Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

6 McIntosh Street

Waikerie SA 5330

Phone: 08 8541 2344

Mobile: 0457 265 337

Principal: Adam Borgas

www.wlps.sa.edu.au

HARMONY BENCH PROJECT Congratulations to our students leaders who

have completed the Harmony Bench

Project. The bench has now been installed

and is being used by students. The project

was the initiative of the Year 6/7 student

leaders who, with the assistance of Mr Des

DeVroome, planned where the bench was

to be located, underwent fundraising to

purchase the bench, dug up dirt,

compacted the ground and got the area

completely ready for the bench to be installed. It is fantastic to see our Year

6/7’s taking the initiative to coordinate such a fantastic project.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Week 8

Thur 14 Sept

Fri 15 Sept

School Concert

8:50am Chapel

Week 9

18-20 Sept

Mon 18 Sept

Fri 22 Sept

Year 3/4/5 Camp

8:50am Assembly

2:00pm Chapel - Hope

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Week 10

Mon 25 Sept

Fri 29 Sept

8:50am Assembly

1:30pm Closing Chapel

Week 1

Mon 16 Oct

Fri 20 Oct

8:50am Opening Chapel

No Chapel

Week 2

Mon 23 Oct

Fri 27 Oct

8:50am Assembly

8:50am Chapel

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Waikerie Lutheran Primary School

Newsletter Week 8 // Term 3 // Tuesday, 12th September 2017

IN THE YEAR 1/2 CLASSROOM

Important Notice!!

Environmental Investigation and Mud

Play Day on Sunday, 22nd October.

Our students are:

Balanced, Caring, Communicators, Inquiriers, Knowledgeable, Open-Minded, Principled, Reflective, Risk-Taskers and Thinkers DON’T FORGET SCHOOL CONCERT THIS THURSDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER

Last Friday, 8th September we held our annual Fun Run. The weather proved to

be quite suitable for such an event and the kids did themselves and their House

Teams proud with their achievements. Overall the F/1 class ran a combined total

of 19.7km, the Year 1/2 class ran 30.3km, the Year 3/4’s ran 33.4km, the Year 5’s

33km and the Year 6/7 class 34.5km! This means that the entire school ran a

combined total of 150.5km which was an incredible accomplishment.

The House Points were allocated to each class and the overall winners of the day were

the Bilbies with a total of 54.3km. In second place were the Wallabies at 49.8km and

coming in third were the Echidnas with 46.8km.

Well done to everyone who took part!

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School is a Christ-Centred community equipping each student for life. SCHOOL NEWS

From the Principal Last Monday, Michelle Burns, Kim Waterson and myself

travelled down to Bethany Christian School in Paralowie to look

at how they best support students in their learning. We were

recommended to visit this place by the Association of

Independent Schools as a school who uses their resources well

to provide the best outcomes they can for their students.

We were pleased to note that they had many similarities to WLPS:

The school endeavoured to connect families to outside services (like speech

pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Educational Psychologists),

displaying an understanding of meeting students Social and Emotional

needs in order to access improvement in academic performance.

The school worked hard to identify student needs and how they could be

attended to as students joined the school.

The school focussed their intervention at the junior primary end of the school

before ‘gaps’ opened up between student ability.

The school had what they considered ‘best practise’ literacy programs in

place to meet student needs.

As we walked away, I felt proud of our achievements as a community in the last

18 months since we last reviewed Learning Support. It is an exciting time as we

again review our support structures through a Learning Support Review, and as

we undertake strategic planning. As the opportunity arises in the next five

weeks, please take the opportunity to feedback your thoughts, as when we all

contribute to our school we share the vision we create for the future.

God bless,

Adam

Student Led Conferences Thank you to those families

who have returned their

Student Led Conference

Form. If you haven’t returned your

form, please do so ASAP. A letter

confirming your conference time will

be forwarded home with your child

today.

Term 3 “Souper” Fridays “Souper” Friday is on again

this Friday, 1st September!

We will be selling Chicken

Noodle Soup at lunch time

for $2 per cup which includes a

bread roll. Students who wish to

purchase soup will need to bring

along their money as well as a plastic

heat proof cup and spoon.

From the Finance Officer Please be advised that in-

voices for Term 3 will be

forwarded this week!

Also, could all Year 3/4/5 camp

payments please be finalised asap

as the camp is next week.

