Dear Parents and Caregivers,

There will be a School Council meeting at 7pm on Thursday, 24th March in the Meeting Room. All our Councillors are encouraged to attend. If you are interested in finding out more about the School Council, please give me a call or make a time to come in for a chat.

Parent / Teacher Interviews

Parent / Teacher interviews for all classes from Prep to Year 10 will be held between 3pm and 6pm on Monday the 28th and Tuesday the 29th of March. Parents will be advised when they can make bookings. Mrs Collins will advise Kindy parents of interview times.

LIS PNG Independence celebrations 2022

There will be a meeting for National parents in the undercover area of the school on Saturday the 12th March at 11am to begin preparations for the school's Independence Day in September. At this meeting, an organising committee will be formed to work with the school in organising the event.

Library and Text Books

There have been some incidents of careless and unnecessary damage to school library and text books when they have been taken home. It is very costly to source and supply students with these resources on Lihir. We ask parents and carers to keep an eye on these school resources when used at home. Parents and carers will be charged replacement costs for damaged or lost books.

Absenteeism and Lateness

If your child is going to be absent from school or is sick, please give the school a call or send an explanatory note with your child upon return to school. If your child is away for more than two days, parents are required to contact the school.

Children who arrive to school in the morning after assembly begins are considered late. If your child is going to be late, please inform the school in advance, or send an explanatory note with your child. Parents will be contacted for unexplained absences.

2022 Staff (Updated)

Principal K-10 LIS / STM Gregory Neville (includes Coordinator Wellbeing/Discipline 7-10)

Deputy Principal K-10 Catherine Langusch (includes Curriculum Coordinator K-10, Coordinator Wellbeing/Discipline K-6)

Deputy Principal STM  Kevin Collins

Coordinator Physical Education Simon McKeiver

Coordinator Learning Support Catherine Langusch

Library Jenny Pesas

Administrative Officer Lorna Romaso-Daimol

Kindy Angela Collins and Georgina Kinkinteng

Prep Liz Daimol and Rachael Andar

Year 1/2 Diana Saua and Clementa Exzil

Year 3/4 Grace Savitas

Year 5/6 Catherine Langusch

Year 7/8 Simon McKeiver - Class Patron

Year 9/10 Patricia Yip - Class Patron

LIS School / STMC assistants

Jenny Pesas, Anastasia Tukata, Ronnie Sarufa

High School and School to Mine subject teachers

Elizabeth Laien, Patricia Yip, Kevin Collins, Simon McKeiver, Joseph Takaundo, David Wengip, Jeffrey Tore, Edwina Jason

Regards,

Mr. Greg Neville  

IIn line with company policy, good hygiene and social distancing practices will continue to be implemented in the school during Term 1 2022. Please read the points below carefully. Thank you to all members of the STM/LIS community for your patience and commitment in ensuring that we keep our children and island safe.

1. It is imperative that parents and carers do not send their children to school if they are sick or showing any symptoms of a cold or flu. If your child is sick, please keep your child home and seek appropriate medical attention. Children who display any signs of sickness will be isolated under supervision in the school's sick bay and parents called to come and collect them.

2. Entrance to school for students and parents / carers will be via the Aginas Oval gate only, which will open at 7.45am. Students who arrive before this (which is discouraged) are to wait in the carpark undercover area until 7.45am. Students should be at school by 8.00am, ready to start the day at 8.10am.

3. On arrival all students are to wash their hands at the wash station and then proceed to the undercover area. Parents will be permitted to escort their children to the undercover area / classroom and pick them up at the end of the day. Parents will also need to wash their hands after entering school. If parents need to go to the office or see a teacher, they are permitted to proceed to the wash station and are then to make their way straight to the school office or to the relevant classroom. Parents and High School students are to have a face mask ready to use when social distancing is not possible

4.  Students will be required to wash their hands in the mornings, before school and before and after recess/lunch.

5. All desks, door handles, playground equipment and other high contact equipment will be sanitised twice daily or after use by cleaning staff.

6. Social distancing will be employed in classrooms through desk arrangements. Social distancing markings have been painted on cement areas where students line up and in the undercover area for recess/lunch eating times. The school will implement staggered lunch and recess breaks between the primary and high school to reduce the number of children in the eating area at one time.

7. High School students will each be issued with a reusable washable mask. Students will be required to use these masks for activities where social distancing is not possible.

8. Students will need to bring a packed recess and lunch each day - there is to be no dropping off of lunches by parents, siblings or haus meris. Students are also asked to bring a water bottle to school that they will refill. 

10. In Term 1 on Mondays, separate primary and high school assemblies will be held in the basketball court, employing social distancing measures. On Fridays, there will be a whole school assembly on the basketball court that parents are welcome to attend. Social distancing measures will be  employed.

Current after-school activities this term:

Monday afternoon: Religious Instruction (P - 10): 3.00-4.00pm (Mrs Romaso-Daimol)

Wednesday afternoon: Homework Class (Yr 5/6), 3.00-4.00pm (Ms Langusch)

Thursday afternoon (starting Thursday 3rd March): Tie Dye Art (Yrs 3-6), 3.00-4.00pm (Ms Saua)

If a parent or group of parents would like to run an afternoon or Saturday morning activity, please see Mr Neville.

Term 1: 31st  January – 31st March 

Term 2: 19th April – 16th June 

Term 3: 11th July – 15th September 

Term 4: 3rd October – 1st December 

Friday Assembly

This week, the Assembly item will be presented by the Year 3/4 class and next week, it will be the Prep Tok Pisin Assembly. Parents are welcome to attend Friday assembly.

Date Claimers

Parent/Teacher Interviews: Prep to Year 10 - Week 9 Monday and Tuesday from 3.00pm - 6.00pm

Easter Hat Parade: Prep to Year 2 classes - Week 9 Tuesday at 2.45pm in the undercover area. Parents are welcome to attend.

Long Run and Ball Games Carnival: Prep to Year 10 classes - Week 9 Wednesday. More details will be provided in coming weeks.

Kind regards,

Ms Langusch             

Our FODE students and Elementary Teachers from across Lihir continue to work on their distance education with the support of the STMC Staff.

Final stages of preparation for our DWU Lecturers to come to site for delivery of Semester 3 of our DWU Bachelor of Primary Education Upgrade Program are in place, ready for delivery of the face to face lectures over the Easter break.

Unfortunately, the Trupla Principal program which was to be delivered Friday 11 March has had to be postponed and will now take place Friday 22 April. 

Final applications for our next Work Ready Program are being collected and candidates for the April intake should be finalised late next week. 

We are continuing to work with Lihir Secondary School to finalise participants for our Academic Support Program and hope to commence working with these students before the end of term.

Regards, 

Mr. Kevin Collins