Welcome to Week 4, Term 1

Well done to all our students and families as we have had such a successful start to the school year and everyone is back to their full schedules.

Our Kindergarten cohort this year has started so well and it is great to be in classrooms and see students engaging in the learning across the whole school.

As communicated at the end of last week, I can confirm that our current class structure will remain the same for 2024, with 45 classes. 

Over the next two nights and on Monday next week, our teachers are looking forward to inviting you into their classrooms and sharing how they will be challenging your children this year in all areas of learning.

Our classes for 2024 are:

SCHOOL APPS AND ACCESS TO SCHOOL INFORMATION

Communication and access to your child's school is important and we have the following apps and communication methods to support you and our school.

The different applications and email options that allow our community to have access and direct communication with the school and day-to-day operations are:

School Bytes Portal or School Bytes app

• Log attendance reasons
• Complete online permissions
• Access school calendar
• View the statement of account

To view all these in your portal, please use the tabs across the top menu.

SZapp

• Receive reminders and communication linked to specific grades
• Access the school Newsflash every second Wednesday
• 'Contact Us' tile: Used to send communication to the school or seek support from the office staff.

School Email address: artarmon-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

• Send an email to contact your child's class teacher. The email will be forwarded on and actioned.
• Contact the school executive for support if needed.

These communication options are set up to best support our community and ensure we have effective systems so we can action any questions or support you may need.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Our teachers volunteer their time each year to offer a significant number of extracurricular activities that children are able to sign up and try out for including dance, debating, PSSA inter-school sport competitions, chess, choir, multicultural public speaking, TOM, Lit Quiz and more.

Opportunities for these extracurricular activities are communicated to the students in regard to how to express interest, the teacher who is leading the activity and what is involved. Over the last couple of weeks, teachers have been sharing this information and running trials. If your child is successful in one of these activities, information for parents will be sent home via the School Bytes portal.

If your child is interested in one of these activities, please encourage them to speak with their classroom teacher for support with finding the right person in the school to support them.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank our amazing teachers for volunteering their time to run these groups and provide this opportunity for our students.

TERM ONE INVOICES - via SCHOOL BYTES PORTAL

Thank you to all our families who are using the School Bytes portal and app to complete our online permission forms, submit attendance reasons, sync family calendars and pay our Term One fees.

A reminder that on Monday, our term one fees were published including detailed information on invoice breakdown. If you have any questions or need any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the office. If you did not see the invoice breakdown, please click on the link for all the information.

Invoice_letter_T1_2024.pdf

SWIMMING CARNIVAL SUCCESS

A huge shout out to Ms Kilpatrick, Mr Oriel and Mr Turner for the organisation and smooth running of this year's twilight swimming carnival. It was one of our best events with a great turnout from our community. 

As mentioned on the night, there are a lot of reasons behind why we run a twilight swimming carnival and these are all linked to what's best for students and families. Nights like this, however, wouldn't be possible without our outstanding staff volunteering their time to ensure we get the job done and for this, I am extremely grateful.

RETURNING OF BORROWED SCHOOL UNIFORMS

On occasion, your child may come to the office requiring a change of uniform. If this has occurred please ensure that you wash and return these items to the office as soon as possible.

STUDENT INVOICES

Earlier this week our Term 1 student invoioces were sent out via School Bytes.

if you have not yet accessed this information, please log into your Parent Portal for all information.

This below information was attached to your term invloice to help explain ands detail all costs.

Invoice letter T1 2024.pdf

If you have any concerns, please do nmot hesitate to contact the office.

The weather was perfect for our annual twilight swimming carnival at Lane Cove Aquatic Centre last Thursday. A huge thank you to all staff who performed their roles in making this carnival a smashing success, and a special thanks to Ms Kilpatrick for organising the event.

There was a fantastic turnout, with some enthusiastic senior students giving their best cheers to support their peers.

Well done to all the swimmers who attended and tried their best. Ribbons for the placegetters will be distributed at school this week. Information about the 2024 zone carnival and permission notes for participants will be available soon.

