Andrews Creek Primary

Key Dates Term 4

Monday 17 October

School Association Meeting

Wednesday 19 October

5/6W LHS Production 11am

Friday 21 October

Student Free Day

Monday 24 October

Grade 3 & 4 Sports Expo

Tuesday 25 October

School Photos

Wednesday 26 October

Grade 6 NAPLAN

Wednesday 2 November

LHS Transition Art 12-1pm

Thursday 3 November

Count Us In sing event

Monday 7 November

Recreation Day Holiday

Thursday 24 November

Schools Triathlon

Friday 25 November

Devonport Show Day

Monday 28 November

Kinder 2017 Orientation

Issue No. 16 13 October 2016

Principal’s Message

Firstly a big welcome back to everyone. I hope that you were all able to enjoy the break

away from school. It has been great to see our students and staff members return to

school this week re-energised and ready for a super Term 4 of learning.

School Hats - No hats, No play.

A reminder that from last Tuesday 11 October it is a requirement that all students wear

their hats during break times, otherwise we ask that they sit in the shaded area in the

courtyard. If anyone needs a new hat, please purchase from the office.

Kinders in the Big Playground!

At lunch time on Tuesday and Wednesday, Mrs. Dawkins opened ‘the gate’ and our Kinder

students had their first lunch time play in the ‘big yard’. For all of Term 4, Kinder students

will spend Tuesday and Wednesday lunch times playing in the main playground as the

beginning of their transition into Prep next year. It was lovely watching our older students

buddy up with the Kinder students to start teaching them about how to play like an

Andrews Creek Shining STAR.

Student Free Day - Friday, 21 October

A reminder that Friday 21 October is a student free day. On this day teachers and teacher

assistants will be participating in valuable professional learning. We will be spending the day

looking at research and best practice around Numeracy and Problem Solving teaching

and learning strategies, and will be agreeing on whole school practices that will take us into

the future. Thank you to ACPS families for making this time possible.

Late Night 2017 Planning Session

On Tuesday 25 October teachers will be having a late

night session focusing on reviewing all aspects of our 2016

year and our School Improvement Planning Documents.

This will then be used to inform our 2017 planning.

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We have had a very special task to do in Kindergarten last term. We have taken part in the Picasso Cow

Program learning about the importance of dairy and painting our very own fiberglass cow. We had some of

our buddies from 4/5AS help us by adding the dairy products that are painted on the cow but the rest we

did ourselves. We named our cow Sunshine and we are very proud of what we have accomplished with our

Picasso Cow!

Monday 17 October - School Association Meeting - All Welcome!

We are holding our first Term 4 School Association Meeting next Monday evening, beginning at 6pm in the staffroom.

We invite any interested community members to come along. We will be discussing the following agenda items:

School Levies Our Constitution ASG National Awards Working with Children Cards

2017 Planning Current Budget Update School Fair

We look forward to you joining us.

Yours in Partnership

Veronica Bramich

Acting Principal

School Photos—Tuesday 25 October

School photo order forms went out last term with

every student. Photo orders must be returned

to the office by Monday 24 October with the

correct money in envelopes as no change can be

given by the school or the photographer. A credit

card and cheque option is also available.

Every student must bring their own envelope back

even if the payment is included in a siblings envelope.

Please do not place envelopes inside each other.

Family photo envelopes are available from the office.

A family discount applies for families with 3 or more

children, pay for only 2 “B” packs.

A $10.00 fee will apply to late orders. Late

orders must be sent to the photo studio directly, not

given to the office. A money back guarantee is

available within 14 days of purchase if you are not

satisfied with your photos.

For any further enquiries please call the studio on

6228 6878.

Merit Assembly—20 September

The following students received a

Learn, Inspire, Shine Award at our

last assembly in Term 3:

Learn

Natalie Febey, Dallas James, Kurtis Bye, Matthew

Rosendale, Mitchell Richardson, Angel Glover and

Rylan Pearce.

