Support for communities

Support is available during COVID-19

Resources are available to support people and communities most at risk during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

These include domestic violence support services, a helpline for people living with a disability and resources to support Indigenous Australians.

https://www.australia.gov.au/support-for-communities

Virtual Tour

100th Days of Prep

Reminder-Prep Transition Young Artist Friday 6th will be online due to the Victorian government Covid 19 restrictions. Please check our Facebook page on Friday for the video link.

Is your child commencing school in 2022?

If you have a child due to start school in 2022 please contact the office with any questions, take part in our transition program as you can and download the enrolment form from our website and return as soon as possible.

Japanese Master Class

Well done to our students who completed term one in Japanese master class extension.

Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) program for 2021 has now been extended and anyone who hasn't already claimed, but had a current Health Care Card on the first day of Term 3 (12th July) is now eligible to apply.

The fund helps ensure that all eligible students are able to participate in school trips and sporting activities.

A payment of $125 for eligible primary school students and $225 for eligible secondary school students will be paid directly to the school to be used towards the cost of camps, sports and excursions for the benefit of the student.

Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply.

The application form is attached and can be dropped in to the school office along with a copy of your Health Care Card.

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Office Opening Hours

The School Office is staffed between the hours of 8:00am-4:00pm Monday to Friday. For all enquiries please contact us on 59647783 or via email launching.place.ps@education.vic.gov.au

Lost Property

Just a reminder to ensure all items are clearly named so that if lost can be reunited with students. If you have received a pre loved item please make sure the name is updated.

We also ask please that you check your child’s uniform from time to time to ensure they haven’t brought home someone else’s clothing by mistake in the excitement of the day.

In the spirit of the moment I’ve come to realise there are so many life lessons the Olympics can teach children.

Here’s a few that come to mind:

What the Olympic Games can teach children

The World Around Us

In our technology driven world, where children are becoming increasingly insular and introverted, it’s a great opportunity to take their focus away from their devices (tablet / iPhone / playstation) for a while to look up and around to take notice the wider World we are collectively part of.

Hopefully your children are, as much as possible, isolated from mainstream media coverage of anything remotely terror related. The Olympics is a great opportunity to teach children how the world has positively come together, in unison. Hopefully the positive perspective and understanding that the world is collectively united will stay with them, something we all long for.

Olympics is great opportunity to teach children about Geography also. If you have an Atlas, or Globe, I’d suggest getting it out and each day pick a couple countries that you can talk about at home.

Geography can be taught through the stomach also, maybe when picking the countries to discuss you can make dinner time fun by cooking something simple from that countries cuisine, over dinner you could discuss topics about that country.

Depending on the age of your children you can teach them about each of the Flags also.

For older children you could make a fun game out of it. Run a memory test / competition at the end of the games to see who can remember the most amount of Flags, you included. This is equally a great refresher for us adults too.

Team work

There is nothing quite like witnessing team spirit in its truest form than during the Olympics.

The images of pure emotion can resonate and stick with us for life. How else can you teach children what the essence of what teamwork really is than watching the games.

Even for individual medalists they are working to an overall goal tally.

Everyone’s doing their bit to help.

Working towards achieving a goal

I think modern lifestyle has made us really impatient, we all want convenience , efficiency and results – fast.

As we know the Olympic Games come around every four years known as Quadrennial. Athletes work hard over a long time to achieve their goals. This demonstrates to children that you have to stay committed to achieving your goals, and not to give up.

I think we all would agree that it’s important to teach children that winning isn’t everything also.

Win or lose the spirit of the games is key.

Overcoming challenges is another great lesson the games teaches, especially when watching the Paralympics, the Paralympic athletes demonstrates the true strength of human spirit and how perseverance and determination can overcome adversity.

Above all I think the games teaches us all the power of self belief and how important it is to always believe in yourself.

Patriotism

Multiculturalism has become so engrained in our society, the Olympics is a great opportunity to identify what it ‘really’ means to be an Aussie!

To be proud of being Australian!

Let’s face it, we really are the lucky country. We just confident enough in our ability that we don’t feel we have to tell everyone about it.

History:

The opening Ceremony was a history lesson within itself.

What better way to learn about history than with the spectacle with lights and music.

Its great to teach also that Olympic rings represent 5 world continents, Africa, Asia, America, Europe and Oceania and colours represent at least one colour from each counties flag.

Global warming and how to help

It was great to see the focus the opening ceremony placed on global warming, also asking athletes to plant a “seeds of hope” into little growing tubes.

As our generation has inherited much of this issue so too have our children, if anything they will encounter greater challenges than we have.

Education is key and encouraging positive habits that can make change where possible.

Teaching children great habits from an early age will help, not only their generation, but generations to come.

Castle and Cubby competition

We have entered this competition through CASTLE & CUBBY to win $20,000 to help us add some amazing play-based learning equipment for our school playground. CASTLE & CUBBY make some amazing things!

School community members can also enter a draw to win a $2000 cubby by registering at www.castleandcubby.com.au/pages/competitions

Birthdays

A child’s birthday is a very special occasion and every fortnight we will share this celebration. Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated their special day for August: