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Welcome to 2020
I extend a warm welcome to our entire LNPS community as we embark on the 2020 school year. Given recent events over the holidays with bushfires across our country, I do hope you and your extended family were safe and managed to enjoy some time together.
We are also very pleased to welcome 80 new children and their families to our school. Students have joined us from around the world, throughout Australia, from within our state and from across Adelaide. We feel confident that you too will soon feel like a part of this great school community at LNPS.
We currently have enrolled 498 students and have 18 classes. We have again invested in additional salaries to support student learning from our school budget. These are in the area of extension programs, intervention programs and support programs.
At LNPS we have a program for the first two weeks of school called ‘Getting Off To A Great Start’. This program has an emphasis on the 5 Keys to Success from Program Achieve which are organisation, resilience, confidence, persistence and in particular, getting along and our school values. The focus is on establishing a positive learning culture with consistent expectations within the classroom, and creating safe conditions for rigorous learning. Effective learning comes when effective working relationships between students and teachers and between the students in the class are established. This is an intensive program run in the first few weeks of the year and some aspects continue during the second week of Term 1.
Your child's classroom teacher is the first point of contact for you and please feel free to contact them if you have any concerns or questions you wish to raise.
As Principal, I believe we need to have a shared vision for our school, with a partnership between our staff, students and families, so that the whole school community can work together to bring this vision to life at LNPS.
Key elements of my vision for our school include making sure that:
- all of our students feel they are valued members of a caring school community
- all students have the opportunity and support to achieve at their highest level in both their academic performance and their personal and interpersonal development
- there is a strong focus on student wellbeing as a foundation for learning, given that achievement & wellbeing are closely connected
- a strong culture of improvement & achievement in all areas of the school
- staff feel valued and are supported in their work
- families are genuinely engaged in their child’s learning and connected to the school
As a school, our absolute focus needs to be on the learning and wellbeing of our students are our greatest lever – and therefore our number one priority – needs to be the quality of teaching and learning that every student receives, in every classroom, every day.
I am excited about the opportunities we have to further develop LNPS as an outstanding school and a key part of this will be working with the whole school community to shape this future together.
I am very much looking forward to the 2020 school year and working in partnership with families, students and staff to collectively shape the next stage of our school’s development.
Tyson