Issue No .8 Wednesday, 28thMarch 2018

Introducing some of our specialist teachers

more to come next term Brendan Thompson – This is my eighth year at KPS. Currently, I’m teaching ICT to the Grade 3-6’s. I also work with the Singing Group, Rockband and KPS TV Show. I love spending time with my wife and our two children, Lucas and Sam. In my spare time I really enjoy playing/watching soccer and basketball, playing guitar, bass and drums and restoring my 1970s Holden. I’m looking forward to the amazing things that we will be learning about in ICT, such as coding and robotics!

Nathan Babic - This is my first year at KPS and I am teaching P.E. My hobbies include playing and watching the footy, following all kinds of sports such as basketball, cricket and soccer. I am a huge Richmond and New York Knicks supporter. I also love spending time with family and friends. I have enjoyed getting to know the students and parents in the KPS Community and I am looking forward to seeing the development of P.E at KPS.

Hi, I’m Andrea Lewis. I currently teach art both here and at Upper Plenty Primary School. I love my role as a visual arts teacher. Mostly I love watching the way the students express themselves through their artwork. As well as teaching, I am currently completing a Masters in Art Therapy at LaTrobe University. In my spare time I love discovering new art in the city laneways, going to galleries, the theatre, the football and spending time with my family and friends.

Hola de Nelly Molina! This is my fourth year teaching Spanish at Kilmore PS. I really enjoy being able to share not only my language but also my culture with so many young children throughout our lessons. I love watching to see how at the end of each term children realise how much they know about the Spanish language and how much it really is around us. Cooking, Latin dancing and ‘roller skating’ are my hobbies. You will always be ‘Bienvenido/Welcome’ to visit our classroom. Hasta

Last day of Term Thursday, 29th March

School Concludes at 2.30pm

SCHOOL BANK DETAILS

BSB: 063 698 Account No.: 10039521 for online payments.

BPay Procedure

If you are using BPay to pay for excursions or school fees please email; kilmore.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au with the details of what the payment is for. This will enable us to allocate the funds accordingly on your family account.

Sick Bay Linen Roster Term 1

29th March Mandii Weir

Thank You

Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their birthday over the holidays or in the coming week.

We hope you have a lovely day.

March

30th Mia FS Millicent 1F Kate 34M Holly 6M April 1st Sanarj 1V 2nd Jayln 34G Phoebe 6M 3rd Jackson 34M 4th Josh 1R 5th Clare 6E 7th Sabrina 34G Molly 6E 8th Maddison 5H 10th Alia 34G 11th Emerson 6M 13th Brittney 6M 15th Jessica 2T Claudia 6W 17th Gemma 2G Emma 6E Fisher 6E

What’s gone home recently? The following notices were sent home Thursday

22nd March to Wednesday 28th March.

Whole School: Enrolment Information 28/3

Eldest In The Family: Sentral information 28/3

Selected Families: Nil

Selected Students: Nil

Individual Grade Levels: Nil

Foundation: Nil

Grade 1: Nil

Grade 2: Nil

Grade 3: Nil

Grade 4: Nil

Grade 5: Nil

Grade 6: Nil

Spare copies of notices are available from the

office.

COMING EVENTS

March

Thursday, 29th March

Easter Bonnet Parade 9.00am

End Term 1- School concludes at 2.30pm

April

Monday 16th April First day term 2

May

Thursday, 10th May

Mother’s Day Stall 0

Tuesday, 22nd May Grade 3/4 Museum Excursion

June

Thursday, 28th June 3 Way Conferences

Students do not attend school this day they only attend for their meeting time.

November

Monday, 5th November Report Writing Day - Pupil Free Day.

Monday, 17th December Year 6 Graduation

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Can you believe that this is the last week of term one? What a busy, productive and exciting term it has been.

Last Thursday we had a visit from Gill Callister, Secretary for Education. It was a wonderful opportunity for our school to showcase the work that is being done here and discuss the supports and services that are being provided by the Department to assist in the work that schools do each day. Our student leaders did an exceptional job as ambassadors, leading a rigorous conversation about life as a KPS student and providing an informative guided tour to the Secretary. I received an email on Monday from Ms Callister. This is how she described our student leaders…

“I was so impressed with your School Captains and Deputy School Captains. Their leadership, not just during the tour of the school, but also through their articulate and thoughtful explanation of Kilmore Primary School's learning model, was nothing short of exceptional.” Ms Gill Callister.

