LETHBRIDGE PRIMARY

SCHOOL 2 Stephenson Street, Lethbridge, Vic. 3332 Phone:03 5281 7214 Fax 03 5281 7269

Email: lethbridge.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.lethbridgeps.vic.edu.au

Newsletter No. 10 21st April 2017

CALENDAR:

April SATURDAY 22 NORTH GEELONG BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE – (Roster included in Newsletter)

Monday 24 Art School ANZAC Service

Tuesday 25 ANZAC Day Holiday Thursday 27 Farm Safety Year 5 / 6

MARC Van May Monday 1 LOTE Thursday 4 Farm Safety – Year 5 & 6 Monday 8 Art

Year 3 & 4 Healthy Heroes Tuesday 9-12 Naplan Thursday 11 MARC

Farm Safety – Year 5 & 6 Friday 12 Mothers’ Day Stall

Winter Sports – Year 3 – 6 (Soccer/Netball/Football) Monday 15 LOTE Tuesday 16 School Council Thursday 18 Farm Safety – Year 5 & 6 Friday 19 Earth Ed Incursion – Year 1 & 2

Earth Ed Excursion – Year 3 & 4 Monday 22 Visiting Artist

Art Thursday 25 MARC

Farm Safety – Year 5 & 6 Friday 26 Mid – Term Breakfast Monday 29 LOTE

Earth Ed – Excursion (Year 1 & 2)

Buongiorno from the Office, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and Easter break. It’s lovely to be back. The Geelong Advertiser is running a new annual feature where they will publish a photo of every participating school’s Prep class each year. On Thursday Alison, the Geelong Advertiser photographer, came in and took some gorgeous photos of our little people! She said that they were beautifully behaved and she was impressed by how they listened and posed for the shots. Alison will notify me when the feature is going to be published and I will let you know so that you can snap up a copy! Alison took much better photos than me, but here they are, ready to go.

QUICK NOTES:

As next Tuesday is the ANZAC day Public Holiday, the school will be closed. Please

ensure you have made alternative arrangements.

Sunsmart continues until the 1st of May so please ensure that students are still bringing their hats to school.

Next week Natalie James will be starting her round as a student teacher in the 1/2S classroom. We welcome her into our school and hope that she will learn a great deal from us while she is here.

ANZAC DAY - Services We have a very important tradition at Lethbridge Primary School of holding our own ANZAC Day Service for remembrance and commemoration of all who have served and dies in war and operational service. We also remember the families and friends who have lost loved ones at this time. The School service is conducted by our student leaders and myself, beginning at the flag pole at 10:30am. We invite all families to join us for this service, and to lay a wreath, flower or other token of commemoration. In the afternoon I will be taking our School Captains - Matthew and Emily, and our school Vice Captains - Jimmy and Lil, to the Bannockburn Memorial for the community ANZAC service where we will represent the school and lay flowers on behalf of our community. You are welcome to attend the service, which begins at 1:45pm.

MVA CROSS COUNTRY Today 21 of our students headed across to Teesdale to compete in the MVA Cross Country. They have trained hard and I am waiting to hear all of the results. I am sure that, as always, they will do their very best. Good luck boys and girls!

FARM SAFETY From next week our year 5 and 6 students will undertake a 6 week program focussed on safe behaviours around farms, animals and machinery. This is an important component of our curriculum as so many of our students either live on or visit farms. They will work with Staff from Hesse Rural Health each Thursday, learning about these important concepts, then on the last week of the program they will visit a working farm to apply their learning in a real situation. MOTHER’S DAY STALL DONATIONS AND SUPPORT We are again conducting a Mother’s Day stall on Friday the 12th of May and will be collecting donations at the office to be included in the stall items and the raffle. If you have new items that would be suitable, please send them along. Handmade craft items, chocolates and other suitable items are always welcome! BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS While there is absolutely no expectation that you should send along some sort of treat for each child in the class when it is your child’s birthday, we do know that students love to celebrate and share on their birthdays. If your child wishes to bring something we ask that it is non-edible (a sticker, fun eraser etc) or in a closed bag so that we can send it home with the children at the end of the day. This way parents and carers can decide if the child is able to consume the item, and is aware of what the child has eaten. We do this as we have a number of students with allergies and food sensitivities at the school.

APP SAFETY Snapchat, kik, ask.fm, Twitter, Minecraft, You Tube, Facebook, Instagram Fact sheets with step-by-step instructions on how to stay safe when using these Apps can be found by googling ‘Think u know youth guides’ or alternatively by using the following link: https://www.thinkuknow.org.au/youth/guides

For your convenience, I have included the Minecraft fact sheet in this newsletter as this is an app many of our students are using regularly.

