Thrive Newsletter Term 1 Week 2
Swimming Carnival 2025 Showdown: A Day of Heat and Heart!
On a scorching day, the heat wasn’t the only thing rising at the annual Swimming Carnival at Casino Memorial Pool. The competition between the three houses—Elliot, Liddell, and Taylor—was fierce, with each team determined to claim victory! As temperatures soared, so did the spirit of cheering and energy in the pool, making for a thrilling day of fast-paced races and incredible performances. Every stroke was a battle for the top spot! Congratulations to all swimmers for their dedication and effort, and a special shout-out to the house that swam their way to glory!
Congratulations Liddell!
AGE-CHAMPIONS
Congratulations to our Casino Christian School Swimming Age Champions for 2025:
School News
New Building
Over the holidays, we were very pleased to see the installation of our new high school classrooms. We expect these new classrooms to be ready for students to use within the coming weeks after some finishing touches are made.
Parking/Driveway
Our driveway is currently under construction. Therefore, there may be, at times, some disruption to entering the school; these should be fairly minimal now as we approach the final stages of its completion.
Feedback
There may be times when you would like to give feedback to the school, whether it be for positive reasons or perhaps because there is something we could be doing better. Whatever it may be, we respect your input. Please email: feedback@ccs.nsw.edu.au
CCS Bus Forms
Students who travel on our CCS Lismore, Kyogle or Fairy Hill buses were sent home with bus forms last week. These need to be signed and returned to the school office as soon as possible.
School Stream
Do you have the School Stream App? If you don’t you could miss important communication from the school. Not only that but many great features can be helpful.
Some of the great features are:
- Absentee Form – fill this out if your child is absent
- Uniform Ordering
- Access copies of excursion forms
- School Calendar – view up-to-date calendars of events and add them to your own Google Calendar.
- View recent news and important school updates.
To download the App, follow the instructions below.
Canteen
The canteen is available on Fridays if students wish to order lunch or purchase snacks at lunchtime. To place an order, write the student’s name, class, and selection on a paper bag with money enclosed. Hand into the box at the office by Friday morning. Please see the Canteen Menu below.
Canteen Helpers
Our canteen is a fantastic service to our school, run predominately by volunteers. If you are interested in becoming a regular canteen helper on a Friday, please get in touch with our canteen coordinator, Jody, with your availability to stonelea@internode.on.net
All school helpers or volunteers need to have a current Working With Children Check (WWCC), which can be easily applied for at https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-for-a-working-with-children-check and complete our Volunteer Agreement and return to the school office. School Volunteer Agreement March 24
CCS P&F Committee
Resilient Kids Program – Parent Session
Please phone 6662 5599 or email admin@ccs.nsw.edu.au the school office by Friday 28th February to RSVP.
NAPLAN 2025 parent and carer information
Each year the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is sat by students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Students will participate in tests for writing, reading, conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
NAPLAN 2025 will take place from Wednesday 12 March to Monday 24 March.
NAPLAN is just one part of our school’s learning assessment program. The tests assess literacy and numeracy skills your child is already learning at school, so the best preparation is their everyday classroom learning. Our school will also undertake activities to help students become familiar with the types of questions and tools available in the online tests.
The public demonstration site (https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site) is available for you to see the format of the online tests.
Further information about NAPLAN is available on the NESA website (https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/naplan) and the NAP website (https://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/for-parents-carers).
