Busy Education Week for Cessnock Community of Great Public Schools

Education Week is a major event on the NSW public schools calendar and this year’s theme is ‘Celebrating Local Heroes’. 

The week will be highlighted by the annual Education Week Awards Ceremony to be held at Mount View High School from 4pm on Wednesday July 29, where awards will be presented for outstanding contributions and achievements by students, staff, community helpers and school programs. 

- Abermain Public School will be opening their classrooms to families and friends on Thursday from 12.30-1.30pm, with games and afternoon tea from 1.30-2pm and an Education Week assembly from 2.15-3.15pm.

- Cessnock Public School will hold their annual times tables competition on Monday and a NAIDOC ceremony on Wednesday that includes the incredible Deadly Dancers and art lessons conducted by Les Elvin.

- Cessnock East will host an open day during Education Week. Parents have been notified through school app and newsletter. The whole school is studying fairy tales to medieval times and the interior of the school has been transformed into a castle. Those brave enough to enter kindergarten must do so by trip trapping over the trolls bridge.

- Cessnock West has a busy week planned. On Monday the school will hold their annual NAIDOC celebration with an Aboriginal cultural activities day. On Wednesday there will be open classrooms from 10am. On Thursday the debating team will be in action against Kearsley PS and there will be a visit from Cessnock Library for the stage two and three students. 

- Congewai Public School will be demonstrating their morning programs to families on Friday and are doing comparisons of when parents and grandparents were at school. 

- Ellalong Public School will be hosting Yoga classes for students on Thursday. There will also be open classrooms on Friday from 2-2.30pm with parents invited to visit their children’s classrooms for student-guided tour and activities.

- Kearsley Public School is having an Education week assembly on Friday followed by open classrooms, a debating demonstration and a picnic lunch. The P&C is also running a cake stall.

- Kitchener’s celebrations will be held on Thursday. This will be combined with book week due to rehearsals for the whole school musical at the end of this term. From 9.30am there will be open classrooms. At 11.15am there will be a picnic lunch in the school grounds followed by a book character parade and assembly at midday. A Book Fair will also be running throughout the week with parents able to visit and purchase in the morning or afternoon.

- Students from Laguna will be participating in an excursion to Newcastle on Tuesday to see a performance of Children’s Author Paul Jennings’s ‘26 Storey Treehouse’ at the Civic Theatre. On Friday students will be visiting the Finchley Aboriginal Map site as part of NAIDOC Week celebrations.

- Millfield Public School students in years 4-6 will be participating in an excursion to the Civic Theatre to see a performance of Paul Jennings’s ‘26 Storey Treehouse’. On Thursday Healthy Harold will be on site to provide students with some positive life skills sessions.

- Nulkaba Public School will be holding a special event on Tuesday from 9.30-11.30, with some school performances followed by open invitation to classrooms and morning tea.

- Paxton Public School will be holding their annual around the world day on Wednesday with of a range of multicultural activities. There will be open classrooms and parents are invited for lunch.

- Some of the highlights for Cessnock High over the next few weeks will be English/HSIE (Human Science and its Environment) day held in conjunction with partner primary schools and a Maths/Science Challenge. There will also be teams invited from partner primary schools to take part in this week long event. The showcase of 2015 the MADD (Music, Art, Drama, Dance) night will take place on August 12.

- Bellbird Public School is having an open day on Friday with an arrangement of educational activities and demonstration lessons for the morning followed by lunch with the students.