11 November 2022: Week 4 - Term 4

Kaurna acknowledgement

Niina Marni. As we feel the earth beneath us, the wind around us and the sun above us, we acknowledge the Kaurna people, the traditional owners of this land. We pay our respects to past Elders and will work with present and emerging Elders to protect and care for this unique land of ours. We also extend this respect to other First Nations peoples.

Principal's report

Dear families and community,

Our Service Culture is alive and thriving

Sports day was such a wonderful coming together of our community; enthusiasm and excitement were expressed without restraint. Commitment to winning was balanced with encouragement and celebration of everyone’s efforts.

The outcome, whilst memorable for the Cleland (Red) team, was second to the positive engagement by our students and families.   From 7:30am there were staff, families and House Captains volunteering; putting up tents, setting-up stations and ensuring that the fruit trays were prepared.    Throughout the day, parents supported at various events, raking the sand-pit, measuring the throwing events and generally ensuring the best experience for their children.  Our parents and Captains have demonstrated a service culture, generously giving of their time, to the benefit of our school community – thank you!

Pedestrian Safety on Highfield Avenue

Can I encourage all families to use the pedestrian crossing on Highfield Avenue.  Staff and students monitor the crossing but note that so many parents lead their children across the road from the corners of the intersection. Whilst we acknowledge that when parents are accompanying their young ones they take care and responsibility for their safety, however they are training their children to cross at points of higher risk. Children often repeat these patterns when they are leaving school independently, placing themselves at risk.

We still have drivers who are performing three point turns, creating issues where the alternative is to use the round-a-bout at the intersection of Highfield and Hewitt.

Colour Fun run

With a dose of trepidation and eyes firmly on the skies and weather forecast, the Colour Run was off to a great start with our students all dressed for the occasion.  The participation and engagement was indicative of the students' enjoyment and joy of such a great day.  Our Colour Run has its origins in the Hindi Festival of Holi, one where the community celebrate many things at once; love, colours, new beginnings.  Holi is celebrated primarily in India but has spread across the globe in its many forms

Congratulations to Debbie Foster, Brooke Robins, Mel Sandery and the team that organised the Colour Fun Run 2022.

To such a generous community our thanks, you have pledged over $24 000 dollars to support our students and school.

Student free focus

Mondays’ focus was the ‘Review & Reset’ of our Improvement Agenda.  Staff took the opportunity to review our Achievement Data, celebrating the number of students performing in the higher Bands of NAPLAN in Years 3 and 5 in the aspects of Reading, Numeracy and Writing.  Whilst these data sets are but one measure, we are intensely proud of the achievements of our students. With well over 90% of students achieving the Standard of Educational Achievement, our students’ success extends to 50% plus performing in the Higher Bands of the tests in all aspects across Years 3 and 5.

Fiona Voigt, Principal

Colour Fun Run

We have received $24,402.71 in donations with all profits (less associated expenses) going towards the resurfacing of our courts.  A big thank you for everyone's contributions!

The highest fundraising class in the school, to enjoy a free excursion to either Bounce, Latitude, or Treeclimb is Room 4.   

The highest fundraising classes per year level to enjoy a free pizza lunch are:-

• Rec: Room 10
• Year 1: Room 6
• Year 2: Room 4
• Year 3: Room 17
• Year 4: Room 25
• Year 5: Room 28
• Year 6: Room 34

Congratulations everyone on a very successful Colour Fun Run. 

Debbie Foster, Business Manager

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Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

Early Years Bush Food Garden

We have recently ordered some new plants for the Bush Food Garden in the Early Years yard.   Our new additions include:

We already have a variety of native plants, including Old Man Saltbush and Native Violet.   Our new signage has arrived and Enzo will be installing this soon (see below).

Tina Farmassonis, Assistant Principal: Operations

Introducing 'The Wellbeing Letterbox'

The Wellbeing Team are working towards students having the opportunity to seek support when they feel they need it. 

