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25.01.2022 SEP M students enthusiastically dressed up as Dancers and Bikers today in remembrance of an amazing Atherton SS teacher.

24.01.2022 Special Days like Under 8's don't happen without lots of people pulling together - a huge thank you to our amazing school team.

23.01.2022 Bravehearts visited our school earlier this week and children from Prep to Yr 3 enjoyed meeting and singing with Ditto.

23.01.2022 The fun and games just kept coming for the students at Atherton Primary School celebrating Under 8's Day!

22.01.2022 In Prep we are learning about the three parts of a Narrative. The first part is the Introduction. In our daily writing, we have innovated on the introduction from one of our favourite stories, Wombat Stew.

22.01.2022 New student free days added to Term 4! In recognition of the outstanding efforts of school staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two days of the school year, Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December , have been declared student free days. Our school will be closed on these days. View the updated school calendar at https://education.qld.gov.au/about-us/calendar/term-dates.

21.01.2022 A couple of weeks ago 1A, 1B and 1/2C were extremely lucky to have some special visitors come to teach them all about fire safety. Fireman Stuart and Fireman Shane showed students around the firetruck and were kind enough to let students have a go at the fire hose while Fireman Paul assisted students in practising their 'STOP, DROP, COVER, ROLL'.

21.01.2022 Prep B created a field of poppies in recognition of Remembrance Day 2020.

19.01.2022 We are celebrating Under 8's day tomorrow morning - Friday 11th of September. To ensure safety of our students we will be blocking off the turn around bay at the Prep carpark/ drop off area. Please keep this in mind when you are dropping off your child Friday morning and do not enter the roped off area.

19.01.2022 Today we celebrate our AMAZING teacher aides ! We thank them for the work they do to support our students and staff every day. I encourage you to take the time to leave a message of thanks or support in the comments of this post so they know how much our school community appreciates them.

16.01.2022 New student free days added to Term 4! In recognition of the outstanding efforts of school staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two days of the scho...ol year, Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December, have been declared student free days. Schools will be closed on these days. For some regional, rural and remote schools that finish the school year earlier, the student free days will be Thursday 3 and Friday 4 December. View the updated school calendar at https://education.qld.gov.au/about-us/calendar/term-dates.

16.01.2022 More smiles - Celebrating our great Under 8's Day here at Atherton Primary School.

15.01.2022 Our Prep to Yr 2 children had a fantastic morning. Just look at all the smiling faces

13.01.2022 Remember to collect your child’s medication from school before the holidays. Store medication correctly and check expiry dates before the start of the new school year. Learn more about storage of medication: https://bit.ly/3lS9jQt

13.01.2022 A huge thank you to Miss Kielty, Mrs Petersen, Mrs Mounsey and Miss Slater (not pictured), for their hard work at Atherton State School. You will be missed dearly.

12.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who supported our school's Book Fair last week. We receive books as commission for hosting this event, so we were able to add these amazing titles to our library collection.

11.01.2022 Miss Day’s literacy class in Year 5 have been busy sharing the Christmas Spirit! Students have written thank you letters to staff members for helping them out this year. They had a lots of fun making these cards!

11.01.2022 In 3B, we have loved doing lots of different science experiments in our "Hot Stuff" unit. We have learnt how to correctly use thermometers, and are very good at reading temperatures. This week, we used energy from the sun to heat metal washers, that then heated up cold water! We are very clever scientists.

10.01.2022 Get hands-on experience building and launching your very own water-propelled rocket! It's Rocket Science Adventures will be running school holiday workshops i...n Atherton, Malanda, Ravenshoe and Yungaburra on 2930 September. Book now for this free event with Eventbrite: www.tablelandslibraries.eventbrite.com.au This project is supported by an Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grant provided by the Queensland Government and Queensland Science. COVID-19 physical distancing and hygiene regulations will apply at this event.

09.01.2022 The Children's Book Council of Australia moved Book Week to October this year. We will be having our Book Week dress up day on Wednesday the 21st of October. This year's theme is Curious Creatures, Wild Minds. Students are encouraged to dress as a book character, something book related or as something theme related.

08.01.2022 Friday morning and everything was set for a day of wonderful day for our Under 8's.

07.01.2022 Our league tag teams ready to rumble! Looks like some of the boys slept in.

05.01.2022 Prep B have been creating art works representing Prior's Creek for our Arts unit that worked in with studying special places in our HASS unit. We have created a mini-art exhibition in our room for our enthusiastic artists.

02.01.2022 This week we have been acknowledging the work of our teacher aides. The teacher aides who work in our SEP were thanked with a morning tea. Hope you enjoyed your day !

01.01.2022 Last week our staff and students celebrated the upcoming marriage of Nicole and Jesse. We wish you all the best and hope you have a fantastic wedding !