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Newsletter No. 24 - Term 3– Week 5 Thursday 11 August 2016

What a wonderful time we all had at our production. Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies may prove to be our most popular production yet. We have had tremendous feedback from parents, and the students themselves just loved the theatre and the whole experience of being on stage. Everyone loves seeing their child on stage and in production, particularly singing, dancing and acting, and act these children certainly did! Our main cast had two nights of being on stage and they certainly used every minute of it to display their talents. The quick repartee, the jokes delivered with aplomb and the slick timing, gave us all a very enjoyable experience. I certainly hope these children do take up the opportunities in secondary school to continue their acting experiences. Productions like these do not just happen. There are so many people who support production from the staff that actually run it to all the people who put make up on their children and dress the children with costumes. I wish to thank Paul Todd and Cheryl Henry-Wild for their tenacity in working every day, lunchtimes, after school, recesses with the students. This production was Paul’s first as Music Teacher and certainly will be a highlight for him. Supporting Paul and Cheryl were the whole staff who were singing and dancing with their children through practices and organised many props, costumes and notes home. (I have a feeling they REALLY enjoyed the singing and dancing practice with their grades!) Of course, experiences like this cannot happen without the support of our parent community. So many parents volunteered their help and support and I do thank everyone who did so. Each detail of the production puts together to make a whole and so for everybody who helped behind the scenes the details were ticked off and put in place so that all of us could sit and say, “what a wonderful night it was”. Now my thanks goes to our wonderful children throughout the school. Watching the little Foundation children up there on stage was a highlight for our new parents. The “ooohs” and “aaahs” as the little ones came on was a real joy to hear. It doesn’t matter if they don’t dance exactly in line – we love them all the more for it. Of course, these children will be the ones to carry on the tradition of production in two years’ time. I’m sure we all enjoyed the dancing on stage; the Highland Dancers, the Violinists, and all the actors and dancers. It was two great nights and we will certainly remember them. Thank you to the whole Kalinda Community for supporting Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies!

CURRICULUM DAY

Next Friday, 19th August, is a Curriculum Day. Staff will be involved in a Literacy Professional Development Day.

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Don’t Forget….

Trivia Night

Friday, 26th August 2016

at Kalinda Primary School Stadium

arrive at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start

Book your tables now!

Events Calendar

Notices sent home to Families – 4 - 11 August 2016 Notice Distributed to: Return by:

Trivia Night Booking Form All families 15th August

Kalindalicious Cook Book Order Form All families 22nd

August

Book Week Celebration Day Reminder All families n/a

August

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th - Literacy/Book Week Celebration Day

13th - Working Bee (Saturday)

15th - P&F Meeting – Stadium 9.30am

- School Council Mtg. – 7.30pm Staffroom 18

th - Fire Service Education - Foundation

19th

- Curriculum Day (Student-free day)

24th - Father’s Day Stall

26th - Oral Health Day

26th

- Trivia Night 30

th - District Athletics at Kalinda

31 Aug – 2 Sep. - Gr. 3/4 Camp – Phillip Island September

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st Aug – 2

nd Sep. - Gr. 3/4 Camp – Phillip Island

11th - Working Bee – 10am-12noon

12th

- P&F Gen Mtg. – 9.30am Stadium - School Council Mtg. – 7.30pm Staffroom 14

th - Pie Day

15th - Canteen Closed for T.3

16th - End Term 3 – 2:30pm Dismissal

October

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rd - Beginning Term 4

6th - Divisional Athletics

13th - Regional Athletics

16th - Working Bee – 10am-12noon

17th - P&F Gen. Mtg. – 9.30am Stadium

28th - Curriculum Day (pupil-free day)

November

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st - Cup Day Public Holiday

3rd

- Music – Count Us In – Incursion 11

th - Twilight Market

21st - P&F Gen. Mtg. – 9.30am Stadium

27th - Working Bee – 10am-12noon

December

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th - P&F Annual General Meeting

