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ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 22/05/2013
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT—WEEK 4 Next week the students in the K-2 and Senior Choirs
will be participating in the Armidale Eisteddfod. K-2
will perform out at the University at Lazenby Hall on
Tuesday 28 May and the Senior Choir will compete at
NECOM on Wednesday 29 May. A note was sent home
last Monday with all the details. All parents are
invited to come along and watch their child as they
participate. The students have been practicing very
hard lately and with the support and encouragement
of teachers and expert guidance of Rowena Teege
from Armidale High, Inga Brash and Robyn Driscoll,
the children are sounding lovely. The K-2 choir’s dress
rehearsal at yesterday’s assembly was wonderful. I
would like to wish all our students who are
participating in individual events every success and
congratulate them for being prepared to participate
in the Eisteddfod. I would ask parents to let us know
if their children are entering events privately so we
can ensure we wish them luck and acknowledge their
efforts.
Good luck to our debaters who start the first round
of the Premier’s Debating Challenge against Newling
this week.
Sport continues to happen this week with Mrs
MacGregor travelling to Sydney for the week as
coach of the North West Soccer team. Two of our
boys are playing in the team – Toby Cooper and
Henry Sindel. We have 3 students off to the North/
North-West Rugby League with Mr Bartlett-Taylor
on Friday – Howard Broadbent, Oliver Broadbent,
Henry Sindel and Toby Cooper. Next week is the
Zone Cross Country and we wish all our students the
best of luck.
This Friday is Walk Safely To School Day. I would
encourage all parents to talk to their children about
the road rules – especially when crossing busy roads
and even take the time to walk your child to and from
school on the day.
On Monday students from Drummond Memorial
School visited our school with Mr Peterson for the
second time to play chess. Mrs Docksey, our chess
coordinator, said the Drummond students played very
well, participated with confidence and displayed
wonderful sportsmanship but our students came out
the winners on the day. I congratulate all the
students on their attitude and skills. This Monday
competition is an informal organisation between
Drummond and Armidale City to allow students to
develop their skills and meet other chess players.
22 May 2013
Relieving Principal: Mrs Cherrie Paterson School Captains: Kate Jones, Jesse Streeting
School Executive: Mrs Cherrie Paterson, Mrs Leonie MacGregor,
Mr Tim Bartlett-Taylor, Mrs Kylie Woods
CALENDAR 23.05.13 Computer Competition
27.05.13 Multi-Cultural Public Speaking
27.05.13 1/2S Folk Museum Visit
28.05.13 Rugby-Sevens in Tamworth
28.05.13 9.45am K-2 Choir – Eisteddfod–
Lazenby Hall
28.05.13 1/2W Folk Museum Visit
29.05.13 1/2T Folk Museum Visit
29.05.13 9.45am Senior Choir –Eisteddfod–
NECOM
30.05.13 Zone Cross Country
31.05.13 Girls Softball– Tamworth
27.05-7.06.13 Primary Research Project
06.06.13 Science Competition
07.06.13 Tournament of Minds Day
12.06.13 Maths Olympiad
14.06.13 North West Cross Country
20.06.13 Combined Orchestra - BVPS
20.06.13 Writing and Spelling Competitions
26.06.13 A Little Night Music
28.06.13 Last Day of Term 2
ELECTION DAY CAKE AND CRAFT STALL
The ladies from the stall will be at the
school hall on Friday morning and Friday
afternoon for you to drop off your
donations.
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 2 22/05/2013
As the cooler weather is here, I have noticed some
children opting to wear non uniform clothing. Our
winter uniform has a school jacket which is very warm.
Items of clothing are available from the uniform pool
which is open on every Friday morning. Students are
still expected to wear the broad brimmed hat in winter.
All students representing the school during excursions
or cultural events are expected to be in full winter
school uniform. Please ensure all clothing is clearly
marked with your child’s name.
