5th55th October27th February 2020

From the Co-Principals…

The Launceston Preparatory School

Parents’ Club

Welcome to 2020 BBQ and Drinks

To be held

tonight

on

the Croquet Lawn

from

5.30-7.00pm.

This is a family event so everyone is welcome!

The LPS Parents’ Club is a small (but getting bigger) group of hard-working parents that meets monthly to organise various fundraisers, social events and information nights for our school community. Tonight they will be hosting their annual “Welcome Back BBQ and Drinks” which is a perfect opportunity to meet the teachers, other LPS parents and their children in a casual, social setting. Please come along with your children and help the staff and the Parents’ Club welcome in 2020 and whilst the children are treated to a BBQ, you can enjoy a drink or two, some delicious nibbles and friendly chat. We hope to see you there! In “Truth and Happiness”, Leonie McNair and Harriet Thyne, Co-Principals

In the Garden with 2/3 Digital Technology

At the beginning of the year, Digital Technology students learn to create and name their

own folders on the school file system. They then learn how to create new documents from

within their personal folders. This ensures that all their work is saved into the folder and the

school system means can always be found, rather than just on that computer – we have 40-

plus of them so it’s very hard to find again if they don’t! Their first task is to create a ‘Theme

Page’ with pictures and text and to save it into their folders. Students took a picture of

themselves In the Garden and combined that with the theme title and some creative text to

create some very imaginative and detailed work. Judge for yourselves…

Mr Michael Burgess

Delicious Peach!

This term we are reading James and the Giant

Peach by Roald Dahl. We got to the part in the

story where James crawled inside the giant

peach and reached the stone where he

discovered some amazing creatures were living.

Road Dahl writes the most wonderful

descriptions throughout this book and he had

our mouths watering as he described a very

hungry James taking bites out of the sides of the

tunnel in the peach.

Luckily for us, Mrs Sarah Shaw had brought us in a magnificent peach from her tree at

home. The colour of the skin and the peach flesh matched exactly with Roald’s description.

We were all eager to taste the delicious, juicy peach flesh and it certainly did not disappoint!

Thank you, Mrs Shaw, for giving us this wonderful opportunity to experience what James did

as we were reading.

Mrs Harriet Thyne

Group 2/3 Student of the Week

This term Mrs Freeland and Mrs Thyne are looking for children who, in keeping with our theme, are Growing into Beautiful Humans. This week Tejas Shah, Poppy Taylor, Ethan Price and Toby O’Meara were the worthy recipients of our award. These four children have started the year superbly, working hard, having fun, being kind towards others and by being little rays of sunshine!

Mrs Thyne and Mrs Freeland

DEEP Flight Engineers

This year, DEEP Engineering students are investigating flight. So far

we have looked at how wings create lift - ask them about

‘Bernoulli’s Principle - and have commenced construction of balsa

gliders, starting with the wings. The wings are planned out and cut,

then carefully sanded to create the basic aerofoil shape. Once that

is complete then the tailplane, that is the – horizontal and vertical

stabilizers – will be commenced.

Mr Michael Burgess

Writing numbers

This week the clever Prep students have starting using the whiteboards to practise writing their numbers correctly. The first line teaches us to ALWAYS start at the top and each line gets harder. We are working on forming ‘racetrack 8’ correctly and making sure that all numbers are facing the right way. For their first attempts, they did an amazing job.

Miss Nicole England

ART INSPIRED BY GARDENS

Students in Groups 2-6 have started the year learning a lot about colour. Senior students have combined colour-mixing knowledge with painting in an "impressionistic" style to create their own lettering styles using their names. The group 4s have proudly displayed theirs on the front of their art journals which they will use for the next three years for experimenting and planning their projects. In the coming weeks they will learn more about Impressionism, particularly the work of Claude Monet, and create their own water lily paintings. Groups 2/3 have created some beautiful colour wheel 'flowers' that now frame the doors of their home rooms. At the same time as learning about colour theory and how to accurately mix colours, they also had the opportunity to use their cutting and folding skills to create stunning centres for their flowers. This week we will make our own brushes from materials we find in the school gardens ready to use them to paint our own water lilies inspired by Monet's famous paintings.

Ms Jane Dean Visual Art Teacher 2-6

“Other information …” IMPORTANT DATES

Thursday, 27th February LPS Swim Carnival, Groups 2-6

Thursday, 27th February Parents’ Club Welcome Drinks and BBQ 5.30-7.00

(Parents and children welcome) Croquet Lawn

Monday, 9th March Public Holiday

Tuesday, 10th March Parents’ Club meeting, Mrs Thyne’s room, 7:30pm

Thursday, 12th March NIJSSA Inter-schools swimming carnival

16th, 17th and 19th March Group 4 parent-teacher meetings (information to follow)

Wednesday, 25th March The Launceston Preparatory School AGM, MPH, 7.30pm

Monday, 30th March Group 2/3 Parent Teacher meetings commence

(further information to follow)

Tuesday, 7th April Prep free eye screening tests – optional (further

information and permission slips to follow)

Thursday, 9th April Term 1 ends for staff and students

Future events to note in your diaries …

Thursday, 30th April School photos

Wednesday, 27th May LPS Cross Country

Thursday, 3rd September LPS Athletics

13th – 16th October Leavers’ camp at Woodfield

11th – 13th November Group 4/5 camp at Port Sorell

Tik Tok

Tik Tok is an app that is being used by many students within our school. Like most

technologies, this app can be entertaining but also offers opportunities for inappropriate

use. We draw parents’ attention to the fact that this app is not intended for use with

people under 13 years of age and provide the following information from Tik Tok’s own

support centre …

What is TikTok?

TikTok is a destination for short-form mobile videos.

Who is TikTok intended for?

TikTok is intended for users age 13 and over. Please do not allow a child under the age of 13

to use the app. If you learn that your child under the age of 13 has registered for a TikTok

account, you may alert us at privacy@tiktok.com. We will promptly take appropriate action.

Can I prevent my teen from downloading TikTok?

We encourage you to oversee your teen’s internet use, including any apps they may

download. Both iOS and Android provide parental controls that let you block or limit specific

apps, features, movies, music, and more at the device level. Because TikTok is for users 13

and over, we’ve given it a strict 12+ app store rating. This allows you to use these device-

parental controls to simply block our apps from your underage child’s phone. Please see

the Apple App Store or Google Play Store instructions for more on parental controls (or

“restrictions”) and how to enable them.

How can my teen control who sees their videos and sends them messages?

Users can control who can see their uploaded content, follow them, and send them

messages by making their account private. With a private account, users can approve or

deny followers and restrict their uploaded content and incoming messages to followers

only. If a user has a public profile, anyone signed into the TikTok app can view that user’s

public videos. However, only approved followers can send that user a message. Whether

users choose to have a public or a private account, they can always:

block another from contacting them at any time

save a video privately so that content will not be viewable by any other user

Please remember: Even with a private account, profile information – including profile

photo, username, and bio – will be visible to all users. Counsel your teen not to reveal

personal information such as age, address, or phone number in his/her profile.

Please note that any notices we include in this newsletter for providers of activities that occur outside of the school, are provided only for the interest of families and do not carry any endorsement by the school.