We have had some concerns raised by parents who have seen several cars drive into the staff carpark on Lancefield Rd in the morning to drop off children. The cars drop off children and then back onto Lancefield Rd . This is extremely dangerous and illegal. Please refrain from doing this as we would hate to see any family come to harm. The police do patrol the school to ensure that everyone is using the roads safely before and after school at times so please do the right thing.

A huge thank you to our FAF of KPS fundraising group for your work this term. It culminated in the Bunnings BBQ and Easter raffle this week. I have put the 2018 fundraising targets items in the newsletter so that you can see what your funds are being used to purchase. So far the fundraising has paid for the new numeracy trolleys and some of the literacy units. Well done and thank you!

Have a wonderful Easter break and enjoy the school holidays. Thank you for your ongoing support and commitment to KPS. See you in term two!

Principal Kilmore Priimary

Preston 34M Bailey 34M Kyle 1V Logan FS Max 5P Codi 1F Liam FJ Hunter 2G Brooke 34P Ella 2D Charlotte FW

Marcus 6W Pearl 2J Logan 34M Mackenzie FS Beau FD Sam 2G Jackson 34M Emmett 1R Jai 34C Keeley 1R

Congratulations to our Easter Raffle Winner

Fundraising for 2018

$15,000 plus!!!! Pretty

please with sugar and spice, can we have…..

Four mobile Literacy units for the new classrooms

Novel sets for the senior grades

Take home readers across all levels

Guided Reading texts for junior grades

Literacy Storage Units for junior grades

Maths trolleys and resources for the four new classrooms with resources

Additional Ipads/netbooks for the infant rooms

Priority for additional funds: More Ipads/netbooks

Add to the playground upgrade fund

Fund improvements for the outdoor learning space

Being on Time Matters At Kilmore Primary School we are committed to providing your child with an excellent education. The building blocks of a great education begin with all students coming to school each and every day. Regular school attendance is vital and missing school days and being late to school can have a big impact on a child’s future – missing one day a fortnight a student will miss four full weeks by the end of the year. By Year 10 they’ll have missed more than a year of school. There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.

The table above shows the number of students late to school each day last week. Unfortunately, we still have many students coming late to school.

Help your class win the next Being on Time Matters award by arriving at school on time! Look out for the Everyday Counts page in this newsletter for information on school

attendance.

Week day Number of students requesting late passes

Monday 16

Tuesday 20

Wednesday 23

Thursday 27

Friday 21

Thank you to all our families who contributed to the Woolworths Earn & Learn program in 2018. Our Foundation students are very excited to have received new equipment for their area. The introduction of the dress ups will encourage creativity, imagination, perseverance and development of language and social skills. Role play inspires drama, creativity, and imagination in character development and storytelling. Thank You!!!

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This week, small groups of students from Grades 3 – 6 participated in student forums. Working in teams, students discussed two key questions; ‘What helps you learn maths at KPS?’ and ‘What hinders your learning?’ Inviting students to reflect upon their learning, share their perspectives, thoughts and suggestions is part of our commitment to increasing ‘student voice’ at KPS. We will share some student reflections in coming newsletters

Our Grade 5/6 students have been collecting,

representing, comparing, interpreting and

analysing different sets of data. Grade 6

students investigated enrolment numbers at

three local primary schools over a period of

time. Grade 5 students collected data on the

colours of cars travelling along Lancefield Road

and Conway Street at different times in the day.

Last Week’s Talking Point…

Over the past couple of weeks, there were two ‘special’ dates. The first date was 15.3.18 and the second

was 21.3.18. Did you work out why they were special? 15 + 3 = 18 and 21 – 3 = 18.

Hello everyone! Can you believe

that this is the last

week of Term 1?

Some of my

highlights have

been visiting every

classroom, finding

an apple core,

spending time in

the yard, finding

some popcorn,

listening to stories,

finding a ball,

getting lots of pats,

finding a chip and

hanging out with

everyone. I can’t

wait to do it all

again next term!

Above: Have you

seen the fruit trees

growing on the

Lancefield Road side

of the school? The

Gardening Club does a

wonderful job looking

after them. You might

remember that last

year we could buy a

little plaque to help

support the purchase

of the trees. This

week, I checked out

my special tree with

some of my friends. It

was easy to find

because it’s got my

name on it! If you

bought a plaque there

will be a tree with

your name on it too!

