Dear Parents/Caregivers,

COVID19 - update

In South Australia, the advice from our Chief Public Health Officer and Australia’s expert health body, AHPPC, is that schools, preschools, and early childhood facilities are low risk environments for COVID-19 and should remain open. This includes Out of School Hours Care (OSHC). Remember the advice is that students and staff should remain home if they:

• Feel unwell
• Have a chronic medical condition or compromised immune system and are not able to attend school on advice from their medical practitioner
• Live in a household with others that are deemed vulnerable to COVID-19 and are not able to attend school on advice of their medical practitioner
• Have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have been required to self-isolate by SA Health

Physical distancing. Parents should maintain the 1.5m physical distance between themselves and other adults (parents and teachers) at all times, including school drop off and pick up.

All adults must register with the QR code when entering school buildings. 

We greatly appreciate your support.

Reconciliation Week/Assembly

This week has been Reconciliation Week and the theme this year is “Take Action”.

Last Friday, staff participated in part 2 of Aboriginal Cultural Awareness training. The session, presented by Hayden Bromley was both informative and thought provoking. Special thanks to Darren and Victoria for all their hard work developing resources to help make it such a successful week. Some of the highlights include: Rec in the West: Reception – Year 2 Aboriginal students and Miss Toni's excursion to Port Adelaide TAFE Childcare.         

This week schools and preschools received a poster of the artwork ‘Journey of Success’, created by Ngarrindjeri artist and designer Jordan Lovegrove, specifically for the department.

We have placed the poster in the entrance of the admin building.

This artwork represents that the journey of success for a young Aboriginal person is shaped by a solid foundation in learning and development.

Commencing at the bottom left corner, the first meeting place represents the baby being born and the antenatal and early childhood care provided to the mother and family.

The journey then continues along the pathway to the next meeting place, which represents preschool entry.

Subsequent meeting places depict learning, meeting teachers and friends along the way, represented by the dots, and reaching a culmination point represented by the next meeting place before continuing on the journey.

The meeting places outside of the pathway represent families and their support of learning and development.

The patchwork background represents the many different communities that students come from, with the blue representing coastal and the earth brown representing inland.

The artwork gradient gradually gets lighter and culminates with the bright yellow star and sun symbol in the top right of the artwork, depicting the successful outcome of going to preschool and school.

Reports

Mid year reports will be going out in Week 8 of this term. Our teachers are currently putting a lot of time and effort into providing families with an accurate report that outlines student’s effort and knowledge across all curriculum areas for the first two terms of the year. Parent/Teacher interviews will occur throughout week 9. Stay tuned for details. 

School Sport 

How good is it to see Le Fevre Primary School students being represented in our Port SAPSASA teams?

This week Emily B participated in the SAPSASA State Netball Championships where her team won their division, congratulations Emily!

Lucas H, Cooper C, Perry S, Carlin M, Campbell H, Mason C and Mason A, have all been selected in the Port SAPSASA Year 6 & 7 football team. The footballers will participate in the upcoming championships in week 9.

Last week, LPPS participated in the Year 6/7 SAPSASA knockout netball. Unfortunately we were not successful in progressing through to round 2 but the players enjoyed the experience. Thanks to Kahlia and Katie for their time coaching the team. 

Yesterday our year 6 & 7 students participated in SAPSASA Knockout Soccer, again this is the first time we have participated in this kind of event. Congratulations to our girls team who won their game 5-1 and move on to the next round. 

We will continue to provide opportunities for our students and develop pride in representing Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School. 

Year 6/7 Camp to Illawonga

Next week our year 6&7 students will make their way to Illawonga (Swan Reach), for their school camp. The programme will be packed with activities. Thank you to the teachers who have made themselves available to supervise. Camps require a significant amount of time and effort to organise, as well as providing the care for your children whilst away. I am sure that our community value and respect the effort made by staff to provide this opportunity.   

School Disco

Thanks to everyone involved in supporting our school disco last Thursday evening. Approximately 250 (70%) students attended. Special thanks to the parents and staff members who helped with supervision and organising the event. Lastly, thank you to the students, they demonstrated our values and had a great time. Well done. We look forward to future discos.

OSHC Upgrade

Over the last fortnight our OSHC building has undergone recent upgrades, receiving a fresh coat of paint. 

Staffing Update 

Congratulations to Jake Taylor who has won a position at Seaton High School, starting in 2022. The position is part of “Year 7 to High School". Jake is extremely excited about the opportunity. Jake has been an integral member of our staffing at Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School over the last few years. The school will have the opportunity to farewell him later in the year.

Lee Allmond will be taking family leave for the last 3 weeks of Term 2. We wish him and his wife well for the expected birth of their baby. We know Lee will make a fantastic Father, enjoy your family time Mr Allmond. 

Week 6 Attendance Award

Congratulations to our Reception student Scarlett from Room 10 on winning our 100% attendance award for weeks 1-6. Scarlett is the lucky winner of a Ink & Boost Juice voucher.

QR Codes

A friendly reminder to all parents and families that enter our school buildings. Please scan the QR codes on entry or write your contact details on the sheet provided in the Front Office. 

Sincerely,

Bob Bowden 
Principal