Week 3, Term 1

Phone: 4934 3584 Emai l : ashtonf ie l -p .school@det .nsw.edu.au

WEBSITE: www.ashtonfield-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au

FACEBOOK:

www.facebook.com/ashtonfieldpublicschool

SCHOOL HOURS:

Supervision from: 8.25am Classes begin: 8.55am Classes finish: 2.55pm

NOTES SENT HOME:

Year 6 Canberra excursion

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Tuesday, 12th February

Swimming Carnival

Thursday, 14th February Debating Workshop Bookclub orders due

Zone Swimming Carnival

Tuesday, 19th February

Meet the teacher afternoon Wednesday, 20th February

Friday, 22nd February

Cross Country

SPORT—TERM 1:

Every Friday

for Kinder—Year 6

WEEKLY ASSEMBLIES:

Every Friday, 2.10pm

Primary—even weeks

Infants—odd weeks

NEXT P&C MEETING: AGM—Tuesday,

19th February, 7pm in Library

CANTEEN OPEN: Monday—Friday

UNIFORM SHOP OPEN:

Tuesdays, 8.30am—9.15am and 2.30pm—3pm

Thursdays, 8.30am—9.15am

EFTPos facilities available

at the Uniform Shop.

WELCOME BLUEY! You may have read our school Facebook updates over the past week, giving a sneak peek of a new member to the Ashtonfield Public School team. Today we welcomed Bluey to our Monday morning assembly. Bluey was central in celebrating the ’pebble’ awards from last week. Our students, parents and staff were delighted to finally meet Bluey, hopefully he visits often! Thank you to our students, staff, parents, P&C members and AECG who participated in our consultation process through PPL to identify, design and name our new mascot. Thank you to our PBL team who have designed our values flags that are now visible in the school playground.

Monday, 11th February, 2019

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SWIMMING CARNIVAL The Year 3-6 Swimming Carnival is on TOMORROW, Tuesday, 12th February at Mait-land Aquatic Centre. To ensure our carnival runs smoothly and on time we ask that students do not buy food from the kiosk - instead bring recess, lunch/drink from home. Parents are more than welcome to purchase from the kiosk for them-selves. Please be aware that there will be no ‘set time’ for lunch/recess so your child will need to have their lunchbox and water bottle with them in the grandstand. Student break times will depend upon the progress of the carnival events.

Please remember:

Sunscreen

School sunsafe hat

Towel and swimmers

A healthy lunch, recess and water bottle

Arrive at school on time ready for the bus.

Please ensure ALL ITEMS ARE LABELLED with your child’s name. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION Resource fees for 2019 cost $45 per student. These fees go directly to providing every day resources for all students in the classroom. Please send payment in an envelope with your child’s name, class and “Resource Fee” written clearly on the front and place envelope in the silver tin at the school office. You may also pay online via the school website. Please enter “Resource Fee” under the payment description. CONGRATULATIONS to Milla in 5S who has made it to the Regional Tennis finals. A great effort!

Library News Well done to all the students who remembered to bring their Library bags last week for their lessons, which meant that they were able to borrow books and get back into some reading.

Thank you especially to those parents who were able to locate those elusive missing books from last year, and return them to our library. Having these books back in our Library is very much appreciated.

In addition to class sessions, the library is open during Lunch 2, Tuesday through to Friday for students who like to come in to enjoy the facilities.

Currently there is a trial underway for prospective new Library Monitors for 2019. It is a very big commitment by students to become a Library Monitor, as their job will entail assisting in the Library once a week for the entire year. There are some very enthusiastic Year 6 students taking part in this trial, which will ultimately decide the 16 students required.

Reminder the following lists the Library days for Year 1 to Year 6 classes:

Debating News

We have had an overwhelming response from our senior students who are interested in debating this year. Over the past week a series of trials were held every lunch time to tallow students to have the opportunity to take part. There are some potentially very talented debaters in our midst.

Due to the Debating Training Day being held at our school this week, it was very tight with the schedule and meant that there was such an intensive week of try outs. Unfortunately we are limited to the number of students that can be select-ed to join the teams as each school can only submit 2 teams into the NSW Premier’s year 5 & 6 Debating Competition for 2019.

With over 30 students applying and an existing group of students form 2018, we were only able to offer positions to 16

students. Some of these students will be able to attend the Training Day on Thursday, but again this is limited in num-

bers as there a nearly 100 students from around the area attending.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3W

4P

5G

1M

4W

6M

5S

6K

4B

5L

5/6L

6H

2G, 2S, 2M

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3E, 3J

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BOOKCLUB ORDERS When placing an order through Scholastic Book Club parents are required to order and pay online. You do not return an order form or payment receipt details to the school. Orders will still be delivered to our school and distributed to the students. Please contact the school if you would like to collect your order from the office (for birthday presents, Christmas presents etc). Please follow the step by step instructions below to place an order. Orders for Issue 1, 2019 are due by 3pm on Thursday, 14th February, 2019. Thank you.

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P&C News

AGM: The AGM is on Tuesday 19th February 2019. As always it would be great to see some new members and

we look forward to all the current members returning. Everyone is welcome.

Day: Tuesday

Date: 19th February 2019

Time: 7.00pm

Agenda as follows: Apologies: to be received prior to the commencement of the meeting Treasurers Report Presidents Report All positions declared vacant, nominations called for: President, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President (2 positions) Principals Report Nominations for all positions listed above can be sent to apspandc@hotmail.com Canteen: Is open 5 days a week for lunch orders and lunch time purchases. We are still looking for volunteers, particularly on Thursdays and Fridays. If you can offer any time (even for a cou-ple of hours in the morning) that would be a great help. Please see Tina in the canteen. Students who do not have lunch packed will be sent to the canteen via the office. These students will receive a veg-emite or jam sandwich. A slip will be sent home with the child indicating how much is owed for the sandwich. Please pay the canteen the amount owing as soon as possible. CANTEEN ROSTER:

Uniform Shop: The uniform shop will be open for all your uniform needs in week 3 as below: Tuesday: 8.30am – 9.15am / 2.30pm – 3.00pm Thursday: 8.30am – 9.15am Facebook: The P&C has its own Facebook page please make sure you give it a like to keep up to date with P&C information. Ashtonfield Public School P&C

Monday 11/2/19

Tuesday 12/2/19

Wednesday 13/2/19

Thursday 14/2/19

Friday 15/2/19

Alicia (L2) Niki.S

Swimming Carnival

Kyrsty.G (L1)

Alicia (L2)

Gina (L1) Kate

Kristen.W (L2)

Alison.W Connie

Bree Megan

Karen (L1) Week 3

Monday 18/2/19

Tuesday 19/2/19

Wednesday 20/2/19

Thursday 21/2/19

Friday 22/2/19

Week 4 Rebecca.P Alicia (L2)

Elizabeth.R Kyrsty.G

Brooke Vicki (L2)

Karen (L1) Alicia (L2)

Bree Megan

Alicia (L2)

Term 1 2019 Calendar

Week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

3

Feb

11 12

Swimming Carnival

13

14

Debating Workshop

15

4

18

19

Zone Swimming

AGM

P&C Meeting

7pm in Library

20

Meet the Teacher

afternoon

21

22

Cross Country

5

25 26

27 28

1

6

March

4

5

Hunter Regional

Swimming

6 7

8

7

11 12

13 14 15

8

18 19

P&C Meeting

7pm in Library

20 21 22

9

25 26 27 28 29

10

April

1

2 3

4

5

11

8

9 10

11 12

Last day of Term 1