LBS Newsletter

Dear Families,  

Pupil Free Day

A reminder that next Friday is a Pupil Free Day. Staff will be involved in various professional development opportunities, including moderation of writing samples and a focus on phonological awareness in relation to successful readers.

Please note that our OSHC service will be open and bookings must be made by next Tuesday afternoon.

NAPLaN (Online)

In Weeks 3 & 4 of next term (14th to 28th May), the NAPLaN Online Tests will take place for students in Years 3, 5, 7 & 9.

The tests will cover Literacy (Language Conventions, Writing and Reading) & Numeracy.

The results gained from the tests provide us with data that we analyse and then use to program appropriately for our students. Our students will be undertaking the testing online.

In certain circumstances, students can be withdrawn or exempted from the tests with parent permission.

Reasons may include: Philosophical or personal reasons; Students with a language other than English who have been in the country for less than 12 months; Students with significant intellectual disability.

If you would like to discuss a possible exemption or withdrawal for your child, or anything else in relation to the tests, please feel free to contact either myself or Bob Bowden before the end of this term (12th April).

In the meantime, further information can be accessed at https://www.nap.edu.au/

Governing Council Representatives

At our recent AGM, we accepted nominations and voted in our new Governing Council team.

I am pleased to announce the following people as our members for 2019.

Staff Rep – Bianca Topp

Parent Members - Fiona Scoffield, Bianca Cochrane, Kate Dyer, Caroline Sargeant, Renee Rich, Sharon Mair, Fran Hughes, Kym Gill, Karen Gilbert-Goodenaugh, Rachel Murphy, Jeremy Beer, Karen Ingleby, Chris Goulding & Sandra Box. It is great to see some new faces and the passion that all members have for our school and the children. If you have any questions regarding school issues, please feel free to approach any of our members.

At our next meeting, we will be selecting our Office Bearer positions.

Farewell & Good Luck

On behalf of our community, I would like to wish Lia Taylor all the best as she goes on maternity leave from the 29th March. Lia will return in Term 4.

We wish her all the best.

School Policies

As a part of the agreed process for keeping our community informed, you will find copies of our Policies relating to Grievance, Dress Code, Behaviour, Bullying & Harassment and Attendance on our school website at: www.largsbayr7.sa.edu.au

Please take the time to have a read of these.

After School Play

Please note that children are supervised in the yard by staff until 3.15pm daily and parents are welcome to let their children play provided they are supervised after this time.

Our OSHC staff have a duty of care to the children in OSHC and are not responsible for the supervision of other children. All OSHC children will be wearing red hats so that they are easily identifiable to staff.

A reminder also that bikes/scooters/skateboards are not to be ridden in the school yard at any time.

This includes young children who are not enrolled at the school.

Thank you for your support.

Pupil Free Days

Our Pupil Free Days and School Closure for this year are listed below. All schools are entitled to 4 Pupil Free Days and 1 School Closure day. They are:

Term 1 – Friday 8th March (Week 6)

Term 2 – Friday 7th June (Week 6)

Term 3 – Monday 2nd September  (Week7)

Term 4 – Friday 6th December (Week 8)

Term 4 – Friday 25th October (School Closure – Week 2)

Room: 3 Sam E : Always being respectful towards his peers and showing them lots of encouragement and support.

Room: 3 Evelyn M : For demonstrating a tremendous amount of responsibility towards her learning.

Room: 4 Indie T : For demonstrating responsibility in keeping our school grounds and peers safe.

Room: 4 Aylah M : For demonstrating responsibility in keeping our school grounds and peers safe.

Room: 5 Oliver G : For displaying responsibility in his role as Star of the Week.

Room: 5 Avalon O : For always demonstrating respect to her teachers and peers.

Room: 5a Savannah G : For demonstrating persistence with her learning

Room: 5a Charlie P : For demonstrating persistence in all areas of his learning 

Room: 10 Jesse K : For showing respect to his teachers and peers.

Room: 10 Amelie C : For demonstrating persistence with her learning.

