Week 4 Term 3 2015 Phone 42292487 Fax 42283145 Email lindsaypk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

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06.08.2015

On Monday, 27th July, Stage 2 went on an excursion to Royal National Park. The chil-

dren were given a very informative talk on the flora and fauna found in the park fol-

lowed by a bushwalk down the Honeymoon track to the river where they had lunch

and participated in a number of different activities. Special thanks to Mrs Jill Bell,

mother of Joseph Bell (3/4D) and her co-workers, at the National Park Education cen-

tre, for helping to make the day both educational and enjoyable for students and staff.

Last week members of the SRC and Mr. Cusack aided by Mr. Lochhead, planted 12 new

shrubs and trees in Lindsay Park grounds. We hope the new plantings will bring enjoyment

to our Lindsay Park families now and in the future. We are committed to maintaining our

beautiful school environment for our children and also for the beautiful Australian wildlife

that we are lucky to have in residence.

On Wednesday, 12th August, Year 6 is holding a Mufti Day to raise funds for

the year 6 gift to the school at the end of the year. Students can wear their fa-

vourite team colours. Gold coin donation required.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

PIKELETS, PAPER PLANES AND POPCORN

Last Friday, the school community launched its Kidsmatter Program with a ‘Pikelets, Paper Planes and Popcorn’ afternoon. Congrat-

ulations to our P&C and staff for their hard work in organizing and running this very successful event. Through the planned activi-

ties on the afternoon we were able to showcase elements of the program. Over the next twelve months you will here much about

Kidsmatter at Lindsay Park and I would encourage you to use this link https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au to learn more about the pro-

gram if you have not already done so.

NAIDOC WEEK

On Thursday the school held its NAIDOC Week assembly. I am proud to say that Charlotte one of our Year 5 students delivered the

NAIDOC Week Assembly Address. Following the assembly, all of our students were involved in a range of Indigenous Games led

by our Senior Students.

COMMEMORATIVE TREE PLANTING

On Friday, in commemoration of the Centenary of the August Offensive on Gallipoli that included such battles as Lone Pine the

student leaders, accompanied by Mr. Doug Johnson of the Wollongong RSL sub branch, will plant a gum tree in the western area of

our playground. This tree will form a centre piece of the Australian Native Garden that is being developed in that area.

INTERRELATE

Next Thursday, the school will be hosting Interrelate to present two key programs for our students. Quoting from the Interrelate web-

site:

‘Interrelate has been teaching sexuality and relationship education in NSW schools for over 80 years. We have a reputation for non-

discriminatory and open teaching on sensitive issues including sexuality, gender identity, bullying awareness and respectful relation-

ships.

Our highly trained and skillful presenters deliver a range of programs to assist children and parents to communicate with each other

about fundamental emotional and social development issues.

Interrelate has the acknowledgement of government, education and health authorities to provide relationship education in schools

throughout NSW.’

If you are interested in having your child participate in the event please complete the permission note and return it with the cost of

the activity to the School Office.

VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP

On Monday the school hosted a visual arts workshop for the Figtree Community of Schools. This Year 5 to 8 activity was Lindsay

Park’s contribution to the Community of Schools Enrichment Program. The students had a very successful day and we look forward

to the next activity in the program of enrichment activities.

FIGTREE HIGH SCHOLARSHIP

Each year Figtree High School offers a scholarship for a student in Year 6 who will be attending Figtree High next year. The scholar-

ship covers a lot of the expenses of a student in their first year of secondary education. If your child is attending Figtree High next

year and you would like to apply for the scholarship please obtain an application form from the Administration Office.

VOLUNTARY SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS

I have been asked about how the funds that are raised from the Volunteer School Contribution that are used at Lindsay Park. The

school has over the last two years had a significant focus on the Visual Arts and the funds raised have provided a comprehensive

range of resources for the students to draw upon. As well, we are constantly adding to the stock of books for the students to borrow

from the Library, the majority of which are acquired through funds raised through the Voluntary School Contribution.

