Issue: 20
11th November
2016
Principal: Mrs Tanya Turner. School Council President: Mr Mark Cross
Apsley Primary is a child safe school
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
14th November 15th November 16th November 17th November 18th November
Foundation
Orientation
Full Day
Policy Meeting
6pm
Finance
meeting
7.30pm
School Council
meeting 8pm
Marc Van
S.A.K.G
Parents Trading
Table @
Naracoorte
Saturday
19th November
Sunday
20th November
EDENHOPE
SHOW
Training for
Suesan and Mrs
Turner .
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
21st November 22nd November 23rd November 24th November 25th November
Foundation
Orientation
Full Day
Saturday
26th November
Sunday
27th November
APSLEY
MARKET
Principal report
What a fantastic school community we have. Our recent fundraisers, working bees and student
events have been well supported by our local community plus from people within the outer district. A
huge thank you must go to those families that turned up for the working bee – where we installed to rain
water tanks, filled the native garden with bark chips and repainted the hopscotch and alphabet snake in the
assembly area. A huge effort for seven families!
On Monday 31st October the township came alive with skeletons, ghosts, witches, vampires and
spooks. Congratulations must go to the community members who offered to have the students “trick or
treat” at their house. We were completely overwhelmed with the amount of children that attended from
St Malachy’s and Frances with their parents. After trick or treating the students danced the evening away
with our local musician come DJ, Mrs Ferguson. I think the Apsley school and community may have
started something here – all with positive results.
Last week I attended a two day Principal conference in Ballarat. This was a great opportunity for
me to network with other principals and learn about new educational initiatives.
The student’s art work is on display at the Edenhope Art Gallery until Wednesday 16th November.
If you get the opportunity pop in and have a look.
Late this week each individual student received a letter from the Victor Harbour Probus group
thanking the children for their time, dance performances and for showing them around the school. These
were personalised and a lovely surprise for the children. Many made comment of the students behaviour
and confidence. One bonus of coming to a small school!
School Council Meeting is next Tuesday 15th the last one for the year. A finance meeting will be
held at 7.30.
Edenhope Show
A couple of parents have indicated that they can help out at the show for
the parent club, but it would be great if there were some others that could
just do an hour or two shift. As you can see below we have a few gaps! If
you could spare an hour please let us know.
11.00—12.00 Sheree Treglown
12.00—1.00
Pertzel Family
1.00 –2.00
HELP NEEDED
2.00—3.00
HELP NEEDED
3.00—4.00
Treglown Family
EDENHOPE SHOW WHAT KIDS CAN
PUT IN THE SHOW
The students have been busy making things to
put into the show, but you can also do some
things at home. Below is are the categories that
students may like to enter something in. .
Poultry: Best Backyard Chook, Soft Feather
Bantam, Best Backyard Rooster AND MORE!
Cookery: Scones, Cakes, Biscuits, Pikelets and lots
more. See the program for more details.
Junior Craft and Needle Work
Primary School Photography
Farm and Garden - send in your best produce!
This also includes hen eggs.
Floral Art: Posies of flowers, decorated eggs,
mums best rose, succulents and much more.
All entries need to be in Friday or Tuesday
morning., depending on the item.
For further details and category descriptions
contact Monique Treglown - 0427735009
SCHOOL CONCERT
As everyone is well aware the school
concert is going to be on Wednesday
7th December, beginning at 6.30. A BBQ
tea will be available from 5.45. The
students have been busy practising and
a list of costumes and props the students will need will be written in each
child’s diary, as most of them need to be
individualised, except the foundation
students who each need:
One elf costume with a hat.
One reindeer costume with antlers,
hooves, nose and a tail.
If you could please get the costumes to
school as soon as you can it would be
greatly appreciated as it makes the
organisation process much smoother.
Parent Club News
On Monday 14th November there will be a parent club meeting at 7pm at school.
This will be the last meeting for the year and there will be quite a few things to
discuss and tie up before the end of the year. We are also having a trading table in
Naracoorte on Thursday 17th November and details need to be sorted out for this.
We are asking school families and community members to support this by donating
any fresh produce, home cooking (which must be labelled with ingredients), eggs,
plants, bunches of flowers, new craft items etc that can be sold on the day. Those
parents who indicated that they can help on the day will be popped on a roster and
notified after Monday’s meeting.
School Concert: The parent club usually hold a working bee leading up to the
concert to help prepare props etc and organise the supper and presentations. More
details about this will be available soon.
Raffle: Every year we run a raffle and once again this year we are asking parents to
donate a little something for the “hamper”. These can be sent to school ASAP and
placed in the box that will be located at the office.
MARC VAN
BOOK RETURNS
We would appreciate if all of the borrowed books from Marc Van
could be returned by Mr Vaughans next visit on
16th November.
This also mean no more borrowing for the year. Thank you
Bats: Fascinating
Creatures of the Night
Come & Listen to Bat expert, Emmi
Scherlies
At the Red Tail Gallery, Edenhope
Friday 18 November 7pm
All Welcome.
Wanted:
Egg Cartons in all sizes.
These are needed ASAP
for the trading table on
Thursday.
IT’S IN THE BAG
19TH November—3rd December
Each year as a school leading up to the Christmas break we look at a
charity and try and support it with donations from our families and
local community. This year we thought we would support the “Share
the Dignity Campaign” that provides personal items to Australian
homeless women and women who are in domestic violence shelters.
We are hoping that each family might be able to supply a bag with
some goodies in it to make a woman feel special at Christmas. This 
could be a fun family project and makes our children realise how
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lucky they really are and we are also “filling” someones bucket - a
concept we have been trying to teach the children about.
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If you are unable to fill a complete bag - we are also collecting individual items to fill spare bags that have been donated. There will be
a drop off point here at school, plus one at the Apsley Post Office. 
Look out for the pink collection bin.
Some information from the organisation:
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The "It's in the Bag" Christmas campaign idea came to us when we
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realised that we seem to manage the needs of children at Christmas,
ensuring they're cared for and made to feel special, but the same
can't always be said for those women who put the needs of others
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before their own. We wanted to make them feel special.
And so the campaign began - we asked Australians to donate a
handbag they no longer used, fill it with items that would make a
woman feel special and even pop a thoughtful note into the bag to
show her that someone cares and that she matters.
What you put in your gift will depend on your bag size, your budget
and your imagination.
YOUR kind donation is so individual, so very much appreciated and
can make a woman feel very special.
This is an annual campaign, which in 2016, runs from Saturday 19th
November 2016 to Saturday 3rd December. We can then get all the
kind donations delivered out to the charities that take care of women in need over the Christmas period and will also allow us enough
time to get them to remote areas before Christmas.
Idea’s of what to
donate
A bag/ Handbag
Pad/tampons
Toothbrush/
Paste
Shampoo/
Conditioner
Deodorants
Hair Brush/
Hair Ties
Sunscreen
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Lotions/
Perfume/
Make-Up
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Baby wipes/
cleaning Wipes
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Soap
Halloween at Apsley
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CHARLOTTE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
OWEN
24TH NOVEMBER
16TH NOVEMBER
Kindness Award
Principal’s Award
Goes to:
Goes to:
Janet Price
For always donating her time to come and work in
the garden and looking after our chooks and ducks
Luke Braithwaite
For working independently and consistently
on his poetry tasks.
on the weekend.
Thank you
Our new additions ……
The SRC would like to thank the Apsley
Action Group for their kind donation of $500
which went
towards this tank
that will provide
nice rainwater for
our vegie garden
and chooks and
ducks.
Thank you to the Pertzel Family