Assembly Friday 11.45am Kester Hall

1/2W Performing

Inside this Issue From the Principal, Canteen Notice, Breakfast Club, National Sorry Day, Stage 2 & Stage 3 Excursions,

Cross Country, Netball Gala Day, Parent/Teacher Interviews, Infants Excursion, School Leadership Workshop, Special Thanks, Barrier Cross Country, PBL Winners

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Term 2 Week 6 Monday 24 May 2021

Telephone: (08) 80882181 www.alma-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Fax: (08) 80873691

Student Leadership Day

Reports and Parent Interviews It is that �me of the year again where the teachers are busy wri�ng student reports for this semester. Student reports are given out at the end of terms 2 and 4 as a requirement of the Department of Educa�on. This semesters reports will go home in Week 9 and Parent Teacher Interviews will be held in week 10. The report will show your child's progress according to the expected learning of each stage based on the NSW Curriculum. This includes: How your child is tracking on the achievement of stage learning in all key learning areas How they're progressing to meet the next level of achievement and support being provided And more importantly what effort they are pu�ng into their learning. While there is a state-wide grading system A- E for achievement, a C means that your child is on track for their stage of learning. This is where we would like them to be. It means that they are mastering the content being taught in their stage. The A-E Effort area is a grading on their mo�va�on to learn, how hard they are trying and the effort they put into their learning. Given that 2020 was the challenging year of COVID that had us all looking at new way of teaching and learning for a while, I believe we as a school are back on track with our normal prac�ces and processes regarding repor�ng to parents and hope that you will join us at parent interviews later in the term to share your child’s progress and achievements. Parent Teacher Interviews If you don’t have any par�cular concerns, you might wonder whether it’s worth going to parent-teacher interviews. But going along is one way to show your child that you’re interested in his/her learning and what’s happening for him/her at school. Parent teacher interviews will be held on the following days in Week 10. Monday 21st to Thursday 24th a�er school between 3.15- 5.00. Parents also have the choice of a telephone interview if they cannot make the face to face interview. All interviews will be held in your child’s classroom for 15 minutes. Please indicate your 3 preferred �mes and the format you wish to use on the note which will be sent home today and return to school as soon as possible. Trish Webb PRINCIPAL

BREAKFAST CLUB DONATIONS Breakfast Club is in need of donations.

Each week we are asking a class to bring in an item.

THIS WEEK WE WOULD LIKE KJ TO BRING IN LONG LIFE JUICE

We will be running a competition to see which class

can bring in the most items

CANTEEN The Canteen will be closed for 1st break only (11am-1140am)

this Wednesday 26th May

Sorry for any inconvenience

EXCURSIONS

Stage 2 Excursion – Sunraysia: Wednesday 18th August to Friday 20th August.

Stage 3 Excursion – Ballarat: Monday 9th to Friday 13th August

Informa�on have been sent home for both excursions. An i�nerary, payment plan, general permission, permission to watch videos and medical forms will be included.

Please complete all required forms and return to school as soon as possible.

Attendance All-Stars! Most improved atendance.

Week 6 Class Attendance % K-6B 84.73 K-6W 88.17

KJ 92.98 KL 90.94

1-2B 90.93 1-2S 90.10 1-2W 89.18 3-4N 91.75 3-4S 90.02 3-4W 89.06 5-6H 91.03 5-6M 93.27 5-6S 88.23

The winning class Term 2 Week 5

K-6W

Barrier Cross Country Congratula�ons to all students who par�cipated in the Broken Hill Cross Country. The following student have been selected for the Barrier Cross Country which is

being held this Friday 28th May at the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens in Buronga: Lucas Delbridge, Kiri Johnson, Daniel Howell, Shu Fujiwara, Patrick Carberry, Grace Delbridge, Maddisyn Thompson, Bear Davey, Dominic Carberry, Latrey

Langdon, Aiden Ce�nich. Good luck to these students who will be par�cipa�ng.

Netball Gala Day Selected students will be invited to par�cipate in the Netball Gala Day which is being held on Friday 18 June (Week 9). Subway Lunch Orders Burke Ward P&C are offering all students the opportunity to order subway for lunch at the Gala Day. Order envelopes will be sent home to selected students and will need to be retuned to Alma by Monday 7th June.

Parent/Teacher Interviews Notes have been sent home today for Parent/Teacher Interviews which are being held from Monday 21st June to Thursday 24th June (Week 10). Parents have the op�ons to choose face to face or telephone interviews.

When you receive the note, please circle the preferred day and �me, complete the details and return to school as soon as possible. A note will then be sent home confirming you interview �me.

National Sorry Day – This Wednesday 26th May On Wednesday 26th May Alma Public School will have a short recogni�on ac�vity for Na�onal Sorry Day. Na�onal Sorry Day is a day to acknowledge the strength of Stolen Genera�ons survivors and reflect on how Australians can all play a part in the healing process for the people and na�on.

While this date carries great significance for the Stolen Genera�ons and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is also commemorated by Australians right around the country.

At Alma we will be assembling at 10.45am under area A COLA, where the Aboriginal Flag will be drawn on the concrete. To raise funds for the Junior AECG, we are asking all students to bring in a gold coin to fill the yellow sun of the flag.

AECG member and the captain will read to us a story about Aunty Doreen Webster and her �me in Cootamundra girls’ home. All classes are making paper chains which will be will be joined and hung under Area A COLA.

Book Club

Due back Friday

4th June

PBL Winners KL Piper Mathews, KJ Jeb Clark-Gould,

1/2S Laykin Cullen, 1/2B Siera Lihou 1/2W Brooklyn Mannion, 3/4N Jayda Pearce,

3/4S August Keenan, 3/4W Grace George, 5/6M Walsh Leiper, 5/6H Cobe Byrne,

5/6S Arie Kakoschke

Lost Property There is a lot of lost property in our bins

near the front office. A lot of Jumpers with NO NAME. Please remember to label all of your child’s belonging as it makes it easier

for us to return them when they are misplaced. Please feel free to look through

our Lost property located outside our office.

Special Thanks

We would like to thank Barry Gould and his family for their generous dona�on to

our Breakfast Club Program.

Sadly Tyrese, Braxton, Jarome and Jeb will be leaving Alma next term. We will

miss seeing all their smiling faces at Alma and would like to wish them all the best

with their move interstate.

Kinder Excursion Tuesday 1st June.

Notes have been sent home today for the Kinder excursion. Students will be walking from school

down to Paton Street looking at houses and recording different shapes they are made from.

Please complete the permission note and return to your child’s class teacher by

Friday 28th May

School Leadership Workshop

Our SRC, Junior AECG and School Leaders par�cipated in a whole day Leadership Workshop last Friday.

Students learnt lots of skills and put them to the test in a range of hands on ac�vi�es.

We are excited to see our Leaders use these skills in a classroom, playground and mee�ngs to make Alma an even beter place to learn!

(Photos on front cover)

Term Dates • Term 2 concludes Friday 25th June • Term 3 commences Tuesday 13th July