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ARMIDALE DISCOUNT DRUG STORE

For professional advice on all your family

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8:30am - 12:30pm Saturday

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7:00am-5:00pm.

Saturday-Sunday 8:00am-2:30pm.

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local call : 5713 0003

TERM 3 2015 CALENDAR

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

9

10

SWIMMING SCHOOL

7.9

8.9

Girls Hockey

Narellan

9.9

Spelling Bee Final

3/4 Starmaker Semi Final

Maths Olympiad

10.9

‘Jump off’

Jump Rope for Heart

11.9

Flute trio

SWIMMING SCHOOL

14.9

5/6

Starmaker

Semi Final

15.9

16.9

Starmaker Grand Final

11:30-1:00pm

AHS Transition 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Years 3-6 Socials

17.9 18.9

K-2 Athletics Carnival

Sausage Sizzle

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ARMIDALE BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU

Kids from the age of 5 will develop self confidence,

athleticism and learn self control techniques.

www.armidalebrazilianjiujitsu.com.au

Head Coach Felipe Faria: 0423 957 976

GIRLS ONLY SOCCER PROGRAM

When: October 10—December 12 Saturdays from 9:30am—10:30am

Where: Rologas Fields Armidale Cost: $120 which includes a backpack, ball

and drink bottle ($90 for return players)

CRICKET REGISTRATION

When: Saturday October 10

For further information contact:

Hillgrove: Ian Reeves 0477 707 408

Uralla: Andrew Page 0400 872 788

Norths: Peter Collins 0429 040 218

CSC: Mark McDermott 0413 452 4912

Guyra: Craig Lockyer 0427 013 312

Ex Servies: Peter Collins 0422 215 056

(rego day Ex Servies Friday September

11 at Harris Park nets from 4-5pm)

In2cricket for 5-8 Year olds

michael.and.helen13@gmail.com

K-2 Athletics Carnival—Friday September 11

Parents to meet students at Bruce Browning Oval

9:30am - 9:40am Teachers to organise students into house

groups on Bruce Browning Oval

9:40am - 11:15am Age Races 5, 6, 7 and 8 Years

Finals

Toddlers Race, Mums and Dads Race

11:15am - 11:40am MORNING TEA

11:45am - 12:50pm Tabloid Activities

12:55pm SAUSAGE SIZZLE LUNCH

BEN VENEWS Erskine Street, Armidale 2350

PO Box 398 Phone:02) 6772 4263

Fax:(02) 6771 2037 Email: benvenue-

p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ben Venue Public School…

where great things are always happening!

Welcome to Week 9 Term 3 September 8, 2015

It has been a very busy time and it never ceases to amaze me how the

teachers at Ben Venue give unstintingly of their time to make sure

that students take part in many activities and experiences. Many of

the rehearsals, training times and other commitments are done

during lunch breaks or before school. An Evening with ACOS was an

event held last Wednesday which epitomised this. Under the

wonderful leadership of Sally Spillane, a large band of Ben Venue

teachers helped put on make-up, assist backstage and supervise

students while they were waiting to perform. It was a superb evening

of entertainment from the Armidale Community of Schools. Thank

you to Sally Spillane, Rebecca O’Hara and Lana Howlett who prepared

students to sing, play wacky instruments, perform acts and dance.

On Friday students enjoyed the performance of G’Day Asia. These shows are booked a year in advance and with

the Cricket Clinic also on Friday, this year Aboriginal students attended the Day in the Dale with family members.

5W students were placed third in the ‘Armidale Fair Trading Centre NADIOC Week Art Competition’

Short news

The Girls Hockey Team will start the State Knockout Finals in Narellan on Tuesday – good luck girls!!!

Soccer Boys are awaiting news of the team who will be their next opponents from the Hunter Region.

The Starmaker semi-final for Years 5 and 6 has been postponed till Monday September 14. Years 3 and 4 will be

on Wednesday September 9.

The Spelling Bee Final will be held at Newling Public School this Wednesday. Good luck Karl Ferber, Tahaf Omar,

(Stage 3) and Kyauna Grieves and Liam Vanucci (Stage 2).

The Girls Touch Team put up a very creditable performance last Monday at Warialda. They were beaten 12 – 2.

Well done girls.

Swim School commences today for mainly Year 2 students.

There will be School Socials in the last week of term for Stage 2 and Stage 3 students with times and organisation

to be communicated in a separate note.

Have a great week!

Judy Graham

From the Deputy’s desk …… Ben Venue’s success continues with another win by the Boys Soccer team, who are now in the top 8 in the state and

the Girls Hockey team who are travelling to Narellan today to compete in the State Finals tomorrow. Good Luck

Girls! Unfortunately the Girls Touch Football team were defeated last Monday by a very strong Warialda side and

now bow out of the competition. Well done girls and a big thank you to Rhiannon Trott for coaching the girls and the

parents who transported the girls.