Results

Girls 11-13yrs 200 Metre IM

1 Sylvia Li
2 Chloe Li

Boys 8-10yrs 200 Metre IM 

1 Titus Teoh

Boys 11-13 yrs200 Metre IM 

1 Marcus Wang

Girls 8-13yrs 100 Metre Freestyle

1 Undram Orkhon
2 Elsa Ensafi
3 Mei Xu
4 Zaria Cahill

Boys 8-13yrs 100 Metre Freestyle

1 Titus Teoh
2 Ian Wang
3 Daniel Ni
4 Joshua FitzRoy

Girls 8 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Amy Zhang
2 Suprina Pokhrel
3 Mary Cui
4 Mary-Jane Maritz

Boys 8 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Travis Hird
2 Eric Long

Girls 9 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Victoria Chen
2 Samantha Low
3 Tiffany Lin
4 Diya Aravindan

Boys 9 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Titus Teoh
2 Oliver Fineff
3 Rex Xu
4 Kurota Mckerlie

Girls 10 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Elsa Ensafi
2 Jaimee Jaw
3 Mei Xu
4 Maecy Tan

Boys 10 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Lionel Gao
2 Thomas Dunk
3 Keiji Fujikawa
4 Angus Morrison

Girls 11 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Claire Li
2 Gemma Low
3 Milena Miranda
4 Stephanie Zhang

Boys 11 Year Old 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Joshua FitzRoy
2 Daniel Ni
3 Elvin Di
4 Ethan Chen

Girls 12-13yrs 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Sylvia L
2 Jannai Knox
3 Undram Orkhon
4 Chloe Li

Boys 12-13yrs 50 Metre Freestyle

1 Ian Wang
2 Bowen Zhang
3 Edward Lee
4 Austin Duan

Girls 8-10yrs 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Cindy Zheng
2 Ava Yiu
3 Jancis Tsz Ching 
4 Mihika Singhal

Boys 8-10yrs 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Titus Teoh
2 Lionel Gao
3 Keiji Fujikawa
4 Rex Xu

Girls 11 Year Old 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Milena Miranda
2 Stephanie Zhang
3 Flora Qu
4 Marina Zhang

Boys 11 Year Old 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Ethan Chen
2 Daniel Ni
3 Will Costello
4 Hayden Khoo

Girls 12-13 Year Old 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Sylvia Li
2 Chloe Li
3 Alyssia Lam
4 Sin Yan Li

Boys 12-13yrs 50 Metre Breaststroke

1 Bowen Zhang
2 Aiden Jin
3 Marcus Wang
4 Anjiro Kazuno

Girls 8-10yrs 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Elsa Ensafi
2 Victoria Chen
3 Zoe Cheng
4 Li Shuen Choo

Boys 8-10yrs 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Titus Teoh
2 Oliver Fineff
3 Thomas Dunk
4 Lionel Gao

Girs 11 Year Old 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Claire Li
2 Marina Zhang
3 Emily Fineff
4 Janet Zhang

Boys 11 Year Old 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Justin Ding
2 Elvin Di
3 Daniel Ni
4 Joshua FitzRoy

Girls 12-13yrs 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Sylvia Li
2 Zoe Ru
3 Elizabeth Feng
4 Jannai Knox

Boys 12-13yrs 50 Metre Backstroke

1 Bowen Zhang
2 Ian Wang
3 Aiden Jin
4 Edward Lee

Girls 8-10yrs 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Mila Liu

Boys 8-10yrs 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Titus Teoh
2 Thomas Dunk
3 Aaron Cui

Girls 11 Year Old 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Claire Li
2 Marina Zhang

Boys 11 Year Old 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Justin Ding
2 Elvin Di

Girls 12-13yrs 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Sylvia Li
2 Chloe Li

Boys 12-13yrs 50 Metre Butterfly

1 Bowen Zhang
2 Marcus Wang
3 Anjiro Kazuno

Dear Parents and caregivers,

The North Shore Zone PSSA have made changes to the Friday inter-school sport competition for 2024.

Please see a letter from the Zone President outlining how they will move to a gala day system.

Comms_to_Conmunity.pdf

Our PSSA sport teams will still meet on Friday mornings during the summer and afternoons during the winter seasons to train and build their skills in preparation for the gala day competitions.

Information on training times will be told to students from coaches and online permission slips for gala days will be sent via the School Bytes portal.

Dear Artarmon Public School Parents and Citizens

We would like to invite you to our first P&C meeting for 2024 set for 28 February 2024 7pm – 8pm

We will be online only for this meeting and will use Microsoft Teams (for the first time). It is anticipated that the online meeting space will open from 6:40 pm that evening for a 7:00 pm. start.

Download/installation instructions for Microsoft Teams (for computers, tablets and phones) are here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-teams/download-app OR it is possible to join via a web browser such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, etc. without installing any software at https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting

To join our meeting on Microsoft Teams, use the following ID and passcode:

Meeting ID: 436 926 203 875

Passcode: vg6j2b

Download the ICS file to add this event to your calendar: 28 February 2024 7pm-8pm.ICS

Click here to join the meeting