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Congratulations to our

basketball teams who had


a fabulous day at
Hooptime last Friday. All
teams played
exceptionally well with
one of our Girls All-Stars
teams, The Launch
Rockettes, taking out the
grand final. The girls have
now qualified to go to the
Hooptime
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 27
Newsletter Date 21st August 2014
Important Dates:

August
29th
Book Club due
30th
Family Portraits
September
3rd
Wheelathon
Whole School
5th
Dads & Mates
Breakfast
5th
Fathers Day Stall
11th & 12th
A Royal Spectacle
School Production
15th - 19th
Camp for selected
Grade 4 & 5 Students
19th
End of Term 3
2.30pm finish



Student Absent
Hot Line Number
5964 7783
Regional finals in term 4.
We wish them well!
Once again we thank Mr
Devisser for his great
organisation of the day.
Thanks also to Ms
Lorenc, our coaches and
all of our parents who
took the time to support
and encourage the teams.
A Royal Spectacle
Thursday 11
th
and Friday
12
th
September
Ticket Orders for 'A
Royal Spectacle' are now
due. Please return orders
for all first allocation
tickets to school no later
than Wednesday 27th
August. Allocating seats
is quite a long process, to
allow time for second
allocations all first orders
2
nd
Prize
Trailer Load
of Firewood

3
rd
Prize
Lenox 9
Portable
DVD Player
More information and
tickets will soon be sent
home.
Production
need to be completed by
the end of next week.
If your forms aren't
returned by this date,
seats cannot be
guaranteed.
We are running a raffle
during the production
which includes
the following
prizes.
1
st
Prize - iPad
Mini 16gb
Interview with Chelsea S
What was special about
the weekend? On
Saturday I went down to
Yarra Junction Centre. I
played Auskick with my
team and we scored three
goals. We got to high five
some Hawthorn players.
How long have you been
playing? 16 weeks
Who was your coach?
Tom, hes an excellent
football player.
What happened
yesterday? I got this
certificate for being an
excellent person at
AusKick. I got a medal
well.
My Wonderful Weekend


Literacy and Numeracy are, and will
continue to be, our biggest focus areas
at LPPS. Our Leadership team and
teachers are committed to delivering
the most up to date and best practice
strategies in these two areas, and have
undertaken significant professional
learning to assist in this endeavor.
This year, National Literacy and
Numeracy week occurs from the 25
th

31
st
August. It is a great opportunity
to reflect upon the pivotal role parents
play in their childs education.
Below is an extract from the
Australian Governments Literacy
and Numeracy Week website with
some great ideas about how you can
become involved in your childs
education.
Did you know that what you do at
home can help your kids do better at
school?
When parents are engaged in their
childrens education take interest in
what they do at school and share the
importance of learning with them
students tend to do better.
Coupled with quality teaching,
parental engagement is a key
ingredient in helping students
succeed, which is why they are both
pillars of the Australian Governments
Students First approach.
Some ideas for getting engaged with
your childs education are:
Sharing the value of education
with your children.
Encouraging and supporting your
children to do and learn about
what they are interested in.
Discuss with your children what
they are learning at school and
what happens in their day.
Helping your children take
responsibility for their study and
learning.
Encourage and set up good study
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Launching Place Primary School Carter Street Launching Place 3139 Telephone 5964 7783 Fax 5964 6171 Email [email protected]
ABN 96 199 518 803
National Literacy and Numeracy Week and Parent Engagement
habits, problem solving and
research skills.
Reading with your children talk
about books and stories to help
children develop language skills.
Spending quality time together
and talking about a range of
topics.
Challenging your children to
relate these topics to what they
learn at school.
Encouraging a range of interests,
friendships, a healthy diet and
good sleep patterns.
Praising your children for all their
achievements whether they are
big or small.
It is important to remember that
parents dont need to have all the
answers about school work. Parents
can however, have hopes for their
childrens future, and these hopes can
assist in creating the right
environment for their children to have
a positive school experience.
Further information can be found
under parent resources at:
www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au
This week we have included some
great websites which are both fun and
educational. Each site provides a
variety of games, activities and links
that cater to primary school aged
children. We hope that you enjoy
them while putting those wonderful
computer savvy brains to good use.
ABC Kids website: www.abc.net.au/
abckids/
BBC Kids website: www.bbc.co.uk/
cbeebies/
Comic Creating website:
www.makebeliefscomix.com/
National Geographic for Kids:
www.kids.nationalgeographic.com
Fun Brain Numeracy and Literacy
Games: www.funbrain.com
Student Websites
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wristband, daffodil or badge from
one of the many supporters in our
local area.

