School Council Elections - Information for Parents
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CONNECT Lancefield Primary School Newsletter Term 1 Week 3 — Thursday 13th February 2020 News from the principal – Jo Emond February Well done to all of our fabulous students for settling so well into school for 2020 13 School Council Nominations and for displaying our school values and all of the great ways we work together open at LPS. 13 Prep Speech Screen School Review This term is a particularly busy and important one for us. We will be completing 14 Welcome Picnic 5.30pm- our school review within the next few weeks. All schools undertake a review of 7.00pm their school strategic plan every four years. This will involve a panel consisting 17 Incursion—Responsible Pets of an independent reviewer appointed by the Department of Education, a Sen- ior Improvement Leader (SEIL), myself, school council president, teacher repre- 19 No Preps sentatives and two challenge partners from other education settings. We have completed a pre review self evaluation and this information will form the basis 20 Get to know you interviews for discussions and plans for the future four years at LPS. The results of the whole school survey which was open to all parents/students and staff during 22 Lancefield Market 23C term 4 last year along with a whole range of other data will inform this process and assist us in formulating our new 2020-2024 school strategic plan. 26 No Preps Child Safe Policies 26 School Council Nominations Please make yourself familiar with the Child Safe policies on our website includ- Close 4pm ing: Child Safe commitment statement; Child Safe code of conduct, responding and reporting policy and procedures and the child safe standards 2 policy. March Student toilets reminder 4 Whole School Cross Country The student toilets have received a fresh coat of paint last weekend. We ask that all students take care of our nearly refurbished toilets and behave in a re- 6 CURRICULUM DAY spectful manner at all times in the toilets. I would appreciate all parents and carers reminding children of correct toilet manners and behaviours. 9 Labour Day—No School Get to know you interviews 10 Super Circus Incursion Our get to know you interviews are being held on Thursday 20th of February from 3.30-8.30pm. Please secure your interview time now by booking on uEdu- 18th—School Council AGM cateUs. The interviews are 10 minutes each and are an opportunity to share information with your child/ren’s teachers which may help teachers better un- derstand your child’s needs and learning styles. Child safe: Lancefield Primary School is Thank you committed to child safety. A huge thank you to the families who have chosen to make a voluntary contri- bution to LPS so far this year. This money will go directly towards purchasing We want all children to be safe, new bookshelves and furniture for the classroom atrium area for the benefit of happy and empowered. all students. Our picture story books have been well sorted thanks to the hard work of Karen Madsen and our novels are next on the list to tidy and sort. All of our non fiction books are housed in the WMC. Thank you to Robin Ford for spreading our recent delivery of soft fall for the top play area on Saturday morning. We really appreciate you getting this job done for our school. News from the principal continued… 5/6 Book club opportunity Year 5/6 students have been invited by Kirsten at “Squishy Minnie Bookstore” in Kyneton to participate in a monthly bookclub. All 5/6 students are invited to write an expression of interest. The book club will run once a month on a Monday straight after school for 50 minutes so this would require a commitment from parents to collect children at 4.10pm directly from school. Squishy Minnie staff member, Connie (who is also a Secondary teacher) will run the bookclub .The purpose of bookclub is to get kids critically thinking about the types of books they do and do not enjoy, looking at writing styles, character development and themes in an age appropriate way. There is a limit of 12 spots for the bookclub so get your expression of interest in asap. Kirsty and Wiley will be discussing this further with students in class. We would like our first bookclub to happen on Monday 16th March. Connie and Kirsten from Squishy Minnie decide on the books to be read and students will have a month to read them. Students will be supplied with the books and then are to return them to school. Communication, permission forms, payments and parent information Parents and carers, please remember that is essential that payments and permission forms for excursions, camps, incursions, etc be submitted to the school on or before the due date. Due dates are set to enable us to plan effectively for events to meet the number of students attending and to pay for events. We will be strict on these timelines. Please talk to Sharon or Di about arranging a payment plan for the year; this makes things so much easier for you! Please make sure you are reading weekly reminders, messages on uEducateUs, the news- letter (published fortnightly) and see saw messages so that you are kept well informed about what is going on at LPS. We never mind a phone call if you need to double check on something . School Council Yesterday (Wednesday 12th Feb) was our first School Council meeting for 2020 and our last with some of the cur- rent School Council members. The process to elect a new School Council starts today and there are 5 parent posi- tions vacant. If you are interested in nominating for School Council, please collect a nomination form from the office. Come and see me if you would like to know more about the functions of School Council and what the role of a school councillor entails or read the information regarding School Council in this week’s newsletter. 2020 Green Team Students from years 2 to 6 were asked to express interest in being part of this year’s Green Team. The Green Team will have three groups: Chicken group, River Detectives and Junior Landcare. Students will be notified today and all Green Team members will be presented with their badges at this week’s assembly. Well done and thank you to all students who have taken such a keen interest in keeping our school environment sustainable, tidy and looking great! Student Leaders 2020 Congratulations to our new year 6 Student Leaders, Lily, Luke, Sarah and Jemma. These students along with our student council group, will have the responsibility to represent our school on many occasion over the year and we know they are up for the job! We will also a School Wide Positive Behaviour Team and Green team with three sub groups ; the chicken group, river detectives and junior landcare. Congratulations to all of these students and thank you for enthusiastically taking on these important roles at LPS. We will feature photos of these groups in our next newsletter. Frog Bog Update The frog bog plants have grown well over the summer break and are now providing some shade for the ponds. At the end of 2019 Sam Harrison and the green team introduced some water bugs into the ponds and the quality of the water has greatly improved. It seems the frogs agree and overnight a froggy friend has deposited some spawn in one of the ponds. Hopefully LPS will have it’s first tadpoles soon!!! Student Achievement Awards Congratulations to the following students for their Achieve- ment Awards: PREP Harvey outstanding start to the year 1MR Levi following SLANT in class & being a great role model 23C Will showing great persistence with his writing and showing a ‘have a go’ attitude Anni positive attitudes at school and demonstrating persistence with her recount writing 23W Jack listening attentively at all times and completing a fabulous Photograph 4NJ Tyson demonstrating persistence to achieve your learning goals. Well done Tyson, keep up the amazing effort 56K Peter awesome start to the year. Top effort with work in the class Room 56W Bridgett positive attitude and greetings everyday MUSIC Zayne recalling facts about Vivaldi PE Rowan excellent participation in all activities in PE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSIHP INCURSION On Monday 17th February all years will have an incursion with a Responsible Pet Ownership teacher. The Program focuses on teaching students about dog safety: when dogs should be left alone things we should not do to dogs how can you tell if a dog is happy, frightened or angry a safe way to approach and greet a dog what to do if approached by an unknown or aggressive dog. Do you buy 1 litre tetra packs (milk, stock, juice etc). Please drop off clean empty packs at the office. We are in need of approximately 20 for an ex- periment in the SAKG gardening classes with the 5/6 students next week. Thank you to everyone who has already donated them. February Birthdays Happy birthday to all of the staff and students that celebrate birthday’s in February!! Abbey Lukas Seth Trinity Ayla Patrick Lewis From the Preps… It has been an amazing first couple of weeks for the Prep students. They have amazed not just myself but all the other staff with how settled and comfortable they are at school. They have been to all the specialist clas- ses and attended their first assembly and taken it all in their stride. We have begun our phonics program and have been looking at two sounds per week, so far we have covered S, A, T and P.