School Services
BOOKCLUB DUE - 16TH MARCH
SCHOOL PHOTOS - TUESDAY 24TH MARCH
NETBALL SIGN UP
Netball sign ups are open. All ages and gender.
Grade 3
Grade 4
Net set Go will start in Term 2
If your child is interested, please contact Jackie McDonald 0409 679 579
WHY IS PLAY IMPORTANT
BEING ACTIVE EVERYDAY
ATTENDANCE
UNIFORM SHOP
HOURS OF OPERATION
Tuesday 8.45am - 10am
Wednesday 8.45-10am
As families are purchasing items and preparing for the new school year the following information is a reminder about school uniforms! We take great pride in our uniform and would like to remind our families of expectations. Our uniform shop has all requirements and is very well priced with good quality materials! We ask that students do not wear branded clothes (this includes sports shorts and socks.) The sport shorts from the uniform shop are recommended as they are longer in style (as per our SunSmart policy!) Shoes are so important as they work hard! We ask that shoes are fully black (no white soles) and that canvas shoes are not worn (either for formal or sport) Please if you need support with uniforms or have any questions, message us or make contact when we are back at school. We are here to help! Below is the uniform requirements and remember to label all clothing especially jumpers and hats! We will let you know Uniform Shop arrangements. Orders can also be made online.
TUCKSHOP VOLUNTEERS
We need your help. If you can spare some time each week on a Friday, please consider volunteering. We will be unable to run the tuckshop if we do not have your support. Please message us if you can!
If anyone has time available on Fridays to be a volunteer in the tuckshop, please contact Kim on 0419 349 363.
Times:
9 - 10.30am
10.30 - 12pm
12 - 2pm
PLAYGROUP
St Liborius Playgroup runs every Thursday during term time, with opportunities for free play, music, movement and craft each week. Join us in our welcoming and safe environment, a chance for both you and your child to socialise and form connections. We hope to see you there!
Thursdays 9-11am
MacKillop Room, Liborius Centre (look for Fred Bear)
$3 per family - includes hot drinks and morning tea for grown ups
Please bring a healthy snack, water and a hat for each child
CHILDREN CHATTER MATTERS
Morphology activities - Children's chatter matters
Morphology: Morphological awareness is a skill that helps students read and spell. It involves breaking up words into their root word, prefixes, and suffixes. These can be added or taken away from a word to alter its meaning. For example, the word unhelpful can be broken into a prefix – un (meaning not), root word – help, and a suffix – ful (meaning full of). This could be explained as: not full of help. The following activities will help develop your child’s morphological awareness and improve indirectly their fluency, reading comprehension, and spelling.
Play or conversations with your child: Draw your child’s attention to the different parts of words during everyday activities and conversations. For example, when playing with or conversing with your child you can occasionally draw some attention to word parts that add additional meaning to words that represent the child’s toys. “I have one car, but you have two cars. Cars. I hear the /z/sound at the end of cars. This tells me there is more than one car.”
Another example involves talking about a specific prefix or suffix, its meaning, and then
“playing” with that prefix or suffix by adding it to words that make up real (or nonsense)
words. Consider this interchange between a parent and her child:
Parent: “That is the tallest man I’ve seen in a long time. Hmm, I added -est to tall.
Tall…est. ‘est’ means the most. That man is the most tall. I said it another way. . . .
He is the tallest. If I wanted to say your bedroom was the most clean, I’ve seen, I could say itanother way. . . . the cleanest! Cleanest means most clean. Let’s think of another way to
say most kind. What do you think is another way to say, most kind?”
Child: “Kindest?”
Parent: Yes! Kindest is another way to say, most kind. What about this? What’s another
way to say hardest?”
Child: “Most hard.”
Parent: “Yes! Most hard is another way to say hardest.”