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Number 28, 2011 Monday, 5th September 2011 Week 8 Term 3

From the Principal’s Desk …………….

Welcome to Week 8 of Term 3. Congratulations to our students who participated in the Regional PSSA Carnival last Friday. We are extremely proud of your efforts. Also, congratulations to Mr Jackson, Mrs Bishop and Mr Goulter for their efforts with the school band and singers last Thursday. You could hear them all the way down to the main street. What’s on this week: Monday NSW Teachers’ Federation Principals’ conference in Sydney Tuesday Cluster management meeting in Griffith Year 6 students off to the Riverina Environmental Education Centre Wednesday SEAT students in Wagga District office with Miss Ostle Home School Liaison Officer will be in the school Night of the Arts rehearsal Whole school staff meeting after school Thursday CHS State Athletics Secondary Principals’ Council professional learning and Rural School Reference Group in Sydney Year 11 Examinations begin Proposed NSW Teachers’ Federation industrial action

Friday CHS State Athletics Regional Student Placement Panel in Wagga Did you know? Sheep snore and that there are more creatures in your mouth than there are humans on Earth. Until next week, take care. Peter Morse Canteen News

Roster Friday, 9/9/11 – W Walker, S Gordon Monday, 12/9/11 – J Fisher, R Maguire P&C News

Monthly Meeting Tuesday, 13th September – 7.30pm Don’t forget to pencil in our next monthly P&C meeting which will be held on Tuesday week. We welcome all to our meetings however please remember that in order to be able to cast a vote you must be a paid-up member of the P&C. Peter Harper P&C President

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Ariah Park Central School Newsletter Week 8, Term 3

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Diary

Note: Items in bold indicate new items on diary THIS WEEK (Week 8) Tuesday, 6th September Year 6 student visit to REEC Wednesday, 7th September SEAT Face-to-Face – Wagga Night of the Arts Rehearsal – note the change of date Thursday, 8th September Preliminary Exams start CHS State Athletics Friday, 9th September CHS State Athletics Parent Workshop – Mathletics/Maths Online

NEXT WEEK (Week 9) Monday, 12th September Police Liaison Officer visit Tuesday, 13th September P&C Meeting – 7.30pm Thursday, 15th September Night of the Arts Dress Rehearsal Friday, 16th September Notes due - Year 1/2 Excursion Parent Workshop – Technology

Whole School News

School Improvement As a part of our School Improvement Cycle we carry out a number of evaluations during the year. These evaluations help us in setting targets in the School Plan. One of the evaluations we are conducting this year is on School Management. Attached to this newsletter is a short evaluation questionnaire and I would like you to return it to school by Wednesday, 7th September. Peter Morse

Welfare News The mobile phone survey closed last Friday and the overwhelming majority of parents (11 of 16 responses) voted for making school a mobile phone free zone (2 parents voted to ban phones completely and 3 voted to keep the policy the way it is currently). They voted for phones only to be allowed to be brought to school with a written permission note from parents – these phones would be handed in before school started and collected at the end of the day. All other phone calls throughout the day would be via the office. Please come to the next P&C meeting if you would like to discuss this further. The current mobile phone policy will now be reviewed and an implementation model planned. It is unlikely that any changes will begin until term 1 next year. Other news: To give a sense of clarification for all concerned it was decided by the Welfare Committee that any student who received 3 white slips over the year would not achieve the standard of behaviour necessary to be invited on the Rewards Excursion at the end of the year. Did you know that, under the revised welfare policy, you will be notified by letter if your child has received 3 or more white slips over the term unless we have already contacted you about another discipline issue? Mr Englert


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Music. Count Us In. What it’s all about: It’s Australia’s biggest school music initiative. With support from the Australian Government, it has run since 2007 and is all about celebrating the value of music education to students’ development, whoever they are, wherever they are. It involves about half a million students, teachers - and often parents! – from schools all over Australia signing up to learn, rehearse, then perform the same song, on the same day, at the same time. A report from Bethanie Durham: Last Thursday, 1st September our school, and many others, played and sang a song “We Have the Music”. Our band consisted of Mr Jackson on the guitar as well as Matthew, Mrs Bishop and Mr Goulter. Louise was on bass and I was on the drums. Everyone in primary did a brilliant job singing. The band sounded great and overall it was a great success.

Mr Jackson in full flight!

