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February 12th 2019
Term 1 Week 3
Loxton Lutheran School
IMPORTANT DATES
Tuesday February 12
JoAnne Dooner Parent
Information Session -
6:45pm - 7:45pm
Friday February 15
Worship - 2.30pm
Monday February 18
SAPSASA Swimming
Carnival
Tuesday February 19
Choir Cluster Rehearsal
Saturday February 23
Loxton Mardi Gras
Wednesday February 27
Year 7 Aquatics Day
Friday March 1
Worship - Bible
Presentations - 2:15pm
Monday March 4
Crows Cup Girls Football
Tuesday March 5
Shrove Tuesday
Wednesday March 6
Ash Wednesday
Wednesday March 20
SAPSASA Athletics
Thursday March 21
School & Parish AGM -
7pm. Venue TBA
Monday March 25
Cyber Safety Parent
Information Session - 6pm
While preparing for staff devotion last week I found this reflection
while reading devotions on the internet. It really resonated with me
and the times in our lives where we have felt lost, lonely or lacking
direction. I choose to share it with you today to give you an insight
into what I do or who I turn to in hard times. I hope you can take
some part of it and allow it to resonate with you too.
Excert from an internet devotion....
...........maybe God would help me understand things. Maybe God
knew the answers to my questions.
So I prayed. I didn’t ask Him to take away the pain, but I asked Him
to grant me courage to accept the things that I couldn’t change. I
didn’t ask Him to stop my disappointment, but I asked Him to give
me the patience to slowly understand myself. I didn’t ask Him to
give me all the luck I could get, but I asked Him to not leave me and
just guide me.
Life isn’t made up of just the good. It doesn’t always work out the
way we plan and expect it to. There are unseen situations and an
unpredictable future ahead of us. I learned this the hard way.
I may not know the life that God has prepared for me, and I may not
understand the things He is throwing at me right now, but I will
always have faith in Him. I will always trust the plans that He has
made and I will trust His timing.
When all else fails, God doesn’t. When everyone else gives up on you, He
never will. When everyone sees you as a failure, He sees you as art. When
everything else is a blur, pray!
“I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and
says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13
“Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in
Me.” John 14:1
Submitted by Tricia Wright
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From the Principal By Brad Williams
February 12th 2019
Sports Day Change of Date Due to clashes with a number of events that
would have impacted on staff and students,
Sports Day has been changed to Friday 5th
April. This event is going to be a Twilight event, held at Loxton High School. Further
details will be forthcoming over the next few
weeks.
Parent Information
Session – Cyber Safety All parents but particularly those with children
in Year 3-7 are strongly encouraged to attend a
Parent Information Session on Monday 25th
March from 6:00pm-7:30pm at school. The
session will be facilitated by Acting Sergeant,
Michael Bradbury, from the Crime Prevention
Unit. The focus of the session will be on Cyber
Safety – Online Behaviour and Online Safety.
Any parent wishing to attend is asked to RSVP
to the front office at office@loxton-
lutheran.sa.edu.au
Little Blessings We extend our congratulations to the Hampel
and Andriske families, who have both
welcomed new additions to their families. We
hope that all is going well for you all and look
forward to presenting you with our ‘Welcome
Gift’ at an assembly in the future.
ELC Vacancies
We have a small number of vacancies on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays in our ELC.
Should anyone know of parents who might be
looking to enrol their child into the ELC, please
encourage them to call Melissa (ELC Director).
Dear Parents,
This week we are blessed to have Literacy Coach,
Ms JoAnne Dooner working with staff and
students. JoAnne is the Director and founder of
Get Reading Right and is working with us over
the next 4 years to develop and embed literacy
practices across the school as we seek to improve
learning and wellbeing outcomes for our students.
This week, JoAnne will be demonstrating phonics
and morning routines in classes. She will also be
observing lessons being taught by class teachers
and providing feedback. Time will be spent with
class teachers, building morning routines and
refining phonics instruction. JoAnne and Trish
(Instructional Leader) will also begin developing
Essential Agreements and Scope and Sequence
documents that will bring even greater coherence
and consistency to our learning and teaching
across the school.
On Monday, teaching and LSO staff put on our
‘Learner’ hats, as JoAnne talked about Cognitive
Load Theory and the reasons why our Morning
Routine is so important. We learnt about the
different elements of Morning Routine and how to
build them.
Anyone wanting to read about Cognitive Load
Theory is invited to click on the link below. The
document you will be taken to is one that all staff
have been invited to read as well. https://www.cese.nsw.gov.au//images/stories/PDF/
cognitive-load-theory-VR_AA3.pdf
Later this term we will hold an ‘Open Morning’,
where parents will be able to come in and watch
our staff teaching Morning Routines and Phonics/
Spelling. More details about this will be provided
at a later date.
