Principal’s Message

Term 3 Week 4 - 14th August 2019

This term is into full swing and students and staff are working hard in improving their learning in and out of the classroom. It has been lovely to see students work samples this week, in light of the activities that took place during Education Week, the Book Fair and NAIDOC Day.

The Singleton Learning Community of schools participated in their first day of training in Visible Wellbeing through the University of Melbourne at the Civic Centre. Professor Lea Waters led and facilitated the day which explained the research around positive education, positive psychology and strength based learning. It is very exciting that our whole community of schools will now be involved in this initiative and King Street Public School will be taking a lead and supportive role in the implementation for other schools. Professor Lea Waters then presented her research and book called the "Strength Switch" in Scone on Monday evening. King Street Public School had 8 parents and staff members who attended.

Well done to all of our students and staff who dressed up using their super powers at our Book Fair on Thursday. It was wonderful to see so many costumes and super heroes present in the school and parading around the quad area after lunch. A huge thanks to Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Griffiths for their amazing organisation of the Book Fair.

Our students were extremely lucky to participate in our NAIDOC celebrations. We were privileged to see the Wakkalang group perform and have our local Elders present for most of the day. Emily, our Aboriginal dance teacher, saw all of the students during the workshops and students were able to take part in story telling, Aboriginal art lessons and heard some amazing didgeridoo playing. A huge thanks to Aunty Pauline for all of your hard work in getting the stews organised for the students, staff and community members. Well done also to our Aboriginal committee for your organisation of the days events. The local Singleton AECG meeting will be held at Singleton High School, Ka-Wul Centre on Thursday 15th August from 3.45pm. We look forward to your attendance.

Kindergarten Information Evening will take place in our school library on Tuesday 20th August. The new families are invited to a tour of the school at 5pm and then the information session will take place at 5.30pm. We look forward to meeting all of our new and existing families on Tuesday evening.

Jonathan Russell

S3B & S3J Investigate

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UPCOMING EVENTS 2019

TERM 3 2019

WEEK 4 Fri 16th Aug St Caths Netball Gala Day

WEEK 5 Tues 20th Aug Kindergarten Information Evening 5pm Public Speaking Early Stg 1 & Stg 1 Town Library Visit S3J & S3B Wed 21st Aug Public Speaking Primary Finals Town Library Visit K/1F & S1M Thurs 22nd Aug CU Learning Afternoon KSPS Town Library Visit S1H & S1P Fri 23rd Aug Tawny Assembly

WEEK 6 Mon 26th Aug Town Library Visit S2M & S2H Tues 27th Aug Town Library Visit KN, KM & S1S Wed 28th Aug Father’s Day Stall Town Library Visit S2B & S2S Thurs 29th Aug Father’s Day Breakfast 8am Town Library Visit S3M & S3G Fri 30th Aug Hunter Athletics

WEEK 7 Mon 2nd Sept Stage 1 Reptile Park Excursion Tues 3rd Sept UNSW Digital Technologies Wed 4th Sept CU Learning Afternoon SHPS Thurs 5th Sept UNSW Science Kindergarten Transition Program

WEEK 8 Mon 9th Sept Hunter Girls Cricket Tues 10th Sept UNSW Spelling Thurs 12th Sept UNSW Writing Kindergarten Transition Program Hunter Boys Cricket Fri 13th Sept Intensive Swimming K to Y2

WEEK 9 Mon 16th Sept Kindergarten Oakvale Farm Excursion Tues 17th Sept UNSW English & UNSW Maths Intensive Swimming K to Y2 Wed 18th Sept Stage 3 Goldfields Excursion Intensive Swimming K to Y2 Thurs 19th Sept Stage 3 Goldfields Excursion Intensive Swimming K to Y2 Kindergarten Transition Program Fri 20th Sept Stage 3 Goldfields Excursion Intensive Swimming K to Y2

WEEK 10 Mon 23rd Sept Forensic Science Workshop Stage 3

Intensive Swimming K to Y2

Tues 24th Sept Intensive Swimming K to Y2

Wed 25th Sept Intensive Swimming K to Y2

Thurs 26th Sept Intensive Swimming K to Y2

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING HOURS

Monday 8.30am – 9.30am

Thursday 8.30am – 9.30am

Second hand items are available for $2 each

(Please see office staff outside these hours)

FATHERS DAY DONATIONS

Our dedicated P&C are getting prepared for our KSPS

Fathers Day Stall and are asking for donations of new

items. Donations will be greatly appreciated and can

be left at our office.

