Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

6 McIntosh Street

Waikerie SA 5330

Phone: 08 8541 2344

Mobile: 0457 265 377

Principal: Adam Borgas

www.wlps.sa.edu.au

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

TERM 3

Week 4

Tues 14th Aug

Wed 15th Aug

Fri 17th Aug

School LLL Banking

OT Info Session 5pm-6pm

Science Performance

8:50am Chapel

No Buses

Week 5

20-24th Aug

Mon 20th Aug

Tues 21st Aug

Thur 24th Aug

Fri 25th Aug

Book Week

8:50am Assembly

School LLL Banking

9am Book Week Parade

1:50pm Chapel

Student Free Day/School

Closure for staff PD

Week 6

Mon 28th Aug

Wee 29th Aug

Fri 31 Aug

8:50am Assembly

Yr 3/4 Class to Kindy

8:50am Chapel

Our students are: Balanced, Caring, Communicators, Inquiriers, Knowledgeable, Open-Minded, Principled, Reflective, Risk-Taskers and Thinkers

FESTIVAL OF MUSIC CHOIR PERFORMANCE On Wednesday, 8th August, 18 students from WLPS joined 120 students from

Ramco, Morgan, Waikerie, Kingston on Murray, Cobdogla, Barmera and Rivergum

College to perform as the Riverland Primary Schools’ Festival of Music Choir. The

performance consisted of 13 songs, ranging from popular songs, ballads, songs in

different languages as well as songs that were commissioned specifically for the

Festival of Music. Four students (Ellie Bald, Grace Borgas, Haylee Gore and Ellen

Kroehn) from our school were selected to perform as soloists during the evening

and we were also given the privilege as a choir to perform the solo part in the

opening song, Djapana (a song made popular in the 80’s by Australian Band

Yothu Yindi). We also had one of our students, Olivia Ebert, perform as an Assisting

Artist in a two part dance piece with former WLPS student Nicola Schmidt. This

year’s concert really showcased the incredible talent that our school possesses

and the end result was a true testament to the hard work and dedication put in by

all of the students involved! Melissa Schmidt

STUDENT/COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

Newsletter Week 4 // Term 3 // Tuesday, 14th August 2018

Last Friday, 20 students from WLPS, accompanied by Mr Braun and Mr Borgas, attended the SAPSASA Athletics

Carnival held at Loxton High School. All of our students put in their best effort and represented our school well.

We had a few of our students achieve placings which is fantastic! Congratulations to Malachi Lloyd who

came 3rd for the 11 year old boys High Jump and 6th for the 11 year old boys 100m, Stella Thomas who

placed 2nd in the 13 year old girls High Jump and Latia Loffler who placed 3rd in the 200m, 1st in the 11 year

old girls 800m and 1st in the 11 year old girls Long Jump (also breaking record with a PB of 4m)!

After the scores were tallied, WLPS tied for first place with Cobdogla Primary School in the small schools

category and ranked 3rd overall with a handicap which is incredible. Stay tuned for a photo of the athletics

team with the shield, which will be taken once we have received it.

SAPSASA ATHLETICS ACHIEVEMENTS

SCHOOL NEWS

2018 Term Dates

Term 3: 23rd July - 28th September

Term 4: 15th October - 13th December

School Office Hours

8:30am - 4:00pm

Office Staff

Business Manager

Mrs van Niekerk

Administration

Mrs Schmidt (Mon to Thur)

Mrs Shugg (Wed to Fri)

Families in our Prayers this week

Schmidt, A&M

Schmidt, D&L

Tang

Thiele

Thomas

Waikerie Lutheran Parish

Worship Roster

Sunday, 19th August 11th Sunday after Pentecost

Lowbank: 8:45am HC

Ramco: 8:45am

Morgan: 5:00pm HC

Waikerie: 10:00am

Pastor Lee Kroehn: 0407600293

Office: 8541 2689

Office Hours: 10am-1pm Thursday and Friday

Birthdays this Week

Kyesha Watkins and Evie Gill

God Bless You!

Library Open Hours Before School For the next 2 weeks (Week 4 & 5),

the library will only be open on

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

mornings for students to read, return

or borrow books.

Student Free Days/Buses Due to a school closure at the local

primary schools, the buses will not be

running THIS Friday, 17th August.

We will be having a school closure

day for our school the following

Friday, 24th August for teaching staff

to attend a 2 day inquiry based

workshop in Adelaide.

Book Week Celebrations/Chapel Book Week is scheduled for Week 5

(Monday, 20th August until Friday,

24th August). The theme is “Find Your

Treasure”! We will be holding our

dress up day and parade on

Thursday, 23rd August at 9:00am in

the Hall.

Due to the Student Free Day on

Friday, 24th August, Chapel will be

held on Thursday, 23rd August at 1:50pm.

