ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 15/05/2013

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 3 What a wonderful day we had for our annual Mother’s

Day Fete. The sun was shining, the food was delicious,

the kids were having fun and everyone was smiling. On

behalf of the staff and students I would like to thank

all the wonderful people who attended the Armidale

City Fete last Saturday. The Fete was a huge success.

Although we do not yet have a final amount that was

raised we are expecting it to be similar to previous

years. We will announce the total as soon as we have a

better idea.

A very special thank you to the fete coordinators –

Leanne Cooper and Katrina Llewellyn and the

numerous parents who supported them at meetings,

collecting prizes, and by running stalls and activities.

I would also like to pay tribute to the many students

and staff who helped out at the fete - your service

was invaluable. The K-2 dancers were wonderful and

it was great to see so many older students, parents

and grandparents get into the swing of the fete and

join the dancers. Pete Stanley and his crew once

again provided great entertainment. Pete has

promised to be back next year bigger and better than

ever.

Our school is indeed very fortunate to have such a

dedicated parent community who work together

alongside staff and the wider community to ensure

our school is well equipped and a happy place to be. I

am very proud to be relieving principal of a school

where the culture of respect and caring shows

through in everything we do.

I would also like to thank the many, many sponsors

who donated prizes and gifts for the fete. Without

their enormous help the fete would not enjoy the

success it does.

NAPLAN

This week the students of Years 3 and 5 are sitting

the NAPLAN tests. The results will be available

somewhere around August. The data that the school

receives is invaluable in assisting us to plan our

curriculum delivery into the future and is the basis

for targets in our Annual School Report.

School Attendance

This Friday, the Home School Liaison Officer (HSLO)

will be visiting our school to conduct the termly check

of class rolls and student attendance. The role of the

HSLO officer is to work with schools, students and

parents to ensure all students are attending school

regularly. From time to time, the HSLO officer will

contact parents if a student’s absences are

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Relieving Principal: Mrs Cherrie Paterson School Captains: Kate Jones, Jesse Streeting

School Executive: Mrs Cherrie Paterson, Mrs Leonie MacGregor,

Mr Tim Bartlett-Taylor, Mrs Kylie Woods

CALENDAR 14-16.05.13 Naplan Testing

22.05.13 Maths Olympiad

23.05.13 Computer Competition

27.05.13 Multi-Cultural Public Speaking

30.05.13 Zone Cross Country

27.05-7.06.13 Primary Research Project

06.06.13 Science Competition

07.06.13 Tournament of Minds Day

12.06.13 Maths Olympiad

14.06.13 North West Cross Country

20.06.13 Combined Orchestra - BVPS

20.06.13 Writing and Spelling Competitions

26.06.13 A Little Night Music

28.06.13 Last Day of Term 2

FETE ‘WASH UP’ MEETING

TONIGHT

7.30PM

IN THE LIBRARY

RAFFLE WINNERS Load of wood (donated by New

England Building Recyclers)

Won by D Cook

Fine wine & chocolates

Won by H Simpson

Pamper Pack (donated by

Reflections Hair Studio)

Won by T Patton

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COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

Family Relationship Centre

Exchange Students Families needed

NERAM

Tennis Lessons

NECOM

Montessori Preschool Information

Bridge Education Support Services

Tutoring

Violin Teacher

Armidale Fire Station Open Day Mini

Basketball

Variety Bash

Out of School Hours Care

For Sale - Hand printed Serviettes

For Sale - Pure Bred Jack Russell Pup

If you would like more information on these events please

call into our office and check out our Community

Noticeboard.

significant or if students have a high rate of partial

absences due to late arrival at school each morning.

Students with significant absences can be placed on a

monitoring program to ensure they attend school each

day. It is the responsibility of parents to ensure

children attend school daily from 9.10am to 3.10 each

day. Parents are also required to supply an explanation

for all student absences. Parents are able to access an

absentee note from our website or may phone the

school to explain a student’s absence. Partial absences

also require an explanation and parents are required to

bring their child to the office for a late note if they

are not at school by bell time in the morning.

2013 Eisteddfod Events

This year our school has entered the Senior Choir and

the K-2 Choir in the Eisteddfod. The events involving

our students are on Tuesday 28 May for the K-2 Choir

and Wednesday 29 May for the Senior Choir. The K-2

Choir will perform at 9.45am at Lazenby Hall at the

UNE and the Senior Choir will perform at 9.00am at

Lazenby on the Wednesday. Parents are invited to come

along and watch the events. Further details will be sent

home next week outlining the organisation for each

event.

Needed urgently

The school piano is in desperate need of tuning. If any

parent has knowledge of a piano tuner who is willing to

donate their services we would be most grateful.