LUNCHTIME PROGRAMS

Last Tallong I wrote about the Writing Program that operates at the school. In this edition I wish to talk about the Lunchtime Pro-

grams that are in operation at Lindsay Park. The program is designed to offer a broad range of activities so as to appeal to as wide a

group of students as possible and to offer opportunities for our students to interact with a staff and students in a social setting as well

as furthering their interests and skills. The nature of the activity or specific targeting by the staff means that a lunchtime activity they

can be designed for specific grades, group of grades or the whole school. They may operate all year as in the Library and the Com-

puter Laboratory or operate for a specific period of time as in the Handball Competition. Lunchtime activities are organized on a

voluntary basis by the students, for example the SRC running the Handball Competition or senior students such as Robbie with the

Chess Club or by the Staff. At the time of writing we are offering:

Library, Art Group, Orchestra, Handball Competition, Chess Club & Knitting

From next week on, we will also offer a Homework Club with a staff member on Thursdays to assist students with

their homework. The Lunchtime Programs are an example of the Kidsmatter initiative at work in our school.

COMING EVENTS

Thursday 13th August Interrelate 6pm-7pm & 7.15pm-8.15pm

Friday 28th August Southern Stars Performance for students who have bought tickets

Thursday 3rd September Book Week Parade

Monday 31st August-

Friday 4th September

Book Week Celebrations

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

KT Grace Johnson, Tex Usher

KC Finn Ardita, Sasha Ueda

KM Flynn Pratt, Flynn Whalan

1W Laura Burford, Ayden Di Fiori

1/2S Bailey Mather, Charlotte Taddeo

1D Paige McGrath, Liam Hall

2A Ella Cabo, Lincoln Jones

2W Zali Bellerby, Charlet Young, Cooper White, Natalia Schott

3/4M Michael Boleyn, Ayla Holmes, Georgia Levy

3/4L Iesha Pavlevski, Trey Thompson

3/4D Ezekiel Kennedy, Charlie Sun, Charlotte Nagy, Jonte Wonson

4/5H -

5/6J Sami Benten, Shawnie Boggiss, Celal Gunes, Murphy Fairen

5/6C -

Enrolments for 2016 are now due. If you have a child who will be commencing school in 2016, please col-

lect an enrolment form from the office, complete it and return it as soon as possible.

If you have neighbours who are also in the same position, you may either collect an extra form from the

office or refer them to the school.

We will be holding our annual

Book Week Parade

on Thursday, 3rd

September There will be other Library activities

during the week, Monday 31st Au-

gust - Friday 4th September. There

will also be a Book Fair where chil-

dren will be able to purchase books

(more information to come.)

Start planning your costume now.

You can dress up as your favourite

book character or you may choose to

dress up as carnival/circus character

to tie in with this years fete theme. SECOND HAND UNIFORMS

If you have any school jackets that are in good condi-

tion and no longer fit your children, we would greatly

appreciate it if you could bring them in to the office so

we can add them to our uniform pool. Due to the cold

weather we have run out of jackets.

2015 CWPSSA Athletics Carnival

The Lindsay park public school athletics team competed at the CWPSSA Athletics Carnival this term. Miss

Horobin and Mr Jones were impressed with the team's talent, effort and determination to succeed over the

two days. The team finished a very close third on the overall scoreboard which is a fantastic achievement

with lots of schools competing.

Lindsay Park are very happy to congratulate the following people for qualifying to attend the South Coast

SAA Athletics Carnival in Canberra:

Ella Cabo - 2nd 8yrs 100m

Daniel Meafou - 2nd 9yrs 100m

Joel Bower - 3rd 9 yrs. 100m

Amelia Martin - 3rd 9yrd 100m and 2nd junior high jump

Riley Calwell - 2nd 11yrs 800m

Harry Hobbs - 1st in 11yrs shot put and 1st in 11yrs discus

Tate Harland - 2nd senior long jump, 2nd senior shot put and 1st senior discus

The Senior Boys 100m relay, consisting of Tate Harland, Aaron Leussink, Liam Arnold and Riley Caldwell,

finished 1st.

A special congratulations to Tate Harland who is the 2015 Senior Age Champion.

Well done to everyone who competed in the carnival and good luck to those who are competing in Canberra.

