Dates to Remember

Monday 20th October Chinese Cultural

Day

School Council

Meeting 7:30 pm

Monday 22nd—Fri

24th October

Gr 3—6 Camp

Monday 3rd Novem-

ber

Curriculum Day

No Students at

School

Tuesday 4th Novem-

ber

Melbourne Cup

Day Holiday

Thursday 6th Novem-

ber

School Photos 9:30

am

Friday 7th November Lardner Cup

Friday 14th November Prep / 1 /2 Sleepo-

ver

Friday 21st November Mt Worth Whole

Day

Tuesday 25th Novem-

ber

Prep Transition 9-

11

Friday

28th November

Frog Pond Opening

Monday

1st December

Swimming

Tuesday

2nd December

Prep Transition 9–

11

Wednesday

3rd December

Swimming

Friday

5th December

Night Market

Monday

8th December

Swimming

School Council

Meeting 7:30 pm

Tuesday

9th December

Statewide Transi-

tion. Preps in Gr

6’s Out

Wednesday,

10th December

Gr 6 Graduation

Dinner

Friday 12th - Tuesday

16th December

Swimming

Wednesday

16th December

Disco

La rdne r & Di s t r i c t P r ima ry S choo l

Acting Principal : Website: www.lardnerdps.vic.edu.au

Ruth Crawford Phone: 56261303 Fax : 56261363

From the Principal’s desk

Welcome Back

I hope that everyone had a well rested term break and are all

ready for the exciting events happening this term! If you have a look at

the Dates to Remember section, it is packed. Make sure you mark

these dates in your diary, you won’t want to miss a thing. Otherwise

come into the office area and check out the new community calendar.

This term we will participate in ; our Chinese Cultural Day deliv-

ered by Serena, Shane and Jennifer, sending campers away to Rum-

bug for 3 days, putting on our best smile for school photos, building and

testing your entries ready for the Lardner Cup, a visit to Mt Worth,

whole school swimming program, transition days, the ever impressive

(so I have been told) Night Market, Grade 6 Graduation and for the sen-

iors their end of year disco.

I must take this time to thank everyone who has made my first

week at Lardner & District Primary School a fantastic experience. The

staff have been amazing! From the questions (some of them bound to

be silly) that I have asked, to helping me understand how the school

runs, thank you. Lardner & District Primary School are very lucky to

have such competent and wonderful staff.

To the parent community who have taken the time to say hello during

my previous visits and during my first week, thank you. The community

feel that has been created at Lardner defiantly makes it a lovely place

to be.

Regards,

Ruth Crawford

Don’t forget: HATS ARE BACK

Remember wide brimmed hats must be worn at school during Term 4. If your child

hasn’t got a hat they will need to be under the deck during recess and lunchtime.

WELCOME Everyone at Lardner & District Primary School would like to

welcome Ruth to our school as Acting Principal for a very

busy 4th Term.

10th October 2014

We’re on the web: lardnerdps.vic.edu.au

Senior Room News

Welcome back to Term 4! Looking at the calendar, it is a jam-packed term full of events such as Grade 6

graduation, transition days, camps, swimming, disco and the list goes on and on!

More information to come on these exciting events.

Several students head off to Camp Rumbug during Week 3- don’t forget to return

any medical/permission forms if your child is attending and you haven’t already

finalised this. Those students staying behind from 3-6 will be in my classroom for

the three days.

In our Writer’s Workshop this term our main genre will be procedural texts. Students have begun

reading procedural texts such as recipes, instructions on craft activities and how to build things to familiarise themselves with

the structure and language features.

In Maths we will cover topics this term on location and position, chance and data, as well as revising the years’ learning. In

number groups we look at fractions, money and continue work on the four operations.

In inquiry the senior room has an exciting project this term- Enterprise. This will culminate in a Market Night during week 9

where the students will be running a market stall business to fundraise money for the school. Students will be learning about

business partnerships, advertising and market research and will become more financially literate throughout the unit of work.

As well, students will be learning about transport to support the Science Program around this topic.

Homework will continue throughout this term- by now students should be familiar with the expectations and be organising

themselves to do the work. Reading diaries will be checked every Friday, they do need to be signed each week by a parent to

verify reading nights even for independent readers.

If you any questions or queries please come and see me.

