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ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 4 16/11/2016
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 1 16/11/2016
■ Address: 142-152 Faulkner St, Armidale NSW 2350
■ Phone: 02 6772 3420 ■ Fax: 02 6771 2262
■ Email: [email protected] ■ Website: www.armidalec-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
The Blue and White Armidale City Public
School
the heart of Armidale
Quality teaching since 1861
16 November 2016
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 2 16/11/2016
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Our Schools Spectacular group will be heading off to
Sydney next Tuesday accompanied by Mrs Kelly and Mrs
MacGregor. Our students will be travelling with students
from Ben Venue Public School and are excited about this
wonderful opportunity. Thank you to parents and community
members for their support of this once in a lifetime
experience. Our students will perform on Friday night as
part of the biggest ever Schools Spectacular.
Last week our Years 5 and 6 students went on their
Newcastle excursion – thank you to Mrs MacGregor, Mrs
Kelly, Ms Joyce, Mr Townsend and Mr MacGregor for
volunteering their own time to ensure students have this
tremendous opportunity available to them and for the hard
work they put into preparing the excursion. From all
reports students thoroughly enjoyed everything they did
and have enjoyed reporting back about their experiences
this week.
Congratulations to Sam who is off to Sutherland to
represent North West in cricket next week.
If parents have any friends who are thinking about where
their child may commence schooling in 2017 please
encourage them to contact the school office. Parents who
have children for Kindergarten 2017 should also let the
office know if they have not already done so. It has been
wonderful to see the happy, smiling faces of our 2017
Kindergarten students during our orientation program – we
look forward to seeing you all in Kindergarten in 2017.
Last Saturday Armidale City Public School staff ran a stall
at the Black Gully Community Festival. We would like to
thank community members who supported our involvement in
this event.
Tickets are currently available for purchase in a raffle for
a quilt handmade by Mrs Woods raising funds for Canteen
and the Schools Spectacular group. Mrs Woods will be
selling tickets from her room on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday this week, cost is $1 per ticket.
Please feel free to send me an email at any time on the
address below. Enjoy the rest of the week everyone.
Mr Matthew Hobbs
Principal
23.11.16 9.10-3pm Kinder 2017 Experience Day
22-27.11.16 Schools Spectacular Excursion
28.11-9.12.16 Water Safety Program
29.11.16 12.30pm K-6 Assembly
7.12.16 Matinee School Concert
8.12.16 School Concert
12.12.16 Rehearsal for Presentation Day
12.12.16 Year 6 Dinner
14.12.16 11am Presentation Day
16.12.16 Last Day for Staff and Students
P&C NEWS
This Friday 18 November
at Lunchtime
Bring $1 for an icy treat!
Signature Cushions Are you leaving ACPS at the end of this year?
We will be selling calico cushions decorated
with uniform fabric to collect signatures on
as a keepsake of your time at ACPS
The cushions will be $10 each.
To express your interest, please email
Year 6 will have a separate note sent home.
NEXT P&C Meeting Wednesday 7 December, 6:30pm in the
School Library. This is our last meeting for
the year, bring a plate of celebratory food!
The P&C donates $2500 towards
the cost of Presentation Day each
year.
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 3 16/11/2016
CONGRATULATIONS
BRONZE AWARDS KG Chloe
3/4J Ty Lily
Lars
SILVER AWARDS KB Osbourne Eowyn
KG Henry
KR Marshall
1/2KS Tayla
1/2E Declan
3/4R Charlie Shannon
Sharlett Ella
Elana
3/4H Chelsea Seth
Nathan Laura
3/4J Sam Bhavya
Brayden Christopher
Flynn Archie
Oliver Seb
Mia Felix
Marley Oscar
Ella Abby
Bailey Hamish
Lars
3/4S Brendan Phoebe
Georgia Zackari
Lachlan Mary
Ellen Jessica
Anika Isabella
GOLD AWARDS KB Lataya Taylah
Amelia Samuel
1/2KS Cooper Aayan
1/2E Lelna Braith
Rosie Ariana
3/4S Montana
3/4H Laura
WORK OF THE FORTNIGHT KB Lachlan
KR Bridget
KG Max
1/2L Emelia
1/2J Charlie
1/2KS Emily S
1/2C Brayden
1/2E Sonny and Braith
3/4S Georgia
3/4J Ella
3/4R Sam
3/4H Chelsea, Seth, Chloe and Meron
5/6Mac Whole Class
5/6K Whole Class
5/6R Whole Class
5/6K Whole Class
5/6J Whole Class
1/2J CLASS NEWS We have had some very exciting learning activities last
week. Firstly, Josie brought in her brother’s pet…..a
Simpson Python called Flash. Thankfully it was only a baby
and was about 30cm long. It had such beautiful patterning
on its skin. Flash had recently shed her skin and it was quite
active twirling around Josie’s hands as she explained how to
look after snakes.
The next wonderful learning opportunity came when Mr
Commens worked with our class using the new Ozobots.
These are little robots with eyes that read colours. Our job
was to write a narrative that had at least three locations
and then transfer the verbs and adverbs in our story into
colour codes. We then drew tracks that were made from
our plots of our stories and incorporated the special
directional codes for the robot. We then turned the robot
on and it read our paths and went to the different locations
we had drawn and written about. It was amazing!!!! We
would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Commens for
teaching us about this new technology.
Mrs Felicity Jones
Class Teacher
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB
Issue 8 IS DUE BACK THURSDAY
1 December
Please hand
Book Club orders in to your Teacher, the Library or to the Front Office,
OR use LOOP
on the scholastic website
www.scholastic.au/LOOP