If you have any questions about NAPLAN, please get in touch with your child’s teacher. If your child is identified as having a disability and/or needing adjustments, please see the information attached, and if you require further assistance, please contact:
Mrs Elyce Kemsley – Primary Learning Support Coordinator ekemsley@ccs.nsw.edu.au
Mrs Samantha Jackson – Secondary Learning Support Coordinator sjackson@ccs.nsw.edu.au
2025 Collection of Data
School Fete
The P&F Committee plans to hold a Fete at CCS in June 2025! There will be a variety of stalls and rides, and each year, the group will host their stall. We are calling out anyone interested in being part of the Fete Committee, being a stall holder or helping out in any way! If you want to register interest, please email the P&F with your details and how you would like help. pandf@ccs.nsw.edu.au
Secondary News
Maths Help
If you are looking for homework help for your child for Mathematics, look no further. CCS runs two weekly “Maths Help” sessions which are staffed by our Maths teachers – one after school on Mondays and one during lunch on Wednesdays. Students are welcome to bring their homework (both textbook or Mathspace), or to come with requests for extension activities, support activities, or simply to ask for help with particular concepts. Sometimes students need to hear a concept explained a second time in order to feel confident to attempt the set work.
Attending Maths Help gives students the opportunity to ask for those second explanations. If you have limited computer access at home, attending Maths Help is also an opportunity for students to access the homework and other activities set through the online platform Mathspace.
You don’t need to give notice that your child will be coming, but if you’d like us to be encouraging them to attend, it would be helpful to let your child’s Maths teacher know have asked them to attend. On the very rare occasions we need to cancel the Monday afternoon Maths help, a message will go out on School Stream.
NSW School Vaccination Program 2025
The following vaccines are offered free of charge to students at school:
Year 7 students
- diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine (1 dose)
- human papillomavirus (HPV) (1 dose).
Year 10 students
- meningococcal ACWY vaccine (1 dose).
Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.
To provide consent for vaccination online, parents/carers will need:
- To complete online consent parents/carers need to visit the School Vaccination Program online consent portal (https://engage.health.nsw.gov.au/engage).
For online consent, parents/carers will need:
- their ServiceNSW log-in details, or to create an account with ServiceNSW if they don’t already have one
- Medicare details for parents/carers and their child.
Benefits of online consent for parents/carers:
- SMS notification three days before the clinic to remind parents of the vaccination day • SMS notifications on the day once vaccinations are given
- easy updating of their child’s details online
- faster upload of their child’s vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR)
Sports News
Zone Swimming Carnival in Macksville – Thursday 20th February 2025
Students who were selected to attend the Zone Swimming Carnival in Macksville have been given permission notes. These need to be returned by Friday 14th February. For more information please see the information provided on the permission note.
Zone Swimming Carnival Permssion Note 2025
SPORT CALENDAR DATES
February
20th – Zone Primary & Secondary Swimming Carnival
March
4th – Zone Touch Football (Ballina)
6th – Primary State Swimming Carnival (Sydney)
25th –Secondary State Swimming Carnival (Sydney Olympic Park)
April
1st – Mixed Staff / Parents vs Senior Students (Touch Football) – Lunchtime at CCS
3rd – 4th – State Touch Football (Sydney) – David McPherson is the North Coast Team Manager
May
9th – CCS Cross Country (Casino)
13th – Zone Soccer (Kingscliff)
30th – State Cross Country (Sydney)
30th – CCS Athletics Event 1 – 1500m
June
6th – CCS Athletics Event 2 – Discus & Javelin
13th – CCS Athletics Event 3 – Discus & Javelin
18th – Secondary Athletics Carnival (Casino Christian School)
19th – Primary Athletics Carnival (Casino Christian School)
July
2nd – Mixed Staff / Parents vs Senior Students (Volleyball) – Lunchtime at CCS
30th – Zone Athletics (Coffs Harbour)
August
15th – Zone Basketball (Port Macquarie)
22nd – Primary State Athletics (Sydney)
28th – Secondary State Athletics (Sydney)
September
12th – Zone Netball & Rugby League (Lismore)
15th – Zone North Coast Sports Coordinators meeting (Grafton)
17th – Mixed Staff / Parents vs Senior Students (Soccer) – Lunch time at CCS
October
22nd – Zone Futsal in Coffs Harbour
November
19th – Zone 20/20 Cricket in Lismore
December
3rd – Mixed Staff / Parents vs Senior Students (Netball or basketball) – 9 am to 12.30 pm at CCS
Library
Premiers Reading Challenge
The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) is open to all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 10.2025 Challenge dates
Challenge opens: Monday 24 February 2025
Challenge closes to students: Friday 22 August 2025
The booklist has now been updated with 368 new titles added at the beginning of Term 1, 2025.
