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Ardtornish NewsletterTerm 3 Week 5 - 25th August 2023
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No 14
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In this issue
Diary Dates
August 28th – Sausage Sizzle September 1st - Father’s Day Stall 4th- Pumpkin Soup 5th- Education Committee Meeting 7.30pm 6th- Finance Meeting 3.15pm, FACE Meeting 6.30pm 8th - Silly Sock Day 11th- Pumpkin Soup, Governing Council Meeting 7.00pm 14th- Festival of Music 15th- Assembly Road Crossing
Monitors Wed 23rd Aug – Tue 29th Aug Amelia M, Sienna H, Rhea V Wed 30th Aug – Tue 5th Sep Chloe C, Brooklyn T, Emily F Wed 6th Sep – Tue 12th Sep Lillee W, Jasmine G, Matisse B Please arrive by 8.25am |
Students Learn to be Safe with Emmy and Friends
Students in Years 1 and 2 recently completed a five-lesson course over a number of weeks, called ‘Learn to be Safe with Emmy and Friends’ The program provides an evidence-led approach to delivering a consent-based protective behaviours education to children aged 0 - 10 years old.
The program teaches children how to:
The central character of Emmy allows students to relate to situations she and her friends encounter and the program is highly memorable. The topics covered over the five lessons: Week 1. The Right for Safety. Understanding Feelings. Week 2. Early Warning Signs. Unsafe Situations. Persistence. Week 3. Body Ownership. Consent. Private and Public Body Parts. Week 4. Safe and Unsafe Secrets. Reinforce Safety and Persistence. Week 5. Safety Team. Programme Reinforcement. These topics address three of the National Curriculum content descriptors in Health:
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Spoil dad this Father's Day with an amazing gift from our Father's Day Stall. The stall will be in the hall Friday 1st September.
QKR! is now available to set your purchase amount (max spend $20 per child). QKR! will close at 9:00am on Thursday 31st August. School Fees are due by August 31st. Contact Cathy in Finance if you would like to organise a payment plan. See information below regarding School Card Assistance.
School Card needs to be applied for every year. You can also collect a paper copy from the front office. Click the link below to find out more information and to apply online.
School Card Online Application 
Pumpkin Soup Fundraiser
The Garden PALs and SRC executives are doing a fundraiser to support maintenance of our wonderful garden. We will be selling pumpkin soup for lunch on Monday of Weeks 7 & 8. We will use vegetables from the garden to make the soup. It costs $3 for a serve of soup and bread. We will deliver the soup to your child's classroom just before eating time. Soup can be ordered for more than one week. Please note there is an option for Gluten Free bread. Payment by QKR! Order from the Payments menu in QKR!, select the Fundraising Tab 
Parent Workshops
My Child and Me - a positive approach to guiding children’s behaviour Wednesday 6 September 12:30pm - 3:00pm - Part 1 Wednesday 13 September 12:30pm - 3:00pm - Part 2 Park's Children's Centre, 50 Trafford St, Angle Park To register for this workshop please contact Carlye Bowden, Community Development Officer on 0407 630 173 or email [email protected]. Click here for more information. Living with Young People – supports parents with teenagers Tuesday 12 September 6:00pm - 8:30pm - Part 1 Tuesday 19 September 6:00pm - 8:30pm - Part 2 Lyndoch Primary School - Activity Room, Margaret St, Lyndoch To register for this workshop please contact Kate Blacksell on 0437 937 172 or email [email protected]. Click here for more information. Spending Money at the Canteen
Recently there has been many students bringing large amounts of money $20 & $50 notes to spend at the canteen. The canteen is not able to give change for large amounts of money. Please note: if a child bring's a large amount of money to school we will ring the parent to confirm that it is ok. 
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If your child is away on collection day, leftover orders will be packaged and delivered to your child’s classroom. |
School Service Officers Week This week we formally recognised the wonderful contribution School Support Staff make to our school community. It is a time to celebrate their vital and skilled work in supporting staff and students. Support Staff undertake a wide range of roles in our school, focussed either around administration or curriculum support. As admin support officers they help to coordinate, plan and run a wide range of school functions e.g. looking after student medications, diabetes management, the grounds, organising special functions, monitoring facilities, information technology, tracking our finances, managing our canteen, and much, much more, the list is endless. Curriculum support includes keeping our library functioning well, managing our ICT network, running the canteen, providing special needs support and working with large and small groups of students as well as providing one on one tutoring for others. The skills, dedication and energy that our Support Staff bring to their work in assisting student learning and wellbeing makes a significant difference to student achievement. Best of all, support staff at Ardtornish work as a collaborative team sharing roles and generously stepping into support each other and staff as the need arises. On behalf of the whole school community we would like to express the appreciation we have for each and everyone of them. Mark & Deb. Ardtornish Dance
Well done to all competitors who performed at the Blitz It Competition on Saturday 5th August. All the girls performed with such enthusiasm and commitment to their team. Party Girls came first and won gold!! Future Stars came second with a silver medal. Well done girls, what a fantastic result. Towards the end of this term we will be sending information out regarding "come and try" days / trials in readiness for the next season. 
Future Legends Cheer – APS Light of the Stars came second place
Primary Cheer – APS Lightening came third place and APS Super Girlz came second place. 
Aerobics – Future Stars came second place
Party Girls came first place 
Hip Hop – Da Girlz came third place.
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During Week 2 of this term, year 5 students from room 28 attended the ARC at Campbelltown for their annual water safety program. This is run by the Department for Education and is part of the health and physical learning area of the Australian curriculum. Students learnt a variety of water safety skills in and around the water.
Students used life jackets and other floatation devices to jump in, float and swim in the water. They used pool noodles, balls, and plastic bottles attached to a rope to throw to a “drowning” student to pull them to the side of the pool. Some students managed to swim without touching the bottom or holding onto the side of the pool for the first time, while others swam laps.
The week ended with some aqua-aerobic dancing and a lot of splashing to get the instructors wet.
Students used life jackets and other floatation devices to jump in, float and swim in the water. They used pool noodles, balls, and plastic bottles attached to a rope to throw to a “drowning” student to pull them to the side of the pool. Some students managed to swim without touching the bottom or holding onto the side of the pool for the first time, while others swam laps.
The week ended with some aqua-aerobic dancing and a lot of splashing to get the instructors wet.
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