Important Dates

Monday 27th

February to Friday

3rd March

Swimming Week 5

Commences

Monday 6th March

to Friday 10th

March

Swimming Week 6

Commences

See inside for

session times

Monday 13th March

Adelaide Cup

Public Holiday

Tuesday 14th March

PUPIL FREE DAY

STAFF FIRST

AID TRAINING

Wednesday 15th

March

Parents & Friends

Meeting 9am

Thursday 16th and

Friday 17th March

Year 6/7 Aquatics

Days

Monday 20th March

Governing Council

Meeting 7pm

Thursday 23rd

March & Friday

24th March

Whole School

Sports Days

Littlehampton Primary School and Preschool

NEWSLETTER Week 4 Term 1 2017

Visible Learning I’d like to thank the very large number of parents who attended our

Acquaintance Night last Wednesday. The largest number of parents I

counted in one class, was 32 in a class of 24 students! Parents are to

be congratulated for availing themselves of the opportunity to meet the

teachers, and hear about how learning is structured for their children.

I’m sure, like me, parents were very impressed with the thorough

organization of the teachers, their professionalism, and the way the

students have begun the year. While this is an impressive start, parents

will be pleased to learn that we are aiming to improve the speed of our

learning, and increase student outcomes even further.

Visible Learning -3 Year Project

On Monday, our Pupil Free Day, 29 Littlehampton teachers and 10 of

our student support SSOs all attended a “Visible Learning” foundation

workshop. This is the first of 6 such workshops that will be delivered

to our staff under a 3 year project our school has joined with Visible

Learning. Parents will be interested to know that all DECD schools in

our Heysen Partnership (greater Mt Barker district) are going into this

project together, and the training on Monday was for over 350

teachers and SSOs.

Research proven strategies to improve the speed of learning

Our school has signed an agreement with this organization to work

with us over a three year period, to implement research proven

strategies that will improve the speed of learning. On this first

foundation day, our teachers were introduced to these strategies.

Assessment Capable Learners

A big part of the secret is “Assessment Capable Learners”, students

who know what they are learning, and how to learn. Students who can

describe the processes they use, and what they can do if they don't

know what to do. Students who know what makes a good learner, and

have a toolbox of strategies to monitor and improve their learning. It is

a big challenge for teachers to impart this level of learning to their

students, as well as deep knowledge of the curriculum.

Know The Impact—the first step

Nathan Sanders, Margie Sarre and I also attended training on Tuesday

for Leaders and have come away with a range of assessments which

will help us know what impact our teachers and programs are having at

the moment, as we embark on this program. We have until May 22 to

gather this data. Then consultants will work with us to choose our next

steps to have the maximum impact on student learning. There will be

3 such Impact Cycles throughout the program, where the impact of

our programs on student achievement is measured and next steps

planned.

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Student Absence

or Lateness : Prior to 9 am

Text 0476857209 with LPS, Student Name,

Student Class, Absence

Date and Absence reason

Students from our Year 4 classes

learning the secrets of our number

system.

Students in Year

5/6 learn to put

together

arguments that

will be used in

structured debates

later in the unit.

Over the years, our school has grown in numbers quite

significantly. This has resulted in a lack of adequate space

for the Junior Primary students to compete safely with the

Primary students in a true athletics sports day that includes

traditional events such as sprints, long distance, long jump

and hurdles. This year we would like to give the younger

children this opportunity and have decided to hold a Junior

Primary “Athletics Day” on the morning of Thursday

23rd March followed by fun tabloid events as part of the

whole school Sports Day on Friday 24th March. We plan

to run about 7 traditional athletic events on Thursday

morning where the younger children can wear t-shirts in

their house colours and participate strongly, knowing there

will be a modified scoring system. The house points they

earn on Thursday will be included in the final tally on

Friday when the Whole School Sports Day is run. By no

means will the children miss out on Friday either. On

Friday the Junior Primary will be involved in the March on,

War Cries and Health Hustle exactly as they have in the past

and in addition, they will have 4 fun tabloid events.

