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Term 2 Week 4 22 May 2019 Principal: Megan Lockery
Deputy Principal K-2: Angela Mustaca
Deputy Principal 3-6: Peter Hayllar
Principal’s Message
Girls in Pants
The winter pants option for
girls is now available in the
Clothing Pool. Some of our
girls have already embraced
this and are enjoying wearing
the grey tailored pants. This
photo shows some of our
senior girls modelling the new
look – don’t they look great!
Dr Michael Carr-
Gregg Parent
Information Session
‘The Real Wired
Child’ on Thursday
29 May at Killara HS
from 6:30 – 8pm
The Killara Schools Partnership has been fortunate to secure the
services of the highly regarded psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg to
share latest research and tips about how parents can help their
children navigate through social networking, cyberbullying, internet
addiction, online gaming and software filtering issues. I highly
recommend this free information evening. See the flyer in this week’s
Lines for more information.
Resilience Project
If you missed our wonderful Parent
Information Sessions on the Resilience
Project, Hugh will be delivering a public
presentation on Wednesday 11
September at the Seymour Centre in Chippendale. Tickets are
available via the link below.
https://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/the-resilience-project/
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday 20 - Thursday 23 May
Online NAPLAN
Tuesday 28 May
Zone Cross Country
Year 5 NAPLAN Writing re-sit for
selected students
Wednesday 29 May
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg ‘Real Wired
Child’ Killara High School 6:30-8pm
Thursday 30 May
P&C Meeting 9:15am
Thursday 6 June
Years 3-6 Interrelate Parent and Child
Sessions
Monday 10 June
Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend
Sunday 16 – Tuesday 18 June
Music Camp
Friday 21 June
Area Cross Country
Tuesday 2 July
Lindfield Blue Assembly
Friday 5 July
Last Day of Term 2
Monday 22 July
Staff Development Day
Tuesday 23 July
Students return for Term 3
Further upcoming events can be viewed by clicking
on Calendar on the home page of the school
website: https://lindfield-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/
4M Assembly
At Tuesday’s assembly, 4M reminded us of the
importance of having a ‘Fight Song’ to encourage us
to not give up and be able to manage challenges in
the face of adversity. They sang ‘Fight Song’
enthusiastically telling us to believe in ourselves. Mr
Katrak later led us in one of my favourite songs ‘Que
Sera Sera’ to honour the passing of Doris Day. Our
Gold Award winners were presented with their
certificates.
Killara Schools Partnership Middle Years Project - Writing
As all the schools in the Killara Schools Partnership (KSP) have literacy as an important focus this year,
our Middle Years Project centred around Progression in Writing, a methodology to help students grow in
their writing ability and skills. For this project, a primary teacher and a high school teacher were teamed
up so they could apply the progression to both groups of students. The five pairs of teachers were
trained in mid-March by Joanne Rossbridge, who explained the Progression in Writing and demonstrated
how it could be applied to significantly improve students’ literacy skills, especially in the area of writing.
The pair of teachers developed a series of lessons and chose
a day when they would team teach one of the concepts in both
the high school and the primary school.
Last Thursday afternoon, these ten teachers met again with
their principals for a feedback session in which they presented
what they and their students had gained from this
methodology. We were all very impressed by the
improvements made by the students with this explicit teaching
of literacy skills in English, History and HSIE. Miss Sachs,
from Lindfield Public School worked with Ms Simmons of KHS
in the area of English to improve their students’ literacy skills
using Progression in Writing. Miss Sachs had her Certificate of
Excellence presented by Megan Lockery, LPS Principal.
Written by Ms Ann Dixon, Coordinator Killara School
Partnership
Megan Lockery
Principal
Deputy Principals’ Message
Mother’s Day Art Competition
Following our participation in the Lindfield
Chamber of Commerce Mother’s Day Art
Competition and exhibition, we are pleased
to announce that several of our students
have been successful. Prizes 1st, 2nd and 3rd
(respectively) have been awarded to: Freya
B - 3F, Amairah M – 2HK and Nicholas Y –
2L. Congratulations to these students and to
all students who celebrated their mums by
painting a portrait.
