Albury Public School

NEWSLETTER

TERM 3 WEEK 7 5 September 2019

481 David Street, ALBURY, NSW, 2640 Email: albury-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

OFFICE: 02 6021 3849 www.albury-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Our office hours are 8:30am to 3:30pm FAX: 02 60411265

Dates for your Diary!

Friday 6 September Year 3 Wymah Camp arrival 2:30pm approx.

Monday 9 September Student Leadership breakfast - 8:00am in the hall

Tuesday 10 September 2020 Parent School Tour 9:30am meet in the office

Wednesday 11 September 5/6LKB Assembly 12:30pm in the hall

Thursday 12 September 1MD assembly 12:30pm in the hall

Our target expected behaviour for this week is:

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A message from the Principal

As you are reading this, Year 3 is visiting the Great Aussie Resort at Wymah for the annual Year 3

camp. Once again, excursions and opportunities such as this, are very important for developing

student’s resilience, problem solving and independence, along with the practical academics

and socialisation curriculum. A huge thank you to Mr Fyffe and his team for pulling the excursion

together and for making this opportunity available to our Year 3 students. I am hopeful that the

weather will be kinder than the 45 degrees we endured last year.

Thank you to all the parents/carers and friends who sponsored students for our recent lap-a-

thon. Please continue to send the money in. I know that this has been a busy term with many

competing financial requests and I appreciate the way so many people repeatedly support our

school. I would also like to acknowledge the anonymous donation (again this year) from the

undisclosed Lucas Little for $700.00. Your very very kind donation and your thoughtful and

beautiful note of thanks is so appreciated by all the staff and students at Albury PS.

Next Monday, 9 September, we are holding our inaugural Student Leadership Breakfast in the

hall. The breakfast commences at 8:00am and will feature special guest speakers Karlie

Travassaros and Thomas Stefanou, Albury High School Captains, and the Honorable Kevin Mack,

Mayor of Albury. I know that the attending current and aspiring Year 6 school leaders will find

the experience very informative and rewarding. A huge thank you to Albury HS for helping us to

make this opportunity a reality.

In conjunction with the APS P&C, the school will be hosting some informative parent/carer

information sessions.

Tuesday 24 September 6 – 7pm : Understanding Adolescents, Jayne Halls, Mission Australia

Tuesday 22 October 6 – 7pm: Cybersafety, Sen Con Tanya Thompson, NSW Police

Both sessions will precede the P&C meeting and light refreshments will be served. Please register

with the office beforehand. Both of these sessions have been requested by the parent body and

I hope to see as many parents/carers as possible attending.

Congratulations to Jericho Ellao in Year 6 and Freddy Tari in Year 4 who

have been selected to receive prizes in the River of Stories competition,

Write around the Murray Festival 2019. Jericho entered a short story in

the Stage 3 section of the competition, entitled Star Diving. Freddy

entered a story in the Stage 2 section entitled, A Godly teacher. Well

done Jericho, Freddy and any other students who entered the

competition. Competitions such as these are another great way to gain

experience writing and publishing for a purpose, not just a school assignment.

We have had a very large number of students express an interest in opting into Special

Education: Ethics. A number of students who have expressed an interest to participate in Special

Education: Ethics (SEE) are currently receiving Special Religious Education (SRE). If parents/carers

do not wish their child to continue to attend SRE they must inform the school in writing. Only then

will these students be able to nominate to participate in Special Education: Ethics. We currently

have 4 people trained to teach Ethics at Albury PS. As the number of students who have

expressed interest in receiving Ethics far exceeds the number of available teachers, an offer to

participate in SEE (Ethics) note will be sent home next week. Students will be accepted into

Ethics classes on receipt of the note to the office, on a first in basis. Students who miss out will be

waitlisted. We anticipate that it will not be possible to offer Ethics to all year levels but we hope

to begin Ethics classes before the end of Term 3.

If you are interested in training to be a teacher of Ethics, please contact Primary Ethics on

info@primary ethics.com.au.

Quote of the week: “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what

life is all about”.

RJ Meehan

Lianne Singleton

Principal

Lapathon 2019

2019 Albury Public School Book Parade Lapathon

What a great day! Thank you to all the parents and supporters

who joined us in the beautiful sunshine and contributed to making

such an awesome day.

The winning house and the proud winner of the ‘Golden Shoe’

trophy was MITCHELL house. Congratulations!

In order of laps completed, it was a close contest. Each lap

clearly counted.

