Respect. Excellence. Acceptance. Community. Honesty. Dear Parents and Families: What a wonderful Term we have had with the opportunity to celebrate so many achievements;

Our Grade 3 NAPLAN scores at or above state level (WOW)

Our Learning growth from Grade 3 to Grade 5 has shown medium to high growth which is fabulous.

Matific (Maths competition) ANPS came 1st in Victoria and 4

th overall in Australia – WELL

DONE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!

Ana D from 5/6Lwent through to Regional Finals in Athletics – GREAT EFFORT!!

Hot Shots Tennis Team is in the Regional Finals – GO ANPS HOT SHOTS!!

Parents and Friends have done great things in the garden and bought the school a new BBQ for our sausage sizzles – THANKYOU

5/6 Cyber Bulling Information Program

We have been successful in getting $35,000 in grant money

Camp, Swimming, Sport, Excursions, Incursions and more

AUSLAN OPERA from the Australian Opera Company

Participated in the Hobsons Bay – Art in Public Places – GREAT ART WORK!!!!

A visit from SUBZERO a Melbourne Cup winner

Danced to Carranballac’s Rock Band

Welcomed Mike Larkan from Channel 10’s Weather

Family Maths Games Night These are only a few of the exciting life experiences that students experience at ANPS.

MIKE LARKAN: What a fantastic night we had on Monday with Mike Larkan and his crew. We had a big turn up with lots of photos and selfies being taking with Mike (and that was the parents!!!!). He spoke beautifully about our school and was extremely impressed with the students and our achievements. Thankyou to Wendy Curran for organising this fun evening and to the staff who helped set up, pack up, cook yummy sausages, organise coffee for our parents and looked after the students on the night. There were lots of laughs and we even beat the rain.

FAMILY MATHS GAMES NIGHT: Thankyou to everyone who turned up to our Family Maths Games Night last night. These nights are getting more and more popular with our families. It gives parents an opportunity to experience the learning our children do on a daily basis. We encourage Maths to be fun as it is a highly important part of learning in our everyday lives. Don’t forget to practice the activities at home over the holidays.

MUSIC UNIFORMS: Yesterday our new set of Music Uniforms arrived just in time for our Family Maths Games Night. For those families at our Maths Night you have to admit they looked AWESOME!!! Our students sometimes perform at school, community events or Kinders so they will look smart in their music shirts.

REMINDER: Tomorrow (Friday) is the last day for Term 3 and is an EARLY FINISH at 2:00pm. Please make sure you have made arrangements to have your children picked up at 2:00pm. Make sure you all have a happy and safe holiday no matter where you spend your time. I will be heading up to my place in the bush for the holidays and looking forward to the quiet and restful atmosphere not to mention all the Kangaroos in the front paddock.

TOMORROW 2PM FINISH - LAST DAY OF TERM 3.

GOLD COIN DONATION

Altona North Primary School 51 Cresser Street, Altona North 3025

P.O. Box 218, Altona North 3025 Phone: Fax:

Email: Web:

(03) 9391 4233 (03) 9391 8680 altona.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.altonanorthps.vic.edu.au

September 21st, 2017 Newsletter No: 29

Dates to Remember

TERM 3

Friday 22nd:

Book Character Parade

8:45am

Friday 22nd: END OF

TERM 3 - 2pm

dismissal. GOLD COIN

DONATION

TERM 4

OCTOBER:

Sunday 1st: Daylight

Savings Begins

Monday 9th: START OF

TERM 4

Prep Excursion to

Colingwood Children’s

Farm

Tuesday 10th: Hot

Shots Tennis Final

Monday 16th: Pupil

Free Day

School Council 7pm

Tuesday 24th: Grade 6

Graduation Picture

Friday 27th: House

Sports Day

NOVEMBER:

Monday 6th:

Curriculum Day - Report

Writing

Tuesday 7th:

Melbourne Cup Public

Holiday

Monday 20th: School

Council

Friday 24th: 5/6 Beach

Program

DECEMBER:

Thursday 7th: School

Concert

Friday 22nd: LAST DAY

OF TERM 4

From the Principal

Respect. Excellence. Acceptance. Community. Honesty .

Congratulations to Ana D from 5/6L who represented the Altona District School Sports Association in the Western Region Athletics finals last Wednesday. Ana was absolutely amazing! She did herself, her family and her school proud by finishing 3rd in the final of the 100m sprint. Well done Ana on an amazing achievement.

PARENT OPINON SURVEYS: Thankyou to those parents who took the time to fill in the Parent Opinion Surveys. They have just been release today and its great to see the improvements across the areas. Another celebration for ANPS!!!!!

BOOKS ON PARADE: Don’t forget tomorrow is our book parade assembly, so parents and family members don’t forget to come along and see books come alive with the students parading their book character costumes. It will be loads of fun. 2018 PREP TRANSITION: This year our Prep Transition will start on Wednesday 1st November from 9am - 10:30am. Sessions will continue on Wednesday 8th November, Wednesday 15th November, Wednesday 22nd November and will conclude on Wednesday 29th November with an important Parent Information Sessions included. Full details regarding Prep Transition will be sent out to families with students enrolled in Prep 2018 in the coming days.

CONCERT: Preparations for this year’s school concert are well on the way. You will be informed by your classroom teachers for any costumes that might be needed for the night. Ticketing information will be available in the next few weeks so make sure you read the newsletter and check our website regularly. The concert will be held on Thursday 7th December. See you in Term 4.

Robyn Gregson, Principal

From the Principal Continued…

The last day of term, Friday 22nd September is a fundraiser day with a gold coin donation. All Proceeds from the day will be donated directly to The Fight Cancer Foundation; a very worthwhile cause I’m sure you’ll agree. Fight Cancer Foundation is a national charity dedicated to providing care, treatment and support for cancer patients and their families and funding vital research into cancer treatment and cures. You can find out more about the foundation here: https://www.fightcancer.org.au/

SOCIAL SERVICE NEWS:

BUDDY READING

On Tuesday 12 J went to Prep P and it was fun to share our reading. (Emma) We took our animal stories to read. (Ahmad) Some of the preps were amazing readers. (Oliver) It was fun to buddy read. We are going to do it every week next term. (Zak) I really enjoyed it and so did my buddy reader. (Gideon)

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Grade 5/6 Scaffold Maths

The Grade 5/6 Unit, along with some of our Grade 4 students, have been working hard on learning multiplication. We are using an evidenced-based program developed by the Department of Education to identify and meet the learning needs of

each and every student. Students are encouraged to develop their multiplication ability through engaging activities.

Working with counters, making arrays.

Investigating dye solutions, focusing on proportion and concentration.

Recording results and reflecting on learning.