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Julie Hommelhoff 20th October, 2016

Principal

NEWSLETTER PO Box 66 NORTH BENDIGO 3550

SCHOOL : www.lightningreefps.vic.edu.au

Phone: 5443 2501 ELC : www.bendigoregionalymca.org.au

NO SCHOOL

WEDNESDAY

26TH

OCTOBER

PUBLIC

HOLIDAY

PUPIL FREE

DAY

THURSDAY

1st

DECEMBER

Office Hours

8:30—4:00

BE YOUR BEST BE RESPECTFUL BE CO-OPERATIVE

BE RESPONSIBLE

SW-PBS (School Wide Positive Behaviour Support)

‘Be Co-operative’

BENDIGO CUP HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER

(NO SCHOOL on this day!)

Combined Learning Community

We have our new learning community starting next week. The learning community is

offering individual educational programs pertinent to individual student’s needs and

programs. Planning has been the priority of the teaching staff involved. This exciting

proposal will implement programs such as literacy and numeracy based learning, Art

and H&PE based on the Victorian Curriculum. It will build in routines and practical

learning producing quality of life outcomes and fundamental skills that will provide

the basis for interacting with people. Timetables and staffing names have been sent

home to the student’s involved. Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you

have any questions. I am really looking forward to seeing everyone engaged in their

learning daily.

WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY – was Monday 5th October and is

to be celebrated at Lightning Reef P.S on Wednesday 19th Octo-

ber)

Encourage your child to acknowledge their teacher on Wednesday with a nice smile, a

note, a card or something they wish to say that makes their teacher feel good!

Julie Hommelhoff

Principal

Term Dates

2016

Term 4

3rd October to

20th December

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Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to Kyle T and Mackenzie D.

We hope you have a wonderful day!

Hats

As we are a sun smart school hats are required to be worn

from September the 1st.

Please ensure your child has a bucket hat for playtimes.

Toys Just a reminder that toys need to be left at home.

We can not be held responsible if toys are lost or

broken, so the best place for them is at home.

Prep Orientation Program

Dates

Tues 22nd November 9 - 10am

Tues 29th November 9 - 10:30am

Tues 6th December 9 - 11:30am

Hats

As we are a sun smart school hats are required to be worn from September the 1st.

Please ensure your child has a bucket hat for playtimes.

Prep enrolments for 2017

If you have a child or know a child who will be coming to Lightning Reef Primary as a prep next year please let us know

A.S.A.P.

We have some exciting orientation days coming up for our new preps.

Parents Club

President:: Toni Hicks

Vice President:: Sonia Valli

Secretary: John Moosman

Treasurer: Sally Gibson

Committee Members : Michelle

Savilles, Belinda Downing, Donna

Moosman, Donna Rutherford and

Kate Duncan

The next Parents club meeting is

October 13th at 9am.

All are welcome!

PBS Focus for term 4

This term we are looking at our school value of CO-OPERATION

This week we will focus on Listening to others. This includes doing

whole body listening – i.e. looking at the person who is talking, listen-

ing to the person talking and standing/sitting still with hands in your

lap/by your side, acknowledging what others are saying , answering

questions or acting on instructions and taking turns to talk.

Staff will be looking for students showing listening to others and giv-

ing them Gold Cards they can use at our Exchange. Students will con-

tinue to get Gold Cards for continuing to show respect for our environ-

ment, respect for others and respect for property

It would be great if you could praise your child/children for do-

ing the same at home.

Book Club

Book Club orders need to be back at school by October 24th.

Library News

The library is open every morning before school, except for Fri-

days. Some parents have already become members and are regu-

larly borrowing books. It would be great to see more parents

come in. We now have a small collection of books including

fiction, biographies and autobiographies just for parents. Parents

are also welcome to come and borrow books for younger sib-

lings.

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Empowering Eaglehawk 10 Year Celebration

We had 6 members of the Bolters represent our school at the Empowering Eaglehawk Celebration last Fri-

day.

With many people in attendance, this was an excellent event to showcase our school to the wider commu-

nity. Thanks to the 6 students and their families for helping out at this event. 3/4 students during Art. Well done

Mrs Roberts.

Bush Donuts (great when camping)

Ingredients

Bread (day old is best)

Strawberry Jam or Nutella

Pancake batter

Caster Sugar with a pinch of cinnamon

Method

Make a jam or Nutella sandwich. Cut off crusts. Cut

into quarters, dip quarters into batter and fry in oil.

Turning once or twice.

Drain and toss lightly in sugar.

Yummy!

Rylee East 5/6BE

Walk to School in October

This October, our school is participating in VicHealth’s

Walk to School program, a month long activity that en-

courages children to walk, ride or scoot to and from

school every day.

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BE YOUR BEST BE RESPECTFUL BE CO-OPERATIVE

BE RESPONSIBLE

Preps Stay and Play night

CONTACT US: 5443 2501

Principal:

Julie Hommelhoff

Assistant Principal:

Jo Ryan

Business Manager:

Kristie Coates

Leading Teachers:

Kim Kirkpatrick

Wellbeing Coordinator:

Paul Keller

Specialist Coordinator:

Jarrod Epps

Prep Coordinator:

Tania Peirce-Whyte

1/2 Coordinator

Peter Millar

3/4 Coordinator

Mel Bingham

5/6 Coordinator

Katrina Johnstone

Speech Therapist:

Vikki Stone

Physiotherapist:

Gai Maddams

School Council President

Sonia Valli

Parents and Friends President:

Toni Hicks

Last term the Prep students got to ‘Stay and Play’ after

school.

The afternoon started with the children sneaking into

the Principals office and scaring Julie and Miss Ryan

when they came in! Miss Ryan and Julie were very

surprised.

Children then got to share in an afternoon tea in the

staffroom! Jayden Taylor said that he was so full he

could hardly walk!

After afternoon tea, they had a play and joined in on a

game of Pass the Parsel.

Before they knew it, it was time to go home.