The Gang Gang Gazette
Week 10, Term 2 (30th June, 2017)
Principal: Tania Collis
Deputy Principals: Rikkie Klootwijk and Daniel Breen
Executive Teachers: Deborah Lowrey and Kate Stear
P & C President: Trudy Green
Board Parent Representatives: Emma McMahon, Amanda Galbraith and Sue Webeck
Board Email: [email protected]
Upcoming Events
Term 3 Starts
Monday 17th July
NAIDOC Celebrations
Monday 17th July
Dear Families and Friends,
As I write to you for the last time this term, I reflect with pride on the great
learning and range of opportunities we have achieved at North Ainslie over
the last ten weeks. Our Writing Project continues and I am regularly visited
by students sharing their writing from across kindergarten to year 6. Our
Units of Inquiry have resulted in students taking action both within the
school and beyond, embodying the attributes of the Primary Years Program.
Work from other learning areas can be viewed in the art displayed around
the school, the performances at assemblies and in our communities, and in
the way our students joined in and supported each other at our carnivals.
One of your roles in our students’ learning has also been highly visible with
so many of you taking part in parent/teacher conferences this week. Our
teachers have also been learning and sharing, particularly around the Writing
Project and spent this week working collaboratively to plan the learning for
next term.
Notes Home
 KidsMatter Survey
 Year 5 & 6 Band
Board
Next Meeting:
Tuesday 8th August, 6.00pm
P&C
Next Meeting:
Tuesday 8th August, 7:30pm
Over the last two weeks our preschools have held their Art Shows and I must
thank and congratulate the staff of both sites for the amazing curation of the
art. Some photos are shared on the next page of the newsletter. Today our
student leaders held a wonderful Masquerade Day to raise money to help
the World School in Cambodia. Thank you to everyone who helped them to
reach their goal.
I’d also like to congratulate Grace from year 6 who represented NAPS at the
Rostrum Quarter Final on Tuesday, giving a wonderful speech about, Nancy
Wake. Have a wonderful break and we will see you on Monday, 17 July for
the first day of term 3.
Tania Collis
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
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(Principal)
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
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Year 6 Exhibition Helpers
The year 6 exhibition is approaching. The exhibition is a culmination and celebration of the students PYP
learning.
As we come closer to term 3 and the start of the year 6 exhibition journey, the year 5/6 teachers are
looking for expressions of interest from the NAPS community for the following:
 People who have a science background who would be willing to come and share their
knowledge as guest speakers
 Mentors for groups of three to four students
 Organisational helpers
If you are willing to help with any of the above jobs could you please email Gemma Duggan at
[email protected].
Thank you,
5/6 team
Hookin2Hockey at North Ainslie Primary School
In Term 3 North Canberra Eagles Hockey Club will be running after school Hookin2Hockey Programs at
North Ainslie Primary School, Majura Ave Ainslie. Due to the popularity of the program run in term 2,
there will two programs:
 Monday 3:30 to 4:30pm - 24th July to 18th September (9 weeks starting in week 2)
 Thursday 3:30 to 4:30pm - 27th July to 21st September (9weeks starting in week 2)
The cost of the program is $85. New players are most welcome. To enrol please go to
www.hookin2hockey.com.au Type in your postcode and a map will appear. Click on North Canberra
Eagles and then “View Available Program Details”. Choose the program which you would like to enrol
in. This will then take you to the Hockey Australia Site and follow the prompts.
NORTH CANBERRA EAGLES
www. northcanberraeagles.org.au / email: [email protected]
Woodwind Lessons
Woodwind lessons will be continuing at the school in term 3, taught by Jordan London. Jordan is a
musician with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and an experienced woodwind teacher. Jordan
teaches all the woodwinds; flute, clarinet, saxophone, recorder, and even oboe and bassoon. Group
lessons of up to three students will be offered if numbers permit. To learn, a student will need to
provide their own instrument; there are rental services available. To sign up or get information, contact
Jordan at [email protected] any time or call 0415 373 371 during the day on Monday or Thursday.
Spots are limited, so please get in touch well before the term commences.
