DATES TO REMEMBER

October

Wednesday 12th 6.30pm Costa Hall

Bully stoppers—Mission Possible CONCERT 12th October Grade 1,3&5 Concert tickets are available for purchase from the office.

Gr 4 botanical gardens excursion Div Basketball (selected students)

Thurs 13th Gr 6 Start smart program Gr 2 open classroom 3.00pm

Mon 17th Whole school Assembly 2.30pm Wed 19th Geelong Cup– No School

Mon 24th Bandanas go on sale– available from the office and grade 6JC $4.00 each. Fri 28th Bandana Day

2016 School Council Members

Parent reps Deb Duncan – President,

Glenn Abbott – Vice President, Jenny Peters – Treasurer,

Alison Woodard, Amanda Rowe, Ina Smith, Stella Sutherland, Naomi

Hammond Staff reps

Cheryl Hair, Triste Anderson, Vicky Mc Kay , Haydn Marshall

Co-opted members Leschelle Keast (E C Education),

Alison Merrett (Parents Association) Executive officer

Jan Rollinson - Principal Minute secretary - Charmaine

Granger

Leopold Primary School

Leopold Lines

NEWSLETTER NO:19 Thursday 6th October 2016

Leopold Primary School Learning for Life

1 Kensington Rd, Leopold 3224

PO Box 42 Leopold 3224

Email : leopold.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Web: www.leopold.vic.edu.au

Phone: 52501233

Fax: (03)52503369

OHSC: 52501292/ 0400 08

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Leopold Primary School Mission

Welcome back! Here we go, term 4, full of colour and movement, as we stretch our way to the end of

the year.

Learning to do, know, be and live together! Our place to shine Costa Hall Wednesday night 12th October. As part of our Bully stoppers/ Mission possible concert our fabulous grade 5 students will introduce the concert and by doing so tune the audience into the many themes and mantras which guide, support and strengthen our LPS community. Thank you Gr 5 team!

New playground surface. The Preps are relishing the new soft fall surface under the playground equipment.

Changes to our assemblies. The student school leaders and Jan Rollinson are constantly looking to make our assemblies relevant, inspiring and entertaining. This term we have decided to change it up, look outside the box and stretch our capabilities. We will change the dates and participation and then in turn the items presented. Assemblies this term will be delivered every three weeks, rather than two, and our assemblies will no longer be in two halves, changing over to whole school assemblies. Assemblies in term 4 - Prep to Grade 6 Whole school- Starting at 2:30- 3:15 pm. Week 3 –Monday 17th October. Week 6 - Monday 7th November Week 9 – Monday 28th November Week 12 - Monday 19th December.

2017 Students to Grades. The 2017 student placements to new grades will be commencing soon. If you have specific information in regard to peers whom your child should not be placed with in 2017, then please write to Jan Rollinson (Principal). Requests will be received from Monday October 10th until Friday October 21st. Any requests after this date will not be accepted. Please note that we cannot accommodate requests for specific teachers. While we appreciate you may feel that your child should be with a specific friend, teachers have the professional knowledge in regard to how friendship dynamics play out within a classroom. Student’s personal / friendship relationships do not always mean the relationship is good for learning, therefore, we ask parents only to submit requests for peers your child should not be placed with. This year we will be using a software program to generate classes. Parameters will be placed into the system that include – teacher recommendations, reasonable parent requests, appropriate student requests and additional information from the admin-istration team including any students on the PSD program. Regards, Jan Rollinson Grade 6 tops 2017 Sample tops will be available to try on tomorrow, Friday 7th October in the Melaluka building.—morning—from 8:30 and after-noon from 3:30. Prep Enrolments 2017 We are currently finalising our enrolments for 2017. If you have not yet handed your enrolment into the office, or you aware of Other families wishing to enrol at Leopold Primary School for 2017, now is the time to do so. Excursion/ Incursion permission forms: This term students will be involved in many excursions and incursions. Please be aware that students will be unable to attend their excursion/incursion if permission slips are not returned to the classroom teacher. Footy Colours day/ Purple Day A Big thank you to everyone who participated in footy colours day and MPS purple day on the last day of term 3. A total of $470 was donated to help fight cancer and $470 was donated to the MPS foundation. What a fantastic effort.

CONCERT REMINDER— Just a reminder to families that next week is our fantastic “ Bully Stoppers Concert” Make sure you have purchased your tickets from the office so you don’t miss out on a wonderful night! Students have put in hours and hours of practice! We cant wait!!!!!!!!!!

At our last Assembly our Learning Goals were presented by … Jack Zoe Lachlan

Cody Atalaya Charlotte

Bandana Day Reminder to families that this years Bandana day will be held on Friday 28th October. Students are encourages to wear a Ban-

dana or scarf on this day and bring along a gold coin donation to raise money for childhood cancers. Bandanas are available for purchase from Gr 6JC and office on Monday 17th Octo-ber.

REGIONAL ATHLETICS The following students have now progressed through the school, district, and division Athletics Carnival. They are now heading to Keilor Park to participate at the Regional Athletics Carnival.

Congratulations on an amazing achievement so far and good luck for next week.

DIVISION BASKETBALL The following girls are heading off to compete at the Division Basketball Tournament. These students won the District Tourna-ment back in Term 1

Presley Johannesen, Charlotte Murray, Lulu Connoley, Lily Stanesby, Michelle Law, Tahlia O'Keefe, Annais Opsimoulis,

Makenzie Pilven

Good luck to Lucas McKay and the Girls Lightning Premiership Team. Later on this term we also have our Girls Hoop Time

team heading to Werribee for the Regional stage of the Hoop Time Competition.

PE Coordinator

Lee Jarvis

PRIMARY SCHOOL GOLF Congratulations to the following students who are representing Leopold Primary School at next week’s Primary School Golf

Tournament. These students will be playing a 9-hole round at Geelong Golf Club on Monday morning.

Harry Wall, Kai Mitchell, Cooper Wagenknecht, Liam Blackford, Joshua Abbott , Seth Alsop, Aidan Burns, Bonnie Symons

Mason Blyth, Cody Drew, Jack Elliott, Tyler Febey

Josh Abbott, Callum Gibson, Bailey Haintz, Grace Kline, Amy Skurrie, Riannah Tatlock, Ashley Tucker, Jackson Unthank

Josh Unthank