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Family Relationship Centre

Exchange Students Families needed

Orienteering

Tuition

After School Care

NERAM-Art Classes and Holiday Classes

Bridge

Hockey

Scouts

Vacation Care

Holiday Kids Clubs

Lake Keepit Holiday Camps

If you would like more information on these events

please call into our office and check out our Community

Noticeboard.

The Armidale City Public School Mother’s Day Fete is the

P&C’s biggest fundraiser of the year. It is also an exciting

day on the school calendar with lots of fun, food and great

stalls! This great event is only possible thanks to the very

generous contributions of many wonderful sponsors and

supporters.

Armidale City Public School P&C would like to offer

sincere thanks to the following businesses: New England Community Mutual

New England Building Recyclers

Ridley Skips

Whispering Pines Cottage - Dorrigo

Athlete's Foot Armidale

Prue & Olive Café

The Cool Spot

Bunnings

Office Express

Reflections Hair Studio

Ash Dell Photography

Armidale Toys

Bakers Delight

Lowes Menswear

Irresistible Style

Moxon’s Bakery

Coles Supermarket Armidale

Gym Ridz

Donut King

Renee Maree

Leonie’s Bridal & Formal

Armidale High School

Cedar Nursery

Peterson's Winery & Guest House

Knight’s Corner Store

Armidale Sportspower

New England Trophies

Black Dot Music

Armidale Ex-Services Club

Armidale City Bowling Club

Belgrave Twin Cinema

Big W Pet Centre

Ed Alive

Roberts & Morrow

Altitude Coffee

Apex Club of Sandon County

Warren Lawrence - merry-go-round

Rossbuild

Daily Ritual

Armidale Sport & Recreation Centre

Ducat's

Armidale Dumaresq Council

Little Cocos

McDonald's Family Restaurant

Armidale Locksmiths

BIG Print Central

Eagle Boys Pizza

Armidale Wholesale Fruit Market

Sport UNE

Barbeques Galore

Healthy Inspirations

St Kilda Hotel

Armidale Outdoors

Independent Sports

Civic Video

McMahons Your Dry Cleaner

Carr’s Newsagency

Bidvest

Forsyths Accounting

Armidale Netball

Skybridge

TAS Foundation

Armidale Dog Club

Joy Bowles - Labyrinth

Armidale Antique Machinery Club

Norco

Armidale Alligators Swimming Club

Imperial Hotel

Image 2 Dye For

D’Fine Hair Colour

Goldfish Bowl Bakery

Kristie’s Hair & Beauty

Pearl Perch Takeaway

2AD & FM100.3

Feel Good Fitness

Williams Auto

Thorne Dental

Purkiss Rural

New England Hobbies

Steakout Family Restaurant

UNE Animal House

Grazag

Cathy & Hugh Sutherland - Deeargee

Pete Stanley

Joe Russell

The teachers, staff, students & families of Armidale City

Public School!

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■ Address: 142-152 Faulkner St, Armidale NSW 2350

■ Phone: 02 6772 3420 ■ Fax: 02 6771 2262

■ Email: armidalec-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au ■ Website: www.armidale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

The Blue and White Armidale City Public School

the heart of Armidale

Quality teaching since 1861

Principal: Mr Matt Hobbs School Captains: Lucy Cook, Mangarchot Maluach

School Executive: Mrs Cherrie Paterson, Mrs Leonie MacGregor, Mrs Jodie Ridley

25 June 2014

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 9 Last week was our first week of our new newsletter format.

We have had positive feedback about the new layout and I

encourage parents and community members to let us know

what they think about the layout and with any other

suggestions they may have.

This week we are celebrating NAIDOC Week at Armidale

City Public School. Students and staff have been taking

part in a variety of activities and I would like to make

particular mention of our students who performed dances,

speeches and songs at the NAIDOC Assembly yesterday –

you are all highly talented – thank you, for sharing your

special gifts with us. Thank you, also to the students and

Bruce Roberts from the Armidale High School Clontarf

group, to Will Green from Armidale Police, to Natalie

Nugent from NECOM and Brad Widders from Armidale

City Public School for your efforts in supporting and

organising our students for the NAIDOC Assembly.

Student reports are being sent home this week. I would

like to thank teaching staff for the time and effort they

have put in to complete the Semester One reports. Any

parent wishing to discuss their child’s report should contact

their child’s teacher to make an appropriate time.

On Wednesday and Thursday this week we will have five

students from our school participate in the e-GATS

program camp at Thalgarrah Environmental Education

Centre. Olive Tutt, Juliet Knuckey, Beth Do, Roanan

Kelsall and Dougie Close will all spend time with Mrs

Russell and other teachers at Thalgarrah working on a

variety of projects and we know they will be participating in

quality learning experiences with students from throughout

the New England Region. Thank you, again to Mr Phil

Roberts and Dr Michelle Bannister – Tyrrell from UNE for

their time in being on the selection panel for the program.

