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Leumeah Public School
Fortnightly Newsletter
Week 8, Term 4, 2018
TUE 11/12 PRESENTATION DAY
THU 13/12 K-2 PBL Movie Day
5-6 PBL End of Year/
Party Day
FRI 14/12 3-4 PBL Reward/End of
Year party day
YEAR 6 FAREWELL
Upcoming Events
WEEK 9
WEEK 10
PAYMENT DUE
Dear Parents and caregivers
Air Conditioning for Classrooms
Under the Cooler Classroom program, the NSW Department of Education – School Infrastructure, has announced that LPS will receive air conditioning for classrooms in the first round of applications. The P&C have enabled this by supporting the program with up to $100,000. I would like to thank parents, families and classes (1/2 J, 5/6W, 5/6 X and 5/6 S) who provided testimonials that supported the application. This is a significant achievement that the school and P&C have been wanting for many years. It will make a significant difference to the level of comfort afforded in our teaching and learning spaces! The first step in the process is for the 1000 schools in the first phase to undergo audits.
Staff Leave
Mrs Croman will be on leave from 10.12.18 until the end of the year. We wish Mrs Croman all the very best for here leave and welcome Miss Purchase as the AP for Stage 2 during this time. Mrs Emma Williams will be responsible for Mrs Croman’s teaching responsibilities.
Staff Farewells
Mrs Pickering will take leave at the beginning of 2019 before retiring. Mrs Pickering has worked at LPS for over 20 years as a School Administration Officer and SLSO. Before her career here she was a volunteer and parent. We wish Mrs Pickering the best in the lead up to her retirement and in retirement and thank her for her dedication to LPS.
Mrs Adams has been successful in obtaining a full scholarship from DoE to train as a school counsellor. We are very grateful for the work Mrs Adams has done with Mrs Garai on 1/2G. We are pleased that her future ambitions have been fulfilled and wish her all the best.
Mr Lowe who has been the GA at LPS for the last two years. Mr Lowe will be remembered for the pride in the way LPS is presented. We wish Mr Lowe all the best and thank him for his hard work. We welcome Mr David Mitchell as the permanent GA to LPS. He was the successful candidate through a Merit Selection Process for the position from 2019.
Mrs Bozic has been successful in being appointed as a Senior Psychologist within DoE and will be working in the Wentworth area. Mrs Bozic has worked at LPS as a School Counsellor for seven years. We thank Mrs Bozic for her dedication to students and families at LPS. Our best wishes go with her in her new position.
From the Principal’s Desk
MON 17/12 Reports go home
TUE 18/12 Uniform Shop open
9 - 3.30pm
WED 19/12 LAST DAY TERM 4
2019
TUES 29/1 STAFF DEVELOPMENT
WED 30/1 STUDENTS RETURN
Congratulations to:
Mrs Hambley, Mrs Shankar, students and parents for their involvement in our Diwali Celebration. The students and parents ran classroom sessions explaining the Diwali Celebration. We will be looking at celebrations each year from each of our main cultures. The afternoon finished with a Diwali Celebration walk where all classes made a display to share. Thank you to the visitors who attended. Students completed designs which will be converted into a Welcome mural in the K-2 COLA. Thanks to: Anisha, Svara, Riya, Kinjal, Monali, Nishka, Vasni and Reva.
The P&C for a fun and fantastic Retro Disco. The students thoroughly enjoyed their time while the P&C raised $1 641!
Thank you to:
All our volunteers this year. It was lovely to catch up with the Thank you Morning Tea today. We are so lucky to have so many people who are dedicated to LPS. People are very generous with their time and want to make a difference for students which is noticed and appreciated every day. Thank you to Mrs Hambley and the events Committee for co-ordinating the invitations, gifts and refreshments.
Special Religious Education and Special Ethics Education (SRE/SEE) and School Assemblies in 2019
In 2019 SRE/SEE (Scripture and Ethics) will be held on Thursday afternoon. This means that assemblies will be held on Wednesday afternoons.
Secondment
I have been successful being appointed as a deployed principal for term 1, 2019 with DoE based in Oxford St, Darlinghurst. Mrs Hill will be the relieving principal for this period. Mrs Hill’s position will be filled before the end of the year through an Expression of Interest Process.