Above: Two of my Grade 3/4

friends were reading a book

when suddenly they came

across a warning (right) on the

first page. They rushed straight

to my office to give me the

book, ‘The Dog’s Guide to Hu-

mans’. Thankfully, they acted

quickly and no harm was done!

On Saturday, I went to Bunnings.

I knew I wasn’t going to school

because we went along a

different road. Normally, I take

the oppawtunity to have a

power nap when I’m in the car.

But, this time I sat up and looked

out of the window for nearly the

whole trip before I closed my

eyes and snored. When we

arrived, it took me no time at all

to sniff out the sausages.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to

snag (see what I did there?!) a

snack. Thank you to everyone

who prepared, cooked, served

and ate the sausages. Over $900

was raised for KPS!

Kilmore Primary School Motto Competition Voting Form

Thank you to all the students and families who offered ideas for the school motto competition. You have been very creative! Below are the mottos that have been nominated. Please read them carefully and place a tick beside your first choice. Alternatively you can email your selection to the school. Remember that our motto should encapsulate the key beliefs of our school.

Good luck everyone!!!

Every student matters!

LEAP into school L=Learn E=Excellence A= Attitude P =Pride

Master the future we bring!

Building dreams for a brighter future!

Education, confidence and resilience in a caring (or Safe) environment!

Creating a community of learners!

One kind word can change someone’s entire day!

Great minds creating great achievers for strong futures!

Together we can achieve anything!

Educating students for success in a changing world!

2, 4, 6, 8 KPS is great!

Educating students with kindness and respect!

Creating a safe environment where children flourish!

Take pride at all times!

Today’s actions shape everyone’s tomorrow!

Dare to do as much as you are able!

Do your best at KPS!

Achieving the best you matters at KPS!

Accept the challenge!

We walk the path of excellence

Why it is important to recycle!

By 3/4G

Every time we recycle, we save our environment a little more. Recycling is converting waster into reusable materials. A glass bottle takes over 4000 years to actually decompose. Can you believe it! Research has proven that plastic bags that are thrown into the ocean kill over a million sea creatures a year.

Animals get sick by piles of rubbish that travel through drains all around animal habitats. For example, turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish, so they eat the plastic bag and then they choke, get sick and die. In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences estimated that cargo and cruise ships dumped 10 million kg of rubbish into the ocean. Isn’t that disgusting? Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year. Do your part now to help animals stay healthy.

Our grade 3-6 students have been learning to write persuasive texts. 3/4G have shared their jointly written text that outlines strong arguments as to why we should recycle. They have backing up their arguments with facts about the impact of rubbish on the environment. Well done 34G – I

hope that people are persuaded to recycle after reading your article. One student told me that as a result of her new learning she is now going to revise her persuasive text to include facts to support and strengthen

her arguments.

Coles supermarkets are issuing one Sports for Schools voucher for every $10 spent at Coles. Our school is

collecting these vouchers that we will be able to redeem against sports equipment. So please collect them for our

school and get family and neighbours to help us too! There are collection boxes outside the school & at Kilmore an

Wallan Coles. Our Current total is =58900 We still have 7 days left of collecting. As Vouchers will be issued until the 3rd of April. Please drop your tickets in the school box’s at Coles or hold onto them for the 1st week back in Term 2

for the School box please.Thank you for your support!! KPS sports for schools program.

Why it is important to recycle!

(continued) On average 16% of the money you spend on a product pays for the packaging, which ends up as rubbish. As much as 50% of waste in the average rubbish bin could be composted. Did you know that up to 8% of a vehicle can be recycled, that is why tow trucks take away old cars and crush them. Australia competes against the world in many things, in some areas such as recycling newspaper we have been the leaders for years but we still have a lot of work to do and we need your help. We can recycle many different things such as; cardboard, glass bottles, jars, plastic containers, steel cans and aluminium. There is a leading company in Australia called RePlas and this company reuse recycled materials to make new things. They love getting old materials to make new things and it is great for our environment.

Dumping rubbish onto our environment has a huge impact and can cause serious damage to our animal’s habitats and land. Did you know that Australia is the second biggest producer of rubbish in the world? It is not a great record to have! Every year each Australian throws out 700kg of rubbish. Some rubbish will break down and rot but some will not. This can cause bad gasses to leak into our clean fresh air, causing pollution.

It is important that the earth be not overrun with rubbish. Recycling is important to control rubbish levels. Recycling has more than one use, which reduced rubbish levels everywhere. We encourage everyone to recycle whenever they can.