Inspire

Elsa Kurtz, Daniel Heine, Hayley Ryan, Charli

Redpath, Laila Redpath, Ryan Elliott and Bethany

Jeffrey.

Shine

Ben Gallagher-Denney, Isabella Lunson, Tiarna

Shepherd, Lachlan Rouse, Elsie Badcock, Harrison

Stillman and Ryan Holliday.

Book club

Issue 7 is currently out. Orders are

due back no later than Wednesday 26

October.

Kindergarten 2017

Kindergarten enrolments for 2017 are now open!

Please pick up an enrolment form from the office if

you need one. Enrolment forms, along with the

child’s birth certificate and immunisation records,

need to be brought to the office as early as

possible this term please.

An orientation session has

b e e n s c h e d u l e d f o r

November 28th at 1.45pm

in the Kinder room for all

2017 Kinder parents and

students.

Pre-Kinder sessions will run

every Monday afternoon in Term 4 and we

encourage parents/carers to bring along your child

as it is a great way to help transition them into

Kinder next year.

Reminder: 2017 Uniform Order

Please get your order into the office before

Wednesday 26 October.

You can download a form from Skoolbag or get

one from the office.

Sun Smart Policy

ACPS is an accredited “Sun Smart” School. That

means students are required to wear sun-safe hats

that protect the face, neck and ears when outside

in Terms 1 and 4. Recommended sun-safe hats

include legionnaires, broad brimmed and bucket

hats. Baseball caps do not offer enough protection.

Our school hats are recommenced. Broad

brimmed hats, $8.00 and legionnaires hats,

$7.00 can be purchased from the office.

Students without a sun-safe hat or clothing must

play in areas protected from the sun. Thank you

for your co-operation with this matter.

Book Week Dress up

NOTE DATE CHANGE:

August 24th

Hanami Day On the last Wednesday of Term 3, Mrs Jackson organised a wonderful Japanese “Hanami”

activity with us at lunch time.

We started off the afternoon with the “Soran Bushi” Japanese dance that we had learnt for

the Dance Event. Chiai San from Japan came along and helped write our names in

Japanese. We had an origami station, Japanese toys and a colouring competition. We also

had a photo booth and staff and students enjoyed dressing up in Japanese clothes!

Thank you Mrs Jackson for all of your hard work making our beautiful cherry blossoms

from tissue paper and sharing with us some lovely Japanese

culture. Everyone had a wonderful time amongst the cherry

blossoms.

3/4B

Comments from our Creek walk…..

I learnt that the green and gold frogs are nearly all gone.

I am learning about all the animals.

The Creek is really fun and educational.

Yesterday at the Creek we

learnt about paddy melons.

I like the Creek because of its

habitats.

The Creek was really muddy.

We touched the fake snake.

Skye jumped on the bridge

and it snapped.

At the Creek we learnt about

animals and where they live.

In the museum there were burrowing crayfish.

The Creek was really muddy!

It was cool in the museum.

We learnt about the tassie devil.

The best thing about the Creek is the nature.

We think the Creek was amazing.

Investigating If Fresh Water Crayfish Are In Danger by

5/6W

On the 13th of October, Dr Claire Hawkins, Andrew from Claws On The Line,

Phil who is retired but still comes to help, Ranger John who works for the

National Parks and Mr Thomas came and visited our school. We were

assisting them to look for burrowing crayfish. Each group was given a

specific area to find any sort of used crayfish burrows, chimneys, holes or

fresh burrows. This project is about saving the crayfish and to find out about

how many are left in Tasmania. We had to record how many crayfish are in

the area we were allocated. We learnt the crayfish in our area have eight

legs and that one pincher is bigger than the other. Dr Claire was really

impressed with our Creek area and she thought the population of crayfish

looked very healthy.

By Katelyn, Rebecca and Sasha

CONTACT DETAILS

20 Westwind Drive, WESLEY VALE, TAS 7307

Phone: 03 6428 4088 Fax: 03 6428 4214

Email: andrews.creek.primary@education.tas.gov.au Web: www.andrewscreekprimary.com.au

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