Albury Public School

NEWSLETTER

TERM 3 WEEK 9 19 September 2018

481 David Street, ALBURY, NSW, 2641 Email: albury-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

OFFICE: 02 6021 3849 www.albury-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

A Message from the Principal

With holidays so close and spring in the air, I hope that you are feeling the

winter doldrums subsiding. School concludes for Term 3 on Friday 28

September. School resumes for all staff and students on Monday 15 October.

Staff development days are held at the end of Term 4, once students have

finished for the year.

Currently, the school’s Sports Committee, in consultation with the school

executive, is undertaking a review of the policy and school procedures governing sport at our

school. I appreciate the role sport plays at our school and support much of what already

exists, but can see a need for streamlining and simplifying some aspects of it. Albury Public

School currently offers a wide range of opportunities for students to participate in extra

curricula sporting trials and gala days. Organisation for these events and opportunities is very

labour intensive for organising teachers, on top of their very busy teaching and administrative

workloads, and often results in some students missing a significant number of school learning

days to participate. Whilst the importance of sport in the curriculum and a child’s life is well –

known, the business of schools is academic performance. The School Sports Committee is,

through genuine consultation and feedback, trying to streamline the processes and set some

ground rules that are less disruptive and time consuming. Any parents/carers who would like to

contribute to the review are, again, invited to contact Kirsty Sheridan or Mark Neil to further

this work. An information session for interested parents will be scheduled for early next term to

further determine the direction we will head in from 2019. Parents/carers are also invited to

participate in a very short online survey at the following link. Please take a few minutes to send

us your thoughts by completing the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9Q58QV3

The Year 6 farewell dinner, disco and graduation will be held on Tuesday 18 December 2018.

Parents/carers of Year 6 students interested in assisting with the organisation of this year’s

event are asked to join us for a meeting on Tuesday 25 September from 6:45pm, prior to the

next P&C meeting at 7:30pm. An expression of interest form was sent home with Year 6

students last week for parents/carers to nominate their interest. Further details are available

from Jess Brooker or Tegan Sutton.

Change to Student Recreation Times: After a thorough evaluation of options, consideration of

parent/carer feedback and extensive consultation with staff, it has been decided to change

student recreation times, commencing on Day 1 of Term 4. School start and finish times, and

the total length of recreation times, will remain unchanged. Lunch will commence at 11am,

with an eating time of 10 minutes. Lunch playtime will be from 11:10-11:45am. Afternoon

recess will be from 1:10-1:40pm. It is anticipated that this necessary and important realignment

of our school day will deliver a range of benefits for student wellbeing and engagement.

Changes to break times will be complemented by increased recreation activity options and

incremental improvements to playground areas, which are currently being developed by the

staff Playground Working Committee. This change will necessitate important adjustments to

the canteen menu and online ordering cut off times. A new canteen menu and overview of

changes will be distributed in hardcopy next Wednesday.

First Day Term 4

Teachers will be discussing the new playground arrangements with their classes in these last two

weeks of term in order to prepare them for the change. Families may find it beneficial to speak

about what is in students' lunchboxes and the expectations around when it will be eaten. For

nutritious lunchbox ideas see https://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/parents-carers/healthy-eating-

and-drinking/lunch-box-ideas.aspx

Last week the staff professional learning included Positive Behaviour for Leaning (PBL). PBL is not a

punitive system but explicitly teaches the required and expected behaviours of a successful

student.

PBL proactively teaches the behaviours we expect of students as we can’t always assume that

students know and understand what is expected of them. The school will develop values,

otherwise known as rules, for acceptable behaviour. It is important that parents/carers are aware

of these behaviour expectations and reinforce them at home as well. This information will be sent

home as it is implemented in the school and classrooms. The changes with the playground and

eating times complement the introduction of PBL.

Quote of the week: “Education is not preparation for life: Education is life itself”

John Dewey

Lianne Singleton, Principal

Our students learn about preparing healthy food in the

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program.

Rugby tackle gala day

Last Tuesday about 25 year five and six girls went to a Rugby League gala day at Sarvaas Park. After we

hopped off the bus we did a clinic including how to fall, how to tackle, how to kick and the rugby rules.

When we finished our clinic, Albury Public were split into three teams. Team 1 played Thurgoona 2,

Team 3 played Thurgoona 1 whilst Team 2 had a break. In this first round Team 1 achieved a victory,

but sadly Team 3 did not, but they tried their best. In round two, Albury Team 2 played Albury Team 1,

while Team 3 played Lavington East P.S. Sadly Team 2 lost against Team 1, and Team 3 lost as well.

