That’s a wrap!

After months of planning and organising, it was so much fun to be in the auditorium on Monday night witnessing our students starring on-stage and seeing our whole school community come together as one – and having a ball! As a staff team, we have been overwhelmed with the positive response from our community in relation to Lambton Live. Thank you to those that shared feedback and sent us messages last week, they were sincerely appreciated and gratefully received. The greatest boost for us as a school is to know how much the evening meant to each of you. Yes, we do plan to do Lambton Live again, but we think it is best as a bi-annual event rather than each year. So for those of you with us for a few more years, keep an ear to the ground in 2025 for what comes next. Having said that, we don’t intend for 2024 to be a year off. I am in the process of planning and scheming a different kind of whole-school event for 2024. Something for students and families that won’t be as demanding on our staff nor as disruptive to school routine as a performance night is, however hopefully still as meaningful and something that compliments Lambton Live in the year between events. Stay tuned for more detail next year.

Staffing changes

As we close out Term 3, I’d like to use this opportunity to update the community on a few staffing changes for Term 4. This term, our total school enrolment has steadily climbed to the point that we are now eligible for a 15th class teacher. Obviously, this far into the year we will not restructure classes, instead class teachers will receive additional RFF to assist them with managing the larger classes they now have. In this RFF role, we welcome Miss Erin Cattle to the Lambton team. Miss Cattle will teach History for Term 4 to all classes K-6.

There is also a teaching change to occur in 4/5S. Miss Camilleri will move to Monday to Wednesday and Mr Matthew Coates takes over teaching responsibilities on Thursday and Friday for 4/5S. Mr Semmens will be released off class in Term 4 to support me with executive tasks required in leading our school.

The very successful Intensive Learning Support Program (ILSP) formerly filled by Miss Camilleri will be shared in Term 4 between Mr Coates Monday-Wednesday and Miss Jessica Wagner on Thursday and Friday.

End of Term

This is the last newsletter for Term 3. I would like to thank all of our families for all of your support and encouragement again throughout the term. It has been a busy one but a very rewarding one. There’s lots to look forward to in Term 4 including: Stage 3 Canberra excursion, a Stage 2 Reptile Park excursion, Grandparents Day (Tuesday 31/10), the P&C Trivia Night, Year 6 Fun Day and our 2024 Kinder Orientation program.

For now, I wish all of our students and their families a lovely school holiday break.

David Holland 

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded students of the week for Term 3 - Week 9

Parents and carers, please note that there is no staff development day at the beginning of Term 4. All students return to commence Term 4 on Monday 9 October. 

The Home Reading program continues to be an important and valued initiative as part of the school’s attempt to instil a love of reading in our students. In the past few weeks, we have had the first students reach their 200 nights of home reading milestones. For reaching 200 nights, these students will receive a Principals Award certificate and be invited to a special pizza lunch with Mr Holland at the end of Term 4. Congratulations:

• Arlo Draffan - 1S
• Aurelia Huaripata Saldana - 1S
• Sofia Huaripata Saldana – 2N
•  Mae Nixon – 3L
•  Lily Priest – 4/5S
•  Sophie Johannesen – 4/5S
• Alanna Preece – 4/5S
• Hope Waller – 4/5S
•  Quinlan Bartlett – 4/5S
•  Estelle Hopkins – 6C
•  Elissa Maher – 6N

It is never too late to start reading for 10 minutes per night. As a reminder for parents please see the home reading rewards below. We would love as many students reading regularly as possible.

The video production company is now in the process of compiling and editing footage recorded from Monday night’s Lambton Live event. Once the editing is complete and it is available for purchase, we will let you know. Copies will be distributed on USB only and will be available for sale at $25 per copy for those interested. We will share more information about how to place your order, next term. 

We were fortunate to have a visit from the Newcastle City Council lifeguards on Friday who came to teach our students some important water and beach safety tips in preparation from the Summer ahead. They spoke to each stage group and remind of them of important beach and water safety tips like:

• Always swim at patrolled beaches – swim between the red and yellow flags
• Check conditions before swimming and take note of any warning signs
• Put your hand up for help so lifeguards can see you – and don’t panic
• Remember sun safety and to slip, slop slap
• Board riders must surf outside the black and white flags 

As is our custom, there will be an end of term gotcha draw next Friday 22 September. All of the gotchas received in class for Term 3 will go into one of two barrels (K-2 and 3-6) for the gotcha draw at morning assembly. To be eligible to receive an award, students whose names are drawn out, must be in attendance at school on Friday at the time of the draw. We will publish the students’ names on Audiri next Friday – good luck to all. 

Please see below some amazing writing from our students in 1B

Tickets go on sale tonight for our P & C  Trivia NIght. 

When -  Saturday 21 October

Where - Hamilton North Bowling  Club

Tickets - Available from 7:00pm via Try Booking  $20 each or you can book a table of 10 for $180.

It's sure to be a fun filled evening with great prizes up for grabs in between round games, 100 club, silent auction, balloon pop and more.  Get your table together now for a great night out and an opportunity to raise money for our students.

The Bistro will be open from 5.30pm for those who may want to grab dinner before the event.

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As the school continues to be notified of Covid-19 cases, we continue to remind all families of the following advice:

• students and staff should not attend school if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses. These include fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell/taste, muscle/joint pains, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting, extreme tiredness, unexplained chest pain or conjunctivitis (eye infection).
• If symptoms occur at any time, your child should not attend school and is encouraged to undertake a rapid antigen test (RAT).
• If your child tests positive, they should not attend school while displaying any symptoms and please notify the school.

• Parents are encouraged to register any positive test on the Service NSW website or Service NSW app so that you can be linked to important health care support and advice.