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CALENDAR 23-27.06.14 NAIDOC WEEK

24.06.14 2.10pm NAIDOC Week Assembly

25.06.14 12noon-3pm BLACK, YELLOW and

RED Games Afternoon

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

Family Relationship Centre

Exchange Students Families needed

Stamps

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.

Stage 3

Newcastle Excursion Instalment 2

$60

Due this

Friday 20 June 2014

Come along to celebrate NAIDOC Week with Armidale City Public School.

Monday 23 June: Flag raising Ceremony 9:30.

Tuesday 24 June: K-6 Assembly with guest speakers.

Wednesday 25 June: The day will be as follows:

11:10am -11:50am NAIDOC Week Morning Tea. Students, staff and parents are invited to morning tea to be shared in the Primary

playground. Students are asked to bring along a plate of food to share with their Stage. Please see details below:-

Children are to provide a small plate of food to share. Please no food that needs to be heated. It would help us

enormously if the food was already cut up.

Your child has indicated that he/she would like to provide the following:-

Fruit (eg fruit kebabs, watermelon, platter etc)

Sandwiches

Chips, biscuits or dip

Sweets

Please, no nut products

12noon –1pm Fun games and activities on the oval. Everyone is welcome to join in.

Following the games will be a picnic lunch. Please bring along a picnic lunch to share with your child.

Hope to see you there.

The NAIDOC Week Committee.

NAIDOC Week

Celebrations at ACPS

REMEMBER

to wear red,

yellow and

black.

PREMIERS SPELLING BEE SCHOOL FINAL

2:10pm School Auditorium

Monday 23 June 2014

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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

18 June 2014

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 8 Our newsletter this week sees a new format which we hope

you all like. If you have any suggestions or comments please

let the Front Office know. I would like to take this

opportunity to congratulate Mr Townsend and his wife Jane

on the safe arrival of their baby boy – Nicholas last week.

The entire Armidale City Public School community is very

happy for you.

On Tuesday this week our orchestra members went to

Drummond Memorial Public School for the Armidale

Community of Schools Orchestra rehearsal and

performance. Well done, to all students involved and thank

you, to Mrs Jones for your organisation – it was wonderful

to see so many students from Armidale City Public School

involved.

Congratulations, to our students who participated in the

local final of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking

Competition held in the Armidale City Public School library

yesterday. Students had to present both a prepared and

impromptu speech and I was highly impressed by your

efforts. Good luck, to Jane Spencer who won and

progressed on to the next round of the competition and well

done, to Kael Streeting who was awarded Highly

Commended. Thank you, to Mrs Docksey for organising the

day at our school.

Last Friday we held our Tournament of Minds day at

Armidale City Public School. Students from Years 3–6

participated in school teams against each other on solving a

complex problem and every student who had a go at this

challenge is to be commended on their effort.

Next week we will have five students from our school

participate in the e-GATS program camp at Thalgarrah.

Olive Tutt, Juliet Knuckey, Beth Do, Roanan Kelsall and

Dougie Close were all successful with their applications to

be included in the e-GATS program and are to be

congratulated on the time and effort they put into their

very comprehensive applications. Thanks must go to Mrs

Russell for the time and effort she puts into this very

worthwhile program for all students in the New England

Region and also to Mr Phil Roberts and Dr Michelle

Bannister–Tyrrell from UNE for their time in being on the

selection panel for the program.

Student reports will go home next week. I would like to

thank teaching staff for the time and effort they have put

in to complete the Semester 1 Reports. Any parent wishing

to discuss their child’s report should contact their child’s

teacher to make an appropriate time.

This week we have been focusing on students leaving school

grounds as soon as possible after the end of the day bell.

It would also be greatly appreciated if parents who collect

their children, do so as close to our finish time of 3.10pm.

If you happen to be running late for any reason please

contact the Front Office so that we can ensure your

children are appropriately supervised until you arrive.

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. It has been wonderful to meet a number of new

parents this week and to have a chat about their children

and their learning. We are fortunate to have passionate

parents at Armidale City Public School, who all want to see

their child do their best and I encourage parents to also

have a chat with their child’s teacher to discuss the

progress of their child at any time.

Mr Matt Hobbs

Principal

matthew.hobbs@det.nsw.edu.au

BRONZE AWARDS

KR Jack Healey Rosie Oxley

Zac Macfarlane

1/2S Georgia Ridley Onew Kim

3/4KS Jack Foster Ned Maurer

Macuei Chadar Noah Hamilton

Tyler Grant

5/6J Beth Hall Tabitha Petersen

5/6Mac Clancy Roberts Heather Girard

Danika Hazel Anna Dennis

Keira McAndrew Eruera Heremaia

SPORTS NEWS This week Marvin Palad is away at the State Rugby League

Carnival in Kings Cliff. Amy Showell and Sophie Hay will be

away next week at State Soccer Carnival. We wish them the

best of luck and look forward to hearing North Wests’

results.