Sporting success

Congratulations to Henry Sindel and Mangarchot

Maluach who attended the national trials for basketball

last week in Sydney. Both boys performed well and

Mangarchot, who has only recently joined our school,

was successful in securing a position in the National

team and will now compete in Perth in August.

Congratulations also to the boy’s rugby union team who

played in the trials last Friday. Henry Sindel, Toby

Cooper, Howard Broadbent and Oliver Broadbent

were successful in moving to the next level which is the

Zone Trials which will be held next Friday.

Reminder – School Council meeting next Monday 24 May

at 7.00pm.

THE FETE EVALUATION FORM

IS ATTACHED TO

THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER

OUR FETE COMMITTEE WOULD LOVE

EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS EVALUATION

AND RETURN TO SCHOOL BY NEXT

WEDNESDAY.

Found at the Fete – a striped children’s wallet and a

small brown children’s clutch purse. These items are

available at the front office.

Cherrie Paterson

Relieving Principal

2013 - Clothing Pool Winter Uniform Orders The clothing pool is currently taking orders for raincoats and winter trousers. The raincoats have a polar

fleece lining. The girls' pants are a warmer thicker style and excellent quality. A sample of each garment will

be on display at the front office. Please fill out the order form below and return with your exact payment to

the front office. Orders will be taken until Friday 24 May. Thank you.

Name & class

Raincoats

Sizes 4 -16

@ $32

Boys double knee

pants

Sizes 4-18 @ $24

Boys Cargo pants

Sizes 4-14 @$26

Sizes 16-18 @$30

Girls bootleg navy

pants

Sizes 4-14@ $30

Sizes 16–18 @ $33

Total

amount

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What an excellent session of You-Can-Do-It we had yesterday!! It is the first time we have had it for the year and the new Year Six group leaders were so excited to finally get their groups. The system has changed slightly this year: instead of having the children from previous You-Can-Do-It groups in the same groups, the teachers have picked entirely new bunches of children. Yesterday’s lesson was about bullying and what the 4 types are - body, mind, voice and group. The children were taught how to identify bullying and how to deal with it. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and can’t wait for the next lesson!

By Annie Worthing Yesterday the Year 6 students ran

their first ‘Getting Along’ group.

Each Year 6 student worked

through the first session of an

Anti-bullying program with their

team members. The focus of the

lesson was to define bullying. Each

group completed a series of games

and activities which were aimed at

building relationships and help to

get to know each other. When

walking around the school, it was

great to see all children interacting

and engaging in conversation and

laughter. A huge thank you to Mrs

MacGregor for her organisation of

the lessons and to the Year 6

teachers for helping each

Year 6 student prepare for

the session. The next

session for the peer

leaders will be in Week 5.

Yesterday was our first peer support/You Can DO It! (YCDI) Program. The program was about learning to get along and to learn about bullying. We were told to let the kids explain to

their leaders (Year 6) about what bullying is about. My group was very good and they revised about three different ways of bullying, but they accidently left one out so I helped them remember it. Some Year Six’s were either sick or were away, so some of the Year Five’s stepped up to take their spot but if there wasn’t a Year Five student another leader would have to stand up and take two groups like me, which I really enjoyed even though I was a bit nervous at the start.

By Flynn Christie

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Fete Evaluation

What a great atmosphere we had at this year’s fete! Now it’s all over we would love to hear what everyone

thought of this year’s fete. We need to know what you liked, what you didn’t like and what can be done

differently. This feedback is essential for improving our fete year after year, so please take a little time to

let us know.

Tell us about stalls, displays, entertainment – what was good and what was not so good.

Let us know about the drop off of goods, stage prize/gift allocations and the general organisation of the fete.

Timing of when things went out (eg raffle tickets, posters, lucky dip bags, beautiful bags, cake trays, meetings

etc)

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Did you get enough information and about what was happening at the fete (manure drive, meetings, drop off of

goods etc)

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Communication between P&C, Staff and families

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The allocation of house points for contributions. Is this still working? Is there any other way we can reward

students for contributing to our fete?

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Set up and pack up (did everything get done quickly enough?)

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Entertainment and displays (Pete Stanley and Crew, K-2 Performance, Antique Machinery

club tractor rides, Pet Show, merry-go-round and jumping castle)

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Stalls/Games – what did you love, like and had fun with, but also what can be done differently or added to our

stall list

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___________________________ Food Stalls – What was yummy and what else would you like to see? Were costs appropriate? Was there enough

choice?

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Any additional advice or suggestions:

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This can be anonymous if you wish; we just want to hear what everyone has to say so that our fete can get bigger

and better each year.

Thank you to everyone that made our fete possible. It was an amazing team effort, which will reflect in the

resources we will be able to provide for our wonderful children.

Regards

The Armidale City Public School

Fete Committee

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