Grandparents Day is an important celebration allowing our students to foster greater understanding across all generations and awareness of the value of grandparents and other people who take on the role of a grandparent.

Each year Guyra Central School recognise and celebrate the contribution of grandparents, grand-friends, step-grandparents, kin carers, and all people who take on the role of a grandparent in their family and local community with our Grandparents Day Assembly and morning tea. Our Primary students entertained all of our Grandparents Day guests with class performances, a photo booth and hosted a morning tea for our very special guests.

Thank you to Miss Jessica Davidson and Ms Sarah Farmer for organising our 2019 Grantparents Day Celebrations.

Primary Assembly - Week 7

Assistant Principal Awards

Mackenzie Tooth - Always showing pride, respect and responsibility.

Amelia Hartas-Berry - Always showing pride, respect and responsibility.

Lincoln Brown - Consistently demonstrating Pride, Respect and Responsibility.

Kyara Alefosio - Consistently demonstrating core values of Pride, Respect and Responsibility.

Merit Certificates

Stage 3 Purple

Tommy Ryan - Class award for always being a supportive member in group and paired activities.

Gabrielle Hartas-Berry - Class award for her beautiful drawings to illustrate her book inspired by Shaun Tan's "Rules of Summer".

Tyler Meehan - Class award for his amazingly creative artworks to illustrate his picture book, inspired by Shaun Tan's "Rules of Summer".

Samuel Surawski - Class award for his well chosen idioms to create his picture book inspired by Shaun Tan's "Rules of Summer".

Hayden Bezzant - Class award for being an active participant during Maths lessons.

Riley McLeod - Class award for his wonderful illustrations to support his picture book inspired by Shaun Tan's "Rules of Summer".

Kate Ward - Class award for a beautiful picture book inspired by Shaun Tan's "Rules of Summer".

Licoln Brown - Class award for a beautifully written description of his grandfather.

Stage 3 Indigo

Darcey Heagney - Participating enthusiastically in his learning on the federation of Australia.

Leigha McElroy - Excellent support of her partner while preparing for their interview of an historical figure in Australian politics.

Sophie Mitchell - A great effort with her descriptive writing this term.

Jason Mowbray - A fantastic effort speaking confidently in front of the class as part of his historical interview.

Aukustino Alefosio - Improving his descriptive writing by using interesting imagery in his work.

Hayley Clark - Great work identifying the features of 3-Dimensional objects.

Pacie Mulligan - Improving her descriptive writing by using interesting word choices to describe.

Angus Dullaway - Improved effort with problem solving in multiplication.

Stage 2 Navy

Harley Hammond - Increased focus in Mathematics - number activities.

Lily Rolff-Improved subitising in Mathematics.

Billy Lockyer - Improved comprehension in literacy.

Gwenissha Landsborough- Being an engaged learner specifically in literacy and history.

Manatu Ashman - Excellent participation and significant improvement in the Macqlit program.

Anja McIlwain - Using multiplicative thinking in Mathematics.

Eli McGinty - demonstrating effective predicting strategies in literacy.

Stage 2 Scarlet

Matthew Roberts - Improved focus in all areas of his learning.

Brooke Clark - Improved focus in all areas of his learning.

Mateo Brazier - Completing an outstanding speech on Kakadu.

Emily-Jayne Graham - Showing confidence and completing a detailed speech on Kakadu.

Keegan Coleman - Beautiful singing in choir with Miss McDonald.

Zander Lloyd - Working independently and completing his Science work on different materials to a high standard.

Tynan Bull - Positive participation and engagement during choir with Miss McDonald.

Savannah Lansley-Irving - Improved confidence when reading in front of the class.

Stage 1 Yellow

Rosie Gordon -For producing detailed and fantastic artworks.

Zac Raper - For always getting on with the task.

Joshua Tighe - For taking responsibility for his learning.

Flyn Byers - For a fantastic attitude in class.

Ava Williams - For always giving Read it, Talk it Write it your best shot.

Max Lockyer - For applying minilit knowledge to his writing.

Stage 1 Green

Jack Watters - For his wonderful contributions and discussions around his mathematical thinking.

Thomas Ward - For his improved revising and editing when writing.

Tommy-Ray Jones - For his improved spelling strategies and focus during writing.

Sammy-Rose Dowden- For her improvement in writing.

Hayley Jones- For her improved reading strategies.

Lachie Ellis-Colley - For his improved effort and focus in reading.

Brax Hutton - For his great mathematical thinking and contributions to maths discussions.

Early Stage 1 Rainbow

Hamish Brown - Improved sight word recognition.

Kodah McKellar - Trying hard during L3 rotatations.

Sophie Rumbel - Being a helpful and supportive member of our class.

Zachery Fereday - Persistence and improvement when reading.

Lilly Colley - Developing good reading strategies.

Annaka Tyler-Hopkins - Excellent start at Guyra Central School.

Guess Who????

Our Guess Who???? award is awarded weekly too a student who consistently displays Pride, Respect and Responsibility in their learning and in our school community and presented each week during our Primary Monday morning assemblies.

CHSSA STATE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

After an extremely successful day at the North West Regional Athletics Trials held earlier this term, twelve of our secondary students successfully qualified to attend the CHSSA State Athletics Carnival held at Olympic Park on Wednesday 4th, Thursday 5th and Friday 5th of September 2019. It is an amazing opportunity and experience for our students to compete at state level against some of the top athletes across the state.

Many of our attending students achieved personal best records during the carnival and are to be congratulated for their efforts and their achievements. Our students represented our school with pride and are to be commended for their sportsmanship and commitment to athletics in 2019.

The following students qualified to compete in the following events:

Oscar Atkin - 100m, 200m and 13 Relay

Akashia Brazier - 13 Relay

Shanae Bull - 13 Relay

Riley Campbell - 200m, 13 Relay

Jaymie Donnelly - 13 Relay

Archie Dowden - 100m, Relay

Harrison Dowden - 400m

Brooke Grills - 13 Relay

Tahmani Landsborough - 200m, 800m, Long Jump

Ellie Mitchell - Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump

Cooper Wilson - 13 Relay, Shotput, Discus

Jake Wilson - 400m and Long Jump

Guyra Central School would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Oscar Atkin, Cooper Wilson, Riley Campbell and Archie Dowden who now hold the North West, 13s 4x100m relay record after their 53.09s performance at the Regional North West Trials.

Thank you to Mrs Linley Ryan and Mrs Nadine Youman for co-ordinating secondary athletics for 2019 and assisting our students in every way possible to ensure their success.

North West Primary Regional Athletics Carnival

On Friday 13th September 2019, a team of 10 of our primary students travelled to Tamworth to compete in the PSSA Regional Athletic trials. Each of our student represented our school with great pride with many achieving personal best results throughout the day.

Respectively, we would like to acknowledge Mr Stephen Alettsee for his co-ordination of athletics for 2019 and express our thanks to all of the parents who transported our students to both the Armidale zone athletics carnival and Regional zone athletics carnival.

The Great Amazing Race - Primary PBL Rewards Session

Our school was full of excitement on Friday 20th September 2019 for our primary end of term rewards session 'The Great Amazing Race'. Students were dispersed into a number of teams and raced around various areas of our school completing fun activities.

Congratulations to all of our students who participated in the PBL rewards session and have displayed Pride, Respect and Responsibility during Term 3.

Respectively, Guyra Central School would like to express our thanks to all of our primary staff for hosting an 'amazing' rewards session for our students.

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