New Lambton Heights Infants School

Kaayi

I am currently in the process of updating our Strategic Plan for 2024. This will be published on the school website by the end of Term 1. I thought I would share with you the school vision statement and how are addressing this in 2024. 

Our vision statement was created in 2020-21 by staff and parents. It is as follows:

At New Lambton Heights Infants School we are committed to working in partnership with the whole school community to give students a strong start to their schooling life. We strive for excellence in all areas of teaching and learning. We challenge students to use their creativity, imagination and problem solving skills and nurture life long learners. 

We endeavour to create a supportive environment, where students are enabled to do their personal best and achieve their goals. We aim to develop a sense of connectedness across the whole school community, supported by our motto, ' The Family School.'

This year, our focus on age appropriate pedagogy strongly supports the opening statement in the school vision. We are investigating the research and evidence that supports teaching and learning through a play based and project based model and are working with local pre-schools and another local public school to see this pedagogy in action. Our students are supported to achieve their learning goals through our analysis of student data and targeted instruction.  This work will continue in reading, numeracy and this year we will be improving our practices in teaching vocabulary skills.  We are continuing our work with the High Potential and Gifted Education policy and will be looking at this more closely through the Creative domain of potential and how it fits into the Aboriginal Education Policy. 

As you can see, we have so many great activities and goals planned this year in our Strategic Plan and look forward to connecting with our community and working together to achieve these. 

Speaking of community ... please come along to our community working bee. With the heat and the rain, our playground needs a big tidy up. Anna and Kelly will also be working on the mural. For more information please see the P&C report below. 

Stay cool over the weekend! 

Lisa Hughes

Principal

P&C Update

Hello everyone, We are on our way to Easter now and will need volunteers to help out with the planned activities. Details will be forthcoming in the next week. Please consider coming along to our next meeting on Weds 6th March at 7pm or join us at the working bee on Sat 9th March at 9am (details are below).

AGM

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 6th March at 7pm and this meeting will be the Annual General Meeting combined with a regular General Meeting. We value new members or attendees at any time. More volunteers help us to complete more for our school. Please come along and join in.

P&C 2024 Fundraising & Activity Survey

To guide and meet the needs of the school and the community we are asking you to tell us about the fundraising targets and ideas along with other activities and events that you would be interested in seeing the P&C organise. You can tell us what you think via the following survey: tinyurl.com/NLHISPCSurvey24. We have limited resources so we prioritise what we know the community are interested in. As always, we value any new members or volunteers to help with activities through the year and will advertise these opportunities as they come up.

Working Bee

The school and P&C will be holding a working bee on the school grounds on Saturday, 9th March from 9am until 12 noon. This activity will be a social day for families and children to come together on school campus to garden and perform a general tidy up of the school playground. During this time we may see our artist parents, Anna Scobie and Kelly Lees, touching up and finalising their wonderful mural on the basketball court. We will follow up our garden work with a sausage sizzle on the school grounds. We will post a sign up in the coming weeks so you can let us know if you can make it.

Snack Canteen

Snack Canteen is held every Friday during Second Lunch - between 12.45pm and 1.10pm. Most items cost $1.00 and these include flavoured milks, juice boxes, packets of chips, popcorn or grainwaves, and boxes of sultanas. For $0.50 students can purchase a frozen Quelch ice block. Students are restricted to purchasing two items. Each week we need two volunteers to run the canteen. Thank you to Hartini and Tiago for volunteering at snack canteen this Friday. To volunteer for a spot, please put your name down here: https://signup.com/go/uWWvMOR 

Please be sure your volunteer's declarartion is complete at the office. You only need to do this once. 

Recycle your cans, cartons and bottles!

You can help us fundraise for the school P&C AND help the planet at the same time simply by recycling drink containers (remember not to crush them)!You can now donate your 10c refund(s) to New Lambton Heights Infants School P&C Association from any Return and Earn machines located near you using the Return and Earn app.

And it's easy as 1,2,3:1- Download the Return and Earn app (available from your App store or Google Play store)

2- Look up New Lambton Heights Infants School P&C Association under the “Charities” menu and press "Set as payout”

3- Scan the app, return containers and press "TRANSFER" on the RVM screen when finished! 

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop will be run a little differently this year. The shop will be open one last Monday morning on 26th Feb from 8:15 until 9:15 am. From Tuesday next week, the Uniform Shop will be open every Friday after assembly (starting Friday 1st March) or by appointment. Please email ahead to find a time on: nlhiuniform@gmail.com You can also find uniform items online at http://new-lambton-heights-infants-school-pc-association.square.site.

 For any questions, please get in touch at nlhipandc@gmail.com.

Thank you!

TiffOn behalf of the NLHIS P&C executive committee and members