Dear Families,  

I am very proud of the way in which the children have settled back into school routines. We spent much of the first 2 weeks back setting up class routines and expectations and providing the children with strategies and tools to maximise their learning.

This week our literacy and numeracy blocks have commenced. We have very high expectations for all our children and are looking forward to seeing them thrive over the coming year.

Staffing News

Last week we welcomed Emma de Brabant as our Indonesian teacher for Semester 1. Karen Butcher will be taking some well earned long service leave. We hope that the students have made Emma feel welcome.

Acquaintance Night

A reminder that Tuesday 21st February is Acquaintance Night from 6pm -7pm.

This is an informal opportunity for parents and caregivers to meet their child’s classroom teacher. Parents will have the opportunity to arrange appointments with teachers at a later stage, should it be required. Teachers will communicate expectations and routines. Students will have the opportunity to introduce parents to their NIT teachers: PE- Amanda Nelson, Indonesian- Emma de Brabant, Music- Helen Biar and Technologies- Toni Zuanic.

Annual General Meeting

When:   Tuesday 28th February

Time:    7.00pm - 8.00pm

Where:  Music Room -  Building 1

The Governing Council for Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School must comprise of 8 elected parents of the school.

1. We have 7 vacancies available for nomination. Should there be more nominations than the number of vacancies to be filled, ballot conditions apply.

Tenures are for a maximum of 2 years.

If you are interested in being a member of our Governing Council, please see the Front Office for a Nomination Form.

Looking forward to seeing you on the night.

Year 5/6 Roles

This year we have set up leadership roles for our Year 5 and 6 students. The Le Fevre Peninsula PS Young Leaders Program has been expanded to enable the students to apply for positions such as Canteen Monitors, Resource Centre Officers, Student Mentors, Student Voice Executive, Environmental Officers, Sports Monitors, Graduation Committee & Public Relations Officers. Applications included addressing the job criteria as well as the option of providing referee statements. We look forward to providing these leadership opportunities to our students.

Our Young Leaders Executive is one of our most important roles in the school. We are committed to having a strong representation from our students and empower them in decision making within the school.

All leadership positions will be finalised next week.

Visitors to School

It is very important that if you are collecting your child early, volunteering or coming into school at a time that is not the beginning or end of a day, that you enter through the Front Office and sign in. Children who need to leave early will be sent to the Front Office.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Building 3 Update

I am currently working with a project manager from DfE to determine the possible scope of works.

We have had a number of architects visit and look at our learning spaces.

They will create some concept plans for us to consider that will cater for modern teaching and learning methodologies.

Watch this space! It’s exciting.

Sports Update

School Basketball

The Primary School miniball competition has been cancelled by Basketball SA for Term 1 due to a lack of nominations.

We hope to have teams nominated for Term 2.

SAPSASA Information

Nominations are now being taken for the following Port SAPSASA Trials.

Please click on the QR code for further details or speak to our PE teacher Amanda Nelson.

Boys and Girls Softball– Yr 5 & 6

SAPSASA Softball State Carnival:  3rd – 5th April

Boys AFL Football Trials– Yr 5 & 6

SAPSASA AFL State Carnival: 17th - 19th May 

Girls AFL Football Trials– Yr 5 & 6

SAPSASA AFL State Carnival: 17th - 19th May

Athletics

Amanda Nelson will begin trials for selection for our school athletics team. Students born in 2013, 2012, 2011 will be considered for selection

The Port SAPSASA Athletics Carnival will be held on Tuesday 28th March.

School Garden

We have a number of students who have taken responsibility for looking after our school garden. Each lunch and recess, Josh, Patrick and Hikaru tend to our tomato garden by watering and weeding the area.

They have so far returned a bumper crop of Roma and Cherry tomatoes.

If any parents have an interest in supporting our students in our vegetable garden on a regular basis please let us know (Volunteer policy applies).

Diary Dates

Tuesday 21st February: Acquaintance Night

Monday 27th February: Student Free Day

Tuesday 28th February: AGM

Tuesday 7th March: SAPSASA Swimming

Wednesday 8th March: Volunteer Induction 9-10am 

Monday 13th March: Adelaide Cup Holiday

Sincerely,

Bob

From 2023 each student’s NAPLAN report will show how they are tracking against 4 levels of achievement, known as proficiency standards. These will replace the 10 NAPLAN bands.  

The standards are:

• Exceeding
• Strong
• Developing
• Needs additional support

The standards are set at a challenging but reasonable standard of literacy and numeracy expected for the child at the time of testing.

Reporting will include clear descriptions for teachers and families about student progress against these levels of achievement. Those descriptions will be developed by expert teachers.

It’s important to note that the NAPLAN test itself is not changing.

Changes to NAPLAN reporting have implications for how the historical time series for NAPLAN results are used. ACARA will explore the feasibility of comparative or research studies using data from previous time series.

For school improvement planning, guidance on how targets can be written and aligned to these new proficiency levels will be developed in preparation for 2024.

More information about changes to NAPLAN will be provided in the coming weeks.

NAPLAN will be held from 15 to 27 March 2023 (weeks 7 to 9, Term 1). 

In Room 10 we read ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ about Gerald the giraffe who learns to be confident and dance even when the other jungle animals tell him he can’t! We talked about Gerald having to be like Connie Confidence to learn something new! We had to be confident to make our own Gerald the Giraffe!