Sustainability and looking after our
environment is a big focus in our
Preschool. We are passionate about caring
for the environment and we all learn
together about what we can do to better
look after our world.
Through our learning we found that plastic
pollution is a growing problem in the
world and as a preschool we have been
looking at the effects that this can have,
particularly on our oceans.
We have set up a mock ocean habitat
which shows the children how it can affect
the oceans and the creatures that live in
it.
The children have been collecting plastic
waste they have found in and around the
school and been placing it in the mock
ocean to see what happens.
Josie our SSO, has been making cloth bags
to store fruit and other food items. This is
to discourage use of plastics, such as zip
lock bags. You might notice some of the
students from previous years may still
have their cloth bags!
Newsletter Week 10 Term 2 2020
Important Dates
20th July
Term 3 commences
Friday 14th August
School Closure Day
ICAS Competitions
Commences
Monday 17th
August
School Photo Days
Monday 31st August
Thursday 3rd
September
Friday 14th
September
Pupil Free Day
Staff TD
Preschool Activities
Student Absence or Lateness: Please Text
0476857209 prior to 9am with LPS, Student Name,
Student class, Date and Reason
Principal: Irene Scriven | Governing Council Chair: Ben Marsland
16-30 Baker Street, Littlehampton, SA 5250
T: 83911194 | F: 83982154
www.littlehamptonps.sa.edu.au
Here are just a few of the other sustainable things that we do:
Recycling and Sort Rubbish Station: Blue is for landfill, red is
for soft plastics, yellow is boxes, bottles, yoghurt tubs and
green is for fruit/veg scraps, weeds, plant waste.
Worm Farm - Fruit and vegetable scraps used in our worm
farm creates worm juice which is then used to fertilize our
garden to grow
vegetables that we then
use for cooking.
Donations: Thank you to the local businesses and families that
have sent in materials that the children are able to use for
making .
Changes have been made to the South Australian Public Health
Act 2011 (the Act) in regards to enrolment and attendance of
children to early childhood services. As from the 7th August
children will not be able to enrol or attend our Preschool
unless all immunisation requirements are met.
The Act requires:
An early childhood service must not enrol a child if all
immunisation requirements are not met.
A child cannot attend, or continue to attend, an early
childhood service if all immunisation requirements are not
met.
Early childhood services must keep a current copy of an
approved immunisation record for each child enrolled in, or
attending that service.
Approved immunisation records must be supplied by
parents/guardians to the early childhood service at
specified times.
There are some approved exemptions. Parents and guardians
should speak with their medical practitioner about whether
exemptions to being vaccinated are considered valid.
Information has been emailed to all Preschool families with
more information about the above changes. Unfortunately,
this will affect all children currently enrolled, as well as any
new enrolments. A ‘Frequently Asked Question’ sheet has also
been emailed. If you are a current Preschool family and you
have not received this information please contact the
preschool.
Preschool Activities cont…. Early Childhood Services and
Immunisation Requirements
Starting Preschool in 2021?
Do you have or know of a 3-year-old child
turning 4 before 1st May 2021 and they
live in the zone? If so please contact the
school on 8391 1194 to book a Principals
Tour.
Do you live out of the school zone?
If so please call into the school to pick up a Preschool Registration of Interest Form.
Don’t miss out!
Wacky Wonderful Wednesday
Students in Room 14 held a Wacky Wonderful Wednesday
Word Fun activity last week and students used alliterations to
write these super sentences as well as drawing some little
pictures to illustrate. Here are some of their wacky sentences
and illustrations.
William was wagging wonderful whales
and whiches
Reef the Rock star raced really rilly
likes robbing the rich
Ryder in the red race car ripping around the
rubbish bin
Awesome affectionate
Abigail awesomely had an amazing
adventure skills!
Austin the apple ate an apricot ape
at the apricot store
Magnificent meerkat Mia
marched Magnificently to
McDonald’s!!
Arizona the amazing ant astronaut
was amazed by an alligator and ants.
Talon the toy tiger teddy tripped over
A tadle
There was many other fun and wacky word fun created by
students in Room 14:
Evy the extraordinary egg eats excellent eels
Awesome Alice almost agreed to annoy the angry apes
Happy Hamish had handwriting he happily did’nt it.
