From the Principal

New Uniform Company—Lowes

We are very excited to announce our

school uniform is now available for

purchase through the Lowes store at

Westfield South Morang. We believe this

move will provide families with more

flexibility when it comes to purchasing as

the Lowes shop is open for late night

shopping and on weekends.

Families will be able to sign up for a loyalty

card to earn points which can be used for

future purchases. At different times during

the year, Lowes also offer 20% discount

days which should provide some great

savings for our families.

Our 2018 new Prep families will also

receive at 15% discount voucher for use

before 31 December 2017 which can be

used to purchase new uniform ready for

the new school year.

Uniform requirements

A reminder to all our families that students

are expected to be in full school uniform on

regular school days. Our school uniform

includes a large range of options for

students. The school uniform colours are

dark green and white for Prep—Grade 5

and black and white for Grade 6s. The

uniform does not include coloured t-shirts

or leggings worn as part of the uniform. As

you know, I do love pink, but it is not our

school uniform and should not be worn to

school unless it is a special dress up day. If

you have problems with ensuring your child

is in our school uniform, please speak to

Scott Duncan or me and I am sure we can

find a way to ensure all our students are in

the correct uniform.

Wacky Wednesday

Wednesday this week was pretty wacky!

There were lots of wonderful creative

wacky clothing including coloured wigs,

crazy hair styles, pink tutus, mismatched

socks and shoes and quite a few people

had a problem putting their clothes on the

right way. Thank you to all the parents for

your creativeness with the wacky clothing.

Well done to the Junior School Council

under the guidance of Hari Mathios and

Julie Hewison for arranging this fun day for

us all.

Early Arrivals

A reminder to all our

families that children

SHOULD NOT be at

school before 8:45am.

We have noticed an

increase in the number

of children in the yard

from as early as

8:00am. There are no staff on duty until

8:45am to supervise children. Before Care

opens from 7:00am. If you have an early

appointment, you need to arrange for your

child/ren to attend Before Care so they are

not in the yard unsupervised. Breakfast

Club opens at 8:30am and children are

welcome to attend Breakfast Club from this

time. I ask for everyone’s cooperation with

helping us to keep your children safe by

not sending them to school before 8:45am.

Sleep - Aim for 9 hours

I was concerned when I was speaking to

the Grade 5/6 students this week about

the large number who looked really tired. I

reminded them of the importance of

getting enough sleep. I know this is

challenging for parents but it is really

important that children get 9-10 hours

sleep a night. Anything less than this and

their brains don’t get a chance to recharge

properly and their bodies can’t grow

properly. If we are too tired we can’t

concentrate and we make poor choices.

Let’s all make a BIG effort to get more

sleep!

Linda Richards

27 October 2017

TERM 4

Tuesday 31 October

Gr 3/4 CERES Excursion

Thursday 2 November

Prep— Gr 2 Werribee Zoo

excursion

Monday 6 November

Curr iculum Day—NO

SCHOOL

Tuesday 7 November

Melbourne Cup Day—NO

SCHOOL

Wednesday 8 November

Gr 5/6 Quantum Victoria

Lego Robotics—Grp 2

Gr 3/4 Bike Education

begins

Thursday 9 November

House Sports

Friday 10 November

2018 Prep Transition

begins

Office hours are 8:30am-

4:00pm

TERM DATES FOR 2017

Term 4:

9 October-22 December

Term 4 Absences

16/10/2017– 20/10/2017

An improvement in our overall attendance figures

this week; we reduced our total number of absences

by 17 days. We still need to focus on increased the

number of approved absences as we have increased

this figure to almost 60%. Remember to send a note

or give the school a call if your child is away from

school. Be sure to take time over the weekend to

rest (by getting 9 hours of sleep!) and focus on being

at school every day next week. Remember, every day

counts!

Scott Duncan

Assistant Principal

2018 Enrolments

We are taking enrolments for 2018. If you would like

a school tour, please contact the office.

Enrolment forms are available from the office.

Current families are asked to please register at the

school office and collect your enrolment pack from

the office.

2018 Planning

It is important for us to have accurate enrolment

information at this time of the year as we plan for

our 2018 classes. If your child will not be attending

our school next year, can you please inform the

office as soon as possible.

Uniform

Our school uniform colours are bottle green/dark

green and white. Only grade 6 students are

permitted to wear black clothing. The black clothing

must be free of all logos. Please ensure your child’s

uniform meets the standards set out in the Uniform

policy on our website.

Mr Showbags

We have finalised orders for the showbags.

Delivery will take approximately 2 weeks.