Kids Helpline talks about how empowering children to seek support is an essential skill. We want the students at Linden Park to see seeking support as a strength and a positive thing to do. 

Students are able to send a letter or a note to the Wellbeing Team and someone will follow up with them. 

We would love students to feel that they have access to support no matter how big or small their issue may be. 

Some of the issues students may seek support for include; friendship issues, struggling in class, transition to high school, grief support, calm down strategies and general wellbeing check ins. 

We hope that this will be further support to students at Linden Park PS and help to grow a happy and healthy school community. 

For more information about Empowering Young People to Ask for Help follow this link:- 

 https://kidshelpline.com.au/parents/issues/empowering-young-people-ask-help

Tegan Jolly (PCW) & Rachel Pontifex (Wellbeing Leader) 

Wellbeing Action Committee

Hello, we are the 2022 Year 4 teaching team. We are a large team, consisting of Josh McGuire (Room 23), Anita Cervelli (Room 23), Sam Fonseka (Room 23), Jocelyn Carter (Room 24), Isobel Jezioranski (Room 24), Lesley Kong (Room 25), Jane Angove (Room 25), Cathy Padfield (Room 26) and Chris Prior (Room 26). 

As a Year 4 team, we use a variety of strategies to support our wellbeing. These include spending time with family, playing with our pets, walking in nature, cooking and eating delicious food, playing board games, reading books by our favourite authors, motorcycle riding in the hills and dabbling in art.

Library news

As of week 3 students who have had an overdue book have not been allowed to borrow from the library. 

If your child cannot locate their overdue books, please speak to a library team member. Invoices will be sent home for any overdue books.   

The last week for all students to borrow will be in week 5 (next week).  All students must return their library books to the library by week 6. 

Students will be able to continue to borrow take home reading texts (readers) until the beginning of week 8. Weeks 8 and 9 will see a stocktake of the take home reading texts and library books.  

Thank you for your support.

Andrea Kipperman & Russell Hanson, LPPS Teacher Librarians

Library news 'cont'

This term the year 5 students are participating in a reading challenge.   Classes are having some healthy reading competition to see which class can read the most books by the end of week 8.

Part of the challenge is to encourage students to read books from different genres rather than always reading their preferred genre. To support this, Andrea is reviewing different genres and promoting books within that genre each week when classes come to do their borrowing.

Students are being asked to read at least four books this term to participate and contribute to their class' total number of books read.   We are putting together paper chains for a visual representation of how many books each class has read. 

So far it looks like room 29 (yellow) is in the lead! 

Andrea Kipperman & Russell Hanson, LPPS Teacher Librarians

World Kindness Day - 13 November

It is an international holiday that was formed in 1998, to promote kindness throughout the world and is observed annually on 13 November as part of the World Kindness Movement.   It is observed in many countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and the U.A.E.

World Kindness Day presents us with the opportunity to reflect upon one of the most important and unifying human principles. On a day devoted to the positive potential of both large and small acts of kindness, try to promote and diffuse this crucial quality that brings people of every kind together. 

Some helpful resources can be found on the website below:-

https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/world-kindness-day

Nicole Scrivener, Deputy Principal

Reception : Nature Play incursion

As part of the Reception’s Unit of Inquiry, “How we express ourselves” our Reception students had the opportunity to work through five nature stations in class groups on Thursday, 3 November.    Each theme had similar activities (water colour painting; mud/sand/potions; clay creatures; cubbies and burrows etc).

The classes rotated through Natural element stations facilitated by instructors from Nature Play SA.  Nature Play SA is a not-for-profit organisation that inspires the South Australian community to engage with nature in creative, sustainable, and meaningful ways.  https://natureplaysa.org.au/

The Nature Play SA Education Team were excited to offer a “Spring Magic” mini-festival using bespoke rotations. The immersive 90 minute experience created a platform for environmental awareness and appreciation for the natural world.   Our Spring Magic program encouraged children to develop a connection with nature ‘near and far’ and use their imagination for creative expression.