Room: 11 Angus R : For demonstrating responsibility towards his learning. 

Room: 11 Lani A : For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning. 

Room: 12 Seth D : For showing respect to his teachers and peers

Room: 12 Mattie : For showing persistence in trying to work independently 

Room: 13 Charli D : For persisting on all classroom activities. Keep it up!

Room: 13 Molly A : For always showing respect towards her teachers and peers 

Room: 14 Liam M : For always showing respect towards his teachers and peers 

Room: 14 Zoe W : For demonstrating a tremendous amount of responsibility towards her learning.

Room: 16 Deegan G : For continually showing persistence in all areas of his learning.

Room: 16 Ava T : For always displaying high levels of responsibility towards all tasks.

Room: 17 Sunny B : For showing respect to all members of the school community.

Room: 17 Leeo S : For showing respect to all members of the school community.

Room: 19 Milly S : For showing responsibility towards all areas of school

Room: 19 Liam M : For demonstrating persistence with his reading 

Room: 20 Thomas O : For always showing respect towards his teachers and peers 

Room: 20 Hollie T : For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning.

Room: 22 Hardy C : For demonstrating persistence in all areas of his learning 

Room: 22 Georgie M : For always showing respect towards her teachers and peers 

Room: 23 Finn P : For demonstrating responsibility towards his learning and self-management

Room: 23 Tahlia B : For demonstrating respect towards her peers and teachers

Room: 25 Rhys P : For demonstrating responsibility towards his learning and self-management

Room: 25 Matilda C : For always being a respectful and kind class member

Room: 26 Isaac R : For showing responsibility towards all areas of school

Room: 26 Isabel M : For always showing respect towards her teachers and peers 

Room: 27 Jasmin W : For demonstrating persistence with her learning

Room: 27 Asher B : For always being a respectful and kind class member

Room: 29 Kris D : For always being a responsible member of our classroom.

Room: 29 Charlotte V : Demonstrating persistence in all areas of her learning.

Room: 30 Tristan G : Demonstrating persistence and making better choices

Room: 30 Emma J : For always being a kind and respectful class member

Room: 31 Keirra G : For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning.

Room: 31 Emma W : For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning.

Room: 32 Hamish W : Persistence in all curriculum areas

Room: 32 Emma-Lee : Being such a respectful individual to her peers

Room: 33 Wyatt E : For demonstrating responsibility towards his learning. 

Room: 33 Devyne M : For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning. 

Indonesian - Room: 31   For demonstrating responsibility towards her learning. 

STEM -  Room: 32   For demonstrating responsibility for their learning.

 Health - Room: 17  For showing persistence and working confidently to share their ideas. 

Ryan S - Room 10

Agatha C E (Rm 14): Always demonstrating the OSHC Values and being kind to others

This term in history we have been learning about ancient Greece. One of the topics is Greek mythology. Meanwhile in art, we’ve been learning different shading techniques, particularly hatching and cross hatching. Then we were set a task to shade in Poseidon’s head using the two techniques and created this. Here are some of our examples.

A busy start to the year!

We had a wonderful visit from Bob in the Life Education van in week two for the year 1-5’s. We learnt about growing good friends, minding our medicine and relating, respecting and connecting online safely.

In class we have begun to look our emotions, the right to be safe and risks.

We have established some golden rules when we are working in Health lessons and aim to show our school values as level fours!

Be kind and keep safe!

Mrs Foley

In Room 4, we have been growing our resilience, confidence and getting along skills as new learners at Largs Bay School. We are building our understanding of sound and letter relationships through our Daily 5 rotations.

 In Maths, we have been sorting objects and making patterns with them. We can draw our patterns too.

 We have been learning about our school values in HASS. We have been thinking about what we want to be and how we want to feel in the future. We are feeling very excited about everything we have to learn to reach our goals.

Lots of exciting things have been happening in Room 29. Over the past 4 weeks, we have been learning new routines, CAFÉ strategies, Daily 5, as well as getting to know one another.

