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Newsletter No. 40 - Term 4– Week 10 Thursday 11th

December 2014

From the Principal………….

GRADES AND TEACHERS 2015 Today your child’s report, grade list and room number will be given to your child, as well as the name of their teacher for 2015. Missing off the teacher list will be Michelle Ogilvie, Matt Anthony, Bec Davis, Tanya Italiano, Kyle Barnden and Paul Todd. We will certainly miss all these teachers; however, we have employed teachers who will complement our teams and who are very eager indeed to teach at Kalinda. At the last moment last week our enrolments in the Level 3 area grew and I decided to form a sixth grade, so again we had to advertise for another teacher. The Education Department insists we advertise for 2 weeks so the position will close Wednesday night. If your child is in that grade, you will know your child’s teacher next Friday. The full list of 2015 Kalinda Staff is on page 2.

Christmas Carols What a great time we had at our Carols last night! The weather stayed fine, although a bit chilly, and the children were happy and animated as they sang, thoroughly enjoying themselves. It was terrific seeing so many grandparents and extended family there, as well as some of our new families of Foundation 2015 students. Thank you so much to Lexi Maurus, Kalinda Music teacher, for her organisation and leading our children in song. As well, I wish to thank our dynamic duo, Kyle Barnden and Paul Todd, for their beautiful dinner music. It is great to have such talented staff! Also a big Thank You to our sound specialist, the wonderful Chris Mann. We are very lucky to have such talent in our parent community.

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Also, I would like to thank members of our Parents & Friends Association for hosting morning tea on each of the transition sessions this term. It’s a lovely welcome to all our new families and I know they were very appreciative of all the information made available to them while enjoying a cuppa.

BREAKING NEWS………………. News just to hand from the Stadium - Congratulations to our new Student Leadership Team for 2015. They are: Thomas, Lucy, Ashleigh and Lachlan. Their speeches and presentation photos will be in next week’s newsletter. GAIL POLLARD PRINCIPAL

2015 Kalinda Staff

Principal Mrs Gail Pollard

Assistant Principal Mr Richard Lambert

Foundation Years

FD Mrs Michelle Davies

FM Miss Fiona Murray

FT Mrs Dani Thomas Team Leader

Level 2

1/2D Mrs Sandy Doyle

1/2R Mrs Jo Ross

1/2L Mrs Jan Lawson

1/2 To be advised

1/2N Mrs Erin Norman Leading Teacher

1/2S Ms Fiona Salmon

Level 3

3/4C Mrs Lyse Carlson 3/4S Mr Stewart Clyde Leading Teacher

3/4P Mrs Conny Plant

3/4L Mr Frederick Lopez

3/4R Mrs Helen Renehan

3/4M Mr Russell Monaghan

Level 4

5/6K Mr Steve Kenna

5/6J Mrs Karen Johns

5/6D Ms Carmel D’Amico

5/6B Mr Ray Brookman Leading Teacher

5/6M Mr Stuart Mclean

Specialists

Performing Arts Ms Lexi Maurus

Visual Arts Mrs Libby Shaw

L.O.T.E. Ms Hiromi Hagihara & Mr Greg Brown

Physical Education Mr Steve Harvey

Library Technician Mrs Wendy Robertson Integration & Support Coord. Mrs Adele Woolard Office Staff Mrs Theresa Jarvis Business Manager

Mrs Gill Knowles Admin. Assistant

Mrs Annie Koopmans Finance/First Aid

Integration Aides Mrs Sandra Blackwell

Mrs Susan Crowe

Mrs Cheryl Henry-Wild

Ms Karen Klewer

Mrs Michele O’Connell

Mrs Hilary Penglase

Ms Wendy Robertson

Canteen Mrs Jo O’Callaghan Canteen Manager

SAKG Specialists Mrs Kelly Woodman & Mrs Michele O’Connell

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Events Calendar

Forms sent home to Families – 27 Nov. – 4th Dec. 2014 Notice Distributed to: Return by:

2015 Level 4 Canberra Medication Form L4 2015 ASAP

Swimming Reminder Preps – 2 n/a

BEGINNING OF TERM 1, 2015 Teachers return to work on Wednesday 28

th January

Thursday 29th January will be a Curriculum Day

Students return to school on Friday 30th

January.

BE SUNSMART IN TERM 4

Here at Kalinda we are a Sunsmart school which means that all students need to wear a school-approved hat during Term 4, which can be purchased at the Uniform Shop on Monday afternoons from 3.00 – 3.45pm. If anyone is not wearing a hat, the Yard Duty Teacher will ask them to stay undercover, out of the sun, for recess and/or lunchtime.

