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Banora Point NSW 2486
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Terranora NSW 2486
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Sunshine Avenue Campus
Tweed Heads South NSW 2846
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LINDISFARNE
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ANGLICAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Primary Edition
Term 4 : Week 30 : 10/10/2014
Upcoming Events
OCTOBER
Week 31A
Mon 13 Kindergarten - Year 4
Assembly - 2:00pm
Tue 14 P&F Meeting @ Mahers Lane
Stage 3 Assembly - 2:30pm Theatre
Wed 15 Kindergarten - Year 2 Fun
Swimming Carnival Fri
17 Loud Shirt Day
Year 3 and Year 4 Tennis Program
Week 32B
Mon 20 Kindergarten - Year 4
Chapel - 2:00pm
Tue 21 Preschool Luncheon by Year 9 - P4,5
Stage 3 Chapel - 2:30pm
Wed 22 Principal’s Tour
Preschool Luncheon by Year 9 - P4,5
Thu 23 Year 4 Art Workshop @ Mahers Lane
Fri
24 Peer Support - K-6
Little Learners’ Tour
Year 3 and Year 4 Tennis Program
Week 33A
Mon 27 Kindergarten - Year 4 Assembly 2:00pm
Kindergarten 2015 Parent Information
Evening - 6:30pm
Tue 28 Stage 3 Assembly - 2:30pm Theatre
Preschool 2015 Parent
Information Evening - 6:30pm
Wed 29 Twilight Concert
Fri
31 Year 3 and Year 4 Tennis Program
From the Assistant Principal - Head of Primary
Ready, Set, Go ….
Welcome back to Term 4 and an action packed calendar of events:
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Congratulations Mrs Campton
During the holiday break Miss Rainford, our
Kindergarten Geckos teacher celebrated her
marriage to Mitch Campton. Our congratulations
to them both.
Welcome New Students
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This term we welcome the following students to
Lindisfarne:
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Preschool
Noah Rynehart PK
Marcus Williamson PK
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Kindergarten
Chase Irvine KF
Year 1
Tamara Goff 1D
Year 3
Isaac Rynehart 3F
Serena Boccato Wagner 3F
Zach Allan 3M
Year 6
Abigail Rynehart 6FG
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P&F Meeting @ Mahers Lane Tuesday 14 October 7:00pm
K-2 Fun Swimming Carnival Wednesday 15 October
Loud Shirt Day Friday 17 October
Preschool Luncheon by Year 9
Tuesday 21 and 22 October
Year 4 Art Workshop @ Mahers Lane
Thursday 23 October
Little Learners’ Tour
Friday 24 October 9:00am
Kindergarten 2015 Parent Information Evening
Monday 27 October
6:30pm
Preschool 2015 Parent Information Evening
Tuesday 28 October 6:30pm
Twilight Concert
Wednesday 29 October
3:30pm - 4:30pm
World Teachers’ Day Friday 31 October
Stage 3 2015 Information Evening
Wednesday 5 November 6:30pm
Sports Presentation
Tuesday 11 November 11:00am
Sunshine Avenue Walk & Talk with the Principal
Wednesday 12 November 9:00am
Year 4 Chapel – Transition Day @ Mahers Lane
Thursday 13 November
Year 6 Graduation Chapel & Wet ‘n’ Wild Excursion
Friday 21 November
Preschool - Year 4 Family Christmas Chapel Service
Sunday 23 November 9:00am
Portfolio Conferences P - 6
Monday 24 November & Wednesday 26 November
Primary Presentation Night
Tuesday 2 December 6:30pm
ELC Celebration
Wednesday 3 December 9:00am
Senior School Speech Night
Thursday 4 December
Last Day of School
Thursday 4 December
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Term 4 - House Captains
We are very pleased to announce our House Captains for
Term Four. Our new Captains will receive their badges at
assembly on Monday.
