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 17

Date: 8th June 2017

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

June

12th - Queen’s B’day - holiday

13th - Book club due back

16th - Parent teacher

interview slips due back

19th - School Council

21st - Public Speaking Night

Grade 5/6

22nd - Reports sent home

with interview times

23rd - Curriculum Day

26th - Parent/ teacher

Interviews

30th - End Term 2

2.30 finish

July

17th - Term 3 begins

Momotaro is a popular

Japanese folktale.

Momotaro translates in

English as “Peach Boy”.

Momotaro was written in

the 16th century.

Well done to our 59 aerobics participants who attended the

State Championships at Geelong on Saturday. The support

offered by the Launch community is outstanding, including

transportation and helping with hair. Our teams did

exceptionally well with great results in the following categories:

Wild Card: Danger Boys - 1st; Furious Five - 1st; Mad Donnas - 2nd; Super Sparks - 3rd;

Future Legends: Disco Divas - Silver; Danger Boys - Bronze; Primary Littlies: Pink War-

riors - Gold; Midnight Angels - Bronze; Primary Aerobics: Extreme Force - 4th;

Primary All Boys: Kryptonite - 1st; Furious Five - 4th

Disco Divas, Kryptonite and Pink Warriors have all qualified for the National

Championships, being held on the Gold Coast on August 5th.

The high level of enthusiasm, dedication and expertise of all our aerobics teams is

truly amazing. Thank you to Miss Nyman, Miss Mackie and Mrs Kemp

for their great coaching, passion and organisation. You have all worked

extremely hard to provide the students at Launch with the opportunity

to participate in such a worthwhile program.

Japanese Master Class - Momotaro Play On Monday the Japanese master class performed a Japanese play called Momotaro for the Preps and Grades 1/2. We rehearsed and practiced for a term. We inter-viewed some of the preps and 1/2’s to get their opinion of the play. Robert, Shayla and Myah from Prep T : “There was an old man and lady. They found a peach with a baby inside. They took him home and looked after him. When he turned 10 he went to fight the bad people”. Mia and Maliki from 2R: “We liked the costumes and the back-drops. It was cool when they journeyed to the Oni kingdom and fought them to protect the town”. Everyone thought it was really cool and we all really enjoyed it. By Alyssa and Erin

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School Captain’s Report

Prep: In CAFÉ this week, we are learning to retell a story in sequence. We are

learning about the letter “r” and our words of the week are “red” “ride” and

“rode”. In writing we are learning to include when an event took place. In Maths

we are learning about true and false statements.

1/2: In writing we have explored the poetry doors to get ideas for our poems. In Maths we have been working

hard in subtraction groups. We made bread as part of our integrated studies and it tasted delicious!

3/4: in reading we looked at cause and effect. In writing we have started our informative writing unit. We are

going to write an information piece about an animal. In maths we have been working on division and angles. In IS

we made bridges out of straws.

5/6: This week has seen grade 5/6 students asking questions about reading, working on narrative style persua-

sives and building 3D cities to investigate volume. We have been working hard learning about time in our maths

groups and some of us have begun our investigations on animal adaptations. We loved trying new sports at our

Aussie sports day.

Keeping Warm in Winter Over the past few weeks we have certainly seen a change in the weather with much cooler days and freezing mornings. Can you please ensure your child has a named school windcheater for school. A number of children are arriving without a school windcheater. The problem is made more difficult when the children leave warm classrooms and go out to play in cold, windy conditions without something warm to put on. Thank you for your help in ensuring we keep our kids warm.

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Name Award

1/2M Thomas S For trying really hard to sound out words.

3/4F Roy R

Sienna M

For writing a lot of ‘seeds’ for Writer’s Notebook and making better choices in class! Keep up

the great work!

For being a wonderful classroom helper and even better friend! We are so lucky to have you

in our grade!

5/6B Charlee P

Tahlia T

For applying a new concept to work out how many cubes in your shape.

For experimenting with interesting words in your writing.

5/6S Liam I

Charlotte W

Chelsea S

For excellent results in our 15 second times table challenges.

For excellent researching in I.S.

For great research skills for your I.S project.

Student Reports

Currently our staff are working on students reports. We utilise a range of information and

data to make decisions on these reports, including the portfolio tasks students have been

completing. A great deal of time and effort goes into putting these documents together

to inform parents of the great achievements of our students, as well as future learning.

Reports will be going home on Thursday 22nd June with Parent Teacher Interviews held

on Monday 26th June. Each student will bring home a copy of their report on the 22nd,

together with their portfolio. If there are any families who would like an additional copy

of the report to be distributed to either parent, please inform the office so that arrangements can be made. In

these circumstances, we send home one copy with the student, and another would be either sent in the mail or

picked up from the office by a parent.

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Steps to take when your child is absent

First day absent - Phone office

More than one day absent - write note, email or write in child’s diary and

send to school. An appropriate code will be put against the absence.

Holiday - requests for holidays taken during the school term need to be

addressed to the Principal.

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OSHC

Headlice Please take the time to read this

information on helping to eliminate

head lice from your child /ren.

If every family works with us to

eradicate head lice

we will be closer

to becoming a

head lice free

school.

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Extend Before and

After School Care at

Launching Place

Primary School

Our weekly recap

We had a week indoors this week as it was so cold and wet Monday we learned a new game called Blind Draw where you have to instruct someone else to draw a picture without saying what it is Tuesday we were supposed to go outside but it was raining so we stayed indoors and played Trivia Tiggy and Dead Fish Wednesday we started making the tags for the Birthday Wall and Painted pictures Thursday we finally got outside and did some running races, everyone raced everyone and everyone got cheered on Friday we made a Cubby House with tables, sheets, cardboard pipes and the Couches, it was big enough for everyone to fit in We have NO birthdays this week Michelle, Team Leader Our Extend Superstar is Charlotte B

Cleaning up after everyone and helping others when they need help

What’s on next week? Monday 12

th June:

QUEENS BIRTHDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY Tuesday 13

th June:

Marks Up / Free Play Outside / Hop Scotch Wednesday 14

th June:

Wool Pictures / Scarecrow Tiggy / Monopoly Thursday 15

th June:

Gymnastics/Aerobics Classes / Card Games / Silent Ball Friday 16

th June:

Celebrity Heads / Led Lighting / Trivia Tiggy

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school or Department of Education and Early Childhood Development endorsement.

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Please Note: That other advertisements and publications published in this newsletter do not imply

school or Department of Education and Early Childhood Development endorsement.

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