TOKSAVE - Lihir International School

Dear Parents and Caregivers, 

We welcome Mr. Kevin Collins to Lhir International School, who arrives on Lihir today. Kevin comes to us with much experience and will be teaching across the high school and the Work Ready Institute. Kevin specialises in technical and vocational education. He has a trade background and  will be a great resource as we continue to build on and deliver STEM initiatives here at LIS.

Notice of Meeting: Lihir International School Council Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at the school at 6pm next Thursday, 27th of February. Mrs Fiona Karaut is currently our Newcrest appointed School Council Chairperson. James Bu, Chris Ong, Brian Hosea and Seth Kia are also Newcrest appointed School Council Representatives.

Ms Catherine Langusch is the Staff Representative with P&W President Nicole Wilson the P&W School Council Representative. Richard Toisiat is the parent rep for 2020. Two parent rep positions are still vacant and will be voted for at the upcoming AGM.

Nomination forms can be collected from Rachael in the office.

The School Council meets twice each term, at 6pm. If you are interested in finding out more about School Council, please give me a call or make a time to come in for a chat.

Thank you to the parents who attended this week's 'Problem-Solving' workshop.

Next Thursday, I will run a short session on the  Soundwaves program that we use for teaching phonics and spelling from Prep - Year 6. This will be helpful for parents who would like to learn more about how we teach students to listen to the sounds in words (phonemes) and the spelling choices (graphemes) we write when spelling words. This will be at 2.30pm in the Year 5/6 room.

Ms Langusch

Term One Canteen is available again for Friday lunch. Please remember to put your orders in on Wednesday morning at school. Attached is the 2020 Canteen Menu. Please note the new prices as these changed last term. If you would like to volunteer for the Canteen Roster, please contact Nicole on email address nicole.powell2@bigpond.com 

A soccer program is being offered to all boys and girls in grades 3 – 6. The games will be held over a 4-week period beginning this Saturday 22nd February. Depending on interest, there may be an opportunity for students in other year levels, however, at this stage it is restricted to students in grades 3 – 6.  Ideally, students would take part in 30 – 40 mins of training/ warm-up activities and then play modified games (7-a-side) on the school oval. Students would be required to be at school ready to start at 8:30 am. The amount of games played would depend on numbers, however, we anticipate finishing around 10:30am.

Official school times are:

8.10                 Bell rings (Friday assembly will start at 8.10)

8.10 – 8.15      Home room

8.15 – 8.30      Daily Fitness (Monday to Thursday)

8.35 – 10.35    First session

10.35 – 11.05 Recess (15 minutes eating followed by 15 minutes play)

11.05 – 12.35 Second session

12.35 – 1.20    Lunch (15 minutes eating followed by 30 minutes play)

1:20 – 3.00      Third Session

3.00                 End of school day

SCHOOL HOURS 7 - 9                                                                         

Official school times are:

8.10                 Bell rings (Friday assembly will start at 8.10)

8.10 – 8.15      Home room

8.15 – 10.05    Two periods

10.05 – 10.35 Recess (10 minutes eating followed by 20 minutes play)

10.35 – 1.20    Three periods

1.20 – 2.00      Lunch (10 minutes eating followed by 30 minutes play)

2.00 – 2.55      Third Session

2.55 – 3.00      Home room

3.00                 End of school day

Monday - Music club with Mr Neale Years 5-9, 3.15pm

Wednesday - Homework Club, Years 3-6, 3.15pm

Friday - Running Club with Mrs Laien, Years 3-9, 3.15 - 4.00pm

Saturday - Soccer with Mr McKeiver Years 3-6, 8.30am, starting 22nd Feb

Term 1: 27th January – 2nd April 

Term 2: 20th April – 18th June

Term 3: 13th July – 17th September 

Term 4: 5th October – 3rd December