All books added to the PRC lists during 2025, as well as new books added in 2024, can be found by clicking on the link below. This contains every book added to the list during the year, including new additions to approved series.
https://online.education.nsw.gov.au/prc/booklist/home.html
Scholastic Book Club
Book Club Issue 1 is due 20th February!
To view Issue 1 online click on this link: https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/issue-preview/
For more information or to order online go to: https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/
Uniform Shop
Uniform shop hours are:
Mondays 8-11
Wednesdays 1-4
Uniform orders can be made at any time in the “Forms” section of the School Stream App or by emailing a completed order form to the Uniform Shop uniform@ccs.nsw.edu.au
Uniform Order form: CCS Uniform Order November 2024
School Calendar
Term 1 Dates
Week 2 (B) ~ 10th to 14th February
- Tuesday – Swimming Carnival – Casino pool
- Wednesday to Friday – Senior Camp – Gold Coast
- Friday – Touch Football, Year 7-8 (Period 1-4)
Week 3 (A) ~ 17th to 21st February
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm (G1)
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
- Thursday – Primary & Secondary Zone Swimming – Macksville
- Friday – Touch Football Year 7-8 (Period 1-4)
Week 4 (B) ~ 24th to 28th February
- Monday – High School Assembly 12-1pm
– Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm (G1)
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
– P&F Monthly Meeting 6-8pm
- Friday – Touch Football Year 7-8 (Period 1-4)
Week 5 (A) ~ 3rd to 7th March
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm
- Tuesday – Zone Touch Footy – Ballina
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
– Resilient Kids Program – The Parent Session
- Friday – State Swimming Primary – Sydney
Week 6 (B) ~ 10th to 14th March
Naplan: 12th to 24th March
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
- Friday – Maths Pie Day
Week 7 (A) ~ 17th to 21st March
Naplan: 12th to 24th March
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.15-4pm
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
- Thursday – Parent Teacher Interviews 3.15-7.45pm
Week 8 (B) ~ 24th to the 28th March
Preliminary Exam Week for Seniors
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm
- Tuesday – Secondary State Swimming – Sydney
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
– P&F Monthly Meeting 6-8pm
- Thursday – Year 7 Information Night 6-7.30pm
Week 9 (A) ~ 31st March to 4th April
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm
- Tuesday – Daniel Principe – Guest Speaker visits for Secondary
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
- Thursday – Kindy Information Night 6-7.30pm
- Friday – State Touch Football – Sydney
Week 10 (B) ~ 7th to 11th April
- Monday to Wednesday – Stage 4 (Year 7&8) Camp – Burleigh
- Monday – Maths Help for Secondary – After school 3.10-4pm
- Wednesday – Maths Help for Secondary – At lunch (G1)
- Friday – Easter Whole School Assembly – 1.45 to 3pm
School Holidays: 14th to 25th April
Term 2 Commences: Tuesday 29th April
Community Information & Events
Before and After School Care with Rainbow Region Kids
Rainbow Region Kids offers a safe, fun, social and educational space for before school care, after school care and vacation club during NSW school holidays.
Did you know- Rebates up to 90% – our services are childcare subsidy approved which means that families can receive government payments and could be paying as little as $2 – 5 per day. Conditions apply, so please refer to services
australia.gov.au/child-care-subsidy
Free food for kids – all children receive a free, healthy breakfast at before school care and a free healthy afternoon tea at after school care.
If you would like assistance to enrol a child into RRK programs please ring 0429 640 075
Check out our website at nrcg.org.au/about-rainbow-region-kids for locations and hours of service your catchment area, call 0429 640 075, 02 66 21 73 97 or email rrkassist@nrcg.org.au
Youth Groups
