West Lakes Shore School NewsletterTERM 2, Week 1 - 3 May 2019

PRINCIPAL'S CORNER - WELCOME TO TERM 2PRINCIPAL'S CORNER - WELCOME TO TERM 2PRINCIPAL'S CORNER - WELCOME TO TERM 2PRINCIPAL'S CORNER - WELCOME TO TERM 2

WELCOME BACK! I hope families had a wonderful holiday period. It has been a really settled start to Term 2 with sta� and

students focused on quality teaching and learning in Literacy and Numeracy and our whole-school Connected Curriculum:

Our Big Backyard. Some parts of this terms teaching and learning involves students being active and getting outside to

learn about living things; maintaining and planting in our school gardens; understanding di�erent cultures and

perspectives; and a focus on STEAM through designing concepts for the ATSI gardens as the next phase of our nature play

yard development. Our Nature Play Committee will soon meet to plan the development of this space, incorporating many

family and student ideas. Many year levels have exciting excursions and incursions planned for term 2 and these give

children the opportunity to experience real-life, purposeful learning connections in our world. Bike-Ed will commence for

key year levels and students will learn vital safety skills. Our school has recently trained sta� in the ‘Way2Go’ initiative

which aims to improve our students as active citizens. Class teachers will be sending home a termly overview that details

each units/classes key learning for the term and gives you an insight into things you can reinforce, practice and discuss

with your child/ren.

Enjoy your weekend and stay warm.

Kind regards

Carol Press

PrincipalPrincipal

FIRE SAFETYFIRE SAFETYFIRE SAFETYFIRE SAFETY

Yesterday evening there was a minor �re in the school Gym. Some of you may already be aware of this as the Karate Club

were in attendance at the time. A beanbag that was caught on top of the security cage protecting the heater became hot

enough to ignite. The Karate Club personnel were quick in responding to the �re and called the Fire Department who

attended to extinguish the �re. There was no damage at all to the Gym with the exception of the heater needing to be

replaced as the element blew.

I would like to thank Peter Bailey and the Fire Department for the quick response. As we head into winter it is probably a

good time to have a chat to your family about the dangers of placing items that have the potential to ignite on heaters or

close to heaters or other equipment. You may also like to talk about your Home Fire Escape Plan. You may be like many

families who have not considered this. If that is the case please check out the attached document from the SA

Metropolitan Fire Service outlining how to develop a plan and train your family. It also includes a quick Reference Escape

Chart.

Be safe and enjoy what looks to be a chilly weekend. 

HOME FIRE ESCAPE PLANHOME FIRE ESCAPE PLAN

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YARD PLAY - Rights and ResponsibilitiesYARD PLAY - Rights and ResponsibilitiesYARD PLAY - Rights and ResponsibilitiesYARD PLAY - Rights and Responsibilities

Children have the right to play, discover, speak, be healthy and be safe. This term we are looking at how we can continue to

support all students to be safe during yard play. We want ‘Our school Big Backyard’ to continue to be a positive, happy and

exciting place to be! As a sta� we know students respond best when we build strong relationships, positively reinforce

behaviour and are consistent in our expectations of what students can and can’t do to stay safe during yard play.

Throughout Term 1 we reviewed our yard play expectations and compiled a rights and responsibilities yard play map. I

attach a copy of our map and encourage you to discuss and reinforce this with your children. If you have any suggestions

or ways we can support safer student yard play please forward them to our nature play committee for consideration via

carol.press854@schools.sa.edu.au . Throughout the term, additional leadership will be visible during yard play alongside

our student Nature Play Leaders. We aim to reinforce and continually ‘teach on’ the consistent responsibilities and

expectations as part of our Big Backyard learning. The Nature Play student leaders are now visible in our nature play

spaces on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They are trained mediators and are active in our school play spaces to support

students with minor problems. Please encourage your children to look for these leaders who will assist them during yard

play. Our student leaders are taking on a huge responsibility that will develop their individual leadership skills. A huge

thanks to Kieran, Jacqui and Rozika for their work to implement and support this initiative.

