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9th April, 2019 (Term 1, Week 11)Appin Public School97 Appin RoadAppin N.S.W 2560

Phone: (02) 4631 1220Fax: (02) 4631 1486

Email: appin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Dates to Remember:2019 Uniform Shop is open every Monday - 8:30am to 9:30am11th April State Swimming Carnival

12th April Anzac Day Ceremony - 10:30-11:00am Easter Hat Parade - 2:00-3:00pmLast day of Term 1

14th April Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony - Cataract Dam Picnic Area - 11:00am to 3:30pm

29th April Staff Development Day

30th April Students return for Term 2 Application Website for Opportunity Class for Yr 5, 2020 opens today

2nd May Gymtastics on Thursdays in Term 2 (Sports Uniforms to be worn)

3rd May Assembly - Cockatoo Item & AOM for April

6th May Mothers’ Day Stall School Cross Country - 12:00pm to 3:00pm

8th May Mothers’ Day Breakfast at 8:15am

9th-10th May Stage 2 ZooSnooze Camp - Final Payment due 3rd May, 2019

13th May Peer Support commences each Monday of Term 2

17th May Assembly - Presentation of Cross Country Ribbons

24th May PSSA Gala Day # 1 - Information to follow next term

28th May Musica Viva - Live Performance by Mara - Information to follow next term

From the Principal Welcome to Week 11 where we thank everyone who attended our Movie Night Fundraiser last night at Event Cinemas. We thoroughly enjoyed watching “The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” and are extremely proud of our Year 6 Student Ministers who did a fine job organising this event. We were able to raise $1,170.70 which will go towards our Year 6 Farewell.ANZAC DayOur school will hold its Annual Commemorative Assembly, to recognise the importance of Anzac Day in our history, on our last day at school this term, which is this Friday 12th April 2019 from 10:30-11am. This will be a very quiet assembly this year as we are organising it ourselves unlike previous years where we have had assistance from Mr Ken Wright. On Anzac Day itself, our school will again participate in the Campbelltown Anzac Day Service. Interested students from K-6 and their families are invited to meet at Campbelltown McDonalds at 8am on Anzac Day to march at 8:30am. Students are encouraged to wear their Appin PS uniform and will march behind our Appin PS flag. Mrs Harrison will coordinate this ac-tivity. This is an event that is steadily growing, of which we are very proud. Our thanks go once again to Bron King who will organise the wreath for our school students to lay in Mawson Park during the ceremony.Easter Hat ParadeOur school has a wonderful tradition where paper hats are purchased as “flat packs” for each K-2 student and then assembled by a team of parent volunteers. Each Year 3-6 student is then assigned a “buddy” from K-2 classes and they work with this buddy to paint and then decorate colourful, creative and unique hats to wear at our Easter Hat Parade. This removes the stress of making hats from busy parents and provides equity for our students as no child misses out nor does any child have a hat any more expensive or cleverly crafted than another. We look forward to seeing many parents this Friday afternoon from 2:00-3:00pm under our COLA where our K-2 classes will parade in their Easter Hats with their buddy who will be wearing some cute bunny ears. Our P&C Easter Raffle will be drawn at the conclusion of this parade. Thanks to our Kinder classes for coordinating this event. Happy Easter to all our families!Gymtastics School Sports Program 2019As you are aware, each Thursday of Term 2, students in Years K-6 will have the opportunity to participate in a Gymnastics Sports Program presented by Gymtastic. The program will run each Thursday from 2nd May to 27th June (7 weeks - excluding 9th May - Stage 2 ZooSnooze Camp and 13th June - Area Cross Country). The cost of the 7 sessions per child is $25.00. Payments can be made in instalments. The total cost should be paid in full by Friday, 5th July 2019.

Student achievementsCongratulations to Shane from Currawong class who is working conscientiously to improve his writing skills. Each and every student is to be commended on their attitude to their learning over this term. Students have settled readily into classes and enthusiastically set and achieved some literacy and numeracy goals. Whilst learning is so much easier to “see” in our K-2 classes, there have been many “lightbulb” moments, particularly in maths, from our older students. Keep up the positive attitudes towards being a lifelong learner! On a sporting note, we would like to congratulate the following students for making it into Zone Rep Teams for the Area Carnivals: Soccer: Jiselle Petrovski, Laila Walmsley, Ruby Marks, Claudia Blunden, Brady WilsonAFL: Brady Wilson, Ethan Matthews, Benjamin Dean, Joshua Booth, Joel Haeren, Jayden Barry, Noah DonovanBasketball: Rhys Perrett, Kieran Sylwestrzak, Ethan Matthews, Oliver Croker, Aleksandar Vranjkovic, Cooper MarounTouch Football: Jiselle Petrovski, Paige Ross, Ava HiltonRugby League: Seth Ward-Shallick, Harry Smith, Finn McEvoy-KingHockey: Sophie HughesWell done to all and keep up with these fantastic efforts!!Stamp Chart SuperstarsCongratulations to the following students who have filled their stamp chart or accumulated dojo points by demonstrating and following our classroom rules: Fairywren: Amelia, Madison, Jaxon, Oscar, Levi, AshtonKookaburra: Layla, Kooper, Noah G, Evie, Jonah, IvyLyrebird: Quinn, SierraBowerbird: Aivah, Cooper, Bailey, ZevaLorikeet: Joshua, Bailey, Luke, Alegra, Claudia, Laila, Charlee, Emily, Charlotte, Hayley, Isabella

