Launceston Christian School in Riverside, Tasmania | Primary School

Launceston Christian School

Locality: Riverside, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6327 2854

Address: 452a West Tamar Road 7250 Riverside, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.lcs.tas.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Our Year 10 students are having an Adventure Week and today they are tackling Cradle Mountain! Some are walking around Dove Lake while others are heading towards the summit. Beautiful weather for a wonderful adventure and a glorious day to take in some of God's beauty!

25.01.2022 Today our Year 11 & 12 Students are having an EXTRA SPECIAL Rec Day due to start of year camps being cancelled. Covid has caused many changes and today was a day to get back together and have some fun. It started in the morning with some food - fruit and delicious muffins that were eagerly eaten by students and staff alike - YUM!!

25.01.2022 Our school newsletter, The Herald has just been published. Current LCS parents, please take time to read about the exciting Nurture Conference coming up in early September! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

25.01.2022 Last night our Year 11 & 12 students attended an Op Shop Dinner as part of their Rec Day. A beautiful, tasty meal was provided by Casa Paella before some awesome costumes came out. Heaps of fun, lots of smiles and some teachers wardrobes are very questionable!

24.01.2022 Important news for all LCS families with students in Year 7 - 12: it's a normal school day tomorrow (Wednesday 7th April). Unfortunately our athletics carnival had to be cancelled!

24.01.2022 Apologies to all our school parents but our mobile Hub app has some technical issues this morning and the absentee function is not working. Well have this fixed soon!

24.01.2022 Last week our Junior students had a great time participating in our Cross Country. It was an excellent day, lots of fun and our students were very keen to get outside for a long run. Enjoy some pics from the day!

23.01.2022 This week we had a special celebration with current Year 12 students who have been with our school since Kinder. Its amazing to think these year 12 students have been with LCS for nearly 14 years!! It was also a precious time, as this is the last K-12 lunch our current Head of Senior School, Michelle Fitzallen will be attending. Thanks Michelle for all you have done for our Senior students over your many years with LCS, and for arranging this special occasion every year.

23.01.2022 We had an exciting start to the day today when an Tawny Frogmouth was spotted sitting in the tree outside our library! What a treat for our students!!

23.01.2022 Creativity at LCS continues with our Year 6 students who are currently designing and building a working model of a lighthouse. Our two classes began working together this week using paper mache to construct the land that the lighthouse will stand on. Such an exciting class project to make and we look forward to sharing their progress with you over the coming weeks.

23.01.2022 It's Throwback Thursday when our Year 12 students dress in uniforms they wore years ago at our school. Quite a few took up the challenge to revisit their past and have some fun today. Enjoy your last few days Year 12!

22.01.2022 You’re invited to attend the next Parents in Community (PiC) meeting on Tuesday 30th March. It’s held in the LCS staff room and starts at 7.30pm. Come and have a cuppa with PiC and enjoy some fellowship together.

22.01.2022 It's Wear your name Wednesday and the last week for our Year 12 students! From today onwards our school community will notice our Year 12 students celebrating their final week at LCS in weird, wonderful and creative ways! Lots of smiles today as their costumes represented the letter of their first name. Enjoy!

22.01.2022 A reminder that applications for the positions vacant at our school in 2021 are due this Wednesday. If you'd like more information, head to our website for more information.

22.01.2022 Lighthouses are starting to appear! Our Year 6 students are progressing well in their creative projects as they begin to construct the lighthouse that will sit on top of the land mass that each student has created. Its exciting to see these buildings and the intricate details being worked out as pieces are glued together. Mr Lake and Miss Carins are working hard in class to support some amazing designs! Well done Year 6!

20.01.2022 A reminder that applications close this Friday, 21st August for the two positions below. Please share this with anyone who might be interested and head to our website for more information on how to apply.

20.01.2022 Our Year 6 students recently finished a great project creating lighthouses. We closely followed their progress throughout the weeks and showed this wonderful video at our recent Year 6 Graduation Assembly. Enjoy!

20.01.2022 Our Herald newsletter has just been published - enjoy reading the latest news about our school community! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

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20.01.2022 Middle School at LCS covers Years 7, 8 & 9 and is a diverse and exciting time when students explore a large range of subjects. Here's a great insight into what that looks like at our school.

19.01.2022 Our final school Herald for Term 1 has just been published - check it out before you get into holiday mode! Happy holidays everyone! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

19.01.2022 Our Year 9 students are on 'solo camps' this week as part of The Rite Journey program at our school. Year 9 girls are spending today and tomorrow in Golden Valley. The aim of this camp is to reflect on the things that have been discussed throughout the year, putting into context the need for young people to start looking forward to their future, rather than staying focused on their past. It's an important part of The Rite Journey program and one that offers an valuable time of personal reflection.

