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Message from the Principal Endings and Beginnings

The Christian Year is set to begin with the season of Advent

beginning on the 30th November. This season is based

around thinking about the coming of Christ and what that

means to us as Christian people. Advent means ‘the arrival

of an important or noble thing’ and this four week season

builds up to celebrating the birth of Christ.

As the last church season of Pentecost draws to a close, we are starting

to talk about the end times and look forward to God’s second coming.

We also hear about how God will judge who is going to heaven and hell

and what the end times will look like; that the end will herald wars and

natural disasters (2 Timothy 3:1-5 - 2 Peter 3:3 - 3:4 - Revelation 13:16-17 -

Matthew 24:1 - 24:51), just to name a few!

With the events that happened in Paris on the weekend,

the pending crisis in Syria and the daily local events that

shock us as evil, we naturally question where God is in

the world. By applying some biblical knowledge we

could think the end of the world is nearly here. When I

am led to question this, I know there is only one thing I

need to focus on and that is my relationship with Jesus.

There is a sure reason why advent follows talk about the

end of the world and that is to remind us of where our

focus should be.

If Jesus died for you, what does that mean to you?

Make this Christmas a thinking season.

“Jesus knows our pain.” - John 3:16

Blessings on your week

Adam Borgas

Principal

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

Monday, 16th November 2015

Principled Reflective Risk Taker Thinker

Term 4 Calendar

Week 6

Mon 16 Nov

Wed 18 Nov

Thu 19 Nov

Fri 20 Nov

8:50am Assembly

Kindy Transition

8:50am-1:30pm - Year 7

Transition to WHS

8:50am Chapel

9:30am P&F Meeting

Jump Rope for Heart

Week 7

23-26 Nov

Mon 23 Nov

Wed 25 Nov

Fri 27 Nov

Swimming

No Assembly

8:50am-1:30pm - Year 7

Transition to WHS

No Swimming

8:50am Chapel

Presentation of Premier’s

Be Active & Reading

Challenge Awards

Week 8

30 Nov-2 Dec

Mon 30 Nov

Thur 3 Dec

Fri 4 Dec

Sun 6 Dec

Swimming

No Assembly

Splash Carnival

No Chapel

Advent Pageant

Carols by Candlelight

Week 9

Mon 7 Dec

Wed 9 Dec

Thur 10 Dec

8:50am Assembly

Year 7 Graduation/End

of Year Concert

Last day of Term 4

WWLPS Mobile No. : 0457265337

Prayers

Thank God for providing us with a well

resourced school.

Pray the God will be with those people

who have been recently

affected by the tragedy in Paris.

Pray for healing for those who

are sick or in pain.

Families In Our

Prayers

Bishop

Borg

Borgas

Braun

Burgemeister

Jump Rope for Heart Jump off for Jump Rope for Heart will

take place this Friday, 20th November

commencing after lunch.

Premier’s Reading and Be Active Challenge The Awards for the Premier’s Reading

and Be Active Challenges will be

presented after Chapel on Friday, 27th

November commencing at 9:30am.

Swimming Program T h e s w i m m i n g p r o g r a m

commences next Monday, 23rd

November and conclude on

Thursday, 3rd December with the

Splash Carnival.

Swimming lessons will take place Monday to

Thursday (23 November - 26 November) in

Week 7 and Monday to Wednesday (30

November - 2 December) in Week 8.

Splash Carnival will be held on Thursday, 3rd

December at the Waikerie Town Pool. A

program of the Splash Carnival and events will

be sent out this week.

The times for individual class swimming lessons is

as follows:

Year 6/7 - 9:05am -10:05am (Mon-Wed)

9:00am-9:45am (Thurs)

Year 4/5 - 10:05am-11:05am (Mon-Wed)

9:45am-10:30am (Thurs)

Year 2/3 Fuss - 11:30am-12:15pm (Mon-Wed)

10:55am-11:35am (Thurs)

Year 2/3 Flad - 12:15pm-1:00pm (Mon-Wed)

11:35am - 12:15pm (Thurs)

F/1 Braun - 1:30pm-2:10pm (Mon-Wed)

12:45pm - 1:25pm (Thurs)

Foundation - 2:10pm-2:50pm (Mon-Wed)

1:25pm-2:00pm (Thurs)

Scholastic Book Club Please note that orders for the

current Scholastic book club is due to

school by Monday, 23rd November.

