On Thursday, 9 May the 9-10 catering class planned, cooked, and presented the kinder class with an amazing afternoon tea party. The 9-10 catering class sent out individual invitations to the kindergarten students and presented them with honey joys, chocolate crackles, fairy bread, fruit kebabs, frog in  the pond and choc coated strawberries. The kitchen was decorated and every one had a good time.

On Friday the Preps and Year 1-2s went to Trevallyn Reserve. We went there to meet local First Nations man, Geoff, to learn about Aboriginal people's connection to Country. 

Geoff set up a Scavenger Hunt for us to explore the local area. He also provided us with the opportunity to do some painting with ochre, friction fire starting and mini hut building using paperbark and sticks. Lastly, we had a walking tour with Geoff and tasted some native bush foods including "She-oak" needles (which tasted both salty and sweet when we chewed them) and some wallaby jerky. One student harvested some Lomandra / Sagg plant and nibbled the root, as Geoff showed us. Liam showed enormous courage when he calmly picked two leeches off himself... and handed them to Ms Thomson! A huge thank you to all our parent helpers for helping us learn and connect with Country.

Families attending our LiL sessions are provided with opportunities to join in with play, activities and songs to focus on their children’s fine and gross motor skills, as well as their oral language skills and social development.

We have three LiL Programs running this term for families to attend:
Mini Movers on Mondays from 10.15am – 11am in the PAC for children aged 3-4 years (siblings welcome).
0-5 Playgroup (Kinder Room) /Kindergym (PAC) alternating Fridays from 9.15am – 10.30am for all families with children aged 0-5 years.
Pre-Kinder (Kinder Room) every Friday from 11.30am – 1pm for children turning 4 this year (born in 2020) to support a smooth transition to Kindergarten (siblings welcome)

Milo Mornings and the Toy Library are in full swing this term on Mondays and Fridays in the Online Access Centre from 8.30am. Children from Prep to Year 2 are welcome to join us for a warm milo and to play some board games, as well as to exchange their items from the Toy Library. Parents are welcome to accompany their children to Milo Mornings.

Next month we will be holding a Lantern Making afternoon at school for families of students in Kinder – Year 4 to come along and assist their child/ren to make a lantern for the Lilydale Lantern Walk (more information about this will be provided soon).

As part of the teaching and learning cycle at Lilydale teachers regularly engage in assessment, moderating and reporting with a focus on ‘Knowing my students and where they are at in their learning.’

Moderation is integral part of the assessment and reporting process. Teachers meet weekly in Professional Learning Teams (PLT’s) to align learning sequences with the Australian Curriculum. Part of this process also includes regular summative and formative assessment tasks to determine students’ progress, understanding of contents and concepts. Teachers analyse student responses from check in tasks to adjust the tone and pace of instructions and plan adjustments so all students are successful learners. 

Moderation is a quality assurance process that ensures appropriate standards. It is a process for ensuring that marks or grades are awarded appropriately and consistently. Moderation involves checking and reviewing assessment, items and teacher judgments of learning progress. It is essentially a form of feeback for students about their learning and for to teachers to align their marking standards.

Friday, 7 June is a student free day – it is also a day of professional learning for our staff to collaborate with educators from other schools to engage in peer moderation of student work. This year all staff P-10 will be working with colleagues from Port Dalrymple and South George Town primary school examining evidence of learning from students across to engage in robust professional conversation about the teaching and learning. Including what the work sample demonstrates, teaching and pedagogical practices that can be employed to enhance student learning.

Lisa Bailey
Acting Principal

Please note, from the start of this year (2024) we have had to change the phone number used to advising of student absences.

Stop Press notices were sent out with every child in the school, but it would appear some families may not have received them.

Our new number to send through your SMS to the school office for absences only is: 0426 309 593.

High School – Student of the Week

Our Lilydale Legends for weeks 2 and 3. Staff and the school community have nominated high school students that demonstrated the school values of being safe, respectful and learning this week. As some students received nominations from two different staff members, they received two certificates. Congratulations to all nominees.

Week 2 

 Week 3 

The May edition of the Lilydale Progressive featured a competition called Faces of Lilydale.

Residents were asked to submit entries into the "Faces of Lilydale Photo Competition". We had a number of students submit work and the feedback from the judges were very encouraging. 

"the kids absolutely smashed the competition!! The judges were very impressed."

One of the judges - Ken Drake is a multi-award winning photographer who is very passionate about photography and was very impressed overall with the kids entries - he wanted to pass this on to the school.

We had a few prize winners - Gwyneth, Georgia, Lukas and Cale. Well done to these students, you should be very proud of yourselves.

Our School Association usually meets on the second Monday of each month in the Kinder space. Our next meeting will be on Monday, 3 June at 7:00pm. We would love to see more people at the meetings and invite you to attend.

If you need to get in contact with members of the School Association, please contact the school office on 6395 0100. Thank you.