The ‘Be Skilled Be Fit’ day held last Thursday was a

wonderful day for all students involved and this week on

Friday will be our School Athletics Carnival – track events

at Armidale High School. All students are reminded to

make sure you bring your hat and a jumper along for Friday.

Our School Council Annual General Meeting for 2014 was

held on Monday 20 May. There is still a vacancy on our

School Council for a parent representative. Attached to

the newsletter two weeks ago was a nomination form for any

parent wishing to nominate for the vacant position.

Nomination forms are due back to the office by the last day

of this term – Friday 20 June.

Levels of interest for a school based Ethics program

commencing for students in Years 5 and 6 have indicated

there are sufficient students who wish to take part in

Ethics classes. Classes will run at the same time as

Scripture classes and start date is planned for Tuesday 15

July (Week 1, Term 3). Early next term we will be

determining the level of interest for other year groups. If

any parent wishes to volunteer to teach Ethics Classes

please let the office know.

I would like to remind parents that supervision for students

before school does not commence until 8.40am. A number

of students have been arriving before this time in the last

few weeks and parents are reminded students who walk,

ride or get dropped off should not be arriving well before

this time. We thank parents and families for their support

with this matter.

Staff will be undertaking professional learning in ‘Taking

Off With Numeracy’ and the ‘Quality Teaching Framework’

on the staff development day at the beginning of next term.

The first day back for students in Term 3 is Tuesday 15

July. I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday

break and thank the entire Armidale City Public School

community for your warm welcome this term. Please feel

free to email me on the address below if you wish to raise

any points of interest. Thank you, to parents who have

already emailed me with suggestions and questions.

Mr Matt Hobbs

Principal

matthew.hobbs@det.nsw.edu.au

Thankyou !!!! A big thankyou to Jani Cullen who

came in last week to plant out the

garden beds in the infants

playground with an assortment of

winter vegies.

CALENDAR 27.06.14 Year 3-6 Athletics Carnival–

Track Events at AHS

27.06.14 Last Day of Term 2

14.07.14 Teachers and Staff return to

school for Term 3

15.07.14 Students return to school for

Term 3

16.07.14 2pm Touch Football

17.07.14 New England Sings Rehearsal

18.07.14 Stage 3-Leisure Sports

22.07.14 2.10pm K-6 Assembly

25.07.14 Chess Day

28.07.14 North West Gymnastics

01.08.14 Stage 3-Leisure Sports

06.08.14 7.30pm P&C Meetings

08.08.14 Zone Athletics

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BRONZE AWARDS

1/2K Chloe Porter Jaden Streeting

Patrick Collins

1/2S Brendan Bishop Sienna Ovenden

Finlay Coop Sophia Croft

Zack McCallum

3/4KS Oluoma Malu Rebekah Craven

Aashrita Abbaraju Phoebe Girard

Camiele Nadimi Ryan Eastwood

5/6K Louella Gayden

5/6R Damien Tyers

SILVER AWARDS

KR Saho Brown Charlotte Coventry

Kaelem Thapa

1/2S Seb Brotherson Zack McCallum

3/4KS Ryan Eastwood

5/6J Ely Sisson Liam Whitehill

5/6R Olive Tutt

Premier’s Spelling Bee

Congratulations to all the students that participated in the

school Spelling Bee on Monday, the following student’s will

now go on to represent our school at the Regional Spelling

Final. Alexander Cristani (Stage 2-Winner), John Sarota

(Stage 2–Runner Up), Beth Do (Stage 3– Winner) and Olive

Tutt (Stage 3– Runner Up).

Primary Research Challenge Awards

Congratulations to the following Students who achieved

great results in the Primary Research Challenge.:

High Distinctions:

Beth Do, Andre Nadimi, Jane Spencer

Distinctions:

Aneeka Armstrong, Lucy Cook, Hamish Doak, Amy Evans,

Katie Haynes, Roanan Kelsall, Sophia Knight, Tabitha

Petersen, Olive Tutt

Credit:

April Boyd, Howard Broadbent, Emily Berryman, Juliet

Knuckey, Maluach Mangarchot, Tomasina Model, Zeudi

Pearse, Chris Tall, Airlie Walsh, Kaleb Yates

Merit:

Dougie Close, Margaret Conroy, Mark Cuskelly, Piyumi

Ekanayake, Max Fairy, Heather Girard, Henry Jackes,

Isha Lal, Hayden Schultz, Charlotte Thomas, Mitchell

Werren, India Zikan.