Important Dates For Your Diary

Monday 29th October Spanish Incursion – 2.00pm All students

Monday 5th November 2019 Prep Transition session –

2.00pm

2019 Preps

Tuesday 6th November Melbourne Cup Day – no school Whole School

Tuesday 13th November School Council Meeting –

7.00pm

School Councillors

Friday 16th November Spelling Bee Final Whole School

Sunday 18th November Working Bee – 10am – 12pm Whole School

Monday 19th November Curriculum Day – no students at

school

Whole School

Tuesday 20th November 2019 Prep Transition session –

2.00pm

2019 Prep information night –

5.30pm

2019 Preps

Saturday 24th

November

State Election – BBQ and cake

stall

Whole School

Tuesday 27th November Grade 5’s STEAM excursion to

Fairhills HS

Grade 5’s

Friday 30th November Prep – 3 excursion to Botanic

Gardens

Junior Building

Tuesday 4th December 4-6 Christmas Craft activities Senior Building

Wednesday 5th

December

2019 Prep transition session –

2.00pm

2019 Preps and Buddies

Tuesday 11th December Year 6 transition session - all day

Year 6 Graduation evening

Senior Building

Year 6’s and families

Friday 14th December Christmas Carols and Class

Performances – 2.30pm

Whole School

Edition 16, 1st November, 2018

Rugby, Puppets, Crazy Hair,

Family Fun and Sewing. Just

another fortnight at KCPS!

Student of the Week Term 4 Week 3 & 4 2018

Year F/1A Year 1/2A Year2/3A Year 4/5A Year 5/6A Spanish

Sid J for looking for patterns in +10 addition sums and sharing his insights with others to help them learn! Alexis A for working hard to listen to sounds when she is writing!

Maddison Kidman for brilliant work in her writing and always being a great help in the classroom. Amir Saab for doing a great job with all his work and always being a friendly class member. Kennedy for reading with fluency & confidence, go Kennedy!! Blake for showing a positive effort when paraphrasing information, well done! Liam orf adding more detail to his writing and experimenting with more complex sentences - great work! Tyler for working well with his group during our restaurant money task - good job! Rebecca Alex Mathews for writing an excellent procedure for how to make a felt turtle, well done Rebecca! Tijana D’Amico for a wonderful information report about the Northern Spotted Owl, great work Tijana! Crystal Jackson for always being so helpful to your teacher in the classroom, I really appreciate it Crystal, thank you! Imani Latif for writing an excellent procedure for how to make a felt turtle, excellent work Imani! Chantelle Cordes for creating a great description for her Halloween Monster Adjectives task. Scarlett Harrison for her dedication during Independent Reading sessions. Alexus Driscoll a great procedure on how she made her felt turtle. Ruby White for her wonderful work on Area and Perimeter. Jazzmina Meldrum –for not giving up when a task becomes too much and having a growth mindset. Well done Jazz! Devlin Barnes for being an excellent ambassador for our school during our Werribee Zoo excursion. Mia D'Amico for assisting her classmates when sewing their felt turtles Daniel Davis for making a fantastic felt turtle. Excellent work Daniel!

Harlee for always having a fantastic attitude towards her learning, completing an amazing “Sombrero” colouring sheet and writing the Spanish names. Lovely work, Harlee!

Liam trying very hard during Spanish lesson time and completing some Spanish work today. Well done, Liam!

Moyin and Kenneth for finishing an amazing Mexican “Sombreros” colouring poster and different “Calacas” skulls chain designs; and supporting their rotation groups during class time.

Seth for completing a wonderful Mexican ”Dia de los Muertos” Calacas mask design by using Senor Roman’s feedback to make it even better. Great work!

Jett for sharing his knowledge about the Mexican “Dia de los Muertos” celebration with Senor Roman and the class.

Owen for putting in the time and effort to finish his “Dia de los Muertos” Skull design. Keep up the great work Owen!

TRIBES The staff at Knox Central Primary School agrees that creating a positive school or classroom environment

is the most effective way to improve behaviour and learning. Students achieve because they: feel included and appreciated by peers and teachers are respected for their different abilities, cultures, gender, interests and dreams are actively involved in their own learning have positive expectations from others that they will succeed.

The Tribes process is one of the ways we try to do this. The clear purpose of the Tribes process is to assure the healthy development of every child so that each one has the knowledge, skills and resiliency to be successful in a rapidly changing world.

Tribes is a step-by-step process to achieve specific learning goals. Four agreements are honored: attentive listening appreciation/no put downs mutual respect, and the right to pass

Reference: http://tribes.com/about/ Some great Tribes activities to try at home are: Something good – ask each person to share one positive experience that happened during the day. Appreciating others – write down a positive statement, one for yourself, best friend, mum/dad, classmate and teacher. What’s in your wallet? – Select something from your desk, purse or backpack that is special or symbolic to you. Share with the group why it is special.

Absences You can now report student absences via FlexiBuzz. If you haven’t got FlexiBuzz on your phone yet, please visit the website below. A lot of school communication to parents is via FlexiBuzz and the school FaceBook page.

http://www.flexibuzz.com.au/

Spelling Detective:

Find the spelling mistake in the newsletter and drop your entry into the box

outside Lisa’s office. One winner will be drawn. Prize – morning tea.

The Entertainment Book is now available to purchase from the School Office. It is $70 and has over $20,000 worth of discounts and vouchers and $14 from every book sold goes towards school fundraising. Vouchers are valid from now until June, 2019. There is a copy at the office if you would like to flick through the book.