Kind regards,

Laura Castello

MIDDLE ROOM NEWS

Welcome back to the last term of 2014. We hope you had a lovely break and ready for a FULL ON Term 4!

All the students have returned with great enthusiasm and are excited about our Integrated/Inquiry Units of Transport and the

Enterprise Market.

In the past week we have commenced discussion on possible Enterprise Market ideas and the students have come up with so

many awesome ideas, so now we have the process of deciding which ones to do.

Frogs in the Pond is a definite Enterprise Market idea and we have already made some and taste tested the yummy flavours. We

were then able to work out how many Frog Ponds we can make out of a packet of Jelly Crystals and how much it will cost us to

make one. We have had discussions about how much we should charge and what profit we may make….of course they want to

charge a lot so they make a HUGE PROFIT!!!!! So I think we have lots of work and discussions before making decisions.

Homework will remain the same this term, nightly reading written into the Reading Diary and returned daily. Math and English

tasks given out on a Friday and are due in on the following Wednesday. The students enjoy ‘Golden Time’ which is a reward

given on a Wednesday for those students who have completed and handed in their homework. For those students who haven’t

completed their homework or left it at home they use Golden Time to catch up. The Homework Reward this term is a “WATER

FIGHT!!!!!”

We will be concentrating on Procedural/Instructional writing this term so it would be wonderful if your child could see this in

their own environment, eg: recipes, instructions, directions, rules for games, manuals, etc

Time seems to be tricky for many students so we are covering this again. Your child needs to be encouraged to read the clocks

in your home, both analogue and digital. It is important that they see both types of clocks and can read both as we say them dif-

ferently, ¼ past 5 can also be said as four fifteen. The Grade 2’s need to be revising o’clock, ½ past, ¼ past and ¼ to while the

Gr 3’s need to be able to read analogue clocks to the 5 minutes.

We will continue the “Timetable Challenge” during Term 4. The Gr 2’s are working at consolidating 2’s,3’s,5’s and 10’s while

the Gr 3’s are working at consolidating 2’s,3’s,4’s,5’s, and 10’s. Each Friday they can be tested on a times table and if the get

100% they receive a star to add to their chart. Please make asking some timetables part of everyday.

If your child is attending camp please ensure that all forms are returned to school.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Regards, Janice and Karyn

BOOK CLUB is attached. Orders and

money are due back no later than

Thursday, 23rd October.

Junior Primary Junior Primary have returned to school ready to learn and have hit the ground running. This week we have commenced

our inquiry unit Transport. Students will investigate and answer questions such as What is transport? Why do we need it?

How does transport affect my life?, What makes a transport system? How does the system help us? How do the features

and models of transport make it suitable for different purposes? How does transport cause problems for people and the

environment? and How can I be a responsible transport user? The unit will develop student’s design, creative and tech-

nical skills. This is important as people need to use creative, imaginative and inventive thinking to help them meets hu-

man needs and wants. This week they explored early transport. They designed and made a cart suitable for pulling by a

beast of burden. Over the term they will explore land, water and air transport and the features that make them suited to

different purposes.

Science

Indy Tame, Ben Hansford and Timothy McDonald repre-

sented our school at the presentation to listen to General

Charles Duke speak about his experiences as an astronaut.

He also spoke about the importance of being open to new

opportunities and perseverance o achieve your goals.

Thank you to St Pauls Anglican Grammar School for provid-

ing this wonderful opportunity. We hope to soon have a

DVD of the presentation to share with the rest of the

school.

English, Maths and Science Learning

This week students have explored the features of proce-

dural texts. They have used their growing knowledge to

make popcorn and then sequenced pictures or written a

procedure that others could follow. In maths, students

investigated the different ways they come to school and

then used this knowledge to construct a column graph

to represent their findings. They discussed reasons for

the car and bus being the only forms of transport used by

our class and identified reasons such as distance and ter-

rain not making it suitable for walking and bikeriding and

their own age and the lack of services such as trains lim-

iting the options available. In Science we began by inves-

tigating the ways our bodies can move.

Wheels needed.

Do you have wheels from prams, rollerskates or boards

car tyres etc that we can borrow? We require them on

Monday 13 October for inquiry learning. Please bring

to the junior primary classroom.