December

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15th

- Uniform Shop is now Closed for 2014 15-18

th – Levels 1 & 2 Swimming

17th

- Year 6 Graduation Night 19

th – End of Term 4 – 1.30pm Dismissal

January

28-29th - Book packs available for pickup between

8.30am – 11am. 30

th - Students commence

TERM DATES 2014

Term 4 – 6 October - 19 December NB: 1.30pm Dismissal on 19

th Dec.

TERM DATES 2015

Term 1 – 28 Jan (teachers start) - 27 March Pupil Free Day 29 Jan – Students begin 30

th Jan.

Term 2 – 13 April - 26 June Term 3 – 13 July - 18 September Term 4 – 5 October - 18 December CANTEEN CANTEEN IS NOW CLOSED FOR 2014

If you wish to contact Jo in the Canteen, her mobile number is 0402 031 447.

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PUPIL OF THE WEEK

P/M - Billie Mc - For her enthusiasm in learning and always trying her best. Jimmy Y - For writing a great fairy tale that consistently included capital letters and full stops. PT - Lachlan B. - For continuing to ‘have a go’ during writing. Keep it up Lachie! PT - Tayla W. - For the wonderful job she did editing her Fairy Tale! Great Work! 12B - Whole Class - For all their hard work in producing their fantastic puppet show. 12C - Chloe S. - For having an absolute wonderful year. You have worked hard and have been an excellent role model. 12C - Jet W. - For taking care and pride in your display for our Creative Art Gallery

Expo. 12C - Ben Q - For your terrific poetry writing this term. You have a great talent for it! 12C - Katie R. - For always offering to help do jobs in the classroom. Thanks Katie! 12D - Whole Class - For your contributions to the Level 2 Creativity Expo. 12S - Sharon P. - For courage shown to compete and do her personal best in all the Junior Sporting Events. 12S - Georgia M. - For her awesome performance in her percussion group at the CBL Expo. 34A - Whole Class - For being awesome, adventurous and always fun. Thank you from Mr A. 34A - Diesel M. - For trying his hardest to complete his camp recount to the best of his ability . Great work Diesel. 34P - Maddy M. - For reading our class novel ‘Matilda’ in an expressive and fluent manner. We thoroughly enjoyed listening to your reading Maddy! 34P - William A. - For demonstrating courage and talent by participating in the Battle of the bends . Just Wonderful! . 34R - Josh G. - For his terrific work with Cars and Stars. 56B - Josh K. - For being such a positive role model. You look out for your classmates and make sure everyone is included. 56B - Georgia C. - For taking on feedback and applying it to your CBL task 56B - Josh B. - For always seeking feedback and trying to improve his work. 56B - Sarah D. - For approaching all of your learning with such a positive attitude. 56M - Blake T. - For working hard on his Public Speaking Skills by taking and using feedback. 56M - Shanae A. - For being a great friend to so many people in our level. You’re always so positive. 56M - Rebekah H. - For being a great group member within CBL this term. 56O - Lana L. - For working as part of her group to make a stop-motion CBL project. 56O - Judson C. - For a fantastic book review about ‘The Twits’. You included great info! 56O - Ashleigh K. - For a fantastic effort in learning the basics of Coding. 56O - Archer T. - For creating a fantastic Game Press Coding game. Well done on challenging yourself!

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Kalinda’s Wishing Tree

1st

–18 December (extended dates)

Kalinda Primary School Junior School Council Reps would like to ask if you are able to bring a pre–loved, or a new present for the Wishing Tree.

The presents will be placed under our Christmas tree up at the office, where later it will be

delivered to the Neighbourhood Community Centre in Warrandyte. The presents will be delivered to kids from ages 5 to 16 years whose parents cannot afford presents.

Twice a week, two Junior School Council Reps will come around with a basket. One to collect

the presents in and the other that will have cardboard Christmas trees or stars in it, which we will give out in return for your generosity and donating a gift.

Please bring the presents in from 1st December to 18th December. Please wrap your presents with

a small card on the front stating whether it is for a boy or a girl and for which age group the present is suitable.

Thank you very much from the 2014 JSC Reps

FUN AT THE FAIRY TALE BALL

The Fairy Tale Ball was a sight to behold last Monday. Our Preps delighted in dressing up as their favourite fairy tale character, participating in themed activities for the day. Here are some of their thoughts: Fantastic! We had the best day ever! I love the lunch. My favourite food was my mum's home-made pirate sausage rolls. I liked the parade and the movie. I was a knight in shining armour. I fought a fire breathing dragon. Benjamin E. Prep T Oh, wow! Yesterday was fun! We at a feast and had a ball! I came as the Little Mermaid. I had lots of yummy food. Eleanor D. Prep T There was a brave person standing at the door. He was called Mario and he was six. He was brave. He ate all of the food. Seth L.B Prep T Wow! We had so much fun at the fairy tale ball! We had the best day ever! WE had sausage rolls and sweets for lunch. Oh, so much fun! Tayla W. Prep T Fantastic fun was had at the Fairy Tale Ball. I dressed as Elsa. We had a feast. I ate some fairy bread, a sausage roll, jelly and a cup cake. Gemma C. Prep T Fantastic fun was had at the Fairy Tale Ball. We had fun because we had lots of food. I love cupcakes. I dressed up as Anna. I love dancing to the music. We had a ball! April D. Prep T

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And here are some of the fairy tales that the Preps have been creating themselves. Once upon a time there was a dragon named Jack. He had spikes on his body. He had green scales and he had some power fire. He had a furry coat. He lived in a forest with some lightning. The lightning happened when the dragon was flying and he could see the moon and the stars. It was an upside down forest. The problem was a knight came and stabbed the dragon and the dragon fell asleep. The dragon was asleep for 799 minutes. The goblin was very sad that the dragon was asleep. Then the goblin kissed the dragon and he woke up and they lived happily ever after. By Logan E. Prep M Once upon a time there was a Princess named Anna. She had hearts on her dress and the hearts on her dress were different colours. The hearts were red, blue, yellow, pink and purple. She was so beautiful. Anna had a sister Elsa. She lived in a pretty castle. The castle had hearts that were pink. The castle was colourful. The castle was also so beautiful. The castle had lollies on it. The castle had a moat around it. A tornado came and made the colours disappear. The tornado made the castle fall down. The princesses tried to make the castle colours come back but they couldn’t. A wizard came and said, “Do you need help fixing the castle?” “Yes, we also need help finding the colours.’” They helped the princess dig and they found the colours were there. Then she lived happily ever after. By Sienna S Prep M Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess with beautiful diamonds on her dress. Her dress was coloured in pink and it was shiny. She had a green crown. She had yellow, blonde hair. Her blonde hair was very beautiful. She had beautiful red lipstick. She lived in a black and purple and orange castle. She had flowers near the castle. There was love hearts on it. Then a wicked witch came and put a magical sleeping potion in her mouth. Then the prince came and kissed her. Then they lived happily ever after. By Lily A Prep M

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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

Throughout the last few weeks, Level 3 students have used fresh produce from our garden to make a variety of jams and chutneys, sausage rolls, frittata and mini quiches, which were all enjoyed by our volunteers at our afternoon tea. The final session of our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program was a celebration to thank our wonderful volunteers, who have joined us in the kitchen and the garden. Your support throughout the Semester has been so very much appreciated. If you purchased some of the delicious jams or chutneys made by our grade 3/4 SAKG students. It would be very much appreciated if you could return the empty jars to the stadium kitchen or to reception so that we can continue to make things for you to buy and try! Many Thanks Level Three

Gingerbread Ingredients:

125gm unsalted butter

½ cup brown sugar

¼ cup treacle

1 egg yolk

Finely grated rind of 1 orange

1 and ¾ cups plain flour

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon ground cardamom

1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda

What to do:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line 2 oven trays with baking paper.

Beat butter and sugar with electric mixer until pale and creamy.

Add treacle, egg yolk and orange rind and beat until combined.

Sift together flour, ginger, cardamom, and bicarbonate soda.

Add to creamed mixture and stir to combine.

Gently knead on a floured surface until smooth

Roll out dough to approximately 5mm thickness. Use biscuit cutters to cut out shapes, place onto prepared trays, 5cm

apart.

Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden

Leave to cool on trays

Will keep in an airtight for up to 7 days if they last that long!

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Level 2 Creativity Expo! Wow! What a wonderfully creative afternoon the Level 2 students presented on Wednesday. Kites were flying, homemade movies were playing, puppets were acting, circuits were lit up, musical instruments were strumming, and an art gallery had a grand opening! Parents, Grandparents and other family members strolled around the rooms marvelling at the students’ work and listening to them explain their designs. The words teachers heard from our visitors included: “passionate”, “excited”, “proud”, “clever”, “imaginative” and “so creative!” Thank you to everyone who attended, the students were all of those things above and they were overjoyed to be able to share their ideas and projects with you. We all absolutely loved it. Level 2 Team

Level 3 EXPO On Monday afternoon, Level Three students proudly presented and discussed their creative design prototypes with their Expo audience. Questions such as "Can you tell me about the features and benefits of your design?" were asked and competently answered. We would like to thank everyone who came and our amazing, creative students. The Level Three Team

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From the sports desk…

KALINDA PRIMARY SCHOOL’S FREE ACTIVE AFTER-SCHOOL COMMUNITIES PROGRAM:

Every Wednesday and

Friday from 3:45pm -

4:45pm.

