face. Make sure you model a „you can do it‟ attitude for your child when he meets some of life‟s curve balls. Look for teachable moments. Many kids‟ learning opportunities are disguised as problems. Make the most of these opportunities so that kids can grow and learn from some of the challenges they face. Make kids active participants in the family. Active participation in a family develops the self-help, problem-solving and independ-ence skills of kids that are necessary for resilience. Build kids coping skills. There are plenty of strategies you can pass on to kids to help them cope when life doesn‟t go their way, including acceptance, getting away for a while, and normalisation.

Promoting resilience in kids is not a single event but a continuous process that requires adults to be supportive and empathetic when things don‟t go their way. It also requires you as a parent to have an under-standing of resilience, so you have faith in your yourself and your child‟s ability to cope. For more information and a great video to watch by Michael Grose to help your child be resilient, go to http://www.parentingideas.com.au/Parents/Resilience or here is the direct link http://youtu.be/n86EHCKDSZI Have an enjoyable fortnight.

Darryn Martin Julie Blogg Principal Associate Principal

New garden beds in senior block.

Dear parents and carers, staff,

students and community members,

I hope you had an enjoyable and safe WA (Foundation) Day long weekend.

With winter upon us and flu‟s and cold‟s impacting on our health, I would like to remind parents that if your child has been unwell during the night, they require a day of rest to recover properly. By sending them to school you are increasing the risk of them having a prolonged stay off school due to illness and potentially spreading the illness through our school community. This week we have the Faction Cross Country on Thursday. All year 4 -7 students are expected to participate unless they have a medical reason for not doing so. Resilience Resilience is an important skill to enable any child to cope with life‟s challenges in our modern world. Some kids are resilient by nature – their temperament helps them to be mentally and psychologically tough. You know those kids. They get straight back up after a setback or disappointment. Rejection in the playground doesn‟t faze them. Unfortunately, not every child has such natural resilience. The good news is that most of the research shows that resilience can be nurtured and developed, particularly when parents themselves are resilient and they actively foster it in their kids. Resilient kids share four basic skill sets: independence, problem-solving, optimism and social connection. Building Resilience From a resilience perspective parents need to coach kids through some of their more challenging moments and reviewing what they may have learned for next time. Avoid solving all their problems for them. You can promote a lasting sense of resilience in your kids by:

Having a positive attitude yourself. Your attitude as a parent impacts on their ability to bounce back from some of the difficulties they

Coming Events

Thursday 5 June 2014

Faction Cross Country

Thursday 12 June 2014 Pre-Primary Assembly

Friday 13 June 2014

Lapathon

Thursday 19 June 2014

In school Dental screening

Yr P, 3 & 6

Thursday 26 June 2014 Interschool

Cross Country

ISSUE NO: 7

4 June 2014

Kindy and Pre Primary Enrolments 2015

Applications to enrol in the Little Grove Primary School Kindergarten and Pre-primary Program for 2015 are now open

Applications to Enrol Forms are available from the school office or can be downloaded by following the enrolment tab on the school website at www.littlegroveps.wa.edu.au

If downloading your form, please ensure that you use the 2015 Application to Enrol Form.

Parents are reminded that Pre-primary is now a compulsory year of schooling. Students who are currently in Pre-primary do not have to enrol in Year 1 for 2015.

Your enrolment cannot be accepted without the accompanying paperwork. Please provide a copy of birth certificate, immunisation record and proof of address (utility account) when you drop off your form.

Applications close on 25 July 2014.

Parents of year 6 and 7 students are reminded that they must enrol their children into high school for 2015. See NASHS News in this publication. For other high schools please contact them directly for information.

CANTEEN NEWS

CANTEEN ROSTER:

Fri 6 June: Karen Donna K Wed 11 June: Loraine Fri 13 June: Danielle Sue Wed 18 June: Michelle

P&C News

Please join us for our LAPATHON fundraiser - next Friday 13 June 2014, starting at 1:30pm on the school oval.

Students are reminded to collect their sponsorship money using their GREEN numbered sponsorship form.

All forms and money raised are to be returned to the collection box at the school office by 30 JUNE 2014 please. (Remember to return your form even if you did not collect any sponsorship, all forms must be account-ed for.)

We have fantastic prizes for the highest fundraisers and student with the most sponsors.

Heaps of spot prizes, stickers & lucky dips on the day!

This is a FUN event for all, so join us for some fun and cheer on our children.

We look forward to your ongoing support for another SUCCESSFUL LAPATHON day!