19.01.2022 Our Junior students took delivery of a beautiful Buddy Bench this morning. This bench was the idea of one of our Prep students and materials were kindly donated by Bunnings. Constructed and painted with the help of students, this has been an exciting project! A HUGE thank you to Bunnings for their generous support - we look forward to students using it straight away!

19.01.2022 Our latest school newsletter, The Herald has been published. Enjoy a good read over the next few days! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

19.01.2022 Creative learning brings opportunities to discover, explore, connect and build confidence. Last week, Mrs Russells Kinder students constructed some amazing robots out of boxes, straws, cups - basically anything they find and glue together! It was heaps of fun and they couldnt wait to show us their creations!

17.01.2022 Year 9 Advanced Science students yesterday had a Science Fair, where they demonstrated to teachers various projects in the Science dept. The projects they had designed and researched over Terms one and two. The research projects were on topics of their own interest and students learnt advanced research and reporting skills. Their final report was then collated in a manuscript and displayed on a corflute Science Fair display board. These projects will be submitted into the UTas Science Investigation Awards competition for judging in September and we look forward to seeing how they go.

17.01.2022 Our Year 9 Food studies students have been very busy creating some awesome looking novelty cakes. They looked so good that we couldnt resist sharing these tasty treats with you! We hope they made it home in one piece!!!

17.01.2022 Support local, Support our School and Support your Bank Balance Entertainment is offering $24 (usually $14) for every membership sold at our school! Thousands of incredible savings, right at your fingertips. make a difference! Buy now to support our fundraiser. https://www.entertainment.com.au/orderbooks/240431v Offer Ends 12th September.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to our Lego Competition winners for their fabulous creative designs this year. There was an excellent display of work in the Library and our winning students came from 5G, 4G & 2G. Gee whizz!!! Awesome effort!

16.01.2022 Congratulations to the LCS students who competed at the 2020 Tasmanian All Schools Track and Field Competition over the weekend. Our team did extremely well, winning a number of medals: Simeon McKee: 1st in long jump, 2nd in 100m and 200m (11 years), Jasper Kamphuis: 2nd in javelin (in u14, the age group above his actual age group!), Toby Kamphuis: 1st in 100m, 2nd in 200m (u16) and Trinity Inall-Bejah: 1st in 100m and 200m (u18). What a fantastic result and congratulations to all these talented students!

15.01.2022 Our year 6 students are in full construction mode as they continue to work on their Lighthouse projects. Yesterday students began to create the actual lighthouse that will sit on top of the land mass that each student has created. Mr Lake and Miss Carins are working hard in class to support some amazing designs! We cant wait to show you more of this awesome project in the future - well done Year 6!

15.01.2022 Congratulations to our Year 7 Small Vocal Group who competed today at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in the St Cecilia Performance Challenge. These talented students scored 91% for their performance with high praise and encouragement from their Hobart adjudicator to continue to perform together in the future. What a wonderful performance it was - well done girls and thank you to Mrs Lyndle van Zetten for her coaching!

15.01.2022 It was an excellent night tonight at the LCS Rock Challenge. Great music, awesome talent and a great response from the crowd. Thank you to everyone who came to cheer on our students whilst keeping the physical distancing in mind. Awesome work from our Music Teachers, Mr Stewart and Mr Swift.

14.01.2022 Today our Year 2 students were very excited to have a visit from Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten. Mayor van Zetten shared about his role, how the council operates and asked for suggestions about how to improve our city. There was lots of creative discussion and it was also VERY exciting to find out that one of our students had links to a previous Mayor - Samuel Sutton. Students found his name on the Mayoral chains (which Mayor Sutton started) and were very eager to hear more. It was an extremely exciting visit for everyone. Thank you Mayor Albert van Zetten for taking the time to visit our school today!

14.01.2022 Yesterday some of our Year 8 students were treated to a tea party as they learnt about Japanese Shoguns. Middle School Humanities Teacher, Kim Jansen, is extremely passionate about his tea and couldnt resist the opportunity to share his enthusiasm with his class. Students learnt about Japanese and Chinese Tea Ceremonies by drinking green tea and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Theres wonderful creativity in classes at LCS.

13.01.2022 Our PiC Fathers Day stall has had a delightful morning as excited students have filled bags full of precious goodies for Fathers day this weekend! We are very thankful to the many parents, grandparents and friends who have generously contributed to the stall this year - a HUGE THANK YOU to you all! We also thank Margaret Dingemanse and Amy Kamphuis who each year coordinate and run this stall - awesome ladies with servant hearts! We hope Dads enjoy their special day this weekend!