Year 6 Jerseys
Last week our 82 Year 6 students received their Year 6 jerseys to commemorate their final year at Lindfield
PS. Here you can see the front and back view – don’t they look fabulous! Many thanks to Mrs Sian and
our parent volunteer Mrs Jodie Stuart-Roberston for coordinating this wonderful keepsake.
City Country Alliance Video Conference
Last week our Year 4 Class Captains and Mr Katrak participated in a video-conference (VC) to connect
with students from four other schools across Sydney and the state. This session was part of the 'City
Country Alliance'. Our students interacted with children from Walters Road PS, Gordon East PS,
Greenacre PS from Sydney and Wentworth PS from Western NSW. All of the groups talked about what
made their schools and communities unique. Our Year 4 students greatly enjoyed their interactions with
other schools and are looking forward to the next VC in a few weeks time.
NAPLAN - Years 3 and 5
Over the past two weeks, Years 3 and 5 students have done very well to complete their NAPLAN tests.
Today, Year 3 finished their tests and tomorrow Year 5 will do the last of their tests, the Numeracy
assessment. We congratulate all students for trying hard and doing their best. Students really enjoyed
using the online platform. Next Tuesday some of our Year 5 students have opted in to re-sit the Year 5
Writing test. These affected students will be notified of the arrangements next week.
Write for Fun
Congratulations to the students who took part in the
Write4Fun Competition from Years 1 - 6. We have been
awarded a Certificate of Excellence for outstanding
participation in the competition.
Interrelate Family Evening Programs -
Save the Date
The ‘Interrelate Family Program’ will be held on Thursday
6 June in the evening in our school Hall. This is a valuable
program and we encourage all Years 3 – 6 students to
attend. Session 1 called ‘Where Did I Come From?’ will
commence at 6pm and Session 2, ‘Preparing for Puberty’
will commence at 7:15pm. The program is designed to
be presented in its entirety as the content from ‘Where Did
I Come From?’ builds the foundation for ‘Preparing for
Puberty’. Therefore, Years 5 and 6 students may also like
to attend the 6:00pm session. A note with more
information about methods of payment will be sent out
closer to the date.
Zone Cross County
Best wishes to our Zone Cross Country team who will be participating
in the Ku-ring-gai Zone Carnival on Tuesday 28 May at St Ives
Showground. These talented students are all excellent middle distance
runners and are a credit to themselves for their hard work and
commitment. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to come and
watch their child(ren). We wish all the students well and know that they
will represent our school proudly.
Go Lindfield!
Angela Mustaca Peter Hayllar
K-2 Deputy Principal Years 3-6 Deputy Principal
Absentee Notification
We would appreciate it if you record student absences via the Skoolbag app which can be downloaded
from the app store. Just search for Lindfield Public School.
Simply open the app Select the eForms tab Select the Absentee Form tab
Community Notice Board
All community notices/flyers can now be found under the Parent and Community link on our website.
http://www.lindfield-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/p-c-website/community-notice-board
Medical Alert Updates 2019
Please ensure all children with anaphylaxis and other medical conditions hand in their updated Action
Plans. Kindly ask your doctors to sign, stamp and date them. The school needs to receive a coloured
copy of the Action Plan for our health records. All students with a known medical condition must provide
updated health plans for 2019. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Notes Sent Home
Notes are available to download from the school website: http://lindfield-p.schools.nsw.gov.au Please
look under the ‘Notes’ tab.
Work on Display
Anaphylaxis at Lindfield Public School At Lindfield Public School in 2019, we have a small number of children with a potentially life threatening
allergic reaction. They are found across our school from Kindergarten to Year 6.
How can parents help these children?
Choose alternative sandwich spreads to peanut butter and Nutella. Inform your child that
these foods can trigger an anaphylactic reaction.
Reinforce the school’s NO FOOD SHARING message.
Please note, no students are allowed to bring
glass bottles to school for safety reasons
Work on display in the office for this week
KB and 3P
Library
2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge
https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/studentExperience.html
Well done to the following students who have completed their Student Reading Records over the last
week!