Science Week Performance Tomorrow, Wednesday, 15th August,

we will be having 2 science week

performances, with the junior school

at 1:00pm and the senior classes at

2:00pm.

Breakfast Club Update Since the beginning of this term, we

have been running Breakfast Club on

Monday and Thursday mornings from

8:30am until 8:45am. Our first session

was a bit light on as the Year 5/6/7

students were on camp, but since

then we have consistently had

around 30 students pop in to enjoy

either some toast, a cup of milo or just

to have a chat. It is so heart warming

to see the students gathering around

in the mornings, chatting over food

and washing up their own dishes. We

must say a huge thank you to Tamara

McPherson and Carmel Wuttke for

coming in to help each week since

we started. It would be wonderful if

we could have a few more parent

volunteers to assist on either morning

to ensure that all students are able to

enjoy some toast or milo in a timely

manner (particularly the kids that

come to school on the bus). If you

would be willing to assist, please

contact Melissa Schmidt or Jane

Shugg in the office.

Kindy Visit to WLPS This Thursday, we will have around 41

students from the Waikerie Kindy

come to our school for a Music and

Science morning! We pray they have

an enjoyable visit!

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School is a Christ-Centred community equipping each student for life.

CORNER OF PEACE

RECOGNISING OUR STUDENT SUPPORT OFFICERS This week is SSO (Student Support Officer) week and with this in mind, we would like to acknowledge the

incredible work that our SSO’s do at WLPS. Each and every member of our support staff bring with them

special gifts and talents that we, as a school, could not effectively function without! Thank you to Mrs

Kalisch, Miss Platten, Mrs Souter and Mrs Canney for their hard work with curriculum support; to Mrs Ganner

for her work with the children at lunch time and for her love and care; to Mrs Mudge for looking after our

school library, looking after our YEL students and helping Mr Braun with PMP; to Mr DeVroome for ensuring

our school grounds are looked after; to our cleaners, Kelly, Hayley and Ken (sorry I could not find a photo of

our lovely cleaners) for keeping our school spick and span and; to Mrs Shugg and Mrs Schmidt for being our

admin angels and guardians of the icepack and to Mrs Schmidt for her support of our school choir. We are

very blessed to have these special staff members supporting our teachers, students and families.

Our God and Saviour is eternal and is the “I Am” in all things. He is the First and

the Last, the Beginning and the End; We can take great comfort and

encouragement in our daily life that the great “I Am”, the First and Last, has

promised that in turning to Him everyone will be saved.

God’s blessing to you all this week

Moira

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Teaching children about our Learner Profiles; Inquirer, Caring, Balanced, Knowledgeable, Risk -

Taker, Communicator, Reflective, Open – Minded, Thinker and Principled provides them with the tool kit

for successfully relating with others. As a way of celebrating the demonstration of these principles by

students, staff have elected these students this week.

Year 6/7 Class (Mr Braun and Mrs O’Brien) Grit - Aaron Schmidt. It is fantastic to see Aaron try really hard during Mental Maths and complete as

many questions as he can. You are showing awesome grit Aaron. Keep it up!

Open-Minded - Cody Wilson. It is pleasing to see Cody being more open-minded during UOI. It was great

to see her be open to her groups’ suggestion and working collaboratively. Well done Cody!

Year 5/6 Class (Mrs Burns) Grit - Chantelle Briant. Chantelle showed great courage to take a risk and get on stage last week to

perform in the Riverland Festival of Music. Great job Chantelle, we are proud of your efforts!

Principled - Hugh Thomas. Hugh demonstrated an excellent example of being principled in buddy class

on Friday. He showed exceptional listening skills and consistently participated when appropriate. Keep

up the great work habits Hugh!

Year 3/4 Class (Mr Fladrich) Grit - Lacey Borg. Lacey displayed grit when she worked hard to complete her research about Kuarna

seasons. Well done Lacey!

Inquirer – Abbigail Neal. Abbigail was an enthusiastic inquirer when she researched her animal during self

guided inquiry. Well done Abbi!

Year 1/2 Class (Mrs Waterson) Reflective - Johnny Mackintosh. Johnny has been reflective within his writing, acknowledging areas in

need of improvement and then striving to achieve his goals. Well done Johnny! I am proud of your

efforts!

Principled - Evie Gill. Evie has been principled in the classroom by trying her best to maintain focus when

sitting on the mat. Well done Evie! Keep it up!

Foundation/Year 1 Class (Mrs Beelitz) Grit – Jonah Kroehn. Jonah showed grit when thinking of a variety of ideas expressing his perspective of

various terms to describe “God”. Great thinking Jonah!

Communicator - Lyra Lawson. Lyra communicated her knowledge of number when determining reasons

for different numbers being the odd one out. Great work Lyra!