Thursday Thoughts

L a u n c h i n g P l a c e P r i m a r y S c h o o l

Issue 11

Date: 27th April 2017

Student Absent

Hot Line Number

5964 7783 Launching Place Primary School

20A Carter Street Launching Place 3139

Telephone 5964 7783 Fax 5964 6171

Email launching.place.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

ABN 96 199 518 803

IMPORTANT DATES

May

9th, 10th, 11th - NAPLAN

13th - Aerobics

15th - Mum’s Afternoon Tea

19th - P-2 Photo Trail

19th - 3-6 Cross Country

June

3rd - Aerobics

12th - Queen’s Birthday -

public holiday

23rd - Curriculum Day

26th - Parent/ teacher

Interviews

It is believed that Launch-

ing Place is named after the

spot on the Yarra River

where the logs (freshly cut

down in the valley) were

floated down the river to

be milled in Melbourne.

That is, the logs were

"launched" at this place

along the Yarra River.

Buildings and Grounds

Over the holidays a great deal of work was completed around the school. This is part of our ongoing commitment to update, improve and beautify our school. Works included: mud rock ‘amphitheatre’ seating area near the basketball court;

school boundary fence on Carter Street; playground audit; carpet in 2 offices in the admin building and refurbishment of the boy’s toilets in the Hex building – painting to be completed. Our environmental crew have been busy with the finishing touches.

ANZAC DAY Service at Yarra Junction

Lest We Forget

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School Captain’s Report

Prep: We had a great holiday and lots of fun over Easter, but are happy to be

back at school. We have begun new ‘playing to learn’ activities. This week we

have been learning about the letter Nn. In Maths we have started groups and are

practicing counting and writing the numbers we know. We have been learning

about the days of the week. This term’s Integrated Studies topic is about toys so we watched the movie Toy Story.

3/4: We had a great first week back. In Math’s groups we focused on time and in our classes we looked at chance.

During our reading workshop we learnt to check for understanding during reading and we made predictions. We

really enjoyed reading persuasive texts and made a list of things we want. Our Integrated Studies topic this term

is ‘We Built This City’.

5/6: We had a wonderful break over the holidays. We returned happy and settled. Even though it was a short

week we were very busy. In Café, we looked at using different voices depending on what we were reading. In

writing, we reviewed using punctuation and paragraphs. In Maths, we focused on problem solving. We also

solved problems using inverse operations. We looked at transformations and how many degrees a shape has

turned and also using the key to accurately read a pictograph. We enjoyed our high school visit on Friday.

Principal: Second term started smoothly. It was a short week and everyone got back into the school routine

quickly. We had school photos taken on Friday. The weather wasn’t kind so photos had to take place in the GP

room. Aerobics practices are going well, with only a few weeks until the first competition for the year.

A Special Mother’s Day Event

We would like to invite all of our mums to a

special afternoon tea on Monday 15th May

at 2.30 in the GP room. After tea/ coffee

and cake you are welcome to visit your

child’s classroom. Notices were sent home yesterday.

Our school captains and house

captains do a great job of running

assembly on Monday mornings.

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Name Award

00N Danyn P

Elyse S

For learning his Golden words.

For great work in reading groups.

1/2M Max N

Riley O

For trying really hard to be neater with his handwriting.

For always taking time with the presentation of his work.

5/6B Hayley D For showing maturity when fixing friendship problems yourself and getting help when you

needed it.

5/6F Jye H Excellent effort to prepare for the first speech in our public speaking workshop.

Our Grades 1/2M, 1/2C and 2R performed a Japanese song, ‘Oni No Pantsu’ (The Demon’s Underpants) at

assembly last Monday. They performed brilliantly and looked fantastic in their Oni (Japanese Demon) masks that

they made in Japaanese class.

Kalli 28/04/2017 Volunteer Needed 05/05/2017

Volunteer Needed 12/05/2017 Janine Knight 19/05/2017

Canteen Roster

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OSHC

Extend Before and After

School Care at

Launching Place

Primary School

Our weekly recap

What a great first week back we have had. On Tuesday the children enjoyed being outside running around on the oval playing games of football. Wednesday Summer and Faith made up a new game called Shops and Cops and Thursday the children enjoyed some time in the GP room playing octopus and kick ball. TERM 2 BOOKINGS

Please make your Term 2 bookings as soon as possible. You can check if

you have already done this or make bookings and cancellations via the

Parent Portal at extend.com.au.

Out numbers are dropping again which means we have lots

of spaces for bookings.

Happy Birthday to Max N - his birthday is on Thursday Michelle, Team Leader Our Extend Superstar is Kael S For Learning how to do up his own shoelaces. What’s on next week?

Monday 1

st May:

Salt Dough Leaves / Autumn Tree Craft Tuesday 2

nd May:

Hight Chart / Outside Free Play Wednesday 3

rd May:

Cooking Sultana & Cornflake Biscuits / Drawing & Colouring Thursday 4

th May:

Box Craft / Skipping ropes & Hula Hoops Friday 5

th May:

Autumn Hand Tree / Ball Practice

PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au

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Grade 1/2 This term in Integrated Studies, the Grade 1/2s are

completing the unit ‘From Farm to Table’. We are

excited to learn about different types of farms and how

they operate. We have talked about what we already

know about farms and developed a range of questions

about what we want to learn. We looked at the life

cycle of a chicken and created a life cycle diagram.

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Please Note: That other advertisements and publications published in this newsletter do not imply

school or Department of Education and Early Childhood Development endorsement.

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