Diary Dates

Newsletter No.25

23 August, 2018

Kew PS 03 9853 8325 kew.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.kewps.vic.edu.au www.OSHClub.com.au

BOOK WEEK @ KEW PRIMARY SCHOOL

Book Week is a special celebration of children’s literature which we all enjoy each year here at Kew Primary School. This annual event highlights the importance of reading and draws on the joy of stories and the creativity of Australian books. Book Week is about encouraging students to read; to learn about new books; to share favourite writers and illustrators; to look again at old favourite books in maybe a different way; to take time to be alone and just read. The aim for teachers in Book Week is to create an exciting environment that challenge and stimulate students to enjoy the theme, Find Your Treasure as well as the books that are short listed for the 2018 Book of the Year. Here at Kew PS we are lucky to have all the short-listed titles for teachers to share, discuss, evaluate and enjoy with the students.

Our book week parade on Wednesday was a highlight for our entire school community. We were indeed fortunate to have so many of the characters that we have grown to love and cherish step out of their books and into our hall. We all took the opportunity to reflect on our own literary experiences as we enjoyed the parade of characters. Witnessing ‘Harry the Dirty Dog’ romp around the hall took me back to my childhood memory of reading this particular favourite book of mine.

Today our students have had the opportunity to learn about the experiences of two incredible authors – Mark Wilson and Gabrielle Wang.

Mark enthralled our younger students through his presentation detailing how stories and illustrations work together, with students being stimulated to use their imagination and powers of observation to enhance confidence in their own writing and drawing.

Gabrielle drew on her range of life experiences to inform the students on where the ideas for her stories came from and then challenged the students to think about how they develop their ideas for their own writing. Gabrielle also discussed the research she undertakes in preparation for her writing, inspiring our students to broaden their knowledge to assist in their writing.

A special thankyou is extended to our real life Mary Poppins – Ruth our librarian, who has spent considerable time and energy in inspiring a love of reading in our students. Together with the literacy action team Ruth organised Book Week to be enjoyed and celebrated by us all. Special appreciation is also extended to our students, parents and staff for their input and support throughout the week.

They say a picture speaks a thousand words so I will allow the pictures below to speak for themselves.

Term Dates 2018

Term 1: 29 Jan—29 Mar

Term 2: 16 Apr - 29 Jun

Term 3: 16 Jul—21 Sep

Term 4: 8 Oct—21 Dec

Aug

Fri 24 Assembly-3pm

Mon 27 PTA Meeting

3:45pm in Staffroom

Thu 30 Father’s Day Stall

Year 4 Hooptime

Fri 31 District Athletics

Sep

Tue 4 School Council Meeting

7.15pm - Library

Wed 5 Yr 6 Hooptime

Fri 7 Assembly - 3pm

Wed 12 Prep 2019 Information Night

7.00pm

Drought Relief Fundraiser

Gold Coin Donation

Fri 13 Vic State School Spectacular

Rehearsal (Hisense Arena)

Sun 16 Working Bee

Mon 17

-Tue 18

Art Show

Wed 19 Footy Day

Gold Coin Donation

Fri 21 Assembly - 2pm

2.30pm Dismissal

Message from the Acting Principal

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PLANNING FOR 2019

Just a reminder that if you know that your child will not be attending Kew Primary School in 2019 could you please notify the office as soon as possible to assist in our future planning.

Enjoy the remainder of the week and hopefully the sun will continue to shine.

Be Worthy!

Karen Overall

Acting Principal

Message from the Acting Assistant Principal

READING AT KEW PRIMARY

Reading is a key priority in our 2017-2020 Strategic plan. Last year I completed a Leading Literacy course at the Bastow Institute and this year Clare and Diana are completing a similar course. We regularly participate in whole school Professional Learning run by teachers within our staff and engage outside presenters as well.

You may have heard your children discussing ‘Just Right’ books, which are books that are not too hard or too easy for them to read. This initiative has been run through the library and Ruth has worked with the children on strategies that will help them decide on books that they are interested in and that they are able to successfully read.

However, nothing is more important than ensuring that our children develop a love and excitement for reading. Our library is such an important aspect of engaging children in books and reading. Students have weekly library sessions with Ruth and their teachers and of course the library is open every lunch time where they can come in, read a book, play chess or use the lego and construction material.