Kalinda Primary School’s dedicated

Active After-School Communities

webpages can be found here. The Term

4 AASC program commenced on

Wednesday, October 22. See below

for all program dates.

PLEASE NOTE:

**The school’s Term 4 AASC

Ultimate Frisbee program has now

finished**

Friday afternoons (3:45pm – 4:45pm): Karate (Lion Bushido Karate Academy)

Status Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Session 7 NO PLACES

AVAILABLE Friday

October 24 Friday

November 7 Friday

November 14 Friday

November 21 Friday

November 28 Friday

December 5 Friday

December 12

JUNIOR ATHLETICS EXPERIENCE: Thank you to everyone who assisted with last Friday’s ‘Junior Athletics Experience’. The

students all seemed to have a lot of fun, and I have had many students tell me aboiut their favourite event or events. From a

teaching and learning perspective, I was pleased to see most students really ‘engage’ with the intended learning of the day,

much of which is really quite subtle. Whilst the participation in the events themselves is of high importance, it is equally as

important that students learn what a ‘carnival’ event loks and feels like in preparation for future years. That requires students to

be able to: trust their group leader, wait their turn, behave safely and appropriately while not competing, and be a positive

spectator and supporter. The vast majority of students were able to demonstrate those abilities extremely well.

LEVEL 3 AND 4 BIKE-CONTROL COURSES: Thank-you also to the students and families of Level 3 and 4 for the fantastic

uptake of the recent Bike-Control lessons. The improvement demonstrated and enjoyment displayed at times throughout the

sessions was a joy to behold, and I hope that I have inspired lots of Kalinda students to dust off their bikes for hours of (safe and

controlled!) riding enjoyment over the upcoming summer holidays. Ask your child to show you how slowly they can ride! Sounds

like a strange thing to say, but it is an extremely diffuicult skill and some of the balance I witnessed was nothing short of

amazing! As our special guest (Kate Perry - one of Australia’s most promising, elite ‘up-and-coming’ road racing athletes) said

during the second Monday session; “I know LOTS of people who can ride fast, but not many who have the skill, control and

balance to ride slowly. Funny how it tends to be THOSE riders who can avoid crashes and still be in ‘it’ (the race) when it

matters most”. * Congratulations to Kate, who finished second overall in the women’s ‘Tour of Bright’ held last

weekend. Imagine riding UP Mount Hotham… FAST! Ouch!

WEET-BIX KIDS TRYATHLON 2015: Set amongst the giant palm trees of Catani Gardens, St Kilda is a

spectacular place for TRYathletes to start their day! TRYathletes begin with an open water swim in St Kilda

beach, ahead of riding around the specially designed Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon course in the Gardens!

TRYathletes finish at the Weet-Bix Kids TRYathlon Village where friends and family will cheer them across the

finish line. Event day is Sunday 8 March 2015. Register now to be part of this World record-breaking Series.

Entries will close when field limits are reached.

SCIENCE SAYS: This week’s short, thought-provoking, animated video by ‘ASAP Science’ is “The Scientific

Power of Teamwork” See it here.

SESSION 7

DETAILS:

See you all again at 9:30am this Sunday

(December 14) for the last session before a

6-week break for the summer holidays

Best Regards,

Steve Harvey

Physical Education, Sport & Facilities Management SSV Coordinator: Maroondah & Manningham Division(s)

Ph: (03) 9876 3289 M: (0417) 392 572 E: sharvey@kalinda.vic.edu.au

Kalinda’s participation ‘partners and

pathways’ * Click icon for full

details

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OSHClub News Before School / After School Care Program Week 10– Term 4 –

Bonjour! Welcome to the second-last week of term and the second-last week of the entire school year! We know many children are getting very excited for Christmas and the holidays coming up. We are endeavouring to make this week and next week full of exciting and interesting activities for all children; please don’t hesitate to give us some suggestions and ideas! Coming into next week children and parents can expect a variety of celebrations at OSHClub to accommodate as many of our children as possible. These celebrations will include seasonal fresh fruit and vegetables, dips and crackers, yoghurts, cereals, cheese and biscuits, and the occasional icy pole or lolly. We will also be enjoying activities such as outdoor play, indoor play, art and craft activities, occasional films, and dancing. The weather is set to become warmer next week so just a reminder for children to please remember hats and any special sunscreen required! We hope that everyone is able to enjoy the beautiful weather in store for the upcoming weekend! Kind Regards, Jeanette Lea, Kalli Boag and Monali Shah.

