Captains Flat Public School Newsletter

Term 1 Week 4 - 2021

School News

COVID-19 Update

The Department of Education has released its Term 1 Operating Guidelines, as thankfully things have continued to ease. We ask that all students that experience cold and flu like symptoms to remain at home until symptom free. We also ask that any student that is kept home for these reasons, to be covid-19 tested. This process has not changed since 2020.

Parents are now able to enter the school grounds if you have a purpose for being on school grounds. There will be a QR code that will be at school entrances, that you will be able to use. This process is similar to when you are out and about at various locations in the city. These will be placed up in the coming weeks. Please also note that you will also be asked to complete an 'External Visitor to School Site' Form, via either SkoolBag or physical form in the school office.

School activities in the regional area are now also able to continue. 

Please note that if operating guidelines change, we will inform you via SkoolBag and Facebook.


TACO Tuesday

A huge thank you to all those that purchased a taco from our wonderful Year 6 students. They had an amazing time preparing and cooking the tacos. They sold so many tacos and raised lots of money. This will go towards their end of year fund programs. Our current school leaders have several ideas and are keen to do some great things this year. Stay tuned for more amazing fun as it develops throughout the school year.


Year 3-6 Camp

Thank you to all members of the school community that completed the expression of interest for our proposed Yr 3-6 School Camp to The Great Aussie Bush Camp at Kincumber on the Central Coast. However, since the survey, we have been presented with the opportunity to complete our 2021 camp with the students of Michelago PS. Our 2021 School Camp will now be to Berry Sport and Recreation Camp. Our camp will now be held during the final week of Term 3, from Monday 13 September to Wednesday 15 September. This shared opportunity will be an amazing way for our students to meet other students of similar age and it will also be a great way to help reduce camp costs. More information will follow in the coming weeks.


The Athletics Carnival

Our 2021 School Athletics Carnival is just around the corner. Keep Thursday 4 March free, so you can come and be apart of this amazing experience. This will probably be our last opportunity to all get together before the colder weather returns. We will be holding our annual parent race for those who would like to obtain the highly sought after prize of 'The Captain's Cup'.


Swimming Program

Our School Swimming Program has commenced and will continue daily to the end of Week 5, Friday 26 February. Students have made huge progress this session from the program running in Term 4 to now. The teachers are impressed with the commitment shown by all students at the school. The purpose of this program is to focus on Water Awareness and Water Safety Skills. Our students have continued to progress since 2020 and we look forward to ensuring our students remain water wise.


Clean Up Australia

Clean up Australia Day is coming up during the first weekend in March. We will be cleaning up our school on Friday 5 March. Students from K-2 will focus on the inside of the school, whilst students in Yr 3-6 will walk around the outside of the school grounds and clean up the school oval. The school has enough gloves for all students during the clean up program.


Library Borrowing

Students will be able to borrow books once again from the school library. Library lessons will be a little different to 2020. This year students will be borrowing from the library during some of their normal classroom learning programs. We hope to share their borrowing day and times via Facebook and SkoolBag. These times may change from week to week, depending on what learning programs are taking place each week.

Healthy Lunchbox Week

Monday 8 February to Friday 12 February was 'Healthy Lunchbox' Week. Each day of this week, our student's were able to try a different healthy food item.

Healthy Lunchbox Week

Preparation Program for the Sacrament of Reconciliation

St Mary’s Parish, Bungendore 2021

In March 2021, St Mary’s will be running a preparation program for the sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession). This program is intended for baptised Catholic children who are in Year Three or above.

Preparation sessions: There will be two or three preparation sessions on Wednesday evenings between 6 and 7:30pm St Mary’s Hall, 28 Turallo Tce, Bungendore. These sessions are for the children and an accompanying parent / guardian.

Liturgy for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, The sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated in St Mary’s Church at 6pm on a weekday evening before the end of March.

More details and enrolment forms are on our parish page at the archdiocesan website at http://cg.org.au/bungendore/Home.aspx

or phone 6238 1247 (11- 5 Wednesdays) or email bungendore@cg.org.au

If you registered for last year’s program but did not participate, just email us to confirm that you want to participate this year.

Sacraments of Eucharist and Confirmation: We will be running programs for the sacraments of Eucharist (Term 2) and Confirmation (term 3) later in the year. 

Attendance at school matters....

