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Albury Public School
NEWSLETTER
TERM 3 WEEK 7 5 September 2019
481 David Street, ALBURY, NSW, 2640 Email: [email protected]
OFFICE: 02 6021 3849 www.albury-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Our office hours are 8:30am to 3:30pm FAX: 02 60411265
Dates for your Diary!
Friday 6 September Year 3 Wymah Camp arrival 2:30pm approx.
Monday 9 September Student Leadership breakfast - 8:00am in the hall
Tuesday 10 September 2020 Parent School Tour 9:30am meet in the office
Wednesday 11 September 5/6LKB Assembly 12:30pm in the hall
Thursday 12 September 1MD assembly 12:30pm in the hall
Our target expected behaviour for this week is:
Speak politely
3/4CM
have been
investigating
light in the
classroom.
To see what
else 3/4CM
have been
doing, have a
look at their
feature page.
A message from the Principal
As you are reading this, Year 3 is visiting the Great Aussie Resort at Wymah for the annual Year 3
camp. Once again, excursions and opportunities such as this, are very important for developing
student’s resilience, problem solving and independence, along with the practical academics
and socialisation curriculum. A huge thank you to Mr Fyffe and his team for pulling the excursion
together and for making this opportunity available to our Year 3 students. I am hopeful that the
weather will be kinder than the 45 degrees we endured last year.
Thank you to all the parents/carers and friends who sponsored students for our recent lap-a-
thon. Please continue to send the money in. I know that this has been a busy term with many
competing financial requests and I appreciate the way so many people repeatedly support our
school. I would also like to acknowledge the anonymous donation (again this year) from the
undisclosed Lucas Little for $700.00. Your very very kind donation and your thoughtful and
beautiful note of thanks is so appreciated by all the staff and students at Albury PS.
Next Monday, 9 September, we are holding our inaugural Student Leadership Breakfast in the
hall. The breakfast commences at 8:00am and will feature special guest speakers Karlie
Travassaros and Thomas Stefanou, Albury High School Captains, and the Honorable Kevin Mack,
Mayor of Albury. I know that the attending current and aspiring Year 6 school leaders will find
the experience very informative and rewarding. A huge thank you to Albury HS for helping us to
make this opportunity a reality.
In conjunction with the APS P&C, the school will be hosting some informative parent/carer
information sessions.
Tuesday 24 September 6 – 7pm : Understanding Adolescents, Jayne Halls, Mission Australia
Tuesday 22 October 6 – 7pm: Cybersafety, Sen Con Tanya Thompson, NSW Police
Both sessions will precede the P&C meeting and light refreshments will be served. Please register
with the office beforehand. Both of these sessions have been requested by the parent body and
I hope to see as many parents/carers as possible attending.
Congratulations to Jericho Ellao in Year 6 and Freddy Tari in Year 4 who
have been selected to receive prizes in the River of Stories competition,
Write around the Murray Festival 2019. Jericho entered a short story in
the Stage 3 section of the competition, entitled Star Diving. Freddy
entered a story in the Stage 2 section entitled, A Godly teacher. Well
done Jericho, Freddy and any other students who entered the
competition. Competitions such as these are another great way to gain
experience writing and publishing for a purpose, not just a school assignment.
We have had a very large number of students express an interest in opting into Special
Education: Ethics. A number of students who have expressed an interest to participate in Special
Education: Ethics (SEE) are currently receiving Special Religious Education (SRE). If parents/carers
do not wish their child to continue to attend SRE they must inform the school in writing. Only then
will these students be able to nominate to participate in Special Education: Ethics. We currently
have 4 people trained to teach Ethics at Albury PS. As the number of students who have
expressed interest in receiving Ethics far exceeds the number of available teachers, an offer to
participate in SEE (Ethics) note will be sent home next week. Students will be accepted into
Ethics classes on receipt of the note to the office, on a first in basis. Students who miss out will be
waitlisted. We anticipate that it will not be possible to offer Ethics to all year levels but we hope
to begin Ethics classes before the end of Term 3.
If you are interested in training to be a teacher of Ethics, please contact Primary Ethics on
info@primary ethics.com.au.
Quote of the week: “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what
life is all about”.
RJ Meehan
Lianne Singleton
Principal
Lapathon 2019
2019 Albury Public School Book Parade Lapathon
What a great day! Thank you to all the parents and supporters
who joined us in the beautiful sunshine and contributed to making
such an awesome day.
The winning house and the proud winner of the ‘Golden Shoe’
trophy was MITCHELL house. Congratulations!
