Principal Class Report

Helping your child at home

Building Number Sense & Fluency at Home

Strong number sense helps your child become a confident and successful mathematician. At school, we use explicit teaching and daily review to build fluency (accuracy + speed) and automaticity (quick recall of facts).

Your support at home makes a big difference.

5–10 Minutes a Day Makes the Difference

Short, daily practice helps move learning from “figuring out” to knowing automatically.

What this looks like:

Quick practice of number facts
Repeating and reviewing known skills
Building speed and confidence over time

What You Can Do at Home

Foundation – Year 2

Count forwards and backwards (start from any number)
Practice number bonds (e.g. numbers that make 10)
Recognise numbers in everyday life
Use simple games (dice, cards, counting objects)

Years 3–6

Practice multiplication and division facts regularly
Use quick recall strategies (doubles, halves, partitioning)
Ask: “How did you work that out?”
Apply maths in real life (money, time, measurement)

Focus on Fluency

We are building students who can:

Recall facts quickly
Work accurately
Solve problems efficiently

Fluency frees up brain space for deeper thinking.

Parent Resources

Victorian Government – Numeracy Tips https://www.vic.gov.au/numeracy-tips-parents
Topmarks Maths Games https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games
NRICH Problem Solving https://nrich.maths.org
BBC Bitesize Maths https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Working Together

Daily practice builds confidence, success, and a positive attitude towards maths. Thank you for supporting your child’s learning at home!

Team Planning Days

Week 8 of Term 1 has been a highly productive time for our teaching teams as they prepare for a strong start to Term 2.

During Planning Week, teachers work collaboratively in their Professional Learning Teams to design high-quality learning programs for the term ahead. Using the Victorian Curriculum and recent student assessment data, teachers carefully plan to meet students at their point of need and ensure all learners are supported to succeed.

Each team develops a Term Planner that outlines key learning intentions, essential skills, and teaching strategies across subject areas. These plans are flexible working documents, allowing teachers to adjust and respond to student progress throughout the term.

Our team of Specialist teachers also have a Yearly Overview relative to all specialist subject areas; for each year level taught. These are checked, and term planners adjusted ready for the upcoming term and events within the term.

Teachers also work off Weekly Planning documents; which further supports the planning of differentiated tasks and specific adjustment so that all students can learn and experience success from their point of need.

Planning Week plays a vital role in ensuring consistency across classrooms and setting clear, purposeful learning pathways. This work helps ensure that all students experience success, growth, and engagement from the very beginning of each term.

Thursday 19th March 2026

Harmony Day was joyfully celebrated at Lyndhurst Primary School with a vibrant display of diversity and inclusion. The school grounds were filled with a sea of orange, alongside students proudly wearing traditional cultural clothing that reflected their unique backgrounds and heritage.

The day started with our annual Harmony Day assembly. We saw engaging presentations and performances.

Year 2 students delivered the Acknowledgement of Country.
Year 6 students spoke about immigration, helping everyone understand the journeys people take to make Australia their home. It was a meaningful way to build empathy and appreciation for different life experiences.
Students heard languages from around the world, learning how to say “hello” in different ways.
Our annual highlight was watching cultural dances from The Cook Islands, Afghanistan, Albania, El Salvadore and India. These performances were colourful and a wonderful celebration of the global tradition of dance & music.

Throughout the day, students participated in a variety of activities.

Harmony Day reminds us all that while we may come from different places, we can live together with respect, understanding, and kindness. And that ‘All People are Beautiful’ - encapsulated by the story that was beautifully read by a group of students.

We thank our amazing Harmony Day Team for planning and co-ordinating the assembly, all our staff for their planning of the day and especially all the students who confidently presented and/or performed. Thank you also to our parents who supported their child/ren’s performance and to all those who attended our assembly.

Recently, we have become aware of some online activity involving primary-aged students, including posts on platforms such as TikTok where LPS students are being “shipped” or suggested as dating partners. Posts include student names, nick names or pseudonyms and replies from LPS students.

Families should be aware that from December 2025, social media platforms are required to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under 16 from holding accounts, including platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.

These changes reflect growing concern about the impact of social media on young people and aim to reduce exposure to harmful content and online behaviour.

At primary school age, students are still developing their understanding of respectful relationships, digital citizenship and privacy. Content that labels children as “dating”, ranks them, or shares their names and images without permission can create distress and damage friendships.

We encourage families to:

Be aware of the apps their children are using.
Monitor and discuss online behaviour and expectations.
Talk openly about respectful interactions and the impact of posting about others online.
Remind children that images and comments can spread quickly and remain online.

LPS will continue to reinforce safe and respectful online behaviour through our wellbeing and digital citizenship programs. If families become aware of posts involving students that may cause harm or distress, we encourage you to address the matter directly with the platform or contact the school so we can support the students involved.

Working together, we can help ensure our children learn to use technology in a safe, respectful and age-appropriate way.