From the Principal

7 August 2014

Term 3 Issue 3

Newsletter

St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood

Principal: Mr Mark Rathjen

God in all things

I will not be afraid - Psalm 23

Written by: Rev Richard Fox

Even if I go through the deepest darkness, I will not be afraid,

LORD, for you are with me. Your shepherd's rod and staff protect

me. (verse 4) (read Psalm 32)

The little boy lost his way in the maze at the playground. He was scared. He

couldn't see over the top or to either side. When he went backwards or

forwards, he ran into dead ends. Panic set in. Finally, exhausted, he stood still

and screamed, 'Daddy!'

‘It's all right, son, don't be afraid. I can hear you.’ It was his dad. ‘Listen to my

voice, walk towards it and you'll soon be with me.’

Is life dark and bleak for you? Are you lost? Are you running into dead ends?

Maybe you are going through some personal anguish, either mental or

physical.

Be still and call out to your heavenly Father. He will hear you. Listen to his

voice and he will guide you and keep you from harm. You, too, can say with

the psalm writer, 'Even if I go through the deepest darkness, I will not be

afraid, Lord, for you are with me'.

Dear Lord, my good shepherd, guide me and keep me always in

your care. Help me to stay focused on listening to your voice and to

find peace and rest in you. Amen.

(adapted by Pastor Richard Fox from a devotion written by Grace Bock in the LCA

book “Assurance for each day”.

Mark Rathjen

Principal

Inside this issue... Page Illnesses ............................. 2 Online Payment Facility . 2

Skipping Squad ................. 2 Family Service .................. 2 Lost Jacket........................ 2

Cinderella— The Musical ................... 2 Hand, Foot and Mouth

Disease ........................... 2

PYP—The Learner Profile ............................. 3 Book Week—Connect

to Reading Photos ........ 3 P&F Quiz Night ............... 4 St Peters Sporting

Super Stars .................... 5 Novar Music .................... 5 Church News .................. 6

Diary Dates ...................... 6

Attachment:

Premier’s Reading

Challenge and National

Science Week Update—August 2014

Special points of

interest:

Tonight 7/8 School Council

Meeting—7pm

Sunday 10/8

Family Service (ELC)

Monday 11/8

Cinderella—

The Musical—

1.30pm

Tuesday 12/8

Cinderella—

The Musical—

1.30pm & 7.00pm

Commemorative Tree Planting—

175th LSA Celebrations As part of the ongoing 175th Celebrations of Lutheran schools in Australia,

each school has been invited to plant a commemorative tree to mark the

occasion. Please note—there has been a change of date for our tree

planting...this will now happen next Friday 15 August, immediately after

chapel (approx 9.15am). Everyone is welcome to come along to witness this

and join together for tea and coffee following the short ceremony.

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Cinderella—

The Musical

Hand, Foot and Mouth

Disease

There has been another case of Hand, foot and

mouth disease in the school this week. Please

see last week’s newsletter for further

information regarding this viral infection and

remember, if any person in your family develops

any of the symptoms mentioned, we recommend

that you make an appointment with your GP

immediately and inform them that there have

been a couple of cases of Hand, foot and mouth

disease in our school community.

Excitement is building as we look forward to our

four performances next week of Cinderella—The

Musical. The students and their teachers have

been working very hard to prepare for this

fantastic musical event on our school calendar.

Thank you for returning your ticket order forms.

Tickets have been issued this week and we can

advise that there are still tickets available for the

matinee performances next Monday 11 August

(1.30pm) and Tuesday 12 August (1.30pm). If

you would like additional tickets for either of

those performances, please contact the school

office with your request.

As we can only comfortably hold 300 people in

the hall, this is the maximum number of tickets

we can allocate for each performance. Please

understand that we will not be able to admit

anyone to the performance without a ticket.

For the matinee which begins at 1.30pm, the

doors to the performance space will be locked

until 1.00pm. Audience members will enter

through the double doors in the foyer by the

school reception desk. For the evening

performances, which begin at 7pm, only one

door to the facility will be open and that will be

the front door, which will open at 6.30pm.

Everyone will need to enter through that door,

including the student performers and ticket

holders.