A reminder that this weekend the P&C will be running
an Election Day Cake and Craft Stall. All donations of
cakes and slices would be greatly appreciated and can
be left at the school on Friday or delivered to the stall
on Saturday. If any parent can help out on Saturday it
would be greatly appreciated. A note was sent home
last Monday with details of who to contact to help out.
This note is on the school website for those parents
who have not seen it.
Cherrie Paterson
Relieving Principal
BRONZE AWARD KB Oliver Pearse
Tiko Lay
1/2S Samara Dell
Jo Talkes
WORK OF THE FORTNIGHT KB Taliah Anderson
KR Santino Collins
1/2S Edie Jackes
1/2P Phoebe Girard
1/2K Flynn Hess
1/2W Archie O’Connor and Dakota Scott
1/2T Arwyn Todd
3/4J Whole Class
3/4T Tamika Brown
3/4R Nikita Giles and Flynn Eastwood
3/4BT Neta Walls
5/6R Beth Do
5/6K Mangarchot Maluach
5/6J Isobel Harris and Callum Watson
5/6Mac Hayley Sousa
5/6B Chris Tall
SPORTS NEWS Congratulations to Mangarchot Maluach, who gained
selection in the NSW PSSA State Boys Basketball
team. Mangarchot will travel to Perth in August to
compete at the National Championships . This is his 2nd
year representing NSW. It is a fantastic achievement
and we are extremely proud of his efforts. Well done,
Mangarchot!
The crunching of autumn leaves and the cheers of the
crowd could be heard echoing all around Moran Oval at
the recent running of the school cross country.
Congratulations to all of the children who participated.
A team of 50 runners will represent ACPS at the Zone
Carnival next week. We wish you all the best of luck
and hope many personal bests are achieved on the day.
A huge thank you, to the wonderful parents who helped
at our cross country; Angela Harris, Lyndal Knuckey,
Nicole Neilson, Felicity Foster, Rachael Nicoll,
Moriah McLean, Marlene Widders, Lindsay Brash
and Simone Coop. Your continued support is greatly
appreciated.
This week Henry Sindel and Toby Cooper are with the
North West Football team competing at the State
Championships. Mrs MacGregor is also at the
Championships as the coach of the North West team.
We wish them the best of luck and look forward to
hearing the team’s results.
The following children have been successful at their
respective trials
North West Rugby League: Isaac Tanikomave
Northern Zone Rugby Union: Toby Cooper, Henry
Sindel, Howard Broadbent, Oliver Broadbent
Congratulations boys and best of luck at the next level.
School team trials and coaching continue for many
winter sports. Please listen carefully at morning lines
for further updates.
This week’s winning house is Sturt.
Mrs Sue Kelly
Sports Coordinator
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 3 22/05/2013
1/2S CLASS NEWS It has been a busy and exciting start to the term for
us. We have welcomed Mary and Sharlett to our class.
Congratulations to Zara Smith who came first in her
age group at the Cross Country recently. We are very
proud of you, Zara. Best wishes for your next race at
district level.
Everyone is looking forward to our trip to the Armidale
Folk Museum next Monday. We have been learning
about oral history and stories as part of our HSIE unit
Families Past & Present. This week we are talking to our
parents and grandparents about special memories so we
can construct a time line of events. Please return this
homework task to school by Friday.
In Literacy our current theme is Monsters and Aliens.
We thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘Monsters in the Mailbox’ last week and as part of our comprehension
skills, we asked many very exciting “I wonder”
questions. This week we are reading ‘A Monster Wrote Me a Letter’ and will focus on visualising skills. We
have drawn some very funny mixed up monsters that we
are currently writing descriptions about. You should see
how scary and crazy they are!
Next Tuesday we will be participating in the Armidale
Eisteddfod out at the University. Permission notes
went home last Monday for this event. Please return as
soon as possible.
Enjoy the rest of this term and the many more
activities coming up.