Congratulations to Amy Showell and Sophie Hay on their

selection in the North West Softball team. The girls will

travel away next term. Apologies to Heather Girard for

omitting her name from the list of Armidale Zone

Softballers.

Congratulations, to Javan Smith and Ely Sisson on gaining

selection in the North West Cross Country team. The

North West trials were held in Coolah last Friday. Javan

came 1st in the 11 years boys event and Ely 4th in the 12

years boys. They will now travel to Sydney for the State

Championships next term.

The Boys’ Rugby League team has graciously bowed out of

the PSSA knockout. They were defeated 12-10, by Ross Hill

in a hotly contested game. Congratulations, to the boys on

their excellent display of sportsmanship and team work. A

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special thank you, to Jimmy Tanner, for coaching the team.

ACPS have had mixed results in the PSSA basketball

knockouts. Both teams travelled to Tamworth for Gala days,

where they played several games of the knockout. The boys

defeated Quirindi, Timbumburri and Tamworth South. The

boys are now Regional Champions. The girls played Werris

Creek and Westdale. They played to the best of their

ability but lost both games.

It has been another busy term for our sporting teams. On

behalf of the students and staff I would like to thank all

the parents who have helped with transport, especially

Angela Girard, Bob Flint and Julie Walsh. Your commitment

is greatly appreciated.

Mrs Sue Kelly

Sports Coordinator

KINDER GREEN CLASS NEWS

It has been another very busy term for Kindergarten Green!

We have been learning all about word families and have been

learning lots of new sight words to help us with our reading

and writing. We are so excited to be writing independently

in our very own writing books.

We have been listening to many wonderful stories this term!

Our favourites have been ‘The Badly Drawn Dog’ by Emma

Dodson and ‘Boss for a Week’ by Libby Handy and Jack

Newnham. We have also been learning lots of fabulous

things in Maths, such as subtraction and fractions!

We made collage chocolate chip cookies, divided them in half

and ‘shared’ them with a friend!

We are looking forward to our NAIDOC Week celebrations

next week. There are so many fun activities for us to do as

part of these celebrations! We are also looking forward to

the school holidays. We can’t believe that we are nearly

halfway through Kindergarten!!

Mrs Tina Rubie

Class Teacher

3/4RT CLASS NEWS I have had the pleasure of teaching 3/4RT in Term 2 and we

have been very busy. We are fascinated about British

colonisation, which the children wrote emotive and

descriptive convict diaries, drew their convict and are

currently in the process of creating very informative

PowerPoint presentations as well. The children have

created their own Surrealism artworks which are

impressive.

The children participated well at the athletics carnival and

are to be congratulated on their great sportsmanship.

As a class the children organised beautiful birthday

surprises for me and I want to send a very big thank you to

everyone and the parents who helped, I am very proud of

the class for working as a team.

Miss Charmaine Perris

Class Teacher

5/6K CLASS NEWS

What’s Been Happening in 5/6K

There is a class called 5/6K

They work very hard all through the day

Learning together until their brains go pop

They can’t wait to go home each day and just flop

Thank goodness the holidays are well on the way!

E ngaged with the book Onion Tears,

N am Huong a shy, sad, lonely, young girl,

G rieving the loss of her family

L ittle Yellow Canary, best friend and so dearly missed,

I n the restaurant Chu Minh and Aunty work hard,

S amson, Miss Lily’s dog just wanted to be friends,

H appiness comes to Nam at last

By Emilie, Talita, Nikki

PE

Breathless, sweating

Running, dodging, sprinting,

Heart racing, exhausted, exhilarating

Exercise

By Lily & Louella

There were three boys named Jay, Bren and Tai

They liked to run, skip, hop and fly,

They flew to the moon and saw a camel,

And went to Mars and brought back a mammal,

So Jay could bake his mate a delicious meat pie.

By Jayden, Brendan & Teokotai

Mathematics

Mental computation

Difficult problem solving

Frustrating, complex confusing work

Mathematicians

By James, Andrew

Science

Simple Machines are used today,

They make life easy in every way,

They aren’t so bad,

And you’ll be glad,

You’re using a simple machine today.

By Lachie, Zac, Andre

China

Beautiful Culture,

Bustling, Rushing, Overcrowding

Historical Cities, Massive Wonder,

Winding, weaving, intriguing,

Magnificent, man made

Great Wall

By Harry, Cody & Singleton

Mrs Sue Kelly

Class Teacher