All books need to be logged online via the NSW PRC website using your child’s individual
login details by Friday 30 August.
K-2 3-4 5-6
Nathan A William A Molly C
Aadya C Jayden B
Tony J Curtis K
Elizabeth J Lizzie K
Freya V
Gemma W
Sophia H
Veronica I
Abigail M
Alicia L
Wrong Library!!
In recent weeks we have had a large number of our school Library books, including home readers,
being inadvertently returned to local public libraries. Although this a simple error, this causes
additional administration work for not just our Teacher Librarians having to contact families to collect
the books, but also for our local libraries as they have had to email or ring our school quite regularly to
inform us and then kindly hold the books. Last week we had so many books returned to Chatswood
Library that we needed to collect them ourselves as they were all from different families.
Please take care to keep your child’s books in their school Library bags during the week to help avoid
any mix-ups. To identify our books, please look for our school Library barcode located in the bottom
left hand corner on the front cover.
Happy reading!
Renee Chapman and Rachel Loftus
Teacher Librarians
INVITATION TO ALL PARENTS AND CARERS - P&C GENERAL MEETING
Our next P&C meeting will be held on Thursday 30 May at 9.15am (after morning drop off).
This gives an opportunity for parents and carers who are unable to make our evening meetings
to attend. I know that a P&C meeting can be rather daunting for most, so I thought I would take
the opportunity to dispel some myths about P&C meetings.
P&C myths Myth 1 - If you attend a meeting you have to volunteer for something. Truth - Come along and meet some new faces. The main purpose of a P&C meeting is really to learn more about our school. It is a great way to meet other parents and discover new things about our school. Myth 2 - It is scary and everyone knows everyone else. Truth - The only way to meet people is to actually turn up to a meeting. It’s just like the first day of school for our kids, we all become friends sooner or later. Myth 3 - If you go once, you have to go to all of them. Truth - There is no pressure to attend any of our meetings. You might see something interesting on the agenda or you may want to raise something or you might just want to come and listen.
Please come and join us. Everyone is welcome! Please see the agenda attached.
A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL THE WONDERFUL VOLUNTEERS
OVER THE LAST 2 ELECTION DAY SAUSAGE SIZZLES!!
AGENDA
Term 2 General Meeting
Thursday 30 May 2019 at 9:15am
Staff Room, School Administration Building
Term 2 General Meeting
1. Welcome and Apologies
2. Presentation : Helping Your Child With Reading (School Executive)
3. Principal’s Report (Megan Lockery)
4. P&C Update –
Update on 2019 so far
Plans for 2019 – budget and projects
Open Q&A
5. Sub-committee Updates
6. Review of previous minutes & other business
7. Updating of the membership register
8. Meeting close
Canteen
We only need 6 Volunteers! Can you help??
To volunteer please text Cara on
0402057462 or email
23-May 24-May
Jane Downey (K, 3) Jen Jarick (2, 5)
HELP!! 9-2pm Cara Rogers (3)
Sunhyun Kim (3) Hemna (K)
Miranda Fitzgerald (5)
Elizabeth Sullivan (3)
27-May 28-May 29-May 30-May 31-May
Nadine Nel (1, 4) Nadine Nel (1, 4) Danielle Boots Jane Downey (K, 3) Amy Sillett 9-2pm
Berenice Vawser (4) HELP!! 11-3pm Ashleigh Breen (2) Liesel Bertram (3) Yvonne Lai (1)
Michelle Martin (3) Jane Sim (3, 5) Jess Gregg
Sally Matthews (2, 4)
Jen Jarick (2, 5)
3-Jun 4-Jun 5-Jun 6-Jun 7-Jun
Agnes Wan (5) Min Li (2, 6) Meryn Sheriff (5) Jason Zheng (K) Megan Crane (1, 3)
Ada Chan HELP!! 11-3pm Pelin Kaplan (6) Jane Downey (K, 3) Elizabeth Sullivan (3)
Chang Chong (K) Amanda Hawkins (K, 3) HELP!! 9-12pm
HELP!! 9-12pm
HELP!! 9-12pm
* *
* *
Sarah Burnett Claudette Mann Katrina Tottenham
Canteen Managers
Clothing Pool
Clothing Pool Opening Hours: 8:30 am - 9:30 am Wednesdays and Thursdays Don’t forget the ONLINE ordering option – easy and secure via the P&C website. Orders are then delivered
to your child’s class, usually on Wednesdays or Thursdays. PLEASE include your child's name and class.
