KEEP AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL WEEK AUGUST 25th - 31st

This National event has been promoted throughout the media and there is opportunity for families to become involved at a community level if you are interested.

For our school, this event further supports our Sustainability drive and we have committed staff and students to ensuring that our school grounds will be "sparkling clean" during this time.

We hope our community will notice the difference!

SPELLING ICAS RESULTS

Over the past few months a group of children from grades 3-6 have been taking part in the International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS). The Spelling results have been received and certificates were handed out at Assembly this week. Congratulations to all children who participated, the results are as follows:

Participation: Jennifer B, Lochlan C, Brianna S, Bailee H, Samantha D, Timothy H, Aaron E, Eliza C, Alana S.
Credit: Daniel J, Alex R, Jemima D, Mitchell L.
Distinction: Tiah HC, Selina F.

Sustainability

Lilydale Primary School has joined the "Learning for Sustainability" Program, co-ordinated by the Yarra Ranges Shire Council. This is a 5 step Program aimed at educating school communities to become enviornmentally sustainable in their behaviours and everyday practices. Currently our school is working through Step 2 of the Program. We hope to complete this step by mid 2009. Some of the initiatives we've undertaken to date include: -

• Rubbish free lunch day
• Walk to school day
• Installing pupil made rain gauges around the school
• Increasing paper recycling
• Installing sensors on lights, heaters and coolers
• Keeping records detailling animal and birds in our grounds
• Composting

Alison O'Mara

Talent Quest

This annual event begins on Monday July 21st. Children in Preps, Grade 1 and Grade 2 will have an opportunity to perform during this week. Monday July 28th sees Grade 3 & 4 children perform and Monday August 4th is the week for performances by Grade 5 & 6 children.

All children are encouraged by staff to participate. We look forward to seeing a great variety of acts. Children Can enter by themselves or with a group. The focus is on having fun and giving all children an opportunity to experience performing for an audience.

The Talent Quest Final will be held at St Patricks Community Hall on Thursday, August 14th beginning at 9:30. Parents and friends are most welcome to attend.


Alison O'Mara

ICAS - Science Results

Over the past few months a group of children from grades 3-6 have been taking part in the International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS). So far there has been the Science, Spelling and Writing competitions. The Mathematics will take place on July 29 and the English on August 12. The Science results are in, certificates and results will be handed out at assembly on Monday. Congratulations to all children who participated, the results are as follows:

Participation: Lochlan C, Brodie O, Timothy H, Kayne Q, Alexander R, Bradley R, Josh S and Selina F.
Credit: Jack C and Harry C.
Distinction: Joshua S and Peter T.

SUSTAINABILITY

As part of our whole school focus on sustainability, the children in grades 3 and 4 have been looking at the topic of water conservation and quality. Children were involved in making rain gauges, several of which have been placed around the school. Each week, monitors from the grades check the gauges and record the rainfall for the week and enter it into an excel spreadsheet on the school intranet. Over the coming weeks we hope to compare the rainfall around our school with the surrounding areas and suburbs. Measuring rainfall is a great way of tracking weather conditions. This also allows for calculating run-off from the hard surfaces around our school (stormwater). Children will also be using Internet sites such as the Bureau of Meteorology to obtain rainfall data which can be compared with their own findings.

ART SHOW 2008

Check out some of the photos from this years Art Show