From the Principal

Alyangula Area School We Learn For Life We Learn For Life We Learn For Life

March 16th,

2016

Issue 4

Together Respect Excellence Courage Safety

Cnr Flinders St & Ayawarra Cr, Alyangula, NT, 0885

Ph. 8987 6366

Fax 8987 6014

PMB 3, Alyangula, NT, 0885

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Alyangula

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Important dates

3 Way

Conferences

Week 8

Week 9

Gymnastics Week 8

Easter Hat

Parade

24 Mar

Easter Break 25 Mar –

28 Mar

Soccer Week 10

Last day of

Term 1

1 April

First Day of

Term 2

11 April

Friday 18th March is National Day of Action Against Bullying. Alyangula Area School is

supporting awareness of anti-bullying by pairing classes of students to work together

on strategies they have learned to identify, avoid participation in, and combat bullying.

Bullying in schools and communities is endemic in Australia and across many other

countries. Let’s all work together to avoid and manage bullying in our school and wider

community.

Student / Teacher / Parent 3-way Conferences – 15th

– 23rd

March.

If you are wondering why we use 3-way conferencing as a means of goal-setting, these

clips might give more of an insight. Hope to see you in your child’s conference. A huge

thank you to those parents who have taken the time to provide feedback on our

process through the forms provided at the meetings. Your thoughts are the most

valuable part of us making the process work best.

("Student Goal Setting" 8 ideas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAsUKBBnSM

("Setting Goals K, 1, 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vDFQxawNk

Positive Police Presence

Uniformed police will be coming into the school to mix with students informally. This

began last week with a basketball game at lunchtime. Also the local police will ensure

some supervision will be added to the road crossings after/before school when time

permits. A reminder about parking safely when collecting kids from school: there are

rules around parking near road crossings. The parking lot across from school is always

suggested.

Congratulations Preschool

Every preschool in Australia has undergone a National Quality Check by ACECQA and

our Preschool has just been upgraded in its assessment from “working towards” to

“meeting” all requirements. Well done Danielle Slocombe and Katrina Jackson for

excellent teamwork

Lynda Pascoe

Principal

“TOGETHER we, RESPECT ourselves, each other, school and community, strive for EXCELLENCE,

show COURAGE in all situations and demonstrate SAFETY in all that we do.”

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Uniforms available for purchase. All uniforms are now in stock.

All credit card purchases (except Voluntary Parent Contributions) will incur a 4.5%

surcharge

Back to School vouchers are available at the office. These can be used for Book

packs, uniforms, swimming & excursions. The vouchers are valid for Term 1 only

Just a reminder to parents that we are a NUT FREE school. This means no

peanuts, cashews, etc. or nut spreads like Peanut butter or Nutella

please.

Easter raffle tickets to be handed to the office by Wednesday March 23rd please. Extra ticket books are available at the office.

Please drop off Easter donations to the office.

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HELPING HANDS reminder

Parents and other volunteers with current Ochre Cards are always welcome in classrooms for various education

support – reading, writing, excursion supervision and so on. A volunteer school helper can access an Ochre Card

for a very low cost (about $5). The website for further information is www.workingwithchildren.com.au

School Safety

Alyangula Area School has just updated its emergency procedures policy and has begun to practise evacuations and

lock-ins. Preschool were involved in a new process called “Dragon Hiding” where they huddled together in a store

room hiding from the dragon. It was a fun way of practising an important procedure.

As another safety feature, the school will be installing a public address system to enable emergency messages to

reach the whole school simultaneously, and each classroom will be equipped with a telephone to call Amy in case

of emergency (no a café latte is not an emergency!). Thank you to Mel Moore who has worked tirelessly to update

the emergency procedures policy and guidelines.

Pest Control

Our school will be sprayed for pests during the April school holidays. NO children on the school

grounds please!

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What an AWESOME day! Congratulations to all the students for your fantastic effort and sportsmanship at the swimming carnival on Friday. The final scores were just 26 points apart, with

our overall winners for 2016!

