School Captains 2024

This past week, we have undertaken the first step towards electing new school captains for 2024. This involves staff and students nominating the students in Year 5 that they feel would make excellent school leaders. From this process, it’s my privilege to share with you the 5 boys and 5 girls that received the most number of nominations and who will present speeches and stand for election this week. Congratulations to: Linda Alasmar, Ari Bartlett, Piper Beckitt, Violet Borg, Oliver Gardner, Eddie Hayes, Lily Priest, Kayne Smith-Velich, Eva Tsiaousis and Benji Woodford.

The speeches will take place in the hall at 9:15am this Tuesday 14 November. Family and friends are invited to join us for this. Congratulations to the students listed above who are standing for election. We wish them all the best for Tuesday.

Remembrance Day

Yesterday marked one of the most important days on the Australian calendar - Remembrance Day. On behalf of the Lambton PS community, I acknowledge the service men and women who have served our country in conflict and peace-keeping missions. Their sacrifice is significant, and it is always worth us pausing to acknowledge and remember them – Lest we Forget.

New Uniform Update

On Thursday of last week, I received a detailed update from our new uniform supplier The School Locker with respect to how production of our new uniform is going. The good news is some items are finished manufacture and are currently in transit back to Australia. This includes the shorts, long pants and pullover jumpers. Some are still in production and will take a little longer including the polo shirt, jacket and hat.

The really good news is that The School Locker believe that all items will be back in Australia and available for purchase from their Newcastle University store by Mid-December. This means that any families wishing to purchase the new uniform ready for the start of the 2024 school year will be able to do so – either n person or online. Families that have already placed pre-orders online via the website may start to receive items as they arrive later this month.

The School Locker have advised that their store at the university campus will be open up until 15 December and will re-open after the Christmas shutdown period on 8 January, 2024. Their opening hours are 8:30am-4:30pm Monday to Friday. As each item arrives, it will be available at their campus store. The campus store address is: The University of Newcastle, Shop 1/Floor 2 Shortland Union Building, 130 University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308.

Students who have purchased new uniforms will be able to wear them from Day 1, 2024. There will also be a 12 month changeover/transition period, where students are able to wear either the new or old uniform, while this transition takes place. Not long to wait now.

Click here to access the School Locker online platform and view the range of items available to order. 

Have a great week!

David Holland

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded students of the week for Term 4 - Week 5

Congratulations to the following students who this week completed 200 Nights of Home Reading and who are now eligible for ‘Pizza with the Principal’ at the end of this term:

It is never too late to start reading for 10 minutes per night.   We would love as many students reading as regularly as possible.

Lambton Public School's annual Presentation Day Ceremony will be held on Tuesday 5 December 2023. This whole school event will be held in the Lambton High School Multi-Purpose Hall from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm.

If your child is receiving an award you will receive an email by the end of  this week.  Emails will be sent from School Bytes, the program we use for permission notes and statements of account. Emails from School Bytes are sent from the following email address:  noreply@mail.schoolbytes.education.  The email will appear as Lambton Public School <noreply@mail.schoolbytes.education>.    

Parents are encouraged to ensure emails from School Bytes are received to their Inbox and not sent to their junk email and/or the sender is not blocked.  

All parents, carers and families are welcome to join us on the day to celebrate our students achievements irrespective of whether your child is receiving an award.

Following the completion of the upgrade to the Croudace Street pedestrian lights, TfNSW have invited our school to submit student artworks to them that could be used to create a wrap for the electrical box which operates the lights. This collage would be wrapped around the box and the students’ artworks on display permanently at the front of the school. With this in mind, we are running a visual arts competition, open to all students K-6. The theme is open-ended - ‘Lambton Public School’ OR ‘What Lambton Public School means to me’ and students are free to use their creativity in how they represent this theme.

Entries must be A4 size and in portrait orientation and students may use textas or pencils to create their artworks. They should be submitted at the office by 3pm on Wednesday 15 November. Artworks will be judge by Mr Holland, Mrs Cooper and Mrs McCann. The best artwork from each grade will be selected to contribute to a school collage that will create a visual and appealing wrap for the electrical box. Although teachers will discuss this artwork with students in class, this is a project that they can work on at home or in the library at lunch times.

Planning is now well underway for the 2024 school year. We understand that families move and circumstances change which have an impact on a student’s enrolment at school. If you already know that your child will not be attending Lambton PS in 2024 we respectfully request that you inform us now. If your child is leaving, please call or email our school office to let us know.

The P&C will hold their AGM this Tuesday night from 6:30 pm in our school library. Please note change of venue from Waterboard Bowling Club.  At this meeting all positions are declared vacant.  Please remember you must be a financial member to be eligible to vote. 

Please contact the P&C lambtonpspandc@gmail.com or via their Facebook page  for more information.

A popular part of the Year 6 Farewell enjoyed by the students is a slideshow presentation which includes students Kindergarten and Year 6 photos. 

Parents and carers are reminded if their child was not enrolled at LPS in Kindergarten in 2016 to send their child’s Kindergarten photo for inclusion in the slideshow to be shown during the evening.

Photos can be emailed to Lambton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au or students can bring them in to the office and staff will scan them for inclusion. Staff are busy putting the finishing touches on the presentation and ask that photos be forwarded no later than Friday 1 December please. 

Applications for Year 7 entry in 2025 are  now open and close Monday, 20 November 2023.  Parents are required to apply online at the Selective High Schools and Opportunity Classes Year 7 website (link provided below). All candidates are required to sit the Selective High School Placement Test on Thursday 9 May 2024.

Click here for more information or to submit your online application

Scholastic Book Club catalogues were sent home with students on Friday. This will be the last order for 2023 with orders due by Sunday 19 November. 

We thank you for your support of Scholastic Book Club throughout 2023. 

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.