Week 6, Term 1

EMAIL: ashtonfiel-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

WEBSITE:

www.ashtonfield-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

FACEBOOK:

www.facebook.com/ashtonfieldpublicschool

SCHOOL HOURS:

Supervision from: 8.25am Classes begin: 8.55am Classes finish: 2.55pm

NOTES SENT HOME:

Yr 5 Children’s University Newcastle presentation

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Thursday 5 March 2020

Year 5—Children’s University Newcastle—presentation in hall

Thursday 19 March 2020

Cross Country Bookclub orders due by 3pm

SPORT—TERM 1:

Every Friday

WEEKLY ASSEMBLIES:

Every Friday, 2.10pm

Primary—even weeks

Infants—odd weeks

NEXT P&C MEETING: Tuesday, 17th March,

7pm in Library

CANTEEN OPEN: Monday—Friday

UNIFORM SHOP OPEN:

Mondays, 8.30am—9.15am Wednesdays, 2.45pm—3.15pm

Fridays, 8.30am—9.15am EFTPos facilities available

at the Uniform Shop.

YEAR 6 PARLIAMENT Congratulations to our Year 6 Parliament Leaders for 2020, receiving their badges at our assembly this morning. Our school parliament reflects students who are both leaders and shadow leaders and gives Stage 3 students a ‘hands on’ understanding of Govern-ment. Good luck to our new leaders, we are looking forward to in-depth debates and fabulous ideas for the future.

BUSHFIRE APPEAL THANK YOU Last week we appealed to our community to help support families that suffered and continue to suffer from the effects of bushfire. Our community came together and supplied 15 backpacks full of stationery items for the students of Baryulgil Public School, these were sent today. We are now ready to send out first load of backpacks to Glenn Innes High School. Thank you to our wonderful community members who helped in this effort.

Monday 2 March 2020 P h on e: 49 34 3 58 4

This week’s word of the week is : Star

In Japanese: Hoshi 星

In Wonnarua language: Mika (me-ka)

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BOOKCLUB orders and payment are due by 3pm on Thursday 19 March 2020. A reminder that all orders and payments must be made through Scholastic Australia. Information on how to order and pay is included below.

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We recently studied several books from Jackie French’s natural disaster series, with artwork by Bruce Whatley. The students discussed the drought and the bushfires that have affected Australia over recent times. They lis-tened to the books being read and studied the illustrations and discussed the style of artwork, the colours and the mediums used. They then produced their own artwork based on these themes with quite stunning results.

by Ronan 4/5M by Grace 3W by Abhinav 3/4P by Matilda 6J Library Award Week 5 Library Award for Junior School was awarded to 1F. Congratulations! Senior School class with the most students borrowing books in Week 5 – 3W

Presentation & Information Session

Our school will be in partnership with Children’s University Newcastle for 2020. This program is designed to con-nect children and families to learning opportunities beyond the classroom. Children are given a passport to learning and encouraged to find NEW learning experiences within their local and regional areas. Children work towards logging the learning hours and are able to work through certificate levels based on hours of learn-ing. All children who reach 30 hours for the year will be invited to attend a Graduation Ceremony with their family in term 4. As this is our first year in this program it has been decided to offer the program to our Year 5 students. An invita-tion has been sent out to all Year 5 parents

Find out more via our Facebook page Children's University Australasia (Newcastle) and please come along to the Presentation and Information Session this Thursday.

Date: Thursday 4th March

Time: 2.20pm Where: School Hall Who: Year 5 parents and students

Clean up Australia Day for Schools

Last Friday our school took part in the annual Clean Up Australia Day.

Students and teachers worked together to clean up our playground. It was great to see our students get involved so enthusiastically. They especially en-joyed the weigh in to determine which stage group collected the most rubbish. It was a bit of a difficult between years 2/3 and years 4/5, but with the help of Kindergarten and Years 1 and 2 our playground is a lot cleaner!

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Term 1 2020 Calendar

Week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Week 6

March

2 3

Regional Swimming

4 5

Year 5—

Children’s University

Newcastle—presentation

in hall

6

Yr 3-6 Assembly

Week 7

9 10 11 12 13

K-2 Assembly

Week 8

16 17

18 19

Cross Country

20

Yr 3-6 Assembly

Wek 9

23 24 25 26 27

K-2 Assembly

Week 10

March/

April

30

Parent Teacher interviews

31

Parent Teacher

interviews

1

Parent Teacher

interviews

2

Parent Teacher

interviews

3

Parent Teacher

interviews

Yr 3-6 Assembly

Week 11

6 7 8

Disco

9

Eggshibition

10

Good Friday

CARRIE’S PLACE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HOMLESSNESS SERVICES INC. Winter is a tough time for anyone, so we are asking the Ashtonfield community please dig deep and help out those most in need. The pantry at Carrie’s Place is running low and are in need of:

Pastas and pasta sauce

Cereal and UHT (Long Life) milk

Rice and sauces

Juice

Canned soup, cup of soup

Two minute noodles

Canned meats

Peanut butter, vegemite and jam

Canned vegetables, canned fruit

Tea, coffee and hot chocolate

Baby food

Toiletries—shampoo and conditioner, deodorant.

There is a box in our office foyer marked “Carrie’s Place” if you wish to contribute to this wonderful service. If you have any further questions regarding donations please speak to Mrs Bower.

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Canteen Roster

HOW TO ORDER THROUGH FLEXISCHOOLS …...

Mon 2/3/20 Tues 3/3/20 Wed 4/3/20 Thurs 5/3/20 Fri 6/3/20

Jane.A Elizabeth

Kyrsty Nicola Alison.W Rebecca.W

Mon 9/3/20 Tues 10/3/20 Wed 11/3/20 Thurs 12/3/20 Fri 13/3/20

Rebecca.W Mariah Kyrsty

Alison.W Alison.W Mariah

Rebecca.W Megan