Albury North Public School Term 1, Week 3 10 February 2020

868 Mate Street, Albury 2640 Phone: 02 6025 1730 Email: alburynth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Who do I speak to if I have a question or issue about my child ? The classroom teacher is usually the best person to see first . If they are not able to help you they will direct you to someone who hopefully can. It may be an Assistant Principal, a Learning Support Teacher or sometimes me. The best way to organise a chat with anyone at school is to contact the office to arrange an appointment. Mel and Lea have a list of the times that we are all available.

Are there times when the teachers are unavailable ? Yes. We cannot have serious conversations when we are on playground duty, when the

kids are lining up or when we are in our classes teaching.

Here are the other times of the week when we may be unavailable : Leadership Meeting: Monday 3.30pm – 5.00pm Professional Development for all teachers: Tuesday 3.20pm – 4.50pm Weekly Briefing: Wednesday 8.40am – 9.05am Learning Support Meeting: Thursday 8.40am – 9.05am

Paul Smith, Principal

Our House Captains and Class Councillors (below)

Dates for your diary

Wed 19 Feb AECG Meeting 1.45-2.15pm at Thurgoona Public School

Fri 21 Feb Investiture Ceremony School captains, house captains and SRC. 10.30-11am. Parents and carers welcome.

Tue 25 Feb Albury Zone Swimming Carnival All day at Albury pool

Fri 28 Feb Book Club orders due

The Frequently Asked Questions

What do you think we should do more

of at school?

From the classroom

JESS KELLY, 56AH

PAYTON WILESMITH, 45JL

AALIYAH ACKERLEY, 56AH

Yesterday was the Water Fun Day. Splash. I heard people in the inflatable waterslide. It was so much fun and everyone had a go at everything. My first group went to Mrs Noske and we did bubbles! Then we went to the inflatable waterslide and I was so cold. I wanted to scream but I didn’t so that was good. If I did scream I would have embarrassed myself. Then we played drip-drip-drop and we were going to smash the ice but we couldn’t. It was all Mr Smith’s fault. He is a goof ball. We watched a movie called Turbo and it was really fun. We had icy poles and I was so cold. HALLIE WRIGHT, 2TS

Pop! My bubble exploded. We were doing bubbles on a Water Fun Day. The bubbles were awesome. After playing with bubbles we did the inflatable waterslide. All I heard was splash! As we went down the side I got wet. When we were waiting in line I got bindies and I was shivering. Squish! We were doing a water relay with sponges. We had to dip the sponge in a bucket and run back to squish it in the bucket at the other end. We played drip-drip-drop. It was especially fun because I got two cups over my head. We were going to smash ice but we didn’t because Mr Smith let the parents have a turn. RUBY WILESMITH, 2TS

On Thursday K-2 had a Water Fun Day! We got to play all sorts of games like drip-drip-drop. It’s like duck-duck-goose but instead you use water. Splash! We also did bubbles with Mrs Noske. Pop pop! We all got prickles in our feet. Ouch! We watched Turbo in Ms Wood’s room. Our last rotation was smashing ice but Mr Smith left our ice out so the big kids got to it! We got to eat icy poles. Crunch crunch! They were really yummy. We got to go on the water slide. Yay! We did sponge relays with Mrs Golshan. Drip drip! LILLYANNE WILLIAMS, 2TS

Every term each of our stages has a problem to solve during literacy. This term we are all learning about Fairy Tales. Here are our problems to solve (and some drawings of the big bad wolf): K-2: Who are the 4 characters you would like to invite to the fairytale ball? 3-4: Who is the worst fairytale character? 5-6: Should we ban fairytales?

1. What was the last movie you watched? Power Rangers. My son is obsessed with it. He came into Mr Smith’s office and showed him all the moves!

2. Tell us something we wouldn’t know about you. I took part in the Melbourne Ironman Triathlon. It took me 14 hours to complete the race.

3. If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? Wedges with meat sauce, topped with cheese and sour cream.

4. What’s your favourite TV show? Star Trek: Discovery - much to my wife’s disgust.

5. Which superpower would you like and why? Time travel, so I could go back and watch all of the Adelaide Crows’ AFL Grand Final wins.

6. Where in the world would you most like to travel? I’d love to head back to Cambodia some time soon. The people there are so happy, friendly and helpful. The last time I went I was lucky enough to teach there as well and it would be so nice to see some of the students and teachers that I met and made friends with during the trip.

In other news around the school….

You can now listen to p a r t s o f o u r newsletter using your smart phone - just use your camera. Where ever you see a QR code you can listen to someone read it to you.

Getting to know…

MR BELL

Bus Passes New bus passes will be handed out as they arrive. Students normally have a two-week ‘grace period’ before they are asked to show a pass.

Some important information • Any pink note sent home needs permission and a

possible payment.  They need to be returned, by the due date, to the letterbox in the front office.

• School begins at 9.10am and finishes at 3.05pm. • ·Playground supervision in the morning only

begins at 8.40am. We have 30 minutes for recess from 11.10am – 11.40am and 40 minutes for lunch from 1.10pm-1.50pm.

• Our free Breakfast Program is open every day from 8.40am – 9.00am in the community kitchen. We will be looking for helpers in the coming weeks.

• Our Reading Lounge is open from 8.40am – 9.05am everyday. We have a new venue - the library.

•   Our canteen is open every day except Monday. Some second-hand uniforms may be purchased from here, as well as new broad brimmed hats.

• All children need a wide-brimmed hat to play outside at recess and lunch. Children without a hat will play under the COLA, in the library or in the computer room.

• In case of emergencies, we need to ensure that we have the most up-to-date contact details. Please contact the office if you need to make any changes.

PEACE Awards

CATCH-UP Like us @AlburyNorthPS

Congratulations to Stanton, the overall house winners at our swimming carnival. T h a n k y o u t o everyone who helped run the carnival - especially Mr Lindner and Miss Wood.

Junior champions Violet Smuts & Nate Holland

11yr champions Payton Wilesmith & Jed McGown

Senior champions Jenna Ruhbaum & Joel Vogel RIGHT: The K-2 WaterFun Day

K TF Jemma Campbell  Hamish BellK /1SS Phoenix Baker-Rapsey  Zander Jones  1 AM Lennox Kennedy  Cleo Urquhart1/2 RT Paige Parkin  Levi Godde2 TS Lilly Williams  Laylah AyresK-3 KG Student3/4 KW Cayden Belk  Alexis Jones3/4 VR Tejay Waite  Hannah Sherman3/4 JM Sophia Emery4/5 JL Bailey Polkinghorne-Emery  Isabella Rigby4-6 KC Wyatt Maxwell5/6 AH Victor Ayoo  Lilah Kennedy5/6 CS Bonnie Willingham  Taylor Coad

PEACE points are worth one point, weekly merit certificates are worth five points and achievement merits (handed out every four weeks) are worth 10 points. We also hand out monthly PEACE awards, worth five points, for students who have shown excellent classroom or playground behaviour. Please keep your child’s certificates somewhere safe. Students are to bring their certificates to the office once they reach the following levels: BRONZE : 15 points SILVER: 30 Points GOLD: 60 Points