Louth Public School Hughes Street

LOUTH 2840

PH: 6874 7426

FAX: 6874 7439

Busy, busy, busy

A HUGE thank you to everyone that helped out with our school fair. We had a very successful day

and that was only possible because of all the cooking and volunteering that happened. I am really

grateful for all your support. The support of the Parents and Community in Louth is outstanding

and an immense asset to

the school.

We made a profit of

over $3000, this will be

used towards the stu-

dents end of year ex-

cursion to Sydney,

which will be a once in a

lifetime opportunity.

A heart felt thank you to

our cooks and bakers (although I didn’t get to sample your goods….mmm that MUST be amended

next year hehe)

* Patsy Duncan * Margaret Mitchell * Gabie LeLievre * Leah LeLievre

* Julie McMaster * Naomi McMaster * Annie Strachan * Barbara Sergeant

* Amy Marett * Helen Ponder * Belinda Zanker * Dave Fyfe

* Deborah Nielsen * Samantha Mooring * Sandra Gally * Jill McInerney

* Janet Jones * Clare Sandford

A huge thank you to our helpers that made the event possible:

* Melissa Lawrence * Sandra Gally * Samantha Mooring * Dave Fyfe

* Joan Keech * Deborah Nielsen * Jill McInerney * Janet Jones

* Jen Ponder * Casey Cain * Lexie Cain * Gabie LeLievre

* Mandy McInerney * Meg Sandford * Roley Woodberry * Clare Sandford

* Hughie Woodberry * Julie McMaster

A wowzers your amazing to the wonderful people that contributed by both cooking and helping:

* Sandra Gally * Samantha Mooring * Deborah Nielsen * Jill McInerney

* Janet Jones * Gabie LeLievre * Clare Sandford * David Fyfe

We have many events coming up, so please remember to check our date section on the back. I have

started a Facebook page Louth Public School NSW Australia as another means of promoting our

school and events. Thank you for your support, Lee-Ann Thomson (Principal)

Newsletter Term 3 Week 12.8.13

Louth school should only have boys

Firstly, our school absolutely must not have girls at school with boys because they are so fussy and

annoying.

Secondly, they are so hypocritical because they say that boys are annoying when they are the ones

being annoying because they never stop talking.

Thirdly, they are always whispering things into each other’s ears and never tell you what they said!

Girls think that are smarter than boys. This makes boys feel angry and embarrassed because the

girls say it out loud in public and the boys don’t know how to reply. This makes them

worried so they can’t do their work properly at school. Because of this argument it

should be obvious that girls should not go to school with boys.

By Roley Woodberry

Learning at Home

It is a fact that most learning doesn't happen at school. Your child only spends 15% of

their time here. They spend more time asleep (33%) than they do listening to me :)

(phew sighs Meg)

Because students spend most of their time (52%) at home, awake, mucking around, playing, and

learning about life that learning at home is most important.

I have spoken about reading and how important that is on many occasion. Also how to set up the

perfect study area for your child. Today’s topic is sleep!

Getting a good nights sleep (at least 8 hours) is essential for optimal brain functioning at school.

Memory consolidation occurs during sleep especially during dream (or REM) sleep. During the

normal 8-9 hours of sleep, five dream (REM) cycles occur. Adolescents getting only 5-6 hours of

sleep lose out on the last two REM cycles and thereby reduce the amount of time the brain has to

consolidate information. Teenagers need as much sleep as children, partly because their brains are

doing so much development.

Always remember there is no such thing as a sleep bank! So just because you slept 10 hours one

night doesn’t mean you can get away with only sleeping six hours the next night.

Studies have shown time and time again that students who don’t get enough sleep have to work

much harder to do well at school. So for maximum learning ensure your child is having a solid 8

hours of sleep.

Now getting them to sleep………….. That is a topic for a later date and much more hardened

professional than I :)

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr Seuss

Our visit from NSW

police and JIRT to talk

to us about being safe

in our community over

the race weekend led

to our students being

handcuffed! hehe

Learning at Louth

This Term we are learning about the Living Land. This unit entails us learning about how Earth was

formed and the different religious beliefs as well as scientific, Antarctica and its importance to the

world, Uluru and its Aboriginal history, The Great Barrier Reef and the effect humans have on its

environment and Kangaroo Island. Students will be comparing the environments and looking at ways

to ensure their sustainability.

