ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 4 22/06/2016

A HUGE THANK YOU TO

DONUT KING

FOR

DONATING THE DONUTS

FOR

THE DONUT MORNING TEA

5/6T CLASS NEWS

Over the past couple of weeks 5/6T have been

composing and publishing short stories. These

stories all involved animal characters and included

a moral story about getting along or persistence.

The students of 5/6T have then shared their

published work with all of the Stage One classes.

Both 5/6T and the Stage One classes are to be

commended for the manner in which they

approached this task and all students have

expressed their enjoyment for working with each

other.

5/6T have recently read 'Sadako' and along with

the other Stage Three classes who read the book,

are trying to make 1000 paper cranes. These

cranes are being displayed in the hallway.

Congratulations to all the students who

participated in the Athletics Field Events Carnival

last week. Unfortunately we have had to postpone

our track carnival due to inclement weather.

Fingers crossed for a nice day next Thursday!

Mr Brad Townsend

Class Teacher

Sleep

Hygiene 1. Exercise in the day.

2. Keep to a regular bed

time - ideally the same

at the weekends and

holidays.

3. Avoid activities that might be barrier to sleep.

a. Drinking a lot of caffeine or later in the day (tea,

coffee, coke, etc.)

b. Screen time (laptops, desktops, smart phones and

tablets) one hour before bedtime.

4. Have a nighttime routine of activities that are

comforting, relaxing, and familiar.

Wanted

Old Unwanted Lego if you have any

Lego that you no longer need please send it into

Mr McGrath

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■ Address: 142-152 Faulkner St, Armidale NSW 2350

■ Phone: 02 6772 3420 ■ Fax: 02 6771 2262

■ Email: armidalec-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au ■ Website: www.armidalec-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

The Blue and White Armidale City Public

School

the heart of Armidale

Quality teaching since 1861

22 June 2016

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—9 Well done to our students who participated in the

Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking held last week in

Inverell. Sam, Anna, Rubi and Peter all presented

outstanding prepared and impromptu speeches -

congratulations to them all on their efforts. Sam was

successful in winning the junior section and will represent

the Northern Tablelands at the Regional Final.

Last week we had a number of students attend North West

PSSA Cross Country at Coolah. Well done to all students

who attended. Congratulations to Chiyo who won her event

and will now be representing North West PSSA at State

Cross Country next term. Well done also to students who

represented Armidale District PSSA at touch football trials

last week. Congratulations to Shaun and Jake on their

selection in the North West team.

Unfortunately our Athletics Carnival which was to be held

today has been postponed due to inclement weather. The

carnival will now be on next Thursday 30 June at Armidale

High School for students from Kindergarten to Year 6.

This is the first time all students across the school have

been participants in the day.

Thank you to all parents who support our school in a positive

and encouraging manner in a variety of ways. The

partnership between families and school is vital to the

success of all our students.

This week has been trying due to the unpleasant weather;

however, all students have been positive in all they are

doing despite not being able to get outside to play – thank

you boys and girls for your great attitudes.

Please feel free to send me an email at any time on the

address below. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone.

Mr Matt Hobbs Principal

matthew.hobbs@det.nsw.edu.au

23.06.16 K-2 Responsible Pet Program

28.06.16 2pm K-6 Assembly

30.06.16 Athletics Track Events Carnival

@AHS

01.07.16 Last Day of Term 2

18.07.16 First Day of Term 3 for Teachers

19.07.16 First Day of Term 3 for Students

18-21.10.16 Lake Keepit Excursion - Year 4

7-11.11.16 Stage 3 Excursion to Newcastle

22-27.11.16 Schools Spectacular Excursion

Can you bake something for our election day

cake stall?

We’ll need lots of donations of home baked goods

delivered to the school next Friday or on Saturday

morning. If you can volunteer an hour or two to help

sell cakes (or work on the BBQ) please let Sue know

on 0406 166 772.

Check out our ads for the Election day BBQ at

democracysausage.org and

electionsausagesizzle.com.au and encourage you

friends and family to come and support us!

Do you have a great idea for a P&C activity?

