Launching Place Primary School

Newsletter Date 18th December 2014

Issue 42

Thursday Thoughts
Important Dates:
December
19th
Last Day
School Ends 1.30pm

January 2015
23rd
Book Collection
9am-4pm
27th
Book Collection
9am-4pm

School Leaders 2015

Our School Captains, Vice
Captains and House
Captains for 2015 have been
announced.
A large number of Year 5
students were nominated for
a formal leadership role.
Following the democratic
process, we listened to
speeches, held preferential
voting and counting. We

would like to
acknowledge the time and
effort put into the process
by students and teachers.
The students were
dedicated to modelling
school values and
committed to making
LPPS an even better place
to learn. There exists
many opportunities for all

our students to lead,

model our values and
contribute ideas on a
regular basis. Further
leadership positions will
be announced early next
year, so if you missed out
this time, rest assured,
there are still many
important positions
available.

29th
Students Return
9am start

February2015
2nd
First Assembly for the
year

School Captains; Mason B and Tahlia B, Vice Captains; Teagan H and Ryan I

Student Absent
Hot Line Number
5964 7783

House Captains
Launch Angus H and Kimberley D, Wattle Hayley P and Aiden N (absent)
Yarra Callum R and Jemma S (absent), Bellbird Jack A and Holly B

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Thursday Thoughts

Carpark Update
Yes, the carpark is still in the
planning stages. Yarra Ranges
Council is managing the project on
behalf of Launching Place Primary
School. One last test, on the school
grounds, is required in order to
determine how the construction of

the car park will affect the large tree

along the fence line. This was
completed on Wednesday. I have
included a plan of the carpark that
was presented to School Council last
week. We have noted some
modifications to present to the

designers before plans are finalised. I

believe that works will commence
early in term 1. The project must be
finalised by the end of the financial
year.

value to what we can offer our

students. You are all a most important
part of the team of people who work
with our students to support their
learning.

endeavour and qualities. We look

forward to seeing and hearing about
the Year 6 students successes as they
progress through their secondary
education and beyond. We would
also like to wish every Year 6 student
the very best in the years ahead and
strongly encourage all of you to come
back and visit us.

Time to Celebrate
2014 has been a busy and eventful
time at LPPS, with much energy going
into the education of our students, so
they gain those important life-long
skills and knowledge. Our
appreciation and thanks goes to all
members of our community staff,
members of committees, classroom
helpers and volunteers for their
fantastic help and support over the
year.
We are extremely appreciative of the
efforts and hard work of all
volunteers; your contribution adds

The end of the year is a time for

celebrations and also a time to say
farewell to students leaving our
learning community. I would like to
bid a fond farewell to our fabulous
team of Year 6 students. Our 2014
School Captains Zoe and Will must
both be congratulated for their
outstanding leadership commitment,

Launching Place Primary School Carter Street Launching Place 3139 Telephone 5964 7783 Fax 5964 6171 Email launching.place.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
ABN 96 199 518 803

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Year 6 Graduation
of staff and parents behind the scenes
who have made this all possible for
the children. This will be a very
special evening for these children as

they embrace this significant stage in

their life and celebrate their many
memorable times at primary school.

Last Monday the children were all

extremely excited to meet their new
teacher for 2015 along with the
children who will be in their grade
next year.

Business Manager - Ms Jacqui Eycken

Educational Support Officers (ESOs) - Sonia

Dunn, Jacqui Ware, Naomi Read, Fiona
Boek, Glenn Waterhouse

This is always an exciting time for

the children, where they get to start
forming a relationship with their
teacher, peers who they may not
know that well or friends from the
past. An enormous amount of time
was invested into setting up grades
for next year. The school will once
again be operating 13 classes.