Note—parents/caregivers collecting children

from SPLOSHC next Tuesday and Thursday

should also be mindful that the back gate will

be locked at 6pm.

We trust that these procedures will ensure that

we have a safe place in which to share the

performance will you all.

Illnesses A reminder to all families – please do not send

your children to school if they are sick. There

are a number of coughs/colds/tummy bugs going

around in our community at the moment. As

we all know, children have an amazing capacity

to pass on their unwanted bugs to others. In

the interests of keeping our community as

healthy as possible, please do not

send your children back to school

until they are well again. We really

appreciate your support with this.

Information for parents regarding

payment of School, ELC and SPLOSHC Fees via the LCA Online Donations &

Payments website

Did you know that the LCA Online Donations

& Payments website (https://donation.lca.org.au)

has recently been upgraded to allow a better

user experience on all devices, including iPhones

and iPads.

Advice from one of our parents is that the

update is a good improvement and makes

payment easier now, for those wishing to use

this payment method!

Skipping Squad

Please note—the skipping squad (Years 5-7) will

begin at 8am on Tuesday 19 August (Week 5).

Family Service Everyone is warmly invited to attend this

Sunday’s Family Service at 10am where our

beautiful Early Learning Centre students will

have special involvement.

Connor Tothill from Room 6 (Miss Schutz) has

lost his school sports jacket (size 8 and

labelled). Please check to see if your child has

inadvertently brought it home or put it in their

bag. Thank you.

Lost

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IB Learners

strive to be

Inquirers Knowledgeable Thinkers Communicators Principled Open-minded Caring Risk-takers Balanced Reflective

IB Learner Profile

Primary Years Programme (PYP)

The Learner Profile

At St Peters Lutheran, we encourage our students to be:

Principled

“…do not pervert justice by siding with the

crowd…” Exodus 23:2

Students who are PRINCIPLED act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of

fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities.

They are accustomed to seeking and evaluating a range of points of view, and are willing

to grow from the experience.

How can parents help to develop students who are Principled at home?

Involve your child in deciding on the rules for a game or activity and ensure that

they stick to the ones that have been decided upon.

Encourage your child to play games that involve teams. Discuss with your child

the qualities of a team player. What sort of person would they want on their

team?

When your child wins a game, insist that he or she is a well-mannered winner.

They might thank their opponent or shake hands with them if it’s appropriate.

When playing a game, don’t change the rules or let your child win. Being a

gracious loser is just as important as being a good winner.

Bronwyn Wilson

PYP Coordinator

Connect to Reading photos!

As a part of Book week, I am looking for photos of your

children/family connecting to reading. You can be as

creative as you like (see examples to the right and

below). Please send your photo by email to me at

bronwyn.wilson@stpeterslutheran.sa.edu.au.

Let’s see what we can come up with!

Book Week 2014

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On behalf of the entire school community, I would like to say an enormous thank you to Narelle and her team for a fantastic

Quiz Night on Saturday. It was wonderful to see the Big Room bursting at the seams with so many creative people dressed as movie characters/stars for the night. It was encouraging to have quite a few people attend who are not directly connected

to our school, nice to have them see our community in action (even though they walked away with most of the prizes). Thanks also to all of you who donated goods, we had so many special things to hand out as prizes. If you see Narelle,

Melissa, Kate, Janine, Jenna or Dy (who did I miss?), thank them personally for their most outstanding efforts. Mark

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Find us on Facebook and Twitter—for all

the latest on what’s happening around

St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood

St Peters Lutheran @StPBlackwood

School Blackwood

St Peters Sporting Super Stars

B1 Netball We lost but the other team were a really good

team. We were in front at first but they came

back. Lots of people fell over. We did really good

in the last quarter. The score was 21-12.

Bec

E White We won 6-4. We played against Belleview

Heights. Lots of our players had really good

games.

Stella

E Red We won our game. We played Belleview Heights.

I think Amelie was a really good shooter.

Zara

D Netball We won and the score was 14-6. The shooters

were Ebonie, Zoe, Laila and Emily H. I think Zoe

played well because she feel over badly but she

powered on.