Michael Williams

Thank you to all of the families who came to our Kids Matter launch on Friday afternoon. It

was certainly well attended, and it was great to see people of all ages making paper aeroplanes,

eating popcorn and pikelets.

Kids Matter Primary is a flexible whole-school approach to children’s mental health and well-

being for primary schools. It works both on its own and as an umbrella under which school’s

existing programs can comfortably fit.

KidsMatter is a national initiative that aims to contribute to:

Improving student mental health and well being

Reducing mental health difficulties amongst students

Increasing support for students experiencing mental health difficulties

Kids Matter Primary provides the proven methods, tools and support to help schools, parents

and carers, health services and the wider community nurture happy, balanced kids.

CHESS CLUB

The Chess Club has officially started and it has been a great addition to the school. The Chess Club is an activity that is on

Wednesday lunch times in the library. The program allows children to come and play chess. We are also beginning to get

tournament sign-ups. We Hope you can come along too. Thank you to Robbie VanDenberg (5/6C) for putting so much time

and effort into getting this up and running.

SANDPIT

The sandpit is now open for K-2 students at lunchtime. It will be open Monday-Friday.

HANDBALL

The Handball Tournament has begun and it has been great fun. Finals will be held in week 4.We would also like to thank eve-

ryone involved so far, for their sportsmanship and encouragement towards other teams.

BUDDY BENCHES

The Buddy Benches have arrived and they will be launched in the next couple of weeks.

The SRC had an open meeting on Tuesday, and there were lots of great ideas shared.

TREE PLANTING

The SRC also planted some trees around the school, so look out for them as you are walking around the school!

Neve Walker, Publicity Officer for the SRC

Tamika Thompson Wade Bower Gabriel Taylor

Chamberlain

Kai van Zanen Sebastian Brodie Charlie Fisher

Annabel Riggs

James Burlin Andy Brinton Joel Bower Genevieve Brodie Asher Reys Dante Freitas Ryan Monkman

Harper wales Mitchell

Wilson

Lorrelai Schott Harnor Tung Nina Murakami -

Mozer

Keerit Kaur Angela

McMurtrie

Lincoln Jones Emily Morrison Kiano Jackson Jude Taylor-

Chamberlain

Grace Johnson Zali Moore Cameron Hynds

Jem Benten Khaya Young Lily Brinton Amber Young Ashleigh Barlow Michael Boleyn Lucy crisp

Jack Cooper Maddy

McGrath

Nevis Elliott Makayla

Panayiotou

Keegan Whitten Alyssa

Monkman

Maeve Whitten

Zahra Freeman Emelia

Graovac

Ronan whitten Sami Benten Lily Christian Rose Belarski Charlotte Ring

Harnoor KaurTung Gabi Fisher Liam Hall Billie Elliott Maya Serrano Mia Szczur Cohen

Armstrong

Isabella McGuire Kobi Newdick Thomas

Panayiotou

Alana Graovac Miriam Bell Sarah Walker Max McGuire

Thomas Riggs Ivy Owen Alyssa Burlin Olivia Betts William

Johnstone

Jared Crisp Orlando Betts

Luke McMurtrie Axel Moore Jason Teasdale

The children listed below have all finished the Premier’s Reading Challenge, 2015. Well done to all of

you., your photo is on the board in the library

If you still haven’t finished yours, there is still time, so get stuck into reading now!

You’re invited….

Come along and join in, all students

are welcome. We meet every Wednes-

day, at lunchtime in the Library.

MILO CRICKET

In2CRICKET PROGRAM

Keira Cricket Club will be holding two registration days for their MILO In2Crick-et Program and Junior Competition at: Wiseman Park Bowling Club (Foleys Road, Gwynneville) Saturday 22nd & Saturday 29th August,

Further information can be found on our website - http://keiracc.nsw.cricket.com.au/or by emailing: jamespir-ie@exemail.com.au

Do you need FIREWOOD for these

cold Winter nights?

Special price for

Lindsay Park people,

just $80 per

6x4 box trailer load.

PICK UP ONLY

Call David on :0412 546 541