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ALBANY PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER 2020 Term 2 Week 7 9842 7400 Absentee Textline 0438 978 463

albany.ps@education.wa.edu.au www.albanyprimary.wa.edu.au

From the Principal’s Desk

We have certainly been spoiled with the beautiful sunshine this week. I hope

everyone is enjoying the easing of more restrictions and catching up with family

and friends.

Road Safety

I have had a couple of reports of children crossing the road directly at the Campbell St

roundabout instead of walking up the road a few metres to the Crossing Guard near Fox Way.

This is a much safer option for our children. Please encourage your children to use the manned

crossings around our school.

In-Term Swimming

I am awaiting confirmation that our planned in-term swimming will go ahead in Term 3 during

weeks 5 and 6. Whilst the Education Department is supporting lessons to go ahead, we need to

work with ALAC to plan how lessons might look. We have not yet

finalised our costings for this, but it is usually about $60-65 per

child. Please keep this in mind for your planning.

Uniforms

We are working with our P&C Uniform Sub-committee to streamline and refresh our uniform.

This has resulted from a need to change suppliers. Parents will be able to provide feedback and

be kept informed of any changes on the horizon. In the meantime, our current Dress Code

Policy has not changed. You can view our Policy at the bottom of this web page

http://albanyprimary.wa.edu.au/parent-information/uniforms/

I have noticed quite a few non-uniform items about as the weather cools. Please have your children save their lovely

jeans, pink jumpers, and purple tights for weekends. Grey or green leggings/tights under a skirt, shorts or skorts are

acceptable; as are green long sleeved shirts under the school polo.

Semester 1 Reports

Teachers are busily preparing Semester 1 student reports. This semester, we will

be sending a printed copy of reports home to parents.

From Semester 2, reports will be sent home electronically via your email. More

information will come closer to this time. As always, please inform us if your

contact details change so we can keep you in the loop with all things APS.

Ms Cathy Willis, Principal

FOR YOUR DIARY

15 June

School Board

Meeting 7pm

17 June

ASHS Visit

Year 6

2.00pm

19 June

Virtual

Assembly

26 June

RISE Reward

29 June – 3 July

NAIDOC

Week

3 July

Virtual

Assembly

Last day of

Term 2

TERM 3 WILL

COMMENCE ON

TUESDAY 21 JULY

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Congratulations to all of our Honour Certificate Recipients and Rise Stars

Poster Competition To celebrate the 2020 NAIDOC theme of ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’, all students of

Albany Primary School are invited to design a poster that celebrates this theme.

The artist of the poster judged to have best met the brief will be awarded a prize in

Week Ten of Term Two. All submissions will be exhibited for everyone to enjoy. See

Page 6 of this newsletter for the Terms and Conditions.

FACTION POINTS

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HONOUR CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS

ROOM JUNIOR ROOM SENIOR

2 Ginger Horace

15 Rosie Asha

3 Oscar

Lily 16

Emily Charleton

4 Salem Aisah

17 Matthew Makenzie

5 Felicity Elijah

18 Emma Josie

6 Patton George

20 Harrison

Molly

7 Ameleah

Dane 21

Marlon April

8 William

Ivy 22

Harriet Abbie

9 Nina Luke

23 Kaylee Emily

LOTE Theodore

Will SCIENCE Rosie

Aussie of the Month Lulu

JUNIOR SENIOR

Sol Will Kayden Shalaylah

Joe Jake Odin Duncan

RISE Stars

Cross Country

The School Cross Country was held on

Thursday 28 May. For results please see

page 4 of this newsletter!

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Bottle flipping… Students in Room 17 have been conducting data based research to find the optimum level of water inside a bottle to land the most bottle flips. The students needed to find the amount of water that particular fractions of the bottle equalled, and tally their results. Most students found their accuracy of bottle flipping was increased when approximately 1/8th of a bottle was filled.

…and dipping

Room 17 students are also using bottles (and other objects) and learning to use the

properties of oil based spray paint and water to hydro dip items. Students will be using

colours to help camouflage items as part of their HASS unit of work for this term.

Students had the opportunity to practice with an item and colours of their choice.

Mr Holyoake, Room 17 Teacher

P & C News Our P&C is back into holding meetings but unfortunately many of the fun events we had planned are still not able to

proceed due to Government restrictions on activities within a school setting. This includes our Lapathon, Paintstorm

artist incursion and discos. We hope to be able to schedule some of these for Term 3 or 4 and are waiting as patiently

as we can for further announcements.