Amelia

Lacrosse It was a close game. We scored 3 goals and last

time we played them we didn’t score any goals

and they scored 15. Tilly, Ashleigh and Caitlin

played well.

Rayna

Year 6 Basketball The boys and I won. 20-39. Lachie, Luke and I

played really well.

Isaiah

Volleyball We won our volleyball game 24-50. Tas wasn’t

playing so we only had 4 players. We all played

really well.

Tilly D

Net Set Go Come &

Try Clinics :Year 1-3 Nominations are due tomorrow for the Year 1-3

Netball clinic for students who would like to

“have a go” at Netball.

Forms went home last week and were attached

to the newsletter.

Places are limited to 20

First preference will be given to students who

are not playing netball and then to students who

are new to the sport.

This is NOT a supervised activity.

Parents/caregivers must be present

There is a cost of $12 per student to cover the

coach hiring fee.

St Peters Lutheran School

*NEW LESSONS AVAILABLE*

Piano, Guitar, Singing and Theory Lessons!

Lessons available after-school and on-campus!

Currently there are new voice and piano lesson times available.

Lessons are for beginners through to advanced students and are available to both students of St Peters and members of the St Peters community.

On-campus, convenient, group or individual music tuition.

Violin tuition also available at Immanuel College on Monday afternoons.

Enquire now to book a lesson To enquire contact Carly McDonald at

enquiries@novarmusic.com 0413 853 490

Visit us at www.novarmusic.com

St Peters Lutheran School,

where the message of Jesus Christ

is communicated and celebrated,

is a caring, supportive learning

community

that encourages global

consciousness, responsible action

and life-long learning.

Diary Dates Term 3

(for your calendar!)

71 Cumming Street

BLACKWOOD SA 5051

St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood

Week 3 (Monday 4/8)

Wed 6/8 SAPSASA Basketball (5/6 Girls)

Thu 7/8 SAPSASA Basketball (5/6/7 Boys)

School Council—7.00pm

Sun 10/8 Family Service (ELC)

Week 4 (Monday 11/8)

Mon 11/8 School Musical Matinee—1.30pm

Tue 12/8 School Musical Matinee—1.30pm

School Musical Evening

Performance—7.00pm

Thu 14/8 School Musical Evening

Performance—7.00pm

Fri 15/8 Commemorative Tree Planting—

after Chapel (9.15am)

Week 5 (Monday 18/8)

Mon 18/8 Book Week

- Fri 22/8

Tue 19/8 Principal’s Tour—9.00am

Fri 22/8 Book Week Dress Up Day

Sat 23/8 Working Bee (Rooms 5&6)

Week 6 (Monday 25/8)

Fri 29/8 Cake Stall (Room 1)

Second Hand Uniform Shop Open—

after Chapel

Phone: 8278 0800

Fax: 8370 0414

Email:

admin@stpeterslutheran.sa.edu.au

We’re on the web…

www.stpeterslutheran.sa.edu.au

These dates are subject to change so please make sure you check them each week.

St Peters Lutheran Church

Services each Sunday at 10.00am

ALL WELCOME!

Coming up…

10/8 ELC School Family Service

11/8 Growing and Going study 7pm

16/8 Growing and Going study 10am

Any enquiries please contact Pastor Ben:

82782322 or pfeiffer241@gmail.com

Immediately Jesus spoke to them and said,

“Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.”

(Matt 14:27)

Week 7 (Monday 1/9)

Fri 5/9 Lutheran School Staff Conference

Pupil Free Day

Week 8 (Monday 8/9)

Thu 11/9 School Council—7.00pm

Fri 12/9 Cake Stall (Room 9)

Sun 14/9 Family Service

Week 9 (Monday 15/9)

Fri 19/9 Cake Stall (Room 2)

Sat 20/9 Pedal Prix 24-hour race (Murray Bridge)

- Sun 21/9

Sun 21/9 School Incorporated Body

General Meeting

Week 10 (Monday 22/9)

Thu 25/9 Last Day of Term 3 (ELC—Year 7)

Student Led Conferences

Fri 26/9 Student Led Conferences

Staff PD