Students perform the song

The school band performance

MC, Mr Jackson, and the school band

The Night of the Arts Students have been working hard towards the Night of the Arts which will be held in the Ariah Park Town Hall, on Wednesday, 21stSeptember, 2011, commencing at 7pm sharp. Students need the following costumes for the


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dress rehearsal which will be held on Thursday, 15th September, 2011. Please start bringing these costumes, with student’s name on them, in a plastic bag (with their name on the bag) to your class teacher. Dance students to me and secondary students please give your costumes to Miss Dwyer. Choir: black, long pants, black shoes Girls: pink and black choir tops Boys: black tee shirt I have the pink and black tops and tee-shirts. Wear your black pants and shoes on the night. After School Ballet Group: Students will need their own pink ballet tights and shoes. I have a few pair of tights but they are very small sizes. I will supply the leotards and skirts. After School tap group: Black, long pants and own tap shoes. Girls: green tops Boys: black tee shirts I will supply the tops. Sports dance group: Black long dance pants and black jazz shoes. I will supply the tops. The students who still have the tops out on loan need to return them to me. Kindergarten: Tee shirts or tops the colour of their group. YELLOW GROUP: Taylor, Charlie, Harrison and William Miller. PINK GROUP: Brooke, Angel and Hayley. RED GROUP: Bella, Alex Ingram and Will O’Hare. BLUE GROUP: Riley, Seth, Deklan and Alex Harper. Boys: blue jeans Girls: a denim skirt or a blue or black skirt if possible, otherwise a skirt, the colour of their group.

Year 1/2: Spiderman or women costumes, superman or woman costumes, or cartoon characters. Would those parents who have said they have spare costumes please send them in as soon as possible. Year 3/4: They are performing a play called Captain Colossal. The students know what they are doing and need to provide their own costumes. Please see Mr Radnidge if you are uncertain of what to wear. Year 5/6: A Week in the school life of Year 5/6. Wear school uniform. Year 7/8: A play called Christmas Chaos. Years 9/10/11 Monster Play: Costumes have been organised by Miss Dwyer. Please contact Miss Dwyer if you are not sure what to wear. Thank you. Mrs O’Hare

Secondary News

End of Year 11 Exams Year 11 complete their Preliminary HSC course with exams starting this Thursday. The exams are held in the Anglican Hall. Timetables were issued last week and students may stay at home to study if they do not have scheduled exams. Parents should return the permission note by Wednesday. We wish all students the best of luck. Mr Englert School Chess Championships These began last Monday with a couple of friendly matches but the competition begins in earnest today. Best of luck to all involved. Mr Englert


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Assessment Tasks this Week

9/10 Food Tech - Food Product Development Produce Date Due: 07/09/11 (Week 8) Final Date Due: 21/09/2011 (Week 10)

Upcoming Assessment Tasks

7/8 HSIE – Global Geography Global Environments – Coral Reefs – Writing task Date Due: Friday 16th September (week 9) 7 Science - SRP Phase Two ~ Experimenting & Phase Three ~ Data Analysis – 23rd September 2011 (Week 10) 8 Science - SRP Phase Two ~ Scientific Report – 23rd September 2011 (Week 10) 9/10 Science Science Report - Wednesday 15th September 2010 (Week 9) 9/10 HSIE – Australian Geography Issues in Australian Environments –Salinity Portfolio Date Due: Friday 16th September (week 9) 9/10 Food Tech - Food Product Development Produce Date Due: 07/09/11 (Week 8) Final Date Due: 21/09/2011 (Week 10)

Primary News

Year 1/2 Excursion to the Wagga Botanic Gardens Years One and Two will be travelling by bus to The Wagga Botanic Gardens on Thursday, 22nd September 2011. They will have a chance to experience hands on activities about animal, vegetable and mineral products. They will go on a guided trivia trail of discovery which includes trees planted here from seeds bought here from Balmoral Castle in Scotland. All travel funding for this activity will be provided by CAP. Students will be making a food product at home to share for a picnic lunch. Students need to be dressed in uniform and bring a jumper and water bottle. This excursion will be supervised by Mrs O’Hare and Miss Tinnock. Please return your notes by Friday, 16th September (next Friday).

