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Dates to Remember

August 2018

Fri 10th -100 Days of School

Mon 13th -Beginning of Science Week

Thu 16th -Nippers

Mon 20th -Book Week “Find Your Treasure”

Tue 21st -Nippers

Thu 23rd -Book Week Parade

Thu 30th -Nippers & Father’s Day Stall

Fri 31st -Hooptime Grade 5/6

September 2018

Tue 4th -Nippers

Tue 11th -Kids Teaching Kids

Tue 18th -Start of Roses Gap Camp (Grades 3-6)

Fri 21st -End of Roses Gap Camp

Fri 21st -Last Day of Term 3 –2.00pm Gudjinna

2.30pm Finish

October 2018

Mon 8th -Start of Term 4

Tue 16th -Dress Rehearsal of School Production

Wed 17th -School Production

Wed 31th -Halloween Dress Up Day

November 2018

Thu 1st -Day 1 of 2019 Foundation Transition,

Morning Tea and Information Day

Mon 5th -Staff In-Service Assessment and

Report Writing-No School

Tue 6th -Melbourne Cup Day-No School

Office Hours

Monday to Friday

8:45am – 4pm

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CAR PARK SAFETY

For the safety of your children, students and

parents are encouraged to use the supervised

crossing between the safety flags.

Thank you for your assistance in making our

school a safe place for our children to grow.

KIDS CLUB NEWS

Kids Club would love any donations of vegetables or fruit that have been grown in your veggie garden at home.

If parents have any enquiries regarding after school care, please feel free to drop in and talk to one of our friendly staff. Kids Club Staff

Anita and Mandy: Joint Coordinator/Certified Supervisor. Di: Accounts.

Bookings and Cancellations

To book/cancel your child/children into before or after school care, please ring the school on 5786 1284. IMPORTANT: All enrolment forms must be up to date for 2018 and your child/children must be enrolled to use our service. This is part of the Education and Childcare National Regulations.

Accounts can be paid by EFTPOS at School Office Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If you are having problems please see Di for a Payment Plan. NO B-PAY!

School Year Term Dates 2018

Term 3 16th July—21st September

Term 4 8th October—21st December

8th August, 2018

Newsletter 24

Address: 20 McMahons Road Kinglake 3763

Together We Achieve

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Our School Value Pillars

Resilience

Respect

Achievement

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Website: www.kinglakeps.vic.edu.au

Start of Term 3 Items

Dear Parents,

Once again, we are making a call out to parents to

finalise the Essential Education Items payment.

By this time of year, these fees should have been

paid. These lack of payments, make it difficult for

the school to purchase items relevant to your

child/children. Please finalise this payment as

soon as possible. We would like to send out a big

Thank You to the parents who have already paid.

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Principals Report

Hello everyone,

Last Friday we saw some of our grade 3 /4 students participate

in Hooptime and they were just amazing! Hooptime is a fun and

supportive event for all students at different levels to play in a

competition against other schools. We had two teams this year

our Future Stars and our Rookies team. All students played so

well, in great team spirit, sportsmanship and displaying our

school values. Our Future Star team was coached by Brian Rolf

and gallantly played out each game, coming third. Our Rookies

team developed their skills so well over the day and really

showed how to play for fun and should be very proud of their

efforts, coming 5th. A huge thank you to all our parent helpers

on the day, whether you drove students to and from the event,

scored or coached, you make the day possible!

While we are celebrating sporting achievements, I would like to

celebrate our student achievements from the completion of

Interschool Sports. All final scores are now in and the ladder

has been completed. For the first time since I have been at KPS

we have teams playing off in the finals. Our Netball A team will

play Doreen and Netball B team will play Middle Kinglake PS. A

big congratulations also to our rounders team, coming third and

our Tee-ball team coming fifth. Dates and time of the finals will

be posted shortly, once we have made arrangements with the

other schools. Well done to all our 3-6 students who have

participated with great spirit throughout the Interschool sports

events and thank you to all the parent helpers, especially Brian

who often helped to umpire rounders.

Friday we celebrate with our Prep students their first 100 days

of school. To help them celebrate they will be enjoying some

special activities on the day, including working with their grade

5-6 buddies. This is a special milestone in the learning journey

of our prep students, so please extend a word of

congratulations to our prep students on Friday!

Book week is coming up soon and we will be having our annual

Book Week parade on 23rd August. I know this is a big event for

students and staff who love getting into character and having a

whole lot of fun on the day. Start planning those costumes!

This week, I feel proud to tell our community of 2 achievements for

our school this year so far. The first celebration is the

announcement by Cindy McLeish and the acknowledgement of our

co-authorship of the scientific paper: Citizen science in schools:

engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators to

parliament last week. She was so impressed with the achievement

she decided that at the next sitting of parliament, Victorian

politicians should hear about the great work staff and students of

KPS are doing.

Secondly, the annual results for students Attitude to School Survey

were released. Staff have analysed the results and compared them

to last years results. Although there is still some areas for us to

work on, I am very pleased to see the data around classroom

behaviour improve, and actions and opinions around student

safety, bullying, respect and teasing significantly decline and

improve to show what we already know this year that KPS is a safe,

happy and respectful place for students. I would like to thank the

staff for their efforts in working hard with our students around our

school values, implementing Respectful Relationship teaching and

learning, the creation and implementation of the student

leadership program and working with the quote of the week to

create the lovely, friendly and harmonious learning environment

we have today. Please see the graphed results attached.

On a final note, please remember to fill in the parent opinion

survey. If you have lost you letter and login details, please contact

the school for a new one. We would like to hear from as many

families as possible.

Have a great weekend.

Deb Keating

Principal

Quote of the Week

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School Banking

School banking will be collected every Tuesday.

This Weeks Birthdays

August 2018

No Birthdays this Week

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Reminder – Anaphylaxis’s

Please remember that we have students within our school community with an anaphylaxis allergy to nuts. Please be mindful when packing your children's Lunchboxes, treats or lollies that contain nuts.

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y R E S P E C T

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Address: 20 McMahons Road Kinglake 3763

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y R E S P E C T

Website:www.kinglakeps.vic.edu.au

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FROM: The Office

The Parent Opinion Survey is now available to be completed online. The survey only takes about 10-15 minutes and will be open until Sunday August 26th. A note went home last week with instructions on how to access the survey. Copies of this note are available at the office if yours has gone astray.

The 3-6 Roses Gap camp is only about 5 weeks away. If you wish for your child to attend, please ensure that the consent form has been signed and medical form is returned, even if your child doesn’t have any medical conditions. Deposits should have been received by August 3rd and the balance is due no later than September 3rd. Time to start counting how many sleeps, before they take off. It’s going to be amazing.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

A big thank you to all the Parents who have

already returned the Cadbury Chocolates

fundraiser or made a donation. It is greatly

appreciated. If you wish to sell another box,

please see Diana or Susie at the office. Again,

Thank you.

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Have you heard of Mecuriade? She was a game changing physician and surgeon during the middle ages! Check out how she inspired our STEM session last week on the blog. http://sugarloafstem.global2.vic.edu.au/category/weekly-s-t-e-m-summary/

Chan

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