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- WHOLE SCHOOL REFLECTION
- SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER
- TEACHER ASSISTANT APPRECIATION WEEK
- DRILL PERFORMANCE COMPANY
- STATE EIGHT BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
- 2023 NATIONAL SCHOOL SPORT SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- DONATIONS OF BOARD GAMES
- MESSAGE FROM NURSE PENNY
- JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY COMPETITION
- COMBINED PRIMARY SCHOOL ANNUAL CONCERT TICKETS
- LAUNCHING INTO LEARNING
- READER'S CLUB
- ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE
- PLEASE PAY ANY OUTSTANDING INVOICES
- IMPORTANT DATES FOR TERM 3
- KINDER 2024
- A MESSAGE FROM OUR LIBRARY
- ALLERGY AWARE
- PARKING
- ROSE BAY TRANSITION PROGRAM 2023 into 2024
- SEESAW AND SCHOOLZINE
- LUNCH ORDER SERVICE - BAMBINI BITES
- AFTER SCHOOL CARE
- OTHER NOTICES
The past few weeks have flown by, and I can’t believe that we are already enjoying some gorgeous Spring weather. This Term has been a busy one! Just yesterday we celebrated some of our wonderful swimming achievements at the Grade 3-6 Swimming Carnival and today we were entertained by the wonderful display of talent by The Illawarra Primary School Skipping Rope Team.
Grade 4-6 students are currently completing a nationwide Student Wellbeing Survey that provides us with valuable data about their connectedness to their school, participation in extracurricular activities, as well as their general wellbeing and feelings of belonging and safety. We have also celebrated Book Week in spectacular fashion this term as well as shared some amazing learning through Seesaw and our Assemblies. Over the next couple of weeks, as part of our commitment to communicating with families, all classes from P-6 will be sending home evidence of learning. These samples will be sent via a Seesaw Message. We encourage you to discuss the samples with your child and to have conversations around the next step of learning. If you would like to discuss the sample with your child's teacher, please contact them to make a meeting time.
Relief is an ongoing and complex issue for schools. At the moment there is a national shortage of teachers and so this makes acquiring relief even harder. We always aim to have our regular relief teachers in the school to ensure the continuity of staff in front of students as well as from a learning perspective, however, there are times when this can’t occur, and we need to try new teachers and sometimes different teachers over multiple days. When families feel frustrated by the amount of relief in classrooms, it is often hard to remember that teachers are also humans and have their own children, lives outside of school, and can often become sick, need carers leave or have other leave that they are entitled to across the school year. I would like to recognise and acknowledge the amazing flexibility and resilience that has been shown by the learners at our school over the past few months and thank you all for your patience and understanding in this area.
Further within this newsletter you will find a celebration of our amazing Teacher Assistants, keep an eye out for more focus highlights in future newsletters on our other incredible staff across the school.
Our students have also demonstrated their courage and resilience with the weather this term and we are looking forward to some more lovely Spring days like yesterday and today. Our SunSmart (Hat) Policy historically kicks in in Term 4, however recommendations from the Cancer Council have moved this back to the 1st of September. As a result, we are asking that all students wear their hats when outside from Monday next week please. Sunscreen is available in every classroom; however, we also encourage families to look at the UV index each day and apply sunscreen before your children leave the house.
This week you would have received a form asking you to support your children when they nominate 5 friends that they would like to be in a class with in 2024. All students are guaranteed at least one friend in their new class. Unfortunately, due to many contributing factors this may not be the first person on their list and could be number 5, so students are asked to think carefully about who they write down. Throughout the process our staff also input social, academic, and behavioural information and classes are created to ensure that there is an equal balance of gender, academic and high and additional needs across each class. All the classroom teachers from across all three relevant grades (due to our composite classes) have several opportunities to have input once the lists become more formalised. Our Leadership team, including the support teacher, also then look at them and then I personally cross-check that everyone has at least one friend. This process takes us around 4-6 weeks. We would like these back no later than Friday 22nd September. Any students who do not return a form by this date will be supported by their classroom teacher to complete it.
