Assistant Principal's Report
Welcome back to our final term of 2024. The weather is picking up and we’ve got lots of exciting events on the calendar to finish off the year!
Planning for 2025
We are busy planning for the 2025 school year. If you know that you will not be attending LPS in 2025, could you please notify the office as soon as possible. This will then show up in our student numbers as we plan classes for next year.
Classes
Speaking of class, we are starting the process of creating them currently. Creating classes is an arduous task and takes several weeks to complete. When making classes, the following needs to be considered to ensure our school runs successfully:
- even numbers of students in classes
- close to even numbers of boys and girls
- a range of academic abilities
- a range of social and behavioural abilities
- special considerations from parents
- LPS teachers putting in their considerations for what works best for students
- student friendships
- new students starting at LPS in 2025
Each year we give parents the opportunity to submit any ‘special considerations’ they would like us to look at prior to making classes. Any considerations submitted by parents must focus on issues that impact the educational wellbeing of their child. Requests for specific teachers will not be taken into consideration. We have complete confidence and respect for all staff who work at Langwarrin Primary School.
In preparation for 2025 class creation, could you please send any special considerations you have for 2025 to my email address - rowan.balzary@education.vic.gov.au and as always, we will do our best to accommodate your consideration. However, as you can see from the above, there are many mitigating factors that may stop a consideration from occurring. It is a very mathematical process and one that I’ve been doing now for a long time. All requests are due to me (not the class teacher) by Friday 1st November.
As we did in 2023, students will be coming home with a list of the five friends they have listed at school, who they’d like the opportunity to be in a class with in 2025. When your child’s list is sent home, please discuss it with your child, make any changes, sign it and then send it back to the classroom teacher. This alleviates any problems where parents believe that their child has been placed in a class with no friends, as parents will be aware of the students that their child has listed and will have had the opportunity to make any changes at home. It is also important to note that the names are not preferential – we don’t look at first choices, second choices, we just guarantee each student has a friend from their list. These sheets are due back to classroom teachers by Friday 1st November.
Division Basketball
It seems that whenever I get the opportunity to write the opening report of the newsletter, there’s an amazing sporting effort I get to write about! On Tuesday, I was fortunate enough to go along with our Yr 6 All-Star girls to their Northern Peninsula Division basketball finals. Once again the level of play by the girls was incredible and in the second half of each of their matches, they pulled away to comfortable victories. We love celebrating our students’ sporting success, but as I posted on our school Facebook page, the way these girls support each other and their opposition, is equally as impressive. The girls will be back in action on Thursday 31st October in the Southern Metropolitan Region finals!
Reminders - Curriculum Days
Just another reminder that we have a Curriculum Day on Monday 4th November, with our final Curriculum Day on Friday 29th November. Team Kids are available on both days.
Please remember that the Term Community Calendar is available on Sentral.
Until next time,
Rowan Balzary
Assistant Principal