The Clothing Pool is plastic bag free. Please bring along a bag to carry your items home in.
News Please label your belongings
Winter Uniform – Girls’ pants option now available
Welcome to Term 2. Winter uniform is now mandatory.
From this term on our girls have a choice of wearing our traditional tunic or the new
girls winter pants together with the current shirt and tie. The Uniform Shop now stocks
these pants in sizes 4 to 16. They cost $42.00 each.
Art Smocks
Our art smocks have been extremely popular. They are available in red, blue, green
and yellow. They are a good way to keep your children’s uniforms clean.
Our Upcoming Volunteers’ roster:
Week 4
Wednesday 22 May Thursday 23 May
Greti Lindsay
Regan Hibbert
Jason Zheng
Greti Lindsay
Mary Alonti
Jasmine Jin
Week 5
Wednesday 29 May Thursday 30 May
Greti Lindsay
Mai Schulze
Greti Lindsay
Jess Gregg
Convenor – Jessica Gregg
Clothing Shop Manager – Greti Lindsay
LPS Class Social Calendar
Date Class Event and Venue Time
Tuesday 4 June 1H Mum’s Dinner, Monkey King Thai, Lindfield 7:30pm
Saturday 15 June KINDY West Lindfield Bowling Club, 76A Highfields Rd Lindfield
4pm
Friday 21 June 3CB Parent Dinner, Zeera Takda Indian and Nepalese Restaurant, Lindfield
7pm
Friday 21 June YEAR 2 Parent social night, Front bar Greengate Hotel, Killara 6:30pm
Sunday 30 June 2T Class picnic, Queen Elizabeth Reserve, Lindfield 12-2pm
To have your function in the Lindfield Lines please email [email protected] by 8pm Monday.
Jen Jarick
Class Parent Co-ordinator [email protected]
Chess
Chaos abounds as House Lindfield turns on itself, Lindfield East arrives bent on revenge and
the Golden Grammar Company arrive at the gates of Lindferfell. Or do they?
Round 2 of the Junior Chess League Primary Schools Competition (Upper North Shore) was held last Friday
with all our teams at Home playing either ourselves, Lindfield East or Sydney Grammar (although one of
their teams was sent to West Pymble erroneously so got to us rather late...) Lindfield East in particular were
impressive in a shock result for us. This wasn't the only shock as our effervescent and confident B's overran
our A's in a changing of the guard - every match was won by the lower ranked player! Results last week:
Lindfield A played Lindfield B for a 1-3 loss (aggregate 4-4)
Lindfield B played Lindfield A for a 3-1 win (7-1)
Lindfield C played Sydney Grammar D for a 2-2 draw (4-4)
Lindfield D played Sydney Grammar C for a 3-1 win (3-5)
Lindfield E played Lindfield East B for a 0-4 loss (1-7)
Lindfield F played Lindfield H for a 3-1 win (4-4)
Lindfield G had a Bye (8-0)
Lindfield H played Lindfield F for a 1-3 loss (2-6)
Last week the Canteen continued to amaze with sandwiches, cheese rolls and fruit. Combined with a
rather astonishing assortment of goodies from our Home parents it was truly a sight to behold. Our thanks to
all the parents who helped at home and valiantly tried to keep the ravenous hordes (our own children) at
bay.
This week we are Home and Away - Lindfield A visit Barker A, Lindfield B host St Ives North A, Lindfield C
go to Sydney Grammar F, Lindfield D go to Sydney Grammar E, Lindfield E go to Sydney Grammar
D, Lindfield F go to Newington College B, Lindfield G host St Bernards Berowra Heights and Lindfield H
host St Ives Norths B. Good luck teams!