Classes rotated through five unique seasonal experiences and each class received a set of outdoor learning passports to keep the learning going after the event. 

1. Watercolour Painting: Students were encouraged to experiment with watercolour and pencil to create their own representation of nature.
   
2. Magic Potions:  Students worked with a mortar and pestle and seasonal flora to create potions.
   
3. Clay Creations/Sunflower Seed Bombs:  Students drew inspiration from creatures seen in Spring to create a take home gift including sunflower seed bombs.
   
4.  CubbyBuilding:  Students used STEM and collaboration skills to create small worlds for play.
   
5. Spring Willow Crowns:  Students used elements from nature to create their own willow crown.

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Early Years (Rec-Yr. 2) Sports Day

On Friday,  28 October the Reception, Years 1 & 2 students participated in the annual Early Years Sports Day.  Through a variety of events, the students did an excellent job of demonstrating many of the skills they have learned during their PE lessons this year. Events included: gymnastics, chicken throw, 3 legged races, parachute, a variety of relays and sprints.

I would like to give a sincere thank you to the fantastic Year 6 student helpers, who managed and organised their stations, staff and parent volunteers who assisted throughout the day. 

A special mention must also go to Simply Fresh on Kensington Road, Erindale for their ongoing support and generous donation of fruit that the students thoroughly enjoyed.

Geoff Mills,  PE Teacher

Early Years Sports Day:  By the Waite House Captains (Tomas, Lori, Victor and Isabelle) ...........

At the end of each year, there is a sports day carnival for the Early Years and for the Middle and Senior Years. Early Years sports day is a fun way to be included and have fun with friends and the people around you. Skills like teamwork, hand-eye coordination and communication all needed to be used in order to do well in this event. Sports Days are organised to be fun and encouraging to students at Linden Park, especially the Early Years students as this helps them to grow in confidence and learn new things. Linden Park’s 2022 Early Years Sports Day operated as described and had some other key elements described in more detail so the Early Years students of LPPS can thrive and have fun on Sports Day.

FUN:  Early Years Sports Day is extremely fun for all students from Reception to Year 2 because it is getting to the end of the year and students might not be in the same classes as the year before. It’s a great way to end the year with students being active and spending time with their friends, as well as having fun. Students have the opportunity to run around with their team while facing some team challenges.  The spirit of Sports Day is always high and there is always a smile on peoples faces. Students were involved with several activities like parachute, dancing, egg and spoon race, gymnastics and lots more which are all really fun. Early Years Sports Day was a time to make long lasting memories with friends that will continue on in their primary school years.

PARTICIPATION: Participation was a huge focus on sports day. It is important that everyone at school feels included and is participating in all the events. When maximum participation and effort is put into play, it has been seen that the students enjoy the time more and create fond memories of sports day. No one ever feels left out on sports day because everyone wants to participate and are encouraged to do so by their team mates. It is a goal for house captains and year 6 helpers to keep making sure everyone is enjoying themselves and getting involved.

TEAMWORK: Teamwork is one of the main concepts of sports day. Students included everyone in their team and made sure everyone gets a chance at an event. They worked together to complete activities and have fun. Working together increases teamwork and problem-solving skills while at the same time ensuring everyone is enjoying it. Teamwork can also help children come out of their comfort zone and try new things. It can also bring the team closer together and encourage them to make new friends. Furthermore, teamwork encourages them to communicate with each other to solve problems and figure out how to do the activities to the best of their ability. Teamwork is vital to complete the activities on EY Sports Day.

We hope all of your children enjoyed the early years sports day as much as we have. 

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Sports Day: Primary Years (Years 3-6)

On Friday, 4 November our Years 3-6 students competed in the Primary Years Sports Day.   The combination of class tabloid events and championships sprints ensured all students displayed a variety of skills with enthusiasm and good sportsmanship.

