Welcome Back to School

Welcome back to another wonderful year at Applethorpe State School. The school particularly welcomes all our new students and their families to our school community.

We hope all students have enjoyed their holiday break and are ready to fully engage in the new school year.

P&C Meeting

Our first P&C Meeting was held last Tuesday night and was focussed on our upcoming Autofest on Sunday 9th February.

All parents are warmly welcomed to these meetings which provide a wonderful opportunity for families to be involved in important decision making and fundraising initiatives for our school.

AUTOFEST– Show and Shine

Our major fundraiser for the year is the 2020 Autofest Show, and Shine taking place on the Applethorpe State School oval on Sunday, 9th February 2020 from 8.30am to 11.30am.

Planning is well underway to, once again, deliver an amazing community event and raise significant funds for the benefit of all students of our school.

Parental assistance is essential to ensure our success and there are

many ways in which all families can help!

A WORKING BEE will be held on Saturday 8th February at the school from 3-5pm to erect signs and tentage.

We will need parental assistance from 6:30am on the Sunday to assist with setting up, manning the food stalls, the Jumping Castle, directing cars onto the oval, cooking the BBQ and packing up after the event.

Please complete the attached Parental Roster to donate time to assist on the day. Please indicate on the form which activities you are able to assist with

All donations of baking and fresh produce to sell at our food stall would be enormously appreciated and can be delivered to the school on the morning of the event.

I would urge all parents to assist the P&C in this event.

Coronavirus

Current information from the Qld Government and the Education Department relating to the Coronavirus outbreak has been forwarded separately to all parents and caregivers.

Student Resource Scheme.

All books and stationery have finally arrived and have been distributed to all students. Thank you for your patience. We would appreciate outstanding payments for this scheme to be finalised by the 14th February.

Enrolments and Staffing

Our enrolment currently stands at 56 students so providing there are no changes between now and Day 8- (6th February) -our current staffing arrangements will remain in place for 2020.

Kind regards,

Martin Hodgson

Principal

Principal’s Message

30TH JANUARY 2020 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 1

APPLETHORPE STATE SCHOOL

2019 Focus * Reading Comprehension

* Number Facts

Coming Events

February 2020

8th Working Bee (3-5pm)

9th - Auto Fest

17th-Swimming

24th-Swimming

March

2nd-Swimming

9th-Swimming

16th-Swimming

Community Notices

Moonshine Run Flyer

Blue Light Disco Flyer

PLEASE NOTE:

Uniform collection times are

between 2.30pm and 3.00pm

only. Please have correct

money as change is not

available.

Applethorpe APPS

Good Manners

Accept Responsibility

Respect for Others

Pride in our Work

Pride in our School.

25576 New England Highway

Applethorpe Qld 4378

prinicpal@applethorpess.eq.edu.au

www.applethorpess.eq.edu.au

Phone: 07 4683 2203

1-3 News - Cynthia Collins

We have had an excellent start to our learning year in the magnificent 1/2/3 classroom. Already we have settled in to classroom routines and have begun learning!

This week Mrs Cannavo read us the story ‘Elmer and Wilbur’ and we made some colourful patchwork elephants that you will see on the show off board right at the front of the school.

A big thank you goes to Mr and Mrs Casey for donating a colourful set of shelves for our classroom-we really love them! Enjoy Show Day everyone and come back with more energy for learning next week!

Year 4-6 News - Katie Favaro

Welcome back to all families! We also welcome the new students and families to our school. Students have settled in well this week. Today is HaSS we studied all things ‘Australian’. We discussed the significance of Australia Day, completed a map and flag and also researched some interesting facts about our country. In Science we studied features that animals have to be able to survive in different environments. This afternoon we enjoyed painting Bottlebrush flowers as part of our Art Lesson.

APPLETHORPE STATE SCHOOL

Prep News - Carmel Butler

Welcome back to a fabulous new year everyone. Our new Preppies are delightful. They are super listeners and workers and they have had a wonderful week settling into their new classroom, learning new routines and making lovely friendships. Thanks to our fantastic parents for having them so beautifully prepared for school.

We have studied all things Australian this week: the unique native animals we have, Show & Tell with an Australian theme and learning our beautiful National Anthem. We counted animals on an Australian bushwalk, learned lots of positional terms in Maths by following fun directions on the playground, studied the States of Australia and even made vegemite sandwiches after reading 'Possum Magic'. Please send along Library bags on Monday for our first lesson. We will be into our full routine next week but have all thoroughly enjoyed our first week of Term One. Have a super long weekend. Cheers Carmel.