Every year the Department for Education, Children and Young People conducts a School Satisfaction Survey to find out what your child(ren)'s school does well and where it may improve. We would be grateful if you completed our online survey about Lindisfarne Primary School. Your feedback is very important to help us inform our school-planning and decision-making. The survey is open until Friday 22 September 2023 and should take about 5 minutes to complete. Take the online survey by clicking this link or pasting it in your browser: https://ncv.microsoft.com/Vkn3746ntv. The survey is carried out on a secure website and all responses are anonymous and confidential. All families in this school received the same survey link and no identifying information is collected. A summary of the survey results will be provided to schools. Responses from individuals or small groups will NOT be disclosed to any DECYP staff.
Hi everyone, My name is Courtney. I am very excited to be the School Social Worker here at Lindisfarne Primary School. As a School Social Worker, it is my role to support the wellbeing of students by helping young people, their families and the school identify and address any worries that might be impacting your child’s learning and engagement at school. This can include me working directly with young people on things like mental health concerns, general coping strategies, anxiety and depression, protective behaviours, navigating friendships, family changes and school attendance (among lots of other things!). I can also support families by offering a listening ear and providing support and advice around accessing community supports.
I am at Lindisfarne Primary School every Tuesday. If you feel like there is something that I could do to support your child or family, please talk to your child’s class teacher or the school’s Support Teacher, Purdie Hudson.
Last month the DECYP celebrated Teacher Assistant Appreciation Week and we would like to take the opportunity to recognise the Teacher Assistants that work in our school. We have a permanent team of 11 Teacher Assistants and many more that work in a relief capacity, who work to support the needs of our students across the school. We thank them for their enthusiasm and dedication to their work.
Charlotte recently participated in an extra-curricular activity DRILL which is affiliated with the Children's University. As part of this experience, Charlotte along with others got to perform at the Theatre Royal. Well done Charlotte!
Bailey traveled north on August for the State Eight Ball Championships and he finished 3rd in the under 15’s! Bailey is now off to Canberra in January to play in the National Championships - Well done Bailey!!
Jacob was selected to represent Tasmania in the 2023 National School Sport Swimming Championships which was held in Sydney. The team was made up of swimmers from all over Tasmania aged between 10 – 12 years old who had met the qualifying times when competing in the local state and regional swimming events over the past 12 months. Jacob competed in 7 events over three days against some of the best swimmers in Australia and managed to go under his personal best times in all events! He now has the 2023 Tasmania Cripps State Championships starting on the 9 September. We are so proud of you Jacob!
If anyone has any board games at home they no longer use and would like to donate, Nurse Penny would like to use them in her Mindfulness sessions she runs during lunch time. Donations can be left at the office. Thank you.
The Annual Japanese Teachers Network (JATNET) Calligraphy Competition in on again.
The chosen kanji character for 2023 is 木 (ki) tree.
Each year 5/6 class had its own competition. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place calligraphy from each class are on display in the breezeway.
Congratulations to Alice, Ava, Zoey and Bayley whose artwork was chosen to represent Lindisfarne Primary School in the State-wide Competition.
Tickets for the Combined Primary School Annual Concert, to be held on Friday the 24November at MyState Bank Arena, will be available for sale from Monday the 11September.
Welcome all our new LIL families!
Launching into Learning will be run Friday mornings 9-10.30am with our Kinder Blue Teacher Rebecca Kaiser.
An enrolment form will need to be filled out and returned to the office before your first session.
If you have any questions please phone the school office on 6243 9232.
Reader's Club is being inundated with enthusiastic readers. We would love the help of additional volunteers in providing the opportunity for all students to read aloud. If you can spare some time, come and join us in the library between 8.30-9.00 on Mondays and Wednesdays. It is a great way to start the day! All volunteers are required to have a Working with Vulnerable People Card and be Fully Vaccinated.
If you do have any outstanding amounts with us we ask if you please address them ASAP.
As always, myself and my helpful and approachable Admin Team are always here to chat and help if you ever need to.
Thank you
Libby Ashlin
School Business Manager
Wednesday 27 September - Grade 5 Band rehearsal at Montrose Bay High School
Friday 29 September - Last day of Term 3
Monday 16 October - First day of Term 4
Thursday 26 October - Hobart Show Day
Friday 27 October - Student Free Day
Thursday 21 December - Last day of Term 4
Will your child be 4 turning 5 in 2024?
