Thursday Thoughts

L a u n c h i n g P l a c e P r i m a r y S c h o o l

Issue 16

Date: 1st June 2017

Student Absent

Hot Line Number

5964 7783 Launching Place Primary School

20A Carter Street Launching Place 3139

Telephone 5964 7783 Fax 5964 6171

Email launching.place.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

ABN 96 199 518 803

Important Dates

June

2nd - Aussie Sport’s

Expo 5/6

3rd - State Aerobics

Championships

12th - Queen’s B’day - holiday

13th - Book club due back

23rd - Curriculum Day

26th - Parent/ teacher

Interviews

30th - End Term 2

Good Luck

Mrs Messerle

We would like to wish

Mrs Messerle ‘Good

Luck’ as she heads off to

compete at the

Australian Masters

Games in Darwin. We

look forward to hearing

about the event.

.

Thank you to everyone for

helping to make our Education

Week such a

great success!

Tali L

Tali is a social, confident and outgoing student. She is a kind friend to her peers and always shows respect towards staff and other stu-dents. She is a good role model for the younger students and an excellent representa-tive for our

Ayla G

Ayla always enters the room with a smile. She genuinely cares for her classmates and is a friend

to all. She is always courteous and respectful of all members of the school community.

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School Captain’s Report

Prep: This week in Café reading, we are learning to retell a story form the

pictures. We are learning about the letter E and our words of the week are “with”

and “you”. We are learning to include where an event took place in recount

writing. In Maths, we are revising the days of the week and are learning to order

events in a day.

1/2: This week in Café reading we have started to look at the comprehension strategy, asking questions. We

discussed why good readers ask questions. In writing, we have continued to work on poetry. We have started our

Math’s rotations for subtraction and began to look at mass. In I.S. we talked more about farming and the different

produce that is grown. We enjoyed making Hairy Harrys.

3/4: This week in Café reading we have been working on the monitor and fix up strategy, so that we can under-

stand what we are reading. In Maths we had our last week of multiplication groups and looked at weight in our

classes. In I.S. we made towers out of newspaper. We really enjoyed showing our grandparents and friends

around our classrooms.

5/6: We have had a busy and fun week in 5/6. We loved having our grandparents and special friends visit on

Tuesday and coming in to show off our great school on Wednesday night. We all had an awesome time at the film

festival and enjoyed watching our classmates music videos. In Maths we worked hard on area and perimeter, as

well as looking at measurement and length. We continued focusing on persuasive writing during our writing time.

We are all looking forward to the Aussie Sports Expo on Friday.

Aerobics

We would like to wish all of our aerobics teams GOOD LUCK as they

head off to Geelong for the Aerobics State Championships. The teams

have all trained exceptionally hard under the watchful eye of

Miss Nyman, Miss Mackie and Mrs Kemp.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR We can not emphasise how much

EVERYONE has enjoyed the Book Fair.

The kids lost sleep and woke up early

in anticipation of purchasing their

books. We know from all of the

comments that the parents loved the

fact that the kids so desperately

wanted BOOKS. Thank you to the

Parents and Friends for having the

Book Fair and thank you to the

parents for supporting the Book Fair.

We hope your children have many

hours of fun reading their new books.

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Name Award

00N Tiege W

Izabella S

For writing the first letter for each word in the sentence he was writing.

For great work matching letters to the pictures of things that start with that letter.

00T Riley H

Olivia C

For writing two excellent sentences in journal writing.

For standing up and speaking to the whole class.

1/2C Max D

Zoe D

For showing persistence when reading difficult texts.

For making a wonderful start at Launching Place Primary School.

1/2M Tristen H For perfect classroom behaviour at all times.

3/4L Alex J

Chelsea S

Lucas G

For being organised with his diary and for amazing home reading. Well done!

For always presenting her work in a neat and organised way and for receiving her pen

licence.

For excellent work in reading.

5/6B Bailey W

Haidyn G

Using his reading journal to infer word meanings.

For using a range of strategies to deepen his comprehension.