NAPLAN Results Today, for those students

who sat the NAPLAN

tests earlier this year, the

results will be delivered

to home via child courier in an

envelope. The official national

release date this year was the 2nd

August and many schools send their

data straight home. As a whole

staff, we hold the data until as a

staff, we have critiqued the data to

better inform our teaching practise.

Reading our school’s data is best

done by following an individual

child’s progress, as small groups of

student results can be easily skewed

by a handful of results. Our data

showed great improvement in

literacy, particularly spelling. This

year we will be tracking four students

particularly to follow up on the

possible reasons for their success in

testing, and we will follow through by

letting you know the results of this

follow up.

2017 Term Dates

Term 3: 24 Jul - 29 Sep

Term 4: 16 Oct - 13 Dec

School Office Hours

8:30am - 4:00pm

Office Staff

Business Manager

Mrs Van Niekerk

Administration

Mrs Kalisch

Mrs Schmidt

Mrs Shugg

Families in our Prayers

Tang

Thiel

Thiele

Thomas

Van Niekerk

Waikerie Lutheran Parish

Worship Roster

Sunday, 10th September

Waikerie: 10:00am HC

Lowbank: 8:45am HC

Morgan: 5:00pm HC

Ramco: 8:45am

Pastor Lee Kroehn: 0407600293

Office: 8541 2689

Office Hours: 10am-1pm Thursday and Friday

Birthdays

STUDENT OF THE WEEK Teachers are encouraging the attitudes of appreciation, commitment, confidence, cooperation,

creativity, curiosity, empathy, enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect and tolerance as a tool

kit for successfully relating with others. As a way of celebrating the demonstration of these

attitudes by students, staff have elected these students this week.

Year 6/7 Class (Mr Braun and Mrs Waterson)

Enthusiasm - Lilli Hull. I have thoroughly enjoyed Lilli’s eagerness to do Exhibition during the day.

She is always asking for more Exhibition time which is awesome. Well done Lilli, keep it up!

Appreciation - Stella Thomas. Stella showed awesome appreciation during an activity in class. She

was able to think deeply about being thankful for different objects in class and provide a detailed

explanation as to why. Great work Stella!

Year 5 Class (Mrs Burns)

Cooperation - Flynn Andrew. Flynn showed consistent cooperation skills last week when working

with his partner on the UOI final assessment task. Both boys clearly communicated what they

wanted to achieve and how they would do that. Well done Flynn!

Cooperation - Owen Kroehn. Owen and his partner demonstrated positive cooperation and

communication skills last week on their UOI. They were able to share ideas and listen to each other

and therefore used some clever thinking and techniques to evoke a response from their audience.

Well done Owen!

Year 3/4 Class (Mr Fladrich)

Cooperation - Gemma Gay. Gemma has displayed excellent cooperation skills when working with

her partner to research forces experiments. Well done Gemma!

Enthusiasm - Ethan Rayner. Ethan has researched forces experiments and enthusiastically prepared

an experiment of his own to show the class. Well done Ethan!

Year 1/2 Class (Mrs Canney and Mrs Beelitz)

Commitment - Kye Buckley. Kye demonstrated commitment to is learning in both SSP and HASS

lessons on Tuesday. He focussed well and produced high quality work. Keep it up Kye!

Cooperation - Nicolas Camerlengo. Nicolas demonstrated excellent cooperation skills during small

group work in a Growing with Gratitude lesson. He was both respectful and inclusive of others. Well

done Nicolas.

Foundation/Year 1 Class (Miss Corbett)

Enthusiasm - Jonah Kroehn. Thank you for all your support to peers cheering them on at the Fun Run

on Friday! Even with an injury you brought positivity and dedication to help at the distance makers.

Great service Jonah!!

Commitment - Kristen Tang. Congratulations on a fantastic effort put in for the Fun Run on Friday.

Your perseverance was great to see Kristen! Well done!!

FUN RUN INFORMATION

COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

CORNER OF PEACE

The pictures say it all. Our human law judges wrongdoing with a penalty, and so it is with

God….. BUT He provides a way out to wipe away the wrong in our spirits, souls and

bodies…….What a wonderful way to put away the fear that hold us and live in peace.

God bless

Moira

GIRLS SQUAD: The Youth Hub Girls

Squad is collecting gifts and

money to send shoeboxes of love to

children in need all over the world.

Collection from chapel will support this

cause, and you can donate NEW

stationary, hygiene products (soap,

hairbrushes, toothbrushes) toys and

clothes for us to send to children in an

Operation Christmas Child shoe box of

love by bringing in a donation and

placing in the box in the office.