HONOUR CERTIFICATES Congratulations to the following

students who were awarded Honour Certificates at our last assembly

Room 1 Mena Xavier

Room 2 Tariq Sally

Room 3 Kai Diezal

Room 5 Harry Katey

Room 6 Stella Emma

Room 7 Nickia Chey

Science Visits

Our school was treated to a free Scitech visit with information sessions being run for students and teaching staff. The children enjoyed the fun activities and staff met for a valuable and rewarding insight into running science classes. The school has also been offered another free science show by Graham Walker, through funding from the Great Southern Science Council. This will be held on Tuesday 17 June at school. Please see the poster on the back page for information regarding a FREE FAMILY science show on Monday evening 16 June at the Albany Surf Lifesaving Club.

Notes Coming Home via Children

Please check you child‟s bag for the following important forms that will be coming home with your child this week.

Statement: (If you have already paid your contributions, thank you. You will not receive this notice.)

Student Health Care Summary: The school must have a completed Student Health Care Summary form for each student. Please take the time to read the information, complete the form as accurately as possi-ble and return it to your class teacher by Friday 20 June 2014.

Sustainability Report Well done to all the parents and children who have been collecting recyclable items for school use. We have a fabulous collection of bottle tops for maths and loads of small boxes for construction. Keep

collecting ring pulls, batteries and stamps, as the more of these that are recycled means less in our landfill. We have 6 new oval garden beds in the large bricked are between the Music Room and Art Room that will be set up in the next week. Room 5 & 6 students have used the opportunity to design and plan a map to decide how the area will look. This planning has enable the students to see how maths and measure-ment is used in a real life situation. Mrs Bassett has also had input as she and the art classes will have the beds to look at through the Art Room window. We are designing the garden system to match with our cooking needs in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. Using the garden lesson to teach children about crop rotation, soil health, plant nutrition, tool care and use and how to succession plant to have useable food when we need it for cooking. We have purchased wooden cutting boards and thanks to the generous parents from Room 5 now have lots of bowls, cutlery and crockery. We have a pasta making machine which Room 6 students have trialled making basil fettuccine and tomato sauce fettuccine, as well as carrot dip, roti bread, salads, coconut milk, tabouleh and hassleback potatoes. Room 2 did a fabulous job of their first cooking lesson a few weeks ago. Thank you to the parents and grandparent who volunteered to assist the children. Our time management needs refining as the children take a long time to peel and cut vegetables, but we all enjoyed eating the food. A thank you to Mrs Bell for allowing us to use her students as our first “guinea pig” group. I was impressed with their behaviour, persis-tence and patience. They are well on their way to being competent cooks as Mrs Bell takes regular cooking lessons with them. Anyone interest in copies of the recipes we are using, please see me for copies. We have been planting Flanders Poppy seed pots which will be available at the PP‟s Week 7 assembly and Rm 5‟s Assembly in Week 10 for a gold coin donation. They will be flowering during Remembrance Week in November. Any small pots would be gladly welcome, please bring to the PP room. Happy cooking, gardening and recycling.

Mrs Dawson

NASHS NEWS

Three staff members came to LGPS this week to introduce themselves and explain what the students can expect next year when they enter high school.

All year 6 & 7 students attended the very informa-tive talk. Students were shown what their timetables will look like and told about the exciting new subjects that they will be involved in at high school. Parent Orientation Evenings will be held for parents and their children next week. All parents and caregivers are encouraged to attend to gain information about the curriculum and the pastoral care that the school provides. A tour of the facilities will also be offered. This is a great way for parents and students to become familiar with the campus. Parent Orientation Evening for Parents of: Year 6 students: Tuesday 10 June Year 7 students: Thursday 12 June Tour commences at 5.30pm and the meeting will start at 6.15pm. During Term 3 and 4 students will attend orientation days at NASHS to experience a snapshot of life at high school and participate in a variety of new activities. Information and enrolment packs where handed out to all students. Your childs „Application to Enrol Form’ is due at NASHS by 27 June 2014. Please return the completed form the your class teacher or mail direct in the prepaid envelope provided.

Community Notice Board Please see the School Notice Board for

community notices.

Recently Added: Irish Dance Classes „13-Storey Treehouse‟ Live on Stage at AEC Buzz Club Gardening Group - 0-5 year olds

Thank you to Mrs Bassett for making fabulous displays of students work throughout the school.

The art is fantastic and brightens up our work areas.

Eagle Cup

During this term we started Eagle Cup and for those who don't know what that is, it is school football. So far we have all done great with 1 win out of 3 games. First we played Spencer Park but sadly we lost by a lot. The score was 94-32. For the next game the whole team left school at 3 o‟clock to arrive in Denmark in time for the game. Now that game, we all liked that game! We all played fantastic with a win to at least send us close to the top of the ladder. The score 25-9. Then to the next game last week against Mount Lockyer. The team didn‟t win or have the best game but we all tried our best and enjoyed it. The score 61-29. Thanks to Mr McCarthy for coaching us. I am sure that the whole team would agree with me by saying “thanks for the tops”. There will be more updates on Eagle Cup. By Cyrus.