ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 4 13/08/2014

ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 1 13/08/2014

■ 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

13 August 2014

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 5 Congratulations to Mrs Jodie Ridley who has been

appointed through the DEC Merit Selection process to the

vacant Assistant Principal position at Armidale City Public

School. This means Mrs Ridley will continue as the

Assistant Principal responsible for Stage 2 and that Miss

Perris will continue as the teacher on 3/4RT for the

remainder of 2014. Mrs Kelly returns from long service

leave this week and we thank, Mr Bugden for his

tremendous work with 5/6K while Mrs Kelly was away.

We had ‘A Little Night Music’ last Wednesday evening in

the school hall and the talent on show was wonderful. The

students who performed presented a wide variety of music

to demonstrate their talents. Well done, to all students

involved, thank you, to Mrs MacGregor for organising the

evening and thank you, parents for your support.

Our P&C meeting for August was also held last Wednesday

evening and a number of items were discussed at the

meeting ranging from school projects the P&C is going to

support, to the next meal deal to school canteen and its

viability. I encourage all community members to come along

to the next meeting in September and join in with this hard

working group.

We are currently working on developing our school plan for

2015 – 2017. The new approach to school planning brings

together a number of reforms to give NSW public schools

greater authority to meet the needs of their communities,

to improve the quality of teaching in schools and to improve

outcomes for all students. It is highly strategic, focussing

on 3 key areas for improvement determined by the school in

consultation with its community, to ensure a profound

difference to the ongoing growth and development of the

school. Each strategic direction will articulate the school’s

approach and identify the key improvement measures using

the new 5P methodology – Purpose, People, Processes,

Practices and Products. The product will be an individual

school plan, contextually driven to support the achievement

of the key improvement measures to address the needs of

students at the local level. In collaboration with our school

parent body and community we want to create a shared

vision for Armidale City Public School. Any parent who

wishes to have input, please email me to register your

interest.

An official Armidale City Public School Facebook page has

been set up and this page will be kept up to date with whole

school events on a regular basis. This is another way for

families to see what is going on at the school. The address

is https://www.facebook.com/armidalecitypublicschool . If

you would like to ask any questions about this page please

contact the office.

Our Stage 3 leadership team will today attend the New

England Schools Remember event in Armidale. This is an

important event for Armidale and I thank Mrs Paterson

and Mrs MacGregor for organising our attendance.

During Term 3 all classes will be taking part in child

protection lessons as part of the PDHPE curriculum for

NSW DEC. If any parent would like to discuss the content

of these lessons please contact your child’s teacher.

I would like to remind all parents who drop their children

off each day and pick them up to reinforce safe behaviour

when crossing roads – particularly when getting out of a car

and crossing the road. We have a high volume of cars and

buses around our school in the morning and afternoon and it

is important students remember all road safety rules. I

would also like to remind parents that the school car park

should not be used to drop off, or collect children.

Good luck, to our basketball and touch football teams who

will play in the next round of the PSSA knockout this week.

The boys’ basketball team is travelling to Port Macquarie to

play Tacking Point Public School and the boys’ touch football

team will play against Newling Public School. Thank you, to

Mrs Docksey, Mr Widders and Mrs Schultz for coaching

and organising these teams.

Well done, to all students on your efforts throughout the

last week – your outstanding work makes me proud to be

Principal of such a great school. Please feel free to email

me on the address below if you wish to raise any points of

interest, thank you, for the ongoing support of parents and

community.

