Afterlee Public School Ph 66333163 Email afterlee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 2 Week 3 Thursday 16/05/2019

Meetings next week THURSDAY/ FRIDAY are meeting days for Principals. More information when I have attended these. Our regular staff will at school to continue on with leaning. Director of Learning Visit On Tuesday 28th May the Director of Learning, Rebecca Lang-don will be visiting Afterlee to ensure that Afterlee PS is being conducted according to Department of Education policies and procedures. I am confident that you will welcome her to our “Team Afterlee”. PBL poles ( Positive Learning Behaviour). In week 6 in conjunction with Kyogle High School who are an integral member of our PBL school team, we will begin our PBL pole painting at Afterlee School. There is a pole painting session on the 7th of June. This will be a symbol of our pro-ject unity and a daily reminder to all students to :

*be safe *be respectful *be a learner *. Regards Robin Wheeler MISSING TARP—Has anyone seen the school’s tarp? It ap-

pears to have gone missing.

BLAST REPORT—Good news!!

Muralist and local Artist Bec O’Meara is transforming our playground into a colourful work of art, with the help of Afterlee’s students. Our bland demountable classroom is in the process of having a facelift into a wonderful collection of Echidnas and Puggles. Each student was heavily involved with the design process. The mural will take about 4 days across the term to complete. It’s a great way to liven up a pretty or-dinary space and to show the kids there’s a career in art. We’re lucky to have someone like Bec in our community, who is so talented to be able to share that with the school and students who clearly embraced her art….it’s very impressive! More good news Bunnings have approved our gardening project and we will be making a start on our sustainable food gardens within the next few weeks…can’t wait for the kids to get their hands dirty. Cheers Miss P

GRIP Student Leadership Conference Last Thursday Mallee and Erin joined with over 250 stu-dents at Venue 1. There were two venues filled with stu-dents from Yamba to Tweed areas, private and public Year 6 students. This conference gave practical and inter-active training on leadership. The main premise is that leadership is about people not position or power. A valu-able lesson to us all. Please find students recounts attached. NAPLAN— This week, Week 3 in all schools across Aus-tralia Year 3,5 7and 9 students in all school types sat the NAPLAN. Our students also did this and tried to the best of their ability and handle the test conditions very well. Well done boys! Trading COLOURSS Day - On next Wednesday Collins Creek PS will be visiting Afterlee for a Book Fair and the annual Simultaneous Storytelling event plus related activ-ities. Planned is also a games component and most im-portant social interaction with COLOURSS students. Par-ents are welcome to join us from 2:15pm to look at the Book Fair and make purchases if they wish. These will on display in the music room. New Carpet—What a luxury! Students are very protective and have instigated a “no shoes” rule, some examples of how this has improved our learning environment are…. Dancing is cushioned and silent!! ….Sharing circles are luxurious….Thank you to all those who helped move cup-board contents out and back in. A mammoth task but sooooo worth it.

Mr Nolan - Sara Storer Songwriters’ Workshop As part of the Professional Development for staff of Public Schools, teachers are required to attend training to continue to learn and grow. Mr Nolan was eager to attend Sara Storer’s workshop for songwriters to improve his understanding and to better share with other teachers and students at APS some of the facets of modern songwriting. The workshop was held at the SCU and surprisingly was attended by only a small crowd but the event was intimate and very informative. Sara’s music is heavily influenced by her country farm upbringing, and she is passionate about family, the environment and the plight of the farmers. She originally trained as a teacher with the intention of teaching in remote aboriginal communities, but her desire to write songs took her in another direction. Sara’s manager of 18 years, Jeff Chandler, grew up in Lismore, played in bands in the 70’s (including bands with Mr Nolan) and established the booking and management company Encore Entertainment. He and his company lifted the professional stature of live music in the Northern Rivers region during the 70’s and 80’s. Along with Sara, Jeff now travels the globe promoting her brand of music as well as that of other industry greats. Sara and Jeff are excited to have plans in place, along with sponsor Woolworths to take music and musical in-struments into remote schools. It is always nice to see artists genuinely interested in giving young ones an op-portunity to better themselves. Sara spoke passionately about writing from the heart about things that matter, and as a result of her genuine approach, she has written great songs, produced and sold many, many albums and won many more industry awards. Mr Nolan recognised how good it is to meet people from humble beginnings who rise to great heights whilst maintaining their modesty and willingness to share. That is why we all work for the education of children after all, isn’t it!

Dates to Remember Week 4—next week

Wednesday—Simultaneous Story time plus Book

Fair at school

KEEP for Year 6 at KHS

Week 6

Life Education Van

Friday—PBL Pole team Painting with KHS students

at school

Week 7

Monday Public Holiday

KEEP for Year 6

Week 9

Tuesday 25th June NAIDOC day at Rukenvale

Friday 28th June COLOURSS Athletics Carnival KHS

oval

Week 10

Friday 5th July Last day of Term 2

Term 3

Tuesday 23rd July—Students return

Student Recounts Whoosh! as a cold flash of wind went past when I opened the door to get into Erin's car at 7.45am! It was so early. When we got to town we switched cars and drove into Lismore for a leadership conference. So I thought it was going to be boring but it was AMAZING!!!!I! They played music so loud that you could hardly hear your-self and one time when we came in everybody in the hall was singing Shotgun. After that I learnt that" ITS ABOUT THE PEOPLE NOT POSITION OR POWER "and the four core traits confidence with humility, others fo-cused, reliability and empathy. And the one I would like to work on is confidence with humility. At the end of the day Erin and I got dropped off at the dance hall and we walked down town to get afternoon tea. Erin got a chocolate eclair and I got a custard tart. Then we walked to see my mum and she gave as chips and lemonade. By Mallee GRIP Leadership conference I was SO worried that I would die of boredom, but after we had arrived at the Lismore City Hall, I was excited to learn new things from the GRIP Leadership team. They had booklets and pens so we could do some writing and activities. I got to go up onto stage and had to do the limbo. Mallee got to go up twice so she could read one of her answers from her booklet and so she could play a quiz game. After that, three students from the audience got to go up with the crew to do a funny role-play. It was an awesome day and I learnt a lot. By Erin

TERM 2 Tuck Shop Roster $9 term or $1/week

Date Week Family

17/5/19 3 Lizzy & Ben

24/5/19 4 Carli & Garry

21/5/19 5 Sandy & Eli

7/6/19 6 Lea & Mark

14/5/19 7 Eve & Gavin

21/5/19 8 Ines & David

28/6/19 9 Athletics Carnival

5/7/19 10 Michelle & Shane

Amazing Bec made this woven basket in just a few minutes from a fallen palm tree flower. Talented!

Old paint clothes– our next BLAST painting day will be

on Monday 27th May. Students have plastic painting

smocks at school however it would be a good idea if

they have an old set of shoes and pants to wear while

we are painting the building. Please bring in on this

day to avoid paint stains on uniforms.

Invitation to parents Come a view books available for purchase on Wednesday 22nd May or Thursday 23rd May at school in our Music room. The music room will be open to parents to take a look from 2:15—3:00pm on these days. If you can not make these day please ar-range with Wendy or Michelle to take a look. We have 12 or so boxes of beautiful books in varying prices categories suitable for primary school aged children. The school will benefit from any pro-ceeds of sales made. There is no obligation for parents to make purchases. Cash, cheques or credit card payments can be made on the day. Come in and take a look.