Parent Information: OSHC program phone: 0439 992 434 Coordinator: Jeanette Lea. Assistants: Kalli Boag, Monali Shah, Wendy Reid, Emma Dempsey. OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000 All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the program.

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CENTREPAY DEDUCTIONS

(For families who receive a Centrelink Payment) Centrepay is a free, direct bill-paying service offered to customers receiving Centrelink payments. Through Centrepay you can choose to pay school fees by having a regular amount deducted from your payments and transferred electronically to Kalinda Primary School. There is no charge for using this service. There is a minimum payment amount for deductions to Kalinda Primary School of $20.00 per fortnight. You can apply for Centrepay deductions by completing the Centrepay deduction form at Kalinda Primary School. You will need:

your Customer Reference Number (CRN)

the amount you want deducted from your payments each fortnight

the payments from which you want the deductions to be paid

the payday that you want the deduction to start. Centrelink will send you a letter confirming the details of your deductions. Centrelink will pay your deductions to Kalinda Primary School on the same day you receive your Centrelink payments. You can change, suspend or cancel your deductions at any time:

online at humanservices.gov.au/onlineservices,

by calling Centrelink

completing a Centrepay deduction form at a Centrelink Service Centre. Centrelink will send you a letter and also advise Kalinda Primary School of your changes, suspensions or cancellation. You can make the following changes to your deductions:

suspend your deduction amount temporarily for a maximum period of 13 weeks

request a future end date when deductions will automatically cease

nominate or change a target amount so deductions will automatically stop when that target amount has been reached

change the deduction amount you are paying to a new amount or change the amount temporarily

cancel your deduction at any time. You may not always be able to deduct the full amount requested if your Centrelink payment:

is reduced because of income or earnings

has been reduced or suspended because of a non-payment period, or

is reduced because other deductions have been made, such as overpayments—leaving you with an insufficient amount left for your Centrepay deduction.

If this happens you will need to contact the Business Manager at Kalinda Primary School on 9876 3289 to make other arrangements. BOOKPACKS To collect your book packs you must pay your $195 Student Materials and Essential Education fee or have an agreed instalment plan and paid a minimum of $50.00. You can collect your book packs on Wednesday 28

th or Thursday 29

th January 2015.

Collection Times are from 8.30am – 11.00am on both of these days. Theresa Jarvis Business Manager

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COMMUNITY NEWS

OFFICE NEWS Last week final arrangements On the last week of school for the year, there will be no cash accepted after 10.00am on Thursday 18

th

December. There will no EFTPOS accepted on Friday 19

th December – the last day for EFTPOS/Credit Card payments

will be Thursday 18th

December, closing at 4 pm. Please finalise any accounts before.

If your child has a medical condition such as Anaphylaxis or Asthma, please ensure that you bring your plan to the office at the start of the school year with any relevant medication. If you have changed any of your contact details recently, could you please forward those changes to the office, either by note or email to kalinda.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS A reminder that if you wish to help out at the school in any way, ie canteen, classroom help, SAKG, camps/excursions, etc. you will need a Working With Children Check. Forms are no longer available at the office; you will need to apply online at:

http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/resources/forms/ UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop will be open for trading on Tuesday 2th January between the hours 930 until 11am. Normal trading hours commence from Monday 2

nd February. Please note there is a new 2015 price list that has been

loaded to the website.

Sunsmart Hats – A reminder that 1st September is the beginning of Sunsmart. We are a Sunsmart school

which means that all students need to wear a school-approved hat, which can be purchased at the Uniform Shop. SHANNON & JO UNIFORM SHOP COORDINATORS STUDENT BANKING

Congratulations to all our fabulous bankers who have been collecting their tokens to receive the rewards. We wish to advise the bank is out of stock of some items and delivery will be in Term 1 2015. Last day for banking will be Friday 12th December. Please remember to collect your bank book and make a deposit each month over the holidays to earn bonus interest. Next year, banking will recommence on February 6th 2015. Thank you to all our fantastic student bankers. We hope you have a Merry Christmas & enjoy the holidays! JULIE & KYLIE STUDENT BANKING COORDINATORS

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KALINDA COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD

For January Holiday Programs

at Irabina, go to www.irabina.com

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