All Saints’ College JUNIOR SCHOOL

VIMIssue 32 Thursday, 30 October 2008

From the Head of

Junior School

busy at work painting some handball squares on the concrete outside of the Year 3 and 4 classrooms. He is also renovating our large outdoor chess board. A big thank you Father Paul for this great initiative.Year 3 and 4 Singing in the CathedralOn Sunday 2 November students on Year 3 and 4 will be singing at the All Saints’ Cathedral, Church Street. Children need to be there at 9.30am dressed in their school uniform.Junior School Assembly 9.00am on Fridays

The Jackman Challenge Question: Bill has twice as many coins as Charlie. When Bill gives Charlie 3 coins they each have the same number. How many coins did they each have to start with?Answer to last week’s question: 11 comic

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Mr Chris Jackman

Sealing of the Time Capsule at All Saints’ Cathedral Bell TowerOn Saturday 1st November at 11.00am there will be a ceremony to seal the time capsule at All Saints’ Cathedral. This time capsule will be placed in the new Bell Tower and contains photographs of Year 6 students across all Primary Schools in the Bathurst region, including All Saints’ College. The capsule will be opened in 50 years time and it is hoped that many of the current Year 6 students can attend that ceremony also.I would like to invite all Year 6 students and their families to the ceremony this Saturday. The ceremony should take around half an hour. Year 6 students attending the ceremony must wear full school uniform.Junior School Music NightI encourage all parents and students to attend the Junior School Music Night next Thursday 6th November. It will begin at 7.30pm and will be held in the Bickerdike Centre.Visit from Pittwater HouseNext Wednesday 5th November Year 5 students from Pittwater House will be visiting All Saints’ College to have a game of cricket and softball. The games will begin at 3.30pm.Thank you, Father Paul!Early last Saturday morning many of the parents and students arriving at school to begin sport, would have seen Father Paul

books. There were no winners from last week.Entries due to Mrs Keogh by 10.00am on Thursday 5 November. Important Dates for your CalendarSunday 2 November Years 3 and 4 Singing in Cathedral (9.30am)Thursday 6 November JS Music Night Friday 21 November Transition (3 day) Christmas Concert & Morning TeaFriday 21 November Year 6 Valedictory DinnerMonday 24 November Transition (5 day) Christmas Concert & Morning TeaTuesday 25 November Transition (2 day) Christmas Concert & Morning TeaThursday 27 November Transition Chapel ServiceFriday 28 November Infants Thanksgiving ServiceThursday 4 December College Carols Service in the CathedralFriday 5 December Junior School Speech Day (9.30am) & Morning Tea- Please note students begin holidays at 11.00am on Friday 5 December.

Junior School Assembly 9.00am on Fridays Week Date Class 3 31 October No assembly – Orientation Day 4 7 November Year 4 5 14 November Year 5 6 21 November Year 6 7 28 November No Assembly – Infants Thanksgiving Service 8 5 December Speech Day The Jackman Challenge Question: Bill has twice as many coins as Charlie. When Bill gives Charlie 3 coins they each have the same number. How many coins did they each have to start with? Answer to last week’s question: 11 comic books. There were no winners from last week. Entries due to Mrs Keogh by 10.00am on Thursday 5 November. Important Dates for your Calendar Sunday 2 November Years 3 and 4 Singing in Cathedral (9.30am) Thursday 6 November JS Music Night Friday 21 November Transition (3 day) Christmas Concert & Morning Tea Friday 21 November Year 6 Valedictory Dinner Monday 24 November Transition (5 day) Christmas Concert & Morning Tea Tuesday 25 November Transition (2 day) Christmas Concert & Morning Tea Thursday 27 November Transition Chapel Service Friday 28 November Infants Thanksgiving Service Thursday 4 December College Carols Service in the Cathedral Friday 5 December Junior School Speech Day (9.30am) & Morning Tea - Please note students begin holidays at 11.00am on Friday 5 December. As this goes to print we are having the

Year 7 Orientation Day. My thanks to those present Year 7’s who are helping with the Chapel presentation at the conclusion of the day.I have been so pleased by the many students who have offered to help at Chapel.There is a real air of anticipation and I look forward to seeing the Year ¾ Choir at the Cathedral this Sunday for the 10 am service.

From the Chaplain

Father Paul WoodhartBOOK FAIR

COASTER BUS FOR SALE1995 Toyota Coaster Bus – 21 seater, 340,000 kilometres. Ideal for camper conversion. Inspections welcome. Please contact Business Manager. $27,500 ono.