13.01.2022 This has just been confirmed by the Department of State Growth! Buses for the Easter public school holidays! April 7th, 8th and 9th Manions Coaches will run the... below services for the Launceston Christian School (as they are the only Riverside school open for those three days). The 7:30am GA Beauty Point to Launceston service The Grindelwald & Kavala Platypus Bus to and from Riverside The Possum bus for all of Legana on its normal route, Bindaree Road, Beach Road, Freshwater Point Road, Nobelius Drive & Freshwater Point Road to and From Riverside.

13.01.2022 A BIG thank you to all our students who attended our Disney Social last night at school. There were many physical distancing/covid measures in place to enable this event to happen safely but we know you all had a GREAT time! Well done to our SRC who were supported by a team of dedicated staff. Thank you all for creating a very memorable and positive night!

13.01.2022 Our Middle school consists of Years 7 - 9 and is a great opportunity for students to explore a large range of subject areas as they head towards their future pathways. In years 7 & 8 students take a broad range of subjects to help them choose options in Year 9 & 10. If youd like to know more about this area of our school, check out the Middle School subject information on our website - you wont be disappointed!

13.01.2022 A BIG thank you to Pastor Karl Deenick from The Branch who came to share with our year 11 & 12 students today. An excellent talk on the Song of Songs for our students!

12.01.2022 Our Year 7 - 12 Cross Country was held earlier this week and congratulations to Barrow who were the winners on the day! Well done to everyone who participated and those that dressed up for the occasion looked awesome!

12.01.2022 Our Year 6 students continue to work on their lighthouse projects with bases being painted this week. The land is looking sturdy and colourful! Our students are getting very excited about the next step of designing their actual lighthouse. More news soon as this exciting creative project progresses in our Junior School!

12.01.2022 Our Science and Engineering Challenge Team are in Burnie today competing in the national finals which is very exciting. They are ready to start and eager to compete. All the best team!! Go LCS!!

12.01.2022 This Thursday 8th April is an opportunity to support the Kim family at our school. See below for details!

11.01.2022 The CEN Nurture Conference was held at our school on the weekend and it was a huge success. A wonderful opportunity to explore, inspire and encourage parents as they partner with schools in bringing Christian Education to their children. Thank you to the Tailrace Centre for a great Friday night and the catering team at hubert+dan who provided an amazing, delicious lunch box to all who attended on Saturday. What a great way to enjoy a sunny day with inspiring speakers and scrumptious food. There are many to thank who supported this event with their time - an awesome team with servant hearts! Bless you all!

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Trinity Inall-Bejah and Toby Kamphuis who have excelled in the Athletics field once again! Trinity won the State Championship in the under 18 female 100 & 200 metres last weekend! Toby officially now has the fastest time in Tasmania for the under 17 male 100 and 200 metres.... and both have made the Tasmania team to participate in the National Finals in Sydney next month. Awesome work from an awesome due! Well done and congratulations!

10.01.2022 Mrs Spaulding's Year 3 class decided to make some Easter hot cross buns this week. A very exciting and delicious activity to do in class!

09.01.2022 Our latest school newsletter The Herald has just been published. Enjoy! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

08.01.2022 Lighthouses are undergoing final construction and paintwork! Thats the news update from our Year 6 students as they continue to work on their individual lighthouse projects. Its getting towards the end of this creative piece and we look forward to showing you soon their finished projects. Such a wonderful journey for our students to be on and we are so pleased we could share their weekly progress with you.

08.01.2022 Our SRC had a Leadership and mentoring day today at Hollybank. It was a great day for our current SRC to encourage those taking up roles in 2021 and for planning for the future to begin.

08.01.2022 Thank you to West Tamar Council's Youth Development Officer, Andy Beeston for presenting a Party Safe Workshop to our Year 10 students today. This presentation contains lots of helpful information for students allowing them to navigate today's party culture in a safe way. Great presentation - thank you Andy!

07.01.2022 Outdoor Education is a very popular course in year 11 & 12 at LCS. Last week our students explored a Honeycomb cave at Mole Creek with Teacher, Gerry Narkowicz and Deb Hunter of Wild Cave Tours. It was a very adventurous activity of crawling through tight squeezes in the mud, negotiating narrow tunnels flowing with underground waterfalls, glow worm displays and learning about the science of caves. What an awesome adventure for our students! Great work Mr Narkowicz!

