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  • Welcome Jenni Hall.4 February 2010
    We warmly welcome our new Visual Arts teacher Jenni Hall to Lower Plenty. Jenni will be taking Art for all students each Wednesday.
  • Out of Hours School Care4 February 2010
    Our OHSC program runs from 7.30 - 8.45am and 3.30 - 6.00pm. The program is coordinated by Amy Watts. Please see Amy, or Linda at the office, for details and registration forms etc.
  • Guitar and Other Instrumental Lessons.4 February 2010
    The school will be offering keyboard and guitar tuition this year. There is a fee for each half hour lesson. Lessons are conducted by private tutors. Our Music teacher, Gary McKie, is also seeking expressions of interest from parents wishing their children to learn other intruments such as woodwind, brass, drums or bass guitar. There would be a similar fee attached. Please see the latest newsletter or contact the office for details.
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  • Welcome Back for 2010.2 February 2010
    If 2009 was the last of the ‘noughties’, what will we call this decade? The ‘teenies’ perhaps. Greetings and welcome back everyone for another big year in 2010. I trust everyone had a restful and enjoyable break. Yesterday we welcomed our new students to Lower Plenty PS. They included the following Prep students who have begun their Primary education journey: Mackenzie, Lucy, Hayley, Elliot, Paige,Liam,Rachel, Waleed, Balyn,Lily and Wolfie. We also welcome Connor and Logan who are starting in other year levels. I hope our school community makes all of these new students and families very welcome and assists them in settling in to their new environment. Good luck to all our students as they begin their new school year.
  • Outstanding Data for LPPS on My School Website.2 February 2010
    Parents will have no doubt heard all the recent news and comments in the media regarding the new My School website launched last week. On 28 January 2010, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) launched the My School website www.myschool.edu.au. This is the first time in Australia that information on all schools (almost 10,000) is available in one place. The website provides profiles on each school, including ours, and includes information about the school such as numbers of students and staff, attendance rates and results from the national literacy and numeracy tests. The website shows comparisons between our school’s results and those from statistically similar schools across Australia – we can see how our school is performing against other schools with similar student population characteristics. From this, we can see in what areas our school is doing well and where we need to look to make improvements. There is a lot of information contained on the website, and we encourage parents, carers and other interested members of the school community to view the website. If you have any questions you can go directly to the ACARA information desk (at 1300 895 563), or please contact the school. My School allows us to look at our performance in comparison with schools with similar students. I am proud to say that My School shows Lower Plenty PS has the overall highest comparative Year 5 NAPLAN data of any school in the Northern Metropolitan Region for 2009. Our Year 3 data is also very strong. We must be mindful though that this is one set of data for one year only. Our school’s learning results have been very high for some period of time but results can vary from year to year and we must ensure we are striving to improve in all areas every year. The information gives us very specific information about our performance in particular domains of literacy and numeracy, so we can really pinpoint which areas and at which year levels we may need to give a greater focus. The information My School provides is just one source of information about our school. For further information on our school’s performance, parents and community members are encouraged to look at our website, read our annual report, and talk to the principal as well as your child’s teacher. The comparative feature of My School is only in relation to schools with similar student intakes. Comparing schools simply because they are located close to each other does not take into account that the schools may have students from very different backgrounds, which will impact on the performance of students in those schools. Our school already uses a range of data to inform us about the performance of our students. The information My School provides will be additional information that will support us in providing quality programs and good learning outcomes for all students. The difference between My School and other sources of data available to the school is that My School provides the first nationally comparable data on all schools. It also allows us to compare our performance with other schools that have similar students. From this, we can look at what we are doing well. Our school will use the information in conjunction with other information and data to inform our teaching and learning programs to seek the best outcomes for our students. We will review the areas where we are doing well and also where we can make improvements. The school welcomes the input of parents and community members in using the information gleaned from My School to inform future directions, changes and improvements in the school’s learning programs.
  • 2010 School Fees.2 February 2010
    $135 for one child, $195 for two and $240 for three or more. Please pay Linda at the office.
  • Revised School Values and Student Discipline Procedures.2 February 2010
    The staff are currently in the process of reviewing and revising our School Values. Ie. CARING HONESTY ACHIEVEMENT RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY(CHARR). We have discussed how they better align with the new Commonwealth Government Values. We are also aiming to make these values more child-friendly, understandable and appropriate for all students in P-6. The school also is developing new behavioural expectations and consequences which flow from the values. The values would be constantly reaffirmed, not only through any consequences for particular behaviour, but in things like Student of the Week and other positive rewards. The outcome will be a streamlined set of values – expectations – consequences that would be simpler for the whole school community to understand and follow. Staff will be shortly finalising these arrangements before we deliver and explain them to the students and families.
  • Staffing News.2 February 2010
    We welcome new member of staff Jenni Hall as our Visual Arts teacher on Wednesdays. Music teacher Gary McKie will also be offering students tuition in a number of different instruments. Louise Hardie has returned as a School Support Officer assisting a new student in year Prep. Christian Duboudin will be our new guitar tutor and is currently seeking interested students. Rhiannon has left the Out of Hours School Care program leaving Amy, Vanessa and Hayley as our wonderful OHSC staff.

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