Jelly Bean Raffle

Breakfast club is holding a Jelly Bean raffle to win a

jar of Jelly Beans. Tickets can be purchased at

Breakfast club or at the office. Tickets are $1 each

or 6 for $5.

2018 Booklists

Today every student received the 2018 Essential

Student Learning Resource information. The

Department of Education and Training (DET)

provides funding to schools through the Student

Resource Package. This means that we receive bulk

funding for the cost of the school’s educational

programs. This funding covers staff salaries,

professional development, building maintenance,

cleaning and sanitation supplies, energy,

administration and contributions to our educational

programs. Lalor East Primary School finds additional

income from sources such as fundraising and the

hire of school facilities to external organisations,

however, these funds do not meet the costs of the

quality education programs we wish to provide for

your children. Lalor East Primary School makes every

effort to keep the cost and number of items that

need to be purchased to a minimum. We also aim to

ensure that the costs are affordable for all parents.

Payments made by Monday 11 December will entitle

your child to be given a stationary pack on the first

day of school next year (Tuesday 30 January 2018).

A school stationary pack will only be issued upon

payment.

Breakfast Club is open each morning from 8:30am—

9:00am. We provide a FREE breakfast of toast,

cereal and fresh fruit for students and their families.

You can find us in the GP Room, so come along and

enjoy a nourishing breakfast before school begins.

We thank and appreciate the ongoing support from

Food Bank Vic, Bakers Delight Mernda Village,

Christina Bakery and Fare Share.

Sports Corner

Lalor travelled to Thomastown East on Friday 20

October for a morning jam packed with action. All

teams that played were inspired and brought there

A-game! We came away with a fantastic result, five

out of six wins with a draw.

The scores were:

Cricket:

Mixed Team LE: TE: Forfeit (Win due to forfeit)

Rounders:

Boys: LE: 2 TE: 1 (win)

Girls: LE: 7 TE: 7 (draw)

Bat tennis:

Boys: LE: 36 TE: 31 (win)

Girls: LE: 42 TE: 19 (win)

Softball Forfeit (win due to forfeit)

Our next game on Friday 3 November is AWAY

against St Peters.

Dean Sharples

Phys. Ed Coordinator

2.

Grade Without

Note

With

Note

Total

No.

Progressive

Total

Average

Rate/

Student

Prep 9 9 18 26 .66

1/2 18 9 27 62 .78

3/4 15 12 27 53 .53

5/6 22 15 37 94 .83

TOTAL 64 45 109 235 .70

OFFICE NEWS

3.

Parenting for Resilience by Michael Grose

Resilience has proven to be one of the most important factors in predicting success as an adult. The ability to

bounce back, regulate emotions and cope with stress are key traits in a healthy, functioning person. Resilience

also helps prevent anxiety and depression. It is something we need to be instilling in our children.

As a child’s first educators, parents can’t leave it to early learning centres, pre-schools and schools to develop

their child’s resilience. It’s something that parents need to be constantly developing. Building resilience is not a

program, but should be an approach or mindset that guides your parenting. Here are five principles/ideas that

you can easily adapt to develop a strong sense of resilience in your child.

1. Develop your child’s self-sufficiency

Self-esteem is an essential element for resilience. It teflon coats children against rejection and self-doubt. The

foundation for self-esteem is self-sufficiency. It’s the simple things such as feeding yourself as a toddler, making

your own snacks in primary school and making your own lunch in secondary school that build self-esteem.

Mastery over your own life provides a strong sense of self, which is an important piece of the resilience puzzle.

2. Allow kids to resolve their own problems

Resilience is developed when children own and resolve their own problems, whether those problems are

learning, relational or organisational challenges. A lunch left at home is a child’s problem to solve – either he

borrows or goes without. A teenager who sleeps in on a school day needs to be allowed to manage the

inconvenience of the situation, experience the stress that comes with being late and find a solution to avoid a

repeat. Look for ways to coach your kids through social, physical and learning challenges but resist the urge to

interfere or rescue kids unless it’s absolutely necessary.

3. Encourage play (and mucking around) at every age

Encourage your child to play and be playful. As a community we seem to hold little store in the value of free,

child-initiated, or even teenager-initiated, play. It’s almost as if play time is a waste of valuable learning time. As

any adult who experienced the joys of 'mucking around' as a child or young person will know, free play has huge

benefits. These include helping children manage fear, providing opportunities to negotiate risk, and learning

how to work flexibly with others. Importantly, free play and mucking around help children experience and tame

stress, which is essential for resilience.

There is always lots of talk in the media about the importance of developing resilience in children.