Please ensure that you have completed an enrolment form for Kindergarten at LPS in 2024. Next year there will be 2 class groups, Kinder White: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Kinder Blue: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
First and foremost, the classes are put together to ensure equity in size and gender (where possible). A lot of thought is put into forming both class groups and we encourage you to attend our Pre-Kinder sessions. We will consider the individual learning needs of every individual with the intent to create the best possible learning environment for each child.
We will aim to notify you of your child’s class to at the beginning of Term 4 to allow plenty of time for flow on childcare and family arrangements.
Book Returns
A friendly reminder that books borrowed from our school library need to be returned to the school and not to the public libraries.
We are finding an increasing number of school library books being returned to public libraries, most recently Hobart & Rosny. When this happens, it requires the school to physically collect the books from these locations. When this occurs you may receive a notification from our library asking you to collect the book and return it to school.
Overdue Books
We are over half way through the term and still have quite a number of overdue books that need to be returned. Overdue letters will be coming home soon.
Please have a look at home if your children have overdue books. We know they can get easily hidden on book shelves or amongst other books! A $10 fee will be invoiced to cover the replacement costs of any lost, damaged or long term missing books.
A FRIENDLY REMINDER
We have noticed an increasing number of parents using the turning circle to park or drop children off in the morning and afternoon collection times.
Our carpark is for staff use only
Please make sure that you obey all Tasmanian Road Laws when parking around the school. Be mindful not to park over driveways, or too close to corners and crossings.
We have two main channels of communication here at LPS, Schoolzine and Seesaw. Schoolzine is where we issue things like this newsletter, important information relating to COVID and other essential communications that need your action or attention.
Seesaw is an important communication tool that all of our teachers use to interact and share learning with families. We encourage parents to interact with staff through this portal and talk with you children about what we have shared. This is monitored during school hours. Please ensure you obtain the QR code from your children’s teacher and sign up to receive regular updates on their learning and photos of them engaging in lots of different activities.
If you have any urgent information that you need to give your children, the teacher or the office please call 6243 9262 as email communication can not be guaranteed with a prompt response.
QKR ONLINE CANTEEN ORDERING
Bambini Bites works in association with CBA Bank/Mastercard and uses their online school canteen ordering system for the convenience of schools, parents and students called QKR which can be downloaded to all Apple phones/IPAD’s and Android devices.
QKR allows parents/staff to log into the app and place lunch order two (2) weeks in advance any time until 9.00pm the night prior the lunch is required.
Unfortunately, if you miss this cut off time, we are unable to assist with late orders. We recommend that you place your order as early as possible QKR sometimes struggles near cut off times due to the high usage of all users Australia wide. This cut off time has been put into place to allow our kitchen staff sufficient time to prepare food for all lunch orders.
WHAT TO DO IF MY CHILD IS SICK AND NOT ATTENDING SCHOOL AND I HAVE PLACED AN ORDER VIA QKR
We understand that little people can become unwell at the drop of a hat, to assist parents and families with this we request a text message to advise.
- Parents MUST send text message ONLY to 0400 948 649
- Copy of order receipt is required which will include the reference number for the order placed
- We will need confirmation of your child's name, school, class & ordered items.
We will process a credit to your QkR account within 3-5 business days that can be use in the future..
This process will take effect from Monday 27th June.
All order cancellations received after 7:45 AM will not be issued with a credit as after this time we will have prepared these items for lunch service.
We are happy for orders to be moved to other children or parents to collect from the canteen at lunchtime on the day of order fulfillment instead.
Please note orders for Sushi can not be refunded as these are ordered from a third party supplier and are ordered in advance.
These orders need to be cancelled via QkR prior to order cut off times (sushi specific) which is a day prior to normal order cut off times.
If you have a child who attends before or after school care and they are sick or away, please remember to contact Clarence City Council on 6217 9610 to let them know your child won’t be attending. After School Care is a separate service that is not provided by Lindisfarne Primary School.
