The St. Paul’s Lutheran Primary School community is tackling the issue of bullying head-on, by equipping parents, staff, and of course the children, with information about bullying and strategies to both prevent it and deal with it.
As in previous years, anti-bullying expert and author of the bestseller “Why We Bully” visited St Paul’s this week, running workshops for both parents and the students and staff as well.
“We ran the program a little differently this year,” said Mr. Gilbert Lohe, St. Paul’s Deputy Principal. “Rather than each class attending the workshops, …

The Prep teachers at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School will have a harder time than usual learning the children’s names this year – what with not one, but two sets of twin boys starting in 2012. Liam and Luke Wittleton, and Bailey and Tait Smith joined the other 71 Preppies starting at St Paul’s this week – but with double the excitement, as they shared the day with their twins.
Mr Nicholas Wittleton was happy to see his twins start school. “They’re numbers 4 and 5 of five (children),” he said. …

The children at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School have been even more excited about being at school over the last two weeks. Each afternoon they’ve been bussed to Burpengary Aquatic and Fitness Centre for swimming lessons. “The staff there are just so friendly and great with the kids,” said Mrs Wendy Mitchell, Teaching Assistant with Year Three. “And it’s just so important that they learn the skills to keep themselves safe in the water. Especially with water being everywhere up here in Queensland – dams and watertanks, as well as …

Dancing up a fundraising storm for the East Africa food crisis
Each year at this time, students at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School usually start collecting shoeboxes, and filling them with gifts for the annual international Christmas Shoebox appeal. This year, however, the school has changed its focus, and instead has planned a number of fundraisers to support the ongoing crisis in East Africa.
Last Friday night saw the St Paul’s African-themed disco raise over $1500. This amount will be added to the $900 raised from the two recent sausage sizzles …

Parents became primary students at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School last week when they attended workshops on the new Australian Mathematics curriculum.
Curriculum Coordinator Libby Sansome and Learning Support teacher Jacquie Delroy designed and ran the Maths workshops, and plan on running these twice yearly. These are in addition to the Literacy workshops that have also been very popular with parents.
“We think it’s important to show the parents the way that we teach Maths now, as it is quite different to how it has been taught in the past,” Mrs Sansome …

The St Paul’s Spring Fair is well known in the Caboolture Community for being the ‘Strawberry’ Spring Fair. This year was no different, with mountains of strawberries and cream being enjoyed by the thousands of fair-goers. But some new additions made an impact this year; an attack-dog show, presented by Adam Sessions of K9 Securities, really wowing the crowd.
Ian Bloxham, the St Paul’s Business Manager, had organised the demonstration, thinking that it might be quite interesting. So when a volunteer was needed to play a ‘baddie’ for the guard dog …

You could feel the excitement as students arrived at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School on Wednesday. Many had been up for hours, putting on costumes and makeup in preparation for the annual Book Week parade. Parents proudly took photos, as teachers – many of whom were also in costume – welcomed everyone for a fun-filled day of celebrating books.
The new St Paul’s library was a popular destination, with a huge book fair in the Reading Pit. Smaller items such as stationery and bookmarks were also for sale, with animal shaped …

Last week was the annual Appreciation Week at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School. The week was dedicated to appreciating others, and many activities throughout the week focused on thanking others for what they do for us. An ‘Appreciation Board’ was set up near the school tuckshop. This large noticeboard was gradually covered with notes and cards to teachers, students, and parents, and by the end of the week, each of these notes and cards were handed to the recipients. “We are enormously blessed school and have so much to be …

Jade Iversen has only been ice-skating for just over a year. But the Year 6 student at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School has already won a silver medal, and is aiming for gold at her next competition.
“I’ve never done anything like this before,” Jade said, “so it was such a surprise to get the silver medal in my very first competition!”
Jade was part of a team of eight who competed in Synchronised Ice Skating at the Acacia Ridge Ice Skating Competition on the 25th of June. The others had been …

It’s one thing to be good at sport; it’s another to do so well that you win competitions. But as Madison Thompson and Taylor Stickler found our recently, being recognized by your Federal member of Parliament for these achievements is a whole new ball game! The Year Six students at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School recently received signed letters from Wyatt Roy himself, inviting them and their families to the Longman Community Awards presentation, held at the Caboolture RSL. These awards recognize community service and achievement, and the girls had …

This week, workmen arrived with their trucks at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School. They then moved the Old St Paul’s church building from the campus. It had been donated to the Caboolture Historical Village.
The church, originally on Haskin St, moved to the school site on Smiths Road in April 1985. It reopened for worship services in September that year, after the roof had been removed and restored. Once at Smiths Road, it served in various functions, as a church, as a classroom, as a Teacher Aide room, and finally as …

Where can you be a Pirate for a day, feast at Christmas in July, stay in your pyjamas and sleeping bag til evening, touch native Australian wildlife, be a Drama Dragon, and celebrate NAIDOC Week all in the one place?
Vacation Care at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School, of course!There’s so much fun happening every day at Vacation Care. The children are treated to a wide range of activities in a friendly, safe environment. Some days are spent exploring our world, with shows presented by Dreamworld and other organisations. Other days …

People at St Paul’s Lutheran Primary School may believe so, after the last few weeks has showered them with blessings! First it was Woolworths, Central Lakes. Kate, the Woolworths’ promotional officer, presented Principal Anton Prinsloo with a large novelty cheque for $1000 at Junior Assembly.
This was followed by a feast of fresh fruit for all Year Ones and a talk on good eating habits. Mr Prinsloo was extremely surprised. “We’ve never had this happen before,” he said. “But it was such a blessing for us, and the children loved the …

The race for first place was certainly something to behold at the St Paul’s Lutheran Junior Primary Sports Day last week. The three houses, Archer, Gregor and Jeffreys, were locked in battle from almost the outset of the day, with every student eagerly participating, and a huge crowd of enthusiastic parents, grandparents, siblings and teachers loudly cheering on their teams.
Even the weather was looking favourably on the competition, with a splendid Winter’s Day something of a surprise after the previous run of cold, wet and windy ones.
The fun of ball …

Parents and grandparents, younger siblings and teachers were all treated to some fine performances at the St Paul’s Lutheran Senior Primary School Athletics Carnival last week. The three teams of Gregor, Jeffreys and Archer battled it out in both Track and Field events, with the Jeffreys House Captains determined to make 2011 the year that they won “three out of three”. Winning both the Swimming Carnival and the Cross Country earlier in the year, after a number of years of being dominated by Archer, made them even more determined.
“This year …