Alstonville PS Week 2 Term 3 2016 Newsletter (Read

ALSTONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL
Term 3
Week 2
2016
Dear Parents and Care Givers,
Congratulations to our new class Parliamentarians for this term.
6 Egypt
Zac and Ruby
6 Morocco
Hayden and Nicole
6 Kenya
Oliver and Savannah
5/6 Zimbabwe
Tobias and Romyk
5 Mexico
Aidan and Paige
5 Brazil
Owen and Zoe
5 Peru
Cody and Aleyah
4 Italy
Heath and Ashlyn
4 Spain
Jordan and Abby
4 Greece
Oliver and Imogen
3/4 Korea
Reuben and Amelie
3 Japan
Kaelan and Rayah
3 China
Parker and Rachel
2 Wales
Sam and Saxon
2 Scotland
Zavier and Willow
2 Ireland
Jett and Roxie
1 Australia
Nash and Primrose
1 New Zealand
Brodie and Mackenzie
1 Indonesia
Oisin and Abbey
Monday 1 August &
Tuesday 2 August
Coastal Kids Concert
Senior Band & Senior Choir
Wednesday 10 August
Lismore Eisteddfod
Senior & Junior Bands
Thursday 11 August
Year 3-6 Disco
5:00pm-6:30pm
Monday 15 August
Creative Arts Camp
Junior Band Gold Coast
Eisteddfod
Tuesday 16 August
ICAS Mathematics
Wednesday 17 August
Zone Athletics
Monday 22 August
Book Week
On Monday we held our NAIDOC Week assembly to celebrate “Song Lines -The
Narrative of our People”. Indigenous students from Year 2 to Year 6 spoke about
the NAIDOC theme and their individual heritage. The Junior Choir led by Mrs Law
sang “Taba Naba” and Year 2 danced to “My Island Home”. Congratulations to
Sophie, Joshua, Kiyah, Kiah, Venus, Jasminbleu and Jasmine who received awards
on the day.
Principal: Mrs Catherine Moore
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.alstonvill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
AlstonvilleTwitter:
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58 Main Street,
Alstonville NSW 2477
Phone: 02 6628 0775
Fax:
02 6628 5362
The points have been tallied and I am pleased to announce the Age Champions for the Alstonville Public School
Athletics Carnival. The following students will receive Age Champion trophies on Presentation Day.
Junior Boy and Girl: Taj and Stevie.
11 Years Boy and Girl: Oliver and Ally.
Senior Boy and Girl: Michael and Luella.
Congratulations on this achievement. Alstonville Public School is sending a large cohort to compete at the PSSA
District Athletics Carnival at Geoff Watt Oval on Friday 5 August. I am looking forward to hearing about your great
results as you strive for inclusion in the Far North Coast Athletics Team.
Juanita Thomson
Relieving Principal
Congratulations Sophie for being a very kind
member of our school.
Year 2 performing at the NAIDOC Week Assembly.
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In Speaking and Listening last week students of Kindergarten Finland had fun making a
holiday web. Each student spoke about their holiday and then passed the wool around
the circle. The web represents all the different activities we got up to in the holidays!
Well done K Finland.
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Term 3 Goal Setting in K Finland
Last week students were asked to think of something they wanted to
improve on during the term. Students were able to set meaningful,
realistic and manageable goals to strive to achieve. Good luck on your
learning adventure K Finland.
K Finland has also started using their new racing car learning wall. As
students’ progress in their reading levels and understanding they are
able to move their racing car to the next level. Look at us zooming
along! Keep up the great work!
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COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE
REQUIRED
LATE TERM 3 OR EARLY TERM 4
We would like to call on our Alstonville community to support us in
developing our understanding of the Asia Pacific (involving Year 3),
Southern Africa & South America (involving Year 4) this semester.
If you have or come across some travel brochures for the following
countries, please send them into any Year 3 or Year 4 classroom by
Friday 12 August.
Year 3 Countries – Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, India, The Philippines, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji,
Vanuatu, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal.
