Lenah Valley Primary School

28 ‒ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Lenah Valley Primary SCHOOL
School Talk
What do you
think of
homework?
I don’t think
it should be
compulsory
but a little
bit helps
prepare for
high school.
Kerry
Glavin,
teacher
It is useful as
it helps you
to get into
good work
habits.
Julie
Hawkes,
office staff
Homework
has a place
when linked
to the work
occurring in
the
classroom.
Jarrod
Williams,
principal
Students
can get
stressed
about work
that does
not affect
their grades.
Amie
Myhowycz
Grade 6
It is boring
but needs to
be done. We
need to do
homework
at some
point.
Emily
Wapstra
Grade 6
Some
homework is
fun and
some
homework is
boring.
Rohan
Harrison
Scott,
Grade 6
By Giulia Fantini and
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Premier readers were up for the challenge
LIAM McCONNON, JAXIN LOVELL and
JAMES STANSFIELD
BOOKS are great for children’s
imagination and education.
Students from Prep to Grade 6 at
Lenah Valley Primary School recently
participated in the Premier’s Reading
Challenge to encourage them to read
more and to improve their reading.
At the start of the Premier’s
Reading Challenge a whole school
reading goal was set, with students
aiming to read 4000 books in 10 weeks.
To reach this goal they attempted to
read 10 books each.
“Lots of students were very excited
as they edged closer and closer to their
personal reading goal,” assistant
principal Gaye Hall said.
Principal Jarrod Williams said he
had felt proud of the students and
families for their effort and
commitment to reaching the goal.
“It was great to see students reading
for enjoyment,” Mr Williams said.
Students comfortably achieved their
goal, reading 4350 books by the end of
the Premier’s Reading Challenge.
To celebrate, a whole school
barbecue was held so everyone could
enjoy what had been achieved by
working together.
FIRST CLASS: The students of Grade 1P at Lenah Valley Primary School read 678 books.
To build on this event, teachers set
students a fun challenge during Book
Week.
Teachers brought along a photo of
themselves when they were younger
and wrote about their favourite
childhood book.
The student challenge was to work
out which teacher was the child in the
photo and what was their favourite
book.
Grade 4 teacher Rachael Anderson
organised this fun challenge.
“I wanted to find a way to help
teachers and students connect over a
love of books,” Miss Anderson said.
“Guess the Teacher proved to be a
fun and engaging way to do this.”
Students care about books and
really enjoy reading at Lenah Valley
Primary School.
Branching into the future
THE official opening of a new
water tank and orchard was
cause for celebration at Lenah
Valley Primary School on September 19.
The area has been created
as part of an ongoing whole
school sustainability project
and consists of several different projects.
These include a food scraps
collection from every classroom for the worm farm and
compost pile; the Grade 3-5
eco-team; the recycle paper
collection; the kitchen garden
scheme; the solar panels atop
the school’s roof; and the walking school bus program.
The orchard and water tank
were opened by school
groundsman Brett Briggs who
actively participates in the
school sustainability project.
The orchard is made up of
apple and pear trees including
the Burwood Apple, the largest
apple in the orchard, with its
fruit weighing up to 1kg each.
Although the trees won’t
fruit for about two years, they
will be an interesting and exciting addition to the school.
The trees will be grown
using the espalier technique,
which uses less space and
makes fruit picking easier.
Mr Briggs worked hard to
prepare the orchard for the
students to plant the new trees.
Selected
representatives
from each class were partnered
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to plant a tree together. Mr
Briggs built the terraced garden beds which will contain assorted native bush food plants.
These plants will be placed
to connect to the indigenous
people who lived here and
show what the first Australians
would have consumed.
The orchard will be used to
complement the existing vegetable and herb garden.
When produce is harvested
it goes directly to the kitchen
for use in students’ cooking
projects.
The kitchen is widely used
from the youngest Preps to the
oldest Grade 6s to make all
sorts of amazing dishes.
From soups to slices; the
students do the majority of the
work while an adult assists
with the harder parts of the
cooking, such as putting things
in the oven.
Carol Bristow, head of the
school’s eco team, is enthusiastic about the creation of the
new orchard.
“The orchard will teach the
children how to grow fruit and
uses for fruit,” Mrs Bristow
said.
“This includes skills such as
pruning, espaliering, harvesting and preserving.
“It provides fresh fruit for
the kitchen garden. Hopefully
it will inspire some of the students to grow their own fruit. It
is a fantastic idea, and I’m very
excited about seeing its progress.”
The students thoroughly
enjoyed planting the trees and
the younger students were
even given the opportunity to
name the tree they planted.
Water from a nearby roof
will fill the new tank and provide enough water for the orchard and the proposed bush
tucker garden beds.
Alderman Helen Burnett
gave a speech on the opening
day and when questioned later
about her favourite part of the
orchard said it was the benefit
of having a variety of fruits
available.
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resilience
• positive relationships • achievement • respect
New values, same song
THE teaching of social skills
and the learning of personal
values has been relaunched at
Lenah Valley Primary School.
