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 27

Date: 30th August 2018

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

TERM 3

August

31st - Dad’s and Mate’s

Breakfast

31st - P&F Footy Lunch &

Dress Up day

September

5th - Preps: Kew Traffic

School

7th - 3/4 Expo Tabloids

10th - School Council

7.00pm

18th & 19th - School

Production

21st - Last day of term

2.30 finish

Life Education @ LPPS Over the past week, students across all levels have been involved in

sessions ran by the Life Education program. Life Education has a

philosophy based on the belief that all children deserve to lead safe

and healthy lives. ‘By placing preventive education at the core of our

work we want to instil in children the confidence to make safer and

healthier choices now and in the future’.

Modules of work for each level focused on:

Foundation - My Body Matters: personal hygiene; choosing foods for a healthy

balanced diet; benefits of physical activity and sleep; ways to keep safe at home,

school and in the community.

Grade 1/2 - Safety Rules: recognising safe and unsafe environments; how to care for

others; behaviours that maintain friendships; places and people we can go to for help.

Grade 3/4 - All Systems Go: factors that influence the function of body systems;

exploring ways to manage peer pressure; the effects of second hand smoke; the

function of vital organs; healthy food choices.

Grade 5/6 - Relate Respect Connect: understanding how to respect ourselves and

others; identifying characteristics of positive relationships; maintaining positive online

and offline relationships, strategies to respond to unsafe or disrespectful situations

online and offline; wellbeing. AEROBICS

Well Done everyone

on your great efforts

at Nationals. Full

report and pictures

on page 3 and in

next week’s

newsletter. Professional Learning

On Monday all staff members engaged in a day of professional learning with

educational consultant David Anderson. It was an extremely engaging and worthwhile

day. Our focus was on consolidating our skills to work as a highly effective team to

support our teaching with an end goal in mind of improving outcomes for our stu-

dents. The commitment of LPPS staff to grow and learn

together professionally is an attribute we are very proud

of. Throughout each year staff commit many hours of

school and personal time to ongoing professional learning.

Page 2 Thursday Thoughts

CYBERSAFETY @ LPPS

At Launching Place Primary School, we are proud to be recognised as an eSmart school. This status involves reminding our community about staying safe online. Please take the time to sit with your child and read through the following Top 10 Tips as recommended by the Alannah & Madeleine Foundation. 1. Care About the Share: Social media wants you to share as much as you can bear! But the share should be rare. NEVER share: passwords, private/personal information, your location.

2. Privacy Matters: If you care about the share, you’ll protect your privacy, no matter what. Regularly check your privacy settings on social media, and always think before you post. It’s amazing where data ends up – usually all over the internet. 3. Respect the Privacy of Others: Treat others’ privacy as you would your own. Ask for your friends’ permission before uploading photos and videos of them. It’s not all about you. 4. Keep Everything Updated: Any idea what causes the most security breaches on the internet? Software that isn’t up-to-date. Seems crazy simple, but it’s true! Be vigilant about updating software, including apps, anti-virus and even the humble browser. 5. Spam, Spam, Spam, Spammidy-spam: Even with the best anti-spam and malware software – that’s up-to-date – spam is the modern version of junk mail. It’s everywhere! Learn how to tell the difference between real emails and messages, and dodgy things with dodgy links. Sometimes they don’t look so dodgy...always be suspicious of hyperlinks in emails. 6. Control the Troll Within: There be trolls out there – beware! Don’t feed them, don’t give them what they want: an angry response. Block/Report the trolls. But also: resist the inner troll. If you’re not adding something to the debate online, don’t bother. Don’t be part of the problem. 7. Cyberbullying and Harassment: If you’re being targeted by this kind of behaviour, know what you can do, and where you can get help. Visit the National Centre Against Bullying website and the Office of the eSafety Commis-sioner's website. 8. Keep Your Friends Close and Strangers at Arm’s Length: Do you know how many true friends most people have? Three. Yup, those four thousand and fifty-two Facebook ‘friends’ are a combination of acquaintances, peo-ple-you-met-once, people-you-can’t-remember-meeting-once, and probably, some ‘randoms’. They don’t need to know what you had for breakfast, or what concert you went to last night, do they? 9. Feel the Flow – Keep Your Life in Balance: Technology is incredible. Gaming, networking, apps…online shop-ping! But make sure you take time out and find the right balance for you. Too long on tech can put the world out of whack. 10. Have Fun: Always remember to chill out and keep things in perspective. There’s too much information

online to take it all in! Focus on each moment, and enjoy.

Page 3 STUDENT AWARDS

Name Award

2M Shae B

Sadie B

Fantastic creativity in her Aaron Blabey book.

For excellent confidence presenting her sharetime.

4F Myles D

Polly C

For working hard to complete his Japanese word search.

For always putting in 110% effort on everything she does.

5/6L Kieren T

Winter P

For excellent work comparing fractions.

For excellent contributions to reading group discussions.

5/6R Jake C

Reuben H

For working hard to write his version of ‘Baby Wombat’s Day’.

For working hard to write his own version of ‘Too Many Pears’.

