Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to Term 3 at LIS! I hope everyone had a good break. It is great to see all our students back and eager to start the term. Thanks to our parents and carers for all their support and encouragement during Term 2. 

Welcome to our new HR Manager

Welcome to our new HR Manager Mariano Dayag and his family to Lihir and the LIS community! We particularly welcome new student Reign, who has joined our Junior Kindy class.

Teacher Professional Development

During the holidays, teachers participated in Professional Development. Teachers completed their annual mandatory first aid training, revision on child protection practices, along with being updated on the new PNG Standards Based Curriculum.

Public Holidays

Next week, the 27th July, New Ireland Province celebrates New Ireland Day (TBC), along with the Remembrance Day public holiday on Monday, 24th of July.

Term 3 Calendar

Please find the Term 3 Parent Calendar attached below. 

Independence Day

There will be an Independence Day meeting for all National parents in the basketball court from 9:00am - 9:30am on Wednesday, 26th of July . This is to discuss our 2023 Independence celebrations. 

If you have any concerns or would like further information on any of the topics in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to make contact with any questions.  

Regards,

Mr Greg Neville

Dear Parents and Wantoks,

TICKET SALES

A friendly reminder to everybody that has reserved a ticket but yet to pay.

We have a long list of people waiting to purchase ball tickets but there are none available at the moment.

Therefor, if you have reserved a ticket, the deadline for all payments is July 26th, 2023. Please contact the ball committee member you have reserved your ticket with and pay for it.

After that, tickets will be reassigned to people on the waiting list, on a first come first serve basis.

We thank you all for your support to the 2023 Ball Committee, and we look forward to seeing you all on September 9th.

RAFFLE TICKETS

In campaign of our school’s major annual fundraiser event, the LIS Golden Orchid Ball, we are selling raffle tickets!

One student from each family will be bringing home a plastic pouch with ten raffle tickets at K5 each.

We are kindly asking families to consider supporting by selling some or all these tickets to family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours or, purchasing some for yourself to be in the draw to win some fabulous prizes which have been generously donated by members of our community, local businesses, and supporters.

Proceeds will go to support our school and a local government school.

Please return sold or unsold raffle tickets to the administration office by Thursday, 3rd of August.

Ensure sold tickets have a name/contact details completed for convenience.

We appreciate your continuous support and look forward to a favourable outcome from you.

DONATIONS

We are still accepting donations for the raffles and auction.

Thank You

Ruth Waram
Ball Committee Chairperson

Term 1 Monday 30 January to Thursday 30 March

Term 2 Monday 17 April to Thursday 22 June

Term 3 Monday 17 July to Thursday 14 September

Term 4 Monday 2 October to Thursday 7 December 

Key dates:

Public Holiday - Monday 24th July

Week 3 Swimming Block - Monday to Thursday swimming lessons each day.

Week 4 Book Week. There will be a parade for Kindy - year 4 classes during this week (day and time to be announced).

Week 4 Wednesday - Year 10 Science Practical Exam

Week 4 Monday Afternoon sport commences - Tee-ball for Prep-year 2 with Ms Dovaston; Tee-ball for year 3-6 with Ms Langusch; and High School Volleyball with Mrs Baiwan and Ms Yip.

Week 6 Thursday - High School Open Afternoon (4.00-6.00pm)

Week 8 Thursday - Swimming Carnival

Afternoon activities:

Netball Training: Netball training will be Wednesday afternoon 3.10-4.00pm.

Homework Club: Wednesday afternoon 3.10-4.00pm

Welcome back to term 3! It is looking a busy and fun term ahead!

Term 3 Parent Overviews

Parent overviews will be sent home this afternoon to explain the key learning activities your child will be doing this term. Please contact your child's teacher if you do not receive a copy or if you have any questions.

NAPLAN Reports

Year 3, 5 and 7 students participated in the Australian NAPLAN tests for Literacy and Numeracy in term 1. We are awaiting the arrival of student reports for these tests and will send them home once received.

Book Week

In term 4 of this term, we will celebrate Book Week and students from Kindy to year 4 will have the opportunity to participate in a Book Week Parade. Students can dress up as a favourite book character. More details later in the term.

Netball

Next Friday, the Netballers along with myself, Ms Dovaston, Mrs Exzil and Mr Neville will travel to Kavieng to participate in the OLSH Netball Carnival. Games will be played on Saturday, with us returning on Sunday. The girls are looking forward to meeting up with our OLSH friends again and playing some competitive Netball. We wish both our primary and secondary teams the best of luck in their games.

Absences

A reminder that if your child is absent, please email your child's teacher or text/phone Mrs Romaso-Daimol in the office. 

Kind regards,

Ms Cathy Langusch             

Welcome back to a new term.

Over the school holiday period, our year 8 and 10 students participated in lessons for National Examination preparation. Congratulations to both cohorts for their dedication to this program. By all accounts this was most valuable for all students, and we look forward to seeing the benefits of these lessons when they sit their exams next term. These lessons will continue every Saturday through the term as per last term.

At the end of last term, we completed our Work Ready Program with the new Electrical Apprentices. These apprentices have now commenced working in the different departments. We wish them all the best and look forward to hearing their success over the coming years. On Monday 31 July, we will welcome our next Work Ready Program. We look forward to working with this cohort as they undertake training to develop skills to seek and retain employment. 

On Wednesday 5 July, our Grade 11 and 12 students from the LSS Academic Support students and our Scholarship Students from OLSH International School Kavieng, attended a workshop with Sebulon Ragi, Clarisa Mondu and some of the participants of the Graduate Development Program. This workshop provided an opportunity for the Graduate Development candidates to share their experiences and discuss post schooling opportunities for these students through support via the Tertiary Scholarship Program. This can further lead into Industrial Training and the Graduate Development Program.

Our FODE students continue to work hard as they prepare for the end of year exams.

Finally, we are again preparing for our DWU Lecturers to come to site to deliver the Bachelor of Primary Education Upgrade during the September school holidays. During this time, we will also commence the first semester delivery of the Master of Educational Leadership for a number of teachers from LSS and STM/LIS.

Regards, 

Mr Kevin Collins