CAGS News
CAGS 2020 LEADERS & NEW HOUSE ❤️💛💙💚
Cobram Anglican Grammar School is delighted to announce that due to our continued growth in student numbers we are introducing a fourth Sporting/Competition House for the 2020 school year.
It is serendipitous that 2020 will also see the school's 20 year celebrations!
The Parkes House leaders in the Middle and Senior Schools have been chosen and they will be the first to proudly lead their team wearing the colour GREEN from our first sporting carnival in 2020.
The Junior School leaders will be selected in the coming weeks. We are very excited to be able to give current students the opportunity to join with these leaders and represent Parkes House in 2020.
A lot of time and effort goes into ensuring that our houses are even and fairly populated, so whilst we can't guarantee that all those who nominate will be successful, or that all those who don't won't be asked to migrate, we will do our best to accommodate the wishes of our school community. Notes have gone home to families this afternoon regarding this process. Please contact the office if you did not receive one.
Congratulations to our newly elected house leaders for 2020:
STANYER 2020 💛
Senior School House Leaders
Lauren White & Liam Smith (absent)
Middle School Leaders
Thomas Corso & Anthea Peters
COWELL 2020 ❤️
Senior School House Leaders
River Loizou & Emma Nolan
Middle School Leaders
Amelia Packer & Max Lebner
FARRER 2020 💙
Senior School House Leaders
Oscar McKay & Grace Stillard
Middle School House Leaders
Xavier Fox & Naur Aladeli
PARKES 2020 💚
Senior School House Leaders
Alexandra Trives & Ali Al Mousawy
Middle School House Leaders
Ava Vodusek & Ned Bugge
School Captains 2020
Cobram Anglican Grammar School are also delighted to share our newly elected school captains for 2020:
SCHOOL CAPTAINS
Sian Carlo Ditchon & Jesy Bright
VICE CAPTAINS
Cooper Trembath & Emily Eddy
ANGLICAN IDENTIY LEADER
Kitana Mutimer
These students, together with our Senior & Middle School House Leaders spent last Wednesday at the GRIP Student Leadership Conference, which concentrates specifically on training student leaders for their role as SCHOOL LEADERS.
Congratulations and well done to you all #cags2020
Our Junior School House Leaders will be confirmed and announced next week, to round out our full leadership lineup for next year.
CONGRATULATIONS Mrs Melonie Smith
Last Friday Night, our very own Mrs Smith was awarded the Australian Maths Trust Inspiring Teacher Award at a ceremony at Wesley College in Melbourne.
The AMT Teacher Award recognises an outstanding contribution in the teaching of mathematics/algorithmics within the Australian school community.
The nomination was initiated by Year 8 CAGS student, Cadence Pang. Thank you to Cadence for sharing Mrs Smith's passion for maths and her ability to inspire her students to reach their potential something our school is so fortunate to relish every day.
CONGRATULATIONS Mrs Smith!
"Mrs Melonie Smith is probably the greatest math teacher I have ever had. Many people think that math is a boring subject, but Mrs Smith makes it fun. Every math class is filled with wicked jokes (emphasis on wicked), hilarious stories and comical examples that will capture the attention of all students and help them understand complicated problems. I always look forward to Mrs Smith’s classes. Even though Mrs Smith is very busy, she always finds extra time to help students. In addition to the many extra-curricular and curricular activities she conducts, Mrs Smith puts aside an enormous amount of time and effort to help her pupils, especially the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) students. She browsed for multiple advanced worksheets to prepare us for the competition. She has sought out past year papers, to give us a feel of the problems. During Monday and Wednesday afternoons, she stays at school to help the AMC students learn and work out equations that help us with the competition. Mrs Smith is a very entertaining and dedicated teacher, who has made significant impacts to many of her student’s lives. I’m grateful for having such an outstanding teacher in my life."
LIDS FOR KIDS
The "Lids 4 Kids" movement has saved millions of plastic lids from landfill. These are then passed onto a Melbourne-based charity Envision Hands, which makes artificial limbs for children.
There are now almost 7,000 collection points around the country, and 36 groups helping process the donations.
EDGAR Insurance Brokers are the local collection point in our region and CAGS now have buckets both outside the office and at the canteen thanks to Jane Overeem who has kindly organised this on behalf of the school!
Be sure to save your lids and drop them into our buckets so we can hand over to the team at Edgar's in the coming weeks for such a great cause!
For more information check out the link below:
https://envision.org.au/envision-hands/
Foundation (Prep) Orientation 2020
We welcomed our Foundation (Prep) parents at our Prep Information Evening earlier this month! We have an exciting 4 weeks of transition days coming up for our new students, and had a wonderful first morning last week where our very special guests enjoyed time in their new classroom with their new classmates in preparation for term 1 next year...
Additional FOUNDATION Transition Days coming up are:
Tuesday 19th November, Morning Session
Tuesday 26th Novemver, Half Day Session
Tuesday 3rd December, Full Day Session
For a copy of our 2020 Foundation (Prep) Information Booklet please email 📧 communications@cags.vic.edu.au
First Aid in Schools || P-6
Thanks to Di from FIRST AID IN SCHOOLS who presented to our P-6 classes. They practiced pretending to ring 000, asking for police, ambulance or fire brigade and the dialogue involved if this was real life. The students practiced a scenario activity where they came across an accident where a friend had a fall from a bike and was unconscious.
Junior School Assembly
Our most recent JUNIOR SCHOOL ASSEMBLY saw 4 Shining Stars from each class awarded. Even a surprise one for Mrs Swoffer for her Badminton success last weekend & of course all of Mr O's Sports Awards presented to an abundance of worthy recipients across our Junior School! Thank you once again for the amazing support from parents, who week after week make our assemblies bigger and better each time!
Recipients for 4/11/2019 were:
Murray Broderick, Cedric Pang, Oliver Sutton, Xavier Franklin, Ben Bristol, Max Vodusek, Jaidyn White, Ellie Nye, Fin Donald, Isabelle Radford, Josh Lyons, Beau Milne, Archie Paterson, William Waser, Isabelle Haberfield, Grace Grant, Claire Cleese, Blake Davidson-Miles, Ellie Miller, Ava Demaio, Lachlan Pardy, Koby Mitchell, Ruby Tillman, Emily Stone, Madison Simpson, Matilda Stirling, Alira Mustica, Hunter Eldridge, Sebastian Santoro, Jack Watkins, Bronte Bate, Heidi Guthrie, Noah Morgan-Trease
CONGRATULATIONS || DUNGALA KAIELA WRITING AWARDS
Jett Robbins - Youth Language Winner
Mrs Post - Open Story Winner
River Loizou - Commended in Youth Story
River Loizou - 2nd Youth Poem
Harlin Robbins - Commended in Junior Language
Kadeyn Duggan entered a junior story and Lyra Robbins entered junior poem who both received a congratulations certificate. Well done to you all!!
Year 7 Orientation || 2020
Last Friday we welcomed some new students to school who together with our year 6's enjoyed some class time & activities doing a quiz with Mr Kennedy and in the science lab with Mrs White in readiness for year 7 next year.
We will look forward to our second year 7 transition morning next Friday which will include a BBQ lunch, followed by the whole school full day orientation on Tuesday 3rd of December.