Aerobics Report

This year, 27 students competed in the Aerobics Nationals Competition held in Queensland. The comment below was placed on the Nationals Facebook page – it was a lovely compliment to all kids. “As we sit on the plane on our way home, we would like to congratulate all 27 students. Not only were we proud of their results, we were so proud of their behaviour, the way they followed instructions, supported each other, handled themselves and had positive attitudes. We had a great time with them! We would like to thank the parents and supporters for bringing the Launching Place community feel-ing all the way to the Gold Coast. And a big thank you to Bianca for the endless hours she put in to help the trip run so smoothly. We hope everyone has a safe flight home, and we look forward to seeing you back at school. Love, your proud coaches!”

What a fantastic effort by everyone to ensure all of the National aerobics teams had a great time representing their school. We would like to thank the coaches, parents and most importantly say how proud we are of all the kids for making it to Nationals. Results were as follows:

Solo Artist - Angus: Gold; Trouble Makers: Bronze; Survivors: Gold; Domin8: 6th; Fire Starters: 7th

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Extend Before and After School Care at Launching Place Primary School

Our Weekly Recap

On Monday we made egg carton animals, Ella made a turtle and Zoe made a cat-

erpillar. They look great. We also enjoyed a comedy show put on by Mahliki in

the morning.

On Tuesday we played sprout ball in the GP room. We made sure that everyone

was playing fairly. We also enjoyed a small game of footy on the oval before it

started to rain.

On Wednesday we got to have pancakes for breakfast. We were all very helpful

making, flipping and serving the pancakes.

On Thursday we made some really cool animals out of clay. Ella made a very blue

elephant with cute pink dots and Zoe made 3 different unicorns.

On Friday we made a box fort out of all of the cardboard boxes we could find. We

used icy pole sticks and sticky tape to make it a strong as we could.

Emma, Service Coordinator

Our Extend Superstar is Declan O

For making a fantastic Lion using the clay.

What’s On Next Week?

Monday 27th August: Sprout Ball, Outside Play, Painting

Tuesday 28th August: Craft, Marks Up, Food & Water

Wednesday 29th August: Drawing & Colouring In, Cubby Houses, Clay Models

Thursday 30th August: Paper Planes, Skipping & Elastics, Building

Friday 31st August: Board Games, Downball, Slime

Spring Extend Squad - Fantabulous school holiday experiences at Lilydale

Primary School

Operating Hours: 8am - 6pm everyday of the school holidays except Grand Final

Public Holiday

Extend's school holiday programs are a fantastic opportunity for your child to do

fun and engaging activities with

friends.

Book 14 days in advance to

receive the early bird rate.

Bookings now open.

.

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Canteen volunteers needed Natalie Pole

Kalli Blunt

07-09-18

Volunteer needed

Maree Cole 9-12

14-09-18

Volunteer needed

Volunteer needed

21-09-18

Bus Permission form for Wonkaville

Bus permission forms need to be returned to school by this Friday.

If you do not have a form you can pick one up from the office.

Thank you.

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Nude Food month is coming to Launching Place Primary School!

More info to follow in the coming weeks

Source of diagram- http://www.wow.sa.gov.au/nude-food.html

Here's a quick and easy recipe for lunchbox containers, with zero packing

Choccie Balls

Ingredients

1 cup dates

1/4 cup sultanas

1/3 cup desiccated coconut

1 tbsp cocoa or cacao

1 tbsp honey

1/2 cup walnuts (can be omitted for nut free)

Method

Pop all ingredients in a food processor and pulse

until it comes together.

Roll into balls. Best stored in the fridge.

*Add more cocoa/cacao for a chocolatier flavour or

more honey to make it sweeter

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Student Stars

For inclusion in school, kindergarten and child-care centre newsletters

in August

‘Kids Voices’

Eastern Health is your local health service and runs the Angliss, Box Hill, Maroondah, Healesville, Wantirna and Peter

James hospitals. Eastern Health is making a plan for the future and thinking about the kinds of services we offer to children,

families and young people. We need to know what is important to you. We are listening to feedback from people who use

our services and we also want to hear from children, young people and families in the community.

Please use the link below to complete a short 3 minute online survey to share your ideas with us. The survey will remain

open until 21 September 2018.

Kids Voices online survey

Thank you, Katrina Hall on behalf of the Service Planning team, Eastern Health

For any survey enquiries please contact katrina.hall@easternhealth.org.au

For any general enquiries or other Eastern Health feedback please contact us via www.easternhealth.org.au

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Launching Place Primary School

Production 2018 – Ticket order

Date: Family name: Contact No:

Child’s Name /Grade:

Adult $15.00 Child (17 and under)$10.00 Family (2ad/2ch) $45.00

Adult Matinee tickets $10.00

Initial Allocation

Performance No. of Adults

No. of Children Family Total

Tuesday 18th September-6.45pm

Wednesday 19th September-4.00pm (Matinee)

Wednesday 19th September-6.45pm

Please note: Ticket payment must accompany this order form or tickets will not be allocated. Thank you.

Total enclosed: $

Extra Tickets – Second Allocation

Performance No. of Adults

No. of Children Family Total

Tuesday 18th September-6.45pm

Wednesday 19th September-4.00pm (Matinee)

Wednesday 19th September-6.45pm

Payment for second ticket allocation is not required at this time. Payment notification will be advised on seating availability.

Tickets will be available for collection form the School office from Tuesday 11th September. If you have any problems or need further information please contact the office.