All parents are strongly encouraged to attend the
Parent Information Session on Tuesday night from
6:45pm-7:45pm. A flyer was sent home last week
with all the details as to what the session will
encompass. Anyone wanting further information
can contact the Front Office or email me at
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SCHOOL ASSEMBLY (Every fortnight)
NEXT WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY
Friday 22nd February 2.30 in the Life Centre. ALL WELCOME
School worship Worship services are held alternate fortnights to assembly - 2.30pm Friday’s in the LIFE Centre.
ALL WELCOME.
NEXT WORSHIP
This Friday - 15th February 2.30 pm in the Life Centre
Prayer Corner This week we are praying for:-
Olive Arnold
Archie Athanasopoulos
Nathan Bob-Efeovbokhan
Thomas Bradtke
Jaylan Buhagiar
Brock Buhagiar
Kobe Buhagiar
and Mrs. Andrea Athanasopoulos—
Yr 3/4 Teacher
Prayer or care requests can be forwarded by email to:-
Brad—[email protected]
Church Services St Peter’s Lutheran Church
February 17 8:30am HC
10:30am
February 24 8:30 am
10:30am HC
Concordia Lutheran Church
February 17 10:00am HC
February 24 10:00 am HC
School Council News
School Council is seeking expressions of interest for a vacant position – open to parents of the school community, who are not employees of the school (or closely related). Please obtain the handout from the Front Office if you would like to know more and direct questions to Rebecca Arnold on 0429 841 350. Please email to Secretary Jenni Hampel [email protected]; a short statement outlining why you are interested in being on Council, your background and prior experience and/or what you feel you could bring to the role. Expressions of Interest close 22nd Feb.
The annual ‘Loxton Mardi Gras’ is on Saturday 23rd
February. This year’s theme is ‘Showtime’. Our float will be
based around a ‘Circus Show’, with clowns being our main
theme.
We are asking those participating to dress as clowns,
something to do with a circus or wear bright, colourful
clothes. We will have circus equipment for students to use
and the float will be decorated with balloons, streamers,
bubbles and music.
We encourage grandparents, parents, siblings and friends
to come along and join our float. The more
the merrier! Participants are to be on the
float on Drabsch Street by 10:30am
Please return the slip on the Mardi Gras letter
that went home last week ASAP.
Loxton Mardi Gras
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Hello everyone,
What a great start to the school year we’ve had!
We welcome eight new children to ELC this year; Georgia,
Riley, Nicholas, Judson, Charlie, Ivy, Elleni and Zara. It is
wonderful to have you and your families as part of our School
community. Also welcome back to our existing ELC families, it
has been lovely to see you all again.
These last two weeks we have started looking into weather,
which will be our term long investigation. The children have
been outside observing the environment to determine the
weather at two points of the day, drawing their own
interpretations of weather and illustrating what clothes they
would wear if it was hot compared to if it was cold.
We have also started our PE lessons with Mr Mills on Tuesdays
and Wednesdays. The children have been quite excited to
participate, especially enjoying jumping on the high jump mat!
We look forward to seeing
where this term and year will
take us!
God Bless,
Melissa Pascoe
ELC Director
UNIFORM SHOP
Our uniform shop is currently open on the following day:-
Friday 3:10 pm to 3.30 pm
Uniform order forms can be obtained from the school office or downloaded from our website.
BUSINESS MANAGER hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
LLL SCHOOL BANKING
Every Tuesday
Canteen
The name of the youngest/only child from the family will be displayed. Mothers, fathers, caregivers and grandparents are encouraged to help in the canteen.
ELC News
SPECIAL
Friday 15th February
POTATO WEDGES
(contains gluten)
$4.50
With tomato or sweet chilli sauce & sour cream
Canteen News
5
6 Luther Road
LOXTON SA 5333
Phone: 08 8584 7496
Principal:
Brad Williams
Council Chairperson:
Rebecca Arnold
E-mail:
LOXTON
LUTHRAN
SCHOOL
Website:- http://www.loxton-lutheran.sa.edu.au/
https://www.facebook.com/LoxtonLutheran
Community Noticeboard
Loxton Junior Netball Association (LJNA) 2019
LJNA provides a weekly Saturday netball competition
for children from year 2 to year 7.
Registrations are open for this years netball season!
Trials will be held at the Loxton North Netball courts
from 9 to 10.30am on the following dates:
Saturday 30th March
Saturday 6th April
Saturday 13th April
For further information please
message [email protected] or via the
Loxton Junior Netball Association Facebook page.
Kind regards
Michelle Pannell
LJNA President
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