Marni Naa Pudni

As we come to an end of another highly successful term, I would like to acknowledge the hard work of our staff and their continued commitment to ensuring our students get the highest quality education. The Festival of the Arts was just one example of our quality teaching and learning programs.

This year we have also ensured all of our teachers receive quality learning themselves. With a focus in strategies and practices that have the highest impact, we ensure that our teachers gain the most out of learning, so that they can create real change.

Teachers and leadership at LNPS have engaged in professional learning that is based on the experiences of the world’s best education systems. Orbis is a professional learning initiative that uses contemporary research and best practice, offering flexible, differentiated programs that work with the profession, for the profession.

For real change to occur LNPS staff are committed to continuously working together in developing shared understandings about best practices, supporting each other, solving challenges of practice together. The programs and learning LNPS teachers and leaders have engaged with through Orbis have further consolidated and strengthened our collaborative approaches and our site improvement practices.

Here is a video from Orbis, where our teachers Natalie Brook and Trent Clayton share their learning experiences.

#MakingADifference

Festival of The Arts

Last week, we held our first ever virtual community event. The virtual Festival of The Arts was a huge success, and was thoroughly enjoyed by all students and staff. We hope families had the opportunity to tune into the stream and enjoy the performances and exhibits.

A recording will be available to families this week once we have been able to process the file.

I would also like to acknowledge the hard work and commitment of our staff to put this event together.

Class Placement 2022

In the first few weeks of Term 4 the process to place students into classes for 2022 will begin.

Classes are formed according to:

The number of students at each year level
The Education Department’s recommended teacher to student ratio as per the funding model
Staff knowledge about students' educational needs
Information provided by parents that addresses the LNPS Class Placement Guidelines (please see attached)

Class Placement Guidelines-COMMUNITY.pdf

If parents wish to provide further educational information to support this process, please use the LNPS Class Placement Guidelines. Information or requests that do not meet the criteria outlined in the guidelines will not be taken into consideration.

Please email

tyson.grinham428@schools.sa.edu.au or mirjana.grubor793@schools.sa.edu.au by Friday 12th October.

Early Years Redevelopment

The project has its final approval and building redevelopment will commence these school holidays! We thank everyone for their patience, eagerly waiting for the redevelopment to commence.

NAPLAN Reports (Years 3, 5 and 7)

Today, families of our Year 3, 5 and 7 students will receive their child's 2021 National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) Report.

Lockleys North Primary School transitioned to NAPLAN Online in 2019 (except for Year 3 Writing). The NAPLAN Online is an adaptive testing model, meaning it is tailored and adapts to student responses, presenting them with questions that may be more or less difficult – resulting in better assessment and more precise results.

In previous reports families would have been able to view the question responses on the Individual Student Summary Report (blue report). This is no longer available.

An additional report (Standards for Education Achievement Student Report 2021) has been provided by the South Australian Department for Education. This report reflects your child’s results against the Department’s standards of achievement for Reading and Numeracy only.

As is always the case, NAPLAN gives only an indication of a student’s performance on the day of testing and the results should be interpreted with care. Please be aware that generally most children will have progressed with their academic achievements over the five months since the time of testing and current results likely differ from those indicated in this report, particularly as more of the curriculum has been addressed at this point of the year.

Teachers at our school regularly assess students’ learning using a range of assessment tasks that cater for a variety of learning styles. The NAPLAN results add to the wealth of knowledge that we already have about individual children.

You are invited to contact your child’s teacher or the leadership team if you have any questions or require assistance to interpret the report.

Please contact the school on 8443 5544 to make a suitable appointment time.

Nagaityalya

Mirjana

M&S Charges 2022

Please find below/attached the proposed fees for Materials and Services Charges for 2022 for Year 3 and Rec, 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6. These charges will be inclusive of all costs for 2022 year with the exception of excursions and camps. The notice of charges has been approved by DECD and has the watermark applied by the department.

Governing Council meeting passed a recommendation from the Finance Committee to make the Material and Services Charges for 2022 year $742 for year 3 and $392 for other years. The increase is inline keeping with the CPI. The fees assist us to continue the work of the school and provide positive and successful learning experiences for your children.

The Material & Services charges for 2022 year will be discussed at the next meeting of the Governing Council held on Monday 25 October 2021 at 7.00pm) you are invited to discuss these charges. Due to COVID restrictions (this will be a virtual meeting) In lieu of attending, parents can write to the Governing Council Chairperson, Mrs Michele D’Aloia C/- Lockleys North Primary or email dl.0911.info@schools.sa.edu.au

The Admin Team

Community Health Information

Please see the attached flyers of common ailments that occur in schools.

Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Head Lice

School Sores