It has been another fabulous week at Claremont College, especially with this lovely warm weather to enjoy. A highlight of the week was certainly our Choir’s performance at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Thank you to the children for sharing your talents with our community. Thank you Mrs Barr (Head of Music) for preparing the children so well, and also to the many parents who attended to offer your support.
Next Friday afternoon over 300 Dads & Kids will be making their way to Lake Macquarie for a fun filled weekend. It is going to be an amazing time.
Below are some final reminders:
Final reminders for the Dads and Kids Campers
Just 7 sleeps to go until many of us will be camping! The long-range weather app is looking perfect. Let’s keep praying for sunny weather. I can’t wait to see you there!
Doug Thomas
Principal
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The second half of Term 3 promises to be an exciting, engaging few weeks filled with wonderful learning experiences for your child/ren. One of the special events we are looking forward to is our International Day.
To showcase the variety of international cultures within our school community, we are holding our International Day on Friday 20 September. This day proves to be full of active learning to celebrate the myriad cultures that exist in our school, to learn more about each other and to gain a deeper respect and understanding of other people’s stories and histories. The day will open with a short morning assembly and from there, students will ‘travel’ internationally to various workshops to get a taste of cultures from countries such as Indonesia, Italy, Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Greece and of course Australia. A big thank you to our wonderful parents who have volunteered to share their cultural expertise in one of our many workshops to ensure our students’ experiences are authentic.
The cultural activities throughout the day will include:
Cost: To help us to cover the cost of costumes and resources for activities we will be asking parents to pay $10/child which will be charged to your Term 4 account.
What to wear: Each grade will perform a dance from a chosen country during our afternoon festivities from 2pm to 3pm. Below is the breakdown of what each grade will need to wear. On top of this, the school will organise accessories for each grade. Thank you for your assistance in sourcing these colours for your child if you don’t already have these
Students are to come to school dressed in the colours above OR use it as an opportunity to showcase their own traditional costumes. Any student who is wearing a traditional costume will have an opportunity to showcase their costume to the rest of the students. Students who come in their traditional costumes are to change into their dance costume/colours after the morning assembly. We appreciate that some of these costumes have been passed down over generations and may be priceless. Therefore, parents if your child comes in their national costume, we would appreciate it if you could come for the short morning assembly, help your child change into their dance costume.
What to eat: Please note the canteen will be offering a range of international foods for the students for both morning tea and lunch, so please look out for these options on Flexischools.
We would love for you to join us for the afternoon celebrations from 2pm to 3pm.
The DRAFT agenda for the day is as follows:
8:45am - 9:00am: Morning assembly: Recognition of Traditional Owners of this land, and presentation of National Costumes.
9:00am - 11:15am: Three rotations of cultural activities
11:15am - 11:45am: Morning Tea - with International food options available from the school canteen
11:45am - 1:15pm: Two rotations of cultural activities
1:15pm - 1:55pm: Lunch - with International food options available from the school canteen
2.00pm - 3.10pm: Dance & Celebration of International Culture
The International Day Team:
Mrs Jill Shoebridge, Mr Joel Geering, Mrs Tara Barr, Mrs Janelle Ford
Wednesday 4 September was Indigenous Literacy Day. In support of this important day the library participated in The Great Book Swap during library borrowing classes. It was lovely to see so many students excited and keen to support this important fundraising initiative. Plenty of used books were brought in and exchanged for gold coins. Many thanks to all parents and students who supported this event. The amount raised so far is $629, which far exceeds our target of $550.
Caitlin Chee in Year 5 kindly donated Westfield gift vouchers as an additional incentive. All students who donated gold coins to the cause were issued with a raffle ticket. The raffle draw will take place at our school assembly on Monday.
This book covers 40 most memorable music legends of all time. Each artist included is an icon of their age. This book is packed with incredible facts about each artist. Each famous person or band has an illustration, short biography and statistics listed. The illustrations by French illustrator Jerome Masi and are modern and vibrant. This is a great one for students in upper primary to share with their parents.
From the world’s leading travel publisher comes Lonely Planet Kids, How Cities Work.
This innovative book is packed with city facts, loads of flaps to lift, and unfolding pages to see inside buildings and under the streets. This title was created in consultation with Jill Sterrett, lecturer with the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Washington. Children can learn about city planning, cities of the future, skyscrapers, subway systems and stinky sewers. Recommended for children aged 8 years and older.
Mrs Susan Kesur
Library Assistant
Thursday 12 September - CIS Athletics
Tuesday 24 September - Years 3-6 Cricket Blast Gala Day
Friday 27 September - Claremont Cross Country Carnival
Our annual Cross Country Carnival for all students will be held in Week 10, on Friday 27 September. This carnival is held from 9:30am to 12:00pm, and students have the option of returning to school, or going home after the event with parents. As you might understand, we need lots of parent help to ensure a safe and successful event with the course being spread over a 2km distance. There will be an opportunity to volunteer to help through the online registration form and event note that will be published next week.
Congratulations to Thomas Jackson (Year 4) and his team mates in the U10 Red Clovelly Crocodiles, who defeated the U10 Leichhardt Wanderers at the 2019 Rugby League Grand Final at the historic Leichhardt Oval. Clovelly Crocs won 40-30 and their coaches Shane and Jon were so proud of the strong game they played in the pouring rain. To top it off, Thomas was awarded the Man of the Match. Well done, Thomas!
(In the pictures below, Thomas is on the left sitting on the floor)
Well done to the Lloyd-Paul family on completing the Warrior Run in Centennial Park last weekend. The funds raised from the event go to the Indigenous Marathon Project. Elizabeth (Kindy), Alastair (Year 2) and Sebastian (Year 4) all ran in the 5km event with a little help from Mum (Jane) and the family dog, while Dad (James) ran the 10km. IMG 5594
Tom and Ollie Burke with Randwick Rugby Club players and club representatives, including their dad, Brad Burke.
Randwick will be playing the Argentinian Pumas this Saturday 7 September, 3pm at Coogee Oval.
This is 31 years after Randwick played the famous All Blacks, at the same venue, in what is regarded as the greatest game Randwick ever played.
During a recent stocktake of the existing Sport Uniforms, it seems that quite a few Claremont Sporting singlets and uniforms have ‘gone missing’. It would be very much appreciated if any Claremont singlets/uniforms from gala days, IPSHA carnivals etc can be returned for use at future Sporting events.
Joel Geering
Sport and PDHPE
30 Coogee Bay Road, Randwick NSW 2031
P 02 9399 3217
E office@claremont.nsw.edu.au
