Dear families, With the onset of winter comes, not just the cold, wet weather, but also the snuffles, sneezes and coughs. A reminder to please keep your children home if they are sick (cough, runny nose, temperature etc.). A positive of COVID 19 has been the focus on effective hand washing and hygiene. This has resulted in a reduction in the amount of students getting sick, that surely is an important lesson to learn! Yesterday our Student Leaders, with technical support from Mr Sanders, ran an online assembly and did a fabulous job. The Student Leaders have received lots of positive feedback from multiple classes. The Year 7 students were in the hall and

all other classes in their classrooms. We are looking at how we can utilise this technology to keep meeting as a whole school while we still have social distancing restrictions. The assembly was recorded

and can be viewed by clicking here . On Monday 18th May we held a professional development day for all staff. The morning was spent working through the Bright Path moderation program. Staff worked in groups, moderating persuasive writing samples from all students. Having that uninterrupted time was invaluable.

It enabled staff to work with different year level writing samples, and to have professional conversations about where students sit in their writing development. After lunch we spent time reviewing both our Site Improvement Plan and the difference COVID-19 has had on our teaching and learning.

This week we welcome Matt Newton as our Music Specialist until the end of term. Matt is backfilling Gisela Obst who is collaboratively writing music curriculum with other music teachers from across the state. Matt has been working with Gisela to continue her program so there has been a seamless transition for the children. There has been lots of engagement and sounds of music coming from the Music Room. This year Reconciliation Australia marks twenty years of shaping Australia’s journey towards a more just, equitable and reconciled nation. Much has happened since the early days of the people’s movement for reconciliation, including greater acknowledgement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights to land and sea; understanding of the impact of government policies and frontier conflicts; and an embracing of stories of Indigenous success and contribution. Students have been celebrating Reconciliation Week by learning about reconciliation and completing learning tasks some of which can be seen in the newsletter. We hope all families find some time to relax and rest over the long weekend. We look forward to seeing everyone back on Tuesday morning. Take care, Irene, Renee & Nathan

Newsletter Week 6 Term 2 2020

Important Dates

Monday 8th June

Public Holiday

Vacation Care

Program inside

Bookings

close 22nd June

Friday 3rd July

Last Day of Term 2

Early Dismissal

2.15pm

ICAS Competitions

Commences

Monday 17th

August

School Photo Days

Monday 31st August

Thursday 3rd

September

School Happening’s

Student Absence or Lateness: Please Text

0476857209 prior to 9am with LPS, Student Name,

Student class, Date and Reason

Principal: Irene Scriven | Governing Council Chair: Ben Marsland

16-30 Baker Street, Littlehampton, SA 5250

T: 83911194 | F: 83982154

E: dl.0225_info@schools.sa.edu.au

www.littlehamptonps.sa.edu.au

Reconciliation Week started when in 1991, the council decided that there should be Reconciliation Week. The Native Title Act of 1993 protected the Indigenous people’s rights to their land and water. Then in 2000 they started Reconciliation Week. On the 28th of May 2000, 250,000 Aboriginal and non-Indigenous people

walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Twenty years ago, for the first time, people walked for Reconciliation Week because they wanted the Aboriginal people to have their rights. Right now, Aboriginal people are still fighting for their rights and hopefully in the future, racism won’t spread as much and people won’t have it. Bailey Grant Room 11 Year 5

For Reconciliation week the Year 5s brightened the school yard by using the colours from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags. The students wrapped the yarn around the trees, and reflected on Aboriginal history and culture.

Ayla explained what the flag represented. These trees have ignited conversations about

Reconciliation week. Also in Nature Play students from all year levels have been weaving and yarn bombing trees in these colours during recess and lunch.

Reconciliation artwork made by students in Kelly Shute’s and Narelle Thomas’s class.

Kirriliee Smout, a local child psychologist, suggests that we have 6 positive responses to a child’s comment of, “I’m bored.”

Option 1: Help the child generate new activity ideas Brainstorm ideas with your child. It can be helpful to actually write down a list of options to make them easier to visualise.

Option 2: Help them get involved in the start of an activity Sometimes the idea of starting something can be daunting. When we spend 5 minutes helping to set up an activity, especially with a promise to check in to see how it is going, we are creating an environment where a child is able to challenge themselves for far longer than we are involved.

Option 3: Empathise and normalise. Sometimes a child needs to hear that entertaining ourselves isn’t easy, and that we can be bored too.

Option 4: Help children take activities/tasks and make them more interesting or challenging. Encourage your child to think creatively by asking questions such as, “Could you do it differently to make it more interesting?” or “How could you turn your chores into a game?”

