This month our Lindisfarne Learners have not only done an outstanding job striving to achieve their best in their classrooms but have also participated with aspiration and courage in many events that have been held throughout the term. We are so proud of their efforts and would like to reflect on some of these events to remind us just how busy we have all been!

After a successful Athletics Carnival, many of our Grade 3 to 6 students were selected to represent our school at the SPSSA Interschool Athletics Carnival where we came 5^th in Division B and recently some students represented our school at the Champions Carnival. Our Kinder to Grade 2 students also had the opportunity to participate in an Athletics Fun Day which was extremely successful with much enjoyment had by all! (See the gallery and details below)

Some of our youngest learners participated in the new Early Years PAT Testing  early in the month and our Grades 3 and 5 students have recently had the opportunity to practise for the NAPLAN test which will occur next term, enabling students to understand the process and build confidence before the actual test week arrives. This term parents and guardians also received progress reports which outlined student’s work habits.

We have celebrated Harmony Day this month, had school photos, some classes have ventured on excursions and our Grade 3/4 classes have participated in an outdoor classroom program throughout the term. We have also hosted and some of our primary students participated in the Japanese Roadshow run by the Japan Foundation Sydney, and this week our Kinder to Grade 3 students were visited by Ditto from Bravehearts who shared a message about personal safety.

Mathematics Association of Tasmania – Problem Solving Competition

On Thursday 18^th March, a group of 26 Grade 5 and 6 students participated in the Mathematics Association of Tasmania Problem Solving Competition. These students did an amazing job, using rigor and determination to do their best! Congratulations to the students who participated:

Jacob A, Charlotte W, Lachie S, Memphis C, Dylan C, Mason H, Lachie H, Ryan B, Demi C, Jed B, Ollie B, Samuel C, Wiley P, Luka K, Benson O, Eleanor W, Soren S, Isabelle O, Abigail A, Adele W, Coco S, Harmony P, Elsie T, Daisy K, Elke W & Zhara D.

Special mention to Lachie H, Daisy K, Jacob A and Dylan C for receiving a certificate of Honourable Mention.

As Term 1 closes, I would like to let our school community know about a couple of staffing changes that are occurring. We would like to thank Mr Shaun Worker for his commitment to learning and to our students. Shaun has been working with Teresa Street on 5/6 Blue and we are grateful for the passion, dedication and sense of humour he brought to his class. We look forward to welcoming Jacquie Moore back from maternity leave on this class and wish Shaun all the best in what we are sure will be a long and successful teaching career.

Amanda Brown is taking leave for Term 2, and we welcome Yvonne Kerklann onto our staff in replacement. Yvonne has taught here for the past year in many relief roles and has worked with all our students. She is looking forward to employing her passion and expertise in the music and LIL area to continue Amanda’s work.

We are very lucky to be surrounded each day by such amazing students who have worked extremely hard and deserve to have a rest before we start again in Term 2.  On behalf of all of the staff here at Lindisfarne Primary School, we would like to wish you a happy Easter and safe holidays. We look forward to seeing everyone back at school for Term 2 on Wednesday 21st April.

Kind regards,

Advanced Skills Teacher

Harmony Week 2021

This year's Harmony Week was a blast! We had so many students dressing up and participating in the events. The decorated classrooms looked amazing! There have been many lovely photos entered into the Harmony Day photo competition.  Well done to all those who entered. Here are our winners collecting their book prizes:

Thank you to the students, teachers and parents who contributed.

By Lachie H, Bayley R and Ben S

Nature Pod

This term we have been working out how to make the Nature Pod a fun place to play. We have been thinking of ways to get safe, fun, and affordable things. We had a look at photos of Nature Pods and decided what's fun safe and affordable. 

We then got all the ideas and showed them all to Brett our Groundsman to get his ideas and opinions.

Next we need to see what we can afford and work out exactly what we want and make sure all our ideas are going to work. 

Lastly, we need to present our final plan to Ms Innis and Brett. 

There has been a lot of work but it will be really fun.

By Maya W and Hannah K

The schedule below shows which classes will be contributing to newsletters throughout the year. We look forward to showing what our classes are working on! 

We now have a number of Lunch Time Groups up and running in our school.  These programs have been developed to provide students with extra learning opportunities.  Currently we have programs operating in the school garden, LEGO clubs and a Games Club.  They provide the context for students to;

• participate in learning in an area of special interest
• develop/extend skills in a particular area
• develop social skills, team building and cooperative skills working in a small group environment
• take on a leadership role/teaching others
• building new friendships

Students shared the following insights into their learning:

"At LEGO club we make things with LEGO in groups.  We are learning how to build.  We help each other and we build things together too.  LEGO helps me stay calm at lunch times."

"It’s great being able to do something that I like to do.  At gardening club we have been watering seedlings, digging trenches to plant potatoes and learning how to take care of the garden."