Many thanks Vanessa Castle

Lara worked hard to

problem solve how to

attach wheels that

would rotate but not fall

off. Here is the finished

cart.

Linc made a cart

for his kangaroo

to ride in.

CHINESE CULTURAL DAY - Monday 20th October

ARE YOU

INTERESTED?????

CPR / ANAPHALAXIS

(EPIPEN TRAINING)

Thursday, 16th October

3:45 pm at

Lardner & District Pri-

mary School

Anyone interested in this

training session at a cost

of $55 per person will

need to call into the

school office

NO LATER Monday

morning to register and

pay for this.

Ripplebrook PS will be joining us for our Cultural Day. Students will take part in a day full of activities. As part of

the activities students will make and cook their own lunch to eat on the day and will not need to bring

lunch from home. They will be making Dumplings with the following ingredients: pork, corn and

flour, some seasonings such as salt, sugar, vinegar and soy sauce.

As you can see from the table below the children have a busy day ahead of them.

For anyone allergic to any of these ingredients you will need to bring their lunch from home.

The cost for the day is $5 per student for materials.

This should be sent to school in the attached envelope by Wednesday, 15th October

Time P/1 2/3/4 5/6

10:00-10:15 Tai Ji

10:15-11:15 FAN DESIGN Peking Opera Mask Making DUMPLINGS

11:15-11:30 Recess

11:30-12:25 Making DUMPLINGS FAN DESIGN Peking Opera Mask

12:30-13:25 Peking Opera Mask Making DUMPLINGS FAN DESIGN

13:25-14:00 Lunch (eat dumplings)

14:00-14:25 PAPER CUTTING CHINESE LANTERN CALLIGRAPHY

14:30-15:00 CHINESE LANTERN CALLIGRAPHY CHINESE LANTERN

COMMUNITY INFORMAT ION

Shared accommodation available from 1st November in Hallora. Rooms are in new house or caravan &

bungalow from $110 per week. Agistment is available for 1 horse @ $30 per week.

For more information phone 0416 210 725.

COMMUNITY INFORMAT ION

Connecting Parents and Friends Group:

Time : Every Tuesday 9am to 11am …drop in ..10min or 1/2hr Location : Art room, easy to access and warm in winter

Purpose : Coffee and chat, and pre-school children activities Contact persons:

Sue (Grandma of 2 school & 1 preschool children) ph 5626 1319 Leanne (Mum of 3 school & 1 Preschool children) ph 5626 1170

Everyone welcome – we look forward to seeing you there

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PARENTS – BE MINDFUL OF YOUR SPEED – WATCH THE KIDS

The school road we all use to drop off and pick up our kids School times it is only 40km/hr

So remember to slow down All children crossing the road must be with an adult

Our kids and their safety is important to all of us – keep it that way

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Dance Night - Tetoora Road Hall

Tetoora Road Hall – monthly event “Connecting kids in the Community”

Dates : Saturday 11th Oct .. then 8th Nov Two piece band to play 11th Oct

Time : 7:00pm to 11:00pm inc supper break Dates : Saturday 25th Oct & 22nd Nov

Venue : Tetoora Road Community Centre – main hall Time : 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Cost : $5.00 per family/$2.00per adult Cost : No cost involved BYO drink bottles

What to bring : Plate of supper to share What to bring : BYO games .. to share

non-electronic

Dances : instruction provided have fun Focus on kids : Ages 3-12, with parents assisting

Kids can play/dance in hall. After supper kids movie

Enquiries : Margaret Mc Donald 5626 1389 Enquiries: Barbara 0417 506 811

Friendly and warm environment connecting our local kids together in fun activities

Do you want to be more actively involved in the Lardner and District Primary School Community???

But not sure where to begin??

A great opportunity exists to build stronger connections between the school and parents. The school’s strategic plan involves creating pathways for parent engage-ment. With the support of school council we would like to invite you to a parent and community meeting to get your great ideas and input into setting up a Parent Action Group.

Our first meeting will be held on Thursday, 16 October in the staffroom from 2-3.25pm.

Everyone is welcome, afternoon tea will be provided. Toddlers are welcome, toys will be provided!

If you can’t come to this meeting we would still love to hear from you! You can speak to Emma Hughes on 0422394330 or Kim Musgrove 0411248251.