We will have a packing party in the

school holidays at the Lutheran

Church Hall (Social Centre). Watch

this space for more details.

For Ideas on how to help, see the

picture!

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School is a Christ-Centred community equipping each student for life.

Congratulations to the following students on completing the 2017 Premier’s Reading

Challenge:

F/1: Georgia Buckley, Zack Gay, Reuben Honeyman, Jonah Kroehn, Max Liebich, Arlee

Matthews, Ethan Schmidt, Kristen Tang, Ajay Barker, Jaxon Cooper, Evie Gill, Johnny Mackintosh and

Ally Meegan.

Year 1/2: Darcy Bald, Kye Buckley, Nicolas Camerlengo, Sarah Kroehn, Callie Loffler, Ava McKenzie-

Hefford, Hannah McPherson, Adele Arnold, Lacey Borg, Sam Borgas, Jarvis Ebert,

Kiara Gore, Eden Hensel, Taylah Liebich, Marni Lloyd, Evie Matthews, Levi Milton, Hamish Paschke,

Addison Schmidt and Monique Weir.

Year 3/4: Hailey Arnold, Gemma Gay, Imogen Kroehn, Megen Mihalopoulos, Alicia Wood,

Ellie Bald, Matilda Bishop, Grace Borgas, Marco Camerlengo, Mischa Connelly, Olivia Ebert, Hamish

Kroehn, Jackson Kuchel, Natalie Mackintosh, Emily McPherson, Verity Mee, Amali

Nitschke, Isabella Paschke, Ethan Rayner, Hugh Thomas and Kyesha Watkins.

Year 5: Kyra Buckley, Amity Burns, Brodie Fechner, Ellen Kroehn, Owen Kroehn, Malachi Lloyd, Latia

Loffler, Chloe McPherson, Aby Mihalopolous, Aaron Schmidt, Charlotte Werner and

Courtney Wood.

Year 6/7: Felicity Arnold, Taylah Gore, Lucy Kroehn, Stella Thomas, Tiana Burns, Luke Kroehn,

Aaliyah Loffler and Jed Thiel.

If your child’s name is not listed and they believe they have completed the challenge, please

contact the office ASAP. A list of the students who completed the 2017 Premier’s Be Active

Challenge will be published next week.

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

Waikerie Lutheran Primary School is a Christ-Centred community equipping each student for life. WINE AND FOOD NIGHT

WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN

The Woolworths’ earn and learn stickers are back again until Tuesday 19th

September. Please collect them as you go through the register, as every sticker

earned is a point for our school which can be used to purchase valuable resources.

You can return your completed sticker sheet to either; the WLPS box at Woolworths, or

send them into school. Thank you to everyone who has supported this so far - the box

at Woolworths was full! Keep the stickers coming in!!

Our annual School Concert is scheduled for this Thursday, 14th September commencing at 6:30pm

sharp. Students are asked to arrive by 6:15pm at the latest to ensure that we start on time. We expect

the concert to run for approximately 1 hour, so it should be finished by 7:30pm.

Please note that all students are required to attend the school concert!

The program for the evening is as follows:

Welcome: by our Principal Mr Adam Borgas

Acknowledgement of Country

National Anthem - lead by the WLPS Choir

Choir Performance - Festival of Music Medley

The WLPS choir will perform a 3 piece medley of songs from this year’s Festival of

Music Concert. They will be performing Into a Fantasy with soloist Haylee Gore, Sea of

Flags and will conclude with Live Louder with our soloist Andrew Hanton.

Year 5 Performance - The Principal’s New Clothes.

We all know that Mr Borgas is the sharpest dresser in town, but will his new suit pass the

test?

Foundation/Year 1 Performance - The Very Noisy Bear

In the Jingle Jangle Jungle there was music in the air. It landed in the ears of a very

sleepy bear ...

Year 3/4 Performance - The Silent Monks

These monks have taken a vow of silence but they have a conundrum. How do they

make joyful noise unto the Lord?

Year 1/2 Performance - The Bucket Filling Song and Go Bananas!

The Year 1/2 class will share their learning about how to be bucket fillers - this makes

both you and others feel good! Second up, we will simply “Go Bananas” - why don’t

you go bananas with us?

Year 6/7 Performance - Synchronised Swimming and the Dum Dum Song

The Year 6/7 class will perform 2 items for you this year - Synchronised Swimming and

the Dum Dum song! We are sure that these performances will entertain and be a great

way to end the evening on a high note!

SCHOOL CONCERT INFORMATION

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