Year 6 Graduation

Seating for the graduation ceremony will be as follows –

Each family will be allocated 4 seats per family.

If you are the parent of a school captain you will be allocated 2 seats at the front. Graduation committee members will also be allocated 2 seats at the front. These seats will be reserved and have your family name on them. A further 2 seats will be available within the general seating area for these families.

All other seating will be done on a first come, first served basis. Doors will open at 6:30pm. Feel free to look at the children’s timelines on the walls of the hall. Be ready for a prompt start at 7:00pm.

Before Graduation dinner-

5:15 – 5:30pm Parents are encouraged to come to the class gratitude wall.

5:30 – 5:45pm Cohort photo on office steps.

5:45 – 6:45pm Children move upstairs for dinner.

6:30 / 6:45pm Parents welcomed back prior to ceremony to admire the student timelines displayed in the hall and take their seats.

7:00pm Ceremony to begin.

Many thanks,

Year 6 Teachers

Week 11 will be our last week at primary school for 2019. To acknowledge the significance of this we have planned the following:

• Gratitude / thank you letters and cards for the people who have had an impact on our learning and lives
• Cooperative learning tasks within and across class groupings
• Dodgeball Tournament, class V class.
• Independent design task
• Board games / card games
• Sport rotations
• Final Prep Buddy session
• Graduation rehearsals / dinner and ceremony
• Movie Time – pillows, popcorn and PJ’s
• Grad bear / shirt signing
• Picnic in Black’s Walk

This week allows us the opportunity to reflect on and acknowledge the special people and events that have contributed to our learning and lives throughout our primary years.

We thank you for supporting your child over the course of this year: with homework, class tasks, excursions, incursions and graduation preparation. We appreciate your efforts and believe that each child has had a wonderful year of learning and growing, developing into a responsible, respectful person.

Thank you!

Have a wonderful Christmas, celebrating with family and friends.

All the very best for 2020,

Sincerely,

Year 6 Teaching Team

Dear Parents,

For those students attending a government secondary school in 2020 (e.g. Box Hill High, Blackburn High, Koonung SC, Forest Hill College), there will be an orientation day on Tuesday 10th December. Students are not required to come to Laburnum PS at all on this day and need to make their own way to their new secondary school. Any students who are attending an independent secondary school who do not have orientation on this day should come to LPS as normal.

Please contact me if you have any queries. 

Mrs Narelle Sime

Transition Co-ordinator

The Year 6 Graduation dinner and ceremony will take place on Wednesday 18th of December. Students will be required to meet at school by 5:15pm, where they can take photos with friends and staff (present and past) where available. A whole cohort photo will be taken on the steps leading to the office at 5:30pm. Dinner will start at 5:45 – 6:45pm in the Staff community centre for students only.

The Graduation ceremony will commence at 7:00pm in the school hall, with parents arriving from 6:30pm onwards. We anticipate finishing between 8:45 – 9:00pm

Dress code is neat casual.

Students are working very hard on their graduation song and graduation dance. This promises to be an exciting evening for all.

If you have any questions please come and speak to your classroom teacher,

Many thanks,

Year 6 Teachers.

As part of end of year procedures for taking laptops home a couple of things have to take place.

Students are asked to save / copy and back up on USB or portable hard drive any work / files they want to keep.

Laptops will then need to to come back to school on Monday 2nd December in their bags and with their charging cables ready to be re-imaged by our IT Technician over the course of the next 2 weeks.

Once this process has been completed laptops will be returned to students. They will be ready for use at home and not required back at school for the rest of the year.

Many thanks for your cooperation with this process,

Year 6 Teachers

Year 6 Transition to High School – Week 9, “STEP -UP “ at LPS.

Commencing Monday, 2nd December to Friday, 6^th December, Year 6 students will participate in a transition week at Laburnum Primary School, called STEP-UP.

Students will be regrouped and given a timetable for the week. They will be expected to report to their home room each morning, collect their books and then proceed to their classes for English, Maths, History, Textiles and French. Homework will be assigned during STEP-UP Week and will be expected to be completed.

Students will compete in House Cup sport finals and we will have a visit from some Yr 7 Box Hill High School students to chat about their transition to high school in the first weeks of Term 1. The City of Whitehorse ‘Youth Connexions’, will also speak to our students about support services available to them. PTV will also be speaking to our students about using the public transport system safely.

Students do not have to wear school uniform during this week.

Transition STEP-UP Week promises to be an exciting week for Year 6 students at LPS.

Year 6 Teachers.

I currently have 4 unnamed Year 6 jackets in my classroom. If your child is missing theirs, send them my way!!

Mrs Sime

Thank you to all who have given consent and made payment for Stomp using the Payment section of Sentral.

The payment deadline for this event is November 6.

We ask all parents to check the payment section as we have only received consent for some students, not payment and consent.

Alternative ways you can pay:

-Pay at office with cash or credit card

-BPAY Direct Debit as per your family statement details

-Cash via your child’s class teacher (which will be sent to the office – please place in labelled envelope)

Please see the Office if you are having difficulties with Sentral.

Thank you,

Year 6 Teachers

Dear Parents,

Attached to this post are the instructions to get on to Sentral for payments for excursions. The first excursion to be done this way is the Year 6 STOMP dance lessons for Year 6 Graduation.

Please follow the instructions attached to log on to site and proceed with your payment.

Many thanks,

Year 6 Teachers

Instructions for Sentral Parent Payment

Next Graduation Committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 22nd October, 5:15pm in the Staff Community Centre,

Many thanks,

Year 6 Teachers