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LINDISFARNeANGLICAN GRAMMAR SChOOL

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Postal AddressPO Box 996Banora Point NSW 2486Mahers Lane CampusTerranora NSW 2486 07 5590 5099

Sunshine Avenue CampusTweed Heads South NSW 284607 5523 1143

Absentee Line 07 5590 5927

Term 2: Week 16 : 29/5/2015Upcoming EventsjuneWeek 17aMon 1 Principal’s Tour - Mahers LaneTue 2 P&F Meeting - 7:00pm

Life Education Van visit - 2-17 JuneWed 3 Principal’s Tour - Sunshine Avenue

Lindisfarne Public Speaking Competition FinalsICAS Science - Years 2-6

Thu 4 Kindergarten Speaking Stars - 11:00am

Sat 6 QLD Netball State Age Championships

Sun 7 QLD Netball State Age Championships

Week 18BMon 8 Queen’s Birthday HolidayTue 9 School Photos - Mahers Lane

campusELC P & F Morning Tea - 9:00am - Sunshine Avenue campus

Wed 10 School Photos - Sunshine Avenue campusYears 4K & 1J Student/Parent Learning Sessions

Thu 11 School Photos - Sunshine Avenue campus and family photosNSWCIS Cross Country ChampionshipsYears 5 - 8 Visual Art Enrichment Program

Fri 12 Year 4 Open Classrooms - 9:00amSat 13 TNA Netball Round 9Week 19aMon 15 ICAS writing exam - Years 2 - 4

Years 4K & 1J Student/Parent Learning Sessions

Tue 16 Melinda Tankard Reist information eveningSpeech Choirs Murwillumbah - Years K-4ICAS Spelling

Wed 17 Primary Athletics Carnival Years 3-6 Thu 18 Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea -

Mahers Lane campusFri 19 Concert Band - Murwillumbah PA

Stage 3 ICAS Writing examBrain Storm Production - Years K-6

Sat 20 TNA Netball Round 10

From the Head of PrimaryPublic Speaking FinalistsCongratulations to our Stage finalists who will be competing in the Lindisfarne Public Speaking Finals next Wednesday evening in the Chapel at the Mahers Lane campus. Competitors are asked to arrive at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm commencement.Stage One Finalists: Isaiah Leo Zoe Marshall Tyler Sim Summer Parry Zara Cusick Aleeza TariqStage Two Finalists: Flynn Howarth Noah Shepherd Bronte Tuckwell Samara Skene Rupert Fahy Caitlin SuttonStage Three Finalists: Cate Roberts Miranda Rhodes Trixie Meeves Sam Smith Jayden O’Rourke

Arrive before 8:15am = Before School CareMorning supervision for children at the Sunshine Avenue campus is from 8:15am. Any student who arrives prior to this time should be attending Before School Care and will be directed to this program to ensure their safety. Children should not be sent to Before School Care from the car park, they should be accompanied by a parent/guardian and signed in by an educator.

Sunshine Avenue Turning Circle Drop Off ProcedureParents using the turning circle for drop-off of students in the morning must remain in their car to assist with consistent flow of traffic. If your child requires you to assist them in alighting from the vehicle, please park along Sunshine Avenue.

Life EducationThe Life Education Program will begin on 2 June for children from Preschool to Year 6. The program is a valuable learning experience and covers many important health and lifestyle issues appropriate to each year level. The cost of this program is $10.00 per child and this will be added to the supplementary fee account. For further information please go to the Life Education website www.lifeeducation.org.au.

Parent TestimonialI just wanted to write a short note expressing my gratitude. My children have attended Lindisfarne since preschool. Lindisfarne has provided my children with a secure, happy and caring environment in these important developmental years. I have watched them flourish, not only academically but socially too. I am grateful for yourself and the teaching staff that go above and beyond for their students. I was very impressed this week as using their persuasive writing skills learnt this year they are being shown how to apply this into real life scenarios, writing to the mayor and members of local council for a wonderful cause (Mr White).

Reminder - FeesPayment of the final instalment of Term 2 school fees is due Monday 1 June 2015. This includes the payment of all supplementary charges.