End of Year Service/Year 7 Graduation Please be advised that the End of

Year Service/Year 7 Graduation will be

held on Wednesday, 9 December commencing

at 6:30pm. All students and families are required

to attend this service.

Library Books With the end of the School year fast

approaching, could students please

ensure that all library books are

returned to school by Friday, 27th

November.

Waikerie Christmas Pageant The Waikerie Christmas Pageant will be

held on Friday, 27th November and WLPS

has been invited to put in a combined

float with the Waikerie Parish which will

incorporate a trailer. All participants will need

nativity costumes (ie Angels, Shepherds, etc). If

your child would like to be involved, please

advise the office. We will need to assemble in Civic Ave around 6:00pm ready for a 6:30pm

start.

Advent Pageant WLPS will be taking part in the Advent

Pageant on Friday 4th December,

meeting at Waikerie Primary School

Oval at 9:45am, with the pageant commencing

at 10:00am. Students are invited to dress in

Nativity Costumes (eg Angels, Shepherds,

Wisemen, animals etc) and will take part in a

procession through the streets of Waikerie

followed by morning tea and a combined

school’s concert at the Waikerie Primary School

oval. Parents are encouraged to attend.

Car Park Etiquette The safety of our students is of paramount

importance to us at WLPS. Could you

please ensure that when you are driving

through the car park that you stick to the speed

limit and watch out for children. When parking in

the car park could you please take care when

opening your car doors and when exiting the

grounds please observe the right turn only sign.

School News

Remembrance Day Last Wednesday, the WLPS Festival of Music Choir along with

the school captains attended the Remembrance Day Service

at the Memorial Park. The school captains represented the

school extremely well and the choir sang beautifully.

A Remembrance Day service was also held at WLPS lead by

Mr Fladrich. The students from Mrs Beeliz’s Foundation Class

placed hand made poppies around the flag pole as part of

the service.

Corner of Peace

Meekness: Not a word that is often used in today’s society. Probably this is because in popular culture meekness is viewed as a rather weak and wishy-washy sort of person-ality trait. Quite often the words gentle or humble are also used when translating the word meek in the Bible.

However Jesus recommended (in fact even mandated) meekness as a positive way of being. He spoke of himself as meek: in Matthew 11:29(NABRE) he says: 29 [a]Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. The Word, who created all things – wishy-washy? – I think not. And God does not change over the ages – he remains constant. So then why meekness!

A beautiful and truly helpful definition throws a completely different like on meek-ness; Meekness is defined as power under control. Now that is something to aspire to after all.

To end on a lighter note, I recently read this little ‘parable’ that speaks of 2 people – one was not meek or humble but rather self-important – the other however was meek and was honoured by God:

“A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island.

The two survivors who have been a good friends, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land, and he was able to eat its fruit. The other man’s parcel of land remained barren.

After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the land. On the other side of the island, there was nothing.

Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him. How-ever, the second man still had nothing.

Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that he and his wife could leave the island. In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. He considered the other man unworthy to receive God’s blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.

As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from heaven booming, “Why are you leaving your companion on the island?”

“My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them,” the first man answered. “His prayers were all unanswered and so he does not deserve anything.”

“You are mistaken!” the voice rebuked him. “He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings.”

“Tell me,” the first man asked the voice, “What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?”

“He prayed that all your prayers be answered “

God bless you all

Moira

P&F News

The date of the meeting will be Friday, 20th November commencing at

9:30am in the Hall (following Chapel).

On the agenda is the Splash Carnival, Jesus Birthday Lunch, School Disco,

Milkshake day and more.

Everyone welcome!

CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT POSTER THANKYOU

To Mrs Burns and the Year 4/5 class who were asked to make posters for the upcoming Carols

by Candlelight evening on Sunday 6th December. There were some great posters done and

we had trouble finding a winner. We finally chose the one done by Felicity Arnold.

PS: You may see one of your posters in the shops around the town. Thankyou again.

Carmel Wuttke

Waikerie Christmas Carols Sunday, 6th December

Lets Celebrate Christmas with Community Carols by candlelight on Sunday 6th December 2015

at the Waikerie Civic Grounds near the Library and Council building.

A free BBQ Sausage Sizzle donated by the Waikerie Lutheran Church will be available at 7pm,

followed by the program which starts at 7.30pm.

Candles and soft drink will be available on the night.

Bring your chair or a fold out rug, a loud singing voice and lets Celebrate Christmas!

Dried Peaches for Sale

We have bags of locally grown and supplied dried

peaches for sale in the office for $10 per bag.

Lutheran Worship

Sunday, 22nd November 2015

Last Sunday of the Church Year

Waikerie: 9:00am HC

Lowbank: 10:30am HC

Ramco: 9:00am

Morgan: 9:00am

Parish Office: 8541 2689

Parish Office Manager: Cheryl Paschke

Birthdays this Week

Haylee Gore

Taylah Gore

18th November

Amali Nitschke

20th November

Aaliyah Loffler

22nd November

Community Noticeboard

MAGS Family and Faith Supporter Afternoon When: Sunday 22nd November

Arrive at Social Centre at 12 noon. BBQ snags for lunch and ice creams (Snags, Bread, Sauce,

Ice Creams, soft drinks provided, please bring any other meat and salad and drinks you might

like.)

Prep work on Christmas float.

Walk or drive to pool at 2pm

Pool fun until 3pm (Pool entry money needed)

Faith Challenge Last Friday, 18 students from WLPS attended the Faith Challenge Sports Day at Tanunda.

The team put in their best effort and did a fantastic job.

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

Thinking Skills - Chanidu Fernando. I have been very impressed with

Todd’s comprehension and application of the BODMAS procedure.

He has taken on challenge equations in Maths with success!

Communication Skills - Katie Shugg. I have been thoroughly

impressed with Katie’s reading log. Her weekly reflections are

detailed, well presented and informative!

Year 4/5

Research Skills - Cody Thiele. Cody worked hard last week with her

partner to challenge themselves and present their findings regarding

forces. Keep working hard Cody!

Research Skills - Lilli Hull. Lilli worked consistently with her partner on

obtaining, organising and recording her information for her forces

final assessment task. Well done Lilli!

Year 2/3 Fuss

Self Management Skills - Emma Thiel. Emma consistently makes

informed choices in the classroom. She always completes tasks on

time and is well organised for learning each day. Great work Emma!

Communication Skills - Kyesha Watkins. Kyesha did an excellent job

finding similarities and differences between Chinese New Year and

Thanksgiving. She made thoughtful comparisons. Well done!

Year 2/3 Fladrich

Research Skills - Courtney Wood. Courtney worked hard to gather

and record data about the names of people in our school. Well done

Courtney!

Thinking Skills - Mark Carter. Mark impressed me with his research

about Easter around the world. He was able to infer to add extra

information. Well done Mark!

Foundation/Year 1

Thinking Skills - Levi Hull. I was impressed with Levi’s knowledge of

money and his willingness to explore the different features of

Australian coins. Well done Levi!

Communication Skills - Teni Balogun. Well done Teni on your recent

Lexile test. He showed improved reading skills to ensure he

understood each text. Great job!

Foundation

Social Skills - Callie Loffler. Callie voluntarily welcomed and included

kindy children on Wednesday morning by inviting them to play. Well

done Callie!

Social Skills - Kiara Gore. Kiara was respectful of her kindy buddy,

doing the activity of choice by her buddy and persevering to help

complete the task. Well done Kiara. I like the way you put others

before yourself!