Year 4 Countries – Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Madagascar,
Mozambique.
If you have an idea for a cultural activity that is hands-on in nature
for any of the above countries that is at little or no cost and is easy to
organise, please email the school email on:
[email protected] ATTN: Cassie Dean
Thank you,
Stage 2 Teachers
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PSSA Touch Football
On Tuesday, 23 students travelled to Ballina to compete in the Open Touch Football PSSA Knockout. In the first
match of the day, our boys team played Southern Cross K-12 School, going down by just three points, four to one.
Our girls then enjoyed a win against Southern Cross 4-2. Hannah our captain, made some exceptional line breaks
and scored 3 tries. Sierra also scored a try. Some new players including Stevie, Amica and Ava (who are only in
Year Four) played incredibly hard and showed skill and determination.
The boys team then played Ballina Public School, Oliver saved a try, by running a full length of the field to make a
tag. He then saved another two with speed along the wing. Bailey ran in two tries, Michael and Oliver also scored.
APS eventually came up on top, winning 7–2.
In our final match the girls played Ballina Public also. At half time the scores were still locked at nil all, both teams
showing great defence. Ballina Public eventually won 3-1. Hannah scored the try for APS. The girls team are to
be commended for their commitment to training, their admirable sportsmanship and skill.
Congratulations Girls: Bree, Ella, Jasmyn, Amalia, Sieara, Lucy, Elisha, Ava, Amica, Stevie and our captain
Hannah.
Congratulations Boys: Michael, Connor, Bailey, Kyran, Loui, Joe, Tyler, Oliver, Christian, Atzin, Taj and our captain
Jack.
Mrs Dyer and Miss Salt were both extremely proud of how well each and every student represented
Alstonville Public School. Well done everyone involved. Thank you to parents and carers who organised
transport to and from the event and helped with the smooth running of the day.
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Why should you always serve unhealthy snacks in a
Back in 2005, Wansink and Cheney performed a wonderfully simple study and found that when snacks are offered
in a large bowl, people take 53% more food (146 extra
calories) and eat 56% (142 calories) more than when offered the same amount of food but in a smaller bowl
(roughly half the size of large bowl).
small bowl?
It is often said that gaining weight is a simple matter of
energy intake being greater than energy we use up. While
this notion is certainly correct, it does not account for all
the factors that drive one to eat more calories than we
need.
Take home message? If you have friends coming over for
a party, or you’re making snacks for yourself or your family, try the following: place the healthy snacks in large
bowls and the unhealthy ones in small bowls. Theoretically, people should eat more of the healthy snacks and less
of the unhealthy ones.
Take for example the size of a bowl from which you eat
your snacks. Could this simple factor play a role in the
number of calories you may eat?
Hours to spare?
Willing to volunteer in our school canteen?
Canteen
Helpers
urgently
needed!
An hour or two, one day per week?
Every bit counts.
Thank you to all of our current
volunteers.
Please contact us via email (over the holidays): [email protected]
Or call in to our school canteen and see Mrs Nielsen at the canteen
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Alstonville Public School
P&C Association Inc
58 Main Street
ALSTONVILLE NSW 2477
Ph: 6628 0775 Fax: 6628 5362
[email protected]
Dear Parents,
The P&C are raising funds to help the school install rubber matting underneath the children’s play
equipment.
We are offering Kindergarten students the opportunity to create a tea towel with each child’s drawing on
it, making a great keepsake or gift. The tea towels are made from high quality 100% cotton and are
50x70cm in size.
The children will be able to create their artwork at school with their teacher.
We are using products from Expressions, if you would like to get more information look at their website
www.expressions.com.au. The tea-towels are $15 each.
Ordering is simple, fill in the order form below and return along with your payment to our office.
Please return order forms with payment by FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST to the school office.
ORDER FORM
Student’s Name
Class Name
FUNDRAISING PROJECTS
Tea Towel 50x70cm
QUANTITY
PRICE
$15
TOTAL TO PAY TO SCHOOL
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