NEWSLETTER Wednesday, 14th October 2020

Holly, Ashlee, Holly, Jade & Marlee

Grace — 2J & Grace — 2J

Mia, Amelia & Isabella

Mia — 2D

Hayley & Ella

Chelsey, Cristina & Lillie

Mason — 5F Abigail — 2J

Oliver — 2J

Teneisha & Shiloh

Annabelle — 2J

Zentangle at Lunchtime Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns.

It is a fascinating new art form that is fun and relaxing.

Conveyance Allowance

Application closing date for Term Four is the 27th November.

If you live more than 4.8km from school and we are your closest school, you may be eligible to receive the Conveyance Allowance.

For more information and application forms, click on the below link:

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/

transport/Pages/conveyance.aspx

Happy Birthday to the following

students who are celebrating their

birthday in the coming holidays.

We hope you have a lovely day.

October

15th Pearl 4W Abbey 5M

16th Josh 4W

17th Connor FL Charlotte 3S Evie 4V

18th Tyson 2T Millah 5H

19th Joel 4V

20th Tiama 5F Edwin 5M

October

Fri 16th Assembly (Virtual)

Wed 21st Book Week Dress Up Day

Fri 23rd AFL Grand Final Public Holiday — No School

Mon 26th Book Club orders close

Wed 28th Grade Six Jacket Round 1 orders close

Fri 30th Bandanna Day

Fri 30th Assembly (Virtual)

November

Mon 2nd Curriculum Day — No school

Tues 3rd Melbourne Cup Day — No school

Thur 27th Conveyance Allowance Term 4 claims close

REMINDER TO YEAR 6 FAMILIES ATTENDING BROADFORD SECONDARY

COLLEGE 2021

Can you please URGENTLY return your child's enrolment form to Broadford Secondary College ASAP

These forms were due back 11th September.

Booklists for 2021

Due to the current COVID environment, we will not be sending home paper copies of the booklists for next year.

Watch your email and Compass in the coming week as they will be sent out electronically.

Canteen Online Ordering

From next Monday 19th October online ordering will be available.

Instructions on how to create an account are outlined at the end of this newsletter.

Please see attached information sheet at the end of the newsletter on how to place your

child’s daily orders.

Start Back

As a school, we have been delighted with how our students have reconnected to their old routines and quickly embraced new routines such as our split recess and lunch times. The most suitable phrase to describe how our students have returned to classroom learning routines is: “we couldn’t have asked for a better start back!” In uncertain times, it has been obvious that the certainty that school routines provide are a huge factor in student wellbeing. Across our school, we have been delighted to see such a positive, calm and productive atmosphere re-established so quickly. I would like to commend all of our staff on the preparation work they have undertaken to ensure such a great start back.

Student Wellbeing

During Term 4, student wellbeing is a primary focus for our school as we help our students to reconnect and reset for Term 4 and 2021. Across our school, we are using the following wellbeing strategies to promote student wellbeing during Term 4:

We have introduced the Berry Street Education Model strategy of morning meetings to help each student get oriented, connected and ready for the day ahead.

We have incorporated short “brain breaks” into our lesson structure to help students redevelop their learning stamina.

We have developed wellbeing curriculum materials to help students with areas such as resilience, goal-setting, stress management and other wellbeing techniques.

We have implemented small-group lunchtime activities (ranging from art activities to martial arts classes) to promote student wellbeing and connection to school.

I would like to acknowledge the work of our Wellbeing Team (Mrs Smith, Ms Pappin, Mr Wilson and Kimberly Batsas-Hill) who have done such an outstanding job in developing these great programs and activities to promote student wellbeing at KPS.

Curriculum Day: Monday, November 2nd

Our final Curriculum Day for 2020 will be held on Monday, November 2nd (preceding the Melbourne Cup holiday. The focus of the day will be on student assessment and reporting. Please note that this is a pupil free day.

School Events During Term 4

As part of our student wellbeing program, we have developed an expanded schedule of school based events for Term 4. Over the course of the term we will be running a variety of exciting events such as Book Week Dress Up day and many other great activities. Next week, we will be holding our Book Week Dress Up Day on Wednesday, October 21st. Although we won’t be holding our traditional Book Week Parade, we will make sure to share photos and videos at our Virtual Assembly on Friday October 23rd. All of these activities form part of our “Dream Great” program for Term 4 – you will find a graphic providing an overview of our “Dream Great” program elsewhere in the newsletter.

Young Leaders Day

Tomorrow, we will be running a Young Leader’s Day for all of our school leaders. The day has been developed and co-ordinated by our Grade 6 Team leader, Mrs Andrea Evans, and she has put together an excellent series of events and activities to help our student leaders further develop their leadership skills and attributes. I would like to thank Mrs Evans for the enormous work she has undertaken in creating this opportunity for our student leaders in the most difficult of circumstances.

Class Placement 2021

We are currently working on our 2021 class composition. Creating classes for a school of our size is a lengthy process as we seek to achieve balanced classes across our school. If you feel that there is any academic, social or personal information which is important to know about your child before we create our classes, please forward that information to us via our school email account at Kilmore.ps@education.vic.gov.au.

All the best,

Neil O’Sullivan

Principal

Mr O’Sullivan

YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!!!!

THANK YOU to ALL the students who got involved with Jump Rope for Heart!

A huge thank you for the effort skipping and fundraising for the Jump Rope for Heart program this term. Together we raised an incredible $11,245.72 and this money will all go towards vital heart research and education programs.

We’ve loved seeing so many smiling faces skipping on the throughout Remote Learning 2.0. This saw a total of 184 Hours of total skipping by our fundraisers. Absolutely amazing!

Our Jump Off Day was a huge success, with the school achieving a total of 24,806 skips for the entire day. This is the most unbelievable effort from everyone involved, and capped off an amazing day.

We raised the most money we ever have as a school, and that goes to all of our amazing fundraisers, who have helped so many lives.

Here’s our school leaderboard.

Congratulations to our top fundraisers!

Mr Babic

Mia 4M $1,159.69 Jessica 6M $125.25

Abigail 3R $1,023.88 Mia 4B $125.25

Charlotte 2J $889.09 Isabella 5M $120.90

Rory 1H $533.31 Sophie 1J $117.74

Ivy 4B $514.82 Liam 4W $111.80

Shayla 6M $335.12 Kyle 3S $110.00

Blake 2D $326.47 Emily 6M $109.43

Jeremy 4V $323.08 Jackson 3M $109.04

Kobe 3S $305.98 Zoe 3R $108.47

Dakota FF $305.88 Logan FF $100.71

Annabelle 2J $299.62 Cooper 5H $82.06

Ava FJ $284.68 Tilly 1S $76.76

Jovie 6N $278.38 Shaelea 3M $70.92

Quinn FF $266.82 Tom FM $65.42

Beau 2D $252.38 Phoebe 1S $58.02

Cooper 4M $207.30 Elizabeth 1N $53.80

Indiannah FL $206.82 Ryan 5M $40.00

Zac FF $205.78 Cooper 1J $38.37

Alyssa 6O $203.93 Keeley 3R $38.37

Cooper 5M $203.12 Rorie 4M $38.02

Ella 4V $203.12 Logan 2J $32.78

Ashleigh 3R $202.90 Oliver 2J $32.39

Jack FJ $202.90 Keely 3M $27.31

Thomas 6E $198.80 Liam 2D $20.00

Sienna 5H $178.10 Mehar 5M $11.34

Kassidee 5M $160.91 Millah 5H $10.00

Millie 5M $138.69

MASCOTS AND

Welcome back to school! We are all very excited to have all the students all back on site.

Thank you to all the students who shared their amazing work with me last term. I loved seeing it all and sharing it with our school community.

Well done to all the students who participated in the Premiers’ Reading Challenge!

Our students read 941 books! What an amazing achievement.

48 students participated in the challenge and 25 completed the challenge. Students that completed the challenge will receive a certificate. I will let everyone know the arrangements for the certificate presentation when we have finalised the arrangements. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Jacobs, Ms Sloane and Mrs Rowe for all their work running the challenge.

The Children's Book Council of Australia's annual book week returns in 2020 with the theme Curious Creatures, Wild Minds. The event will take place between the 17th and the 23 of October.

Every year the CBCA holds a book week across Australia to promote the importance of reading and the joy that children can find in it. Schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators and children come together to celebrate Australian Literature in a whole host of events and parades, with the Reading Week culminating with the CBCA Book of the Year Awards.

This year we will be having a Book Week dress up day and class/year level parades on Wednesday 21st of October. We will take photos and videos of the parades and share them with our school community at our assembly on Friday 23rd of October. Please start thinking about your costumes. You could dress up as your favourite character or a ‘curious creature’!

Students will also be undertaking Book Week activities in class.

We are very lucky to have received some of the new short listed books! Thank you Mrs Smith for organising these for us.

If you have any Library books at home, could you please return them? Please place them in the book return tub in the Library. Thank you!

Have a great week,

Emma White

WORDS FROM WELLBEING

The following services are available outside of school hours:

** In the event of an emergency please call 000 **

Just a reminder that all students and

families can access school based

wellbeing supports.

Kimberly can be contacted on 5782 1268

or at

kimberly.batsas-hill@education.vic.gov.au

Best,

Kimberly Batsas-Hill

Primary Welfare Officer

Kids Helpline

Ph: 1800 551 800

https://kidshelpline.com.au/

Parentline

Ph: 13 22 89

https://parentline.com.au/

Safe Steps

Sexual assault, domestic and family violence Ph: 1800 015 188

https://www.safesteps.org.au/

Lifeline

Ph: 13 11 14

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

CANTEEN ONLINE ORDERING

Instructions for Parents

After you sign up, follow the instructions below to place a lunch order.

Example of placing an order for Tuesday 8th September.

1. Go to https://mykidslunchbox.com.au/ and select the Parents Login button.

2. After you log in: Tick the child you would like to place an order for, then

click NEXT

3. Select the date you want to place your order for, EXAMPLE Monday 8th

September, Recess & Lunch, then click CONTINUE.

4. Click on ADD ITEMS.

5. Click ADD for the items you want to select. Then CLOSE the pop window.

EXAMPLE: Recess: Fruit salad cup Lunch: Beef Cheeseburger

6. After you close the pop-up menu window, your page will look like this.

Click CONTINUE.

7. Review your order and click CONFIRM ORDER

8. Your order has been successfully placed.