BE A LEARNER BE RESPECTFUL

BE RESILIENT

LPS News 2nd August, 2018

Nerrena Road Leongatha 3953 Phone 56674600 email leongatha.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website www.leongathaps.vic.edu.au

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

As always at Leongatha Primary School we have some great things happening and lots of exciting activities to look forward to. Step Into Prep: It was wonderful to see that 90 prep students were enrolled into our Step Into Prep program. They fitted into our prep classrooms so comfortably like they'd been there all year. Next week’s Step Into Prep will be a valuable time for our parents to come into our information session in the staffroom where you will hear a guest speaker talking about preparing your children to start school. I look forward to

seeing all of our 2019 prep parents there. Chinese Sister School: We are all excited to have our Changshu Sister School coming to visit our school this Sunday. Thanks to all of our parents who are hosting our students and for the wonderful planning that they have put in place to ensure that our visitors have a great time. Seussical Production: Our ticket sales for our school production are selling fast as are our t-shirts. I have had a look at some of the rehearsals for the show and I think that it might be even better than our Lennie production if that's possible. The amazing talents that our students have is so exciting to see and this is another opportunity to showcase their talents. Reading at home: Please remember that one of the greatest gifts that you can give your children is to read with them each night. The improvement in a child's reading by doing this is enormous. Dot Coghlan Principal

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER NOW PUBLISHED EACH FORTNIGHT

If there is information that parents need to know throughout the week

we will send this out through Compass or our Facebook page.

CURRICULUM DAYS 2018 Friday 24th August

Monday 5th November

WELL DONE AWARDS

Keelie McNaughton Noah Dunlop For being a kind and supportive friend and For being a respectful member of always treating others with respect the class and always helping others

Archer Commadeur PP, Kale Fletcher PR, Taysen Smith PH, Makayla Palles PD, Reve Barrett-Richard PA, Harvey Nelson PA, Liam Rip PH, Jade Villasevil PR,

Brax Byrnes PD, Clancee Salmon PP. Phoenix Hayes 1M, Georgia Allott 1M, Ben White 1S, Ida Hilligso Chadwick 1BH,

Riley Collins 1S, Keagan Koedoot 1BH, Sophie Bernardo 1P. Ava Carew 2H, Frazer Livingstone 2S, Jordan Griffiths 2P, Millie Wilson 2J,

Darcy Stewart-Williams 2G, Stephen Spencer 2G. Bella Piasente 3B, Will Stein 3H, Mahadev Gundlapalli 3L, Kynan Staley 3T,

Fletcher Robinson 3H, Jarrah Lowe 3B, Mikey Farmer 3L, Hunter Lindsey 3T. Lochie Brown 4L, Riley Franklin 4L, Ben Mills-Cutts 4L, Ebony Collins 4A, Kayden Battersby 4H, Bailey Brooker 4H, Kitty Moon 4E, Archer Curtis 4E,

Kaydee Jones 4E. Aluah Harry 5S, Klayton McGrath 5S, Luke Webster 5X, Gabie Wilkinson 5HS,

Jeremy Ward 5HS, Lara Gill 5HS, Kyle Littlejohn 5HS, Sage Pettigrove 5X, Krystal Arnason 5M, Lisse Bath 5M, Jack Anderson 5HS, Savannah Rooney 5HS.

Skye Munro 6H, Piper White 6R, Bailey Close 6E, Emma Mark 6MG, Erika Allen 6MG, Sophie Kreutzberger 6MG, Alyssa Ebery 6E, Alicia McGrath 6E,

Tara Hanily 6R, Mickey Hosking 6H.

RESILIENCE RIGHTS & RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS

This term our Resilience Rights & Respectful Relationships (RRRRs) program is in full swing with students participating in sessions at 10am every Friday after assembly. This program aligns with our school values of 'Being a Learner, Being Respectful and Being Resilient' and is designed to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours. It teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. In Term 1 & 2 the topics of Emotional Literacy, Personal Strengths and

Positive Coping have been covered. This term the focus has moved onto social development, the first three weeks of term has seen the teaching of topic 4 - Problem Solving. At a junior level, students are learning about what a problem is, the importance of working cooperatively with others, that problems can have many solutions and how solutions can affect others positively and negatively. Meanwhile in the senior school, students look at different strategies they can use to assess the options to solve problems and role play real life problems and positive ways to solve these. We encourage parents to discuss what students are learning with regards to our RRRRs program so that these skills can be reinforced at home, and perhaps used in the home as well as at school to further build respect, resilience and positive coping strategies.

ABSENCES

REMINDER - REPORTING YOUR CHILD'S ABSENCES You may have read recently that from the end of Term 2, all Victorian government schools must contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence.

Parents and carers must notify the school of their child’s absence as soon as possible on the day of absence using the school’s preferred method (COMPASS). PLEASE NOTE:- If you are choosing the Parent Choice Option you must provide an explanation in the details/comment box. Here are some instructions on how to process an absence on Compass. At the home page you will see the following options on the left next to your child’s photo.

Profile (Attendance, Schedule, Reports) Send email to (Childs Name) teacher Add Attendance Note (Approved Absence/Late) View Academic Reports Book Parent Teacher Interviews.