Regards
Narelle Messerle
Daffodil Day
22nd August
Daffodil Day is one of the Cancer
Councils most advertised
fundraising events and this year,
every donation grows hope hope
for better treatments and hope for
greater support. As the largest
merchandise based event in the
Southern Hemisphere, it is a day to
show our support for all Australians
affected by cancer. So please buy a
Please Note: That other advertisements and publications published in this newsletter do not imply school or Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development endorsement.
Student Awards
Grade Prep K Kalan B

Grade 1/2 B Declan H-L

Grade 1/2 K Cheyenne R-S
Paige S
Kasie P

Grade 1/2 N Deaglan C
Madison P
Hudson K

Grade 1/2 S Nicola S
Joel C

Grade 3/4 N Alyssa H

Grade 3/4 S Deanne D
Darcy D

Grade 5/6 L Dale L
Chloe M
Brandon F

Grade 5/6 R Aiden N
Tori B

Parents and Friends
Family Portraits will be held at school on the weekend of Sat 30th and Sun 31st August, if
you are interested please return the form to school ASAP so times can be set. Spare forms
are available at the office. Cost is $15 includes sitting and framed 20 x 25cm photo.
Father's Day Stall will be held on Friday 5th September.
Next meeting is Monday 25th August in the staffroom just after assembly. So come along
have a cuppa and chat about future fundraising activities.
Grade 3/4: This week we continued
filming our News reports and some
groups started editing. In Maths we
finished looking at Area and
perimeter. IN CAF we looked at
connecting text to self, text to text
and text to world.
Grade 5/6: We finished off our 3D
playgrounds and demonstrated our
understanding of area and perimeter.
We have continues to work on our
individual CAF goals and have
been busy writing lots of poetry.
Well done to all the 5/6 kids who
attended Hooptime!! It was a
fantastic day!

School Captains Report
Prep: We have learnt about the
blend sh and brainstormed lots of
words that start with sh. We really
enjoyed writing groups where we
learnt to write questions on speech
bubbles and did free writing with gel
pens. In Maths we looked at our
school timetable and made our own
visual timetable. We are getting
really good at subtraction.
Grade 1/2: This week in CAF
reading we have looked at cause and
effect and continued to explore the
use of labels and diagrams in texts.
We have begun our new Maths
focus groups on time and in
Integrated Studies were keeping a
records of how many hours we sleep
in a week.
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and additional costs involved at each
year level that are extra
excursions etc.
It may interest you to know that
approximately 30% of our
families choose to pay the
maintenance levy of $20 a year.
We are looking to streamline the
additional payments for
excursions etc into one annual
amount for each of the various
levels, rather than families
constantly being asked for $5
here and $7.50 there.
School Council 19th August 2014
Despite not having a quorum at
Tuesdays meeting, we managed to
run over time with discussion on
several topics. Perhaps it was the
fact that, as we werent moving and
seconding motions/reports etc, we
let the evening flow? Anyway,
thanks to all who attended, I think it
yet again proved to be a valuable
forum to exchange ideas.
Of particular interest to the parent
community would be the discussion
around school maintenance funding
School Council Report
And while we were discussing
excursion costs, Andrew Devisser
explained to us the complexities of
bus hiring, and the impact on costs.
Fortunately for you I wont write
another 20 pages on how it works,
but just be grateful that we have
someone like Andrew here to
organize things like that!

Cheers,
Andrew Smith
Canteen
Slushies are NOT available this term. I apologise as they are on the current menu.

If you send your child/rens lunch order on an envelope, please include 10 in the order for the cost of a
paper bag.
Roster
August
28th Jodie D, Peta R, Fiona T
September
4th Jo R, Kelly W, Barb F
11th No Canteen due to production
18th Janine K , Maryann E, Bianca D
the hex - no lights on, just torches,
and firefighters in full Breathing
Apparatus trying to find the missing
people. The missing people were a
pair of dummies that we commonly
use.

Cheers,
Andrew Smith
Last Wednesday night our local
CFA brigade, Hillcrest, ran a very
successful training at our school.
The evening involved a scenario
based around the brigades
appropriate response to an internal
fire in the admin block, threatening
the hex building during an open
night. Just to add to the challenge,
we said that there were 100 people
on site, but 2 were unaccounted for
and a search was to be undertaken in
CFA Training Exercise at School
Student Work of the Week
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Public Notices
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Sunday by appointment call
0458 187 784
Address: 10 Sylvia Road,
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