WalkathonKeep that Walkathon sponsorship money coming in! We would appreciate all sponsorship money being returned by this Friday with winners being announced at our first assembly next term on Friday, 3rd May 2019. Every dollar counts and will go towards more IT for our students in classrooms. We continue to thank all the students who have returned their Walkathon sponsorship money already. Their names were included in our third raffle draw last Friday and fifteen students’ names were drawn out. These lucky students to win an incentive prize were: Joshua B, Corey B, Erica S, Billy W, Skye N, Sophie H, Seth W-S, Breanna V, Tabitha M, Claudia B, Charlee B, Lily B, Aden B, Jayden B & Ryan S. Way to go Appin walkers!Peer SupportDuring the first week of Term 2, our Year 6 students will participate in two days of interactive learning experiences with Mr Thompson to prepare them for their role as Peer Support Leaders of a small group of multi-age students. This year’s program will focus on “Values” and will commence next term in Week 3 on Monday afternoons. Values are the important ideals and beliefs influencing our decisions and behaviours. They provide a framework to guide us in our interactions with others and strengthen our sense of self. Our values define who we are, as well as give purpose and meaning to our lives. School communities are significant environments for the socialisation of students into meaningful members of society. Schools use values education to build students’ social skills, resilience and sense of responsibility. Key outcomes include empowering students to take risks within safe boundaries and encouraging active participation in the school community.School Cross Country CarnivalThis annual event will be held on Monday, 6th May, 2019 at school for Year 2-6 students commencing at midday and concluding at 3:00pm. Even though we will invite all Year 2 students to participate, only eight year olds will be eligible to represent our school at Zone level. Eight to ten year olds will run 2 kilometres (two laps of our school track) and 11 and 12 year olds will run three kilometres (three laps of our you can assist us with the smooth school track). If running of our carnival, please see Mr Earnshaw. We generally ask parents to sit at a checkpoint somewhere along our course and enjoy the sunshine and encourage our winners. Our Kinder and Year 1 students will have their own modified activities commencing at 1:00pm.Stewart House DonationsPlease return Stewart House donation envelopes marked with your child’s name and class to the officeby this Friday, 12th April, 2019. Donations over $2.00 will go into a draw for a fantastic Family Holiday, to a destination of your choice, valued at $4,000.Canteen NewsPlease note: The Canteen is a private business, so please do not ask for credit as a lot of parents are not bringing back money owed. Thanks Alli.Gardening Club DonationsThe Appin Public School Gardening Club are asking for donations of large ceramic pots (please no plastic pots) that are no longer required around your home. The gardening club is looking to plant a variety of different shrubs, natives and succulents and would like to use donated large ceramic pots to assist in getting these plants established (unfortunately, planting into the ground is proving a little difficult). The gardening club would be most grateful for any donations. Thank you!

Student of the WeekOwl - Evie Rosella - BeauFairywren - RykaCockatoo - JebediahCurrawong - NancyKookaburra - DaisyLyrebird - BlakeBowerbird - Alexis Lorikeet - AstonFalcon - Caylen Magpie - Hamish Cassowary - TBABellbird - Mia CKingfisher - Cooper

Year 6 Farewell FundraiserYear 6 students will be selling iceblocks each afternoon, after school from 3:00pm - 3:15pm during Term 1 and Term 4 to raise money for the Year 6 Farewell. If any parents from Year 5 or Year 6 would like to donate a bag of Zooper Doopers, it would be greatly appreciated.

HolidaysOur school staff wishes everyone a safe and relaxing holiday along with a happy Easter. We are all looking forward to some precious family time, crisp Autumn mornings and plenty of chocolate! We look forward to seeing our students return to school on

Intention to Apply for Year 5 Entry to an Opportunity Class in 2020Year 4 students would have received this note today. If you would like to have your child considered for Year 5 Opportunity Class entry in 2020, you need to apply soon on the internet using a valid email address (not the student’s email address). Instructions on how to apply online will be available from Tuesday, 30th April, 2019 at https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5. The application website opens on Tuesday, 30th April and closes on Friday, 17th May.

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TERM 1 WEEK 11 Focus Areas -Sandpit and The Oval

Dear Beast

by Tabitha Monti, Year 1 - Currawong

Dear Beast,

I want to go home. I don’t like you or your lair. I don’t like this silly shirt and beanie because

I am a wild animal. I hate the little house that you made for me. Take me back at once! I

want to go back and hang in a tree. You shouldn’t have taken me from my home.

From Racoon (Tabitha Monti)

Portal Lighthouse

by Isabella Magnaye, Year 4 - Lorikeet

BAM, Flash, Crash!

It was a cold windy day. The trees were shivering and shaking. Out came Hayley, the bravest light

keeper ever. She just came from the store from buying lamp oil. On her way home, she drove and

looked through the window. Bam, flash, crash! “There it goes again,” said Hayley. When she got home,

the strong storm and lightning was hurting her ears.