The advantage of this format is that the children will have

the space on the oval, which will be marked out ready for

Friday’s sports day, where they can safely and correctly

participate in true athletic events. Parents of Junior Primary

students(R-2) might be wondering which of the two days

they should attend. Parents are welcome both days.

Thursday will be the athletic events until lunchtime and

Friday they will join in with whole school events in a more

carnival atmosphere with a barbecue lunch available.

Sports Day 2017: 2 Days

During our Week 3 Assembly the

following students received a

Principal’s Award for achieving

success in our Super Seven Values:

Well Done.

Being Trustworthy: Mollie Demasi, Mathew Davis

Respect: Naite Lawson, Ayden Walker, Leo Roach,

Emma Geary, Charlotte Petschel

A Positive Attitude: Emma Lay, Samuel Grant, Anna

Kaluzinski, Bethany Willis, Finn Raven, Bryan Powell,

Amelia Pool, Charlotte King, Kai Zinchiri, Isla

Shephard, Charlie Demasi

Valuing Others: Kealy Elliot, Abbey Gray, Ali Turner

Kindness: Theodore Van Den Ende, Zoe Haylock,

Lucy Caust, Hayden Zadow, Chase Clark, Rolie Wells.

Principal’s Awards

Congratulations to our 2017

Sports House Captains WATTS:

Boy Captain: Matthew Davis

Boy Vice Captain: Koby Gore

Girl Captain: Poppy Samwell

Girl Vice Captain: Amie Davis

MIELS:

Boy Captain: Jack Bills

Boy Vice Captain: Angus Schmidt

Girls Captain: Emilie Goedecke

Girl Vice Captain: Marlee Curnow-Harrold

COPPINS:

Boys Captain: Jaiden Van Den Ende

Boy Vice Captain: Harry Thomas

Girls Captain: Mollie Demasi

Girls Vice Captain: Caitlin Bushby

CHILDS:

Boys Captain: Nicholas Streng

Boy Vice Captain: Bradley Schultz

Girls Captain: Alana Macdonald

Girls Vice Captain: Amber Bakhuis-Smith

Online Safety Presentation: Carly Ryan

Sonya Ryan, Director of the Carly Ryan Foundation

will lead an Online Safety Presentation on Monday

May 22nd at 7:00pm at Littlehampton Primary

School.

Gold coin donation at the door. The presentation is

for parents only and is not suitable for children.

The presentation will explore:-

Social networking, Sharing your information online,

Protecting your privacy, Sexting, GPS enabled

devices, iPads and adolescents, Online gaming, Cyber

bullying, Mobile phone apps, Additional Information

& resources that are relevant and actionable.

Registration is essential

https://carlyryanfoundationregistration-

lps.eventbrite.com.au

ADVANCE NOTICE

NEXT PUPIL FREE DAY

We would like to give parents/caregivers an

advanced notice of our next planned Pupil Free

Day:

TUESDAY 14TH

MARCH

(Day after the Long

Weekend)

All staff will be attending

First Aid Training

2017 Material & Service Fees Swimming Program - Week 5 and 6

Swimming begins next week for our Reception to Year

5 students. All parents attending swimming need to

collect the Parent Attendance Card from the Front

Office. Parents are welcome to come along and observe;

please note that the toddler pool will not be able to be

used because the pool is not open for public swimming

during swimming lessons. It helps us greatly if the

sunscreen is applied at home for morning sessions and a

tube for topping up is packed in their bags. All

swimmers should carry a plastic bag containing bathers,

goggles (optional), towel, t-shirt for swimming,

underwear for afterwards, sunscreen, recess snack

(morning groups) or lunch (afternoon groups). Please

name everything clearly.

