The Lakes South Morang College Newsletter PRINCIPAL REPORT
SCHOOL TOURS FOR 2024 ENROLMENT
are doing with regards to literacy to support and extend students is having a great effect on student learning. The big questions is: How do we keep working to make sure we remain such a strong reading school? At school, we will achieve this through a very strategic and detailed professional learning plan based on ensuring high levels of staff knowledge around what high quality reading for teaching is and how we deliver this consistently across the whole school each day. In fact, reading is so important at our school that we have dedicated a large portion of Professional Learning for staff across the past 3 years. At home, you can assist your child to find an extra 10 minutes a day to read. It might be as simple as 10 minutes less on technology or reading for 10 minutes before dinner. We know that you can become better at something if you focus on it more. Reading becomes easier and more enjoyable the more you do it! If you need some motivation have a think about this: If your child currently reads for just 1 minute a day, they will read 21,000 words this year. Increasing this by 10 minutes a day will lead to 321,000 words being read in a year. It also works for those students that are already reading for the suggested 15 minutes a day. Currently these readers would be churning through 1.8 million words a year. Ten minutes more would take this to over 2.7 million! This information was presented at our recent Principal Forum last month. A little bit can make a big difference in the long run. Another way is to help your child to choose different types of books to read and take turns to read with them. Talk about the book and look for words to pay special attention to. Most importantly, make the experience as fun and engaging as possible.
Each week we continue to host individual tours of our school with a particular focus on students beginning school in 2024. If you know of a family with a child ready to start school, please encourage them to ring the school to book a tour with myself. I am pleased to say that our school continues to have a good reputation in our local community and people attending the tours often share the good things they have heard about our school.
WHOLE SCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
A reminder to all our parents/carers that we will be holding our whole school Athletics Carnival on Wednesday 29 th March 2023 at Meadowglen Athletics Track, 146 - 156 McDonalds Road Epping. Students on the Primary Campus will be transported by bus too and from the track. We encourage all students to wear their house colours on the day and bring appropriate food and drink. There will a limited canteen running on the day for students across Prep - 12. Please ensure all Primary students are at school by 9am. They will return to school by bus before 3.15pm in time for pick up. It should be a great day. END OF TERM ASSEMBLY Our Primary Campus end of term assembly will be on Thursday 6 th April (last day of term) starting at 12 noon. Parents/carers are most welcome to attend. A reminder that students will be dismissed at 1.15pm on the last day of term.
PARENT/CARER TEACHER CONFERENCES
CURRICULUM DAY
This is a reminder that our Primary Parent/Carer Teacher Interviews will be held on Tuesday 4 th April 2023 between 3.30pm - 8pm . On this day, students only attend school for the duration of their conference. Bookings are now open via Sentral. Teachers will be having their Professional Development Day from 8.45am - 3.15pm. This is where teachers build their capacity to support students in the classroom. Across Victoria, all teachers receive two of these a year to build capacity and upskill their professional learning. A reminder that other than the interviews, this is a student free day. As is always the case, should you wish to discuss any issue with your child ’ s teacher throughout the year, you can contact them to make a suitable time.
A reminder that we will be having a curriculum day on the first day of Term 2, Monday 24 th April. Staff will be working off site on this day and the school will be closed. Camp Australia will be running their program on this day. If you need care, please get in contact with them. We look forward to seeing students back at school on Wednesday 26 th April. Please keep your eye out for important school events and information via your email and on Sentral.
Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for all your support.
NAPLAN ONLINE
Marcus
Across the past two weeks, our Year 3, 5, 7 & 9 students have been completing the annual NAPLAN assessments. This year, the test was completed online using iPads or their laptops. The value of using this platform is the testing adapts better to match the student ’ s level as opposed to a one size fits all where often there is only one or two questions that stretch students at the top end. The online platform will also mean that in time schools and families will be able to access the data and results in a timely manner. In the past, NAPLAN results have been sent to schools in September which is well past the used - by - date for our teachers to use the assessments to guide their teaching and planning. If you have any questions about NAPLAN, please contact your child ’ s teacher.
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