School News
Happy Holidays
Dear Families,
As another very busy term comes to an end, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the LNPS staff and students on completing a very busy but successful first semester of 2016.
We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday and looking forward to seeing you all back in Term 3.
Pupil Free Days
On Monday 25/7 LNPS staff will be having their first Pupil Free Day. The focus for the day is professional development on Restorative Practices as an integral part of our Behaviour Education. We will be working alongside North Haven Primary School in building an awareness of what it means to be a Restorative school. Throughout the sessions staff will explore how to embed restorative practices within their daily roles.
Staff will be involved in discussions around:
- Uncovering own deeply held beliefs about student conduct (and misconduct) and how these align with the principles of Restorative Justice.
- Exploring strategies in addressing wrongdoing or disruption.
- Looking at the effectiveness of punishment and the consequences in terms of emotion and engagement.
- Practising one to one restorative conversations in a variety of real-life scenarios.
Second Term 3 Pupil Free Day - Week 9 Friday 23rd September 2016 (Quality Teaching and Learning - Assessment for Learning).
Enrolements 2017
ENROLMENTS 2017
If you have a sibling who will be 5 on or before the first of May next year, please check with the Front Office that you have completed their enrolment form.
Lost Property
Please check the lost property trolly outside the front office. It is overflowing with jumpers, drink bottles and lunch boxes.
These items will be donated at the end of the term.
NAPLAN Online – Getting ready for 2017
NAPLAN Online – Getting ready for 2017
The Australian Government is committed to delivering NAPLAN online from 2017, with all schools across the nation transitioning over a 2 to 3 year period.
This change will provide each child with a more personalised learning experience and a better assessment. It also means that the results will be returned to you and your child’s teachers within a few weeks, rather than several months.
Our school will be participating in a trial of the new online system in August 2016. This trial is not a ‘test’ of content; it is a test of how the new online system will work in a real-life classroom environment. You may hear this trial referred to as the NAPLAN Online Readiness Trial.
As part of the trial, students in Years 3, 5, and 7 will undertake 2 online readiness tests. Each test will take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
It is important that we participate in this trial before the system is officially in use in 2017 to enable familiarisation with the system in a classroom setting Participation will allow us to confirm that every school is ready and that our teachers are confident that their students will be able to participate fully.
This trial will help our site to be well prepared to complete NAPLAN online in 2017 and provide feedback into final changes at a state-wide level.