Dogs on School Grounds
Parents and school visitors are reminded that under Section 14 of the Companion Animals Act (1998) dogs are prohibited on schools grounds except where the principal gives permission.
Kerry Wood Principal
Sentral parent portal I thank everyone who has informed us about the technical issues relating to the Sentral parent portal application. We have worked closely with Sentral to rectify these problems. We are assured that a number of technical updates have been applied and the portal should be working again. Make sure you update your application, if you haven’t done so already. It may take a few minutes to initially load after completing the updates. Please let our administrative staff know, if you are still continuing to experience difficulty with the application. We will ensure that this information is passed on to Sentral. Feedback and complaints video for the school community At the end of last week and over the weekend, you may have heard that the Department of Education (DoE) has released a video about how school communities can provide feedback and complaints to schools. The video was developed with a number of key stakeholders including, the P&C Association and NSW Ombudsman office. The video was developed because the DoE has recognised that student achievement is closely related to the quality of the relationship between families and schools. The DoE also acknowledges that there are times when parents and carers want to raise an issue with the school and they honestly do not know where to start or how to do this. This video is a supportive guide as to how parents and carers can raise potential concerns at an early stage. It is important that we all work together so issues can be resolved early and efficiently. The video can be found at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/news/announcements/family-feedback-about-schools-always-welcome . It is also available with subtitles and voice over that can be translated. If you do have some concerns, in regards to your child, please raise them early with your child’s teacher. A final reminder about students not returning or returning late in 2019 We are close to finalising numbers for 2019 and classes and need to know which students are not returning next year. We also need to know who is returning, but will be on an extended leave and will be late to return to school. If your family is returning late next year, please contact the office to get an extended leave form to fill in. If your child or family is moving schools in 2019, please let your child’s class teacher know in writing, along with the school he or she will be going to or contact the school office. Informing the school will ease our 2019 transition.
Kristy Hill
From the Deputy Principal’s Desk
1/2J
This term 1/2 J have been very busy learning about Diwali, and Picollage. We learnt about the importance and customs during the Diwali Festival of Lights and we had fun participating in Diwali activities during our Diwali Day. We decorated our room and we are very proud of our Diwali art and light display. We had fun dressing up and taking photos of ourselves. Then we ‘air dropped’ the photos to Mrs Wilson, so that we could Pic-collage them and print them off for our ‘ special projects’. During dancing we learnt some great line dances and we performed ‘Boot Scootin Baby’ for our assembly item. Wow, what a busy term we have had. Mrs Wilson and 1/2J would like to wish everyone a wonderful fun filled and relaxing holiday!
5/6X
During Science, 5/6X created an electrical
circuit and tested whether their materials were
conductors or insulators
P & C News
Thank you to all our parent helpers and the community for volunteering and donating cakes and baked treats to our disco cake stall. They were delicious and contributed to a very successful end of year event. We had 220 kids join us for an afternoon of dancing in lots of rainbow colours! Together we have raised a further $1600 towards our 'Cool the school' endeavours.
Uniform shop news
In 2019 the prices of our uniform shop items will be increased by approximately $2 per item. This is to cover the production costs and margins of Gosford tailoring. We will update you in the last newsletter of the year the new uniform shop opening times and their new price list.
Take advantage of your Active Kids Sporting and Fitness Rebate by registering your children to play at Eschol Park Football Club in
2019.
Every year we have children and teachers from Leumeah Public School experiencing awesome moments, playing, coaching and
refereeing for Eschol Park Football Club.
Online registrations will open from Saturday, 5th January 2019, visit www.playfootball.com.au. Clubhouse information days will be held on Thursday, 24th January 2019 from 6pm to 8pm
Thursday, 21st January 2019 from 6pm to 8pm
Saturday, 2nd February 2019 from 10am to 2pm
Sunday, 3rd February 2019 from 10am to 2pm.
We look forward to seeing you in the 2019 season.
For more information please email [email protected].
escholparkfc.teamapp.com/ Eschol Park Football Club escholparkfootballclub