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
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P & C News
North Ainslie "Night at the Museum” Trivia Night
**SAVE THE DATE**
25 August 2017 - 6:30pm for a 7pm start
Can you assist the P&C Trivia night FUNdraiser?? In addition to having a laugh,
testing your knowledge, creating new friends in the community and dressing up
as something that you would find if you had a…. Night at the Museum! The
trivia night is about prizes! Can you source a prize from a local business or donate a prize yourself? Or
are you willing to make contact with 3-5 places that have previously supported North Ainslie? We would
love to hear from you :-)
Email Cath, Sarah and Jen [email protected]
P&C Uniform Store
Due to popular demand, we are adding an extra afternoon to the opening hours of the uniform
store. We will now open on Tuesday afternoons in addition to the Thursday mornings and afternoons.
Tuesday afternoons 2.45-3.15pm *** NEW***
Thursday mornings 8.45-9.15am
Thursday afternoons 2.45-3.15pm
NAPS Community Cookbook
To celebrate NAPS’ 60th Anniversary, the P&C is producing a school
cookbook and we need your favourite recipes! Do you have an easy
family meal, a cake that never flops or a soup that’s lovely in the
Canberra winter? Please type it into the template attached, and, even
better, include a drawing by your children too. The deadline is the end of
July.
Please refer to the information and recipe template included in the
newsletter and sent as a separate attachment. Email
[email protected] with any questions.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions!
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
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Canteen news
The new menu for term 3 is out. Just one change: the Thursday special will be chicken noodle soup ($3).
I am working on a sugar free banana bread to add to our sugar free apple & cinnamon muffins, so that
will also be available from the canteen counter sometime during the term. Yum!
I also want to thank my group of dedicated volunteers who come in every week and are the engine of
our fantastic canteen machine - Lèonie, Leonie, Anat, Sue, Gabi, Nagham, Rohan, Helen, Nami, Ping,
Emma, and Julia. See you all next term,
Heather Sedgmen(Canteen Manager) [email protected]
TERM 3 HEHUB CANTEEN MENU (Open Wednesday, Thursday Friday)
Recess
A selection from the following:
Peas ‘n’ corn cup
Pikelets(VG)
Popcorn
Apple & cinnamon muffin
$1.00
$0.50
$0.50
$0.50
Fruit of the day / Apple slinky
Toasties
$0.50 / $1.00
$1.00
Free
$2.00
$2.00
$2.50
Fruit of the day
$0.50
Baked potato, cheese(or not),salsa(V) $3.00
Milk bottle (150ml)
$1.50
Tuna & cheese toasted sandwich
$3:00
Lunch
Vegie sticks
Vegemite sandwich(VG)
Tex Mex toasted wrap(V)
Soy milk (VG)
Daily Lunch Special- $3.00
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Pizza(V)
Chicken noodle soup(DF)
Smoothies $2.00
Smoothies $2.00
Veg Sushi(VG),
Chicken Sushi(GF)
Tuna Sushi (GF)
Smoothies $2.00
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
29 July 2017
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NAPS COMMUNITY COOKBOOK
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of North Ainslie Primary School in 2018, we are making a cookbook.
The aim is to reflect our wonderfully diverse school community and to help us all get a healthy delicious
meal on the table. Please share your best quick-go-to recipes and your family heirlooms.
We will be collecting recipes from now until July 31 2017. Please use the recipe template provided, save
the recipe as a Word document, with the file name following the format:
Surname_dishname.doc
Attach your recipe to an email and send to [email protected]
We can not print recipes that have been copied directly from a published cookbook, so please
remember to add your own unique twist or embellishment to your favourite recipe if it happens to be
from an existing publication.
Optional extra: We’d love if your child/ren would like to provide an illustration to accompany the
recipe. It doesn’t have to be a picture of the food, it can be of whatever takes their fancy! Illustrations
should be drawn on A4 white paper, and the originals submitted via the Front Office, accompanied by
the child’s name and the name of the recipe it will accompany.
If you would like to submit a photo related to the dish or your family, please do. Photos can be supplied
at any time—it doesn’t have to accompany the recipe template. Photos need to be as high resolution as
possible, with file name following the format:
Surname_dishname_photo
Please note we may not be able to use all images.
Thanks in advance!
Sarah Tynan, Peta Donald and Naomi Zouwer
At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
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NAPS Community Cookbook
Recipe Template
Dish name:
Family name, kids at the school:
2-3 sentences about why you like this dish/what it means to your family/its
history/why you wanted to share it:
Ingredients and quantity:
If possible, please provide all dry ingredient measurements by weight rather than volume (e.g. grams of
flour rather than cups). This will extremely useful for providing dietary/nutritional information for each
recipe.
Method (please provide as a series of dot points)
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At North Ainslie we strive to be
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective