Building the Education Revolution
Commonwealth funded
Primary School in the 21st Century (PS21)
National School Pride (NSP)
Hi Everyone,
A big thank you to the kind parent who brought in all the pots for Currambena to use. Many of them have already come to good use and are lined up in the top play area storing our temporary veggie garden. Thank you also to the gardening team who worked so hard last Friday (in the heat) moving all the compost bins. There is a little bit more work to do in the veggie garden to move the last of the plants so if you would like to lend a hand let me know – we’ll probably finish the job next week at some point.
Otherwise there is not much to report at his stage – the results of the tender will not be known for several weeks.
CASP will now be providing care in the school holidays for both the first AND second week so please see the notice board for more details.
See you around
Jess (jkimber01@bigpond.com or 0411220111)
Posted September 24th, 2009
in Building the Education Revolution
by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
What a dust storm!!! When I arrived home last night just on sunset there was a lovely glow of red blanketing EVERYTHING in my house. It was quite a daunting sight for someone who hates housework!!!
REMINDERS
Bush Dance
social this Friday starting at 5.30pm. The band will kick off at 7pm. Please bring food to share, enough for your family and two extras.
Canteen. If you put your name down for canteen then have to cancel please find a replacement. On Monday come 10.30am I was suddenly in the roll of canteen Mum!!!! Funny that and I don’t have any kids at the school. It is an expectation and many kids arrive at school on Monday with money only.
You must ring security and advise them of your time period if you come into the school in the weekend and de-activate the alarm system. The number is stuck on the office window.
GRANT SUBMISSION
If I haven’t already mentioned it, you will be happy to know that our submission for a solar grant has been accepted. This will mean that we will have a bank of solar panels installed on the roof and so help to reduce our electricity costs.
LIBRARY BOOK TO BE COLLECTED. Some-one has accidentally returned a Currambena book to Stanton Library in North Sydney called “Lets Go Home Little Bear’ by Martin Wardell. If anyone is in this library we would love this book collected and returned to Currambena.
With love,
Julianna
Posted September 24th, 2009
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by juliannam
Building the Education Revolution
Commonwealth funded
Primary School in the 21st Century (PS21)
National School Pride (NSP)
Hi Everyone,
The tender documentation is going out today. We should have the results from this process in about 3 weeks and then we will have a clearer picture of when we might be starting on site.
It’s now time to get the school ready for the construction….
I’m sure you’ve all noticed the fabulous tree house in the top playground area – it’s not finished yet! Thank you to Jo and Chris R for all your effort – it is the result of many hours of school meeting discussions with the kids and a lot of hard work. I’m sure it will be a very valuable addition for the kids when part of the playground is fenced off for the building project.
Vegetable Garden Working Bee this Friday 1.15pm – 2.30pm
The vegetable garden will be demolished during the period of construction and we would like to move some of the more established plants into pots. If you would like to help rescue the lemon tree and rosemary bush into pots and to help move the compost bins we are having a small working bee tomorrow.
We also need some large pots to put the plants into so if you have any spare large pots you could lend Currambena please let myself or Sally know.
Cheers
Jessica (0411220111 or jkimber01@bigpond.com)
Posted September 17th, 2009
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by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
THANK YOU To Eduardo for building our temporary storeroom . It looks great.
To Steve for hanging a notice board in the photocopy room ; I can now write up all the phone messages instead of constantly running around looking for teachers!
To Brian our in-resident Leafbuster who arrives dressed in Psychedelic yellow, blowing up a storm and half an hour later the school is so pristine clean you wonder if you have the wrong school. Consequently the grounds were immaculate for our information morning on Wednesday.
To Robyn for lending Sisse a benchtop oven. What a gorgeous community we have which makes it such a pleasure and a delight for me to work here.
Information morning Thank-you Wendy, Sue and the kids and parents who were helping. Also to all the fabulous sweepers. We had a big turn out of 25.
DANCE SOCIAL 25TH SEPTEMBER Which is next week so start your stretches and limbering up now!
REMINDER PLEASE If you come into the school in the weekend and de-activate the alarm system you must ring security and advise them of what period of time you will be in the school. The number is stuck on the office window.
LIBRARY BOOK TO BE COLLECTED. Some-one has accidentally returned a Currambena book to Stanton Library in North Sydney called “Lets Go Home Little Bear’ by Martin Wardell. If anyone is in this library we would love this book collected and returned to Currambena.
With love,
Julianna
Posted September 17th, 2009
in Coordinator
by juliannam
Building the Education Revolution
Commonwealth funded
Primary School in the 21st Century (PS21)
National School Pride (NSP)
Hi Everyone,
There is not much to report from the past week.
We are still waiting for tender documentation to be completed and we anticipate that it will be ready and issued to construction companies on Friday.
The quiet before the storm…………………….Hope not!
Labeling of asbestos
Currambena has recently engaged P. Clifton and Associates to undertake a full Hazmat (Hazardous Materials) inspection of the school. The results of the inspection were much as we had anticipated and it identified asbestos containing building materials in several areas around the school.
“All hazardous construction materials found to be present within the various buildings at the Currambena School were all in good condition at the time of the site inspection and do not pose a measurable risk to persons at the school whilst these materials remain in-situ and undisturbed.”
Where asbestos was found is has been identified as bonded and of low risk, however, as part of our obligation to The NSW Occupational Health & Safety Regulation 2001 we will be labeling the asbestos to ensure that anyone working in the area is aware of its location.
In addition, an asbestos register now forms part of our sign in/out sheet for maintenance days and for external contractors. It’s a simple and short register so please read and sign it before you undertake any work. If you identify asbestos materials that require maintenance please let Julianna know and the school will engage a licensed contractor to do the work.