But among the changes
some things have remained
the same and the school song
is an example of how the old
can definitely support the new.
Music teacher Linda Weston wrote the school song in
2008. It was a hit with students
from the start and it didn’t take
long for classes to learn the lyrics and actions.
The lyrics include the
school’s motto, “We care and
give our best”, which links
Splashing
out for
charity
MORE than $1000 was raised
for charity when the Lenah
Valley Primary School community participated in the Ice
Bucket Challenge.
Principal Jarrod Williams
had challenged the students to
raise more than $1000 to see
him dunked. He invited other
teachers to join him and the
event was organised by teacher’s aide Kelly Aherne and
teacher Robyn Langworthy.
“It was nerve-racking and
very cold but something very
little to do for a good cause,”
Ms Aherne said afterwards.
Mrs Langworthy said it was a
great whole school effort and a
lot of fun.
Most students donated towards the Ice Bucket Challenge, raising a total of $1163.55
for the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute.
Story by Jorja Whelan, Katelin
Young Hall, Rayner Ezzy and
Rodney Martin.
Ice Bucket School Talk column,
at right, by Castro Sherrin and
Amie Myhowycz.
Senior students Jessica Gamble
and Mia Pash with Preps Sean
Jenkinson and Ella Vernon.
strongly to the updated school
values of respect, achievement,
resilience and positive relationships. Values education
is an important focus at Lenah
Valley Primary School and all
classes are involved in weekly
lessons where social skills are
taught.
Principal Jarrod Williams is
pleased with the strong values
focus at Lenah Valley Primary.
“These values represent the
past and the future. They demonstrate what as a school we
stand for, what we are known
for,” Mr Williams said.
“They represent a way of
being and acting by all stakeholders involved with Lenah
Valley Primary,” he said.
According to Mr Williams,
the school song is a good reminder of these values.
“Our values and the message in the values are summarised in our school song. Our
school song talks about respecting others, trying our best
and having a go.”
As Lenah Valley Primary
moves forward with values
education they are glad to have
a school song that has remained as relevant today as
when as it was written:
In the foothills of Mount
Wellington, With a creek flow-
School Talk
ing near the side, Our school in
the Kangaroo Valley, We learn
and play with pride.
Derwent, Franklin and Wellington, Are the houses we love
to cheer, We are the students of
Lenah Valley Primary School,
We enjoy our time here.
Caring for ourselves, each
other and the world, In our future we invest, We are lifelong
learners, We care and give our
best.
Do you think the Ice
Bucket Challenge sends
the right message?
I do,
because it is
raising
awareness
of motor
neurone
disease.
Ali
Hawkins,
teacher
It is good
because it
shows
people what
MND feels
like.
By Grace Fredheim, Jessica
Gamble, Maddison Clark, Mia
Pash, Fraser Crawford, Abraham
Suleiman
Abbie
Wilson,
Grade 5
Sixes study Sydney sights and sounds
Yes because
everyone
wants to
have a go
and this
raises more
money.
Dylan
Cooper,
Grade 5
AMIE MYHOWYCZ and EMMA
McGUINNESS-JEFFRIES
A GROUP of Lenah Valley
Primary School’s Grade 6s
recently had an educational
experience in Canberra and
Sydney.
We flew to Canberra on
September 22 and the first day
was highly educational with a
visit to the National Planning
Display followed by the
Electoral Education Centre.
After an early awakening
the next day, a role-play based
around the House of
Representatives was very
enjoyable and we had a few
laughs, followed by a tour at
Parliament House.
We met the Federal
Member for Denison, Andrew
Wilkie MHR, and he talked
about his job and was very
happy to answer our
questions.
The next stop was the
Australian War Memorial
where we were led around the
museum parts of the memorial
before meeting back at the
Discovery Zone, which is an
interactive area and was by far
the most popular part.
It is a good
thing as you
can know
how people
with MND
feel all the
time.
Isabel
Grubb,
Grade 4
Yes because
you feel the
same
sensation as
a person
with MND.
Luke
Thurstans,
Grade 4.
HARBOUR VIEW: Lenah Valley Primary School Grade 6 students in Sydney.
Questacon — the National
Science and Technology
Centre — was the most
exciting and interesting
destination of the trip with all
its interactive exhibits.
The Earthquake Room and
the Free Fall proved to be an
extremely enthralling, yet
nerve-racking experience.
After a long bus trip up to
Sydney, many varied fish and
aquatic mammals were seen at
the Sydney Aquarium.
Other outstanding
highlights of Sydney included
the spectacular views from the
Sydney Tower Eye, the guided
tour of the Sydney Opera
House, the fantastic exhibits at
the Powerhouse Museum and
of course on the final day, the
many zoological wonders of
Taronga Zoo.
We enjoyed the trip
tremendously and many of us
agreed that we would love to
do something like it again in
the future.
For some of us it was our
first plane trip. Overall it was
fun and a great learning
experience for everyone.
Team effort
THIS Mercury School Page
was produced as a team effort
by the Grade 6 classes of Jo
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