Saint Andrew
Cooper Robins
Noah McAdoo
Saint Barnabas
Jaime Nash
Flynn Southam
Saint Cuthbert
Brooke Gadd
Max McDonnell
Saint Stephen
Miranda Rhodes
Ella Sinclair
Michele Chandler
Loud Shirt Day
A reminder all Sunshine Avenue
campus students are invited to
wear their loudest, brightest,
zaniest shirt with their sport uniform
on Friday 17 October. Loud Shirt
Day supports the Hear and Say
Centre, a terrific foundation that has directly benefited
one of our Kindergarten students, Emily Daniel. We will
be collecting voluntary donations both on the day and via
our online fundraising page:
https://loudshirtday2014qld.everydayhero.com/au/
LindisfarneJuniorSchool
The Healthy Food Expo
By Year 4
This year’s Healthy Food Expo went off with a blast.
The Healthy Food Expo is an annual celebration
organised by Year 4 students to encourage healthy
eating within the school community. The message
that we want to share is that healthy eating should be
enjoyable and fun.
The Expo was held in the undercover area of the
Sunshine Avenue Campus. Each Year 4 student set
up a stall and brought in a healthy home made food
item to sell for Expo dollars.
A great feature of the Expo was the area in the
centre of the stalls. We set up chairs and tables with
tablecloths for people to sit at and relax while they
enjoyed their food. We put beautiful flowers on each
table for decoration.
Some of the healthy food items that students prepared
included delicious smoothies, fruit kebabs, sugar free
lemonade, whole wheat pancakes, sushi and lots
more…
The Healthy Food Expo was a busy day of fabulous,
fresh, fantastic, yummy delicious healthy food. We
were glad so many people attended and grateful
for the support that we got from the teachers and
parents. The smiles on people’s faces made us feel
so happy inside.
helping students excel
Stage 3 News
Chapel
Tuesday Week B 2.30pm
Assembly
Tuesday Week A 2.30pm in the Theatre.
Year 5 Camp
Lake Ainsworth
Year 5 Camp was held 8 - 10 September. Miss Hassell, Mrs
Powell and Rev Chad joined us. For camp we went to Lake
Ainsworth in Lennox Head and to get there we had to go on
the Lindisfarne bus for an hour and twenty minutes. We went
to Lake Ainsworth Camp to experience outdoor education
with our peers and also to have some fun.
We arrived at school with all our luggage ready to get on the
bus. We put all our luggage under the bus and made our
way to Lennox Head. When we arrived at Lake Ainsworth we
unloaded our luggage and met at Spot X and talked about
cabins, activities and camp rules. After lunch we went back
to our cabins and got ready for our first activity, which was
rock climbing. For rock climbing we needed to wear a harness
and helmet - it was a lots of fun. We went back to our cabins
and had a shower before dinner. After dinner, it was time for
night games which were really fun, followed by supper and
bedtime.
After a good night’s sleep we were woken up by the speaker
in our rooms at 7:30am. We got up, got dressed, brushed our
teeth and made our beds. We went to the dinner hall and had
breakfast which was toast and cereal. After breakfast we went
back to get ready for our first activity for the day. We met at
Spot X and went off to the lake to build some rafts. All of us
had a chat with Chris about safety and cooperation and then
we did the activity. We got split into teams of boys and girls
and then has a big talk about equipment. Each team received
3 pipes, 2 canoes, 1 box of ropes and paddles. For the girls
it was very hard because we couldn’t decide on what idea we
should use. Eventually, we decided to put two canoes close
together and put the three pipes at the front, middle and back.
We tied them to the canoes and hey presto we were finished.
After building, we started the race which involved paddling
out and around the buoy, landing at the boys base, running
around the shed and headed back the way we came. It turned
out that the boys won the race but the girls won the pack
up. We went back to change into dry clothes and had lunch.
Our second activity for the day was
cookout. We collected wood to make
the fire and toast our damper on. We put
the damper around a stick and slowly cooked
it on the fire. Once we’d had a piece of damper
we toasted marshmallows on the left over coals and
got sprayed by the garden hose. Then we went back
for a nice warm shower, got dressed and had dinner. We
played lots of night games, had supper and went to bed.
On our final morning, we got dressed and took our bags up to
Spot X. We then had breakfast and went BMX bike riding up
to Lennox headland. When we got back from the bike riding
we went to the souvenir shop and bought some souvenirs.
Then we had lunch and waited for the Lindisfarne bus to
arrive. After loading up the bags we were on our way home.
Overall, we had a great camp. Next year it will be in Melbourne
and we can’t wait. We would like to say thank you to Miss
Affleck for organising our camp.