Ms Hudson

Advanced Skills Teacher / Support Teacher

Kinder - Grade 2 Athletics Fun Day

Our Kinder to Grade 2 students enjoyed their Athletics Fun Day on Wednesday 17th March. Thank you to Mr Kamano, staff and parents for organising and joining in the fun! 

Grade 3-6 Athletics Carnival

Students in Grades 3-6 braved the weather to participate in our annual Athletics Carnival on Thursday 25th February. House Captains did a wonderful job of leading their teams in cheering and supporting each other, and encouraging all to have a go.

SPSSA Interschool Athletics Carnival

Students with qualifying times in the Athletics Carnival went along to the SPSSA Interschool Athletics Carnival. Overall, LPS placed 5th and all of our students represented our school beautifully. Congratulations, team!

SPSSA Champions Carnival

On Tuesday the 30^th March, 12 of our students donned their school sports uniforms to proudly represent Lindisfarne Primary at the SPSSA Champions Athletic Carnival.

Special mention to Baxter for making it through to the final of the 200m. Finlay also made it through to the final of the 200m and placed 4^th in the final. Sophie placed 1^st in the 800m final, Scarlet placed 4^th in the 400m final and our Grade 4 boys came away with 3^rd place in their shuttle relay. All team members gave their best and should be commended for their efforts. Congratulations everyone.

Mrs Bloomfield
3/4 Class Teacher

At Lindisfarne Primary School our commitment to every learner is to provide quality teaching and learning that will enable students to demonstrate a year of growth for a year of learning in number.  The Big 6 in number are six essential ideas which provide students with key understandings that will support them in the future. They work in a sequential order starting at Trusting the Count, Place Value, Multiplicative Thinking, Partitioning, Proportional Reasoning & then Generalising.

Our staff provide many opportunities for students to be emersed in learning about number.  One of these includes rotations!  Maths rotations provides all students with the learning experience that allow them to engage in number activities independently, increasing their fluency and allowing them to explore ideas together in a small group.  It also enables each student to be a part of a teacher focus group each week.  Having a teacher focus group allows the teacher to provide targeted learning that is differentiated to the needs of the students within the group.  Here are some photos of the amazing rotation work our Kinder to Grade 2 students have been involved in this term!  Next term our Grade 3 to 6 rotations will feature in the newsletter. 

Kinder

In Kinder playing games plays a crucial part in Maths Rotations.  These games were focusing on counting and numeral recognition.

Prep

In Prep our students focus on subitising (recognising how many without having to count all) and using ten frames to represent amounts.  Creating visual images of numbers (knowing that 6 is 4 & 2, 3 & 3, 5 & 1 etc) is crucial to developing good number sense.

Grade 1/2

In Grades 1 & 2 students work independently on devices to practise building fluency. They also practise building fluency through games and other activities that focus on Trusting the Count and Place Value.

5/6 NAVY

This term, 5/6 Navy have been focussing on questioning. During our reading rotations students have been exploring three types of questions:

• Online questions, which can be thought of as retrieving information that is clearly stated in a text.

• Between the line questions which can be thought as interpreting explicit information in the text and making connections between paragraphs within the text.

• Beyond the line questions which can be thought of as evaluative questions, which is interpreting and making inferences based on the knowledge the reader brings to the text from their personal experience (text to self), connections to other books they have read ( text to text) and connections to their world knowledge (text to world).

Students participated in some directed sessions where the teacher posed the different types of questions.

Then students experiment with posing these types questions to the group.

The reading group then tried to answer these questions, we discussed how successfully the student generated questions fitted into the 3 categories.  

The aim of these sessions is to help students understand the different types of questions and to apply appropriate thinking to successfully answer the differing questions types.

This supports student ability to comprehend a variety of texts.

Michelle Isaac

Class Teacher, 5/6 Navy

PREP BLUE

Term 1 in Prep has been about beginning to read!
We have been practising our blending and segmenting of sounds with compound words.

One of our favourite activities is ‘Switch it’, where we write a CVC word on our whiteboards and Miss Hill tells us to “switch it” to a new word. We need to listen for a different sound and switch one of our letters to another to make the new word.
Our focus in reading rotations has been on assessment this term, along with our letter sounds and book orientation. Our reading strategy focus has been Eagle Eye; using the pictures to give us a clue as to what an unknown word might be.

We can already read our spelling words from SMART Spelling and are already getting so much better at reading the sentence that goes with each word. Some children have even been spotting Oxford ‘star’ words in our SMART Spelling sentences!
Our class is very well represented at Reader’s Club on Tuesday mornings and it has been fantastic to see so many children doing their home reading so often; thank you families. The children have been very proud to receive their home reading certificates and it is amazing to see so many achieve in excess of 25 nights already!

Last week we held our AGM and we'd like to welcome two new voting members on board our committee; Kate Rainbird and Alison Walker - congratulations! 

The newly elected office bearer positions are: 

Chairperson - Sarah P

Vice-chair - Courtney Punshon

Secretary - Kate Rainbird

Treasurer - Emily Williams 

Please click the link below to view the Chairperson's Annual Report:

https://lindisfarneps.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/1836/sa_annual_report_002_.pdf

Our next meeting is on the 18th May @ 6:30pm in the GP Room. All welcome!

Have a fabulous holiday break. 

Representatives from the Japan Foundation Sydney have been touring Tasmania with a Japanese Cultural Road Show. All Grade 5 and 6 participated in activities typical of a Japanese Sports Days.  Whilst individual running races are held at Sports Days in Japan, most events focus on team work and participation.  Students enjoyed tama-ire (how many balls can be thrown into a hoop in 1 minute), dekapan (huge pants race) and oodama korogashi (big ball roll relay).  

All Grade 4 students participated in the second workshop to learn a Japanese festival dance.  Yosakoi dance competition is held in Kochi Prefecture and has over 19,000 participants each Summer.  Students held Naruko clappers and followed Yumi Sensei (Japanese Language Assistant to Tasmania) to learn the dance moves. 

Sensei Wedd

LOTE - Japanese Teacher

With the beautiful autumnal 'summer’ weather of recent weeks, students have been going full-swing in the garden. We now have seed potatoes, green manure crops, spinach, silverbeet, kale, snowpeas and broad beans beginning to sprout. The potting shed is full of seedlings from seed donations (thank you everyone) as well as rosemary and hydrangea cuttings. There is a small bed of donated ground-covering succulents which has been planted near the kitchen. The worms are growing before our eyes in their bathtub worm farm and the liquid fertiliser is being used on the garden and seedlings. Donated seed has been extracted and packaged as we prepare for our first fundraiser.

GUEST CHEF

Last week was extra special with students in 4 classes experiencing their first LPS Kitchen-Garden cooking lesson with Guest Chef and parent, Scott Heffernan. Students worked alfresco-style using the BBQ to cook Potato Rosti, Pumpkin Moustaches, Savoury Pancakes, Sweet Pancakes, and Scone Rounds with lashings of freshly made raspberry jam and cream. Our thanks and gratitude to Scott for sharing his expertise and knowledge, supplying all of the ingredients, and bringing in cooking resources from his mobile catering business, Flint Kitchen.

GRATITUDES

We wish to acknowledge and thank the many students and their families, staff and community members who have made donations:

Amanda Brown – upright fridge/freezer and gardening tools

Katie Groom and family – microwave oven

Brett Gordon / Adrian Sweet – transport arrangements for fridge/freezer

Jodi Molhuysen – commercial seed packets

Yvonne Kerklaan – seedlings, chilli plants, cucamelons, pots, pots, pots!

Essie Reed – bay leaf tree and tomato plant

Oscar Tinker – relocating soil and potting mix delivery

Sam Travers – first to get started with fruit composting in after-school program

Teresa Street – pots and pans

Stacey Price – cookbooks

Luka and Nina Kumashiro – rosemary cuttings

Natalie Webb – hydrangea cuttings

Deb Lawler – buckets for composting

Mel McCarthy – Horse manure

Jodi and Tam – stationery, surplus book club catalogues for seed potato mulch

Sara Wright – networking with MONA 24 Carot program

Megan Hoult – grilling machine

Henry and Silas Barton – strawberry plants

Emily and Ben Stevenson – electric kettle

Lee Watkinson - seedlings and containers

Bunnings Mornington - $100 of gardening materials – gloves, buckets, watering cans, wheelbarrow

Thank you, too, to all students and their families who have continued to donate supermarket Discovery Gardens as we now have a healthy seed bank. (My apologies is you have made a donation and are not in this gratitude list)

DONATIONS 

Our attention is now shifting to the flexible teaching kitchen which we are hoping to have equipped, up and running, and be cooking in, around the middle of next term. We are still looking for donations of cutlery, cookware, electrical appliances, utensils, mixing bowls, glasses and cups, bowls, serving platters, chopping boards, kettle, toaster, electric frying pan, urn.

VOLUNTEERS 

If you know of anyone who has a special kitchen-garden skill of any kind; their WWVP registration; and would be willing to give of their time to share with students, then please let me know. All suggestions will be considered. Similarly if you’re interested in volunteering in the program at school, please let me know your availability. I’m particularly looking for people who can provide a regular hour or more to help out in the kitchen with cooking classes.

As always, thank you for your ongoing support throughout this term,

Deb Morgan

Kitchen-Garden Teacher

deb.morgan@education.tas.gov.au

Grades 3 to 5 will be participating in the annual Swimming and Water Safety (SAWS) program from Monday 26th April until Friday 7th May. 

Students will need to be prepared with bathers, towel, a plastic bag for wet clothes and swimming cap. (Cap will be provided at the first session).

Check out the DoE site for further info on this important program:

Thank you to everyone who supported the Readers Club during Term1. This wonderful initiative will continue in Term 2 on Tuesday mornings. Volunteers are welcome to join us from 8:30-9am in the Library. 

ALL VOLUNTEERS MUST HAVE A CURRENT RWVP AND MUST SIGN IN AT THE OFFICE BEFORE GOING TO THE LIBRARY.