Maisie the magic monkey is in a meerkat maze
Cooper carrot lived in a cabbage castle
Mia was mad and when Mia is mad Maisie is magic!!!
Bowie Big bad baboon baked big bacon badger begged
badley for big bacon
Pippa penguin played prime minister
Colourful Connor can kick a can in a castle riding a camel that
can kick a cactus eating cake at cambbra
Invincible iris ate an annoying ibis
Phoenix the parrot parachute like a pumpkin
Lilah lion launched lightning lamb literally laughing loudly
During our End of Term online Assembly the following
Principal’s awards were presented for students who have been
following our Super Seven Values:
Positive Attitude: Jayla Gatt, Alex Van der Zwaag, Bonnie Roy,
Charlie Raymond, Phoenix Stephenson, Chanel Prokopowicz,
Hamish Bailey, Archer Hawkins, Elliott Black, Maya Bowden,
Frankie Beurskens, Harry Smith, Hallie Paech, Beau Curran,
Olivia McAvaney, Nikita Sampson, Cameron Princi, Xavier
Carbray-Tann, Molly Passmore, Lily Clark, Michael Bontenakel,
Jack McAvaney, Ayden Walker, Paige McSherry, Lucy Cartland,
Astor Beurskens, Angus Neale
Being Trustworthy: Taya Kumnick, Harvey Bryant, Harry
Donaldson, Zahli Berra, Sophie Hampton.
Kindness: Chloe Engley, James White, Ayla Kalvas, James van
der Zwaag, Billie Goedecke, Mila Holt, Mitchell Durdin, Leza
van der Merwe
Respect: Gracie Semple, Jacob Bands, Jesse Duffield, Dallas
Luck, Lilly Bennett, Georgiana Carbray-Tann, Henry Watts,
Elizabeth Whalen-Cordes
Including Others: Wyatt Peterson, Georgie Parkinson
Valuing Others: Bethany Willis, Eli Beauchesne
Fairness: Jasmine Henderson
Principal’s Awards
Premiers Reading Challenge
Congratulations
We are offering optional parent/teacher interviews in Week 2 of next term, starting Monday the 27th of July. This is a good opportunity to connect with your child’s teacher and discuss learning progress and goals for the rest of year. To book an interview please go to www.schoolinterviews.com.au click on ‘Make a Booking’ and
use the code a68c2 We are still under COVID-19 restrictions and are trying to
minimize the number of people on site. We ask that where
possible, only one parent attend interviews and that toddlers
and children are kept home. School children may be asked by
the class teacher to attend the interview but please wait for
confirmation from the class teacher before bringing them
along.
Specialist subject teachers (Visual Arts, Music, Spanish & PE)
are available to discuss their child's progress at any time during
the year and they can be contacted via the Front Office.
The smooth running of our interviews relies on all parents
keeping to the timetable. Please consider other parents and
end on time. Interviews have been scheduled for 20 minute
intervals - 15 minutes with the teacher and 5 minutes for
change over so all bookings remain on schedule.
If you need more time with a particular teacher, please arrange
a separate meeting or phone call. If none of these particular
times are workable, please contact your classroom teacher
directly by email, through a note or by ringing the school and
leaving a message.
If you have any further questions with regards to parent/
teacher interviews, please contact your classroom teacher or
the Front Office on 8391 1194. Bookings for interview will
close on Wednesday July 22nd.
This term Mrs Bevan’s Year 3/4 and Sara’s Year 4 Classes have been learning about the rock cycle and researching particular rocks and landforms in Australia. The importance of effective note taking and transforming information into their own words has been a focus. Many students have engaged with the topic and shared fossil specimens and rocks from their own personal collections. We encourage the students to further develop their research skills as it is through perseverance and practice
that we grow and learn fascinating facts.
Barb O’Connor
Teacher Librarian
Over the last two weeks the
following students have finished
their Premier’s Reading Challenge.