Option 5: Consider making starting an activity compulsory but finishing it optional Sitting around bored while waiting for screen time to start is a common problem. Encourage your child to fill in those minutes, “Sorry mate but you can't sit there doing nothing. You need to pick an activity that we've discussed and do it for at least x minutes, and then if you still don't want to do it at that point then you can stop.”

Option 6: Ignore it Often children manage their boredom and find activities to do if we stay out of their way. However, the first 5 options can be an investment in decreasing the frequency of your child’s bouts of boredom. Joey, PASTORAL CARE WORKER Littlehampton Primary School Mondays and Thursdays Joey.Traeger704@schools.sa.edu.au

“I’m Bored”

Reconciliation Week

Congratulations to the following students who have completed

the Premier’s Reading Challenge. Well done! All these

students have been given a completion certificate and will then

receive their Award from the Premier in November.

Demi Linke, Cayleigh Timmins, Abigail Shephard, Annabelle

Boland, Nina Schmidt, Lily Hagemann, Sophie Nesbitt, Austin

Bloffwitch, Josie Winton, Nicholas Stuart, Sophie McKellar,

Jacob Bands, Brandon Simpson, Sophie Hampton, George

Funnell, Niamh Hill.

Many families received an email Tuesday regarding payment of outstanding amounts. Thank you to everyone who has responded so far. We can not stress enough that we welcome discussion regarding your account and encourage this to happen as early as possible. Please contact Judi or Michelle if you would like to discuss your account in person. We have also sent home a reminder for payment of our Gym Building Fund donation. Our first payment for the Gym was in March 2008. Parents worked very hard to secure this gym and the Governing Council introduced this tax deductible donation request, with the full support of all parents. It was also decided to reduce the amount of major fundraising events due to families paying the Gym levy. In 2020 we still rely on all families contributions to the Gym and need to meet our next payment of $5992.31 at the end of this month. Final payment of our gym will be in December 2022. Payments can be made by cash/Cheque/EFTPOS (in person at the office or over the phone). Direct payments can be made into our Bank account number 115 050 840 BSB 105-025 and quote your family code, or name—something that will identify who is making the payment. If paying by direct payment please email confirmation of payment to dl.0225.finance@schools.sa.edu.au.

Terrific Kids is a student-recognition program that promotes character development, self-esteem and perseverance. “Terrific” is an acronym for Thoughtful, Enthusiastic, Respectful, Responsible, Inclusive, Friendly, Inquisitive and Capable On Thursday during our first On Line Assembly, Libby and David Tanner from the Kiwanis Club presented Jayden Nykamp and Sophie Nesbitt with the Kiwanis Terrific Kids Certificates. Congratulations to both of them.

Library News Finance Matters

Kiwanis Terrific Kids Awards

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Year 5 classes have been learning and studying all about the Solar System. They even got creative and made their own planets and solar systems.

Our school is running the Entertainment Book Fundraiser once

again this year. This year they are only offering On Line

Memberships. If you would like to order an On Line Book

please visit click on the below link:

https://www.entertainment.com.au/orderbooks/162q722

20% of every Entertainment Membership sold goes to our

school.

We are offering students an

opportunity to take part in the

ICAS Competitions this year.

Below is information about

what subjects will be offered,

what year levels are able to participate and the cost of each

subject. All competitions will be on line again this year:

Science 17/8 to 21/8 Year 2 to 7 $15.95

English 24/8 to 28/8 Year 3 to 7 $15.95

Mathematics 31/8 to 4/9 Year 2 to 7 $15.95

Spelling Bee 31/8 to 4/9 Year 2 to 7 $15.95

There will need to be a minimum of 3 children participating per

subject for the cost to not increase.

If your child/children are interested please come to the front

office to collect an entry form. All payments for each

competition will need to be made in one payment this year.

The payment due date will be Monday 3rd August.

On the topic of COVID-19, aren’t we are so lucky living in South

Australia! I know it is frustrating having to adhere to the

requirements, but it is not forever and it make the easing of

restrictions so much sweeter when it happens. At school we

will continue to hold the line around minimising non-essential

persons on site and restricting access to classrooms until we

are given the all clear from the DfE and the Chief Medical

Officer. However, we are slowly easing back in regards to

having a few service providers back on site working with some

of our students. Thank you again for your cooperation and

support.

Below is this year’s Book Week Theme. We will give you more information closer to the date with what activities we will do.

Solar System Research ICAS Competitions

Book Week Theme

Reminder of COVID19 Restrictions