Maths Ten Frame Please see pages 11-13 of this newsletter for information about this program. A ten frame has also been printed for home use. Mrs O’Hare Year 1/2 Year 1/2 would like to thank Woolworths Temora for sponsoring our healthy lunch activity last week. Students enjoyed making and eating their own muffin pizzas. We discussed where our food comes from, where it fits in the food pyramid and why we need it in a balanced diet. We have a few little ‘Master Chefs’ on our hands! Mrs Speirs


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Sport News

Secondary Tennis Championships On Friday Brandon Doyle and Mitchell Maguire battled each other to determine the Boys champion for this year’s Secondary Tennis Championship. Mitchell demonstrated from the beginning of the championships that he would be hard to beat. Despite the best efforts of Brandon, Mitchell won the game in 6 games to nil. Congratulations to our winners and also well done to all students who participated this year. Despite some students indicating they thought they had little chance of winning or felt they were not very good tennis players, it was great to see a good number of students this year getting out there and having a go. Well done. It is now time for the Primary Tennis Championships which will also no doubt be will contested. Mr Angel Sports Coordinator PSSA Riverina Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to Sharnie and Blair McLean, Kacy Bell and Mitchell Doyle who travelled to Albury last Friday 2nd September to attend the PSSA Riverina Athletics Carnival with a large contingent

of athletes from our district. They all competed very well in their respective events with some Personal Bests achieved. Well Done. Community News

Tomato Plants Get your ground worked up,

Neville’s tomatoes will be ready to plant in 1 week!

Phone Neville on 6974 1276. Youth Group YG is on again this Friday 9th September 7.30 to 9pm at Endeavour Hall. Please bring along some supper to share. Peter Harper AAPM Junior Jets The AAPM Junior Jets capped off another successful and enjoyable year with their presentation day at Beckom on Sunday. We would like to say a special thank you to the following sponsors: Ariah Park Hotel under 11s Ariah Park Hardware under 13s Greg Hovendon Painter under 15s Shane’s Butchery under 15s Mick Munro Beckom Hotel These wonderful business people sponsor our weekly $10 awards, which is always most appreciated by the young footballers. Mr Mick Munro sponsored our weekly Jets Towel Incentive Award. Thank you also to Brendon Semmler and Garry Ryall, both of whom excelled as first year Presidents. Award Winners Under 11s Jeromy Lucas Best & Fairest Blake Harper Best & Fairest R/Up


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Lachlan Jones Most Improved Zach Griffin Coach’s Award Ethan Neyenhuis Most Determined Under 13s Mitchell Maguire Best & Fairest Jack Semmler Best & Fairest R/Up Jack Harper Most Consistent Ben Johnstone Most Improved Joe Grinter Coach’s Award Under 15s Matt Gaynor Best & Fairest Jeremiah Maslin Best & Fairest R/Up Matthew Bell Most Improved Josh Griffin Most Consistent Patrick Bray Coach’s Award

Mitchell Maguire was Best in Finals under 13s. Congratulations to all the winners. Ariah Park Swimming Pool AGM Ariah Park Swimming Pool AGM to be held Monday the 12th September 2011 at 6.30pm at the Ariah Park Hotel. All Welcome.

Ariah Park Swimming Club AGM Ariah Park Swimming Club AGM to be held Monday the 12th September 2011 at 7.30pm at the Ariah Park Hotel. All Welcome. Pea Straw for Sale

Quality Garden Mulch Phone Errol Thomson on:

6978 2284 or 0447 782284

Temora Junior Tennis Open Round Robin Tournament Saturday 17th September, 2011 8.30am start Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles 10/u 12/u 14/u 16/u $10 per Singles $10 per Pair Doubles/Mixed Doubles A & B Divisions available if enough entries All junior players are welcome to enter. You do not have to be a registered member of the club. Canteen/BBQ facilities will operate throughout the day. Entries close Wednesday 14th September, 2011 Enquiries and entries to Helen Miller 69772446 after 7pm or Mandy Russell 69739442 Entry forms are available at Miller’s Tropies & Embroidery Ardlethan Touch Reminder to the team managers to please have registration details and money to me by the 14th September, NSWTA needs all the player and team details to get insurance organised. I also need to know how many sides we have to order all equipment. The London side is still looking for players if you are interested please contact Mark Osborne 0459385917. We have pushed the starting times back for our games to help with swimming held at the pool - starting times will be decided soon. Don’t forget to bring your team down to the Oval for a game of touch on 2nd