06.01.2022 Our latest Herald Newsletter has just been published. It's a great read and we encourage you to take some time to find out what's happening at our school. https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

06.01.2022 This week our Year 12 students graduated at our annual Celebration Night. Our Head of Senior School, Mrs Michelle Fitzallen joined in the fun as we celebrated their final year with a special AV as well as showing some lunchtime secret habits she has! We will miss you Year 12 - may God richly bless you in the years ahead and we pray that you will leave our school with wonderful memories! God bless you all!

06.01.2022 Today is Orientation Day for all our new students in Kinder to Year 7 in 2021. We had a lovely start to the day with a sunny morning to welcome the crowds of students and we look forward to an awesome day ahead. Our current Year 6 students have a special Year 7 program today and were looking very keen to begin. Welcome to LCS everyone!

05.01.2022 It's the final day for our Year 12 students - Free Dress Friday! Reality is setting in as our Head of Senior School, Mrs Fitzallen cooks for the last time for our graduating students and our Year 12's head into study week and exam mode. Thank you to Mrs Fitzallen for a wonderful year and for the encouragement you give to all our students. Our prayers are with you Year 12 and we pray that God will richly bless you in your study and exams ahead.

05.01.2022 Theres some beautiful Year 9 art in our Leadership corridor at the moment which is a response to looking at the work of Leonardo Drew & Allan McCollum. Drew typically works three dimensionally on fairly large scale assemblage sculpture. The printing displayed has been created with pieces of wood - which according to Art Teacher Kevin Lund is a feasible way to reference Drews way of workingas much as he would have really loved to make some BIG wooden assemblages with classes. As a response to McCollums work, students designed a personal shape which will be used to create laser cut shapes in wood in order to produce relief prints. Pop in sometime and have a look!

05.01.2022 A reminder that this Friday 4th September is a student FREE day at LCS. We hope that all our students enjoy a longer weekend!

05.01.2022 We invite you to attend our Parents in Community (PiC) meeting on Tuesday 25th August at 7.30pm in the school staff room. Come along and meet with other LCS parents over a cuppa! All welcome!

05.01.2022 Well done to our Snr NSATIS soccer and netball teams who completed the shortened season yesterday afternoon with games against SOC. An absolutely salubrious afternoon for it! Praise the Lord! A special thanks to Natalie Laws and Rod Fulton who coached netball and soccer, as well as Shammah and Nicolas who did most of the linesman duties for the soccer matches!

04.01.2022 Our final Herald for 2020 has just been published. Check it out! https://newsletters.naavi.com/p/rM7aBN4/latest

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Team LCS who have just won the state championships of the National Science and Engineering Challenge!! Amazing result!!!

03.01.2022 Last week our Year 2 students were learning about push and pull forces, gravity and momentum. As part of their investigations they built parachutes and tested them out int he playground. It was great fun and they found that their parachutes could handle a lot of weight. They then added blocks to parachute baskets to see if it changed the parachute speed as it floated to the ground. One of their parachutes was so well made that it got caught by the wind and flew over the fence! What a great activity for students to take part in!

03.01.2022 Our Year 6 Camp is always a highlight for our students. Check out some of the fun had in this great Av that was recently shown at our Year 6 Graduation Assembly. Enjoy!

01.01.2022 Exciting news - Oliebollen is back at LCS! Team Oliebollen is cooking up a feast today as PiC supports our Junior Grandparents & Friends Afternoon. Our first shift of volunteers are cooking so that students, parents and staff can enjoy some tasty treats at lunch and beyond. A HUGE thank you to all our staff, parents and students who are supporting this event - we really appreciate your help today.

01.01.2022 A reminder that applications for the following positions close next Friday 9th April. Head to our website for more details.

01.01.2022 Congratulations to our NSATIS Snr. 3rds Boys Basketball team who won their Grand Final on Friday afternoon in a great match against SPC. 51-38. Awesome news and well done to all!

01.01.2022 Our Year 6 students are continuing to work on their Lighthouse projects with the help of Miss Lisa Carins and Mr Terry Lake. Yesterday they began to paint the land base area on which their lighthouses will stand. Its going to be very exciting to see these projects progress and the detail that our students will give each individual design. Theres lots of creative work here and we look forward to another update next week!

01.01.2022 What a beautiful sunny day to attend an excursion! Our Year 5 students are at Brickendon Farm today and enjoying the opportunity to explore this world heritage listed colonial village as well as its friendly animals. Theyll also be learning about its unique colonial history so its a full day for our students today.

01.01.2022 Our Year 3 students have been busy making some paper-mache animals and they are having a great time! From the fun process of ripping up paper, then pasting... to trying to form animal shapes, this creative project is not only challenging but very exciting!