Important Dates

Friday 2nd June

Lap/Multilit

Afternoon Tea

Meeting 2pm

Monday 5th June

Year 3 Zoo Snooze

(Danielle’s Class &

Mrs K’s Y3 Girls)

Tuesday 6th June

Year 3 Zoo Snooze

(Sara Weston's Class

& Mrs K’s Y3 Boys)

Thursday 8th June

Whole School

Assembly 2.25pm

Friday 9th June

Parents & Friends

Hot Food Day

No ‘ON THE RUN’

orders on this day

Monday 12th June

Queens Public

Holiday

Friday 23rd June

Friday Fiesta

Gymnasium Building

Donations

Littlehampton Primary School and Preschool

NEWSLETTER W e e k 4 T e r m 2 2 0 1 7

Internet Safety ~ Carly Ryan Foundation

On Monday we hosted a seminar about online safety by 2013 South Australian of the Year Sonya

Ryan, who runs the Carly Ryan Foundation. Parents and staff who attended were very impressed

by the presentation, and also very moved by Sonya’s personal story about losing her daughter.

Sonya’s main message was for parents to continually communicate

with their children about online safety and to educate themselves

about the programs that their children are using. If your child wants

to use individual Apps and games (eg Snapchat, Minecraft, Kik or

Facebook), she suggests parents do the research about the risks of

each and appropriate safety measures that need to be put in place

before children begin to use them.

She recommends that families sit down together and come to some agreements about Internet use.

We were impressed by the Foundation’s free Family Online Safety Contract between children and

their parents / caregivers (available for free on their website www.carlyryanfoundation.com),

which sets agreements such as:

I will tell my parents or carer if I see something that makes me feel upset, uncomfortable or scares

me / I will be aware that people online are not always who they say they are, and do not always

tell the truth / I will let my parents supervise where I go online / I will not respond to emails,

instant messages, messages or friend requests from people I don’t know.

LPS parent Rochelle Samwell who attended the seminar with her husband Scott told us, “We both

found it excellent. We learned that the Foundation has so many resources we can access, like

information about new programs and Apps. It would be great if parents of younger children also

came along next time since we found out that the issues and information also apply for very young

children, even in Junior Primary. Parents of kids who play games and Apps like Minecraft and

Musically need to be aware of the risks.”

This certainly reflects our experience as school leaders - it is never too early to put into place

parental controls and other safety measures to keep children safe from harmful images,

inappropriate content and dangerous contact from strangers. We encourage all families to visit the

Foundations’ website and to instill a culture of online safety at home.

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“Don’t be afraid

around the technology;

be empowered!” -

Sonya Ryan

10 Year Boys:

3rd: Tyler Usher, Judd French

and Connor Blakemore.

As a result of a successful District Cross Country day

we have 5 students who qualified to attend State Day at

Oakbank on the 1st June. Congratulations and good

luck to Asha Marshall, Emmy Roach, Lily Brown, Will

Trevorrow and Tyler Usher.

Congratulations to all 33 competitors who committed to

6 weeks of training and all competed to the very best of

their ability and showed good sportsmanship and

represented Littlehampton Primary School very well.

A special thank you to Kerry Marshall, Nicole and

Mitch Kohlhagen for going to Woodside before school

and setting up the shelter for us! This was very much

appreciated.

SAPSASA Cross Country

On Friday 19th May 33 enthusiastic and well

prepared Cross Country runners from our school

travelled to Woodside to compete in the Barker

SAPSASA Cross Country Competition.

We had a successful day winning ribbons in 4 of

the 8 teams events and an individual ribbon.

Congratulations to Lily Brown on achieving a

ribbon for 3rd in the individual category.

The teams who were successful in gaining ribbons

were:

12 Year Girls:

1st :

Asha Marshall, Emmy

Roach, Sophia Dvorak

and Georgie Wotton.

11 Year Girls:

2nd:

Lily Brown, Katie

Thompson and Annika

Hall

11 Year Boys:

3rd:

Will Trevorrow, Ash White

and Noah Dunn

Term 2: PERMA FOCUS

GRATEFULNESS

I’m grateful for……

I am grateful to be part of a such caring

and supportive community everyday. Leonie

Chatfield (Staff)

I am grateful for the kitchen garden

program and stall. Imogen Shute (Student)

I am grateful for the opportunities provided

by this job which allow me to continually

learn as an adult. Nathan Sanders (Leader)

I am grateful for the teamwork and fun

loving community that I work in. Debbie Jackson (School Secretary)

Sue Harris: Storyteller and

Puppeteer and Mark Williams

- Manager of the Premier’s

Reading Challenge visited

Littlehampton Primary on

Tuesday May 2nd as

Ambassadors to encourage

students to get involved in the

2017 Premier’s Reading

Challenge.

Sue stressed the importance of

the ability to read in our world

and gave examples of how

valuable reading is as a life skill that we rely upon

every single day. Students from Reception to Year 7

classes talked about their favourite genres and

reflected on the importance of the art of storytelling

and reading aloud. Together with Mark Williams of

the Premier’s Reading Challenge Sue encouraged

students to read at their own pace and find the “best

fit” books.

