Calendar

29 Aug Fathers day stall

30 Aug 3-6 Author visit

31 Aug Jersey day

3 - 14 Sep Year 2 swimming scheme

5 Sept Year 5 Milo cricket gala day

7 Sept Premier’s spelling bee

10 - 12 Sept Stage 3 camp

10 Sept Public speaking final singsations concert

11 Sept Year 1 Sutherland hospital excursion

17 Sept Year 2 Vaucluse House excursion

18 Sept LSPS hosting inquisitive minds talented workshop

19 Sept Grandparents / Grandfriends day

24 Sept Kindergarten Calmsley Hill excursion

LAGUNA STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL TERM 3 | WEEK 6 | WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST 2018

Newsletter

DEAR PARENTS AND CARERS

A big thank you is required for the huge effort by our community at the Bunnings BBQ on Saturday. We really appreciate the time given up by the volunteers, including the many parents that did extra long shifts. Very special mention must go to the Guerin family who ran the whole event and to Tanya Lovell who, like the Guerins, gave up her whole day to make sure it was a success.

On Tuesday and Thursday this week we had Literacy and Numeracy Advisors from Miranda Office working with our teachers to help them become familiar with the new Numeracy Progressions and to develop a scope and sequence of mathematics learning in K-6. The learning progressions are a national initiative that allow teachers to more accurately locate a student’s current literacy and numeracy knowledge, understanding and skills to support planning for learning and teaching from the syllabus. All schools and all teachers will soon be required to use the progressions, however only a small number of lucky schools are being provided with such personalised and comprehensive support in implementing this change. We will continue to work with the Literacy and Numeracy Advisors and the Educational Services delivery team over the coming weeks and months to ensure continued progress in our mathematics results at school.

We have been extremely pleased with our progress on our whole school writing project. Our writing project is part of a collective professional development goal of all teaching staff relating to improvement in writing through action research. Teachers have been participating in regular professional learning sessions based on ‘seven steps to writing to success’, beginning with an examination of our writing NAPLAN results. We have been sharing practice and examining writing samples from students. We were extremely excited to see

our recent ICAS writing results, which have been outstanding and demonstrate our progress in improving writing in the school.

The whole school musical is progressing extremely well. We have come a long way since it was first announced in the Newsletter back in April, and the teachers have (as always) put in an extraordinary effort to make it a wonderful learning experience for our students. Further notes will come out about this event this week.

The week starting Monday 3 September School Administrative and Support Staff Recognition Week. The office staff at Laguna Street are a stand out in terms of their professionalism and dedication to the students, staff and school community. If you pop into the office next week, speak with the office ladies on the phone, or see Jon our GA in the playground, please join me in thanking them for all that they do.

It has been brought to my attention that a number of students have been downloading an app called ‘Mappen’. This app has some very concerning features in terms of safety and I have been informed that the app shares private information such as location and contacts. Please this discuss with your child and consider whether this is an appropriate app for them to have on their personal device.

JERSEY DAY

Friday 31 August marks the fourth annual Jersey Day, a national community-led initiative organised by the Nathan Gremmo Community Fund dedicated to spreading the message of organ and tissue donation and encouraging more Australians to register their donation decision at donatelife.gov.au.

Jersey Day was inspired by the story of Nathan Gremmo, who was tragically lost in an accident in 2015. Nathan’s family chose to give the gift of life to others in honour of Nathan’s generous personality. At the young age of 13, Nathan saved the lives of six others as an organ donor – five young adults and a baby.

Over the years, many Aussies including Turia Pitt, Steve Waugh, the team at Fox Sport NRL, Jonathan Thurston, Todd Greenberg, the Wiggles, Mark Bouris, Ray Hadley and many more have shown their support for Jersey Day by wearing their favourite team jersey, and having the conversation about organ and tissue donation and most importantly, registering to be an organ donor at donatelife.gov.au

We are encouraging students to wear a Jersey on Friday to raise awareness for this cause. Please note that it is not necessary to bring a gold coin, just a Jersey is a great way to be in support!

Rosie Di Mattia

Principal

ZONE ATHLETICS

Congratulations to all the students who represented Laguna Street PS at the recent Zone Athletics Championship. The results of the carnival were the most outstanding in our school’s history. We achieved The ‘Champion School’ , as well as ‘ Champion School on Percentage’. This means, that not only did we achieve

better results than schools of a similar size to ours but we beat schools who may have been more than twice our size. This is a phenomenal achievement.

We will have 19 students competing at the Regional Championship in mid September, in both track and field events, including three relay teams.

A special congratulations to Mason McG and Tammin L who were also Cronulla Zone Junior Age Champions, additional to this achievement they also both created new zone records.

A big thankyou to Mrs Sally Clifton who did an exceptional job as Team Manager. Sally made sure that all students got to their events on time, issued and collected school singlets and cheered on every participant from our school, including her own girls. Thanks again Sally.

Best of luck to all at Regionals!!

