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Michaelmas Term Issue 7 2019/2020

NEWSLETTER LAGOS PREPARATORY & SECONDARY SCHOOL

‘Non Sibi Sed Omnibus’

From The Headmaster Why winning is important….

Winning a game or being the best in the class gives children a good feel-ing about themselves and makes them proud. It shows them that they are good at something which builds their self-confidence.

A confident child is more likely to develop a ‘can-do-attitude’. This is be-cause the experience of winning helps children get motivated to take the next steps to achieve even bigger goals, such as jumping even further. Competition is also helpful to inspire children to do more than is re-quired. This is an ability that prepares children for a variety of situations in their future lives, when it is up to them to make the decision whether they want to be part of the crowd or to be recognized for going a step further. In that sense, winning competitions helps children to succeed.

The feeling of winning prepares children to think more strategically. In board games, children know that they can only win by outthinking their opponents and children who know that they need to follow the rules will start thinking more strategically in order to win the game. Placing em-phasis on thinking more strategically to win games also helps children win by learning to follow the rules.

Winning is a mentality, and here's a series of things you need to consider when instilling it into the minds of your children.

1. Set the conditions for success....

2. Define winning for yourself & team....

3. Set goals....

4. Motivation as an instinct....

5. Mind-set is everything....

6. Preparation is key....

7. Put faith in your ability....

8. Failure is motivation…..

IN THIS ISSUE

From The Headmaster

Year 7 Entrance Exam

Year 6 Meeting

LPSS Fun Day

Assemblies

World School Games

School Council

Parents Conference

From the School Business Manager

Congratulations Vikings!

LAGOS PREPARATORY & SECONDARY SCHOOL Michaelmas Term Issue 7 2019/2020

NEWSLETTER

World School Games Our WSG team has been selected and parents of the qualified students have been notified. There was a meeting with the parents this week and plans are now well un-derway for WSG 2020. We wish Team LPSS the very best and look forward to a successful time in Dubai.

Assemblies

LPSS Fun Day 2019

Thank you to all the parents who stopped by the Fun Day stands today and made generous dona-tions. If you were unable to, don’t worry, there are plenty of way you can help out.

This year, we are raising funds to support the Blind Society. We sup-port them every year by contract-ing them to design our Fun Day T-Shirts. This year, we would like to take it up a notch and to do that, we need your help.

Unlike other years, we will not be giving out T-Shirts for free so do-nations to cover the cost of the T-Shirt, and through that, the work of the Blind Society will go a long way. If we are unable to gather sponsorship, we will sell T-shirts to our children to support the cause.

If you would prefer to donate food or drinks, raffle draw prices or items that can be sold on the day, it will be beneficial in raising funds.

Can you or your company provide sponsorship for the programme or for individual rides, details and benefits for each category is spelt out in the Fun Day document be-low. There is also vendor infor-mation if you will like to promote your business. Hard copies can be picked up from Ms Joyce.

We always need volunteers, so if you can give up a couple of hours on the day to help, please inform PTA Ex-Co member. Thank you!

This week’s assembly saw the introduction of more involvement by the stu-dents as the prefects had a chance to give out certificates and announce the house with the highest house points.

As usual, certificates were awarded and there were musical performances. This week, mathematicians received their awards at both the primary and secondary assemblies.

Early years were not left out! Stickers were given out to the various super stars in each class and they learnt about showing affection with the help of the giant visitor in the picture.

Year 6 Meeting This week, the head and deputy head met with year 6 parents to ex-plore secondary school options for our graduating students. Please share information about our Year 7 entrance exam to friends and family.

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LAGOS PREPARATORY & SECONDARY SCHOOL Michaelmas Term Issue 7 2019/2020

NEWSLETTER

School Council

21-25 Oct

Half Term (Sports Clinic)

1 Nov Black History Assembly

8 Nov Year 3 Music Recital/Art Exhibition

16 Nov LPSS Fun Day

22 Nov Year 4 Music recital/ Art Exhibition

23 Nov Year 7 Entrance Exam

29 Nov Last After School Club

2-6 Dec Exam Week

10 Dec LPSS Christmas Carols

11 Dec Maths Day

12 Dec Class Parties

13 Dec EYFS/KS1 Production Last Day of Term

(School closes 12:30pm)

Michaelmas Term Diary From the School Business Manager Dear Parents,

Welcome back to this school year. Con-gratulations on your massive support for the students, that resulted in a remarka-ble and well attended Independence day celebration.

Further to our communication with you towards the end of last term, we deem it necessary to provide you an update on the recruitment of a new Head for the s c h o o l . 1. Following Mr. Barrett's retirement in June 2019, the board commenced steps immediately to recruit a new head using a UK based consulting firm of internation-al repute.

2. Early in that process it became appar-ent that the new hire would only be available in January 2020.

3. In order that there would not be a vac-uum, and rather than extend Mr. Bar-rett's contract for one more term, the board invited in Mr. John Samuel, the

Parent’s Conference

Thank you to all the parents who made it to today’s parent’s conference. We hope you are pleased with your child’s progress and are clear about the areas for improve-ment. If you would like to arrange a follow up meeting with the teacher or you were unable to make the conference, you can speak to Mrs Joyce at the School Reception desk to schedule the meeting.

Congratulations to our school council members:

Suleman, Enuoma, Maryam, Mishika, Vi-raj, Nathan, Oluwatose, Chuksy, Olapojukan, Katayan, Amelia, Emily, Kaine, Ayooluwa, Tochukwu, Neha, Eli-yahu, Njabulo and Eiman.

We wish you the very best as you serve the school this year.

Mini

Marathon If you were

unable to reg-ister your child today, you can

sign up here

Have a restful Mid-Term Holiday.

We look forward to welcoming our students back on Monday 28th October.

Sports at LPSS During the half term holiday, the sports’ clinic will run from Monday to Wednesday morning. Tomorrow is the final day to sign up for it. The WSG team will also train every day during the holiday. The school team will be taking part in the Dolphin League Swimming competition at Grange School. This will be held on Saturday 26th Octo-ber at 9am. Please come along to cheer Team LPSS if you can.