Eric Tse
Chess Co-ordinator [email protected]
Band
Music Camp registrations are OVERdue and volunteers needed!
Outstanding Music Camp registrations and payment are now very overdue and delaying the planning
process. We ask that families who have not completed their registration, do so immediately.
Many hands make light work! We are still seeking parent volunteers to assist with various roles at
Narrabeen - in particular, packing up at the end of Camp and unloading the truck back at LPS on the
Tuesday evening. Your help is appreciated - if you can contribute some valuable time to help make Camp a
success, please sign up on the link below:
Volunteer Roster - Music Camp 2019
Another marvellous Cake Stall result!
A huge thanks to the Band families who baked, busked and/or volunteered their time for the Federal
Election Day Cake Stall held over the weekend - the community feedback was wonderful. With so many
things happening at this time, your contribution is particularly appreciated. We raised an amazing $2,000 on
the day which will go directly towards improving our Music Programs and reducing the cost of related
activities.
Very special thanks to Mary Alonti, Cake Stall Organiser Extraordinaire and to the families who contributed
to both recent Cake Stalls - we are especially grateful for your efforts.
Band Calendar
Term 2
Week 4 Outstanding Music Camp registrations are OVERDUE - please complete immediately
Week 8 Annual Music Camp - all Bands - 16-18 June
Seiko and Mark Ruff
Band Co-convenors
Strings
Election Day Cake Stall – THANK YOU!!!
A big THANK YOU to
all the people who brought in the
delicious goodies for the Election Day
Cake Stall and for those that spent
their precious Saturday helping out at
the stall. Thank you also to the
wonderful little musicians.
Your combined
efforts raised
$2,000 which
goes to reducing
the cost of the
Strings and Band
Programs for
LPS families.
Special thanks goes to Mary (right) for organising yet another Election Day Cake Stall,
and so close to the last one too!
LPS ANNUAL MUSIC CAMP (Sunday 16 June to Tuesday 18 June)
Payment and registration for camp is now OVERDUE.
As a reminder, have you…
Printed, signed and placed the Permission Slip into the Strings Box in the office
Paid the camp fee [Note: This links to a Band page but it also applies to Strings]:
https://lpspandc.org.au/product-category/band/
Completed the online Medical consent form for your child and as a volunteer:
https://sportandrecreation.nsw.gov.au/facilities/medicalandconsentform
Volunteered to help at camp: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4da9ad22a3ff2-2019
Provided a WWC check / travel home form /ASCIA plan (if applicable)?
Please help our volunteer camp organisers by getting this done ASAP.
For your calenders:
Sunday 16 June to Tuesday 18 June – ANNUAL MUSIC CAMP (compulsory, all)
Thursday 27 June – FOIM rehearsal – select Vivaldi students
Thursday 1 August – FOIM - select Vivaldi students
Strings Committee
Child Car Seat Information
It is strongly recommended that:
Children should not use an adult lap-sash seatbelt until they are a
minimum of 145cm tall.
Some children don't reach 145 cm tall until around 10 or 11 years of age.
Your child should be moved from a booster seat to a seatbelt when:
· Their shoulders no longer fit comfortably within the booster seat; or
· Their eye-level is higher than the back of the booster seat; or
· If your child car seat has shoulder marks, move your child to a seatbelt
when his/her shoulders have passed the upper marks.
This five-step test can help assess whether your child is big enough to be
safely restrained by an adult lap-sash seatbelt. (diagram attached)
The child should be able to:
1. Sit with their back against the seat back
2. Bend their knees comfortably over the front of the seat cushion
3. Sit with the sash belt across their mid-shoulder
4. Sit with the lap belt across the top of their thighs
5. Remain in this position for the whole trip.
For more detailed information about child car seats visit https://www.childcarseats.com.au/
National child car seat laws https://www.childcarseats.com.au/legal-requirements
