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

Monday 23 September, 2019 Number 31 Number 3

If I called your teacher

tonight, what would they tell me about you?

Persuasive Topics

Persuade your parents to give you a big raise in your

pocket money

Facebook catch up:

Waffles enjoying a wash

Tell Them From Me Survey – Not too late yet.

Are our parent activities scheduled at times when you can attend ?

Are reports on your child's progress written in terms that you understand ?

Does your child feel safe going to and from school ?

Do our teachers know the strengths and areas of challenge for your child ?

What communication strategy (newsletter, facebook, Skoolbag) do you find most useful ?

Do you want your child to finish Year 10, Year 12, attend TAFE or University ?

These are some of the questions that you are asked to think about when doing this quick survey. Teachers think about the information that you give us in this survey when planning any programs and activities we do at our school. So far we have 51 people who have completed the survey. It closes this Friday. Here is the link: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/62yxt

Upcoming events Date Events

26 September PEACE Day P&C BBQ Disco 5.30pm-7pm SRC Out of Uniform Gold coin fundraiser Stage 2 Excursion

27 September Last day of Term 3

14 October Students & Staff return to school

Merit Awards – 5 points KMN Cleo Urquhart Michael Curtis

KTF Archer Bunn Zayden Menhennitt-Mott

K1TS Hallie Wright Benji Kiffen

2-3KG Tristan Barton Declan Kelly

1/2AM Willow Dinan-Mann Bailey Sherman

1/2SS Seleyne Ilievski Ashton George Benson Langbehn

3/4JB Cleveland Wakeling Hudson Hauschildt

3/4KW Temprance Hoffman Tivyn Harris

3/4VR Lara McKay Roman Ilievski Tejay Waite

5/6PC Anthony O’Keefe Arunima Majhi

5/6JL Logan Lawson Caleb Taylor

Term 3 P&C Disco – Theme: Heroes Come dressed as your hero. This could be a super hero, book character, inventor or a sporting hero. Thursday 26 September 5.30pm to 7pm. Cost per child – Disco + BBQ + drink $5 Stage 2 children who are having a sleepover: your money will be given to the P&C. If you can help the P&C by cooking the BBQ, please contact our office. The teachers will be supervising the disco.

From our SRC – This Thursday 26 September The Term 3 SRC fundraiser is “Come dressed as a Teacher”. It can be your teacher or a famous teacher, let’s not forget our fantastic SLSOs. Please bring a gold coin to donate towards cancer research. Please try to discourage your child from coming in socks and sandals or a cardigan. We have so moved on with our fashion sense .

Postive Play Day – this Thursday 26 September Here is a breakdown of the activities : * A movie in the hall - This is for children new to ANPS this term or who are on Bronze, Silver or Gold and have consistently displayed PEACE behaviours. The movie is ‘Small Foot’ * 30 minutes extra play for children on Silver and Gold Level. * Students on Gold level will be treated to a special luncheon with Mr Smith.

Stage 2 Excursion this Thursday 26 September We are all excited about the Stage 2 excursion that is happening this Thursday and Friday. Thursday is the Disco and Sleepover. Friday is the Ten Pin Bowling. How many sleeps? All the teachers are counting down…….

Term 4 Sport for Years 3-6 – we need your notes Sports notes must be in by this Thursday 26 September. Late notes for PSSA won’t be accepted as teams will be organised by the end of the holidays.

Woolworths Cup The Woolworths Cricket Cup is on this Friday. Those students who returned their note by Wednesday last week will be going. A note will be handed to those students this week with reminders on what they need. Meet Mr Lindner at Jelbart Park at 9:15. The day concludes at 2:00pm. There are no canteen facilities. Please bring food and drink. Students need to find their own way there and home on the day. There will be no bus.

Kinder notes for 2020 Our First Steps Transition program will begin on Friday 1st November (Week 3 of Term 4) and conclude on Friday 29th November. The sessions will run each Friday from 12.30 until 3.00pm. We look forward to seeing our next year’s Kindergarten students attend each of these Fridays. It’s not too late to enrol. Please encourage friends or family members with school age children to contact our friendly office staff and pick up an enrolment package.

Silver, Bronze and Gold Awards

NAPLAN The reports from the NAPLAN tests undertaken earlier in the year have arrived back. We will be sending the results home today. As usual, all of the staff will spend considerable time in the coming months, looking at the strengths and areas of future development for individuals and the school as a whole. We are very mindful however, that these results are just a snap shot of what happened on one day at our school. If the information presented in your report is vastly different to what you received in the half yearly report, parent teacher interviews or in general conversations you may have had, your child’s teacher is the best person to discuss it with. Just phone the school to arrange an appointment. This year is the first time that the children have completed the tests online.

Nitbusting Mention head lice and most of us instantly develop an itch. You'll find these little critters at every school across Australia – and probably the world – at some point during the year. While head lice and nits, (the eggs of head lice) are certainly annoying and persistent, they're not dangerous. To help manage these annoying creatures at our school we ask that every parent checks their children’s head on Monday nights and then treat appropriately. As we all know, it may require several treatments. If you are looking for some tips – please check the following link : https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/practical-help-for-parents-and-carers/family

Jairhyn Parfitt 34JB

Elijah Harrington KMN Dane Harmer 12AM Brontee Zimmer 34VR Madeline Rigby 56AH Jenna Ruhbaum 56JL Wyatt Sims 46KC

Michael Curtis KMN Cleo Urquhart KMN Taylor Coad 34KW Violet Smuts 34KW

Brontee Zimmer 34VR

Red Cross are looking for Volunteers Do you enjoy making a difference? Do you have understanding and empathy for the needs of refugees? Can you work as a team and independently? Are you flexible, creative and friendly? If you answered yes to the above questions, then this may be for you.

The Red Cross is in search of people who are willing to volunteer as part of their Humanitarian Settlement Program. Red Cross volunteers are a vital connection between refugees and their new communities. As part of the Humanitarian Settlement Program you will contribute to creating a friendly and inclusive environment that will help newly arrived refugees feel welcome. If you would like to find out more please feel free to contact the school and we can send more detailed information home to you.

Uniforms Please make sure that all uniforms are clearly marked with your child ’s name so we can return clothing that is left lying around the school. Reminder: Next term, we will have our ‘No hat, play in the shade’ policy in effect.

Obstacool A huge thank you to the families who attended this fantastic day last Friday. The children obviously enjoyed your company and the major change to our normal Friday routine. We are sure that most people slept well on Friday evening. A highlight was surely the student, teacher and parent challenge at the end of the day. Many thanks to Mr Fury and Mrs Chalmers in the front office for organising the day for us. Here are a few photos of the day – there were many more on Facebook although we have not published the photo of Ms Hutchison’s swollen ankle!