andReading and Writing Non Fiction Text. Staff are involved on a regular basis in a range of professional learning opportunities. This ranges from curriculum to health and wellbeing to welfare. Last we ek staff members updated their Level 2 First Aid qualifications. Staff have First Aid Thursday Thoughts Launching Place Primary School Issue 24 Newsletter Date 31st July 2014 Important Dates:July 31st 100 days in Prep 31st Grade 1/2 Camp ugust 1st 100 days in Prep Celebrations 1st Grade 1/2 Camp 9th National Aerobics Comp 19th School Council 7pm September 3rd Wheelathon Whole School Student Absent Hot Line Number 5964 7783 also completed several units of study related to Occupational Health and Safety. We would like to thank staff for their willingness to ‘go the extra mile’ to ensure that they can provide the best possible care to students at all times.Last Friday staff attended a very productive curriculum day. Our work with educational consultant Lyn Watts continued, as we explored further ways to personalise learningfor all of our students. A major focus for the day was on Social Problem SolvingCurriculum Day It was an extremely worthwhile day and we look forward to welcoming Lyn back in term 4, where she will meet with the leadership team and attend a staff meeting where we will reflect on the project. on the 4 th August every year. It is a time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to celebrate the strengths and culture of their children. The day is an opportunity for all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal children, as well as learn about the crucial impact Children’s Day 2014When:August 4 th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s day is celebrated across Australia National Aboriginal and T orres Strait Islander that community, culture and family play in the life of every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child.
Staff are involved on aregular basis in a range of professional learningopportunities. This
ranges from curriculum tohealth and wellbeing towelfare. Last week staffmembers updated theirLevel 2 First Aidqualifications. Staff have
First Aid
Thursday Thoughts
L a u n c h i n g P l a c e P r i m a r y S c h o o l
Issue 24
Newsletter Date 31st July 2014
Important Dates:
July
31st
100 days in Prep
31st
Grade 1/2 Camp
ugust
1st
100 days in Prep
Celebrations
1st
Grade 1/2 Camp
9th
National Aerobics
Comp
19th
School Council 7pm
September
3rd
Wheelathon
Whole School
Student Absent
Hot Line Number5964 7783
also completed severalunits of study related toOccupational Health andSafety. We would like to
thank staff for theirwillingness to ‘go theextra mile’ to ensure thatthey can provide the best possible care to students
at all times.
Last Friday staff attended a
very productive curriculumday. Our work witheducational consultant LynWatts continued, as weexplored further ways to personalise learning for allof our students. A majorfocus for the day was onSocial Problem Solving
Curriculum DayIt was an extremely
worthwhile day and welook forward towelcoming Lyn back interm 4, where she willmeet with the leadershipteam and attend a staffmeeting where we willreflect on the project.
on the 4th August every
year.
It is a time for Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islanderfamilies to celebrate thestrengths and culture oftheir children. The day isan opportunity for allAustralians to show theirsupport for Aboriginalchildren, as well as learn
about the crucial impact
Children’s Day 2014
When: August 4th
National Aboriginal andTorres Strait IslanderChildren’s day is
celebrated across Australia
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderthat community, cultureand family play in the lifeof every Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander
engaging program for our 2015Preps. We look forward to futurevisits and trust that the program willgo a long way in assisting our‘newest’ school members with their
transition into Primary School.
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Launching Place Primary School Carter Street Launching Place 3139 Telephone 5964 7783 Fax 5964 6171 Email [email protected]
ABN 96 199 518 803
Transition
Some Facts -
Currently we have 111 usersincluding staff. Most people are
multi users.
Foundation – 26 users
Year 1/2 – 53 users
Year 34 – 59 users
Year 5/6 – 42 users
TiqBiz is a school app for parent
communication that we have beentrialling this year. Tiqbiz is flexibleand can be used to send updates,events, photos and reminders. All posts are sent with a pushnotification. Some parents aresending a record of their child’s
absence via the app.
Grounds Update
Parents and Friends – 58 users
School Council – 7 users
Feedback has been positive. If youhaven’t already signed up to thesmartphone or computer app, andwould like to, please see the office
for details.
Our Prep (Foundation) transition program commenced last week withan open afternoon held last Friday.Transition sessions are a greatintroduction to Primary School lifeand offer a comprehensive and
Our Active After School Program iscontinuing this term. We are runninga BASKETBALL session onWednesday afternoons andSOCCER on Thursdays. Theresponse to the program has once
again been overwhelming. Numbers
Active After School Program
are limited to 25 participants persession so unfortunately somechildren have missed out. All effortsare made to ensure that students aregiven the chance to participate atleast once throughout the year.
Thank you for your understanding.