Fathers Day Stall will be held Week 6, Wednesday

28th August.

CANTEEN

New Homemade Pizzas

Our beautiful homemade Ham and Cheese pizzas are

now available to purchase for $3 each.

KSPS CANTEEN BIRTHDAY CUPCAKES

Only $25/class.

Minimum 2 days notice.

CHILD’S NAME

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CLASS…………………………………………..………

NUMBER OF CUPCAKES……………………………

DATE………………………………………………….…

VANILLA or CHOCOLATE SPONGE

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ICING COLOUR

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DIETERY REQUIRMENTS

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PAID …………………………………………………….

Canteen Roster—Term 3 Week 3 2019

Monday 19/8 Tuesday 20/8 Wednesday 21/8 Thursday 22/8 Friday 23/8

Natalie & Jodie Matisse & Deanna Amanda & Bec Chantelle Lauren & Jacinta

Canteen Roster—Term 3 Week 4 2019

Monday 12/8 Tuesday 13/8 Wednesday 14/8 Thursday 15/8 Friday 16/8

Robyn Maxine Chantelle Jen Kate & Rechelle

Showing Positive Behaviour for Learning

Tawny congratulates the following students for displaying our King Street Values of Kind, Safe,

Proud and Supportive. Our week 3 Focus is Relationships - How to be a good friend:

Book Parade ‘Reading is my Super Strength’

What a wonderful array of costumes we saw at our Book Parade last week. Our Book Fair was also very busy with lots of students purchasing books to keep up their love of reading. Well done to Mrs Hawkins and Mrs Griffiths on organising another great day. Thank you to all our parents, carers and grandparents that came along to support our students and our school.

Zone Athletics

We were lucky to have beautiful weather for the Zone Athletics Carnival last week. KSPS took a large team to

compete on the day with some fantastic results and wonderful sportsmanship shown throughout the day.

Congratulations to the following students who are heading off to the Hunter Carnival on Friday 30th August.

Seth B representing KSPS in a number of AWD events, Jada F for long jump, Nate S for high jump, Maben de for

1500m & 800m, Sophie W for 100m, Luca S 200m & 100m and our Junior Girls Relay Team who placed first,

Dakota E, Sophie S, Maben de and Luca S.

Jump Rope for Heart Kicks off this Term!

Jump Rope for Heart is a fantastic physical activity and fundraising program that has been run by the Heart Foun-dation for over 35 years. Since Jump Rope for Heart started in 1983, schools like ours have raised more than $75 million for the Heart Foundation’s lifesaving work. It’s important you register your child online, so they can receive the full benefits of the program and participate in online fundraising, simply follow this link to get started. https://jumprope.heartfoundation.org.au/register

Students will be skipping during morning fitness and breaks, during this time you can share their online fundraising page with family and friends to help raise money for this great cause.

We will hold our school Jump Off Day this term, date to be advised. This will mark the end of the program and is a chance for everyone to come together to skip and show off their newly learned skills.

Thank you for supporting the Jump Rope for Heart program

NAIDOC Day

NAIDOC Day was celebrated with a variety of activities last Friday including art, dance, sport and storytelling. Our students looked great dressed in traditional colours and enthusiastically participated in lessons hosted by our special visitors. Lunch was a delicious camp oven stew prepared by Auntie Pauline. Thank you to all who came to share their stories and culture and to Auntie Pauline, Mrs Stretton and Miss Streater for your organisation of the day.

Maths Photo Challenge Term 3 Week 4

Where do you see units in your daily life? How do you

decide which unit to count with?

Take a photo or draw a picture and submit it to us by:

Uploading a photo in the comments section of the

post on Facebook

Sending an email to the school at kingstreet-

p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Taking your picture/drawing/photo to the school

office.

We will share some responses in two weeks.

Mrs Tan

Mrs Newton Rainbow Wall

Mrs Newton has been working with her groups on

identifying their individual strengths and how to use

them in their learning. This is a great example of

students using their strengths and their voice to

enhance their academic success.

Strengths on Display

Wonderful to see students showing kindness and

teamwork while volunteering their lunch time to help

Eric clean up our oval. Well done to everyone that

helped.

Maths Challenge Responses from Week 2.

Here are four photos as responses to the Week 2 Photo: Where do you see lines that curve, converge, are parallel or intersect in your everyday world?

Thank you to Arlie and Jack S, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Tan for these responses.

Why not challenge your family to see what they can find for this weeks ‘Units’ Challenge.