Rostrum - Semi Finals
Amaroo School's Year 4 student, Avni S, represented our school at the Rostrum Semi Finals on Wednesday 16 August at Harrison School. Avni competed against 6 other finalists and delivered a well prepared, engaging speech about 'Digging Deeper'. Avni spoke with clarity and confidence. She used quotes, rhetorical questions, hand gestures, and expression to engage the audience.
(On a side note, the judges loved that her little sister in kindergarten mouthed all the words as Avni spoke and did all the hand gestures that Avni did. You can tell Avni practised her little heart out at home, her sister even knew the speech word for word! So proud!!)
Anvi will now write a new speech and prepare for Grand Final! Congratulations Avni!
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World Dragon Boat Championships
Angus T Year 10 recently returned from competing for the Australian Auroras u18 team in the World Dragon Boat Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. The event saw teams from around the world compete over six sweltering days, in 1km, 2km, 500m and 200m races. Angus brought home three bronze medals for his events, which contributed to the Australian team finishing 5th out of 31 countries for all age groups. A great effort all around.
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LEARNING SPOTLIGHT - DIAMOND
Welcome to our Week 6 ‘Learning Spotlight’! Each newsletter we will feature a ‘learning spotlight’ from one of our areas across primary. We will share with you their words and reflections of why the learning we do at school is important and why it matters. Join me in celebrating our students thinking about their learning.
What have you been learning about?
DSBG students: We have been learning to move our bodies safely whilst playing soccer. We have embraced the World Cup spirit!
Why is this learning important?
Mr Saleh and Mr Burke: A couple of weeks ago, the Diamond classes had athletes from Capital Football run an All-Abilities Football Clinic for our Primary Diamond students. We got to participate in lots of skills and social based games, which the students had a lot of fun doing. It was a great opportunity for us to build on our learning around the FIFA Women’s World Cup and to try emulate our favourite soccer stars.
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LEARNING SPOTLIGHT - SECONDARY
Building Foundations Students Adding Value!
Mr Laaring’s Building Foundations students have been working on projects that are making a difference around the school.
Recently they made a class set of Slope-Boards to help junior Primary students with their hand-writing and they’ve proved so popular that they’ve been asked to create another set for use throughout the primary school.
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Another recently completed project was the construction of new Lost Property boxes for the school. Here’s a picture of Ms O’Malley testing one out.
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POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL) FOCUS
Teachers have been busy rewarding positive student behaviour in and out of the classrooms this semester!
So far this year we’ve handed out:
- 50,779 Safe positives,
- 59,301 Respectful positives,
- 58,549 Responsible positives, and
- 65,422 Learner positives.
In total, our students have recieved an incredible 234,051 positives!
Our wonderful students have earned 30, 211 more positives than had been earned this time last year – what an amazing effort!
We look forward to continuing to reward positive behaviours over the next semester.
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CAPTAINS REPORT - PRIMARY
Hi Amaroo! Primary Captains here, Laura and Levi. It’s Book Week here, we have had many visitors to our Great Book Swap every morning, thank you for all the donations. The Scholastic Book Fair has also been busy with parents visiting the Inspire Centre to buy even more books! It is clear that students at Amaroo School love reading. Today we all wore our Book Week costumes, it is always fun to dress up and celebrate the wonderful stories authors write for us.
Lunchtime clubs led by our School and Sports Captains have been going smoothly, with lots of involvement and fun from students. Students in years 4-6 who are participating in Tournament of Minds, also known as TOMs, have been working hard all term to present their response to the judges at ANU this Saturday. We wish them luck in this exciting competition!
Amaroo’s Got Talent is in Week 10, auditions for students who have fancy skills and talents have been called. We are looking forward to seeing the unique abilities of students in our school. Students present marvellous talents such as Magic tricks, Skipping, Singing, Dancing and so much more.