In order of laps completed, it was a close contest. Each lap
clearly counted.
1st - Mitchell - 3348 2nd Hovell - 3264
3rd Hume - 3236 4th Murray - 3186
The students completed a total of 13,304 laps with an average of
22.55 laps per student. Wow that was a lot of laps.
The Year 4 students from 3/4CT had the highest lap average per
student, of 31.25. They were very closely followed by the Year 2 students from 2/3MM on an
average of 30.73 laps per student. The ‘LAP’ was nearly 500 metres in length.
One student from each class was selected by their classroom teacher or by their peers to be
awarded the ‘Special Prize’ for an outstanding effort on the day. These students received their
Smiggle vouchers at Monday morning assembly.
KAM - Beau Broad, KAB - Lucas Welsh, KWN - Gemma Poulton, KWH - Bentley Williams,
KWP - Sophie Honey, KWRH - Charlie Packer
1MD - Hiba Shiraz, 1MT - Freya Rae, 1MS - Archie Ivanku
2MC - Claudia Johnstone, 2MM - Koby Power, 2MJD - Mitchell Packer 2/3MM - Sam Davies
3/4CF - Clyde Morris, 3/4CH - Harrison Howard, 3/4CM - James Collie, 3/4CS - Galahad Murray,
3/4CT - Lachie O’Leary
5AB - Layne Griparis, 5AC - Vanessa Elston, 5/6LKB - Pattako Buakaeo, 5/6LS - Evie Higgins,
6LB - Bastian Hitchon, 6LCB - Rosie Haszard
To complete our Lapathon we need you to collect all of the sponsorship or donation money and
return it to the Front Office.
Thanks for those who have sent in their money. We have collected $7851.65 so far.
Library News
Premier’s Reading Challenge:
The Reading Challenge has now closed for 2019.
All children who participated are to be congratulated on their efforts. This
year 95 children successfully completed the Challenge. This is a wonderful
result and represents just over 15% of the school population. It is
anticipated that the certificates will be presented mid Term 4. Eight children will receive Gold
certificates as they have completed the Challenge for four years. Three students will receive
Platinum awards as they have completed the Challenge for a total of seven years. The Platinum
certificates will be presented at the Presentation Day in Term 4.
Alison Griffith
PRC Coordinator
3/4CM
3/4CM have had a very busy, exciting and productive term. Here are some of the wonderful
learning experiences we have been participating in. We are very excited to host the
assembly in Week 9 and hope to see many families and friends attend.
Blueart
Information Reports
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Jessie Chapman
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Anna Sullivan
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Hi Everyone,
We’re saying hello to spring and celebrating the warmer
weather by offering a small variety of freshly made scrumptious
icy cold smoothies for $2.
Only available Wed, Thurs and Fridays.
For two weeks only starting today!
Tropical Crush
Orange, Pineapple, Banana, Juice, Vanilla and Ice.
Berry Tangy
Strawberries, Pineapple, Yoghurt, Milk and Ice.
Happy Appy
Apple, Banana, Yoghurt, Honey, Cinnamon and Ice.
We also have delicious and nutrient rich homemade bliss balls for 50c each: Strawberry
cheesecake, mixed berry and choc granola flavours. They’ll never know how healthy these
delicious treats really are.
We still need a lot more volunteers. If you can help out even once a month we
would really appreciate it . If you’re on the school grounds please feel
welcome to drop in and say hi and maybe try a smoothie!
The menu can be viewed online at www.quickcliq.com.au
Jude, Jac, Billie
Contact us via: Mobile phone 0422 701 463 / email [email protected]
P&C Bunnings BBQ
In great news for fundraising for the school, we’ll run a
barbecue at Bunnings Albury Sunday 22 September.
If you can volunteer for a two-hour shift on the barbecue,
please nominate your preferred time and
email [email protected].
All money raised will be used to buy sports and playground
equipment for our school.
MULTI SPORT DAYS –
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Fun filled way for active children to spend the school holidays
Different sports, games and activities throughout the day which can include – basketball, soccer, polo hockey t-ball and more
Designed for children aged 5-12 years
DVD & quiet time in the afternoon
INCLUSIONS: Fun instructor to lead the sports activities
Morning tea, lunch and drinks provided
DATES: 1&2 October and 8&9 October 2019
TIMES: 9.15am – 3.00pm each day
COST: $42 per child/day or $40 for subsequent children
REGISTER: https://www.laurenjacksonsportscentre.com.au