The always popular teacher versus student events again proved to be crowd pleasers:

• Year 6 Students versus Teachers recess soccer match was a thrilling win for the teachers! 
• The staff/student mixed relay sprints bought the action to fever pitch in a very close race with the Teachers just taking victory at the final finishing post.
• Our sincere thanks to Simply Fresh at Erindale for the student fruit donations, and to the parent volunteers and LPPS staff that support the program to ensure its success.

The final results which include Term 1 Athletics scores were:

• Cleland (red) 1,246
• Waite ( yellow) 1,230
• Gleeson (green) 1,212
• Davenport (blue) 1,182

Teams are also given points throughout the day by teachers for displaying excellent sporting attitudes, positivity and willingness to be risk takers.

This year the Sportsmanship shield for 2022 was awarded to Davenport.  

Kathy Wall,  PE Teacher

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School Sport SA – Knockout Tennis

On Tuesday, 8 ^November, Linden Park Primary School had both our girls’ and boys’ Knockout Tennis teams compete in the first round of the State-wide Schools competition at St. Peter’s Girls School.

The girls’ team was competing against St. Peter’s Girls, Trinity Gardens Primary and Highgate Primary. The boys’ needed to play Clapham Primary and Highgate Primary. It was a beautiful morning for tennis with some warmer temperatures in the afternoon expected. The format of the matches was that each school played 2 x doubles matches and 4 x singles matches against each school.

The girl’s played their first match against Trinity Gardens Primary and played exceptional tennis. Lua E and Isabelle Z got the girls off to great start, winning their doubles match 6-1. This performance was also replicated with Yifei L and Chuyi P’s match. The girls’ then continued their good form in their respective singles matches, each winning comfortably.

The boys’ came up against Clapham Primary School in their first hit out and it was hotly contested. Rohan D and Van L competed against two classy Clapham opponent and pushed them to 3-6. Jeremy X and Harry J worked well in tandem and came away winners in a very even contest, 6-5. This was followed with the boys’ singles matches, which saw very high quality tennis. It was neck and neck with Harry J and Jeremy X beating their opponents and Rohan and Van just on the wrong side of the scoreboard in their matches. This left the overall score against Clapham and Linden Park at 3 wins apiece. This meant in order to decide the winner, there needed to be a count back on games. Clapham just got the chocolates with 27 games to Linden Park’s 25. A fantastic effort from both teams.

As the weather started to warm and the sun still shining bright, the girls played their next match against St. Peter’s Girls. The girls’ continued their winning ways with quality teamwork in the doubles and great individual play in the singles. Linden Park defeated St. Peter’s Girls 4-2.

The boys’ and girls’ final matchup of the afternoon were both against Highgate Primary School. With the on-court temperature well over 30 degrees and time constraints, there needed to be modified rules to complete the matches. The boys’ were competing for 2^nd place and the girls needed a win to advance to the second round. It was going to be a highly anticipated match up. Instead of playing to 6 games, the boys played to 4 games. It was an evenly fought battle and both boys’ team played their matches in great spirit. The girl’s match was a very close one, with results going either way. Unfortunately for Linden Park, Highgate got their noses in front in overall matches and progressed to the next round.

A fantastic day of tennis ended with both the girls’ and boys’ finishing second in their pool and just missing out on progressing to the next round of the knockout tennis competition. The students were a pleasure to watch, and their teamwork and sportsmanship was great to see. All 8 students have an exciting future ahead with their tennis and we look forward to their continued progression as athletes and young people.

Harry Slee, Sports Coordinator

School snap shop

Remembrance Day - 11 November  2022

After discussing the significance of Remembrance Day, the students in Room 25 created some acrostic poems.      Here is some of their work:-

Lesley Kong, Teacher [Room 25]

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End of Year Celebration

SAASPC 2022 Parent Conference