Afternoon and weekend fun:

Karabar High School Notification

Birthdays coming up!!!

February 7 - Liam Warry

February 18 - Alex Smith

February 20 - Jaedyn Hopkins

February 23 - Lucy Brill

Having an amazing birthday!!!

2021 Sports Carnivals

Our 2021 Sports Carnivals will be held during term 1 as we did in 2020. Please add these dates to your calendars.

Athletics Carnival - Thursday 4 March (Week 6)

School Swimming Program

Term 4 was far to busy. To assist with the busy nature of term 4, we have decided to move our annual swimming program to term 1. This will continue to build upon the strengths of the 2020 program. Permission will only be sought from new students to the school. As with the 2020 program, there will be no cost to students.

The program will commence on Monday 15 February and will operate daily until Friday 26 February.

School Assembly

Our next School Assembly will be held on:

Wednesday 3 March

We are able to have parents attend our assembly once again. We will have a Covid Safety Plan in place. We ask that you do not attend the assembly, if you are experiencing cold and/or flu like symptoms. 

Please scan the QR code at the entry to the school and complete the 'External visitors' form available on the Skoolbag app.

The assembly will continue to be streamed for those that are unable to attend the assembly. Please see our YouTube Channel for links.


News From Around The School

Learning about Shapes

Kindergarten and Year 1 are currently learning about two-dimensional shapes. Students are learning how to identify, sort and classify the geometrical properties of shapes. Here is Patterson matching shapes in this fun warm up activity. 

Creating Shapes

Group 2 has been working on identifying and describing properties of regular and irregular 2D shapes. We have been adding 2D shape terminology such as, sides, vertex/vertices, symmetry, parallel and perpendicular to our vocabulary to describe shapes. Students were set a challenge to build as many 2D Shapes as possible that have a given property (e.g. 2 sets of parallel lines).

P&C News

A huge thank you to those members of the community that helped get our P&C over the line for the year.

P&C President - Mrs Sam McLachlan

Vice President - Mrs Frechy Harrison

Secretary - Mrs Bec Scott

Treasurer - Mrs Emma Brill

Canteen Convenor - Ms Liza Salton

Committee Members 2021:

Mr Alan Hopkins, Mrs Jess Woolley, Ms Rebecca Rose, Mrs Melisa McCarthy, Mrs Treasea Lansdowne, Miss Jessica Harrington, Mr Shane Collins, Ms Lauren Lewis

Our next committee meeting will be held in S123 Classroom on Monday 3 May.

Notes that need Returning

  • External Visitors to School Site Form (Required for each visit and entry on school grounds)
  • Swimming School E-Forms

Staff Changes This Fortnight

  • Mr Marshall absent on Wednesday 24 February - Queanbeyan Schools Network meeting
  • Mr Marshall & Mrs Pignatelli - Tuesday 2 March - 3 Rivers 4 Learning Program

Cross Country and Swimming Carnival

School Events Calendar - 2021

Term 1 - 2021

Week 1

25 Jan - 31 Jan

Tuesday 26 January

Friday 29 January

Australia Day Public Holiday

School resumes for Year 1 - Year 6

Week 2

1 Feb - 7 Feb

Monday 1 FebruaryKindergarten begins school

Week 3

8 Feb - 14 Feb


Healthy Lunchbox Week

Thursday 11 February

Friday 12 February

Cross Country Carnival

Swimming Carnival

Week 4

15 Feb - 21 Feb

Monday 15 February

Tuesday 16 February

Wednesday 17 February

Thursday 18 February

2021 Swimming Program commences

TACO Tuesday Fundraiser

Environmentors Show

District Swimming Carnival

Week 5

22 Feb - 28 Feb

Friday 26 February2021 Swimming Program concludes

Week 6

1 Mar - 7 Mar

Thursday 4 March

Friday 5 March

Athletics Carnival

Clean up Australia - School Cleaning

Week 7

8 Mar - 14 Mar

Monday 8 MarchInternational Woman's Day

Week 8

15 Mar - 21 Mar


Harmony Week

Wednesday 17 February

Friday 19 March

St. Patrick's Day

National Ride 2 School Day

Week 9

22 Mar - 28 Mar



Week 10

29 Mar - 4 Apr

Wednesday 31 March

Thursday 1 April

Friday 2 April

Easter Hat Parade

Final Day of Term 1

Good Friday Public Holiday


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