ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 4 30/07/2014

ARMIDALE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL 30 July 2014

Dear Parents,

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS FOR 2015

We are seeking information on our numbers for next year and would like to know of any parents wishing to

enrol children at Armidale City Public School in 2015.

We believe that Armidale City Public School offers an excellent beginning to school life. The school has

dedicated and hard working staff members with both vitality and experience. Parents and children are

welcomed into a caring school environment where each child is encouraged to strive for their personal best.

Parents are welcome to visit our school and to make an appointment with the Principal, Mr Matt Hobbs, on

6772 3420 to discuss any issue.

Children who turn five before 31 July 2015 are eligible to enrol in Kindergarten in 2015. This may mean that

some children will only be four years and six months of age when they begin school.

If there are any young children living near you who have no older brothers or sisters at this school, please

include them on your list.

We need this information urgently to assist us with staffing for next year. Parents must complete an

“Application to Enrol” form which may be obtained from the Front Office at the School or by completing the

form below and returning it to the school. Once we have received the “Application to Enrol” form with your

child’s Birth Certificate and Immunisation Certificate, we can then confirm your child’s place in Kindergarten

2015.

We will be holding orientation days for Kindergarten 2015 for students and parents early in Term 4. At this

time, more information about our school will be available while the children will have the opportunity to spend

some time in the Kindergarten classrooms.

Thank you for your assistance.

Mr Matt Hobbs

Principal

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Child’s Name _________________________

Address _________________________

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Phone No. ___________ Date of Birth _________

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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.armidale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

The Blue and White Armidale City Public School

the heart of Armidale

Quality teaching since 1861

Principal: Mr Matt Hobbs School Captains: Lucy Cook, Mangarchot Maluach

School Executive: Mrs Cherrie Paterson, Mrs Leonie MacGregor, Mrs Jodie Ridley

30 July 2014

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 3 The focus for public schools in NSW throughout this week

is Education Week. On Monday we had open classrooms,

morning tea and assembly with a theme of ‘Careers’.

Students presented items based around careers of the past

and careers of the future tying in with the Education Week

theme of 60 years of education – ‘Lighting The Way To A

Better World’. We had over 180 parents and family

members attend our open day and it was wonderful to see

visitors in our school. Thank you, to staff and students for

welcoming our visitors and displaying the wonderful work we

do at Armidale City Public School. Well done, to our

Education Week award recipients – thank you, for your

ongoing support of ACPS. Congratulations, also, to Lea

McMillan, Peg Hewitt, Ely Sisson and Laurie Pulley who

received Armidale Community of Schools Education Week

awards and thank you, to our ACOS Orchestra members

who performed at the awards ceremony. Thanks must also

go to Armidale High School for hosting the ACOS Awards

Ceremony.

Well done, to our school gymnastics team who competed at

the North West Gymnastics Competition on Monday. Your

efforts and results are to be commended.

Next week we have our School Council meeting for Term 2

on Monday night and P&C meeting for August on Wednesday

night. We have received two parent nominations for the

vacant position on our School Council. A voting form went

home with the Blue and White last week. Parents are asked

to vote for their preferred candidate and return forms to

the ballot box which is located at the front office by 4pm,

Friday, 1 August. Next week, also on Wednesday, will be ‘A

Little Night Music’ from 5.30pm in the school hall and it

promises to be another wonderful event.

School planning has commenced for 2015 and a key

component of this planning is collaboration and consultation

with our community - in particular our parent body, to

create a shared vision for ACPS. If you would like to

contribute to the strategic directions for our school in the

time period 2015 – 2017, please contact me via email or

come along to our next P&C meeting to be part of the

discussion around our school direction and vision. From

2015, school planning and reporting in NSW DEC schools will

be underpinned by the School Excellence Framework, which

will provide a clear description of effective school practice

across the three key elements of education – Learning,

Teaching and Leading. Three key strategic directions will

form the basis of the upcoming three year planning

cycle. Each strategic direction will articulate the school’s

approach and identify the key improvement measures using

the new 5P methodology – Purpose, People, Processes,

Practices and Products. The product will be an individual

school plan, contextually driven to support the achievement

of the key improvement measures to address the needs of

students at the local level.

I would like to reinforce with all community members the

protocols of using the internet and social media sites and

thank all our students, community and staff that do abide

by these protocols. I also thank parents who support our

school in making the use of the internet an enjoyable one

for your children by ensuring you know what they are

accessing at all times.

This Friday I am going to Quirindi High School to meet with

Principals of schools in Finland and discuss what makes their

schools amongst the top performing schools in the world. I

am looking forward to bringing their ideas back to Armidale

City Public School and discussing them further with our

staff and community so we can continue working together on

providing a wide range of educational opportunities and

excellence for our students.

Please feel free to email me on the address below if you

wish to raise any points of interest, the term is well

underway and we already have much to celebrate.

Mr Matt Hobbs

Principal

matthew.hobbs@det.nsw.edu.au

BOOK CLUB Orders close tomorrow (Thursday) for Issue 5.

