COMMUNITY
Gardening Club Our gardening club celebrated the end of the school year with a feast from the garden cooked by one of our Year one teachers. The children enjoyed a vegetable and herb omelette presented on a banana leaf and washed down with mint and strawberry water. Many children came back for seconds and even thirds!
LANE COVE WEST PUBLIC SCHOOL our 2016 leadership team. We were joined by many special guests and entertained by the year five and six performance choir. What a fabulous end to the school year!
foods to share. The children really enjoyed learning about aspects of Physics, Chemistry and Biology this term and are looking forward to participating in Science Club again next year.
MIMI SPIRITS
K-2 students Christmas concert.
K-2 CHRISTMAS CONCERT Our annual Christmas Concert was as usual, a highlight of the school year for the students in K-2 who had been rehearsing their lines and learning their dance moves all term. The children performed The Night before Christmas and learnt about props, costumes, sound and lighting. It was great to see so many parents and special guests supporting our students on the day.
K-2 PRESENTATION DAY Our K-2 students celebrated their achievements at the K-2 Presentation Day in week nine. We were entertained by a number of performance groups including the Toothless Choir who sang Give it all You’ve Got. The highlight of the morning was watching a slide show of the year.
YEAR THREE TO SIX PRESENTATION DAY Our Year three to six Presentation Day acknowledged the outstanding achievements of our students and welcomed
Students enjoying their end of year celebration at Jamberoo.
JAMBEROO Our Year six students and their teachers had a wonderful day at Jamberoo to celebrate the end of the school year. It was a long day with buses picking up the children early in the morning and returning them at 5.30pm but everyone had a great time and came back with lots of stories to tell about the day. A highlight of the day was watching the teachers on the Taipan.
BUSHFIRE APPEAL Almost $500 was collected for the County Fire Service recently. What a fantastic effort from Lane Cove West students in supporting volunteer fire fighters. All students and staff wore blue to school. This fundraising event was initiated by one of our Year six SRC members.
SCIENCE CLUB PARTY Science Club held their end of year party and brought in some great science themed
1L has been learning about Mimi Indigenous artwork and the Dreamtime. They have been busy making their own Mimi Spirits which are very thin spirits with long arms, legs and neck. These spirits taught the Aboriginal people much law and custom and how to make hunting implements. These spirits appeared in the school garden and were enjoyed by all.
YEAR SIX FINAL ASSEMBLY Our very talented year six students wrote and produced a play called Memories which told the story of their time at Lane Cove West from Kindergarten to Year six. It was lovely to see Year six portraying our current staff as well as past staff members who had taught them over the years.
School bands playing at Gala night.
BAND GALA NIGHT The hall came alive with the musical prowess of our school bands at our annual gala night. The students have been rehearsing all year for this event and it showed! The evening could not have gone ahead without our wonderful conductors and the band committee.
Farewell assembly to honour Maree Davis.
SYNTHETIC GRASS
MAREE DAVIS RETIRES
The covering of our school field with synthetic grass is well underway. We could not have done this without the generosity of the P&C and the hard work of parents with fundraising ventures over the past few years. A multi-purpose court has been painted over the holidays and 2016 will see the first year that Lane Cove West enters teams into the Northern Suburbs Netball Competition.
After 16 years teaching the students of LCW PS, our wonderful Mrs Davis has decided to retire. Her dedication to students and the school community will be greatly missed. An assembly was held in her honour at the end of the term with the staff presenting an entertaining musical item to ‘Hey Mickey’ and the students presenting a gift. We wish Maree well in her retirement.
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