ALBURY NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL 868 Mate Street, Albury 2640 Ph: 6025 1730 Fax: 6040 2326

Monday 26th August, 2019 Number 27 Number 3

Foods discovered by

accident

Liquorice Allsorts Choc Chip Cookies

Icey Poles Crepe Suzette Potato chips

Worcestershire Sauce Ice cream cones

Coca Cola Nachos

Beer

Facebook catch up:

Students enjoying the last game of soccer for PSSA

sport for the season.

Reminders:

PSSA Uniform – Please return your PSSA uniform to the office this week if you haven’t already handed it back.

The painters are coming this week! Your child may not be in their normal room this week if their classroom is being painted.

Upcoming events 26th August Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Regional

Final - Wagga K/1/2 Book Week Excursion to Lavington Library

29th – 30th August

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion

30th August Riverina PSSA Athletics

2nd September P&C Meeting @ 6.30pm

13th September Trent Barrett Shield 9.30am – 2.30pm

Awards – 5points

KMN Michael Curtis Mia Phillips

KTF Maverick Moore Bentley Thiel Lennox Kennedy

K/1TS Izzac Booth Charlie Sanford

1/2AM Dane Harmer Charlie-Lee Corken

1/2SS Maddison Spurr Raiden Thomas

3/4JB Jake Midgley Felicity-Rose Corken

3/4KW Taylor Coad Ella Billington

5/6AH Madeline Rigby Freddy Rumwagira Zara Broad

5/6PC King Fong Kavira Ngole Zara Broad

5/6JL Lilly Melbourne David O’Keefe

4/6KC Callen Chalmers

PEACE – Lucky Draw Winners of Week 5 PEACE Canteen Vouchers for being a Bronze/Silver/Gold Level student were: Bronze: Alexis Jones, Lilly Melbourne, Dane Harmer, Leo Lieschke Silver: Bonnie Willingham, Jessica Broad, India Spurr, Hallie Wright Gold: Mary-Jane Govers, Archer Bunn, Ruby Wilesmith, Seianna Spurr

Australian Council for Educational Leaders Award Congratulations to the entire Albury North Public School learning community on their recent NSW ACEL Team Leadership Award. What a fantastic recognition of the teaching and learning that is occurring in our classrooms and in the teachers’ Professional Learning Hub! Mrs Hargreaves, Mrs Sanson, Mr Smith and Mr Bell accepted the award from the NSW Minister of Education on Friday night in Sydney. Congratulations also to Mr Darryl Ward from Albury High School who also received a leadership award on the night.

Obstacool Book the date – Friday 20th September. Come along and join your children for a fun day (10.30am - 1.15pm) which includes - assembly performances, class visits, bbq lunch, opportunity to complete our TTFM survey and fun on the Obstacool. The students are creating a flyer that will be sent out later with all of the details.

Fathers Day/Carer Stall Last Friday we had our Fathers and Carers Day stall. Presents cost from $1 to $10. If your child missed the stall, there are still some presents left which can be purchased at the school office this week. Many thanks to the P&C members who were able to come along and help out on the day to sell the gifts.

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2020 The Office staff are contining to take Kindergarten enrolments for children starting school in 2020. Our First Steps Transition program will commence early in Term 4. If you, or someone you know, have a child ready to start school in 2020 please contact the school office to add them to our growing list. Students must be enrolled to participate in this program.

Canteen Congratulations – We are officially a Healthy School A huge congratulation to our Canteen Manager Cheryl Dinan for being awarded the Healthy School Canteen Badge from the NSW Premier & Cabinet. Over the last few months Cheryl has worked very closely with Brendan Pearson from Murrumbidgee Health to create a canteen menu that meets the new food targets to help reduce childhood obesity. Our canteen sells 87% of food that can be eaten ‘everyday’, leaving only 13% of ‘occasional’ food.

Purchasing food on the way to school We are not quite sure if there is a correlation between all the healthy food being sold at our canteen and the amount of children who are stopping at the local shops on the way to school to get something else. But…, if you are sending money to school for canteen purchases you may wish to check to make sure that’s where your child is spending the money.

Teachers are learners too Throughout the year, all of our teachers have been participating in ‘coaching and mentoring’ sessions. This means that teachers have been going into different rooms to watch how other teachers are teaching and how the students are learning. The teachers then go away and discuss in depth the strengths and challenges of the teaching and how it impacted on the students learning. And whilst it can be quite daunting to have so many people watching, these sessions are one of the most effective ways for teachers to continue to refine their teaching. Research has shown that such an approach will have the biggest impact on the learning of our students. Whilst we all enjoy talking to our parents when we can, there are times during the school week that teachers are unable to have a quick check in chat due to attending mandatory meetings. These are the times :

- Wednesdays before and after school (all class teachers) - Monday after school and Thursday before school (all Assistant

Principals and leading teachers).

Canberra Excursion Our Stage 3 Major Excursion is this week: Thursday and Friday The highlights for the students are:

Regatta Point – near Lake Burley Griffin

Parliament House – on top of Capital Hill

Questacon – an amazing Science and Technology place of interest

where our inquiry learning about “Inventions” will certainly be

appropriate

National Museum of Australia – which also includes “Inventions” as

well as amazing technology and aspects of Australia’s history

Australian War Memorial where we honour our fallen heroes and

learn about the wars of our world.

Have a wonderful time in Canberra everyone. See you back at school about 6pm on Friday.

Silver and Bronze Awards

Christopher O’Callaghan KMN Faith Dunbar 12AM Tristan Barton 23KG Sophia Emery 34JB Nikeah Wakeling 56PC

Christopher O’Callaghan KMN Dominic Belk K1TS Charlie Sanford K1TS Kylan Thiel 12AM Gurleen Kaur 34VR Blake Sutherland 34VR Tejay Waite 34VR Stephen Mitchell 46KC Neeve McGown 56JL

Nicholas Broad-Hornery KTF Phoenix Jones KTF Dillen Matthey 46KC

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