We are concentrating on the text types Narrative, Recount, Discussion, Information Reports and

food webs.

In Mathematics we are concentrating on volume and percentages.

We have also begun our healthy living unit and students are continuing to develop their fundamental

movement skills.

Active After Schools are concentrating on Rugby skills and Netball skills. Please remember all are

welcome to attend Monday and Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 4pm.

Staff Meetings

Staff meetings are held at school on Monday afternoons from 3pm—4pm and Tuesday mornings

8.30am—8.45am. Supervision is not available at these times.

Book Club and Computer Club

On Tuesday afternoons your children are invited to attend Book Club. Mrs

Nielsen reads a variety of age appropriate books and children are actively in-

volved in discussion on the books and even rating them for literary prizes. Afternoon tea

is served.

On Wednesday afternoons your children are invited to attend Computer Club. Ms T will be

organising this where students are introduced to a variety of activities just for fun.

Term 3 (dates in blue are when the school will be unattended as we will be out)

Week 5 * Wed 14 August - Health Day - 11 am onwards

- come and make a fruit carving and a vegetable animal, make your

own wrap and then play a game of T-ball.

* Fri 16 Aug - MID TERM BREAK

Week 6 * Mon 19 Aug - MID TERM BREAK— Travel to Dubbo

* Tue 10 Aug - Dubbo NAIDOC speech finals (all attending)

* Wed 21 Aug—travel returning from Dubbo (hopefully with prize in hand)

* Thur 22 Aug - Cathy Campbell visit (AP Learning and Support Bourke region)

Week 7 * Tue 27 Aug - Netball, Rugby day - Bourke

Week 8 * Wed 4 Sept - Jacqueline (Flying Doctor) and JIRT (Bourke branch) Health and

safety unit with students

* Fri 6 Sept - School Camp out sleepover with friends from DE

Week 9 * Fri 13 Sept—Bourke PS visit

Week 10 * Tue 17 Sept - Assembly 2pm

Sept 21st - Oct 7 - SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Term 4

Week 1 * Mon 7 Oct - Public Holiday

Week 3 + Wed 23 Oct - Bourke PS visit

Week 4 * Wed 30 Oct - Halloween fun day & 3P parent session - all invited

Important Dates for Louth PS

A thought for the fortnight:

Communication devices - have they enhanced communication? When we were growing up (well I am putting you in

my age category so please excuse me if this is not correct), we did not have mobile phones, the Internet and

certainly not Facebook. Pagers were more for the professions of doctors and still required access to a landline to

reply to the message. Then along came the communication revolution. Mobile phones were big “bricks” and only had

by a few. The first mobile phone call made in Australia was on 23 February 1987. The Internet became more

readily available and we learnt to send emails. Wow! What a progression in a space of 20 odd years. Now they are

an attachment, this picture is a typical picture of people in more urban areas. Indeed catch a train in the city and

you do not see any eye contact at all as people busy themselves with their mobile phones or Ipads and mobile

internet. The idea of this communication revolution was to enable people to be more in touch with each other and

shorten the distance between loved ones. But are we?

Indeed many stores now are introducing policies that they will not serve you whilst you are on your mobile phone.

Gone are the days when you say “good morning” to someone walking along the same street as you. Parents are

having to enforce rules that their children do not bring their phones etc to the dinner table. And schools, well

there in lies major controversy. Do we embrace the technology and risk

loosing students attention or do we ban the technology and risk losing

the relativeness.?

My youngest daughter will never talk over the phone and we only com-

municate via messages, she hates speaking! This is typical of our society,

as we have embraced the ease of emailing, sms, or Facebooking have we

lost the skill of speaking? I have to admit it is so much easier to jot a

message than pick up the phone a lot of the times. Also I have an

accurate record of conversation when it is an email. But I do worry we

are becoming our own zombie apocalypse. Just a thought Lee-Ann