Grades 1/2 - Jacinta Kemp; Kathy Boyd;

Brydie Gray; Heather Taylor /Lorraine
Bexley

Staffing for 2014 are as follows:

The Arts - Candice Nyman

Principal - Narelle Messerle

Physical Education - Andrew Devisser

Assistant Principal - Debbie HobbisHartley

Chaplaincy - Chezelle Conroy

Tonight we offer our farewells to the

year 6 children as they attend their
Graduation ceremony here at school.
A BIG thanks to the working party

2015 Grades
Office Assistance - Mrs Audrey Plunkett
Foundation/ Prep - Lynne Noy and Emily
Rae

Grades 3/4 - Brent Smith; Lara Mackie,

Kasey Shuttleworth; Zoe Kendall
Grades 5/6 - Ala Lorenc; Lisa Fleming,
Jethro Crunden
Japanese - Toko Osadczuk

Canteen Manager- Frankie Harkness

Library Technician - Mrs Manuela Bonk
Visiting Instrumental Teacher (piano/
keyboard, theory lessons) Eastern Ranges
Arts Sheona Ball
OSHC - Mrs Aileen Canning and Andrea
Blease (Upper Yarra Community House
staff)
Ms Leah Ashton will not be joining us next
year as she is off overseas. We thank Leah for
the great contribution she has made to LPPS
in her short time with us.

Bush Xmas
It was great to see the large number of families who attended our Bush
Xmas . The weather was kind and fun was had by one and all. Thanks
must go to our amazing PFA for their efforts with our Christmas raffle.

Please Note: That other advertisements and publications published in this newsletter do not imply school or Department of Education and Early
Childhood Development endorsement.

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Thursday Thoughts

Last Day
Tomorrow is our final day of school
for the year when the children will
all be dismissed at 1.30pm. A final
assembly will be held on the bottom
basketball court (weather
permitting) at 1.00pm. Our grade 6
children will be performing their
graduation song - a special moment
not to be missed!

over the break, to use the playground

or play in the sandpit, please keep a
watchful eye across our school. Any
disturbances or suspicious behaviour
can be reported to the Yarra Junction
Police station by ringing (03)
59671104.
We would like to take this time to
wish all children and their families

the very best over the break for a

happy and safe holiday period; ready
to return to school for the first school
day of 2015 on THURSDAY 29th
JANUARY.
Merry Christmas,
Narelle Messerle

Should you visit our school grounds

Lost Property
We have accumulated a number of items in lost property. Most of these items are not named. If your child is missing
any items please feel free to come to the office and have a look.
Items not collected before end of term will be re used in our second hand cupboard, non- school items will be given
to the op shop.
Thank you

School Captains Report

Parents and Friends

Prep: Prep have had a busy week

preparing for Grade 1. We are
practising handwriting and big kids
maths. We are getting very good at
diary writing and writing on full
sentences. We cant wait to meet our
new teacher and celebrate finishing
prep with a special video.

Grade 3/4: This week we revised the

reading strategies in CAF. We
enjoyed doing the workshop to learn
the bush dance performances and
had a great time. We had a great day
at the Warburton bike ride and are
super excited to meet our 2015
grade and teacher.

Grade 1/2: We have been revising

all strategies in CAF and enjoying
a range of Christmas literacy
activities. We have finished our
Maths focus groups on addition and
subtraction. We finished our
weather unit by watching Cloudy
with a chance of meatballs and
drawing our own food weather
picture. We are really looking
forward to meeting our teacher for
next year.

Grade 5/6: We are busy getting

ready for graduation! The grade 5s
have all been working hard to get
ready for different leadership roles
for 2015. Well done to all the kids
on a great bike ride last Friday.
Principal: The second last week was
busy with Bushwahzee teaching us
lots of dances and songs for our
Bush Xmas. The week ended with a
bike ride for years 3-6 to Warburton.
We had lots of hot tired students and
staff.

Congratulations to all the winners at

for the Christmas raffle. May you
enjoy your prizes.
Thank you to all the LPPS school
community for supporting our
fundraising efforts this year towards
new playground equipment. And
your support either on P&F team or
elsewhere.
We hope you and your family get to
relax and enjoy what this Christmas
and New Year brings. Please be safe
on the roads if your planning to get
away, or even if your doing day trips
around the valley. And we look
forward to seeing all your faces in
2015.

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