Waikerie Lutheran Primary School is a supportive Christ-centred community, equipping each student for life.

Message from the Principal

Hard work, commitment and struggle are all part of the learning journey

What an awesome show the kids put on for concert last

Thursday! As I mentioned to the students, practising a

performance to perfect it takes many efforts and a lot of

commitment. The staff are very proud of how all students

made a great effort towards perfecting their individual roles in

each performance for concert night.

As staff, we work hard to get students to apply the

commitment they showed during concert practise to their everyday work. If

you can watch the video link below, the teacher talks about the struggle of

learning. She encourages students to critique one another’s thinking and

highlights that problems can be solved in different ways. She normalises

struggle in her classroom so students don’t feel bad if they don’t

understand.

On Thursday night we witnessed students who enjoyed the end result of their

hard work. In class, we are also championing students to be committed and

disciplined so they will also enjoy the results of their hard work in other areas

of the curriculum.

In this clip, the teacher is attacking the Maths curriculum. She asks her

students how they feel and they respond “good” because “we’re working

hard.” In a concert reflection in the 4/5 classroom, the same type of

comment was passed: “I felt great on the night because our hard work paid

off”. In this classroom, you can see and hear the kids making the learning

connection!!

Video to view: http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/24/growth-mindset-

how-to-normalize-mistake-making-and-struggle-in-class/

Blessings on your week

Adam Borgas

Monday, 7th September 2015

Newsletter

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

Balanced Caring

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

6 McIntosh St

Waikerie SA 5330

Ph: (08) 8541 2344

Fax: 8541 2140

Email: office@wlps.sa.edu.au

Website: www.wlps.sa.edu.au

Principal: Adam Borgas

Communicator Inquirer Knowledgeable Open-Minded Principled Reflective Risk Taker Thinker

Term 3 Calendar

Week 8

Mon 7 Sept

Thur 10 Sept

Fri 11 Sept

8:50am Assembly

THRASS Workshops

8:50am Chapel

Soup Lunch Day

7:00pm Family Movie

Night at Social Centre

Week 9

Mon 14 Sept

Tue 15 Sept

Thur 17 Sept

Fri 18 Sept

8:50am Assembly

Specialist Lessons

9:40am Performance

Exhibition & Student

Led Conference

Riverland Field Days

No buses

YEL Forum at Field Days

Week 10

Mon 21 Sept

Fri 25 Sept

8:50am Assembly

Closing Chapel

School concludes at

2:20pm

Week 1

Mon 12 Oct

8:50am Opening

Chapel

Week 2

Mon 19 Oct

Fri 23 Oct

8:50am Assembly

8:50am Chapel

WWLPS Mobile No. : 0457265337

Lutheran Worship

Sunday, 13th September

Waikerie: 9:00am HC

Lowbank: 9:00am

Ramco: 10:30am HC & Baptism

Morgan: 9:00am

Parish Office: 8541 2689

Visiting Pastor: Len Tscharke

Acting Office Manager: Carmel Wuttke

Birthdays This Week

Tiana Burns

8th September

Term 4 Calendar

Premier’s Reading Challenge Congratulations to the following students on completing the 2015 Premier’s Reading

Challenge:

Foundation: Adele Arnold, Lacey Borg, Sam Borgas, Jarvis Ebert, Kiara Gore, Eden

Hensel, Taylah Liebich, Marni Lloyd, Evie Matthews, Levi Milton, Hamish Paschke and

Addison Schmidt.

F/1: Hailey Arnold, Teni Balogun, Hannah Carter, Gemma Gay, Aiden Gelston, Levi Hull, Megen

Mihalopoulos, Abbigail Neal, Ashmitha Ramesh, Thivyan Ramesh, Monique Weir, Elizabeth White

and Alicia Wood.

Year 2/3 Fladrich: Ellie Bald, Grace Borgas, Mischa Connelly, Jackson Kuchel, Natalie Mackintosh,

Emily McPherson, Angelos Myer, Isabella Paschke, Hugh Thomas, Flynn Andrew, Brodie Baring, Amity

Burns, Mark Carter, Byron Childs, Brodie Fechner, Syrus Hensel, Latia Loffler, Aaron Schmidt, Charlotte

Werner & Courtney Wood.

Year 2/3 Fuss: Matilda Bishop, Marco Camerlengo, Olivia Ebert, Dana Hurst, Hamish Kroehn, Verity

Mee, Amali Nitschke, Ethan Rayner, Kyesha Watkins, Derlerean Bell, Rachel Beard, Makaylah Childs,

James Gelston, Ellen Kroehn, Malachi Lloyd, Chloe McPherson, Aby Mihalopoulos, Gemma

Simpfendorfer, Emma Thiel, William Weir and Yvette Weston.

Year 4/5: Felicity Arnold, Brodie Bishop, Haylee Gore, Taylah Gore, Lucy Kroehn, Grady Mason, Naish

Andrew, Tara Balogun, Luke Kroehn, Aaliyah Loffler, Chloe Nitschke, William Shugg, Jed Thiel and

Stella Thomas.