PEACE PACKPEACE PACKPEACE PACKPEACE PACK

All sta� reinforce and respond to physical, social, cyber and verbal incidents that occur and are reported, with appropriate

follow up and steps in line with our school policy. This includes referrals to re�ection and/or o�ce referral. Every

incident is followed up and outcomes are documented in line with our site policy. One of the things research shows (from

sta� who attended the PEACE Pack training) is that nationally less than 50% of students report incidents directly to a

teacher. As a PEACE Pack school we are continuing to examine ways we can improve this. The presence of student Nature

Play Leaders is one step towards providing our students with an alternate way to safely seek help. All student leaders

know and are trained to report issues to sta� for further follow up.

This term we are having our regular visits from SAPOL to reinforce cyber safety and teach age-appropriate ways of staying

safe online. One way families can help children stay safe is through accessing some of the top tips and advice from the e-

safety government website.

Some questions to consider and prompt your thinking about your child’s online safety: Does your internet have �lters? Do

you know passwords for all social sites your child may be accessing and check these for any online bullying? And

importantly do you talk to your child about what they should do if they come across any inappropriate sites or things

online? Children regularly do not tell an adult as they feel they will be banned from using the technology or that they will

be in trouble. As a school we are working with students to encourage them that if they see something, then they should

act and do something, as this is the best way to keep themselves and others safe.

https://esafety.gov.au/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuIWKhbH-4QIVUwwrCh00XQlOEAAYAiAAEgJ1G_D_BwE

PHYSICAL EDUCATION CORNERPHYSICAL EDUCATION CORNERPHYSICAL EDUCATION CORNERPHYSICAL EDUCATION CORNER

WAY2GO ProgramWAY2GO ProgramWest Lakes Shore SchoolWest Lakes Shore School is a Way2GoWay2Go partner with the local council and the Department of Planning, Transport and

Infrastructure.

The Way2GoWay2Go program promotes safe and active travel for school communities.

We want to create school precincts where children, families and communities can choose to walk, ride a bike or scooter

and use public transport to get around their local area and for school journeys.

The important �rst step is to collect information about children’s current school travel.

Students and teachers will be completing the online survey and your perspective as a parent/caregiver will provide

valuable information.

The survey provides ‘snapshot in time’ information about speci�c travel choices, attitudes, issues and preferences.

The patterns emerging and speci�c information will shape planning and actions to create ongoing improvements near the

school.

Please use the following link http://bit.ly/Way2GoParentSurvey or (google Way2GoWay2Go surveys) to complete the survey by 31st31st

May 2019.May 2019.

Thanks for your help.

STUDENT SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTSSTUDENT SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTSSTUDENT SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTSSTUDENT SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS

During the second week of the school holidays, Braden G from SD7 competed in the State School Sailing Competition.

Braden spent the week camping with the Ocean View College School Sailing team and competing at Goolwa Regatta Yacht

Club.

Braden competed with the A team and they were very successful this year coming in at 6th place out of 22 teams.

Due to extreme high wind on the last day of competition,  Ocean View College didn’t get to battle it out in the �nals. 

Well done Braden from everyone at West Lakes Shore School!

JAPANESE CORNERJAPANESE CORNERJAPANESE CORNERJAPANESE CORNER

JAPANESE CHILDREN'S DAY FESTIVAL - KODOMO NO HIJAPANESE CHILDREN'S DAY FESTIVAL - KODOMO NO HICome along to this amazing Japanese cultural experience for families.

$5 entry fee per family. 

What: Kodomo no Hi Children's Day

When: Sunday 5th May 11am-4pm

Where: Thebarton Community Centre

Taiko drumming, Martial Arts demonstration, Train simulation, Calligraphy, Origami, Japanese food stalls and more!

 

More information available at: https://knh.jafa.asn.au

UNIFORM INFORMATIONUNIFORM INFORMATIONUNIFORM INFORMATIONUNIFORM INFORMATION

WLSS UNIFORM POLICYWLSS UNIFORM POLICYBelow is a link to a short survey via Survey Monkey.  We value your opinion on the current uniform and would like your

input as to what works and what doesn't. 

We would appreciate if you take 5 minutes to complete the survey.  The survey will close on Sunday evening.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MPQ3DFL 

DON'T FORGET YOUR HATDON'T FORGET YOUR HATPlease ensure your child has a hat at school as these may be needed on high UV days for sports and other outside learning

activities.  Acceptable hats are school branded bucket hats or navy blue broad brimmed hats with no cords (potential

choking hazard).  Baseball caps are not part of our school uniform policy.

WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARNWOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARNWOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARNWOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN

EARN AND LEARN IS BACKEARN AND LEARN IS BACKOur school is once again participating in the Woolworths 'Earn & Learn' campaign.  Your child should have brought home a

sticker sheet to start collecting.  Completed sheets can be returned to school or placed in the collection box at West Lakes

Woolworths.

Thank you for your support!

WHAT'S HAPPENING - TERM DATES AND CALENDARWHAT'S HAPPENING - TERM DATES AND CALENDARWHAT'S HAPPENING - TERM DATES AND CALENDARWHAT'S HAPPENING - TERM DATES AND CALENDAR

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBERIMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBERPlease make a note of the following dates on your calendar:

PUPIL FREE AND SCHOOL CLOSURE DAYS FOR 2019PUPIL FREE AND SCHOOL CLOSURE DAYS FOR 2019

11th June 2019 - Tuesday - TERM 2 - PFD - PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE HAS CHANGED11th June 2019 - Tuesday - TERM 2 - PFD - PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE HAS CHANGED

2nd September 2019 - Monday - TERM 3 - PFD2nd September 2019 - Monday - TERM 3 - PFD

20th November 2019 - Wednesday - TERM 4 - PFD20th November 2019 - Wednesday - TERM 4 - PFD

30th August 2019 - Friday - SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY30th August 2019 - Friday - SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY

Please make sure you have booked your child/ren into OSHC if you require care for any of the Pupil Free Days or the School

Closure Day.  

TERM 2 Calendar - 29 April to 5 July 2019TERM 2 Calendar - 29 April to 5 July 2019

14 - 24 May 2019 NAPLAN Online Testing - Yrs 3, 5 & 7

10 June 2019 Queens Birthday Holiday

11 June 2019 Pupil Free Day - Please arrange OSHC if required

5 July 2019 End of Term 2 - Early dismissal at 2:15pm

TERM 3 Calendar - 22 July - 27 September 2019TERM 3 Calendar - 22 July - 27 September 2019

TERM 4 Calendar - 14 October - 13 December 2019TERM 4 Calendar - 14 October - 13 December 2019

GENERAL FAMILY INFORMATIONGENERAL FAMILY INFORMATIONGENERAL FAMILY INFORMATIONGENERAL FAMILY INFORMATION

OUTSTANDING SCHOOL FEES ARE DUE. OUTSTANDING SCHOOL FEES ARE DUE. If you need to set up a paymentIf you need to set up a paymentplan please contact Cheryl Jaeschke -plan please contact Cheryl Jaeschke -

cheryl.jaeschke237@schools.sa.edu.au ASAP to arrange. cheryl.jaeschke237@schools.sa.edu.au ASAP to arrange. If you areIf you areapplying for School Card please check with Cheryl to make sure youapplying for School Card please check with Cheryl to make sure you

have the correct form.have the correct form.

DON'T FORGET TO UPDATE YOUR MOBILE NUMBERS OR EMAIL ADDRESSESDON'T FORGET TO UPDATE YOUR MOBILE NUMBERS OR EMAIL ADDRESSESWITH THE FRONT OFFICE STAFF. WITH THE FRONT OFFICE STAFF. ADDRESS CHANGES REQUIREADDRESS CHANGES REQUIRE

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION - PLEASE TALK TO FRONT OFFICE STAFF.SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION - PLEASE TALK TO FRONT OFFICE STAFF.

SKOOLBAG - The App for all things WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOLSKOOLBAG - The App for all things WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOLPlease make sure that you download the SkoolBag app on your phone or device, and keep it updated.  The great thing about

SkoolBag is that it is free and all family members can set up their own account to receive information.  Do you have other

children at di�erent schools or kindy?  There will be a pretty good chance that their school uses SkoolBag!

The SkoolBag app is a vital part of our school community, and we are trying to utilise every part of the app.  Don't miss out

on what's happening - be informed!  Spread the word and lets get every family using this great piece of communication.

If you have any feedback for us please don't hesitate to forward your suggestions to rachel.roe536@schools.sa.edu.au  

WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOL WEBSITE

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WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOLWEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOLSchool Absentee Line - 8449 7574

Sentral Parent Portal: https://sentral.westlakes.sa.edu.au/portal/login

WLSS OSHC Phone Number: 8242 3141

Edwin Street, West Lakes Shore,

SA 5020

dl.1246.info@schools.sa.edu.au

+61 8 8449 7255 www.westlakes.sa.edu.au