endless.  This week, we have been reinforcing expectations and routines for when students arrive and depart the zone.

We have also been working with students to use their creativity. For many students, the first 5 minutes sees them doing laps of the space. Watching them, you just know that they are saying to themselves, 'What can I play with here?' As they watch those around them, students quickly find someone to co-create with. They are often not friends, and they may not have even met but they come together over a common way of thinking and a desire to play.

We need some diggers and trucks for some of our 'Small World' play areas.  If you have any that you want to re-home, please send them into the school office.

Kind regards

Vic

Excellence awards

Mathletics champions

Great maths work

Jake from 2B sharing a selfie of his great maths work.  Well done Jake! 

My pet keeps warm

This week 3/4WH began their unit on conductors, focusing on pets and how they keep themselves warm. They reached out to the world to show 3/4WH how far their love of science could stretch.  They received a few photos back from Scotland, Hong Kong, Ireland and Texas. This gave children a real understanding of how the weather can be very different around the world and that animals need to adapt to the drops in temperature - especially in Glasgow.  Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Prep explorations

Our Prep S and Prep O classes were really busy in the classroom as they investigated number, shapes and more and less concepts.  Clever work everyone!

Community services

This week, Year 3 has been researching members of our school community for our HASS unit. We used flip grid to learn more about the wonderful people in our school such as Julie from the cafe and the groundsmen Tony & Allen. The students loved getting to know the members of our school more and better understand how and why they help us.

On the hunt for fractions mastery

3GN have been focused on mastering their fractions this week.  They needed to complete a range of different activities both inside and outside the classroom.  Well done!     

Bike riding:

We were slightly better this week and I could see that some parents have spoken with their children about their expectations for travelling to and from school.  Children can ride a bike well enough, but they have absolutely no awareness of or care for traffic and pedestrians.  Here are the school expectations for anyone who is riding their bike to and from school or walking to and from school.

1. Always push your bike from the crossings into the school when you are coming to school
2. Always push your bike as far as the crossings when you are riding home
3. Always wear a helmet (properly) every time you ride
4. Only bikes can be ridden to school. Scooters and skateboards cannot come to school.
5. Always be careful around pedestrians and give them space
6. Always cross the road at the designated crossings
7. Always store your bike in the bike shed (a lock is recommended)
8. Always go home the way your parents expect you to go

Pedestrians:

1. Always stay out of the car parks at school
2. Always stay off the road
3. Always use the crossings to cross the road (where they are available)
4. Always go home the way your parents expect you to go
5. Always be kind to our neighbours by:
   • Leaving their dogs alone
   • Leaving their properties and cars alone

Music and Muffins

The Music Centre’s first big performance for the year will be livestreamed via Facebook on Wednesday June 9 from 5:45pm-6:30pm.  All students in the instrumental band program, instrumental strings program and Years 1-4 Choir will be performing. An information note will be emailed out early next week but for now, please save the date and bookmark the time!

Regional Sport

South Coast Rugby Union

Congratulations to Noah and Si'u, the two boys have made the South Coast U12 Rugby Union team.  Both boys have been doing extremely well with their sporting achievements this year. They have been working so hard, it is great to see them achieve so high.

AFL

On Tuesday, the boys and girls Coomera Rivers AFL teams travelled to Livingstone College to play some friendly matches against Livingstone and Ormeau SS. For many of our players, it was their first game. We couldn't be happier with how our teams represented the school and performed on the day.

Each team played 2 games, and we were lucky enough to come away with wins in all of our games.  It was great preparation for our upcoming AFL Q-Schools Cup in mid-June.

Special mention needs to go to Craig, who has been helping our teams train and has been giving really good advice to all of our boys girls.

Players of the Day: Jaden, Noah, Alycia, Leyla, Bradley and Mariyae.

Brrr! Does anybody else struggle to get out of bed every morning? The educators at OSHC certainly do! Our air conditioning was installed just in time to help keep our kiddies’ snug and warm in the mornings. It’s only going to get colder from now on, so please make sure we bring our jumpers and jackets (make sure these go in your bags if you decide to take them off).

Did you know that OSHC has some very clever and talented artists? Miss Aimie came up with the clever idea of putting images on the TV so the children could choose pictures to draw. This was a popular thing to do in the mornings for a couple of days, with new pictures being chosen each morning. We also did moustache making with post it notes, as well as some super cute bumble bee origami! A group of girls also worked on their construction skills, attempting to build the tallest marble run OSHC had ever seen! 

The tooth fairy will be visiting two of our OSHC kids, with Laker and Rubee both losing a tooth! We hope the tooth fairy pays you well Rubee and Laker! What an interesting week we had, with plenty more creativity, construction and fun to come!

Hoppy’s Car Wash at Pimpama has an amazing offer for our families (and their friends)

For just $20 you will receive three Ultimate Car Washes valued at $25 each. Total value $75!  Limited vouchers available.  Orders are open now via Flexischools.

Hoppy’s Car Wash Pimpama is donating all proceeds from the sale of these vouchers to our P&C Association.

Please see terms of use below.

1. Vouchers must be used in order- 1, 2 etc
2. Same vehicle must be used for all washes
3. Valid for date range May, June & July 2021 only. Strictly no extensions.
4. Large vehicle surcharges apply – from $2
5. Excess dirt / bug charges may apply – from $5 bugs, $10 dirt
6. Vouchers not exchangeablefor cash
7. Can be used at Hoppy’s Pimpama only
8. Only one voucher booklet per registration