Select the option with the Green + sign – Add Attendance Note. This should bring up an attendance approval box. Select the drop down arrow and choose an absence REASON Make sure you select the correct date it will default to today’s date Then Select the Start Date and time of the absence Then Select the Finish Date and time of the absence Click the Green Save button. For Example if your child was late on 25/6/18 and arrived at 9:05am Reason – Parent Choice Details/Comment – you MUST provide a description for absence. Start 25/06/2018 8:45am Finish 25/06/2018 9:05am Save Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you are having trouble putting your child's absence on Compass. Thank you for your assistance.

GRADE ONE EXPERIMENTS

In Grade One we have been learning about the sky and space. Over the past two weeks students' have had the opportunity to create cloud experiments. These experiments have helped students' understand how rain

forms.

ART ROOM NEWS

Grade 6 students created 'Torres Strait Islander' inspired artworks. They used black texta to create their detailed drawings. Some are on display in the Art building foyer.

Grade 5s have been making 'African and Torres Strait Islander' Inspired masks using plaster 'modroc'

Bathed in sunlight in the Art room yesterday, students from Grade 1, complete their 'Joan Miro'

inspired portraits, using watercolours.

PREPS GARDENING/LEARNING SPACE

Between the wet, windy and cold days we have had this term the Preps have been busy helping outside in our brand new garden/learning space. The idea behind this space is to give all Prep students an opportunity to explore, learn and investigate outdoors. The first stage that our wonderful little green thumbs assisted establish this week was the sensory garden, which has a range of plants to stimulate all senses. Everyone had a fantastic time learning about a variety of different plants, before getting their hands dirty digging, planting and watering. The Preps will be responsible for caring for our new area, where students have the opportunity to assist in improving and extending the sensory and play/learning space as the year progresses. I cannot wait to see what this new space develops into with the assistance of our inquisitive little legends. Mr. Harris – PH

NATIONAL TREE PLANTING DAY AT LPS

National Tree Day started in 1996 and since then more than 3.8 million people have planted 24 million trees and plants and it's still growing.

Tree planting makes a positive difference to our environment, and also

help our precious native animals and plants survive. Below are pics of

our tree planting day at LPS.

REGIONAL NETBALL

On Wednesday, the 25th of July 10 Grade Six girls travelled to Sale and competed against 4 teams in Regional netball. The first game we had a bye, but after that we played Sale. They were a really hard team with really good players. We didn’t play our best and lost by 10. The next game we played against Morwell and we won by 5. We had the height that they didn’t so we could lob it into our shooters. The 3rd game was against Lucknow and we won by 2. The height that they lacked was replaced by speed which was to our disadvantage. The last game was against Warragul. It was an even game all round but they just got us by 2. We all played really well throughout the day but sadly didn’t make it through to State. We’d like to thank Mrs McCluskey for coaching throughout the rounds, and for all the parents who came along to support us and score our games. It was a fantastic day, and well done to everyone, you all played really well. By Molly H

SEUSSICAL TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE SEUSSICAL TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE

Tickets for Seussical Jr the Musical are on sale now. Tickets are available online:-

https://www.trybooking.com/XCSB

https://www.trybooking.com/406069

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?embed&eid=406069

A number of queries have been made asking if there is tiered seating. Yes there is. Row O through to Z is tiered.

Tickets will not be available through the school office.

Please make sure you check which cast your child is in and book tickets accordingly.

Cast A students will perform at 7pm on Monday, 20th August, 12:30pm and 7:00pm Tuesday, 21st August.

Cast B students will perform at 7:00pm on Wednesday, 22nd August and 12:30pm and 7:00pm on Thursday, 23rd August.

This information has been sent out and all students are aware of their cast. https://www.trybooking.com/406069

FRIDAY – CANTEEN DUTY – TERM 3 AUGUST 3rd Fabio Dal Pozzo – Clare Guy 10th Janine Lowe – Sarah Norman 17th Danielle Elkin – Viv Scott 24th CURRICULUM DAY – NO SCHOOL 31st Kirsty Bolge – Ronnie Hanily SEPTEMBER 7th Joel Langstaff – Kasie Rump 14th Helen Dowel – Tina Allen 21st Gaynor Greenaway

COMING EVENTS – 2018

AUGUST Monday 6th Changshu Students at LPS Friday 10th Step into Prep, 2-3pm Monday 13th Cyber Safety Information Night – PAC 5:30pm to 7pm Monday 20th Seussical Production Cast A – 7pm Tuesday 21st Seussical Production Cast A – 12:30pm and 7pm Wednesday, 22nd Seussical Production Cast B – 7pm Thursday, 23rd Seussical Production Cast B – 12:30pm and 7pm Friday 24th Curriculum Day – No school for Students Tuesday 28th Grade 4 Hoop Time – Cranbourne Thursday 30th Father’s Day Stall SEPTEMBER Monday 3rd -7th Literacy, Numeracy & Book Week Friday 7th Step into Prep 2-3pm Monday 10th Prep RACV Road Safety talk Friday 14th Division Aths - Cranbourne Friday 21st End of Term 3 – Early dismissal 2pm

South Gippsland Tennis Coaching. Term 3 lessons at the following venues: Leongatha, Korumburra & Mirboo North. All ages and abilities welcome, starting from 3+ For further information or bookings: info@southgippslandtenniscoaching.com.au 0402736693

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0499 802 340