Welcome Early Stage 1 Rainbow

Our next generation of budding learners have commenced their educational journey.

Mrs Sjaan Mitchell (Classroom Teacher) is pleased with Early Stage 1 Rainbow's positive start, engaging well with their peers and teachers.

'Kindergarten Rainbow have settled into school and classroom routines extremely well. They have enjoyed making new friends and they are all learning so many new things everyday!' - Mrs Sjaan Mitchell (Classroom Teacher)

Guyra Central School look forward to sharing Early Stage 1 Rainbows journey throughout the year.

Welcome to our Transition Students

A message from Mrs Sarah Farmer (Transition Teacher):

I would like to warmly welcome our transition students to Guyra Central School. To say we have had a great start would be an understatement. We have had an amazing start to the program with the students thoroughly engaged and willing to participate in all activities. We are very lucky to have access to the Sensory Learning Area each week as our own space to play and it is also working well as a drop-off and pick up point. A huge thank you to our parents and carers for making this process as smooth as possible.

Each week students are working on activities that will be placed in a scrapbook to take home at the end of the term/semester. The students have been enjoying establishing relationships with the others in the class and working on different play-based activities to build fine and gross motor skills.

If you have any questions or would like to touch base at any time please feel free to leave a message with the front office staff and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Otherwise I am more than happy to have a chat during drop off and pick up time.

If youwere at the show last weekend I hope you had a chance to check out our class mural that was on display in the pavilion.

I look forward to a wonderful year together.

Mrs Sarah Farmer

Year 7 off to a flying start........

On Tuesday 1st February a group of nervously excited individuals had their first day in Year seven at Guyra Central School.

All students were given a diary, a map, a timetable, a staff directory and a Yonder pouch for their mobile phone. Each item was explained to the students.

The Diaries are to be used each day to record important information such as homework

and assignments and also contain information on time management, goal setting and other helpful things to improve their skills as learners.

The map and timetable were closely examined and most students were at least slightly confident they would be able to use them to find their way, one student did comment later in the day he had been lost 301 times. I am sure this situation has improved as the days have passed.

Yonder pouches are for students to lock their phones in if they bring them to school, if students do not have a phone they still need to have the pouches in their bag each day for inspection. If students lose or damage the pouch there will be a $10 replacement fee.

From all reports students are enjoying all the new experiences being in High School is bringing them including Peer support sessions where they meet with members of year 11 who are helping them adjust to the new routines and expectations of High School.

If parents of year seven students have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to contact the school.

Miss Tracey Condrick

Year Advisor

Aurora Opportunity Virtual Classroom Program

Dean Rumbel and Thomas Ward have been selected to join other Rural and Remote students, from across NSW, in the Year 5 Aurora Opportunity Virtual Classroom. Aurora provides a mix of online and residential school classes. Students connect with their classmates in timetabled lessons through a virtual learning environment, which comprises web conferencing software, a learning management system, and a range of cutting edge online communication and collaboration tools.

The school also operates one of the state's first fully digital school libraries.

Good luck and thank you to all the students who put their hand up for this great opportunity.

Guyra Central School has partnered with Aurora College for a few years now and we currently have Colton Taylor (Year 7) and Dante Lloyd (Year 11) undertaking a blended pathway with Guyra/Aurora College.

2022 Calendar for Cultural Diversity

The 2022 Calendar for Cultural Diversity promotes intercultural understanding, cultural and linguistic diversity, community harmony and social inclusion across NSW public schools and their communities. The 2022 Calendar for Cultural Diversity PDF is available from schools and education offices.

Guyra Central School student Leigha McElroy's design, My Yorta Yorta, features as the artwork for the month of July. This achievement has also been acknowledged by our local State MP, Adam Marshall, in a recent statement he made to the NSW Legislative Assembly.

Again, congratulations Leigha, it's great to see your artwork in print!

Armajun Medical Centre and Brien Holden Vision Institute Aboriginal Program NSW Eye Clinic

On Wednesday the 9th of February ATSI students attended an Eye Clinic at the Guyra

Health Centre that Armajun Medical Centre and Brian Holden Vision Institute Aboriginal Program NSW hosted. All students who attended all had perfect vision. GCS will be attending the next eye clinic coming up in the next couple of months. We would like to thank Nellie Blair from Armajun medical Centre for organising the day.

Eunice Blair

AEO

Annual Secondary Swimming Carnival

Our secondary swimming carnival was held at the Guyra Swimming Pool on Wednesday 9th February. Events included 50m and 100m freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, including the 50m medley and house and student verses staff relays. It was a beautiful day and perfect swimming weather. Malpas House won the overall competition by a whisker provided by the great costumes students wore, check the boys out here.

Our list of 2022 swimming age champions is list below:

12 Yrs Boys: HUTTON, Will

13 Yrs Girls: KLIENDIENST, Rose

13 Yrs Boys: GALINDO, Adaiah

14 Yrs Girls: BULL, Emily

14 Yrs Boys: HEAGNEY, Darcey

15 Yrs Boys: TIBBS, Jake

16 Yrs Girls: BULL, Maddison

16 Yrs Boys: BRENNAN, Cooper

17+ Yrs Girls: SURAWSKI, Selina

17+ Yrs Boys: LOOKER, Michael

Malpas (Red) 186 pts

Nincoola (Blue) 174 pts

Chandler (Green) 135 pts'

Primary Swimming Carnival

It was another exciting day for our Primary Swimming Carnival which was held at the Guyra Swimming Pool on Thursday 10th February. Our day was a huge success with many students entering many events on a beautiful warm day. Congratulations to each of our students displaying pride respect and responsibility throughout the day.

Qualifying students travelled to Armidale to participate in the Armidale Zone Swimming Carnival on Thursday 17th February, congratulations to these students.

Junior Girl: Sophie Rumble

Junior Boy: Ryan Vidler

11yr Girl: Oakley Brazier

11yr Boy: Beau Wilson and Thomas Bull

Senior Girl: Makayla Galindo

Senior Boy: Eli McGinty

Winning House – Nincoola

Our students started their garden in 2021 and their hard work has paid off..........

Look at what our primary students have grown!

Our Primary Sensory Learning Area Project

Our Primary Quad Learning area continues to be a focus with six beautiful murals set to adorn the walls during 2022. Murals are being created by our students under the guidance of Ms Kay Smith, Artist-in-Residence and Guyra Central School Art Therapist.

Late in Term 4, 2021; Kay Smith commenced our mural project with a workshop with our stage 3 students. These workshops, during 2022 have expanded to include students from Stage 4. During these workshops, students used their creativity to design images reflecting how they see Guyra and our community. Kay has used parts of our students work to design each part of our murals and the first of 6 beautiful murals is just about complete.

It is an exciting project for our students and Kay will continue to work with our students to create our amazing murals during the year.

From the Canteen

Artwork: Stage 2