MOTHERS and SPECIAL PEOPLE’S DAY LUNCH We invite our mums, grandmothers and other special people to come and join us for lunch on Friday12th May at 12.45pm. We will be offering vegetable soup and toasties. All welcome. PARENT/TEACHER MEETINGS– WED 3rd MAY Most parents have now booked their timeslot for Parent/Teacher meetings next week. Thank you. If you haven’t done so, please do this ASAP . The website is www.ueducateus.com.au MOTHERS’ DAY STALL This year we are again holding a Mothers’ Day stall, to enable children to buy small gifts for their mums. Gifts will either cost $1, $2 or $3. The stall will be open each morning from Mon 8th May—Friday 12th May between 8.45am and 9.00am. There is no obligation to purchase. Gifts will be presented in a small gift bag. MOTHERS’ DAY RAFFLE We are very grateful to Terrie Giffin and her family for making and donating the items for the Mothers’ Day Raffle. Each family will be given a booklet of 10 tickets to sell. Each ticket is $1.00 each. First prize: a handmade quilt Second prize: a handmade washing/peg apron Third prize: a handmade doily and a coffee cup Please return tickets by Friday 12th May as the draw will be held at lunch time during the Mothers’ Day luncheon.

PUPIL FREE DAY– NO STUDENTS AT SCHOOL On Wednesday 17th May all the staff will be travelling to Bentleigh West Primary School to find out more a bout the intervention programs at the school. This school is running a very successful Multi-sensory Structured Language (MSL) program (Ms Alblas has just completed her training for this), and is something we have been trialling this year at Lancaster. The program caters for all students’ literacy needs, but is particularly helpful for those struggling with reading and writing. ANZAC CEREMONY A huge thankyou to everyone who braved the bad weather to attend the ceremony. Even though we had to hold the ceremony inside, everything went smoothly and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The students were outstanding in their speeches and their singing. We are very grateful to the Kyabram Legacy Group for supporting us and assisting in running the program

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Stars of the Week

Loghan—for participating positively in MSL activities Kade—for working hard to improve his sentence structure during writing Bryce & Isabelle—for and outstanding ANZAC day project Windsor—for speaking well at the ANZAC ceremony

Our Vision: Provide a caring, cohesive, comprehensive and challenging education for all our

students now and in the future (4Cs)

Our Values: Respect—for ourselves, others and the things around us

Responsibility- for our own actions and our belongings

Honesty -truthfulness and open communication in all our thoughts and actions

Care and Compassion—for the people around us

What’s on in Apr/May 2017

Fri 28th Apr

Auskick 4.15pm

Wed 3rd May

Parent /Teacher Meetings 1pm-5pm Book through uEducateUs

Mon 8th May-Fri 12th May

Mothers’ Day stall– 8.45-9.00am

Tues 9th -Thurs 11th May

NAPLAN testing—Grades 3 & 5

Wed 17th May

PUPIL FREE DAY—no students required at school

LANCASTER PRIMARY SCHOOL WELLER ROAD

LANCASTER, VIC 3620

Phone: 03 5855 2560 Fax: 03 5855 2326

Email: lancaster.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.lancasterps.vic.edu.au

Principal: Mrs Trish Perry

2nd prize 1st prize 3rd prize

NAPLAN TESTING The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual national assessment for all students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9. All students in these year levels are expected to participate in tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy. All government and non-government education authorities have contributed to the development of NAPLAN materials. The tests will be held on Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th May. Parents of grade 3 & 5 students are requested to make every effort to ensure their children are at school on these days. If you do not want your child to be assessed, please see the teachers ASAP. ATTITUDES TO SCHOOL—STUDENTS’ SURVEY The older children will soon be completing the Attitudes to School survey. The grade 5 and 6 children’s surveys, which are completely anonymous, are sent off to the Department to be collated, along with all others grade 5 and 6 students across the State. The results will be used as part of our school’s An-nual Report to the community and the Education Department. The results help teachers track students thoughts about school and to make changes or improvements where necessary. GRIP LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 3 of our school leaders– Ryan, Brady and Zoe travelled to Shepparton on Wednesday to participate in a leader-ship conference. They participated in a variety of activities to make them better leaders at our school—this confer-ence once again has proven to be very worthwhile and beneficial to our student leaders so we are looking forward to some very innovative leadership this year!!!! HOT DOGS– TERM 2– EVERY WEDNESDAY Hot dogs will be available on Wednesdays. Please do not send orders on Wednesday as the food will be purchased on Tuesday, and your child will miss out. Hot dogs are $1.00 each. An order form will be sent out each week. Later in the term we may offer dim sims, but will need some extra steamers if this is to happen. LUNCH ORDERS The Merrigum Café has re-opened and have offered to supply lunches again on Mondays and Fridays. The new list is attached and will be available from Friday 28th April.

ATHLETIC SPORTS The Athletics Sports that are held each year in Shepparton have been postponed until late August as the athletics track is being upgraded currently.

BOOKCLUB—due back Fri 5th May– late orders will not be accepted. Regards Trish Perry (Principal)

Who’s away next week?

Mon 1st May

Tues 2nd May

Wed 3rd May

Thur 4th May

Fri 5th May

Mrs Mutimer

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. -John C Maxwell

War Memorial in Shepparton where the ANZAC ceremony was held

P-2 Happenings Our students did a magnificent job of showing respect while participating in the ANZAC Day ceremony on Friday morning. Despite the terrible weather, the ceremony was very well attended by Legatees, Grandparents, parents and friends. The Grade 3-6 students had researched ANZAC service men and women and presented their work during the ceremony. During literacy, we have added four more sounds to their sound pack- qu, v, x and w. In the coming weeks we will begin to learn about open and closed syllables and apply it to our reading and spelling. We have been building the basic building blocks of literacy by getting all students to a point of automaticity, by ensuring they can say the sounds and write them with little mental and physical effort. This is so when they read or write, they can focus on comprehension and getting their ideas down, instead of working out what letter it is and the sound it makes. During maths, the students have been applying their new place value knowledge by making MAB block dinosaurs. They have been comparing smaller and bigger numbers from 1 digit to 5 digit. As part of our dinosaur theme, the students have been working in pairs to come up with a landscape and paint the corridor windows. The windows are not finished just yet, but will be soon. Come in to see their works of art. By now, most of our students have read over 50 nights at home. Please ensure you are signing and writing the number of night read.

3-6 Happenings

It’s been another busy week with both the ANZAC ceremony on Friday and our Student Leaders attending the GRIP Leadership Conference on Wednesday. We were extremely impressed with the respect demonstrated during the ANZAC Ceremony and our 3-6’s managed to earn 5 marbles for their efforts.

In Literacy we have begun work on Persuasive Writing and students have started to analyse mentor texts to break down persuasive structure and language. We have discussed features such as rhetorical questions and using statements to convince the audience to agree. Students have also begun to generate ideas for persuasive topics and we have been impressed with some of the original arguments that have been shared.

Whilst the majority of Numeracy this week has been taken up by Number Fluency Testing we have also started work on Addition and Subtraction. Students are working to increase their automatic recall of simple problems and ensuring they are using smart strategies to solve these.

Genius Hour has started this week and it has been wonderful to see students begin their second question with enthusiasm and original ideas. As always we encourage parents to be involved with their child’s project, but would encourage you to ensure your child isn’t finalising or creating their final project at this stage. The idea of Genius Hour is to plan, research and organise your information and resources before creating.