Stamps, Tabs and Corks.
Do you have any used stamps, tabs off soft drink and beer cans or even corks. The school can use all of them:
Used Stamps: Helps the Leprosy Mission.
Tabs:Goes to Montrose PS to help a young cerebral palsy boy raise money to buy his body suits each year. We have just handed 51½kg to Zavier’s mother last week. Well done. I am hoping to collect another 50kg by the end of the year.
Corks: Helps the Motor Neurone Society.
If you have any of these just send them along to school and bring to Mrs Matthews 5
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Teaching children social skills AT LPS
Our recent student survey results shows that the vast majority of our students feel very safe
and secure in our school and most feel well connected to their peers and the school. Their
feedback informs us that their morale is quite high which is very pleasing from a school’s
perspective.
Research tells us that children’s well-being and happiness is related to their ability to get on with
others, and make and keep friends. Their ability to avoid confrontation and aggression is usually
a result of having some very developed core social and friendship skills.
The following five social behaviours are considered by researchers as fundamental to a child’s
ability to cope with a range of social interactions.
Eye contact: Looking someone in the eye when you speak is perhaps the most important
interpersonal skill to develop in kids. Kids who spend a lot of time in front of screens and little time
in front of faces often have difficulty in this area.
Friendly behaviours: This includes: good manners, chatting to lots of children, taking an interest
in others, knowing how to start up a conversation and how to enter a game.
Playing games well: Being a good winner and loser and being able to play fairly are more
important social skills than being able to play a game with skill.
Tolerance of differences: Tolerant kids tend to collect a variety of friends. Variety is important as
it helps your child be more interesting and provides an insulator when bad things happen to them
within a group.
Standing up for yourself: It is a jungle out there so kids need to be able to stand up for themselves
to some degree. The following are some of the skills that generally fit into this category: ignoring someone
who gives you a hard time, telling someone to stop annoying you, being assertive and knowing how to ask
an adult for help without whining.
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These skills are inherent in what we teach our students across all levels. Our school believes that happy children learn and happy children develop the self-esteem needed to succeed in later life. At our school we recognize that this is the most important aspect of the child to develop. Children with low self-esteem cannot concentrate on learning, have difficulty relating to their peers, are too inhibited (or too aggressive) to be able to successfully communicate their needs and desires. In short, unhappy children do not learn. As teachers we recognize that we also learn by making mistakes. Therefore, we encourage children to take risks in a non-threatening, caring environment in order to develop realistic, problem solving skills. We foster creative thinking and individuality in a cooperative, rather than a competitive environment. We also aim to create an environment that is warm and friendly - where children can feel happy and secure. Relationships based on acceptance and trust, develop naturally among children, teachers and parents. It's great when children can feel that they can have friendly relationships with their teachers. Lilydale PS encourages children to feel that they are important members of the school community, and that their feelings and opinions are valued by others. Given this type of environment, children learn to work as part of a team, to respect the opinions of others and to be sensitive to the needs of those around them. Developing a child's social awareness and their ability to communicate with those around them is an important aspect of our philosophy. We also believe in unconditional acceptance of others, so children feel good about themselves. By fostering high self-esteem in children, we believe that they can develop in all areas of their lives. A child who is able to like themselves, is in turn more able to like others, set their own goals and pursue things in their day to day living with purpose and determination. Children are complex and individual beings, whose needs differ greatly from one to another. With this in mind, we encourage children to take more responsibility for themselves. Every child is expected to develop skills that will ultimately lead him/her to become self-controlled, self-reliant and self-disciplined. How are we able to achieve this? By accepting that as adults, we do not need to "tell" children what to do all the time. They learn and develop through experience, understanding the consequences of decisions they have made. Our teachers strive to ensure that we provide a learning environment that is supportive and encourages children to be resourceful independent learners and we also respect the fact that childhood is a journey. We aim to delight and inspire young children to be resourceful, independent learners, and to discover and learn in a supportive, caring environment. |
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