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LINDISFARNeANGLICAN GRAMMAR SChOOL
Primary Editionprincipal@lindisfarne.nsw.edu.auwww.lindisfarne.nsw.edu.au
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 20 : 26/6/2015Upcoming Events
julyWeek 21AMon 20 Pupil Free DayTue 21 First Day of Term 3Fri 24 FUN Athletics Carnival - 11:00am -
3:00pm - Sunshine Avenue campusSat 25 TNA Netball Round 11Week 22BMon 27 Walk & Talk Tour - Sunshine Avenue
campusTue 28 ICAS English
100 Days of KindergartenCommonwealth Bank talk - Sunshine Avenue campus 9:00amYear 6 Camp Info Evening - Mahers Lane Theatre 6:30pm
Wed 29 Commonwealth Bank talk - Sunshine Avenue campus 9:00am
Fri 31 Walk and Talk Tour - Mahers Lane campus
AuGuSTWeek 23AMon 3 Book Week - Sunshine Avenue
campusTue 4 Primary Athletics Carnival Years 3-6
P&F Meeting - Mahers Lane campus Library 7:00pm
Thu 6 123 Magic Parent Sessions - Sunshine Avenue campus 9:00am
Fri 7 LOTE Day - Years 5-8Sat 8 TNA Netball Round 12Week 24BTue 11 ICAS MathematicsWed 12 NCIS Athletics ChampionshipsThu 13 123 Magic Parent Sessions -
Sunshine Avenue campus 9:00amFri 14 Dream Day - Primary
From the Head of PrimaryBrain Builder AwardsCongratulations to our winners:
Emery Bucknall Arlen O’Brian Lucy Rivers Lachlan Marshall Dane Henry Stroud Kinneally Evie Scharenguivel
Brain FactsDid you know...
When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
End of Semester Student ReportsStudent reports will be posted home early next week. Please be reminded you are most welcome to arrange a time to meet with your child’s teacher at any stage throughout the school year. If the class teacher has concerns about your child’s academic progress you would have been invited for a meeting this term. Remember to regularly check your child’s class blog as teachers post information about the children’s learning journey on regular basis.
Primary Athletics CarnivalA reminder the Primary Athletics carnival has been scheduled for Tuesday 4 August 2015 at Walter Peate Oval, Kingscliff. Should you be able to help on this day please contact Mrs Gay Maynard, [email protected] or Mrs Nicole Cargnoni, [email protected] .
Staff NewsThank you to Miss Skye Wood who has been working in Year 4 Kith supporting Miss Belinda Keen during her recovery from a recent illness. We congratulate Skye on her appointment as a teacher in North Queensland and wish her all the very best.
Miss Jodie Arnold excitedly anticipates her term of long service leave and we wish her safe travel as she sets off on her adventures. Mrs Nicole Cargnoni will be taking over the role as Physical Education teacher for the duration of Term 3.
Parking on Sunshine AveA reminder parking across driveways, including the gates at Essential Energy Depot, is illegal. Be sure to also carefully note signage indicating no parking zones.
Uniform ShopMid-Year Holiday Hours
Monday 29 june - Friday 10 july CLOSED
Opening hours:Monday 13 july 7:45am - 1:30pmTuesday 14 july 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thursday 16 july 7:45am - 1:30pmMonday 20 july 7:45am - 1:30pm
Important NoticeDue to the inclement weather the Fun Athletics Carnival scheduled for today has been postponed. The new date for the carnival will be Friday 24 July. This will be a shortened version, running from 11:00am - 3:00pm.
More details regarding the FUN Athletics Carnival will be made available in the first week of Term 3.
Murwillumbah Festival of Performing ArtsChoir and String EnsemblesOn Monday 22 June the Sunshine Ave Choir and String Ensembles travelled to Murwillumbah to participate in the Festival of Performing Arts. The choir sang two songs, ‘The Long White Sails’ and ‘There’s Room for Many a More’, superbly and placed first in their section. I’d like to congratulate all the students for their commitment and dedication throughout the semester and Mrs Walters for her continued direction.
Under the tutelage of Miss Mathison both String Ensembles performed admirably with Year 4 placing second and Year 3 placing third in the Primary Orchestral Strings section. All students conducted themselves impeccably and were great ambassadors for Lindisfarne.
Individual instrumental students also performed in the Festival and some of the results are as follows:
Strings Solo 10 years and under:Madeleine Warner Highly Commended ella Sinclair Highly Commended
Strings duet 10 years and under:Madeleine Warner/ella Sinclair Highly Commended
String solo 8 years and under:Darcy laycock Highly Commended
Piano Solo 10 years and under:Madeleine Warner Second
All performers are to be congratulated for their outstanding performances throughout the Festival whether they placed or not. It takes enormous courage for children to perform on a stage in a competition setting and they are all deserving of our acknowledgement, praise and admiration.
Tina Ross, Music Teacher
Speech and DramaDuring the last two weeks over fifty primary students participated in the Murwillumbah Eisteddfod, many for the first time. They competed as individuals, pairs and in groups in poetry, prose, mime and drama sections. All students performed exceptionally well and should be very proud of their efforts.