Sue revealed how books

can connect us with the

past and present, sharing

her inspiration for keeping

a diary due to the discovery

of her Father’s childhood

diary written in 1931 on a

trip through China.

She touched on the art of

puppetry; showed students some rare 100-year-old

Japanese puppets and demonstrated some amazing

puppetry techniques with student volunteers. To close,

Sue performed a mini puppet show to the delight of

the students, teachers and a visiting field mouse who

happened to join the audience in the Hall!

The students at Littlehampton Primary are avid readers

with over 90 students having already completed the

Challenge. After completion, each student’s name is

written on a paper feather, which is attached to the

colourful plumes of a mythical Phoenix in the Library.

The ability to read has never been so important in our

technology driven society.

We thank Sue Harris and Mark

Williams for helping our

school foster the love of

reading through the Premier’s

Reading Challenge Program.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Ambassadors visit our school

Principal’s Awards

In our Week 3 Assembly the following students were

awarded a Principal’s Award for following our Super

Seven Values:

Kindness: Vincent Robson-Mullard, Gracie Semple,

Kai Zinchiri, Nyah Gaff, Ayla Read, Alex Cooper.

Including Others: Aster Cassidy, Emmy Roach,

Charlotte Petschel.

A Positive Attitude: Milan Scamoni, Frankie

Nicholas, Lucy McAvaney, Sophie Caust, Wyatt

Peterson, James Van Der Zwaag, Emma Lay, Gus

Brown, Taj Gore, Jack Pallant, Kaci Tarca, Kael

Sander, Immy Carter, Gabriella Metcalfe, Logan

Walker, Charlie Nesbitt, Coben Marsden Clarice

Scamoni, Wren McNicol Taubert, Breanna Luxon.

Being Trustworthy: Dahlia Duigan, Elijah O’Keefe,

Noah Dunn, Matt Davis, Noah Mialaret, Maddie

Little.

Valuing Others: Charlotte King, Jess Defazio-

Jaensch, Georgie Schultz, Aurelia

Szilassy, Emilie Haylock.

Fairness: Archer McKellar

Respect: Owen Steer, Will Trevorrow

Friday Fiesta is back in 2017!!

Please mark the date on your calendar

The Reading Corner

by Lorna McLean (Reading Support Teacher)

Some common questions from parents In my work with parents, I am frequently asked many

questions about how best to assist their children at

various stages of their reading progression. Some of

the most common questions are answered below.

What do I do when my child doesn’t know the word?

There are a number of things that you can do when you

are reading with your child and they come to a word

they don’t know. My first piece of advice is to avoid

eye contact with the child.

When a child looks to us for help with a word, we

often want to save them, help the reading process move

along and provide the word. However, this is an

unsustainable strategy for the child as they need a set

of skills to call upon when they are reading with you.

Rather than looking at your child, focus your attention

on the book. After all, this is where all the clues are to

figuring out the word.

Encourage your child to skip the word and read on for

more information, use the pictures for a clue, or even

leave the word behind and continue reading. By

refocusing the child’s attention back to the meaning of

the text, the content of the text will help fill in the

blanks. If your child has skipped the word and still

can’t figure it out, drop the word into the conversation

as you turn the page.

Should I get my child to practise individual words

they’re having trouble with?

Learning words in isolation does not always translate

to being able to figure out unknown words in texts.

Consider learning the word ‘duck’: you could write

this on a card for your child to learn, look at pictures of

ducks when learning the word and talk about ducks

that you’ve both seen at the park together. However,

when your child reads the word duck in a passage

about cricket, the meaning is considerably different.

The best way to learn words therefore is in context - in

books. Point out interesting words that you encounter

in the text after you’ve finished reading and think

about where you’ve seen these before. Reading widely

and frequently is the best way to build your child’s

vocabulary and increase their bank of known words.

My child spends too long looking at the pictures

when they are reading; should I cover the pictures so

they can concentrate?

No! A frequent misconception about the reading

process is that when children are spending too long

looking at the pictures they are getting distracted.

When a child is looking at the pictures, they are

gaining valuable information about the meaning of the

text.

The clues that are visible in the illustrations are often

the best way to figure out the meaning of the text.

Encouraging your child to flick though the text before

reading, or doing “book orientation”, where you first

discuss the book, its title and the pictures, is one of the

best ways to help your child’s reading progression.

This article was originally published on http://theconversation.com

by Ryan Spencer, Clinical Teaching Specialist and Lecturer in

Literacy Education, University of Canberra

The Parent’s Craft Group would like to thank everyone

who came along and supported their Mother’s Day

Stall. We raised $640 towards the Kitchen Garden

program!

Successful Mothers Day Stall

On behalf of the SAKG

Forum we are looking for

another popcorn machine.

If anybody has one that

they don’t use any more

would you like to donate it

to our forum??

POPCORN

MACHINE