By Alice McDougall and Alex Jeffrey
Lake Ainsworth Camp
8/9/14 Monday
Cruising along the highway, for an hour and 20 minute trip to
our fantastic camp Lake Ainsworth. We were all buzzing with
excitement and we couldn’t wait to get there. “Yay we’re here!”
yelled one of the kids down the front of the bus. Suddenly
everyone jumped up out of their seats and began to chit chat
about what their first activity will be.
After sorting out our cabins, we went to have our very first
lunch at camp. For lunch, we had a delicious chicken nugget
and salad wrap. I thought it was really nice. My job was to
wash up all the dirty dishes. It was actually quite enjoyable
because of the tools we used. We used a metal hose to spray
off all left overs and Jessica and I ended up soaking wet due
to the big SPLASH when I dropped the plate in the sink. We
looked like drowned rats.
Our first activity was bike riding and we discussed the road
rules and the importance of being safe while riding. When the
Dolphin’s group (5p) started to ride their bikes, it began to rain
but I still enjoyed it. The track was long and tiring.
helping students excel
9/9/14 Tuesday
Straight after breakfast we went to the
cook out activity. We first had to make
the damper with: self raising, flour, oil,
water, sugar and we had to squeeze it
well. When we got to the place where we
making the fire, we gathered sticks and
finally got a flame to burst into life. We
had to cook our damper it was very nice
because it had maple syrup on it.
When lunch was over we got into our
swimmers and set off to raft building.
We split into groups so we could work
together in teams to build a raft out of 2
canoes, 9 poles, ropes and 8 paddles.
Once we made the raft we got to try it
out. We were really slow. But next came
the serious part. We had to race each
other around the buoy in the water then
back to the shore.
Waiting for our dinner was difficult
because our table got chosen last. The
smell of the delicious dinner was making
our stomachs grumble. After 20 minutes
of endless waiting, table 12 finally got
to get a wonderful crumbed Dory with a
refreshing salad on the side. For dessert
we had a piece of banana cake with a
big dollop of sweet custard. Everything
was truly scrumptious so I went up for
seconds. Finally, we went to bed. This
time because we were so tired, as soon
as our heads it the pillow we were sound
asleep.
10/9/14 Wednesday
“Wake up kids, time to get up!” yelled
the teachers together down the hall. So
we did and we also were all ready for
our fantastic new day. Our last activity
was great because it was our turn to do
rock climbing! First we had to put our
harnesses on so we could get buckled
up to the rope so we could rock climb.
Next we discussed the belay team. The
belay team connects their harnesses to
the rope and every time the rock climber
took a step up they would take a step
back. In basic words the belay
Team’s job was to keep the rock climber
safe. When we finished we were
exhausted. After packing, it was time to
go back to the boring part, the bus ride,
so we cruised back along the highway all
the way to school.
An Extract of Heidi Chaffey’s Camp Recount
Class 5P.
helping students excel
Kindergarten
6 Year Old Surfing and
Skate Boarding Star
Congratulations to Quincy
Symonds from Kindergarten
Frogs who recently competed
in the Blast Off Surfing
Competition held in Sydney.
Quincy had a great time and
scored a perfect 10 for some of
her waves. She was crowned
champion for her age group.
Over the past few weeks
Quincy has been interviewed
on ABC radio and Triple J,
she appeared on the Today
show and featured in a
number of newspapers for her
outstanding ability in surfing
and skateboarding. Quincy
was also invited to talk about
her story at the recent TED
talks in Brisbane. She did a
great job answering questions
about surfing in front of an
audience of 500+.
Quincy is currently filming a
documentary for HBO in the
United States.
If you would like to follow
Quincy’s story please go to
Instagram: @theflyingsquirrel
Jo Hetherington, Director of Early
Learning
LIONS CLUB OF TERRANORA LAKES
Saturday 25 October
7am – 1pm
Salvation Army Tweed Centre
Cnr Woodlands & Leisure Drive, Banora Point
We will take
your
unwanted
items
THINKING
ABOUT
DOING A
SPRING
CLEAN
Items can be
dropped off at the
Salvation Army Tweed Centre
10am - 4pm
Friday 24 October
or
call 0427 310 408 for
pick up
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