Hayley went downstairs to her secret lab. No one knows there was a secret lab underneath the

lighthouse. When she got to her secret lab she got to her portal and portaled through it. When Hayley

arrived to her destination she found evil rainbows unicorns! What a shock! Hayley gasped in surprise.

Then, in any moment, they started following Hayley all the way through the portal, the lab, upstairs,

and out! As soon as they got out they flew to the noisy delivery ship. They started bombing in because

it was noisy! She had to think of something quickly. In just a minute she thought of something. She

knew that these evil rainbow unicorns hated light. Hayley got the lamp oil. It striked on. It came into

the unicorns evil eyes. The unicorns looked at Hayley. They all raced to her. She went downstairs to her

secret lab, right in front of the portal unicorns flew to Hayley as fast as they could. Hayley went to the

side of the portal. “There all in,” said Hayley.

Golden Pencil Award Term 1 Week 9

Golden Pencil Award Nominees1 Cockatoo David Thomson 1 Currawong Tabitha Monti

1/2 Kookaburra Evie Melville 2 Lyrebird Skye Nardi

3 Bowerbird Bailey Baxter 3/4 Falcon No entry submitted

3/4 Lorikeet Isabella Magnaye 3/4 Magpie Nevaeh Metcalfe

5/6 Bellbird Zarah Goddard 5/6 Cassowary Seth Gilmore

5/6 Kingfisher Georgia Smith

The During Week 9’s Assembly The Golden Pencil’s were presented to:-

- Tabitha Monti from Currawong, whose letter to the Beast, used a perfect tone demonstrating her wonderful understanding of

‘A Tale of Two Beasts’.

- Lorikeet’s Isabella Magnaye, who wrote an exciting story ‘Portal Lighthouse’ using fabulous descriptive language.

- Georgia Smith from Kingfisher, whose piece of writing had great attention to detail.

Letter to the Panel Georgia Smith

Appin Public School

97 Appin Road

Australia, NSW, 2560

22/3/2019

Attention to the panel,

My name is Georgia Smith and I am a year 6 student at Appin Public School. I’m writing to persuade you about why Appin Public School would make a

brilliant candidate to be presented with the grant that you are offering. Our school and community will use this grant to purchase sustainable playground

equipment. I put forward the following arguments for why Appin Public School needs to be presented with a grant from the panel. The design of the

playground has been carefully and specifically designed to meet the departmental standards, the school and community needs and is cost effective. In

addition, I believe that the sustainable playground equipment will improve all students and community members’ physical and mental health. Finally, the

grant will allow us to provide more options for students and community members play.

The playground equipment that we would purchase with the grant money has been carefully chosen to meet all of the requirements as set out by the

grant and Department of Education requirements. I believe that this design (please refer to image below) will be the best design for my school. Here's

why this playground was chosen. It is suitable for ages from 5 - 12. This playground has twisty and swirly slides for the kindergarten to year 2, monkey

bars to test the 3 - 6 strength, stepping stones to improve your balance, and lodes of fun for everyone. This playground is exceptionally safe for my school.

This playground meets all departmental standards there are no swings or flying foxes. I believe the cost of this playground is outstanding because it even

includes soft fall and a shade sale. This way you can give us the exact amount of money. ($50,000) So much easier than guessing the amount of money

that you would have to give us.

Having a playground for all to playground for all to play on will improve students and community member’s physical and mental health. This is important

for everyone! Exercise releases important chemicals called endorphins and serotonin. These chemicals also help reduce feelings of loneliness and isola-

tion. This would be exceptionally helpful for my school. If you exercise regularly, you can release any stress and symptoms of mental health conditions like

depression and anxiety. Being physically and mentally healthy will increase the size of the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for memory. This

will be great because when we go to high school we will remember our primary school journey and all the things we learnt. If we have good well-being

at school we will have less chance at getting disease or injuries.

A playground at our school will also help us to improve our physical

strength and skills. If the school and community gets a playground

children will improve muscle tone and strength. For example the

monkey bars would help us develop upper body strength and the

stepping stones will improve our balance and coordination. This

The playground equipment will allow us to provide students and the community with options for play.

Giving students choices of play spaces is a must do! All students need to experience some form of phys-

ical exercise and if we had a playground on the school grounds students can choose to play in that area

instead of another. A playground would also give the community a safer option during school holidays

when the school is open to the public. We have some play equipment across the road from the school,

however students and the community would enjoy playing on something new and fun. There are very

few options at Appin Public School for students for play. Students can either play touch, soccer, play with

hula hoops or skipping ropes. But what about those people that don’t want to play any of those things.

A playground would be a perfect option for my school and the Appin Community.

On the basis of the undeniable arguments presented, I strongly advise you to support our school and

community in giving us the grant. If we receive the grant it will go towards a playground that meets all

of the requirements, it will help develop children’s physical and mental health and it will offer our com-

munity more play options. Thank you for taking the time to consider Appin Public School for this grant.

Kind Regards,

Georgia Smith

Year 6 - Kingfisher