Mrs Carroll

WOOLWORTHS DISCOVERY TOUR

Last Friday Kindergarten students walked to Woolworths at Caringbah and went on the Woolworths Discovery Tour as part of their Science and Technology unit ‘Paddock to Plate.’ Tehy had fun walking around the store, meeting the people in charge of the fresh produce sections and found out some interesting facts. the children were very excited when they found out they were allowed to go out the back of the store where the food is delivered. They got so see the back of the fridges where the milk is packed and watched some boxes being crushed ready to recycle. Another highlight of the tour was tasting some delicious fruit and receiving a gift bag.

Thank you Joanne and Dianne for allowing us to visit your store.

BOOK WEEK

On Thursday the 23rd August, it seemed that many of the characters that we have grown to love and cherish had stepped out of their books and into Laguna Street public school. Students from kindergarten to Year 6 dressed up as their favourite storybook character and paraded class by class across the stage to much applause and appreciation from the audience. Special mention to the teachers that put in a great effort to come as the characters from the Wizard of Oz.

Mrs Bates

COMMUNICATION CORNER

You will soon be receiving an email highlighting any outstanding fees you may have. Attached to the newsletter is a list of excursions and incursions that have already taken place. If you have any of these items on your statement please make payment as soon as possible. I have also listed resource fees and textbooks that should be paid by now. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss any aspect of your combined cost statement.

Jo Flitcroft

School Administrative Manager

WE WANT YOUR VOUCHERS!

Please keep an eye out in your rates notice for your free seedling vouchers. We are collecting these to plant more plants around the school. Please drop your unwanted voucher off to the school office.

Kindergarten YEAR 3 Calmsley Hill City Farm Stage 2 camp Brainstorm Brainstorm Koomurri Koomurri Classroom Resources Inquisitive minds Handwriting Conventions Bookweek Author Reading Journal Taronga Zoo Excursion Display Folder Classroom Resources Kindy Special Days Handwriting Conventions K-2 Technology Fee Reading Journal Life Education School Magazine Dance to be Fit Athletics Carnival Swimming Carnival Year 1 Life Education Brainstorm Dance to Be Fit Koomurri Museum Excursion Year 4 Classroom Resources Stage 2 Camp Handwriting Conventions Barinstorm Reading Journal Koomurri My Personal Dictionary Inquisitive Minds K-2 Technology Fee Bookweek Author Life Education Taronga Zoo Excursion Dance to Be Fit Classroom Resources Handwriting Conventions Year 2 Reading Journal Brainstorm School Magazine Koomurri Athletics Carnival Athletics Carnival Swimming Carnival Swimming Carnival Life Education Dance to Be Fit Dance to be Fit Classroom Resources Touch Football Gala Day Handwriting Conventions Reading Journal School Magazine K-2 Technology Fee Life Education Due Now: Year 2 Swim Scheme Vaucluse House Excursion

Year 5 Year 6 Brainstorm Brainstorm Koomurri Koomurri Inquisitive Minds Inquisitive Minds Bookweek Author Bookweek Author Geography Incursion Geography Incursion Classroom Resources Classroom Resources Handwriting Conventions Handwriting Conventions Grammar Rules Textbook Grammar Rules Textbook School Magazine School Magazine Athletics Carnival Athletics Carnival Swimming Carnival Swimming Carnival Life Education Life Education Dance to Be Fit Dance to Be Fit Interrelate Interrelate Year 6 t-Shirt Year 6 T-Shirt Due Now Stage 3 Camp Years K-6 Voluntary School Contribution $100 per family $60 per student

Cronulla Sutherland Leagues Club

Friday 14th September

7.00pm – 11.30pm

$90 per ticket, $900 per table of ten

Includes a 3 course meal, entertainment & commemorative gift.

Entertainment by Jellybean Jam

For ticket bookings visit www.trybooking.com/XBCM

BURRANEER BAY PUBLIC SCHOOL’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY

G A L A D I N N E R

- JOIN US TO CELEBRATE -

S C H O O L O P E N D A YSaturday 15th September10.00am – 2.00pm

Memorabilia displays, school tours, performances, community

stalls, lunch and more. There will be something for everyone!

For more information visit www.bbps125thanniversary.info

Silver supporters

Purchase a leaf on our permanent recognition tree to become a part of BBPS’s

history

Katie SmithClass of ‘96

Being a Dad

This 3 hour program will help fathers gain the skills

necessary to build closer relationships with their children.

You will learn to:

Connect with your children

Discipline constructively

Understand the special role of fatherhood

Father from the inside-out

Bookings essential — numbers limited

phone 8522 4408 or email KristenM@interrelate.org.au

Tuesday, 4th September

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Venue: Interrelate, 383-385 Port Hacking Road, Caringbah

Cost: $15 per person

Being a Dad

This 3 hour program will help fathers gain the skills

necessary to build closer relationships with their children.

You will learn to:

Connect with your children

Discipline constructively

Understand the special role of fatherhood

Father from the inside-out

Bookings essential — numbers limited

phone 8522 4408 or email KristenM@interrelate.org.au

Tuesday, 4th September

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Venue: Interrelate, 383-385 Port Hacking Road, Caringbah

Cost: $15 per person