High Performing School Tour

As part of our ongoing journey of continuous improvement, this coming Monday and Tuesday some staff will be undertaking a high-performing school tour. We will be visiting Jolimont Primary School and Warriapendi Primary School in Perth. These visits will provide an opportunity to observe and engage with consistent, evidence-informed practices that are contributing to strong student outcomes. We are looking forward to exploring approaches to high-quality teaching, explicit instruction, and whole-school alignment, with a particular focus on how these schools maintain a strong culture of high expectations and continuous improvement. The tour will support our own reflective practice and help us further refine strategies that strengthen teaching and learning across our school, ensuring we continue to improve outcomes for every student to help them achieve their full potential.

Assembly

Room 5 is hosting this week’s assembly. We look forward to welcoming you into our school to celebrate the success of our students!

Staff Vs Students Netball showdown

What a fantastic lunchtime, bit of fun today! We are so proud of the students who took the initiative to organise a lively staff vs students netball game, bringing the whole school together for some fun, fast-paced action. The court was buzzing with energy, laughter, and friendly rivalry as staff and students went head-to-head in a brilliant display of teamwork and school spirit. There were plenty of great moments, big cheers, and lots of smiles all round!

School Photos

Photo day at LGPS is this Thursday 18 June. Forms have gone home with further information. On this day, please make sure your child is not wearing their faction shirt. If you are getting a family photo, please make sure you bring your form with you on the day, these are taking place 7.30am – 8.50am. I will be getting a haircut before Thursday!

Kindergarten Enrolments 2027

Thank you to families for getting your applications through to our front office. Please feel free to share with friends and family that that we are now accepting Kindy applications for 2027. If your child is born between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, they are eligible to enrol at LGPS for 2027. The application window will be open throughout Term 2, and close early in Term 3. At which stage we will then review all applications and advise parents of a position by the end of August. If you would like to apply to enrol your child at LGPS, please follow the link below: Enrolment - Little Grove Primary School

Showing Respect at Musters and Assemblies

At Little Grove Primary School, we continue to promote our school expectations across all areas of school life. Our current behaviour focus is “Show Respect at Musters and Assemblies.”

Showing respect during musters and assemblies means:

Assemblies and musters are important opportunities for students to come together as a school community, celebrate achievements and learn from one another. We are proud of the many students who consistently model these positive behaviours.

To further encourage and recognise respectful behaviour, we have introduced our new Assembly Spy initiative! Each assembly, a secret staff member will be selected as the “Assembly Spy.” Their mission is to quietly observe students throughout the assembly and identify two students demonstrating exemplary behaviour and outstanding respect.

At the end of the assembly, the Assembly Spy will reveal themselves and announce the students they have selected as our amazing assembly attendees.

This is just another way, we at Little Grove, aim to encourage students to demonstrate our school expectations in every context across the school. We look forward to celebrating the positive choices our students make each week!

Room 3 has been working incredibly hard in Maths! We have been learning to count and recognise numbers all the way up to 15, and we were super impressed when we orally counted together all the way to 120 as a class. We have also been exploring measurement by comparing lengths using hands-on materials. One of our favourite activities was surveying our peers to find out the most popular colour in Pre-Primary Room 3!

In UFLI, we have been busy superstar readers! We now know 20 single sounds and are using our growing sound knowledge to read and build consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. We have also been working hard on our heart words and showing great enthusiasm in our home reading program. We have been learning how to build strong sentences using our fun song and actions:

In Writing, we have been enjoying The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland. We have been learning that narratives have a beginning, middle, and end, as well as characters, a problem, and a solution. This story also sparked lots of curious questions in Room 3 about hibernation and what animals do in winter. We loved sharing our ideas and thinking like authors!

We have already had such a busy and exciting time in Room 3 and are so proud of how hard everyone is working. We cannot wait to keep learning, growing, and discovering new things together!

The sign of the week is TOMORROW.

Faction Cross Country Carnival

Our school's Faction Cross Country Carnival took place on Friday, 5 June. It was fantastic to see everyone trying their hardest and giving their best effort. Congratulations to all the students who placed in their events, and a special congratulations to Warlich for its outstanding performance!

It was wonderful to see all students demonstrating our four school expectations throughout the day. Everyone showed excellent sportsmanship towards their fellow competitors, and the cheering and encouragement from students was outstanding.

A big thank you to Miss Upchurch for organising this event. We would also like to thank the P&C for providing food, as well as the new Little Grove tent and flag.

Thank you to all the parents who came along to watch and support their children and other students during this event.

By Shelby and Isla

Year 1–5 Results

What an outstanding day we had! It was amazing to see all of our students give their cross-country run a real go. Their hard work in PE lessons and at Fitness Club has definitely paid off, and we should all be very proud of them.

Out of our 133 Year 1–5 students, an amazing 125 students achieved a Personal Best (PB) at our school carnival. What a fantastic achievement!

Records Broken in 2026

·         Year 2 Girls: Imogen Heales – 4:46

·         Year 2 Boys: Lachlan Pouweslen – 4:19

·         Year 5 Girls: Macey McGlade – 8:12

·         Year 5 Boys: Oscar Ward – 7:21

·         Year 6 Girls: Jade Ericson – 7:52

Congratulations to these students for setting new school records!

Interschool Cross Country

Congratulations to the following students who will represent LGPS at the Interschool Cross Country on Friday, 19 June.

Students were selected based on their running times at the carnival and during PE lessons. The top five boys and top five girls from Years 3–6 have been chosen to represent our school.

Year 3 - Tessa, Evie, Yolanda, Koby, Luca, Ariella, Audrey, Eddie, Parker, Leo.

Year 4 - Opal, Daphne, Austin, Zara, Indiana, Henry, Noah, Harrison, Charlie, Jack.

Year 5 - Macey, Leila-Paige, Lillian, Rosalind, Maisyn, Oscar, Beau, River, Archie, Bodhi.

Year 6 - Oliver, Eric, Chase, Stormy, Thomas, Jade, Isla, Lillie, Shelby, Florence.

We wish all competitors the very best of luck and know they will do LGPS proud!

Over the next few weeks, we are launching a poster competition to promote our Winter Walk to School Day in Week 11 on Monday 29th June.  

Your posters need to include: 

There will be four prize categories: 

So, get creative, get colourful, and show us why walking to school in winter is awesome! 

Posters are due to the front office on Monday 15 June by 9am, and the Your Move Team will be judging them to award prizes. 

Thank you so much to all the amazing volunteers that stepped up for Term 2 to help us with Wednesday canteen lunch days . We are sure that all the students are very happy and thankful that they were able to order their lunches again

The Term 3 lunch roster is NOW OPEN and we need your help again! If all vacancies are filled by the end of Term 2, then we are able to offer this service again next term.

The volunteer roster can be found here:

https://volunteersignup.org/EH7XW

If you have any questions or want to know what's involved, please reach out to us via Facebook messenger or email as us [email protected]

If you are wanting to order lunches, please make sure orders are placed by 12pm TUESDAY via www.quickcliq.com.au

For further events or detailed information about upcoming events, please view the schools event calendar on Compass.