LANCELIN PRIMARY SCHOOL

TERM 1 Week 5

8th March Faction Swimming Carnival

11th P&C Meeting

14th National Day of Action Against Bullying & Violence

15th Interschool Swimming Carnival

7th March 2019

Fly High See Far

A Newsletter designed to inform our school community of

Lancelin Primary School

Linda Toms - PRINCIPAL

53 Gingin Road Lancelin WA 6044

P: 08 9655 1077

Dear Parents and Friends

Monster Fete Smiles from ear to ear! Children and adults alike had a wonderful day at the Monster Fete on Sunday. It was wonderful to see the whole community come together and I cannot believe the number of people that came and joined us for the event. Thanks to all the families for their tremendous support and donating their precious time Thank you to all the sponsors for their support. Thanks to the staff who manned stalls and participated in various events during the day. Special thanks to the dedicated and hardworking P&C for organising such a mammoth event. Thanks to everyone who joined us on the day and helped make the occasion such a resounding success.

Making a Splash

Tomorrow is the annual faction swimming carnival being held at Iluka Aquatic Centre in Gingin. Please remember that the whole school is involved in this event and all staff will be involved in the carnival. All students are to be at the pool by 9:40 for a 10:00 start. Notes with all the relevant details were distributed to students on the 26 February, so please check these for other information.

Bullying No Way! Take Action Every Day

We will join schools across Australia in making a stand against bullying and violence in our communities by joining in the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. The national day of action is a strong message of support to say NO to bullying! Whilst we conduct regular lessons in social and emotional behaviour throughout the year, it is important for our children to join in a wider context and take part in this national day of action. Friday 15th March is the National Day of Action on Bullying and Violence. Our school is registered for this event but as this is the Interschool Swimming Carnival day we will be doing our activities on Thursday 14

th March. All classes will be doing activities

related to this and all students will receive a wrist band and information to bring home on the day.

NAPLAN 2019

Children in Year 3 and 5 will participate in NAPLAN from 13 May 2019. NAPLAN is transitioning to an online environment. This means moving from paper based to an online assessment. Year 3 children will complete a writing assessment on paper. Tailored testing will give students questions better suited to their achievement level, the precision and timing of results will help teachers tailor their teaching more specifically to student needs and parents will get their child’s results faster. Over the past two years we have been a trial school in preparing for the NAPLAN online assessments, ensuring our technical readiness, student readiness and teacher readiness. The data and information we gain from NAPLAN drives ongoing improvement at school. Any questions parents/caregivers have about their child completing NAPLAN should be discussed with the class teacher.

A brochure with information about NAPLAN assessments has been sent home with Year 3

and Year 5 students today. Any questions parents/caregivers have about their child

completing NAPLAN can be discussed with the class teacher or me.

LANCELIN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Assembly Roster Weekly assemblies are held at 8:50 every Wednesday morning in the library. Class assemblies will also

be held on Wednesday mornings in weeks 5 and 10 of the term. These will commence in term 2.

Children’s University Lancelin Primary School students will have the opportunity to be involved in this wonderful initiative again in 2019. Through our partnership with Edith Cowan University, this program enables the provision of extra-curricular learning opportunities for children aged between 7 – 14 years (and 5 – 6 year olds with their families). The aim of the program is to engage children and young people in learning in its broadest sense and to provide the scaffolding for them to develop self-efficacy, confidence and aspirations.

Stay tuned for more information. Every Day Counts In the last newsletter, I included information regarding student attendance and the importance of children being at school every day. We are half way through term one and I will be sending out letters to parents of students whose attendance deems them at risk, that is 80% or below. Take care

Linda Toms Principal

Contributions and Charges

Thank you to families who have paid the contributions and charges fee for 2019. This money is critical to support the school in providing important resources and opportunities that maximise our children’s learning outcomes. Fundamentally, the greater percentage of families who contribute this payment to the school the increased resourcing opportunities are provided to our children. Payment will be greatly appreciated and received at administration.

Please remind you children to bring

their hats to the swimming carnival

tomorrow.

Well done to everyone for

completing swimming

lessons this year.

LANCELIN PRIMARY SCHOOL

REMINDER: EARLY CLOSE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 2.30PM

Student of the Week

Week 5

Sienna Smith, Jessica Hawkins

& Ruby Smith

Student of the Week

Week 4

Alesha Marriott, Camilla Rough, Ebby

Oxley, Deklan Seitz and Cowan Morris,

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Superhero! On Friday March 1, the school held a superhero day to raise money for the Zero2hero cape2cape 135 km trek in April. Thanks you to all the students who dressed up and made a gold coin donation for such a worthy cause. We raised $82.

COMMUNITY NEWS

P&C AGM and General Meeting

Our next meeting will be held in the

school library this Monday the 11th of

March at 3:10pm. Everyone is

welcome, so please come along.

Pirates Junior Football and Auskick Training

Junior Football - Year 3 and over.

Training will commence on Tuesday 19th March at 4:30pm at Lancelin Sporting

Complex. Traiing will be every Tuesday and Thursday.

Please contact to following people for information.

Coach: Sid McLean: 0427 529 921

Team Manager: Kasey Seitz: 0457 027 833

Auskick - Year 2 and under.

Training days and times are yet to be confirmed. Please contact the

Following people for information.

Coach: Deon Moss: 0423 893 212

Team Manager: Nicky Ferguson: 0477 893 212

Register for KidSport for anyone eligible for funding to cover the $70 registration fees.

https://www.dsr.wa.gov.au/funding/individuals/kidsport/apply-for-kidsport

Congratulations to Chalisa Suphap and Elizabeth Moss

for your winning Lego items.

Congratulations to

those students

who participated

in the triathalon.

Great Job!