Our Uniform Shop will also remain closed to in-person sales for the rest of the term. Orders can be placed online

through a Quickcliq account (super easy to set up) and delivered to your child's classroom or held for collection. If you

need to try sizes, please email our fabulous volunteer Rebecca at apsuniformcoordinator@outlook.com and arrange a

time. Please note: Some items are out of stock and deliveries are being delayed due to Covid-19 so please be

understanding if we cannot supply you, it is out of our hands.

At Monday night's meeting, the report from the Lunch Services Working Group

was tabled and discussed. Naturally, there was a range of opinions however

discussion remained respectful and the meeting proceeded smoothly to a

vote. Our members showed clear support for us to pursue having lunch items

delivered to our school by an external provider. A sub-committee has now

been formed to set the criteria required to select our provider, and Expressions

of Interest will be called for soon. Anyone wishing to join this sub-committee

or suggest external providers is asked to contact us at

albanyprimarypandc@gmail.com

Mrs Jane Hare, P&C President

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Cross Country

What spectacular weather we had for our Cross Country on Thursday 28 May! Our students all demonstrated Personal

Excellence and our Top 10 were congratulated with an elbow shake or foot five. Well done to Melville who won the

shield!

Depending on restriction levels in place, Tuesday 4 August is the proposed Interschool Cross Country date. Stay tuned

for confirmation about this event. Mr Reece Smith, Deputy Principal

Cross Country Results - Top 5

Boys Girls

Year 1 1st Elijah Sienna

2nd Adam Aiesha

3rd Bayden Elora

4th Cobi Grace

5th Stewart Nina

Year 2 1st Theodore Lola

2nd Jackson Kate

3rd Joe Ameleah

4th Cooper Leila

5th Lewin Eunyce

Year 3 1st William Ava

2nd Malachi Annie

3rd Xavier Jasmine

4th Rio Charlie

5th Campbell Emily

Year 4 1st Kai Grace F

2nd Marlon Grace O

3rd Ben Chloe

4th Jakob Ari

5th Will Eva

Year 5 1st Mitchell Lucy

2nd Jesiah Freya

3rd Scott Eden

4th Ethan Skye

5th Louis Shaelin

Year 6 1st Benjamin Zeva

2nd Jake Charleton

3rd Charlie Aisha

4th Jonah Jean

5th Blake Hana

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More Photos From Our Cross Country

Lost Property With the weather changing from rain to sunshine and back again, we’re

noticing that a lot of jumpers and jackets are being left around the grounds

and finding their way to the Lost Property bin. We urge parents and

caregivers to ensure all clothing is labelled so that we can return the lost

articles. Please also remind your child/ren to look for their items in the

Lost Property bin, which is located inside the covered assembly area.

The Friendly School Officers

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Poster Competition

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Always Was, Always Will Be. recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. They are spiritually and culturally connected to this country.

Australia has the world’s oldest oral stories. The First Peoples engraved the world’s first maps, made the earliest paintings of ceremony and invented unique technologies.

NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country – a history which dates back thousands of generations.

It’s about seeing, hearing and learning the First Nations’ 65,000+ year history of this country - which is Australian history. We want all Australians to celebrate that we have the oldest continuing cultures on the planet.

To celebrate the 2020 NAIDOC theme of ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’, all students of

Albany Primary School are invited to design a poster that celebrates this theme.

The artist of the poster judged to have best met the brief will be awarded a prize in

Week Ten of Term Two. All submissions will be exhibited for everyone to enjoy.

Terms and Conditions:

The poster must be A3 size.

The poster must reflect the 2020 theme for NAIDOC Week.

All submissions must be completed entirely by the student.

The judging panel will be looking for effective design, use of colour and

innovation of the theme.

All submissions are due by Monday of Week Nine, Term Two.

Submissions can be left at the front office or delivered to Room 16 to Ms Stein.

The judging panel will be made up of the APS Dreamtime Committee as well as

Aboriginal community members.

Resources to complete the poster can be sourced from school, however this

project will be required to be completed at home as classroom teachers will be

engaged in other NAIDOC related activities.

Get creative people!

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were Australia’s first explorers, first navigators, first engineers, first farmers, first botanists, first scientists, first diplomats, first astronomers and first artists.