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RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY

LEARNING COOPERATION

SAFE & FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

Lalor Primary School

DATES TO REMEMBER Term 4

Friday Oct 23rd

5/6 sport LvStP

Prep Transition #3

9-11:30am

Tuesday Oct 27th

T20 Blast Cricket for

Grade 3/4

Thursday Oct 29th

Grade 3/4 excursion to

Melbourne Museum

Friday Oct 30th

5/6 sport TMvL

Away game

Monday Nov 2nd

No students today

Staff Report Writing Day

Tuesday Nov 3rd

No students today

Melbourne Cup Day

Thursday Nov 5th

Prep Excursion -

Bundoora Children’s

Farm

Friday Nov 6th

5/6 Sport LvLE

this issue

Principal’s Report P.1

Principal’s Report P.2

Multicultural Cup P.3

I S S U E

21st October

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Issue 32, 21st October, 2015

Just a reminder to parents that there will be no school for children on Monday the 2nd or Tuesday the 3rd of November. Monday 2nd November is a School Council approved Re-port Writing Day for staff and Tuesday 3rd is Melbourne Cup Day. There will be no Out of School Hours Care on these days. I hope our Lalor PS families enjoy the long weekend.

State Athletics

On October the 26th, Mary Jane, one of our

year 6 students will be participating in the

State Athletics Competition after placing

second in shot put at last week’s Regional

Carnival. Well done Mary Jane on a fantastic

effort in reaching such a significant level. We

wish Mary Jane all the best for her state event

and as always we know she will represent

Lalor PS with great pride.

Principal's Report - 21st October, 2015

School Web Site

If you need any

information about the

school, please go to

lalorps.vic.edu.au.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Grade Student Reason for Award

5/6BL Saja H For working diligently in Writing & Literacy sessions. Well done.

5/6O Safeeyah D &

Victoria G For working as a collaborative team during our shared writing session. Well done !

5/6R Jacinta F For your amazing effort at the Multicultural Cup. Well done Super-

star !!

5/6T Lucas T For an outstanding attitude at the State Football Carnival. Great Sportsmanship.

3/4A Zohaib Z For improved listening skills and writing a fantastic story in writing. Well done !

3/4E Mohammad R You worked very hard to write your entertaining story about Big Buck Bunny. Well done !

3/4 F Zackaria M For sharing your excellent knowledge about the First Fleet with the class !

3/4 I Jesse S For sharing your knowledge about the First Fleet during Integrated Studies lessons and for being enthusiastic about writing your narrative.

1/2 H Ahmad M For your excellent concentration and for making good learning choices. Well done.

1/2 J Isabella D For your friendly manner and hard working attitude. Keep it up !

1/2R Yhdeen A For your fantastic effort when learning to tell the time. You are a superstar.

1/2S Kasim A For his excellent concentration during Numeracy. Keep it up !

Prep L Ajna M For recognising Ordinal Numbers 1st - 10th correctly.

Prep M Jennifer K For your excellent use of expression during guided reading.

P-4 ICT Deyanna C For the excellent attitude that you show towards all new ICT tasks and for always giving a helping hand to other students.

5/6 ICT Ali E For showing that you are thinking about your learning by asking questions to help your understanding of the task.

Performing

Arts

Jack B For organising a group to perform in Lalor's Got Talent. Excellent work Jack.

Visual Arts Israa S For completing your own Tessellating Pattern at home. Well done.

Physical

Education

Harwinger S Well done this week in P.E. You were a fantastic cricket ex-pert. Keep up the great work.

Principal’s

Award

Eve A For creative and impressive drawing and decorating skills.

Enrolments 2016 Enrolment forms for 2016

are now available at the

office. If you have a child

who was born between

May 1st, 2010 and

April 30th, 2011,

it is time to

enrol them for school

next year.

School Review

Our school review day will be taking place on

Wednesday 28th October. During this day an

independent reviewer comes to the school

along with regional personal and a neighbour-

ing principal to talk to staff and school council

members. The discussions will be based

around recognising and celebrating the many

achievements of Lalor PS over the past four

years and also planning ahead to continue

our great work into the future. The review

report, once it is completed, will be available

for all community members to see and it will

be unpacked at our next school council

meeting on Wednesday 11th of November at

7pm. Any parents who would like to attend

this meeting as an observer are very welcome

to join us on this evening.

