Welcome to Week 2. I trust that although no doubt busy, you have all had a good first week back at school for Term 3.

Our Winter Plan

With COVID-19 and the flu circulating in the community, COVID smart measures in schools have been updated during the week. 

During Term 3, we continue to prioritise student and staff learning and wellbeing with our layered COVID-smart measures, which will include:

• Rapid antigen tests (RATS) for symptomatic testing and daily testing for close contacts returning to school
• maximising natural ventilation
• enhanced hygiene and cleaning
• strongly encouraging vaccination for students and staff
• staying home if unwell
• strongly encouraging mask wearing for staff, students and visitors, particularly in the first four weeks of school
• staying home and getting tested if unwell, and only attending school when symptom-free

Enhanced cleaning focuses on high-touch areas and other hard surfaces, door handles, light switches and handrails in stairways and movement areas. 

Another round of RATs will be delivered to our school shortly, which we will provide you in the form of 1 multipack of 5 RAT kits per student. Families who do not require RAT kits to be sent home are asked to contact the school office to advise. 

In the meantime, we have a supply of testing kits for those families that require some. Please don't hesitate to contact the school office and we will send some home with your child.  

Education Week

Public schools across NSW will celebrate Education Week from Monday 1 August to Friday 5 August 2022. At Lambton, we are combining Education Week with Book Week with the activities planned for focusing on the Book Week theme ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’. We are thrilled to be able to invite parents into the school on Tuesday 2 August for a number of special events, however, to allow this to go ahead, we need to consider the current covid advice and the health and safety of our school community. Consequently, the following COVID-Safety measures will be in place during our Book Week/Education week event;

• All visitors on site must check-in (QR Codes will be located outside all classrooms and at various locations around the school)
• All visitors are required to wear a mask while at the event and on school premises
• Visitors are to use the sanitising stations as they enter buildings 
• Visitors will only be permitted in the outdoor COLA area of the hall during the book character parade
• Anyone with symptoms is not to attend
• Visitors who are a close contact with someone with COVID need to inform the school and conduct a rapid antigen test (RAT), returning a negative result in the morning before attending
• Visitors are required to leave directly after the event.

During our Education Week/Book Week Event, we invite all parents to visit our Book Fair and take advantage of this opportunity to purchase new reading material for your child. We’d love you to visit with your child during open classrooms. This is an opportunity for your child to show you their learning environment and showcase some of their learning. Following open classrooms, we will move to the hall for our annual Book Character Parade and look forward to seeing students come to school dressed up as their favourite book characters for this exciting part of the day. We hope this is an enjoyable event for the whole school community and a fun day for our students.  

In the upcoming week, we will monitor any changes to departmental policy and communicate as necessary. 

Have a great week.

Kristen Saunders - Relieving Principal

Congratulations to the following students who were selected as the Junior and Senior students of the week for their work during Week 10 of last term.

Congratulations to the following students who were selected as the Junior and Senior students of the week for their work during Week 1 this term.

Due to current COVID-19 guidelines, all visitors to school must :

• wear a mask at all times whilst on site 
• sign in using QR codes that will be available outside each classroom and at various locations around the school
• use sanitising stations as they enter buildings
• be symptom free
• inform the school and conduct a RAT returning a negative result the morning of the event if they are a close contact of someone with COVID-19

Book Fair -  Students will preview the books on Monday and take a wish list home. Parents can pay online or send cash or credit card details on Tuesday.

Colouring Competition- Colour sheets are currently available for students wishing to participate. To enter they must be handed into the office be Thursday 28th July with student’s name and class on the back.

Special Canteen Lunch - Students can purchase a special canteen Book Week Meal Deal. Orders must be submitted to the canteen by Friday 29 July. (See Meal Deal details below)

Congratulations to all our amazing students who competed in our Athletics Carnival last Tuesday.

Although it was a wet and cold day, it was fantastic to see the school community come together and to see students step way outside their comfort zone to participate to the best of their ability, all striving to do their best for their house.  LPS spirit was alive and well!

Certificates for place getters will be awarded during our Week 5 assembly.  

The upcoming Zone Athletics Carnival is scheduled to take place on Friday 12th August.  Further details of this event will be communicated as soon as they become available.  

Unfortunately this week's Combined Parent Student Interrelate Session has had to be postponed due to staff shortages within Interrelate.

This evening session will now be held on Tuesday 23 August 

Families who would still like to attend are invited to make payment and return permission note prior to Monday 22 August. 

The Opportunity Class Placement Test will be held at our school on the morning of Thursday 28 July 2022. 

Authorised students who have elected to sit this test must arrive at school by 9 am. Their parents should have received by email a 'Test authority' letter which students are required to bring as a printed copy on the day of the test. 

Go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5 to find the 'Test information for parents and students' bulletin which contains very important information about the test, including how to access the familiarisation test. 

Year 6 students will participate in the Year 7 2023 Transition Program offered by Lambton High School commencing this week.  Students will participate in 3 separate visits to Lambton High School 

• Wednesday 27 July

• Wednesday 3 August

• Wednesday 10 August

Buses will transport students between Lambton Public School and Lambton High School departing our school at 1:30 pm. Buses will depart Lambton High at 2:45 pm returning students to LPS by 2:55 pm. 

Students are reminded that full school uniform is required (Year 6 polo shirts are acceptable) and black leather shoes.

• using our Ziplock bag of 100 items from home we made a number 100 artwork (will come home next week)
• 100 days smarter crown or glasses craft
• build a tower out of 100 unifix cubes 
• add up the dots on dominoes to a total of 100
• build a creation out of 100 Lego or Duplo blocks
• create and colour a '100-day smarter' mini booklet

Congratulations to our NAIDOC Week Art Competition winners. Their artworks will soon be on display in our school foyer. 

Here is a taster of the amazing work 1B students have been doing!!

• NAIDOC Day Artwork
• Writing about Hunter Valley Zoo Excursion
• Maths Activities

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