Thankyou to the children, parents and teachers who helped to make our Book Fair last Friday an amazing success. The children were so excited on the day to come to the library to purchase books which they could take home. If an order was placed for a book, as soon as they arrive from Scholastic I will hand them out to the children. The total amount of purchases on the day $3792.00, which is an all time record. We will receive approx. $1,000 worth of books for the Junior School Library as a result of the sales. Thankyou again for helping to make the Book Fair such a great experience. Mrs Crofts

Transition NewsThis week our phoneme is ‘er’. Mrs Porter had fun using the ‘mixer’ and making lots of bubbles in the water. Mrs Rolfe’s class baked gingerbread people. They were delicious! Mrs Parsons helped her class make letters.We have been learning to make number sentences. We are very clever and can now add numbers together confidently.We are enjoying our P.E. lessons with Mrs Nelson. We play “Builders and Bulldozers”, balancing games, obstacle courses and partners games. We love it!Our Christmas concerts are coming along well. We nearly know our words - thank you for helping us! We can’t wait to show you how clever we are!

Regards Liz, Deb and Sally.

BASKETBALL DRAWThursday 30th October4.15pm Panthers Vs CobrasFriday 31st October4.10 Lollipops V Ladybugs

7 YEARS KANGA CRICKET On a magic Saturday morning at the ECG, (Edgell

Cricket Ground) the Joeys prepared to take on their opposition...themselves! These keen cricketers were on a bye yet decided to enhance their skills in a friendly game against each other. There were some outstanding

displays of batting from Alexander, Hugh and Lachlan. There was also some brilliantly accurate bowling from Ben, Alex and Andy. It was an exciting game with a few close run out chances thanks to some quick fielding from Ethan, Samantha, Angus and Sam. Player of the week went to Geordi whose skills have shown much improvement. Well done to everyone. Mr Buckley

10 YEARS CRICKET

The Hardball cricket team had their first serious match of the season and performed extremely well against St Pats Blue. Captain Lachlan Wilkinson won the toss and elected

to bowl, making use of the cool conditions early. Lachlan bowled a probing early over and was supported admirably by wicket keeper, Ben Griffin. Alexander Miller and Matthew Jackman also bowled with accuracy and restricted the opposition’s scoring. David Cant bowled with flight and control when landing his leg spinners and Henry Morgan worked up impressive speed of the long run. At the conclusion of the innings St Pats had scored 90 runs and had been dismissed 5 times, giving them an excellent average of 18. The All Saints’ batsmen began the chase well with Hugh Elbourne striking the ball cleanly with some excellent straight bat shots. Christopher Lo also batted well and thrilled the crowd with a beautiful hook shot for 4. Lachlan Cox displayed great determination and worked hard to block the balls on his stumps. Travis Cartwright batted patiently and also played some dashing shots on both sides of the wicket. Travis also claimed 2 wickets which helped earn him the Player of the Match award. At the conclusion of our innings we had scored 55 runs and had also been dismissed 5 times which gave us an average of 11 runs - not enough to claim victory, but an excellent effort, nevertheless. It was an excellent effort by our boys and I was delighted by their sportsmanship and camaraderie. I would also like to thank Mr Cox for scoring during the match. I look forward to the game this Saturday. Mr Cant

Cricket Draws - Saturday 1st November

Team Time Opponent Venue 7 Years Joeys 9:00 am Practice Match All Saints’Edgell Oval 7 Years Pups 9:00 am St Pats Red Brooke Moore Oval 5 9 Years Kanga 9:00 am Rugby Union Clark All Saints’ Tracey Oval 10 Years Hardball 8:45 am Rugby Union Gold All Saints’ Stiles Oval

7 YEARS PUPS CRICKETOn Saturday ASC U7 Pups played Bushrangers Black at George Park 2. We lost the toss and Bushranges fielded first. Our bowling was good and we were challenged with our fielding and came up trumps! The highlight of the game was a magnificent catch by Angus Crozier off Bailey Jardine’s great bowling. Our batting is improving and we had some strong partnerships.Brilliant Battlers: Jono Gardiner, Ewen Wilkinson, Eliza Jardine. Fantastic Fielders: Charles Crowley, Sean Gardner On the Ball Bowling: Bailey Jardine Wicked Wicket Keeping: Bradley Gardiner Our Player of the Week: ANGUS CROZIERA big thank you to Mrs Robyn Crowley for umpiring and thanks to all the parents for their cheering and support.

Mrs Gardiner: Coach

UNDER 9’S CRICKET “LIGHTNING BOLTS”

Another great day for cricket and the under 9 Lightning Bolts were at their home ground. Tim

Pickard was Captain and elected to bat after winning the toss. It was a solid start by Tim P and Simon. All players added runs and Lachlan and Thomas had a great day with the bat. Lachlan did not give up his wicket and scored at a run a ball. Jack and Tim C also were handy with the bat. Our bowling and fielding has become impressive. Lachlan took four wickets and it was great to see the backing up in the field. Nick, Kian and Tim J are also developing as great bowlers. All in all it was a great display by our team. In fact it was great to see just how much they have improved in just a week. For his skills with the bat and ball this week, Lachlan Buckley won our player of the week award. Well done, Bolts! Mr Pickard.

One of our sport options at present is aerobics.

We have had a great time moving to motivating music and learning some challenging moves. We have so much fun we don’t even realise we are exercising! Give aerobics a go! Regards Liz Rolfe.