Well done to the who kept giving their all, right to the last race.

A huge thank you to all the Middle School students who came to the pool at 6.30am to help set up, assisted the ECU students in the pool with their races, then competed

themselves. You are AMAZING! Thank you also to the parents and friends who came down for your support. You all contributed in making it a great day.

At this Friday’s assembly we will be presenting medallions to our swimming champions from 8 years and up.

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Next Thursday is our G.E.R.S.A. Basketball competition between Alyangula,

Angurugu and Umbakumba Schools. Recently we held a lunch time

competition where our students competed for a spot on one of the Alyangula

teams. We will have a junior boys and girls team and a senior boys and girls

team competing for the ultimate shield. Well done to all students who

participated. Some decisions were very tough. Here is a list of students who

made the team. Congratulations!

Junior Boys Damon James

Lachlan Connell Daniel Connell

Marshall Grosse Cassius Kennell

Sam Whittle Thomas Jackson

Junior Girls Aoki Williams

Lily Moore Teegan Blitner

Elsie Fitzsimons Jorja Slaughter Charli Rourke Amber Grove

Senior Boys Michael Gill

Hugo Travis Kennell

Kyle Petith Jarred Petith Sean Cochran Rene Strijdom

Senior Girls Aliyah Assan

Charlize James Louise Mountford Emily Johnstone

Ebbony Mountford

EASTER HAT PARADE THURSDAY MARCH 24TH

8.15am start in the outdoor assembly area

Our judges will be on the look out for the most creative and hand-made hats.

All parents and friends are welcome to come along.

The Easter raffle will be drawn after the hat parade, make sure you get your tickets in!

Colouring Competition sheets can be collected from the

office. Winners will be announced after the Easter raffle.

Preschool

Mother’s Day Market

Saturday 7th May

Alyangula Town Oval

9:00am - 12.00pm

There will be a cake stall, sausage sizzle, cold drinks,

raffles and many more fantastic stalls. If you would

like to book a stall please contact the school office on

89876366.

We look forward to seeing you there!

We are asking each family to please donate Easter eggs or Easter items for our raffle.

Donations can be handed to the office staff at your

leisure, Thank you

Drawn after the Easter Hat Parade

Thursday March 24th

Extra tickets are available from the office

All funds raised will be going toward purchasing new computers

Easter Raffle

MERIT

Quinn Hutley

Liam Bosch

Flynn Koning

Nic Stedman

Zac Roberts

Amelia Belton

Riley Hujbert

Kendra Strijdom

MERIT

Jorja Tudehope

Ayva Ahovelo

Ruben De Lange

Margaret Durilla

Jenay Currie

Daniel Connell

Jai Donnelly

Santino Ticcione

PRINCIPAL

Bryce Garrahy

Jayden Lergessner

PENNANT

Bryce Garrahy

AWARDS AWARDS AWARDS

2016 School Calendar -Term 1

Wk. 8 3 Way Conferences Call the office for times

Wk. 8 National Action against Bullying Day Fri 18 Mar

Wk. 8 Gymnastics All week Preschool—Year 9

Wk. 8 Assembly Fri 18 Mar

Wk. 9 Easter Hat Parade Thurs 24 Mar

Wk. 9 Good Friday Fri 25 Mar Public Holiday Happy Easter!

Wk. 10 Easter Monday Mon 28 Mar Public Holiday

Wk. 10 Soccer All week

Wk. 10 Fri 1 Apr Last Day of term 1. Students resume Mon 11 Apr

ST PATRICK’S DAY

CANTEEN SPECIAL

Green grape

jelly cups

Thursday 17th March

Do you know an outstanding educational leader who could

be a candidate for one of these

awards?

Pick up a nomination form from

the office.

2016 JUNIOR

FISHING CLINIC

SATURDAY May 28th

9am - 12pm @ THE ASEC HALL

Registration forms available on the Fishing Club

Facebook page

Spots still

available.

Get in quick!