1st - Mitchell - 3348 2nd Hovell - 3264

3rd Hume - 3236 4th Murray - 3186

The students completed a total of 13,304 laps with an average of

22.55 laps per student. Wow that was a lot of laps.

The Year 4 students from 3/4CT had the highest lap average per

student, of 31.25. They were very closely followed by the Year 2 students from 2/3MM on an

average of 30.73 laps per student. The ‘LAP’ was nearly 500 metres in length.

One student from each class was selected by their classroom teacher or by their peers to be

awarded the ‘Special Prize’ for an outstanding effort on the day. These students received their

Smiggle vouchers at Monday morning assembly.

KAM - Beau Broad, KAB - Lucas Welsh, KWN - Gemma Poulton, KWH - Bentley Williams,

KWP - Sophie Honey, KWRH - Charlie Packer

1MD - Hiba Shiraz, 1MT - Freya Rae, 1MS - Archie Ivanku

2MC - Claudia Johnstone, 2MM - Koby Power, 2MJD - Mitchell Packer 2/3MM - Sam Davies

3/4CF - Clyde Morris, 3/4CH - Harrison Howard, 3/4CM - James Collie, 3/4CS - Galahad Murray,

3/4CT - Lachie O’Leary

5AB - Layne Griparis, 5AC - Vanessa Elston, 5/6LKB - Pattako Buakaeo, 5/6LS - Evie Higgins,

6LB - Bastian Hitchon, 6LCB - Rosie Haszard

To complete our Lapathon we need you to collect all of the sponsorship or donation money and

return it to the Front Office.

Thanks for those who have sent in their money. We have collected $7851.65 so far.

Library News

Premier’s Reading Challenge:

The Reading Challenge has now closed for 2019.

All children who participated are to be congratulated on their efforts. This

year 95 children successfully completed the Challenge. This is a wonderful

result and represents just over 15% of the school population. It is

anticipated that the certificates will be presented mid Term 4. Eight children will receive Gold

certificates as they have completed the Challenge for four years. Three students will receive

Platinum awards as they have completed the Challenge for a total of seven years. The Platinum

certificates will be presented at the Presentation Day in Term 4.

Alison Griffith

PRC Coordinator

3/4CM

3/4CM have had a very busy, exciting and productive term. Here are some of the wonderful

learning experiences we have been participating in. We are very excited to host the

assembly in Week 9 and hope to see many families and friends attend.

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Information Reports

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Canteen and P&C News

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Hi Everyone,

We’re saying hello to spring and celebrating the warmer

weather by offering a small variety of freshly made scrumptious

icy cold smoothies for $2.

Only available Wed, Thurs and Fridays.

For two weeks only starting today!

Tropical Crush

Orange, Pineapple, Banana, Juice, Vanilla and Ice.

Berry Tangy

Strawberries, Pineapple, Yoghurt, Milk and Ice.

Happy Appy

Apple, Banana, Yoghurt, Honey, Cinnamon and Ice.

We also have delicious and nutrient rich homemade bliss balls for 50c each: Strawberry

cheesecake, mixed berry and choc granola flavours. They’ll never know how healthy these

delicious treats really are.

We still need a lot more volunteers. If you can help out even once a month we

would really appreciate it . If you’re on the school grounds please feel

welcome to drop in and say hi and maybe try a smoothie!

The menu can be viewed online at www.quickcliq.com.au

Jude, Jac, Billie

Contact us via: Mobile phone 0422 701 463 / email alburycanteen@gmail.com

P&C Bunnings BBQ

In great news for fundraising for the school, we’ll run a

barbecue at Bunnings Albury Sunday 22 September.

If you can volunteer for a two-hour shift on the barbecue,

please nominate your preferred time and

email ambermcswiney@yahoo.com.au.

All money raised will be used to buy sports and playground

equipment for our school.

MULTI SPORT DAYS –

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Fun filled way for active children to spend the school holidays

Different sports, games and activities throughout the day which can include – basketball, soccer, polo hockey t-ball and more

Designed for children aged 5-12 years

DVD & quiet time in the afternoon

INCLUSIONS: Fun instructor to lead the sports activities

Morning tea, lunch and drinks provided

DATES: 1&2 October and 8&9 October 2019

TIMES: 9.15am – 3.00pm each day

COST: $42 per child/day or $40 for subsequent children

REGISTER: https://www.laurenjacksonsportscentre.com.au