- 9.30am Stadium 20

th - End of Term 4 – 1.30pm Dismissal

TERM DATES 2016

Term 1 – 27 January – 24 March (Easter – Good Friday 25

th March)

Term 2 – 11 April – 24 June Term 3 – 11 July to 16 September Term 4 – 3 October to Tuesday, 20 December CANTEEN ROSTER

17/8 – Nicole D 18/8 – Kathy L & Yuko W 19/8 - CURRICULUM DAY

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PUPIL OF THE WEEK

F/D Micah T. - For demonstrating respect and responsibility whilst backstage before “rocking out” on

stage on Tuesday night. Douglas H. - For all his efforts in practising for production and for the confidence he showed on stage On Monday night. F/H Chloe A. - For making and creating lots of different patterns in Maths.

Mitchell T. - For trying so hard with your writing and leaving spaces between words. GO SPACEMAN!!! F/L Gus J. - For being such a helpful and responsible student backstage during production. Charlotte L. - For being such a responsible and helpful student when walking to production. F/T Charlotte P. - For her persistence when reading. You are a reading superstar, Charlotte! Caeleb M-R. - For using great reading strategies. Well done, Caeleb! 12N Gemma C. - For being a great role model to those around you. Kingston W. - For great listening, great learning choices and respecting others. Charli R. - For making great learning choices. Well done! 12R Jay K. - For fabulous writing about our production. We enjoyed your “sizzling start”! Lucas S. - For using initiative in the classroom and making good learning choices. Maddie B. - For being a good friend to many people. You are kind, caring and thoughtful. 12S Brooklyn N. - For his terrific questioning skills on our trip to the Cranbourne Botanic Gardens. Lochie B. - For always taking the time to help others and showing improvement in Writing. What a Star! Rory G. - For terrific work and enthusiasm during class, and great work in Zone Maths using

time and clocks. April D. - For terrific work and enthusiasm during our Production practises. 34C Emma F. - For being able to decipher the meaning of figurative language when she reads. Sam B. - For his understanding of what ‘area’ and ‘perimeter’ means in Mathematics. Kayla C. - For her wonderful understanding of figurative language in text. Kayla’s comprehension has improved a lot! Well done. Jack B. - For working hard at writing compound sentences that are interesting to read and error-free. 34D Class 34D - For your wonderful performance in Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies! 34L Jet W. - For sharing his writing with the class. Great effort, Jet. Sophie C. - For her positive attitude to learning. We love your smile Sophie. 34P Oliver K. - For his happy and confident performance during our Production – a great performance! Charlie B. - For sharing his excellent THRASS understandings with his peers. Great work, Charlie. 34R Sarah P. - For always producing work of an excellent standard. Damon H. - For always having such a positive attitude towards your Writing. ART AWARDS:

Seohyun M. - For doing a fabulous job painting the “Squisher”. Annie R. - For always displaying willingness to assist in the Art Room. Ella F. - For giving her time to assist with Production prop painting. Hayden W. - For his fabulous assistance with Production prop painting. Michalina McD. - For her wonderful efforts in painting Production props. Macy C. - For working quickly and efficiently to paint the “Squisher”.

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Trivia Night

Friday, 26th August 2016 at Kalinda Primary School Stadium

arrive at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start

Book your tables now!

Prizes to be won and heaps of fun to be had! You can come on your own, with a special friend, or get a group together.

Tickets $20 each (Tables of 8 maximum)

Talk to your friends, within the school and the community about getting a group together. If you can’t get a table together, we will put you with someone else in the same situation.

BYO Nibbles and Refreshments.

To book your table, please complete and return the booking form to the office

(sent home last week – spares available at the office) Numbers are limited, so get in quick.

Tickets will be sent home in the week prior to the event via your eldest child.

Mask / Wig or Hat Theme for the Night Get your table together and make it fun, the theme for the night is wear a Mask, Wig or Hat.