For Team 2’s second game they won against Thurgoona. After playing, everyone had a chance to vote

on who they thought did the best in the team. The winners were Charlotte Laird, Tyra Phothisomphane

and Ryleigh Hogan. Their award included a drink bottle, a hat and the bag it was in. Mr Takle also

handed out his own MVP awards. The first one was for Ruby McCaig and the second one was for Kirra

Blackmore. Then we jumped on the bus back to school.

By Kirra Blackmore and Lyla McFaull

Gold Certificates Tiffany Watson, Sasha Frichot, Ivy Baxa,

Isaac Lever, Grace Clift x 2, John San x 3,

Ada McKendry, Harley Huggard, Ava Dallinger, Keziah Bulters-Trainor.

Dates for your Diary!

Thursday 20 Sept No Assembly

Friday 21 Sept Cricket Gala Day

Wednesday 26 Sept No Junior Assembly

Thursday 27 Sept Special Assembly

Friday 28 Sept Last day of Term 3

Monday 15 October First day of Term4

ICAS COMPETITION—ENGLISH

Congratulations to the following students:

YEAR 2: DISTINCTION— Isla Harrison.

CREDIT— Thomas Mack.

YEAR 3: DISTINCTION– Molly Spry.

CREDIT— Callum Mobbs.

YEAR 4: DISTINCTION– Remy Baxa, Hannah Bond, Jasmine Butterworth,

Alexander Methven.

CREDIT—John Ewin, Liam Methven.

MERIT– Annalise Cameron, Sydney Cheshire.

YEAR 5: DISTINCTION—Lacey Harrison, Elspeth Morris.

CREDIT— Oliver Mack, Mia Sheather

MERIT– Ava Henderson

YEAR 6: HIGH DISTINCTION— Jeremy Roberts

DISTINCTION— Harrison Methven

CREDIT— Harry Cameron

1MB Having Fun at

Gymnastics

Thank you Flyaway

Gymnastics!

Schoolzine App !! OVER 100 APP users already !!!!!

SZapp is a mobile function app that’s free for parents/carers to download.

SZapp allows our school to send free push notifications (when downloading select yes for push

notifications) to you at anytime.

Eg: notifying parents of bus arrival times, cancellation of

sport, venue changes etc….

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Notes for parents

REMINDER

The Tell Them From Me parent survey

Please complete the parent/carer survey. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known

to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

The survey is now live and can be done any time until Friday October 26. Although

To access the survey for our school go to: https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/albp1

More information about the survey is available at:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/images/FAQs/TTFM_Parent_Survey_FAQs_Parent_and_Carers_T32018.pdf

The Tell Them From Me student survey

You may remember that our students also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this year. Our school,

like many other public schools in the state, will give students the opportunity to participate in the survey again. Asking students

to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as well as track engagement and

motivation across the school year.

If you do not want your child or children to participate, please complete and return the non-consent form, available from the

Front Office or on our website by Friday 28 September.

A copy of the non-consent form is available from the following link:

https://albury-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/a/albury-p/localcontent/TTFM_T3_2018_parent_consent_form.pdf

Fri 21 Sept Mon 24 Sept Tues 25 Sept Wed 26 Sept Thurs 27 Sept Fri 28 Sept

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Di Prosser

Help needed

Jac Warner

Claire Rae

Amy Morris

Help needed

Cate Ewin

Canteen Roster Term 3 Weeks Nine—Ten

P&C Canteen News

Spring has arrived and, like the trees, the

canteen is blossoming with fresh lighter fare to

feed our fabulous kids.

We have delicious cupcakes and fruit muffins

available at recess for only 50c. Get in quick

as these are flying out the window (they’re

almost literally that light and fluffy).

Amazing Amy is in this week again cooking up

a scone storm, so bring your money and look

out for her baked goodies of goodness on

Friday!

A very big special thanks to our Canteen

Captains who are so generous with their

lunchtimes: Isla, Rebecca, Piper and Tyler.

Please consider volunteering for a few hours,

it’s lots of fun, a great way to support our

school community and get to know other

parents, the staff and students.

Jude and Emma

Canteen Number

0422 701 463

or

E mail: alburycanteen@gmail.com

Next P&C Meeting

Date: 25 September 2018

Time: 7.30pm

Where: Staffroom

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

These are the names of the

new chickens at Albury Public

School, they are very cute.

Fluff ball

Peanut

Thursday 15 November

4.30pm - 7.30pm

Albury Public School

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