WEEK 5: Session 1 - 9am to 12 noon

Lorna McLean, Julie Claridge (Year 5 only), James

Murray and Alison Bishop

WEEK 5: Session 2 - 12.00 noon to 2.45pm

Deb Tarca/Kelly Shute, Brigitte French/Suyin

McDonald, Helen Kupczynski and Alister Davies/

Narelle Thomas

WEEK 6: Session 1 - 9am to 12 noon

Leonie Chatfield, Danielle Stone/Jodie Ellery, Sara

Weston, Lynne Asquith

WEEK 6: Session 2 - 12.00 noon to 2.45pm

Tara Herewane and Sue Close

Payment of 2017 Material and Services

fees of $295 is due in full on Friday 28th

February unless arrangements have been

made with the office to pay using our

new Payway system. If paying by

Payway your agreement needs to be

processed prior to the end of February

2017. Only M&S and Building fund

donations can be paid via this system. Your $100 gym

donation can be paid at any time but we encourage

families to pay this early as our first payment of $5992.31

is due 15/3/17 and we rely on your contribution to meet

our repayments of $23969.23 each year. Thank you to

those families who have already paid.

We would like to ask parents to make payments at the

school office when dropping children at school in the

morning. The school office is open from 8am. This will

allow us to bank earlier in the day and avoid holding cash

in the office during the day. A reminder that you can pay

via the internet - BSB 105-025, account number 115 050

840 and please quote your family code, eg: DANI00 and

you can put SAKG, M&S, AQUATICS or whatever you

are paying if room permits. Other payment options are:

cash, cheque, Eftpos (in person, by phone or completing

the tear off slip at the bottom of your invoice). If applying

for School Card, please complete a new application form

each year and return it to the school office now. School

Card is not available for preschool students. Preschool

fees are also due on 28th February and if you have

overlooked this payment please pay at the school office

now.

Thank you to those families who have already paid in the

first few weeks. Any questions about finance can be

directed to Judi or Sandy on 8391 1194.

Our school will be commencing a Chess Club on

Thursdays during recess times in our Resource Centre.

David Koetsier from the Chesslife will be running the

sessions, and will be speaking at our Week 6 Assembly.

David is a professional chess player and coach.

The first session will be on Thursday March 18th (Week

7) and each session attended will cost $5.00 per student.

Besides learning some amazing chess skills, there are

many other benefits that this program can bring:

Building Friendships, Communication, Strategic

Planning, Losing with dignity, Dealing with anxiety and

Increasing mathematical skills.

More information will follow including a consent form

for those that are interested. For more information

contact Nathan Sanders.

Chess Club at Littlehampton Primary

Students in music know what they are meant to learn (Learning

Intentions) and the criteria they can use to know if they are

successful.

Year 2 students

practice reading

skills, and involved

in health learning

More Photos of our Students Learning

Parents, we are wondering whether you can help us

with a supervision problem we are having at present.

Before school, students are supervised on the oval and

the bottom playground. There is no supervision around

classrooms or in the dragon sandpit area. Teachers are

very busy at this time, getting ready for the school day.

The trouble we are having is that some children are

waiting with their families in these areas, and many

other children join them to wait here as well,

effectively unsupervised. If you see other children

without parents in these areas before school, would you

be so kind as to remind them gently to wait in the

playground until the bell goes? We will remind them all

at assembly too. Thank you for working with us to keep

our children safe.

Before School Supervision of Students

The IT STOPS steps

We believe that it is really important for students to learn

how to sort out differences successfully with others. We

teach students the skills to do this, using a model

developed here at our school, called the “IT STOPS

Steps”. All students have been focussing on learning and

practising these skills this term, and we thought it would

be good for parents to know what they are, and how to

refer their children to using them when necessary. The

steps are:

We also teach students that HOW you speak to others is

very important:

We have noticed that students are most successful when

they are brave enough to take the step to speak to the

person upsetting them, who is often a friend (taking a

buddy to support them if this helps), are specific about

what they don’t like, and speak in a way that lets the

other person know they are serious about wanting it to

stop. They also need to trust that the adults in the school

will help them to sort out issues if they are unable to do

so themselves and tell us if they need help.

Parents will be aware from the news, and through our

emailed letter that we have been instructed to cut the

cords on hats. Today teachers and leaders did a check

on hats and cut cords which might place the children at

risk when active on equipment.

If you have any questions about this,

please do not hesitate to contact the

school.

Kind Regards, Jenny Lewis, Principal

Cutting the Cords on Hats