24 March 2022

From the Principal

Dear Parents and families,

ANZAC Assembly

Due to the current COVID restrictions that are in place we will not be holding our traditional ANZAC Assembly. The school will run an ‘in house’ version with a pre-recorded service being developed and undertaken by our senior students. This will be shown on Thursday 7th April to the rest of the school in their classrooms on the day.

Harmony Week

Harmony Week is a time to come together and celebrate our diversity. Australia is a vibrant and multicultural country - from the oldest continuous culture of our first Australians to the cultures of our newest arrivals from around the world.

Our cultural diversity is one of our greatest strengths and is at the heart of who we are. It makes Australia a great place to live.

An integrated multicultural Australia is an integral part of our national identity. All people who migrate to Australia bring with them some of their own cultural and religious traditions, as well as taking on many new traditions. Collectively, these traditions have enriched our nation (Department of Home Affairs Website).

To celebrate this event students will be invited to wear traditional cultural dress to school on Friday 25th March. Students can also wear colours of their national flag or wear orange which is the official colour of Harmony Week. Student will also be undertaking class based activities including a Harmony Door display.

COVID 19

It is important that parents inform the school as soon as it is practicable if your child has tested positive to COVID-19. This information is used to determine if there are any close contacts within the school environment.

This week we have had a number of positive cases in various classroom. Parents of those students have been notified.

Adhering to the mask wearing mandate has greatly reduced close contact levels in our year 3-6 cohort. Please do not send students to school if they are feeling unwell.

Parents please also note a number of staff have been deemed close contacts or have tested positive to COVID. These staff are in isolation. For your information we will see a larger than normal number of relief staff within the school. In some cases timetable changes have been made to reflect this.

Traffic Warden Unavailable

Message from WA Police:

We have just been updated on details for the Traffic Warden allocated to Southmead Drive (near Brookway Retreat) Landsdale, and they will now not be available until 31 March 2022. Unfortunately there are no relief Traffic Wardens in the area at this time.

Please remind your family, students and school community to be aware of their surroundings.

Kind regards,

Josh Jashari
Principal

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Leaver’s Shirts - Reminder to Year 6 Parents

Tudor Uniforms would like to remind year 6 parents that the last day for ordering Leaver’s Shirts is by 4.30pm tomorrow, Friday 25th March. NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Contributions and Charges 2022

Thank you to those parents who have paid their child’s contribution and charges for 2022. Monies collected from your contributions and charges enhance the learning program by the purchase of additional resources.

For your convenience, payments can be made via Qkr!, EFTPOS, cash, cheque and Direct debit. The details for direct debit are: BSB 066-132 Account 10249789 (Student’s Full Name must be included in the Reference).

EALD Family Resources Information

Welcome to Bilingual Families Perth

Bilingual Families Perth is a not-for-profit network of linguistically diverse people in Western Australia.

Our network connects over 500 families and individuals from more than 40 language backgrounds. In the past 10 years we have provided support for families who speak Afrikaans, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swiss-German, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese besides various dialects of the relevant languages.

Most families have pre-school or school-aged children and we are experiencing similar issues while raising our children in more than one language. We also work together with professionals who share information on bilingualism and multilingualism. We can probably put you in touch with people who speak your language.

P&C News

We are so happy to announce that after our Special Meeting held last week that we are able to introduce your 2022 Committee (the full committee will be on our Facebook page soon). Please congratulate and welcome to the team:-

President: Karalee Roberts
Vice President: Amanda Harrison
Secretary: Michelle Wolski
Treasurer: Kellie Nanavati

The fundraising and events calendar for 2022 will be a tighter one this year. We’ve approved the usual events for students. Keep watch of our Fb page for all the updates to stay current.

We want to also send to all our families a collective get well soon and stay safe over the next few weeks and beyond. We have some possible rough times ahead, make sure you stay in contact with family and friends and reach out when in need. We are all a village at LPS, use the Facebook pages, reps and our P&C members to call on for info at any time. We will endeavour to keep a pinned post current also on our Fb page for school updates that can be used to reference back to.

Roadwise News

Kiss & Drive Announcement

Last year we embarked on a new challenge and we nailed it! The new roster for the Kiss N Drive Program worked so amazingly well and we are continuing the program into 2022.

Each term has been designated year groups for parents to volunteer for a session to help Kiss N Drive on that afternoon. Parents are able to forward plan their session into the year and change as required. The roster updates in real time which makes changes immediate ultimately allowing for the roster to look after itself. A link to the roster is below. The Roadwise Committee will do the first week of each term as we return to school. It’s in this week each Thursday will double as a training session for those who wish to see how easy it is before you do your own.

As a thank you we will raffle the names on roster at the end of each term to win one of two $10 vouchers for the canteen and don’t forget you also have the use of a staff car park on the day you volunteer for Kiss N Drive. If you find it as easy as you thought it would be, roster in for a second or third session for more entries into the draw!!

This was Kiss N Drive’s first major change to how it’s been run in the school’s 24 year history. The committee was so excited to see this come to fruition after much planning and to have it be so successful was an extra win.

Now it’s over to the parents of 2022 to help even Just Once to make it a success.

Contact our Roadwise Coordinator for any questions on lpspandcroadwise@gmail.com

Now it’s up to all of us! Please help us to spread the word by sharing and talking to each other about the roster. Parent Link will help to remind year groups through the year to communicate this to all our families as well. Let’s get 2022 off to a great start with our year 2 & 6 parents up first for term 1.

Canteen Information

CANTEEN INFORMATION

Canteen Manager: Sue Uyen
Phone: 0410 894 457
Opening hours: 8:30am to 1:45pm

Canteen Reminders

We ask all parents and school staff, to ensure we stay as covid free as possible and to continue to provide to the school, please DO NOT enter the canteen space. If you do need to discuss anything with the canteen team please knock on the outside door and someone will come to help you. Please remain outside unless asked in, as it’s a catering space we’d be most grateful.

Wednesday Specials are available to order via Qkr and advertised on the P&C FB page the Sunday prior, please watch out for these!

Emergency lunches happen from time to time and we will never let a student go hungry. If your child comes home with a note from the canteen, the amount can be paid cash the next day or on Qkr via the accounts to pay menu.

Thanks
Sue & the canteen team

Uniform Shop News

For all uniform requirements, please contact Tudor Uniforms on Tel. 9408 2666 or www.tudorschooluniforms.com.au. Their address is: Unit 1/75 Excellence Dr, Wangara.

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