Mr Matt Hobbs

Principal

matthew.hobbs@det.nsw.edu.au

CALENDAR 14.08.14 1/2S Visiting Thalgarrah

15.08.14 1/2K Visiting Thalgarrah

15.08.14 Stage 3 Leisure Sports

18-22.08.14 Book Week

20.08.14 11.45am Book Character Parade

27.08.14 12noon and 7pm Kinder 2015

Parent Information Sessions

10.09.14 11.40am-1.10pm ‘Jump Rope for

Heart’ followed by a Picnic Lunch

19.09.14 Last Day of Term 3

07.10.14 First Day of Term 4 Staff and

Students

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BRONZE AWARDS

KR Lily-Mae O'Shea

1/2S Mischa Gilby

1/2W Louisa Duarte Maya Hazel

Bernie Dawson

1/2C Shantaya Connolly Zoie Pout-Roberts

Ian Smith Brayden Scott

Ela Tabulutu Reeghan Woods

Georgia Bursle Orlando Scott

Stevie Rees Dominic Kliendienst

1/2K Holly Petersen Brodie Cox

3/4KS Reed Dawson Ethan Ballantine

Shian Kim Amelia Newell

Bethany Eickhoff Clio Knight

Caedyn Gilby Lachlan Thompson

3/4RT Flynn Knuckey

3/4R Thomas Tibbs Belle Mitchell

5/6R Mark Cuskelly Malakye Cook

5/6Mac Fraser Wilson

MANGARCHOT’S DAY THANK YOU to all of the ACPS Community!!!!

Through the mufti day, the competitions, especially the

“shoot outs”, ticket sales and some donations, we were able

to contribute a total of $979:50 towards Mangarchot’s

expenses with the NSW PSSA team. What a great effort

from a very generous school community.

Competition winners:

Story: Mia Brotherson, Chiyo Brown, Lauren Williams

Picture: Danika Smith, Nathan Smith, Lilly Green,

April Boyd

Shootout: Laura Grant, Keanen Brown, Lilly Green,

Shadrach Waninga, Isobel Macey, Malakye Cook.

Basketball game: very close but the students finished with a

great long shot from Mangarchot to avenge their loss last

year.

Book Week

The annual Book Character Parade will be held on

Wednesday 20 August. This very popular annual event will

be held in the hall beginning at 11:45am. Children should

dress as a favourite book character, and bring the book with

them if possible.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

All students in Kindergarten and Stage 1 have completed the

Premier’s Reading Challenge in their classes. They have

shared 30 books from the list by either, reading

themselves, sharing with a friend, or having them read to

the class by the teacher.

In Stages 2 and 3 the children have had all of the year to

work on reading 20 books. Challenge entries now need to be

finalised by the end of Week 6.

At this point 66 students have completed the challenge and

a number of students are very close to completion.

Those who have completed the challenge are: Beth Do, Max

Fairy, Toby Hall, Olivia Joyce, Blake Cornish, Rubi

Ainsworth, Chiyo Brown, Grace Rodrigues, Kendall

Bradley, Catalina Cox, Hamish Gerard, Shian Kim, Alix

McShane, Zara Smith, Mikayla Tombs, Lauren Williams,

Nicholas Bugden, Jessica Burgess, Kasey Cochrane,

Delphi Collins, Rebekah Craven, Ben Duarte, Fynn

Eastwood, Aaron George, Lilly Green, Nicholas Holmes,

Sam Johnson, Eden Kelsall, Heath Maurer, Cami Nadimi,

Harry Sears, Sam Walker, Hamish Woods, Grace

Worthing, Aneeka Armstrong, Emily Berryman, Anna

Dennis, Bailey Eather, Sophia Knight, Zoe McShane,

Tomasina Model, Tabitha Petersen, Charlotte Thomas,

Manar Al-Hassani, April Boyd, Howard Broadbent,

Margaret Conroy, Lucy Cook, Talita Craven, Britt Dell,

Andrew Henderson, Madeleine Holmes, Tahlia Ingelby,

Henry Jackes, Roanan Kelsall, Juliet Knuckey, Isha Lal,

Claudia Marshall, James Morton, Andre Nadimi, Hayden

Schultz, Amy Showell, Ely Sisson, Jane Spencer, Olive

Tutt, Lily Wilson.

Girls Softball

The ACPS girls Softball team defeated Narrabri 10-9 in the

regional final played last week. The team will now need to

train hard for an inter-regional match later in the year.

Well done, girls.

Mrs Judy Docksey

Class Teachers

KINDER 2015 Attached to this week’s newsletter is an invitation to the

Parent Information Sessions for Kinder 2015. If you have a

child starting in Kinder 2015, please come along. If know of

any children starting school in 2015 we would love you to

pass on this invite to them.

BOOK WEEK

18 to 22 August

2014

Come as your

favourite character to the

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE

ON

WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST 2014

11.40am-1.00pm

In The Auditorium