Congratulations to the members of the Marimba group, Circus group and Year

2 dance group at ‘An Evening with

ACOS’. All of these performances

were spectacular!

Photos: The Marimba Groups

(left) and the Year 2 Dance Group

(right)

DENTAL CLINIC

The Dental Van has been in our school since Tuesday last week. During this time the clinic saw the majority of

students who had returned forms. The van has now left the school.

My understanding is that the free toothbrushes promised to the students who returned the Medicare information

will be sent to the school when the forms have been processed by head office.

If you have any questions regarding the Dental Van visit please contact Australian Mobile Dental Care on

(02) 8850 3005. Please do not contact the school.

HIGH SCHOOL ORIENTATION DAYS

Both Armidale High and Duval High Schools will be holding their Orientation Days for Year 7 2016 on Thursday

November 5. More detailed information will be sent home closer to the date. Parents will receive letters from the

High Schools.

SCHOOL SWIMMING SCHEME

The Swim school begins this week for selected students in Years 2 and 3. If your child is involved in this activity

please ensure all clothes are clearly labelled. I suggest packing a plastic bag for wet items. Students must come to

school in full school uniform. Lou Moffatt

STARMAKER SEMI— FINALS 2015

Years 3-4 Wednesday September 9 from 2:00pm—3:15pm

Years 5-6 Monday September 14 from 2:00—3:15pm

Through the classroom music program, students have completed Round 1 of Ben Venue Starmaker. What

fabulous acts I have been privileged to see from the students. Students have had a very difficult time as

judges work our which acts will go through to the semi-finals, a valuable lesson in learning how important

it is to be a good judge.

A big thank you to the teachers in our school who have supervised students practising their acts in the

classrooms at lunchtime. Your help has been greatly appreciated.

The semi-finals will be great so if you have some spare time, come along and be entertained by the

talented students of Ben Venue. Yours in Music, Sally Spillane

AROUND THE CLASSROOMS

KP Welcome back Mrs Porter! The Penguins and Mrs

Bishop have worked very hard in your absence.

KP has been reading ‘The Journey Home’ by Alison

Lester—a fantasy journey through many lands, meeting

a host of characters. Students have recently been with

mermaids and pirates and last week a gypsy with her

crystal ball predicted she would visit and “feed” us

goulash and dumplings.

Students have been developing their knowledge of time,

reading and making clocks. KP have also been graphing

our ‘Home Reading’ involvement on the class window.

Our highest number of home reading changes in one day

has been 11 students (last Tuesday and Friday). Well

done!

Sickness seems to have hit KP quite hard in the last few

weeks. Thank you to all parents who have sent in

absentee notes. It is important for our roll keeping

I’ve had a lovely three weeks with the talented Penguins.

Mrs Porter is a lucky lady! Linda Bishop

6R has been very busy this term. Along with the rest of

Year 6, 6R have been learning about myths and legends

in English; ‘Earthquake Explorers’ in Science; have

looked into the ‘Identity’ of Australia and their own

identity in Human Society and Its Environment; crunched

numbers in Mathematics while working on extended

multiplication and negative numbers with Cartesian

planes! 6R would especially like to thank Miss Tancred

(Intern from UNE), who has engaged the students in

these lessons. All of 6R will miss you next Term!

Students and teachers have also undertaken a few

adventures to Duval and Armidale High Schools. So far

we have participated in lessons like: Computer Studies,

History, Music, PE, and everyone's favourite, Food

Technology, and are looking forward to the next lessons.

Most importantly Year 6 has been busy preparing for the

school play ‘Never Grow Up’. Year 6 will be performing in

early November (we will let you know the dates closer to

the event). Thank you to the parents who have already

volunteered their time to assist with making costumes.

Rebecca O’Hara

‘An Evening with ACOS’

What a fabulous concert! The students from Ben Venue put on wonderful performances

throughout the evening. They are to be congratulated for their fine work!!

A huge thank you to the many teachers from Ben Venue who assisted on the night in so

many ways. The night ran smoothly thanks to them all.

A big thank you to Joe Russell, Brian Schaeffer, Robert Griffiths and Andrew Donoghue who transported

marimbas, stage boxes, instruments etc to and from Lazenby Hall, your help was invaluable to us!

Finally a big thank you to our wonderful parents for getting all the students there and supporting the

concert, it was fabulous!

Last Friday Year 5 and Year 6 were fortunate to have two NSW Blues players Will and Ben join them in a couple of modified cricket games. The students were all involved and had a wonderful time. Amanda Swain

INDOOR HOCKEY

Just a reminder that team nominations for the Friday afternoon Indoor Hockey Competition need to be in

by the end of term. For more information, please see Mrs Lye.