While we do focus on developing these skills in children at school, it is very much a partnership

between home and school. There are many simple things parents can do to help their child to develop

resilience skills including:

letting them carry their own school bag to and from school

making their bed each morning

helping with simple chores around their house.

The article form Michael Grose also has some other useful strategies and tips for parents. Enjoy!

4.

Parenting for Resilience by Michael Grose

4. Focus on face-to-face friendships

Healthy peer relationships are important protective factors against anxiety and depression for children and

young people. From a resilience perspective, peer relationships are most potent when connections are

face-to-face rather than through a digital medium. Studies are now showing how simple face-to-face social

engagement has a massive positive impact on wellbeing. Positive face-to-face engagement – a smile, a wink or

a nod – releases oxytocin, which increases trust and reduces cortisol (stress hormone). These simple

face-to-face interactions also release dopamine, which makes us feel better.

For the sake of your child’s resilience, encourage more face-to-face interactions, model healthy socialisation

and help them balance their time between the online and real worlds.

5. Tell stories of resilience

Storytelling is a powerful way of shaping children’s understanding of how the world works. According to a recent

study, children who hear stories about family members overcoming obstacles are more resilient and display

more grit in the face of challenges. The most helpful stories are those that are realistic, reflecting life’s ups and

downs. It’s often stories of difficulty rather than success that teach and inspire children to persist. Similarly, it

helps to remind children of times you worked hard in the past to overcome obstacles. These might include how

you learned to ride a bike, how you adjusted to moving schools or how you to got along with a seemingly

challenging teacher, boss or work colleague.

Perhaps the easiest way to bring resilience into your parenting is to develop a mindset for resilience. It helps to

remember the struggles and difficulties you may have experienced and be willing to keep kids’ chins up when

difficulties and challenges get them down. It’s also helpful to remind kids that things will get better. They always

do, which is a fabulous resilience lesson to learn.

WINNERS

Congratulations to

Matthew Chevelle

Jacqueline Lana

Nez

on banking 10 times and earn-

ing 10 tokens to use for rewards!

Remember you can bank as little as

50c or even bank $2!

5.

Well done to the following Students of the Week

Prep/1 Miss S Victoria

3/4 Jones Ali & Sakinah 3/4 Steph Abas

5/6 Nickson Dina & Dina 5/6 Carrocci Reuben

5/6 Campbell/Pobjoy Kasie

Literacy Dean & Ngamoni Principal Ben L

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Lalor East Primary School | 27 October 2017

Coordinator | Natalie 0411 899 910

FLASH! SNAP! SMILE! CHEESE!

The children have turned into professional photographers at OSHC this week; the children have

been encouraged to take as many artistic funny photos as possible inside and around the

playground. We have been capturing the amazing world outside, our cool creations and our silly

faces. They have been mind-blowing and often hilarious. I will be printing the photos too so we can

show case our photography skills to our families and school community.

Our other theme for the week has been Fun and Games. The children and I have enjoyed playing

fun games inside like Jenga and Pictionary, and building cool things using Lego and K-Nex. We

have turned the OSHC into a cosy, comfortable cubby house and have created different characters

with our role-playing talent. When it is a sunny afternoon, we have had a blast playing Frisbee,

cricket and tennis outside. Look out Olympics 2028. We are super stars! The children and I have

also enjoyed making our own delicious lemonade and banana smoothies YUM!

Parents: you can make a casual booking on the day. Please call the OSHC mobile on

0411 899 910 or 9464 2383. You can leave a message or send a text message. Alternatively,

you can call the office; they will direct you to OSHC too.

Don’t forget, you are most welcome to drop into the OSHC room. You might leave with a delicious

OSHC made treat. To find out more about our program and to register and book visit

www.campaustralia.com.au or call 1300 105 343.

Wednesday

Every Wednesday in term 4, Junior School Council will hold Wrapper Free Wednesday

Please come to school without any wrappers with your play lunch

or lunch. We ask you to have a wrapper free lunch box. The Junior School Councillors will be coming around to each

classroom to deliver a plastic bag for your wrappers on the day. They will then weigh each classrooms’ plastic bag.

The classroom with the lowest weight of wrappers for the week will

be awarded the Golden Garbage Bin award for the whole week. The classroom to be awarded the Gold Garbage Bin award the most times will win the catering for your end of year classroom

party paid for by JSC!

Our aim is to reduce the amount of rubbish and wrappers in our school yard and to make a positive difference to our great school.

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8.

Breakfast Club

Raffle

TICKETS: $1 EACH OR 6 FOR $5

Tickets can be purchased from Amanda at breakfast club or at the office

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