News from 4K

This term, 4 Kith, along with the other Stage 2 classes, have been very busy in the school community garden. Our garden is located behind the Year 4 classrooms and forms part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. This program began in our school in 2014 and we are continuing with the marvellous work that began last year. The fundamental philosophy that underpins the program and pleasurable food education is that by setting good examples and engaging children’s curiosity as well as their energy and their taste buds, we can provide helpful and memorable food experiences that will form the basis of positive lifelong eating habits.

This year we will be delivering regular kitchen and garden classes, enabling skills-based learning that extends across the entire school curriculum. As participants in the Kitchen Garden Program, 4 Kith students will spend structured time in a productive veggie garden and home-style kitchen as part of their everyday school experience. Here they learn skills that will last them a lifetime and discover just how much fun it is to grow and cook their own seasonal vegetables and fruits. In our last gardening session we planted carrots, cucumber and broccoli. We are eagerly waiting for these to start growing so we can do some delicious and healthy cooking. For more details on the program go to: www.stephaniealexander.com.au

Belinda Keen, Year 4 Kith Teacher

Sports NewsHockey

Tori Jones 6FG and Jessica Courtney 6AF are representing Lindisfarne, NCIS and CIS playing in the NSWCIS Primary Girls Hockey Team in the NSWPSSA Primary Girls Hockey Championships 2015. They have represented our school, region and state in an exemplary manner in Murwillumbah. They won their first game 2-0, with both Tori and Jessica scoring its goals, other results are 5-0, 1-0, 0-0 draw. Their team won their pool and made the semi finals. In the semi final there was a clash

of heads, they stopped the game, called an ambulance and continued their game on the other turf. They lost 1-0 in extra time and then played to determine if they finished third or fourt but, in another very close game, lost 1-0.

CIS finished in fourth place (from thirteen teams) Well done and congratulations Tori and Jess - what a fabulous achievement!

Brain Builder AwardsCongratulations to our winners:

Coco Ofsoski Evie-Ray Ellis Crawford Meera Manesh Nair Luken Brownlee Matilda Daniel Liev Tuckwell

Brain FactsThe Young Child’s Brain

What is your earliest memory? Chances are it will be from when you were 3-4 years old because the part to the brain important for long-term memories (the hippocampus) becomes highly developed at this time. Your memory from this period is probably quite vague, though, because your hippocampus only became fully functional once you were around 8 years old.

What you need to know:

• Young children’s brains are very busy! They use twice as much energy as yours and most of this energy is being used to build, strengthen and stabilise connections between their brain cells

• When it come to visualising something that isn’t directly there in front of them to help solve a problem, young children’s brains are not yet as good as an adults

What to do about this:

• Be careful not to ask young children to draw too heavily on earlier memories while they are problem solving. They can be easily distracted or overwhelmed if they have to do both at once

An extract from : ‘Learning and the Brain’ by Eleanor Dommett.

Michele Chandler

Stage 3 NewsAnd this is the house that Jurgen built…

As an integral part of the “Building the Future” unit, Year 5 visited the Currumbin Ecovillage to examine sustainable building practices in action. After seeing all the village facilities one of the residents, Jurgen and his wife Katerina, kindly opened their home to our curious students and explained the eco-friendly principles that drove its design and construction. Features such as low embodied energy materials, thermo mass flooring, recycled timber and clever site orientation were discussed with the children asking many great questions. They came away with a real insight from finally seeing their theoretical studies in living 3D. The next step will be the designing of their own residence, incorporating as many environmentally friendly features as possible.

Kathryn Leary, Year 5 Teacher

KindergartenLiteracy Groups

This term, Kindergarten has started literacy groups. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning we work on exciting new strategies to help us with our reading. The students are doing incredibly well and are participating in lots of great hands-on activities. To make this experience even more exciting we are very lucky to have our lovely parent helpers come in and work with groups. It has been heartwarming and uplifting to share the pride and excitement that the students express when they reach their learning goals. We are all looking forward to continuing on this learning journey.

Melissa Rogers, KF Teacher

PreschoolDay and Night with Preschool Possums

In Possums we have been investigating space and sharing our knowledge of day/night.

We have been conducting experiments which provided students with hands-on inquiry-based experiences to hypothesise, investigate cause and effect and apply a wide variety of thinking strategies to solve problems.