Better Buddies Awesome AfternoonOur Kindergarten students and their Year 4 buddies had a fantastic afternoon on Thursday celebrating our buddies program for Term 2. It was wonderful to see the children working together to create chatterboxes, pipe cleaner sculptures and making human knots. The afternoon once again reiterated the importance of creating these special relationships.
Brainstorm ProductionsAll children from Kindergarten to Year 6 enjoyed our visiting performance from Brainstorm Productions on Friday. The performance titled ‘The Magic Words’ focused on manners, respect and honesty, three things that are very much part of the Lindisfarne culture. Children have been completing follow up activities in their classrooms focused on the messages from the performance.
Safe Happy HolidayI would like to thank all the parents, grandparents and members of the School community who continue to generously volunteer their time to support the children. I wish you all a safe and relaxing vacation.
Michele Chandler
A special mention goes to: Sunny jane Skene Most Promising Performer - 6 years Cate Roberts Most Outstanding Performer - 10 years Reuben Collins Most Promising Performer - 10 years
Indiana Marshall won the Alison Janes ‘Most Outstanding Performer’ 13 years - placing in all seven sections. Indiana has also just been awarded the Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce ‘Most Promising Tweed Valley Performer’ and will present one of her drama pieces at the Awards Concert on 11 August.
Congratulations to:Kindergarten
Maja Todorovic Highly Commended
Year One
Sunny jane Skene First, Third Sabra Tangye Third juliette Collins First, Highly Commended kimiyo Tango Highly Commended Olympia Brewster Highly Commended
Year Two
Macy Parkinson First, Highly Commended Ava Arghyros First, Third Marley enright First, Second evie-Ray ellis Crawford First Sarina Amoedo Highly Commended
Year Three
Tomislav Todorovic Second lily Alford Second kate Sands Third Olivia Gorrie Highly Commended Noah Shepherd Second, Second, Second jack Sinclair Second, Third Hudson Rhodes Highly Commended Cassidy Hartley Highly Commended Claudia Arghyros Second, Highly Commended
Year Four
Anneliese Sparke First, First Brianna kurtz First, Third eli Veldhoven First
jye Walker Third Samara Skene Second Ana Todorovic Highly Commended Annie Hammond Highly Commended Mia Bantoft Highly Commended
Year Five
Cate Roberts First, First, First, First, Second, Second, Second Highly Commended Sophie Beck First, 2nd, Third, Third, Highly Commended ebony Richards Second evie Parkinson Second, Second, Third, Highly Commended Reuben Collins First, Second, Third, Highly Commended Sam Smith First, 2Second Connor Hooley Second, Highly Commended lachlan keech Highly Commended Finnegan Warner Highly Commended elliot Shepherd Second, Highly Commended Alex Sheard Second, Highly Commended jada enright Second, Third Indye Tangye Second ella Sinclair Highly Commended, Highly Commended Highly Commended Year Six
jessica Courtney First, Third, Third, Third, Highly Commended Georgia Worrad First, Third Nilaya Cannon Second Grace Wagner Highly Commended
Paige Williams Highly Commended, Highly Commended Highly Commended Alex jeffrey Highly Commended
Sunshine Avenue Paper Aeroplane CompetitionThirty eight Year 3 and 4 students were involved in a paper aeroplane competition where they investigated the science of aerodynamics aspect. The competition was held over five weeks and competitor’s final results were calculated from their three best throws. Students were challenged each week to alter their design or make a new plane that would travel further than the week before. Both boys and girls signed up to enter the competition and many other students helped by taking photographs, measuring distances and recording results. Mrs Manning was there as a facilitator - it was the students who worked together to run the competition.
The final results were outstanding, the longest distance recorded was 26.90 metres by our winner.
The overall winners were:
First Oliver Neumann 3T 75.16 metres
Second Louis Van Vorst 3M 61 13 metres
Third Jacob Rose 3M 53.68 metres
Fourth Sven Loemker – 4D 53.09 metres
Reciprocal Reading in 5TMLast Tuesday 16 June, 5TM invited parents to pop in for Literacy Hour. They participated in reading groups and learnt all about Reciprocal Reading. This well-researched method is used to develop learners’ reading skills. Its aims are to:
• improve reading comprehension through the use of four reading strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying and summarising and scaffold the four strategies by modelling, guiding and applying the strategies while reading.
• enable pupils to reflect on their reading and develop higher order thinking skills and use the social nature of learning to improve reading comprehension.
Reciprocal Reading encourages children to ask questions of the text themselves and to answer and build on the questions of their peers - a powerful learning experience which requires a higher level of understanding and engagement with the text.
Speaking and listening skills are also central to this method. Speaking and listening development is crucial for creative and critical thinking. This approach gives children the opportunity to practise speaking and listening skills among their peers.