1/2S and Mrs Smith
1/2P CLASS NEWS What a busy, but fun, start to Term 2 for 1/2P! We
are all excited with our ‘Wizard of Oz’ theme for
Literacy. We are reading the book and have watched
the movie. We have made our very own laptops and
emailed our favourite Wizard of Oz characters. We
have researched Tornadoes and are looking forward to
doing information reports on Lions.
This week we went on our HSIE excursion to the
Armidale Folk Museum where we had so much fun
learning about our local history.
We thoroughly enjoyed practising the Macarena and
performing it at the fete and now we are really looking
forward to performing in the K–2 Choir at the upcoming
Armidale Eisteddfod. Wow … did we mention what a
busy term we are having?
Mrs Tina Rubie
Class Teacher
News from 5/6J On the 29 May our Stage 3 Choir will be performing at
the Eisteddfod. Students need to wear their white
sports shirt and winter uniform. This means that boys
have long grey trousers, grey socks and black shoes.
Girls need to wear their school skorts or skirt with
navy blue stockings or knee high navy blue socks and
black shoes. We are very excited and looking forward
to this opportunity.
In class and in our library time we have been working on
our descriptive language and similes. We would like to
share some of our writing about Autumn that we did
with Mrs Docksey. We went outside and sat under the
beautiful deciduous trees in our playground wrote
poems.
Autumn Orange leaves fall as the wind goes by.
Bark strips off trees like humans shed skin.
Dark grey clouds in different shapes and sizes.
Leaves, all different shapes and sizes in piles.
By Isobel Harris
The yellow and orange leaves fall
Dead and crackling
No longer connected
In a way it’s a war against time
Who is next?
Again dead crackling leaves fall
Like bricks.
By Callum Watson
When I sit among the leaves, all I see is a million
dreams.
Like a rainbow from the sky
Off comes a leaf to fly, fly, fly!
Then comes the breeze upon my cheek
I see the trees life gleam.
By India Zikan
Mrs Felicity Jones
Class Teacher
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 4 22/05/2013
3/4T CLASS NEWS Stage 2 have been looking at celebrations from around
the world and it appears 3/4T have taken a particular
interest in one celebration that takes place in Turkey.
Çocuk Bayrami is the celebration of children. 3/4T have
unanimously decided that this is one celebration that is
lacking from the Australian calendar and are very
enthusiastic about giving persuasive reasons as to why
this is the case. Below is a class summary of the
information students found relating to the Çocuk
Bayrami celebration.
“ On April 23, Turkey celebrates Cocuk Bayrami, or
Children’s Day. Children all over Turkey dress up in
special outfits or national costume for Cocuk Bayrami.
Many children perform in plays or musicals. The former
Turkish leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared the
holiday in 1920.“
3/4T and Mr Brad Townsend
ACPS Mothers Day Fete
Saturday 11 May 2013 A great team of parents and school community
members pulled together on Saturday morning to bring
the fete alive. It was great to have some new stalls
such as the Indian Food and Sushi although your
morning was a little slow, so glad you sold out in the
end. The Photo Booth was very popular, what a great
concept!
The Craft stall came out on top as the best fund raising
group, congratulations to the crafty team! Next was
the Sheep Poo stall, that terrific Deeargee manure!
Then the Cakes stall and the Garden Café, such a
beautiful tasty array of treats. The BBQ team kept the
food going throughout the day and also sold out.
Pete Stanley and crew kept the entertainment rolling
on after Phil Jones officially opened the day. The
Macarena was great, always fun watching most of the
performers going the same way and a few creating
their own moves. The Pet Show brought four legged
friends in all shapes & sizes and lots of excited owners.
Then the fascinating Labyrinth was set up, how great
was that tricky maze?!
The raffle was well supported and congratulations to
the winners: 1st prize - the wood won by D Cook,
Chocolates won by H Simpson & Pamper Pack by T
Patton. And all those donated bottles for the Bottle
Stall raised lots for the school – thank-you everyone.