Students have been learning about where they’re located in world. They’re becoming familiar with Australia’s States, Territories and Capital cities. We’re also learning about living and non-living things. Students are also growing wheat and writing their observations in their science investigation booklets.

They’ve been busy painting and creating shadow images of living things and even had the pleasure of hanging out with our buddy class, room 19.  We’ve all had an enjoyable start to 2019.

In Geography, we have been learning about Australia. First, we began by talking about major landmarks in Australia and categorised them as ‘man-made’ or ‘natural’.

We then completed a mapping task using a blank map of Australia – we used an atlas to label all the states/territories and capital cities of Australia.

In Visual Art so far, we have completed a painting on the Australian native Bottle-Brush plant and a painting of Uluru (Ayers Rock). 

In Room 5a, we have had a busy start to school!  We have been learning about living things, making patterns, counting, being friends, being brave and struggling! 

In our Week of Inspirational Maths, we have learnt that new learning is hard work!  We have tried hard and have our brains firing!

We have learnt a lot of sounds and are hard at it blending them together to learn how to read.

We have practised our three values of respect, responsibility and persistence.

Did you know that staff are supervising a variety of lunch clubs each day. Students can join in the fun on any day!

 A vacancy exists for one year 3 student to learn the cello.

The cost is $88 for the full year. This includes hire of the instrument and tuition book . The half hour lessons are at school on Friday mornings. Please complete the attached form and return it for the office." 

Phil Crossing

Music Coordinator

Applications are now open for Year 8 2020.     

Please see the attached flier for more information. 

Please see attached information on the 2019 Henley High School Invitational Tennis Tournament to be held on Friday 22nd March.  

It would be greatly appreciated if you can advertise this to Year 5, 6 and 7 students who are part of a tennis club. 

Last year’s event included 80 students from over 40 different Primary schools, spots fill up fast so please encourage students/parents to enter ASAP

If you have any questions or concerns please contact  jayne.hickman@henleyhs.sa.edu.au

Kind Regards,   

Jayne Hickman | Administration Sport

To Strive | To Seek | Not to Yield

Underpinned by Respect and Responsibility

Henley High School

The Kids Connect Program is back for term 1. This free program is all about connecting children in the local community and offering them free activities to be involved in after school in a fun, relaxed and safe environment.

The program is run at the Lefevre & Taperoo Community Centres and is focussed on children aged 5-13 years old.  

We offer a variety of different activities each week with the sessions running from 3:45pm-4:30pm. Parents/guardians are welcome to stay for the session or can drop off and pick up their children at the end.

It would be much appreciated if you could forward this flyer onto any interested students and if possible include it in your next school newsletter.

If you require any more information about this exciting & free program for children in the local community please don’t hesitate to contact me.   

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards

Peter Todd

Community Development Officer

Lefevre Community Stadium

Hi All

It’s that time of the year again, the April School Holiday Sports is now open for registrations!  Please find attached the registration form.  All registrations are now able to be done online at the following link:

http://aus.evanced.info/charlessturt/lib/eventcalendar.asp?Lib=6

 Just go to April and all of the sports will be there.

Please be aware of the public holidays, and only book sessions you can attend. 

Please give me a call or email me; if you have any questions.

Thank you 

Kind Regards

Lisa Will

Sport and Recreation Project Officer

City of Charles Sturt

Theatre Bugs has been in operation for over 20 years teaching South Australian children performing arts skills through programmes developed and taught by trained educators.

At Theatre Bugs, children not only learn skills in dancing, singing and acting.  They also learn to trust their own ideas, develop perseverance, empathise with others, work with peers to achieve common goals and feel confident in their own ability.  Most of all, they develop the confidence they need to be able to tackle the unexpected, challenging and exciting situations that they are confronted with in life.

As a special offer for new Theatre Bug students if they mention they saw this in your newsletter and/or on Skool Bag and enrol in one of our classes they will receive 20% of their term 1 fees.

 Kyla Booth

Business Development Coordinator & Performing Arts Teacher