Captains Flat Public School Newsletter

Term 4 Week 10 - 2021

School News

COVID-19 Update

Restrictions have continued to ease across NSW. All schools previously on Level 3 Plus have now been lowered to Level 3. All school's across NSW are now operating under the same set of restrictions. The full set of operating guidelines can be found at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/inside-the-department/covid-19/advice-for-school-based-staff/level-3-schools

End of Year!!

Our final newsletter for 2021!! We have all made it. What a year it has been. Lockdowns, Covid-19, operational restrictions and abnormal weather patterns. It was meant to be Summer, yet it still feels like Winter!

We firstly wanted to thank all of our students for their hard work and their unrelenting focus on learning and improving. We have worked through some difficult times and we are proud of all that you have achieved this year. 

Our thanks also go to the amazing staff at our small school. The transition to learning from home, supporting students at school and then the process of returning to learning has been difficult. Our staff stepped up and used the learning from our 2020 experiences to support our students as best we could during the lockdown. Every member of staff went above and beyond to support our students with their learning.

Finally we thank our amazing community for their understanding of the difficult operational guidelines and restrictions that the school operates under from week to week. We have tried to keep you all connected to the school through social media, and we bridge that gap to bring the school to the community. Your care and support through this time has been very much appreciated.

We wish everyone a happy and refreshing holiday. We hope that if you do travel, that you do so safely. We wish our amazing Year 6 students all the best for their commencement at High School in 2022. We also look forward to greeting our new Kindergarten students to school in the new year.

Final Weeks Events - Term 4 Week 11:

Monday: Home Learning Reward Day

Tuesday: Year 6 Special Event and Lunch

Wednesday: Great Gala Get-Together at Captains Flat Pool (Weather Permitting)

Thursday: Final Day of the school Year

Friday: Sleep in its holidays!!!!!!

Presentation Day - 2021

A huge thank you to all those that made our annual Presentation Day a special event. We were very lucky to have Mrs Kristy McBain visit our small school and present the Citizenship Awards. We also had the Queanbeyan Director, Educational Leadership - Mrs Senior-Conroy at our event and she presented some special awards to some of the teaching staff.

Whilst we were not able to have anyone at this event that did not have an official role in the event, we did record our special day. This can be found on our school YouTube page. Each segment presented can also be found there as well. 

School Returns - 2022

Tuesday 1 February - Year 1 to Year 6 return to learning

Wednesday 2 February - Kindergarten commence school at 9.30am

School Leaders 2022

We are so excited to introduce our 2022 Student Leadership Team

School Captains:

Katya and Lucy

School Vice-Captains:

Oliver & Hayley

We look forward to all the amazing things that you will accomplish in 2022.

Farewell

Sadly, as our year comes to an end we farewell some members of our amazing small school team. 

Miss Elliott - Miss Elliott will be returning to the Newcastle region before the year ends. We wish her every success as she moves to a new area.

Mrs Carroll - Mrs Carroll has worked at Captains Flat PS as a classroom teacher, support teacher and most recently as the Instructional Leader for the Early Action for Success Program. She will finish her time at Captains Flat PS for the last time next Tuesday. Mrs Carroll is looking for to a well earned retirement. We hope she has an amazing retirement and gets to spend time with her family.

Mr Rayner - Mr Rayner has worked at Captains Flat PS for the previous 6 year. He supported the learning of our students through his time. He recently departed our school, but should be recognised for his time and dedication to our students. We wish him every success with his teaching career.

Mr Spellman - Mr Spellman has worked at Captains Flat PS this year as part of the music program through the Australian Children's Music Foundation. He has brought some amazing talent to our students and we have appreciated having his expertise in Music this year. He will be working at Queanbeyan HS 2 days a week and 3 days at Finnigan School of Distance Education.

Big Childcare News!!

Attendance at school matters....

Birthdays coming up!!!

December 17 - Katya

December 22 - Patterson

December 22 - Nikolas

January 9 - Seth

Have an amazing birthday!!!

News from around the area...

P&C News

A massive thank you to everyone that supported our Auction night. It took several months of planning with various dates and options used for the event. Finally with eased restrictions we were able to hold this event. This was the best Auction event we have ever had. Attendance was great, smiles were on all faces. We raised $4500 from our community.

A massive thank you to Mrs Rebecca Scott, Mrs Melisa McCarthy for their organisation of the event. 

We also thank everyone who made contributions of great items for the auction, without your support and assistance their would be no auction.

Next P&C Meeting: 

Monday 7 February 2022 @ 6pm - P&C AGM

Notes that need Returning

  • QR codes and masks upon entry to the school.

Please remember to...

Staff Changes This Fortnight

  • Monday 13 December - Miss Bishop Absent: Replaced by Mrs Allen

School Events Calendar - 2022

Term 1 - 2022

Week 1

24 Jan - 30 Jan

Friday 28 January

Staff Development Day 1: CFPS

Week 2

31 Jan - 6 Feb

Monday 31 January

Tuesday 1 February

Wednesday 2 February

Staff Development Day 2: Queanbeyan

Year 1 to Year 6 Return to Learning

Kindergarten Begin School

Week 3

7 Feb - 13 Feb

Healthy Lunchbox Week

Monday 7 February

Friday 11 February

Term 1 P&C Meeting: 6pm

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Week 4

14 Feb - 20 Feb

Friday 18 February

School Swimming Carnival @ Captains Flat Pool

Week 5

21 Feb - 27 Feb

Friday 25 FebruaryDistrict Swimming Carnival

Week 6

28 Feb - 6 Mar

Tuesday 1 March

Circular Circus Show - 2pm

Week 7

7 Mar - 13 Mar

Tuesday 8 March

International Women's Day

Week 8

14 Feb - 20 Feb


Week 9

21 Mar - 27 Mar

Monday 21 March

Friday 25 March

Harmony Day 

National Ride2School Day

Week 10

28 Mar - 3 Apr

All Week

NAPLAN Practice Testing

Week 11

4 Apr - 10 Apr

Friday 8 April

Final Day of Term 1 2022

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