Year 6/7: Chanidu Fernando, Noah Hensel, Alicia Kroehn, Will Mihalopoulos, Bailee Pretty-Forrester,

Kyton Rayner, Matthew Schmidt, Ellie Mihalopoulos, Oscar Page, Mitchell Rayner and Katie Shugg.

Uniform Changeover As the weather is starting to warm up,

children may now wear their summer

uniform. Please do not mix and match the summer and winter uniforms, only

full summer or full winter uniforms must

be worn (E.g. no tights with summer

dress).

Student Led Conferences Thank you to those parents who have returned

the Student Led Conference Interview Sheet.

Please return your form to the classroom teacher

by this Wednesday, 9th September.

THRASS Parent Workshop There will be a parents THRASS

workshop held this Thursday, 10th

September commencing at 7:00pm.

Mrs Sue Beelitz will be holding a

session for the Foundation parents

and Mr Borgas will be holding a

session for other year levels. All welcome.

Scholastic Book Club Please note that orders for the current

issue of Scholastic Book Club are due

back to school this Friday, 11th

September.

Specialist Lessons Please note that specialist lessons (PE & Music)

will be held on Monday, 14th September due to

a scheduled performance. Students in all classes

(except Mr Braun’s) are asked to wear their PE

uniforms that day.

No Buses Please note that there will be no buses

running next Friday, 18th September due

to Waikerie High and Waikerie Primary

having a student free day for the

Riverland Field Days.

Premier’s Be Active Challenge Congratulations to Eden Hensel and Taylah

Kuchel on completing the Be Active Challenge

this week.

School News

THRASS Session

Prayers

Thank God for our dedicated teaching and

support staff who work hard to educate and

care for our students.

Pray for healing for those who are

recovering from an injury, operation or

illness this week.

Families In Our Prayers

Milton

Mudge

Myer

Neal

Nitschke

School News Continued….

Thank You

On Tuesday, We had very few students out of 120 that were not in full formal uniform for

photo day. That meant that four classes proudly had their photo taken in perfect

uniform! This also the meant the office staff had one less job to do that morning. It also

allowed teachers to fill in minimal paperwork for the class photographs, allowing them

to enjoy the opportunity to praise their students for their organisation and commitment

to wearing their uniform with pride.

Thank you to parents, who support the students and the school in this part of school life. We

appreciate your support.

Master Plan Conclusion

On the 16th September at 6pm, you are invited to listen to Peter Moeck and myself as

we summarise the Master Planning process that school council and Peter have

undertaken during the past 9 months. The process is a visionary exercise that has

been undertaken to foresee what facilities are potentially needed within the next 30

Years. The school wisely has based this 30 Year master plan on catering for the needs of the current

student population of 120 students, with view to extra classrooms being added to the Master plan

as needed. Please RSVP to the office by 14th of September (Monday, week 9).

Congratulations Vampire van Niekerk!

At the end of concert, there was the Monster Mash Jib Jab show, of which Mrs van Niekerk’s face

foiled a few kids who thought they knew all of the staff by sight!!

Mrs van Niekerk recently applied for a grant to attend the Australian School Business

Manager’s conference in Perth. She has been successful in this application and so our

school has been awarded $2500 towards expenses for her to attend this conference. Well

done Hannelie, we know you will take advantage of this great learning opportunity.

NAPLAN results

Today, NAPLAN results will be delivered to parents by students. These envelopes have

been addressed to parents and students have been reminded about being

respectful in delivering this envelope unopened.

Staff, parents and students, through contributions to our learning support review, are developing a

mantra of all students and families working to ‘shift our actual performance closer to our God given

potential’. This has been supported by a school improvement in spelling and numeracy results. The

only real way that staff and parents can interpret these results (and the way that we have always

advocated) is to read them in relation to your individual child.

In the school holidays, Mr Borgas is meeting with our AISSA consultant, Mary Pickett and their

NAPLAN consultant Desiree Gilbert. This will enable him to learn from our NAPLAN results in relation

to other like schools and in reading the longitudinal trends for our school in this data for the decade

that NAPLAN has been operating.

From the Business Manager

Good day Parents/ Caregivers,

Thank you for your commitment and support to Waikerie Lutheran Primary School.

Statements - August 2015 statements will be send home during the week.

Direct Debits - WLPS is now able to do direct debit deductions from your for school fees. Please contact me if

you want the school to do the direct debits on your behalf, if you did not made previous arrangements in this

regard.

Uniform - Week 8, 9, 10 (the next 3 weeks) your child is able to wear either winter or summer attire because of

the change of season. Please note that you still need to ensure that your child do wear the correct school

uniform for the correct day on the timetable.

Hannelie van Niekerk

Business Manager

Corner of Peace I recently came across this modern parable:

“A rich artist decided to create something special for the city he loved. For many years he quietly

worked on various masterpieces. He then built a wondrous gallery and filled it with his art. Finally,

he opened his gallery free to the public and sat back to watch their reaction. Soon word spread

and people came in droves. They toured the collection and exclaimed the wonder of the

artworks within. However, the artist was quite disappointed! You see, none of the public wondered

about the artist or gave him any credit. For some strange reason they thought the wondrous

gallery had come into existence by itself and the artworks had just randomly appeared.”

