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KIPPA-RING STATE SCHOOL

Newsletter

Term 2, Week 1

24 March, 2020

Dear Parents/Carers, Students and Members of the Kippa-Ring State School Community,

Welcome to Term 2 Week 1!

Working towards inclusive online learning at home

I sincerely would like to thank our parent community for

their positive commitment towards supporting their

students’ learning at home, with either online or learning

packs. This has been a very trying start to the term, in

these unprecedented times. We at Kippa are very grateful

for our parents’ positive, respectful, flexible attitude with

their access with our OneNote platform.

Some of our parents are choosing to collect a learning pack

to support their child’s access. I encourage you to also

continue to persevere with logging on to the learning

platform, as we are finding more students having success

each day. There is a high volume of online access from

9am, so we suggest you try before or later in the day to

download OneNote in the app, as per instructions sent

from Mrs Drummond earlier this week, and then you can

work in the app offline.

I would also like to acknowledge the huge amount of work

that Mrs Drummond, Mr Lunnon and our Class Teachers

have done during the last week of Term 1 as well as over

their holidays. You will see the amazing activities once your

child opens their folder in OneNote. I am sure your

students will love this different style of learning.

Please remember the learning grids have many activities

that do not require connectivity and can be utilized to

continue to develop concepts from their learning in a

household context. If you are having difficulties getting

your child to settle or accessing work, get them to write a

journal of their activity each day, read a book to or with

you every day. You can watch a suitable aged movie and

discuss the story line, retell what happened; talk about the

characters and how they interacted with each other as well

as the story plot and what role the characters played. Ask

your child to write a story about an event, true or make

believe. Remember to describe the characters in detail,

what they look like, say and do and draw a picture to

illustrate their story. Do some baking and practice

measuring. You were your child’s first teachers, so

remember ‘you’ve got this’!

For our families who do not have access to technology your

packs are available for collection from the front office. We

will advise when this can occur for the next packs, both on

Facebook and by email early next week. Remember that

we are not asking you to be a teacher, just to supervise

your childs’ learning.

Thank you for supporting our new school access rules

to keep our school community safe

Parents have been supportive of my decision to not allow

access to our school site. This is to assist us with social

distancing recommendations from the government and

reducing the risk of contamination with less people on site.

I feel our future students will be learning about 2020 in our

history books in years to come.

ANZAC DAY

We have uploaded a link of our

Anzac Day power point in your

child’s class One Note. Can I

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working through this to celebrate

the spirit of ANZAC with your

whole family. I have also included

a link to the state library with more resources for you.

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Community Inclusion with Kippa

We would like to thank the Kippa-Ring Shopping Centre

Management for their care package for staff.

“To the staff at Kippa-Ring State School, thank you for your

bravery in continuing to turn up every day for the kids in

our community. We are so grateful for you and all your

hard work during these tough times. Enjoy these gifts!

Warm regards, Kippa-Ring Shopping Centre”.

Staff were very humbled that our local shopping centre has

recognised our work with students, which allows our

community to stay at work. These gifts are all items I could

never spend taxpayers’ money on so we are extremely

grateful for their kind words and well wishes. I know I am

enjoying making myself a latte each morning and have

even managed to show staff how to operate our new

coffee machine. Don’t worry, I will not be giving up my day

job any time soon, ha ha.

These community connections are what we at Kippa want

to explore and build further on in the future, once these

unprecedented times start to change. Please ensure you all

continue to follow government recommendations to help

keep our Kippa community safe from COVID-19.

Until next time, keep safe.

Regards

Lindy-lou Brown, Principal

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL NEWS

Welcome back! Well… sort of.

What a strange world we live in at the moment and I want to praise all our families for doing your part in helping our community stay safe. My personal motto for Term 2 is “Be patient, be respectful and be flexible”. This whole experience is strange for all of us and we’d love everything to be back to normal as soon as possible. Until then, we are working extra vigilantly to keep safe, healthy and follow the government directives. You can do your part too by keeping home unless absolutely necessary.

Attendance:

We have received a directive from the Department of Education, stating that parents/caregivers are required to do a daily ‘check in’ with the class teacher. Your child’s teacher is providing multiple ways for you to do this; email, phone call, dojo. Students, whose parents/caregivers do not check in daily, will be recorded as having an ‘unexplained’ absence from schooling.

The Internet:

The Internet is slow and glitchy as many parts of the world moves to home-based learning. Be patient. If you can’t log on to the OneNote at 9am, try later in the day. We will keep you updated on Facebook and by email with any information we receive.

Keep healthy, keep safe and keep home learning happening.

Corey Lunnon Deputy Principal

SCHOOL PHOTOS

School Photo Day for 2020 has been POSTPONED.

Advancedlife has sent through the following message:

“As a result of the widespread impact of COVID-19 and

schools experiencing significantly reduced student

attendance or closure, we unfortunately have had to pause

the operation of our photographic branches and customer

service areas until schools resume and all students have

returned to school.”

We will notify you all once we have all returned to school,

and some normalcy, of the new date.

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PLAYGROUP CANCELLED!

For the safety of our children, parents and staff, Playgroup

remains closed. At this stage we are unsure when we will

be starting up again. Once we have received the

confirmation to go ahead, we will let you know.

CAMP MAPLETON

Unfortunately, our Year 5 and Year 6 three day school

camp which was to be held at Camp Mapleton, in the

hinterland of the Sunshine Coast this year, in Term 3, is no

longer going ahead.

Camp Mapleton informed us of their decision to cancel

camp for 2020.

Year 5/6 Camp in 2021 will be a ‘beach’ camp, and will be

held at Currimundi on the Sunshine Coast in March, next

year. Expression of interest forms will be sent home,

hopefully in Term 3 to all Year 4 and 5 students.

OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS CARE

Helping Hands Network has joined the Kippa-Ring State

School community to deliver onsite Outside School Hours

Care – before school, after school as well as during school

holiday periods and staff development days.

It is a licencing requirement that any child using the service must be enrolled. As there is no fee to enrol with Helping Hands, it is recommended that all children are enrolled so that the service is available for your family, even if only on an emergency needs basis.

You can enrol online through the parent portal at

www.helpinghandsnetwork.com.au

INTERSCHOOL SPORT

As reported at the end of Term 1, the Interschool Sport

program for selected students in Years 5 & 6, was cancelled

for the remainder of Term 1. Unfortunately, due to the

Government’s decision to continue schooling via the online

learning platform for the next five weeks, Interschool Sport

will not be continuing this semester.

Students who have paid for this activity in full ($50) have

been sent home a “Request for Refund” form in the mail

this week. Please read, fill out and return the form to the

Office so that we can start processing your refund.

As students had already attended one session of

Interschool Sport, and we had to cover the cost of the bus

for travel to and from the venues, the amount that will be

refunded is $44.00.

If you do not receive a form in the mail, and have paid in

full for Interschool sport, please contact the office on 3897

5333.

PARENT’S & CITIZEN’S ASSOCIATION

Due to the current restrictions, the Tuckshop and Uniform

Shop is closed temporarily until further notice.

Students attending school during this period will not be

able to access the Tuckshop. Please ensure that they bring

their food, for both breaks to school on the days that they

attend.

Thank you for your understanding. Keep safe and healthy.

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