ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 1 26/02/2020

■ 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

26 February 2020

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Last Friday, our school hosted a number of visitors from Japan. These visiting teacher education students had an opportunity to observe Kindergarten and Stage 1 students in their classrooms and a range of other activities. Our thanks go to Saho for her help in welcoming our visitors, the infants’ teachers for allowing visitors to observe and Mrs MacGregor for her organisation again this year.

Kindergarten Reporting All Kindergarten students participated in the Best Start Assessment earlier this term, most before starting school. Information around how these children performed on the assessments will be sent home within the next week. As the assessments were undertaken around five weeks ago, students will have made progress. Parents will also be provided with a copy of Helping your child with literacy and numeracy at home along with the report.

Choir The first choir lessons for this year commenced last Friday, with all students involved. We welcome Mrs Mackson as our new choir teacher. Classes will be preparing for their involvement in the eisteddfod early next term.

Voluntary Contributions Voluntary and technology contributions for 2020 will remain the same as for 2019. No student will be denied the opportunity to meet syllabus requirements because of the non-payment of voluntary school contributions.

Pedestrian Safety Staff have noticed parents walking children across Faulkner Street between buses. This is a dangerous practice that could have disastrous results. We ask that pedestrians utilise the designated crossing.

P&C Annual General Meeting Parents are invited to attend the annual general meeting of our school’s Parents and Citizens Association next Wednesday, 4 March in the library. We look forward to seeing you from 6.30pm.

We would like to recognise the P&C for their commitment to providing a shade area for our younger students through the sale of The New England Table cookbook. The process is underway to try to have a shade shelter built in the July school holiday period.

Have a wonderful week. Ms Deborah Nay

Principal

2 March Regional Swimming Carnival 3 March 2pm K-6 Assembly 4 March 6.30pm P&C AGM Meeting 5 March Hockey Roadshow 12 March Selective High School Testing 17 March 2pm K-6 Assembly 18 March Harmony Day 24 March Book Week Parade 31 March 2pm K-6 Assembly 9 April Easter Hat Parade 9 April Last Day for Term One 27 April First Day of Term Two for Staff 28 April First Day of Term Three for Students

Please check this calendar weekly for updates.

P&C Important Dates Wednesday 4 March 2020

P&C AGM, School Library from 6.30pm

Bottle Top Count

A BIG Thank You to all those who are collecting bottle tops.

958 003

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5/6C CLASS NEWS 5/6C are being creative while writing their narratives behind their superhero comic books so far this term. We have enjoyed creating our own superheroes, their powers, weaknesses and villains to battle. We are building up our fitness through morning P.E and many students recently enjoyed a visit to the Life Education Van where they learned about different relationships. Please continue to send in boxes of tissues. Winter is still a while off but we already have students with runny noses and colds.

Mrs Megan Carson Class Teacher

SAYING 'NO' TO YOUR CHILDREN IS GOOD FOR THEM. - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES,

INTERVIEW WITH GEORGINA MANNING Most parents want to give their kids everything they want in life. But according to parenting experts, saying “yes” to every demand that your children make may not be the right approach when it comes to instilling the right values in them.

Traversing the journey of becoming an assertive parent from a passive one can often be hard, especially for those who remain busy with work for the most part of the day, and do not get time to spend with their young ones. So naturally, when such a parent comes back home only to find their kid throwing tantrums, the easier option is to succumb to the demands.

Whatever be the reason, it has been observed that modern parents find it harder to say “no” to their children. “I think the pendulum has swung completely another way from parenting 30 or 40 years ago. It has swung from an authoritarian parenting style to a permissive parenting style,” Georgina Manning, the Director of Wellbeing For Kids — an organization based in Melbourne, Australia, that helps parents reach social and emotional business outcomes — told the International Business Times.

“This has been partly due to the self-esteem movement and also the wellbeing message that has been hijacked to a certain extent," she added. "Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes is a more effective way where parents are still in charge but also emotionally tuned in and supportive of our children, where we can be present and involved in our children's lives but also teach limits and positive values.”

Manning also underlined that no matter how difficult parents may find it to deny their children their immediate wishes, it is important for the kids to hear the word "no."

“Children need to feel a range of emotions and it is important we don't shield our child from these,” she said. “We want children to become comfortable with the

uncomfortable over time. Children don't suddenly learn about feeling a range of emotions or handling strong emotions at 18 — we need our kids to learn about their emotions from a young age and be coached in how to manage these feelings over time.”

Delayed gratification, as a life skill, is often taken for granted and parents today assume their children learn about earning what they get in life as they grow up.

“As adults, we have to wait for things and work hard for rewards,” Manning told the IBT. “Teaching children to wait for what they want and they may not always get what they want are lessons best learned early. Having a false sense of how the world works is setting our kids up for failure. We are also at risk of developing entitlement in children if they get what they want when they want. As adults, we would not be able to hold down a job or have healthy deep relationships with an entitled attitude such as this.”

According to Bea Marshall, a parenting coach based in the United Kingdom, contrary to the popular belief and the negative notion attached to the word “no,” it actually does not end up lowering self-esteem in children, when spoken by parents in a limited manner.

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Hockey Seasons is almost here!

Breakaways Hockey Club are a family orientated club who are the longest running club in Hockey

New England.

We are currently looking for school age juniors of all levels & abilities to participate in the upcoming

season.

We will be entering our junior teams in the Saturday morning competition in U8, U11, U13 &

U15 age groups.

Active Kids Vouchers are welcome.

If you or someone you know are interested in playing please email us on:

breakawayshockeyclub@gmail.com or phone Mark 0400 340 830 or Michelle 0435 102 929