Very appropriate, I thought, for this time of year. For me it is my very favourite time of year with

delights to all my senses in abundance. We are surrounded by the wonders of nature coming alive

in beauty and in amazing ways, as it does reliably each year in spring. However, how often do we

actually give thought, or credit, to the even more amazing Creator of this entire incredible

splendor?

Psalm 111 exhorts us in verses 2, 3 and 10: 2How amazing are the deeds of the Lord! All who delight

in him should ponder them. 3Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty. His righteousness

never fails. 10Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true wisdom.

Fear here is respect and awe (reverence) not terror or horror.

Psalms 19:1 also states: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His

handiwork.

As we have just recently (and indeed rightly) thanked and remembered our earthly

fathers this Father’s Day, we could also give a thought of gratitude to our Heavenly Father for all He

has given us as well.

God bless

Moira

Chaplain

Year 6/7 Exhibition Soup Day One of the Year 6/7 Exhibition Groups consisting of

Mia, Sam, Chloe and Kyton will be holding a soup

day for lunch to raise money for people who are af-

fected by homelessness. This Soup Day is part of their

research for Exhibition.

Please bring your own cup & spoon.

Date: Friday, 11th September 2015

Cost: $2 with bread.

Soup Available: Pumpkin, Tomato & Chicken Soup.

If you have any questions, please contact any of us.

Thankyou

Mia, Sam, Chloe and Kyton

Bottles, Cans & Juice

Boxes Wanted!!

During the next three weeks, the

Sustainability Group for Exhibition

would like you to donate your old

bottles, cans and juices boxes

into the bin in the front office.

We are looking at recycling as part

of our research into Sustainability.

Thank you for your

assistance.

Alicia, Matthew, Oscar,

Trey-Kai and Will

6/7 Exhibition - TV to borrow

The 6/7 class are looking for 5 small TV’s to borrow for Exhibition night so

they can use them to display their movies. If you have a TV with a USB

port that you would happily lend the class, could you please let Mrs

Waterson or the office know.

Thank you

Student of the Week Awards

Teaching children about our Skills: Communication, Research, Social, Thinking and Self

Management skills provides them with the tool kit for successfully relating with others. As a way of

celebrating the demonstration of these skills by students, staff have elected these students this

week.

Year 6/7 Class

Research Skills - Justice Ebert. Justice has demonstrated some excellent

research skills in Exhibition, identifying some factors that contribute to

mental concerns and homelessness. Well done

Self Management Skills - Matthew Schmidt. Matthew has demonstrated

excellent self-management skills when returning from his Exhibition

mentor session. He was focused and on-track with his inquiry. Well done

Year 4/5

Self Management Skills - Brodie Bishop. Brodie has continued to develop

his ability to take risks and begin writing tasks independently this year.

Keep up the positive effort and attitude Brodie!

Communication Skills - Stella Thomas. Stella demonstrated strong, clear

articulation of her lines during her concert performance. Great Job Stella

Year 2/3 Fuss

Communication Skills - Rachel Beard. Rachel has been committed and

focused during concert practice this week. She learnt her cup part

thoroughly and has worked hard to perfect her part. Well done!

Research Skills - Gemma Simpfendorfer. Gemma worked really hard

preparing her News time. She collected data about living things and

presented her information as a PowerPoint. Well done!

Year 2/3 Fladrich

Self Management Skills - Natalie Mackintosh. Natalie is well organised for

each lesson and has applied herself well during our Unit of Inquiry tasks.

Well done Natalie!

Social Skills - Grace Borgas. Grace worked cooperatively and made

compromises when working in a group to research past indigenous

technologies. Well done Grace!

Foundation/Year 1

Communication Skills - Ashmitha Ramesh. Ashmitha demonstrated

awesome communication skills throughout concert practice and

performance. I was very impressed with her outfit and the effort she put

into her costume to look like a mum. Well done!

Communication Skills - Megen Mihalopoulos. Megen showed great

communication skills when performing on concert night. I loved her

dance moves and her enthusiasm and attitude towards her

performance. Fantastic job Megen!

Foundation

Communication Skills - Taylah Liebich. Taylah is enjoying being able to

write lengthy pieces of work, using and increasing number of correct

graphemes.

Self-Management Skills - Levi Milton. Levi showed great risk-taking skills in

his ability to learn his lines for concert, share the stage space and play

his role effectively.

Little Athletics

Come n Try Session Friday, 11th September and

Friday, 18th September at 5pm - $5 per child.

For more information please contact Vicki

Schmidt on 0438 893 015

Waikerie Basketball Club will

be holding Player registrations

at the Waikerie Community

Sports Centre on Wednesday,

S e p t e m b e r 9 t h a n d

Wednesday, September 16th

from 3.30-5.30pm.

This is for player registration only (not

training) for the Riverland, local and

Aussie Hoops competitions.