Go all out and wear them all.

Prize for the best table Kalinda Fundraising Committee Enquiries: Lindsey Baker 0433 432 264 or Tony Landi 0417 510 651

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SAKG NEWS

Voting For CUA Community Care Now Open!

Voting for CUA Community Care is now open and we’re keen to get as many votes as we can! To recap, we have entered this community-focused initiative run by CUA to be in the running to win $5,000 for a school project of our nomination –a new Outdoor Learning Centre. Our project is to build an outdoor learning centre in our existing vegetable garden area. The students will use the outdoor learning centre as a project centre for our gardening studies. Activities will include: seed saving, organic gardening practices and native plant studies. We’re up against 19 other schools in the area to take out the $5,000 prize and, as the winner is determined by community voting, we need your votes! To learn more about the program and our project proposal, please visit www.cuacommunitycare.com.au and select our school from the drop-down menu. Voting is simple; you can place your vote via this website or go to the local CUA branch. Your local CUA branch is at Eastland Shopping Centre. The branch details are: Shop 1067, Eastland Shopping Centre, Maroondah Highway, VIC 3134 Phone: (03) 8878 5000 (Coles entrance, near Priceline Pharmacy and travelator up to Big W) Don’t forget, every person can vote once online AND once in the branch. Also, voting is open to anyone so please feel free to get friends and families involved and voting. So, place your votes and help us be in with a good chance of winning $5,000 to improve our school!

Vote Now – less than 2 weeks to go! Voting closes at 4:30pm (AEST) on Tuesday 23 August.

Thank you for your support. Kelly Woodman SAKG Specialist

All children at Kalinda were given the opportunity earlier in the year to accept The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge. Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or experience 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read or experience 15 books. The Challenge will remain open until 9 September 2016. To complete the Challenge all books read must be entered online using the student login and password given to your child earlier in the year. If you do not have these details please contact your child’s class teacher. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would not like your child’s name included on the online Honour Roll please change these details online using your child’s username and password to do so. To view the booklists or more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc Happy Reading! SANDY DOYLE VPRC COORDINATOR

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CANTEEN NEWS It would be appreciated if families with more than one child could submit one lunch order bag per child. Each child needs to have their own order written out clearly in blue or black pen (preferably). It is the responsibility of each child to place the order in their classroom canteen basket; this ensures that it is returned to the correct classroom at lunchtime. If you require us to provide a paper bag, please remember to include the 10 cents in your final total. Thank you to everyone who is purchasing the Sticky Beak re-usable canteen bags. It certainly makes our life easier trying to pack the lunch orders. Please write your child’s lunch order clearly and place in the zippered pocket along with the required money. Change will be returned in this pocket. Print out a name and class tag for FREE from the Stickybeaks website – stickybeaks.com.au. This clearly identifies the lunch bag. If your child has the same lunch order each time, there is no need to write out a new slip of paper, keep using the same one. Remember that your re-usable lunch bag holds food so please empty and wipe clean internally and externally with a damp cloth after use, as you would a lunch box. Thank you for choosing to re-use; you are helping to reduce paper waste in our school. Thank you also to our students who are writing lovely comments on their lunch order bags and drawing pictures for us to admire. It brings a smile to our faces when we see them. We are looking for 1 helper on the 9

th September. Please let me know if you can come in.

JO O’CALLAGHAN CANTEEN MANAGER

ORAL HEALTH DAY On Friday morning, 26

th August we will be holding an ‘Oral Health Day’. St. Mark

Dental Clinic from Wantirna will be coming in to talk to all grades about dental hygiene. This information will be age-appropriate and held in separate groups throughout the morning – Foundation to Grade 2, Grades 3 & 4 and Grades 5 & 6. If you wish your child to then undergo a dental check after the information sessions, please complete and return the permission form sent home last Friday, and return to school by Monday, 22

nd August. This will be held at no

cost to the school or families. If you have any queries regarding this program, please contact the office. GILL KNOWLES ADMINISTRATION

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Parents & Friends Update

Kalindalicious! Pre-order your copy!

Pre-orders are now open for Kalindalicious! You don’t want to miss out - the recipes are AMAZING (see sample below)! Order the cookbook before Monday 22

nd August at the special price of $20.

(The regular price of the book will be $25 per copy after that date). Order forms went home last week but can be obtained from the front office if required.

Father’s Day Stall

We have some brilliant gifts for Dad, Grandpa, and Uncles this year! A notice will be sent home either today or tomorrow. If you would like to volunteer on the day, there will be a list

at the front office – we’d love some help! Father’s Day Stall – Wednesday 24th August

P&F Meeting

Our next P&F meeting will be held on Monday 15th August, 9:30am in the stadium. Everyone is welcome to attend.

www.facebook.com/kalindaparentsandfriends - kalindapandf@gmail.com

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COMMUNITY NEWS

OFFICE NEWS Canberra Camp 2017 Deposit: This event has now closed through Compass. If you have been unable to process your payment/consent through Compass, please make payment at the office as soon as possible. Credit Card & BPay payments – Please remember that we cannot accept payments of less than $10 for credit card and less than $30 for BPay. If you are paying by BPay, please also send in a short email or note letting us know the amount, what the payment was for and the BPay Receipt number, to kalinda.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au If payments of less than $10 are received, we will be returning them home and asking for cash payment. COMPASS – If your child is away due to illness, medical appointments, family holidays, or other reasons, please remember to log in to Compass and register their non-attendance through the “Add / Approve Absence” tab on your child’s Home Page in Compass. THERESA JARVIS BUSINESS MANAGER UNIFORM SHOP Opening Times: The Uniform Shop is open every Monday from 3:00 – 3:45pm. SHANNON & JO UNIFORM SHOP VOLUNTEERS STUDENT BANKING – EVERY FRIDAY As notified in previous newsletters, the Student Banking is now being done through Bendigo Bank. If you have not opened an account as yet, spare account opening kits are available through the office. For those students with Dollarmite accounts, you are still able to deposit through your local Commonwealth Bank branch, or you can also open a Bendigo Bank account.

ENROLMENTS DUE NOW

FOR FOUNDATION 2017

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RECIPE OF THE WEEK!

Slow roasted maple and soy lamb shanks

Serves 4-8

Cooking Time: 2 & 1/4 hours What you need: 6-8 lamb shanks –

(depends on how many you allow per person) 1 tsp olive oil 1/3 cup maple syrup 1/3 cup soy sauce 1/3 cup beef stock

Preheat oven to 150ºC. Heat the oil in a large frypan and brown the lamb shanks. Then place shanks in a baking dish and pour over the maple syrup, soy sauce and stock. Gently combine until well coated. Cover with foil and bake for 2 hours, turning once after 1 hour. After 2 hours turn oven down to 140ºC for a final 10-15 minutes whilst serving up plates, mashing spuds etc. Serve with mashed potato and steamed or roasted vegetables. Enjoy!! Wendy McLaughlan Kalinda Chef

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KALINDA COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD

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TRIVIA NIGHT SPONSORS

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APPLES - STRAIGHT FROM THE ORCHARD…….

Chris, our apple man will next be delivering apples on Thursday 18th

August. If you would like to order apples, please see Gill or Annie at the office with your order and payment by Wednesday 17

th August. Bags are approximately 5-6kg.

Available at the moment are: Pink Ladies, Fujis, & Granny Smiths at $10 per bag (approx. 5-6kg).

Green and Brown pears are now available at $8 per bag.

See the Community Board in the Foyer for more events. The Department of Education & Training (DET) and Kalinda Primary School, do not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser. DET and Kalinda Primary School accept no responsibility for accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.