In one of these experiments we investigated what the surface of the moon looks like and researched how the large craters on the moon are formed. We found some rocks in the playground and Mrs Melissa prepared a tray with flour and cocoa (dust on the surface of the moon). Mrs Melissa

explained that sometimes rocks called ‘asteroids and meteorites’ crash into the surface on the moon and make the holes called ‘craters’. The children took turns dropping rocks into the tray and hypothesised how the impact of each rock would change what the surface of the ‘moon’ looked like. The children used reflective thinking to represent, organise, record and communicate mathematical ideas and concepts and consider why things happen.

We have also been sharing our bedtime routines and we celebrated these new interests with a Pyjama Day.

Melissa McCabe, Preschool Possums’ Teacher

Touch FootballCongratulations to Lucy Tandler 6DD, Ebony Richards 5TM and Ruby Meehan 5TM who have been selected in the NSWCIS Primary Girls Touch Football team. Well done to Connor Wilson 6DD and Thomas Cronk 5ML who trialled for the Primary Boys team. Lucy, Ebony and Ruby will now compete in the NSWPSSA Primary Girls Touch Football Championships in Penrith, Sydney, 18-20 August 2015.

Cross CountryCongratulations to the thirty five students who have been chosen to represent Lindisfarne and NCIS at the NSWCIS Cross Country Championships at Eastern Creek Speedway, Sydney, on Thursday 11 June 2015. Eighteen students are attending: Nina Murphy, Etienne McDonald, Cooper Thomson, Olivia Copeland, Marlon Harrison, Jessica Courtney, Oliver Churchill, Indigai Arnold, Emily Lowns, Mya Henry, Piper Harrison, Brodie Copeland, Nathaniel Bryant,

Jonathan Davies, Thomas Tatchell, Sam Hope, Tom Courtney, Bailey Copeland

AthleticsAssistance is needed for the upcoming Primary Athletics Carnival at Walter Peate Oval, Kingscliffe on Wednesday 17 June from 9:00am - 2:00pm. This carnival is for all students in Years 3-6 and any student in Year 2 who turn 8 in 2015 and would like to compete.

Please email me at jarnold@lindisfarne.nsw.edu.au if you are willing to assist our school.

FUN Athletics CarnivalOur FUN Athletics Carnival for all students in Preschool to Year 4 will be held on Friday 26 June. We are looking forward to lots of Athletics FUN.

Jodie Arnold, PE Teacher

Early Learning Centre

Please note that the information contained within the following pages does not necessarily carry the endorsement of Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School. The credentials of providers have not been checked by the School. Interested parents are strongly advised to closely check the credentials of any person or group offering activities that would directly involve the participation of their children (e.g. camps, coaching classes, babysitting etc)

Community Notices

Experience a Week of a Professional

FootballerTotal Football Academy will be running a week of a professional camp in July. The week of a pro camp looks at areas on and off the field.

What is included:• Professional coaching• A Nutrition seminar focusing on a footballers dietary needs• Player pathway guidance to continue your development• Brief introduction to Sport Psychology• Strength and conditioning• Recovery sessions• Match Analysis• Games

Coaching Sessions:The coaching sessions will be delivered using, technical practices, skills practices, small sided games, functional practices, phases of play and games (eleven a side).

Limited space:There is only twenty two places available for players aged 12 to 14 years old. There is only 22 places available for players aged 15 to 18 years old.

Cost: $160.

Venue: Magic United TFA, Carrara, QLD, 4211

Sign up at www.totalfootballacademy.com.au

Entertainment BookIn the past the Lindisfarne Parents and Friends Association has organised and distributed the Entertainment Book as a fundraising initiative for Lindisfarne. Due to commitments of the 2015 FunFest, it has been reluctantly decided that the P&F will not proceed with the distribution of the Entertainment Book for 2015.

This decision has not been made lightly and the P&F have advised that the Entertainment Book for 2015 can still be purchased via the Entertainment Book website, https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/144035g. By purchasing the book this way you are continuing to contribute to the fund raising efforts of the Lindisfarne P&F as a small percentage from each purchase will be donated back to the association.

The Entertainment Book will again be available directly through the P&F in 2016.