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LEARNING COOPERATION

SAFE & FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

Lalor Primary School

DATES TO REMEMBER Term 3

Friday July 31st

-Pyjama Day,

gold coin donation

( fundraiser for the

school)

Monday August 3rd

-Chocolate drive

Commences

Tuesday August 4th

- School Counci l

Meeting

- Kinda Kinder

Tuesday August 11th

- 5/6 First Aid

tra ining

- Kinda Kinder

Friday August 14th

-Hooptime

-Prep Tour

Tuesday August18th

-Grades 5/6

Multicultural

Schools Cup

Thursday August 20th

-Grades 1/2 Ceres

excursion

this issue

Principal’s Report P.1

Community News P.2

Community News P.3

I S S U E

30 th Ju ly

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Issue 22, 30th July, 2015

100 Days at Lalor Primary School This week our prep students celebrated their 100th day of schooling at Lalor Primary School. They should be very proud of their efforts so far this year and their progress has been remarkable. It’s always a pleasure for staff and parents to see our preps demonstrating excitement, enthusiasm and a real determination to achieve and succeed.

Parent Opinion Survey On Monday a random sample of our families received the 2015 Parent Opinion Survey to complete. The surveys are confidential and cover areas such as school improvement, extra curricula activities, general satisfaction, homework, engagement, transition, behaviour and reporting. It is very important that these surveys are returned to the school by tomorrow as we use this data to help us plan the future direction of our school.

Parent Forum Our parent forum on Monday was an opportunity for parents and community members to inform the writing of our school self evaluation. Although only a small group of parents/community members attended the discussion was positive and, along with information received from staff and students, helps to give us an overview of the feelings around the school. I have included a small snippet of some of the feedback we received.

What skills do we want our students to have acquired over their seven years of primary schooling? Literate and numerate Motivated learners Have positive social skills Broader view of the community and the world Confident communicators Support for students to go to the next level in sport Creativity

Principal's Report - 30th July, 2015

School Web Site

If you need any

information about the

school, please go to

lalorps.vic.edu.au.

It has the school

newsletters, what the

different areas are

doing, future events and

more.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Grade Student Reason for Award

5/6BL Ben For excellent work during writing. Your sizzling starts are

outstanding.

5/6O Maria For trying your best during all learning tasks and working

cooperatively with other class mates. Keep it up!

5/6R Adel For having a terrific first 2 weeks in 5/6R. We love having

you in our class.

5/6T Narges For trying her best and working cooperatively with her table. Well

done Narges, keep up the effort.

3/4A Navjot For trying his best when expanding numbers in maths.

3/4E Navreen You have done a fantastic job learning about decimals. You are a

super mathematician. Keep up the great work!

3/4 F Adam & Hussain For the great job you did as a partnership during reading groups.

Fantastic!

3/4 I Fatma For the great effort you put into your descriptive writing about your

Lego creation. Keep up the great work!

1/2 H Harmanveer For your incredible and highly engaging performance using puppets

in Oral Language. Awesome job!

1/2 J Mia For your friendly and caring attitude with a new member of our

class. It was lovely to see you welcome him into your game during

exploration time.

1/2R Layalee For your fantastic effort in maths this week. You are a superstar.

Keep up the great work.

1/2S Imran Thankyou for always listening and being ready to learn. You are a

pleasure to have in class!

Prep L Ripandeep For your amazing performance using puppets during Oral

Language. Well done.

Prep M Gurnoor For an outstanding attitude in all areas and for taking responsibility

for her learning.

P-4 ICT William For your fantastic drawing of your transformer toy on the iPad!

Well done!

5/6 ICT Safeeyah For taking responsibility for your learning both at school and at

home by constantly working to improve.

Performing

Arts

Avishi For assisting in the set-up of the New iPod borrowing system.

Excellent job girls.

Visual Arts Yousef For your beautiful and creative butterfly using Primary and

Secondary colours.

Physical

Education

Issa Well done this week in PE. You were an excellent soccer expert.

Keep up the great work.

Assistant Prin-

cipal’s Award

Younis For your fantastic math work. What a champion!

Principal’s

Award

Mitchell For following our school values in the yard. Well done on a great

improvement.

Enrolments

2016

Enrolment forms for

2016 are now available

at the office. If you

have a child who was

born between

May 1st, 2010 and

April 30th, 2011,

it is time to

enrol them for school

next year.

• What is one thing we want to keep doing and why? Our positive multicultural environment The Performing Arts program including the concert and Christmas Carols Security and safety for students Whole school events like the Arts Expo and open days for Education Week Happy teachers who are welcoming to students Positive school pride at sporting events Hard working teachers who go above and beyond their role

• What is one thing we would like to change and why? More public speaking for students at assembly Put sports reports in the newsletter More camp opportunities

Any parents or community members who would like to contribute to the lists above you are most wel-come to come and see me to ensure your opinions are noted.

Monday Morning Assembly

At assembly on Monday

morning Prep L and M

will be staring in the Video Star film

clips to a medley of songs.

Out of School Hours Care

Lalor Primary School

Before Care

6.30am - 8:45am

After Care

3.15pm - 6.30pm

Early Dismissal Days

1.15pm - 6.30pm

Student Free Days

6.30am - 6.30pm

Lalor Primary Combined OSHC is

licenced under Children’s Services

Act 1996 and the Children’s Services

Regulations 2009

OSHC Co-ordinator

Mrs Paula Yacoub

Tel: 9464 7500

ohsc.lalor.ps@edumail.

vic.gov.au

UNIFORM SHOP

The uniform shop is

open every Wednesday from 8.30am - 9.30am

and 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Order forms are available at the

office

Cash, cheque or credit

card are acceptable

EFTPOS is now

available

Please enter and leave

via the glass doors as

directed by the arrow

from outside the office

door.

Updating Student

Details

If you change address,

home phone number or

mobile number please

let the school office

know by filling out a

Personal Details Update

Form.

This includes changes

to your emergency con-

tact people.

Book Fairs theme is

UNDER THE SEA

Book Fair has been a great success

this week. You still have time to come

and visit. It is open in the

morning, 8.30am– 9am

and in the afternoon

3.25pm- 4.15pm

until the afternoon of

Monday 3rd August in the

school library.

The children have the opportunity to come

and purchase great books to read, posters,

fancy pens and pencils, rubbers,

pencil sharpeners and flashing pointers.

Every $10.00 you spend you receive a ticket to

go into a raffle with the chance of

winning a surprise gift.

The Book Fair is a fundraiser for the library.

With the profits the library can

purchase some new books.

PYJAMA DAY

Tomorrow Friday 31st July come

to school in your pyjamas and have

a snuggly day. Gold coin donation

This event is a fundraiser for the school.

RESILIENCE PROJECT

Lalor Primary School is very pleased to announce that we have recently become part of a Resilience project

that involves surveying parents and students about resilience as well as the staff having professional

development to support students in their development of resilience strategies.

Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist from Resilient Youth Australia will be supporting

our school during this project and supplying ongoing articles for our future newsletters.

Ten ways to promote the natural genius in your child Andrew Fuller The contribution made by parents and grandparents to a child or teen’s success in school and in life is enormous. When teachers and families work together the results that kids achieve are amazing. Here are some of the main things we can all do to give children and teenagers a boost in school success. 1. Be positive about learning ourselves By taking on hobbies, new courses and discussing new inventions and ideas we show our children and grandchildren that learning is interesting and it is for everyone. This can be as easy as discussing new idea and shows, interesting facts and discoveries, reading new books- the key idea is for young people to know that learning is something adults do too.