HELP MANGARCHOT GO TO TOWNSVILLE Thank you to all the wonderful people who have purchased

raffle tickets to help raise fund to send Mangarchot to the

Australian Basketball Exchange during Week 6. More are

available from the Front Office or Mrs Docksey

Now it is the students turn to help. They can:

Write a story on a sporting theme. Entries to Mrs Docksey

by next Tuesday 5th August. Entry is 50 cents.

Draw/paint a sporting picture. Entries to Mrs Docksey by

next Tuesday 5 August. Entry is 50 cents.

Take part in the shooting competition. $1:00 entry fee.

Prizes for boys and girls in each stage. Stage 3 today and

tomorrow, Stage 2 on Monday and Stage 1 on Tuesday.

Mufti Day on next Wednesday 6 August. A gold coin

donation to wear mufti (there could be prizes for best

sport costumes), have an ice block and watch the best

Basketball game ever, between the students and the

teachers. The game will be at 12noon.

The finals of the shootout competition will be after the

game.

CALENDAR 01.08.14 Stage 3-Leisure Sports

04.08.14 7pm School Council Meeting

06.08.14 Mufti Day

06.08.14 5.30pm Little Night Music

06.08.14 7.30pm P&C Meetings

08.08.14 Zone Athletics

11.08.14 1/2W Visiting Thalgarrah

13.08.14 1/2S Visiting Thalgarrah

14.08.14 1/2C Visiting Thalgarrah

15.08.14 1/2K Visiting Thalgarrah

18-22.08.14 Book Week

20.08.14 11.45am Book Character Parade

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BRONZE AWARDS

KR Aahlia Poulter

1/2K Sharlett Gayden Edward Truong

Meron Mengesha Illy Partridge

1/2W Felix Bowles Charlie Bailey

Oscar Gates Brayden Grieve

Oliver Pearse

3/4R Jessica Stewart Sophie Cozens

Neta Walls

SILVER AWARDS

KR Emelia Kelly

1/2K Annessa McDonald Mabel Spencer

Ella Reeve

1/2S Angie Ovenden

3/4R Fynn Eastwood

SEMESTER 2 SRC REPRESENTATIVES KB Zoe Reeve Busby Model

KR Lilly Thomas Kaelem Thapa

KG Tillie O’Connor Bailey Howe

1/2S Sebastian Brotherson Michaela Gerard

1/2W Anika Joice Felix Bowles

1/2C Sophie Hutchinson Bailey Burgess

1/2K Chloe Porter Archie O’Connor

3/4J Mia Brotherson Jack Hooper

3/4T Lara Widders Hamish Gerard

3/4KS Bethany Eickhoff Tyler Grant

3/4R Harriet Eastment Fynn Eastwood

3/4RT Delphi Collins Leo Watson-Rote

5/6J Piyumi Ekanayake Kane Dawson

5/6R Katie Haynes Hamish Doak

5/6Mac Danika Hazel Kau Chadar

5/6K Lily Wilson Zack Grant

ICAS SCIENCE COMPETITION Results from the ICAS Science Competition are as follows:

Participation: Damian Tyers, Paige McKay, Heather

Girard, Lucy Cook, Dougie Close, Toby Hall, Dylan

Barrow, Caleb Rees, Ryan Eastwood, Tylor Patton, India

Zikan.

Merit: Hayden Schultz, Piyumi Ekanayake, Anusha Thapa

Credit: Beth Do, Hamish Woods, Maya Hess

Distinction: Hamish Doak, Max Guppy, Fynn Eastwood,

Phoebe Girard, Catalina Cox.

EDUCATION WEEK SCHOOL AWARDS Joe Russell, Leanne Cooper, Megan Towie, Katrina

Llewellyn, Megan Cristani, Andrew and Belinda Close,

Taeko Conroy, Jim and Julie Cook, Michael Henderson,

Kate Simpson, Rochelle Joyce, Elizabeth Marshall, Pat

and Lea McMillan, Barbara Pennington, Jonathan and

Margie Roberts.

FEELING DEADLY NOT

SHAME Last Wednesday the children in

Stage 2 all participated in a large

group activity called ‘Feeling

Deadly Not Shame’. Deadly in

this context means good,

awesome, proud and strong etc. The program is explicitly

taught to the children and helps to raise self-esteem in

children and give them a positive mindset on how they can be

a deadly person and help others feel deadly as well. The

program gets children thinking about and recognising the

factors that make them a strong and deadly person. As a

result the children were

about to think many ways

that they are a deadly

person in our school

community and the places

and people who help them

stay that way.

It was awesome fun!

Thanks to Mr Widders and

the Stage 2 teachers.

Mrs Jodie Ridley

Stage Supervisor

PIE DRIVE

Please keep

selling the

wonderful

pies etc for

our Pie

Drive.

VOLUNTEERS FOR CLOTHING POOL

We are currently seeking Volunteers for

the

School Clothing Pool.

Please contact

Megan Towie 0499 777 488

Stage 3 Newcastle Excursion

Next Instalment of

$60 Due this Friday