Here are some of 5TM’s thoughts about Reciprocal Reading:
“It’s more fun than just reading as a group because having different roles is like having a job.” Cate Roberts
“Reciprocal Reading builds our literacy skills by teaching reading and cooperating together to understand the text.” William Jordan
“I like the different roles – doing certain things at certain times - as we read.” Daniel Green
“You have fun while reading with your peers and learn interesting things about the world.” Max McDonnell
Following our reading, students created individual Pic Collages. Pic Collage is an app that can be used as a tool to demonstrate learning across the curriculum. Children use Pic Collage to create collages of their learning, curriculum related posters, tell stories and record their ideas, using their own photos and information or by sourcing from the internet.
These Pic Collages summarise the student’s knowledge and understanding gained from our reciprocal reading activity.
5TM is looking forward to sharing more of their learning with their parents next term.
We are excited to be taking part in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. You can help our school by collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Points. Just collect Woolworths Earn & Learn Points when you shop at Woolworths between Monday 15 July and Tuesday 8 September 2015. We will redeem these for awesome educational resources for our school.
Simply pop them onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Points Sheet and once it’s completed, just bring it back to school or drop it into the Collection Box at your local Woolies. The more we collect, the more we can redeem. There are thousands of products available through the Woolworths Earn & Learn program, and we’d like to get lots of new gear! Products in the range include resources for mathematics, English, science, art & crafts, through to sports gear, library supplies and more.
We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program. If you have any questions, please ask at school.
Sunshine Avenue Science Fair
Stage 3Science Fair
Early Learning CentreBig Bang ScienceOn Tuesday morning we were treated to a Science show. Brett from Big Bang Science performed some experiments and demonstrations involving liquid nitrogen, forces, air pressure, combustion and of course explosions that really opened our eyes. Highlights were Mr Pettit sitting on a seat of nails and Miss Rogers being covered in flour while helping create a big ball of fire. Lindisfarne students were truly an excellent and appreciative audience.
1-2-3 MAGIC® & EMOTION COACHING PARENT COURSE
• An end to the arguing and yelling! • It saved our lives • Simple, sane, effective This course is being run by a Parentshop® licensed practitioner. www.parentshop.com.au
What People are saying: “What a relief to come across a program that preserves the dignity of the child, maintains the self control of both the parent and the child and is actually easy to remember when memory is the first thing to go!”
“I realized quickly that the 1-2-3 Magic can be a magnificent preventative measure that any parent can use to avoid raising a child, who later down the line, needs excessive discipline or grows out of control.”
Who is: The presenter for this course is Julie Henry, who has completed Parentshop’s 1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching practitioner training. Julie is a Clinical Psychologist working at Living Well Psychology and Counselling where she works with children and families. She has a special interest in helping parents build their connection with their children while managing their challenging behaviour in a calm and respectful way. She is also the mother of a 4 year old.
Learn: How to discipline without arguing, yelling or smacking How to sort behaviour How to handle challenging and testing behaviours Choosing your strategy, the three choices Using emotion coaching to encourage good behaviour 7 tactics for encouraging good behaviour
Parents will receive: A 1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching Parent Workbook Morning tea and baby sitting if needed (limited places available)
Registration Fee - $15 Register for this course by contacting Sunshine Avenue Administration on 07 5523 1143 Numbers are limited so please RSVP by 30 July 2015
Learn to manage difficult behaviour in children 2-12 years old A three-session program for parents and carers
at Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School Sunshine Avenue campus
on Thursday 6, 13, 20 August 9.00am - 11.30am
Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School would like to invite you to a seminar presented by Michele Juratowitch, Director of Clearing Skies, an organisation dedicated to providing support services to high-ability children, their families and their schools. The focus of this seminar is to empower parents and give them tools to help understand their “bright spark”.
Date: Monday 20 July 2015
Time: 5.30 – 7.00pm
Location: Mahers Lane campus Lecture Theatre
RSVP: Wednesday 15 July Christine Keevers [email protected]
Parenting “bright sparks” can be extremely challenging. As parents, we need to know how we can:
• Identify our child’s strengths and nurture talents• Understand our child’s abilities and meet their needs• Promote achievement while ensuring children are healthy, happy and confident• Support children to manage stressors and become resilient when they encounter difficulties• Guide children through the delicate balance of fitting in and standing out• Help our “bright sparks” to become independent; to develop the characteristics and work habits that
enable them to achieve
Abilities, temperament, thinking, behaviour, provisions, opportunities and friendship patterns interact to influence children’s choices, motivation and achievement. Parents with an understanding of the dynamic of talent development and their child’s social and emotional needs are best able to support, guide and nurture their “bright sparks”.
Raising Bright Sparks
About the presenter:
Michele Juratowitch draws on research and her many years’ experience working with children, parents and teachers in schools and through her private practice to explore the challenges involved in parenting bright children.
Michele is Director of Clearing Skies and provides a range of services to support high-ability children, their families and schools. She provides counselling for high-ability children, adolescents and adults; develops programmes for students; conducts parenting courses; writes books and articles about talent development; develops resources and programs for high-ability students; conducts research and is a frequent presenter at schools, universities and conferences. She lectured in a postgraduate course for teachers at UNSW; consults with and provides professional development in schools; and served on a number of educational advisory committees. Michele was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study counselling and intervention needs of gifted children and their families.