Plants and book donations were also great fund raisers
and it was very busy at the White Elephant, Toys &
Clothing Stall.
Thank-you to all the stall holders, everyone who gave up
their time on the day and in the weeks leading up to the
event. The fete is a big day and every effort is
appreciated.
Thank-you to everyone who turned up to support the
fete on the day! Without you it would not be a success.
Please return your evaluation forms, we would like to
hear your feedback to help us make it an even better
event in the future.
Best wishes the Fete Committee
Armidale Sport &
Recreation Centre
Ducat's
Ridley Skips
Caffiends On Marsh
McDonald's Family
Restaurant
Armidale Locksmiths
Bottega Cafe & Deli
BIG Print
Eagle Boys Pizza
Armidale Wholesale
Fruit Market
Sports UNE
Barbeques Galore
Armidale Outdoors
Independent Sports
Civic Video
Monks Health
Emporium
Christina Cranfield
Massage
Carr’s Newsagency
Bidvest
Forsythes
Netball
Skybridge
Armidale Dog Club
Labyrinth
Armidale Antique
Machinery Club
Armidale Alligators
Swimming Club
Joe Russell
The Teachers and
Staff of Armidale
City Public School!
New England Building
Recyclers
Reflections Hair
Studio
Sweet Angel Delights
Lowes Menswear
Irresistible Style
Phil Jones
URXS
Athlete's Foot
Armidale
Red Rooster
Moxon’s Bakery
Dymocks
Graham Betts Holden
Gym Ridz
Donut King
Carmel's Nursery
Peterson's Armidale
-Winery & Guest
House
Knight’s Corner Store
Community Mutual
Armidale Sportspower
New England Trophies
Black Dot Music
Hungry Jack’s
Armidale Ex-Services
Club
Armidale City Bowling
Club
Belgrave Twin Cinema
Pete Stanley
Roberts & Morrow
Altitude Coffee
Office Express
Apex
Warren
Rossbuild
Tri club
Hungry Jacks
Daily Ritual Coffee
Armidale City Public School
P&C would like to offer
sincere thanks to the following:
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 5 22/05/2013
GROUP PHOTO’S
If you would like to order one of the following group photo’s, please enclose $15 in an
envelope with your child’s name and group name clearly printed on it and bring it to
the school office.
ACPS Blue & White Newsletter 6 22/05/2013
COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD
Family Relationship Centre
Exchange Students Families
needed
NERAM
Tennis Lessons
NECOM
Montessori Preschool
Information
Bridge Education Support
Services
Tutoring
Violin Teacher
Mini Basketball
Variety Bash
Out of School Hours Care
For Sale - Hand printed
Serviettes
For Sale - Pure Bred Jack
Russell Pup
If you would like more information on these
events please call into our office and check
out our Community Noticeboard.
2013 - Clothing Pool Winter Uniform Orders The clothing pool is currently taking orders for raincoats and winter trousers. The raincoats have a polar
fleece lining. The girls' pants are a warmer thicker style and excellent quality. A sample of each garment will
be on display at the front office. Please fill out the order form below and return with your exact payment to
the front office. Orders will be taken until Friday 24 May. Thank you.
Name & class
Raincoats
Sizes 4 -16
@ $32
Boys double knee
pants
Sizes 4-18 @ $24
Boys Cargo pants
Sizes 4-14 @$26
Sizes 16-18 @$30
Girls bootleg navy
pants
Sizes 4-14@ $30
Sizes 16–18 @ $33
Total
amount
ARMIDALE
RECONCILIATION
BRIDGE WALK
Sunday 26 May – 12 Noon
Meet near Stephens Bridge in
the car park next to Information
Centre
Corner Marsh and Dumaresq
Streets
Bring a picnic – tea, coffee,
sausages provided
Everyone welcome
Walk the Bridge, chat to
friends, listen to our Speaker
Local function in recognition of Sorry Day and National Reconciliation
Week
Organised by Armidale ANTaR
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation