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11th April 2013 Term 1 Week 10 No HAT … No PLAY

Well Done, Nicholas! All the way to Sydney for 30 seconds of fame

Congratulations on a great swim Nicholas, another personal

best - how many records can this boy beat. He has taken

around 10seconds off his time for this event THIS season.

Diary Notes

Anzac Service - 8am Thursday 25th April assemble at corner for the March - Everyone welcome!!

Students resume Wed 1st May

Queensland ArtsLink - Texas - 3rd May

K-6 Excursion - Thalgarrah Enviro Education Centre, Armidale ... 27th - 30th May

Term 2 - Pre School Starts Monday 6th May, 8.30am

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Toy Library Dates

From the Principal’s desk

Woo, Whoo, Whoa - any or all three - it has been one hectic roller coaster since beginning

of term and here we are at the end. Phew!!

Some families took an early break and unfortunately this has impacted on our Attendance

Goal, but I am sure they will have some great things to share when they return, so it will

be very much worth it for all of us.

The last two weeks were intense with an author visit at Sir Henry Parkes Memorial PS in

Tenterfield to listen to Belinda Murrell talk about her books and how she gets inspiration

from her family and friends for the characters and storylines. (we bought four to read)

Our new BeeBot was put through its paces. The children had a great time working out how

to program it to move a certain distance forward or back and to turn right and left.

There has been huge gains in analytical and tactical thinking already and with the ProBot

and ConstructaBot to be added to our robotic collection shortly there will be some

interesting problems and projects ahead.

The last of our State Library sessions saw the children creating busts of a goldminer

from clay - what a mess, but what fun!! Some look a little more like convicts than miners,

but hey a lot of them were both anyway.

Have a great holiday and take care.

See you at the Anzac Service 8am Thursday 25th

Cheers until next term…. Berrill

Our Goal

94%

Week 9/10

74%

Term 2

13th May

17th June

Term 3

22nd July

19th August

16th Sept

Term 4

14th Oct

11th Nov

9th Dec

Around The Library 5 Video Conferencing: Notes for Teachers

Goldminer 1861 - Clay sculpture

The State Library Pictures collections reveal a fascinating portrait of Australian lives. They form one of the most significant historical and documentary collections in Australia, documenting the lives of past and present Australians, their society, buildings and landscapes. In this video conference we unravel the story behind the artwork ‘Goldminer 1861’ by James Anderson, and look closely at why the im-age was created. It will be the inspiration for an instructional sculp-ture workshop session using ceramic materials. This video conference will assist students to:

discover ways to create images from their own personal stories explore hand-building techniques using clay to make a sculpture apply this knowledge to begin an artwork of their own

This is an interactive, step by step workshop presentation that students can follow and work from as the session progresses. This will be a beginning to the artwork only and the students will need time to complete the artwork after the session.

Materials needed for the video conference: White earthenware handbuilding clay OR modelling clay ‐ approx 900 grams per student Modelling tools – paddle pop stick, fork, spoon, pencil or commercial clay modeling tools Old toothbrush – for scoring surfaces to join them

These are the sculptures made by Y3-6 students in this VC lesson.

This was the final session of this series and we look forward to the

next series, but in the meantime we have access to units of work that

we will continue to use in class.

The children have had a great time learning a little about several styles

of Art, trying their hand at making their own and being able to view

artworks at the State Gallery that are not available to the general

public.

We thank the State Library of NSW for making this possible.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat/Sun

1 T2 first day for

NSW Students

2 3 Qld Arts

Council—Texas

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6 7 8 9 10 Zone XCtry

Tingha

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13 14 Naplan 15 Naplan 16 Naplan 17 RDO 18/19

20 21 Inverell Library 22 23 24 Cancer

Council Biggest

Morning Tea

25/26

27 Thalgarrah

Enviro Ed Centre

Major Excursion

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May 2013

April 2013 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat/Sun

1 Easter Mon 2 3 State Swimming

Good luck Nicholas

4 5 6/7

Camp Draft

8 Newsletter

Toy Library

9 10 11 last day of T1 12 RDO 13/14

15 16 17 18 19 20/21

22 23 24 25 26 27/28

29 T2 Staff only 30 T2 Staff only May 1 T2 first day

for NSW Students

May 2 May 3 Qld Arts

Council—Texas