We try to organise both community building and

fundraising events. Let us know your ideas by

sending an email to sue.gooley@gmail.com and we’ll

discuss it at our next meeting on Wednesday 3

August at 6:30pm in the Library.

Don’t forget that you can still purchase school

beanies and scarves from the uniform pool. There

are also lots of pre-loved jumpers for $3 each if you

need a couple of spares. The Uniform Pool is open

Friday mornings from 8:45am—9:30am.

P&C NEWS

NO CANTEEN

WEEK 10

The canteen will not be

open in the final week of

this term.

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BRONZE AWARDS KB Sofia Samuel

Eloise Kahle

Kevin

KR Bitania

1/2KS Hollie Oshada

Peyton

3/4S Maya Montana

3/4H Zoie

5/6T Aaron Amy

LIBRARY NEWS Multicultural Perspectives in Public Speaking

Ross Hill Public School

Congratulations to Anna and Sam who represented our

school in the Years 3 and 4 section of the Multicultural

Perspectives in Public Speaking. They both did a fantastic

job in their prepared speech and the enormously difficult

impromptu speech. Their topic for the impromptu was “It’s

scary”. The topic was so scary that a couple of students

forgot what to say and one very brave student overcame a

slight panic attack and tears to come back and triumph by

delivering a rousing presentation.

Congratulations go to Sam who’s impromptu was the

deciding influence for the adjudicator to award him the

winner. Sam will now represent the New England area at

the next round of the Multicultural Perspectives Public

Speaking Competition.

Congratulations to Rubi and Peter for representing our

school in the Years 5 and 6 section. There were some very

passionate and animated presentations given by students

from areas such as Yetman, Moree, Gum Flats and North

Star (up near Goondiwindi).

The standard was extremely high and Rubi and Peter did a

magnificent job in both rounds of their speeches. The topic

for the 5/6 impromptu was ‘The Great Outdoors’.

There were some very interesting interpretations of the

topic.

All four students were excellent ambassadors for our

school. I was extremely proud of Anna, Sam, Rubi and

Peter. They all used everything they had been told and had

learnt in their preparation for the competition.

Yrs 5&6 Premier’s Debating Challenge Thank you to Mr Ken Docksey for coming to adjudicate for

the debates we had on Thursday 9 June. It was really lovely

to see him and for our students to get support and

feedback from his experience.

The Golden Eagles, made up of Fynn, Alix, Ryan and Maya

debated Uralla Central School. The debate was exciting and

our Armidale City Public School team won.

The Blue Stars, made up of Grace, Jessica, Rubi and

Delphi debated Bundarra Central School. Our girls had the

affirmative argument and the debate was convoluted and

extremely close. Congratulations went to Bundarra Central

School.

All of our debaters learnt lots and lots from the day

(including the coach). We will be dissecting how we can

improve and reflecting on our experiences.

Other students from our squad will have the opportunity to

feel the thrill of the argument soon.

Our next debates will be against the two Ben Venue teams

in Term 3.

Wish us all the best.

BOOKCLUB Issue 4 orders have been placed, on the 18 June 2016. I am

hoping that the orders will arrive early next week – well

before our holiday break.

Thank you,

Mrs Kate McGrath

KINDER BLUE CLASS NEWS It has been another very busy term for Kindergarten Green!

We have been learning all about word families and have been

learning lots of new sight words to help us with our reading

and writing. We are so excited to be writing independently

in our very own writing books. We have been listening to

many wonderful stories this term! Our favourites have been

‘My Dad the Wrestler’ by Matt Zurbo and ‘Puffling’ by

Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas. We have also been learning

lots of fabulous things in Maths, such as subtraction and

fractions! We made collage fairy bread slices and real fairy

bread slices, divided them in half and ‘shared’ them with a

friend! We have had lots of fun at the ‘Be Skilled, Be Fit’

Olympics Day and we have enjoyed having our work

experience student, Olivia, spending time with us in our

classroom. We are looking forward to the school holidays.

We can’t believe that we are nearly halfway through

Kindergarten!!

Mrs Tina Rubie

CLASS TEACHER