October 2011. Games will start at 10am then we will head down to the London


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for the Sunday fun day where there will be jumping castle, pony rides, the local ambulance, police and fire truck will be there - so lots of fun for the kids. There will also a BBQ for lunch. Enquires contact Mark Osborne 0459 385917. West Wyalong Art on Main An exhibition of art and photography featuring Main Street West Wyalong. 15th to 18th September 2011 at 172 Main Street, West Wyalong Events West Wyalong 0428 512 829 Devonshire Teas by Community Rose Garden Group 1.30 – 3.30pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday Elders/Mirrool Creek Landcare Bus Trip Thursday 8th September 1pm Bus from Ariah Park Pub 1.30pm Paul Buerckner’s - Disc vs Tyne, soil/moisture conservation 3pm Matt Dart’s - Pioneer Canola Pre-emerg trials 4.30pm Terry Edis’ - Canola Fungicide trials 6pm Drinks/BBQ at Ariah Park Pub 7pm Mirrool Creek Landcare AGM Existing and new members welcome RSVP Terry Edis 0429 849 249 Robyn Buerckner 0429 366 374


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Ten Frame Explained

The notion of units within units is supported by such processes as combining and partitioning. Combining refers to bring parts together; partitioning refers to separating the parts while maintaining a sense of the original number. It emphasises part-whole (sometimes called part-part-whole) number relations. That is, students see both the parts and the whole. Can you see the 3, the 2 and the 5?

Interpreting number in terms of part-whole relationships makes it possible for children to think about a number as being composed of other numbers.

We often recognise the number associated with a particular pattern straight away, even before we have had time to “count” the items. This normally applies to small numbers of items.

The process of immediately recognising how many items are in a small group is called subitising. This name comes from the Italian word subito which means “immediately” or “right now”. When playing a game with dice we normally recognise the number of dots immediately.

The process of subitising can also be used with seeing parts in the whole. If you look at the dot pattern for five you become aware of seeing it also as four and one or three and two. Developing a rich knowledge of numbers such as five helps children to understand how each number is made up of other numbers.

To assist students in forming a clear understanding of the base ten structure of numbers we can use organisers such as ten frames.

When these are used in conjunction with counters, students can model combining and partitioning in a structured way. Three counters and four counters can be combined to show the total of seven counters.


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The ten frame also provides a visual link between seven and ten. Students can see that three more counters are needed to make ten. That is, the “negative image” is visible as well as the “positive image”. It is also possible to use ten frames to explore partitioning numbers. If you ask students what they can see when they look at the seven counters in the ten frame some will notice that seven is made up of five and two.

Indeed all the different number combinations or partitions of seven can be explored from the ten frame. If the ten frame is filled from the left it can be used to build students’ knowledge of doubles and near doubles. For example, seven can be seen as one more than six (double three).

This knowledge of number combinations is very useful with addition and subtraction questions. To add 27 and 5 we often break the five into 3 and 2 to find the answer. This process of breaking numbers into parts is noticeable in mental calculations.

Just as ten is essential to our understanding of operations on numbers, five often acts as a base for mental calculation. This is due to students’ early use of finger strategies with arithmetic. The ten frame is organised as five squares and five squares, which replicates the first organised material which students use, namely, two hands with five fingers on each.

An understanding of the framework of strategies which students use in early arithmetic enables teaching decisions to be based on knowledge of children’s understanding of mathematics. The components of this framework are interrelated and interdependent. As an introduction to the nature of the framework, however, each component will be presented separately.


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Tens Frame

Developing Efficient Numeracy Strategies – Stage 1: Department of Education and Training, 1999.


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Repeated Notes

Primary Excursion Payment Slip Student Name: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Enclosed please find payment in the sum of $........................... representing:

Please

Details Payment Amount

1st instalment (due 19/8/11) $60.00

2nd instalment (due 23/9/11) $50.00

3rd instalment (due 4/11/11) $50.00

4th instalment (due 25/11/11) $50.00

Payment in full (25/11/11) $210.00

……………………………………………………. ………………………… Parent/Guardian Date ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expression of intention to Attend Secondary End of Year Excursion

My son/daughter ………………………………………………………………………………………. is likely to attend the secondary excursion to be held week 9 term 4.

……………………………………………………. ………………………… Parent/Guardian Date Notes

Permission Note – Year 1/2 Excursion to the Wagga Botanic Gardens I hereby give my son/daughter/ward ……………………………………………………………. permission to travel to and participate in the Year 1/2 excursion to Wagga Botanic Gardens on Thursday, 22nd September 2011. I understand that travel will be by bus, which the school will organise. The cost of this activity will be covered by CAP. Special Medical Conditions? …………………………………………………………………………………………… Food Allergies? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Note: If an accident occurs at school or on an excursion which is not caused by negligence of the Department of Education and Communities, then parents/guardians are required to have their own insurance. …………………………. ………………….. Parent/Guardian Date Please return your notes by Friday, 16th September (next Friday).

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