Well done to everyone:
Ashton Muhlhausler, Warren Liu, Milan Scamoni, Bailey Grant, Max Trojan, Jack
Eckert, Charlie Stradiotto, Breanna Luxon, Harmony Schubert, Peyton Grubb, Taya Kumnick, Zahli Berra, Elsie Blakemore, Amelia Eckert, Leza Van Der Merwe, Lawson Elliott, Thomas Nunn, Ethan Schultze, Keira Trevorrow, Jack Cannon, Oliver Cooper, Austin Jones, Archie Oakes, Roman Petrie, Ollie Stradiotto, Harriette Barlow, Violet Dougan, Daisy Hickerson, Ellisa Marden, Lotti Marzonie-Thomson, Charlize Pocock, Mason Jones, Maisie Mayfield, Harper Bailey, Oliver Kain, Finn Wright, Engley, Sally Tolcher, Hayden Zadow, Rhys Batge, Nicholas Dvorak, Robert Van Der Zwaag, Billy Badenoch, Fin Gautier, Faith Stewart, Zoe Haylock, Lucy Bubner, Isla Shephard, Sharnee Carter, Gracie Semple, Liam Filmer, Cameron Princi, Hayden Zadow, Angus Neale, Emily Palmer, Marlia Reynolds, Tennessee Stephenson, Evelyn Campbell, Wade Riddle, Braxton Crudden, Emily Richardson, Billie Goedecke, Marcus Reddy, Phoenix Stephenson, Ethan Beauchesne, Harrison Cooper, Shepard Hammond, Harrison Leach, Mason Payne, Logan Pielago, Henry Weyland, Harper Bogdanowicz, Asha Herbig, Lily Hicks-Wilson, Georgia Marsland, Savanah McArthur, Oakley Reynolds, Emerson Reynolds, Talon Mayfield, Lucas Bell, Liam Thom, Jasper Carbray-Tann, Ayeesha Datson, Emily Lunnon, Evie Stewart, Siena Baugh, Jet Johnson, Rhylan Allen, Alaistair Snell, Liam Hawkins, William Innes, Caitlin Witt and Rupert Curran.
Congratulations to Dahlia Duigan who has recently been
awarded first place in a recent People’s Choice Poetry
Competition. Well done Dahlia.
Congratulations to Molly Passmore and Alex Cooper for
finishing Multi Lit.
During the holidays we are looking for families who would be able to feed the chickens and collect the eggs. Please click on the link to sign up.
https://www.signupgenius.com/
go/60B094BAEAF28A6F85-feeding1
Parent/Teacher Interviews
Beneath our feet!
Looking after our Chickens
Message from Irene
Throughout their time at Littlehampton Primary School, students may be identified as candidates for one of our Enrichment programs by their teacher.
During Semester One this year a number of students worked towards completion of various stages of the Lead Learner course, which was developed in conjunction with the Department’s Gifted and Talented Policy.
Enrichment teaching and learning is designed to add depth and breadth to curriculum areas as taught in our mainstream classes. A topics based approach is used to foster engagement and learning is programmed with reference to: Effective Learner Profiles and Visible Learning more broadly, the Positive Education PERMAH framework, the Site Improvement Plan and the General Capabilities of the Australian Curriculum.
This semester, our Stage 1 and 2 Lead Learners focused on reading comprehension and number sense in maths - whilst our senior students in Stage 3 discovered more about global humanitarian organisations, economics and business. It has been inspiring to see the ways in which students have referred to the SOLO Taxonomy to demonstrate their higher order thinking skills.
Feedback received indicated that students found the course both validating and capacity building, as they achieved individual growth by challenging existing understandings.
Looking ahead to Semester Two, students in Stage 4 of the Lead Learner program will have the chance to co-construct their assignment
rubric. The opportunity to personalise their learning and become more self-directed will be the foundation, as they learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Sustainability or Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. These topics have been selected as they are crucial to the development of the Intercultural Understanding General Capability from the Australian Curriculum.
Ms Mandy Betts, Enrichment Teacher.
Dear families,
This term has been a most unusual one. We started the last
holidays thinking we were going ahead with the majority of
students online learning, to scrambling at the end of the
holidays, preparing to return to some form of normal with a
majority of students back face to face learning. I want to
congratulate our school staff for handling these major
disruptions in a professional and collaborative manner. Thank
you also to our students for their resilience and grit in
embracing the changes to their learning environment and the
way they supported their teachers through this whole period.
Lastly, thank you to you, our families for the continuous
support of the school and your children. It makes our lives that
much easier when families are also supporting their children to
cope with change and upheaval. It has been, and will continue
to be, a very interesting time we are all living through. Please
take the time over the school holidays to relax and chill with
your family. Stay safe and warm.
Take care, Irene
Enrichment at Littlehampton PS
Semester 1 Lead Learners