5/6F Hunter L

Aimee J

For passing Blitzmaster!

For passing Blitzmaster!

5/6S Jackson H

Winter P

Blake D

For excellent preparation in our public speaking course.

For fantastic reading results.

For excellent effort during the 5/6 public speaking course.

School Council President’s Report

Hello from the School Council! You may have noticed a few changes around the school since our last up-date. We were lucky enough to be offered a brand new double portable for Arts and Music. Over the past month the old portables have been removed and the new portables installed. Things have pro-gressed quickly and the buildings will soon be in use. Thank you to the neighbours and all our families for your patience whilst parking and traffic was affected.

The buildings are looking very smart and I’m sure the students (and teachers) will enjoy the bigger space. The upper basketball court and the Carter Street entrance now have fresh looks with brand new seating in the amphitheatre and fully replaced external fencing. Not so obvious is the updates to the boy’s

toilets in the hex building. This still needs to be completed however; the works should be a major im-provement to this area of our school.

The Building and Grounds maintenance roster should have now been received by all families that opted to not pay the maintenance levy. Reminders will also be included in the weekly newsletter. If you can’t make it to the school during your week, don’t panic. You are welcome to swap with another family or to help during another week. Ideas for ways in which you could help include pruning, weeding or sweeping but every little bit helps to keep our school looking great and promotes school pride. Don’t forget to check in with the office to let them know that you are there to help out with maintenance. If you visit over the weekend, the office would still like to know you have been so that they can recognise all those that volunteer their time.

Regards, Gemma Wynd

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Open Night

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Open Night

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Extend Before and After School Care at

Launching Place Primary School

Our weekly recap What a Crazy week we had this week with Grandparents and Special Friends day and Open Night this week.

Monday We made an IN THE NIGHT SKY WALL where we thought of things we see in the sky at night and printed them out and coloured them in.

Tuesday We all helped make an ANTI-BULLYING WALL, we all had great suggestions on how to stop bullying and how we can be nicer to other children.

Wednesday because the room was set up for open night we enjoyed some time outside on the equipment. Thursday We all joined in on some Running Races around the building.

AND Friday Zoe had a fun day as the only child in ASC she ran around inside and outside all afternoon.

Happy Birthday to Taite G and Ruby K whose birthdays were last week and Lexi O for her birthday tomorrow. Michelle, Team Leader Our Extend Superstar is Tali L Helping cheer up others when they are feeling down and always being there to help the younger children when they need it. What’s on next week? Monday 5th June: Rice Pictures / Continuity Ball Tuesday 6th June: Obstacle Course / Free Outside Play Wednesday 7th June: Rolled Paper People / Octopus and Scarecrow Thursday 8th June: Marks Up / Aerobics & Gymnastics Practice Friday 9th June: Children's Choice

PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au

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Phys Ed and Sport at Launch

Photo Trail for Foundation to 2s

Last week all of our Junior School headed

off to Silvan to participate in the annual

Photo Trail and Tabloid Sports. A great

day was had by all as can be seen by the

photos.

District Cross Country

Forty of our students from grades 3 to 6 headed to

Wesburn Park a couple of weeks ago for the District

Cross Country. It was a great effort by all and now 6

students will compete at Yarra Glen Racecourse and

compete at the Division Level. We wish Kade V(1st),

Mason O (4th), Caitlyn C(8th), Blake C(5th), Tahlia

T(6th) Lachlan R(5th) and Tyler V (10th) all the best at

the next level of competition.

Aussie Sports Day

This Friday is the annual

Aussie Sports Day for our

5/6s. There are 18 sports

participating on the day and

it is always a great day

providing a huge range of

sports to choose from.

Archery

Approximately 20 students from grade

5/6 will be participating in the annual

Archery Tournament. It goes for the

following 4 Wednesdays and we

should have about 5 teams playing.

There are about 30 teams involved

from across the Upper Yarra District. Sporting In Schools

This term we have booked Netball and AFL to provide Sporting

programs at our school. They have started this week and

should continue until the end of term

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