344 Keen St, Lismore, NSW, 2480 P 02 66213259 E albertpk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Albert Park Public School Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity and Success

Term 4 – Week 3 23rd October 2012 www.albertpk-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

“We would like to respectfully Acknowledge the Bundjalung people who are the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of the Land on which our school stands.”

Week 1 Term 4 Awards

Harry La Macchia Reign Mason Ashana McGregor Shaw Ava Maddock Pheobe Hensen Xavier Mason Raymond Welsh Serafina Johnston Ruth Zeckarias Eddie Griffin Matilda Porter Nick La Macchia

Aunty Arlene and I have just returned from a week in Cherbourg Qld. The history of Cherbourg is one of Aboriginal people being forcibly removed and brought from all over Queensland and Northern New South Wales to a newly formed government reserve in the early 1900s. People from over 50 different clans were mixed together and not allowed to speak their own languages. Cherbourg is within the Wakka Wakka tribal boundaries.

Aunty and I attended a week long course presented by the Stronger Smarter Institute. The Stronger Smarter Institute is committed to changing the tide of low expectations in Indigenous Education. The focus was on causing change through challenging assumptions about school culture and practices and engaging the indigenous community. The Stronger Smarter Institute was formed by Dr Chris Sarra, the first indigenous Principal at Cherbourg

State School. Over the next few weeks, Aunty and I will be talking to the students, staff and community about what it means to be stronger and smarter at Albert Park Public School. We hope you will be able to come and join us. Unfortunately the P&C Family Portrait fundraiser scheduled for last Sunday was unable to go ahead due to insufficient families signing up. We apologise to those families who were looking forward to participating. We are hoping to book our school in again early next year.

This week in 5/6, while Mrs Smedley was away, we

were very busy. Every day we revised our times

tables through various speed tests. Students

recorded their time throughout the week in attempt

to beat their personal best. There were some very

pleasing results!

This week students explored Human Rights. Together

we formed a definition of Human Rights and

examined newspaper articles to find further examples

in current news.

Principal’s Report

H.S.I.E

Fund raiser apology

5/6 Classroom

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Term 4 – Week 3 23rd October 2012

344 Keen St, Lismore, NSW, 2480 P 02 66213259 E albertpk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

www.albertpk-p.schools@det.nsw.edu.au

Later in the week students were involved in

investigating a change. In science we explored the

properties of gelatine

and followed a

procedure to make

hair gel. Students then

compared the

properties of the

product before and

after. A handful of

boys were only too

happy to nominate

themselves to discover

the effect of hair gel on

their own hair.

A very creative and

productive week.

This week students are looking at what causes lightning

and writing an explanation of this amazing phenomenon.

Ask your child what a step leader is?...or what a proton

or electron is?...or what a streamer is? You may be

surprised! We have also viewed super slow motion

footage of a lightning strike and discussed what we saw.

We continue to look at life on the goldfields in the 1800s

and Australia’s gold rush. Pretty hard to believe but the

largest gold nugget weighed a massive 78 kilograms!

All students are participating in Basketball workshops

for the next five

weeks and

developing their

skills. It is a great

chance for us to

make new friends

with the students

from Lismore Public.

Last week we

practiced our

shooting skills and

our lay-up skills as

well as having team

games. We even get

to use the electronic scoreboard!

Home readers need to be exchanged please…at the

moment only one or two students are exchanging

them.

If your child has one day off each fortnight by the

time they get to year 10 at high school they would

have missed out on a year’s learning.

In Class

Reminders

Food for Thought

2/3/4 Classroom

Science

Jasper and Lochie

volunteering for

the benefit of

scientific research

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Term 4 – Week 3 23rd October 2012

344 Keen St, Lismore, NSW, 2480 P 02 66213259 E albertpk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

www.albertpk-p.schools@det.nsw.edu.au

Hi everyone, This week K/1 are continuing to learn about their local environment and they had lots of fun yesterday trying to imagine our playground through a bird’s eyes. As part of our focus on our local environment, during PDHPE this term our unit of work is “Being Safe in Our Environment”. The last two Wednesdays we have looked at “Being Safe at Home” and keeping dangerous things out of reach. We looked at labels on medicines, cleaning products etc. and identifying key words or symbols that tell us that items could be dangerous. Parents might like to reinforce this at home.

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WEEK 3

22ND

Oct 23rd

Oct 24th Oct 25

th Oct 26

th Oct

2/3/4 Basketball

World Teachers Day

WEEK 4 29th Oct 30

th Oct 31

st Oct 1

st Nov 2

nd Nov

2/3/4 Basketball K/1 & 5/6 B’ball

WEEK 5 5th Nov 6

th Nov 7

th Nov 8

th Nov 9

th Nov

2/3/4 Basketball K/1 & 5/6 B’ball

WEEK 6 12th Nov 13

th Nov

P&C Meeting 5pm

14th Nov 15

th Nov

Kinder Orientation

9am – 11.30am

16th Nov

2/3/4 Basketball K/1 & 5/6 B’ball

WEEK 7 19th Nov

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20th Nov

Swimming

21st Nov

Program

22nd

Nov Kinder Orientation 9am – 11.30am 11.30 to 12.30

23rd

Nov 2/3/4 Basketball K/1 & 5/6 B’ball -----------------------

WEEK 8 26th Nov

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27th Nov

Swimming

28th Nov

Program

29th Nov

Kinder Orientation 9am – 11.30am 11.30 to 12.30

30th Nov

2/3/4 Basketball K/1 & 5/6 B’ball -----------------------

WEEK 9 3rd

Dec 4th Dec 5

th Dec 6

th Dec 7

th Dec

K/1 & 5/6 B’ball

WEEK 10 10th Dec

----- Excursion 11

th Dec To Coffs

12th Dec

Harbour---------- 13

th Dec

Year 6 Dinner 14

th Dec

WEEK 11 17th Dec 18

th Dec

Presentation Assembly

19th Dec

Last day of Term

K/1 Classroom

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Term 4 – Week 3 23rd October 2012

344 Keen St, Lismore, NSW, 2480 P 02 66213259 E albertpk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

www.albertpk-p.schools@det.nsw.edu.au