This week we have had a confirmedcase of mumps in the 3/4 area.Mumps causes fever, headache andinflammation of the salivary glands.Please follow the link below formore information.
construct situations where kids haveto get on with each other. For somekids “Go outside and play” is a good
place to start!!
2. Play with your kids: Interact withyour kids through games and other
means so you can help kids learndirectly from you how to get on with
others.
3. Talk about these skills: If younotice your kids need to developsome of these skills then talk aboutthem, point out when they show themand give them some implementation
ideas.
Kids are quite ego-centric and need todevelop a sense of ‘other’ so they can
….. and finally, have a wonderful daytomorrow Preps, celebrating 100 days
of school.
Regards
Narelle Messerle and Debbie Hobbis
Please Note: That other advertisements and publications published in this newsletter do not imply school or Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development endorsement.
Camp
Today students in grades one andtwo went off to Adanac Camp inYarra Junction. For our youngerstudents this is often the first timethat they have been away from homefor the night. This can sometimes
be a daunting prospect, but rest
assured, the teachers andaccompanying staff take every possible step to ensure that the ‘campexperience’ is one that all studentswill enjoy. There is a comprehensivelist of daytime activities planned, aswell as a movie night for Thursdaynight. Staff will keep families up todate on TiqBiz . We will be lookingforward to hearing about the manyadventures when the students return
to school on Monday.
Twelve Friendship Skills Every Child Needs
This week’s newsletter continueswith our focus on Childhood
Friendships. Further information by
Michael Grose can be found at:
http://www.parentingideas.com.au/
Home
Kids can be picky about who they play and mix with. Popularityshould not be confused withsociability. A number of studies inrecent decades have shown thatappearance, personality type andability impact on a child’s popularity at school. Easy-going,talented kids usually win peer popularity polls but that doesn’tnecessarily guarantee they will have
friends.
Those children and young peoplewho develop strong friendships havea definite set of skills that help makethem easy to like, easy to relate to
and easy to play with.
Here are twelve essential skills thatchildren have identified as beingimportant for making and keeping
friends:
1. Ability to share possessions and
space
2. Keeping confidences and secrets
3. Offering to help
4. Accepting other’s mistakes
5. Being positive and enthusiastic
6. Starting a conversation
7. Winning and losing well
8. Listening to others 9. Starting and maintaining a
conversation
10. Ignoring someone who is
annoying you
11. Cooperating with others
12. Giving and receiving
compliments
Friendship skills are generallydevelopmental. That is, kids grow
into these skills given exposure todifferent situations and with adult
help.
Here are some ideas if you thinkyour child experiencesdevelopmental delay in any of theseessential skills or just needs some
help to acquire them:
1. Encourage or insist that kids
play and work with each other:
Allowing kids the freedom to bekids is part of the message here but
groups. We have continued to look at place value in Maths, and have started tolook at money. We have also beenlooking at how drawing a picture canhelp us to solve problems. We havecontinued to work on our Thinkers KeysCommonwealth Games projects andhave shared newspaper articles on the
Commonwealth Games in class.
Grade 5/6: We had a great day
representing LPPS at the Round Robinsports day. We had lots of fun and triedour best. We are getting excited about production. In Maths we have beenlearning about decimals and percentagesand we will be looking at measurementthis week. We are enjoying learningabout different types of poetry. We havewritten great Haikus and cinquains.
Principal: Our focus since coming backfrom the holidays has been on being polite with each other ‘Put Ups and Putdowns’. The teachers had a great
Professional Development session onFriday. We learnt about social problem
solving and Authentic (Real) Writing.
School Captain’s Report Prep: We have been enjoying readingwith a partner and with our book box.Our Café stragetegy for the week has been ‘I pause at a full stop’ whenreading. We revised the letter X andenjoyed ‘Wonderful WednesdayWriting’. In Maths we made towers often and matched them to numbers. Welearnt about capacity. We are reallylooking forward to having chicks in ourroom.
Grade 1/2: In 1/2 we have looked at theCafé strategies of choosing good fit books and determining word parts andmeanings. In writing we are looking atwriting persuasively on the topic ofwearing helmets when riding bikes. InIS, we talked about ways to be safewhen riding bikes. We started mathsgroups on data and graphs and havecontinued looking at fractions. We aregetting super excited about camp!
Grade 3/4: This week we have looked at
the Café strategy ‘Make a picture ormental image’ and also discussed howwe could use a dictionary to expand ourvocabulary. We have started to write our News Reports on our holidays in our
Aussie of the Month
for July
Chelsey H (Junior) Sam D
Aussie of the Month is a citizenship award where children are nominated andvoted for by the staff. It is designed to recognize students who consistentlydisplay a positive attitude to their work and who relate to staff, fellow students
and the wider community in a respectful, caring and co-operative way.
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