The full hazmat report is available in the office if anyone would like to view it.
Jessica (0411220111 or jkimber01@bigpond.com)
Posted September 10th, 2009
in Building the Education Revolution
by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
THANK-YOU
-To our gorgeous Tracy for producing our lovely newsletter each week. We look forward every week to your beautiful photos especially the cover shots.
-To our parents who come in on Monday and do a fabulous canteen.
-To all our wonderful CASP staff who run a very caring fun after school care program. It always amuses me when I hear the various conversations floating into the office. Parents being given a very clear message that they are….too early as the child has not had their bread time, or they have not had enough play time or they want to stay right to the end!
LOOKING FOR… Sisse our Danish student teacher is staying in a studio flat in Bondi and she happened to mention yesterday that they have a cook top but no oven!!!! So my request to the community is … does anyone have a working bench top oven that they are not using and could lend to Sisse till they leave in late January.
NITS
Have you parent groups organised your BIG WASH weekend yet?
Activities coming soon…….
Your Child and High School Monday 14th September from 7pm -9pm. Wendy will be speaking along with various ex-Currambena students.
Information morning next Wednesday 16th September starting at 10am. If you know of anyone who is interested please pass on this date. I am trying to be more efficient with time management and not have individual tours of the school where possible.
Dance social Friday 25thSeptember We have a bush band booked! If it is still cold we will start up Steve’s firepit so either way it should be a hot September night. So a big circle on the calendar please.
REMINDER
The traffic warden is still with us so take care where you are parking and for how long.
With love,
Julianna
Posted September 10th, 2009
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by juliannam
BUILTEAM NEWS
Primary Schools in the 21st Century
National School Pride
Building the Education Revolution – Commonwealth Assisted
Thank you to everyone who came to the community consultation evening on Monday night. We had a good number of people turn up and all in all it was a very productive evening. We had a lot of ground (ha ha) to cover on the night and therefore ran a bit late – so thanks to all the babysitters at home!
We managed to set some priorities in relation to the landscaping and to talk about some of the areas that needed our most urgent attention.
I will be feeding back to Corkery Consultants a summery of the night so that they can amend the plans appropriately.
Today we have had a very long meeting with our architects to work through the design details, the tender process and our budget. Phew…3 hours!
We have short listed 5 construction companies that we have agreed to ask to tender the project and the documentation for this will be ready in about a week.
Our timeline is very tight and our goal for main construction work to begin in the October school holidays is looking increasingly ambitious. We may, however, undertake some of the preliminary landscape works and at least try and aim for the demolition of the old classroom. The exact timing for this will not be known until we have our tenders back.
We are also working towards starting some of the work for the NSP (Nation al School Pride) initiative in the school holidays - upgrading the bathroom in the main building and adding skylights in Wendy and Olivia’s.
See you around…
Jess
(jkimber01@bigpond.com or 0411220111)
Posted September 3rd, 2009
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by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
THANK-YOU
- For a great café last Friday the grapevine tells me it was a lovely afternoon with heaps of people and plenty of yummy things to eat.
- To our Buildteam and to all those who attended the evening to discuss the landscaping of the new playground.
- To all our teachers for all the time and care you have put in for each and every half hour parent interview.
2010 Calendar
The first draft has come out and is now in the final refining stages so please be ready to order next year’s fabulous Currambena calendar celebrating 40 Years of Inspired Learning!
NITS
Current livestock numbers are at critical mass in some classrooms and becoming a rather tedious bother for parents.
So the suggestion is that the parents of each class get together, pick an agreed weekend and everyone do the big wash. To get a good hit you will more than likely need to do two weekends in a row.
Activities coming soon…….
Dance social Friday 25th September
We have a bush band booked!
If it is still cold we will start up Steve’s firepit so either way it should be a hot September night.
So a big circle on the calendar please.
REMINDER
The traffic warden seems to be coming each day so take care where you are parking and for how long.
With love,
Julianna
Posted September 3rd, 2009
in Coordinator
by juliannam
Hello Currambena!
Thank-you to all our parents for the improvement with signing in and out, even ringing immediately to tell us if you have forgotten is a great relief. Of course we would love everyone to keep working on this and a forgotten signature to be a rarity.
THANK-YOU
To our organisers, for our beautiful fliers, and everyone who came to our Transition to Kindergarten night.
A special thanks to Fran and to Jo for presenting the evening.
Activities coming soon…….
Café
This Friday 28th August 2pm start
This is always a lovely social gathering so please come.
If you can provide a plate of something yummy that would be much appreciated.
Dance social Friday 25th September
We are hoping to have a bush band and if still cold – Steve’s fire pit burning.
So mark that night in your calendar
Special Thoughts….
Sending our love and support to Jackie, Michael and Katriona our thoughts will be with you all next week.
With love,
Julianna
Posted August 27th, 2009
in Coordinator
by juliannam
GREETINGS FROM HOLLAND
Hello Everybody!
How is everyone!? I’m already back in Holland for three weeks. I have to admit, I miss all of you very very much!
When I got back in Holland, my family and friends organized a wonderful come back party for me. It was great to see everyone again in Holland. Right now, I’m finishing the last few things for school and I am preparing for my new study: Physical therapy. On the 27th of August is my final conversation with my supervisors at school, and afterwards I hope I will have a great party . At least 2/3 times a week, I read the green book which I got from all of you, and I just love it! The stories, the photo’s, it reminds me of a wonderful time at Currambena.
I have still a lot of contact with Julianna and Fran and it will be great if I have contact with more people from Currambena. So, just send me an email and I will reply as quick as possible.
My email address: horstinkluuk@hotmail.com
I hope you’re all good, and hope to hear from you soon.
Cheers,
Luuk
Posted August 20th, 2009
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by juliannam