Market Day is coming up on the 13th of September, Week 9 this term. Everyone is excited to participate, whether they’re selling goods like fun treats, cookies, milk-shakes, sausages, selling items like bracelets, crafts, origami or services, like competitions and games. Year 6 students have been conducting product surveys as part of market research for their small business to make sure they sell what the customers will buy! This has created lots of excitement within the primary for students to attend the special event. Year 6 parents will be invited to attend the first hour of Market Day as part of Year 6’s Learning Expo. Notes went out this week for families to pre-purchase tickets as cash for the day. Please ask your child’s class teacher if you did not get this note. This is a cashless event.
We want to remind everyone about wearing their uniform proudly. This is a PBL expectation at our school. We must wear navy and red exclusively. We do not wear grey, black or sports branded clothes. We also need to ask that everyone makes an effort to bring a hat to school every day. Although it still feels cold, the UV level is rising and we need students to wear hats to be able to play. Teachers will be sending home notes to families if students are not wearing a hat at break times, PE lessons and fitness. Please help us to be sun safe. Our very new, cool hats are available to buy through Flexischools.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Laura and Levi
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YOUNG CARER BURSARY APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
The application process for Young Carer Bursary for the 2024 academic year is open from 18 July to 12 September 2023. The Young Carer Bursary Program supports young carers to continue with their education and reduce their need to undertake paid work at the same time as their study and caring duties.
The program offers 1,592 bursaries of $3,768 each year to assist with education needs and resources. Applications are independently assessed and bursary is awarded based on need.
Young carers may be eligible for the Young Carer Bursary Program if they are:
* aged between 12 – 25 years old,
* an Australian citizen or permanent resident living in Australia
* studying at school (including homeschooling), or studying other approved courses which include
TAFE and university
* not receiving another scholarship or bursary within the 2024 calendar year.
More information about the Young Carer Bursary program, eligibility, and application process is available to read on the Young Carers Network website.
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FUTURE OF EDUCATION EQUITY FUND P-12 STILL OPEN
It’s not too late to apply for the Future of Education Equity Fund for the 2023 school year. Eligible low-income ACT families can receive one-off payments for financial assistance to help cover the costs of their children’s educational expenses such as sport equipment and activities, music lessons, school uniforms and excursions.
The fund is open to eligible students enrolled in preschools (attached to a school) through to Year 12 level in the ACT. Read more information and apply online for the Future of Education Student Equity Fund.
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AMAROO SCHOOL PARENTS AND CITIZENS ASSOCIATION UPDATE
Amaroo School P & C - Preschool Pictureplate fundraiser
The P & C have organised their annual Pictureplate fundraiser for the preschool students. Notes and templates have gone home this week. If your child is not in preschool and you would like to order a plate, please contact Amanda.molloy@ed.act.edu.au for a template and payment information.
New uniform shop manager
After recently advertising our P&C Uniform Shop Manager role, we would like to announce that Ann D will start in the role from next week until the end of the year. Ann brings retail management experience to the role and is an Amaroo School parent. Ann will work with our volunteers to continue to provide a great uniform shop experience for Amaroo families.
Fathers Day gift stall - Tuesday 29 August
Primary students can buy small gifts at the P&C Fathers Day Stall 8:15-9:00am on Tuesday 29 August. Gifts will be $1 to $3. See you there. If you can spare time before school to help sell the gifts
please sign-up to volunteer.
P&C meeting - Monday 4 September
All welcome at the next P&C meeting 7pm Monday 4 September in the front room of the Main Administration building at school. We'll hear from the Principals and discuss term 4 P&C activities.
Help to hand out cookie dough
After receiving orders for 1,142 tubs and raising $4,568, the cookie dough will be ready for pick-up some time on Wednesday 6 September. The P&C would love your help to sort orders (dough and prizes) and distribute to families. We expect it will take a couple of hours for a team of volunteers to complete the task! Details and times will be provided once the dough is delivered. Please sign-up
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