Principal’s report continued next page…..

Chocolate Friday

From tomorrow the

student leaders will be

going around to the

classes at lunch

eating time giving the

students the

opportunity to

purchase a chocolate for

$1.00.

Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd November

No school

Out of School Hours Care

Lalor Primary School

Before Care

6.30am - 8:45am

After Care

3.15pm - 6.30pm

Early Dismissal Days

1.15pm - 6.30pm

Student Free Days

6.30am - 6.30pm

Lalor Primary Combined OSHC is

licenced under Children’s Services

Act 1996 and the Children’s Services

Regulations 2009

OSHC Co-ordinator

Mrs Paula Yacoub

Tel: 9464 7500

ohsc.lalor.ps@edumail.

vic.gov.au

UNIFORM SHOP

The uniform shop is

open every Wednesday from 8.30am - 9.30am

and 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Order forms are available at the

office

Cash, cheque or credit

card are acceptable

EFTPOS is now

available

Please enter and leave

via the glass doors as

directed by the arrow

from outside the office

door.

Updating Student

Details

If you change address,

home phone number or

mobile number please

let the school office

know by filling out a

Personal Details Update

Form.

This includes changes

to your emergency

contact people.

Multicultural State Cup 2015

On Wednesday the 14th of October two wonderful teams represented Lalor Primary School & the Collingwood Football Club at the AusPost Multicultural State Cup. It was a fun filled, action packed footy carnival with a focus on having fun, participation, sportsmanship and gaining valuable experience. Both our teams played brilliantly and were undefeated throughout the day. Our girls team finished as RUNNERS UP whilst the boys team missed the Grand Final by the slimmest of margins – an outstanding effort at STATE level! All our students represented Lalor with pride and showed great effort, the following students in particular had some outstanding results and were deemed best on ground: Jacinta 5/6R Lucas 5/6T A big THANK YOU to all the parents who came along to support the students, every little bit helps and it was much appreciated.

Dwain Barakat & Caroline Van Oorschott (Proud Coaches)

Parent Survey

The results for the Department parent surveys for all schools 2015 were released last week. It was extremely

pleasing again to see high levels of parent satisfaction across all indicators in the areas of School Climate, Stu-

dent Behaviour and Student Engagement. Every one of our mean scores of the 18 indicators was above the

mean score for all primary schools in the state and above the mean score for all schools which includes primary

and secondary schools. These outstanding results are further evident in the Overall Satisfaction mean score,

on a 7 point scale, of 6.28 for Lalor PS compared to 5.96 for all primary schools and 5.86 for all schools.

The following very positive comments and suggestions will be used to guide our staff discussions regarding fu-

ture planning and directions and also as a way to celebrate the outstanding job our staff do to make Lalor PS a

great school.

I am very impressed with the support the school has given to both myself and my children. I am also very

impressed with the progress of my children's education.

This is a fantastic school.

A school is reflected by all it's teachers so we believe 1 bad teacher can bring a whole team down. We be-

lieve the high majority of teachers at out school are great, hard working and pleasant teachers. We would

like to think all teachers enjoy teaching our kids ! Remember a happy and friendly teacher goes along way

towards making a child feel safe and excited place.

Very kind teachers.

More homework and excursions. Overall I am very happy with the school and the teachers and helpers are

always polite - cheerful and always willing to help you with any concerns or problems you may have. ☺

This school has been great with my child as a new student. The teachers have been great in helping in any-

way they could. The office ladies were great help also. I love the fact that there is no bullying at this

school.

I'm very happy with this school because my kids have lots of support and love the teaching. Everyone is

nice and supporting with my kids education and about being very helpful. I amreally glad my kids are in

Lalor Primary School, very happy.

To whom it may concern, Lalor PS is a great school and it always will be hopefully and it has a top Principal

and great teachers. Thanks to all at Lalor PS.

The school is very good and teachers are kind and help lots.

I recommend the homework to be more consistent. I believe the students need to be better prepared for

high school. Most of the time the students come home with no homework whatsoever, especially grade 6 -

need to help students so as not to take a shock when starting high school.

I am very impressed with the support the school has given to both myself and my children.

Mary Ryan Principal