Helping Kids Navigate Playground Politics (by Melissa Benaroya) Teaching problem-solving means helping kids learn to recognize a social problem, focus on finding solutions, predict consequences, and select a safe and respectful solution. How to Teach Problem Solving to Kids When challenges arise with other children, ask your children a series of questions to help them think through the problem. Eventually they’ll be able to ask the questions for themselves. Questions to consider when teaching problem solving are: • “What happened?” This allows each child to tell his or her story and feel heard before solutions are brainstormed. • “How did that feel?” Helping kids get clear about how they feel will help clarify what they actually want or need. • “What did you want/need?” Many times we can read situations inaccurately. Asking this question helps focus the brainstorming solutions. • “What are other ways to get what you want/need?” Let your children brainstorm two or three ideas. It’s okay if they’re not all great ideas! This is just brainstorming. If they can’t come up with ideas on their own, offer them two choices that align with your family’s values. • “How would that work for you?” or “What will happen if you try …?” This is an opportunity to evaluate each of the proposed solutions. • “What are you going to do now?” or “What will you try next time?” By asking this question, you allow your child to choose how to act differently next time. Expressing a future action out loud increases the likelihood your child will try it. Managing social dynamics in a school setting can be very stressful for children and their parents. Social-emotional skills can help children de-escalate a conflict, advocate for themselves, and find more acceptable, safe, and socially appropriate ways of getting their needs met when they may be feeling bullied or dismissed.

OUR CURIOUS INQUIRERS I have been particularly impressed with the work many students have done over the Easter holidays. It goes to show that learning is fun when students choose to extend their thinking, practise their skills, and do further research when they are away from school! Students in 1/2S made these fabulous dioramas to house the

mini beast models they made last term, as an extension of their inquiry. Fantastic work indeed!

I hope you enjoy a wonderful and relaxed weekend, Mrs Barnett

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Prep M JAMES For great work creating a

graph that showed the colour of the ‘Easter eggs’

he found. Well done!

Grade 1 / 2C GEORGIA S For making a positive return to school and settling in well.

Grade 1 / 2M MADALYN For her improved fluency

when reading.

Grade 1 / 2S CHELSEA For her fabulous efforts with her home reading! Well done

Chelsea.

Grade 3 / 4H RAF For his outstanding public speaking when presenting

his Bonsai inquiry!

Grade 4 / 5C CHLOE For demonstrating great

perseverance during maths this week when learning

about long multiplication.

Grade 5 / 6B MATTHEW For demonstrating

enthusiasm towards taking on leadership and his own

personal learning.

Principal’s Award

EMILY J & MATTHEW C For writing amazing Big Writes quickly and with

enthusiasm.

Art Award ELIZA Great effort using colour

mixing and a variety of brushstrokes to paint a

landscape in the style of Vincent van Gogh.

Netball for 2017

Year 4-6 - costs

$51.00 VNA – This is to be paid online at NV website, see link below.

https://netball.resultsvault.com/common/pag

es/noauth/olregstart.aspx?type=1&entityid=

39406&fl=1&id=23813 $8.00 per game to be paid before match. Draws & Fixtures can be checked on the YMCA website – sportsfix YMCA Geelong

Monday 24th April Nuggets v Teesdale 3 at 5:00pm Court 1 Monday 1st May Nuggets v Koalas at 5pm Court 2 Roster for North Geelong Bunnings Fundraiser – 22nd April

9:00am-11am

11am-1pm

1pm-3pm 3pm-5pm

Kim McCallum

Jade Grose

Tracey Firman

Donna Watts

Rachel Rickard

Sarah Smith

Amanda Hose

Heidi Warakea

Renee Fry Kathy Shelley

Alex James Tina Barnett

Andrew Grigsby

Kylie Bubb 12pm-2pm

Janelle McKenzie

Luke Pettigrew

Kerry Marriner

Amber McClelland

Chloe Pettigrew

Lethbridge Auskick

Registrations are now open

for 2017. Sessions are Sunday mornings during

term 2

Commencing Sunday 23rd, April at 10am.

Register and pay online at www.aflauskick.com.au

Enquiries to Shane Austin 0439 773 935

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Lethbridge Primary School is excited to be participating.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development.

It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by Wednesday 30th August 2017.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year

10 are challenged to read 15 books.

Children who requested to participate received their login details today. If you would like your child/ren to participate please send me an

email and I will include them and email you back their login details.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their

name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would like your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the attached form

and return it to your school.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit:

www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

Please don’t hesitate to contact me directly at (boal.melissa.a@edumail.vic.gov.au),

Thanks Mrs Melissa Boal

If you would like your child’s name to appear on the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge online Honour Roll, please sign

this form and return it to your school.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS Definitions: Department refers to the Victorian Department of Education and Training, Person refers to the child/adult listed below in the consent

declaration.

1) Privacy Protection

The Department takes its privacy obligations seriously and any personal information collected or used by the Department will be handled in

accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic). This law sets out what we must do when the Department collects, uses, handles

and destroys personal information. Personal information includes personal details such as an individual’s name and school that could be used to

identify an individual.

2) Collection, use, disclosure and storage of personal information

If you provide your consent your school will collect and disclose your child’s first and last name, and the name of the school to the Department. The

Department will then:

Publish your child’s name on its online Honour Roll located at: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc at the completion of the Challenge with no other

identifying factors such as early childhood setting name.

3) Accuracy, access to information and withdrawal of consent

The Department will endeavour to ensure that any personal information held about your child is up to date and accurate. You can access, correct

and withdraw personal information held by the Department by written request in accordance with the Department’s Information Privacy Policy

located at:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/privacypolicy.aspx

Consent may be withdrawn at any time by writing to the Department’s Privacy Unit on: privacy.enquiries@edumail.vic.gov.au .

If you have any questions about this form, or if you need more information, please contact the PRC Challenge Coordinator at the Department

readingchallenge@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9637 3624.

Yes I consent to my child’s name appearing on the online Honour roll

Name of child…………………………………………………………………………………..

Parent Signature………………………………………………………………………………

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