Yesterday’s book week parade was a wonderful and fun event for everyone. Great to see the creativity of our school community when it comes to dressing up and the excitement that comes with that. A big thank you to Ruth for organizing such a special event, along with the Book Week speakers that are scheduled for today.

Some recent purchases for our Middle and Senior School reading sets.

PYP OPEN AFTERNOON

Dear Parents/Carers,

We invite all parents to attend a PYP open class afternoon. As a school community we have committed to the Primary Years Programme (PYP) Framework. This framework is a Student-Centred and inquiry approach to learning. Students will be provided with the knowledge, concepts, skills personal attributes and the capacity to take action, all of which younger students need to equip them for successful lives, both now and in the future.

This is an opportunity for you to visit your child’s class and ask their class teacher about inquiry learning and the PYP framework in an informal and relaxed manner. Teachers will be in their classrooms at this time to answer any questions you may have and to share the journey so far in the PYP inquiry learning framework. This open afternoon is on Monday 3rd September, 3.45-4.15pm. Please note that all teachers will not be available after 4.15 as they have Professional Learning Team Meetings.

If there are specific questions that you would like addressed about PYP, please feel free to email these to Sally or myself and we will try our best to answer your question.

Kind Regards Sally Marsh and Andrew Wood PYP Coordinators

Kew Primary School Blog

Are you ready for the Book Week Parade? It's going to be spectacular.

Want to get involved? All contributions to the blog are welcome. Please drop me a line at: katrina.w@ozemail.com.au

Katrina Whelen

FATHER’S DAY STALL

Kew PS will run its annual Father's Day Stall on Thursday 30th August. Volunteers are required to help run the stall. Please sign up using this link: https://www.volunteersignup.org/MTFW9

PYP ~ PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM

Reflection is a critical part of the Primary Years Program with Year level teams, individual teachers and of course students.

For teachers and their Professional Learning Teams, we may reflect on what went well and what didn’t, when working on an inquiry unit. We may adjust the direction of the inquiry based on our reflections and the observations that we make about the students’ understanding and their interest and engagement.

Students are encouraged to think deeply and critically about the issues that are raised through discussion, research and experience in inquiry learning sessions. Reflection may affirm their thinking, deepen their thinking or change their thinking but it is the actual reflective process that is most important.

Sally Marsh

Acting Assistant Principal

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CYBERSMART HELP – KIDS HELPLINE Kids Helpline is a free 24 hour counselling service for Australian kids and young people aged 5-25 years. You can get help over the phone, email or web. The counsellors talk with more than 6,000 kids each week, and help with all sorts of problems, big and small. Web counselling lets you connect one-on-one, real time, with a Kids Helpline counsellor, over the web. Because a lot of kids use web counselling, there is often a wait time before a counsellor is available. If you need to talk to someone now, call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What can you talk about?

You can talk to them about anything. Maybe something has happened at home or school and you're not quite sure

what to do about it. You might be feeling sad, scared or lonely, or just want to talk to someone who understands.

Or you might have a question that you want an answer to. No question or problem is too big or too small for Kids

Helpline.

Kids often call about:

Cyber issues

Family

Friends

Feeling sad

Feeling scared

School Anything!

You'll talk directly with a counsellor when you call Kids Helpline. The following things will happen each time you contact us:

You will hear a recorded message which tells you about how Kids Helpline works.

After listening to, or reading this message, you will be connected to a Kids Helpline counsellor

The counsellor you speak to will tell you his or her name, so if you call Kids Helpline again, you can ask to speak to the same person

Your counsellor will ask you what you would like to talk about and ask you some questions to help understand what's going on for you. You don't have to say your name and your counsellor won't tell anyone what you discuss

For more information, have a look at https://www.kidshelpline.com.au Madame T and the ICT Team

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Football Star Academy run Girls Only soccer sessions at Kew Primary School every Sunday morning.

FSA would like to offer all girls at Kew Primary School the opportunity to learn the skills and enjoy the game in a girls only environment. Therefore FSA are offering every

girl at Kew PS

1 FREE TRIAL class during term 3!

For more information / booking your child's spot please contact Matt Bell on 0428 509 991 or at vic26.football@SportStarAcademy.com

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