KAWUNGAN COURIER Helping Each Other Achieve Excellence Issue 17 Friday 30th October 2020

Kawungan State School Email: principal@kawunganss.eq.edu.au Grevillea Street Phone: 07 4197 9111 KAWUNGAN QLD 4655 Fax: 07 4197 9100

KEEPING IN TOUCH

World Teachers’ Day This Friday, across Queensland, we celebrate “World Teachers’ Day”. As principal at Kawungan I am incredibly grateful to all of our teachers for the amazing work they do with our students. Each and every day our teachers go above and beyond for their students as they aspire for all students at Kawungan to reach their potential. I am sure you join with me in thanking our amazing teachers for the incredible passion and professionalism that they bring to their work.

Values - Courtesy The value that we have addressed throughout this week is courtesy. Discussions have been

had in classrooms around being polite through respectful attitude and behaviour towards others, using manners, showing kindness, being generous and ultimately doing the right thing. So many of our students show courtesy in simple acts of kindness and consideration every day. It is these simple acts of courtesy that help sustain a positive culture within our school. Swimming Carnival – Friday 13th November Students in grades 4, 5 and 6 have been given a note with information about our swimming carnival. Some 9 year old Year Three students may also receive a note if their 50m stroke times qualify. This note is due back next Thursday, 5th November. Please note that no parents are to attend the carnival due to Covid 19 protocols. There will be limited food available at the canteen (only snack food), students need to bring their lunch with them. Please note, there is no Hervey Bay District Swimming Carnival this year. Mark Jones PRINCIPAL

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P&C NEWS Happy Week Four everyone! We’re almost half way through the term already. Yay! World Teacher’s Day World Teacher’s Day is this Friday, 30th October, and we would love to share a special shout out to all our amazing teachers at KSS. This year we have seen, perhaps more clearly than ever, the true capacity and calibre of our teachers. On this day, we will take the opportunity to celebrate all the love, time, leadership and dedication our teachers have put in to our school and students through COVID-19. THANK YOU KSS TEACHERS!

“You teach us in a room, And you teach us on zoom. You teach us at our house,

You teach us with our mouse. You teach us here and there.

You teach us everywhere. And that’s how we know you care.”

To The Best Quaran-Teacher’s of 2020 Happy World Teacher’s day! Tuckshop

Next Friday, 6th November, is World Tuckshop Day. We are so very lucky at Kawungan to also have such a committed core team at our school tuckshop. Please join us in thanking our

tuckshop staff by drawing a picture or sharing a message of thanks on your tuckshop bags on this day. We are certain that our staff and volunteers will really appreciate and be grateful of the special thank you. Tuckshop will continue to open Tuesday through to Friday this term, and will follow their current ordering procedures. Students are still able to drop orders and money to the tuckshop in a brown paper bag before school, or parents who wish to pay by EFTPOS, or have any queries, need to please phone Danielle at the tuckshop directly on 4197 9134. Thank you for your support. The Uniform Shop The Uniform Shop is open Monday and Friday mornings 8.15am - 9.15am on the grassed area at the front of the school. Our team of volunteers will take your order and then deliver the order to your child’s classroom. Correct amounts in cash are preferred or EFTPOS is available. Please note: sports shirts are low in stock and order forms will be sent out Term One next year. If you have any

enquiries please email PandC@kawunganss.eq.edu.au. Graduation Bears/Balls This year, we are offering our Year Six students (and any other families) the opportunity to order a ‘graduation bear, soccer ball or football’. These are perfect to preserve memories and mark milestone occasions be it as school leavers, sports clubs etc and come with a marker ready to go. Order forms were sent home with all Year 6 students last week, and spares/extras can be collected from the office. Bears are $20 each, and balls are $18 each. All order forms and monies must be returned to the office before Wednesday next week, 4th November. Thank you to so many who have ordered already.

Picture Products We have had confirmation that our beautiful mementos will be in the mail back to us this week and our fingers are crossed for some speedy postage. Miss Walter will be in touch via email as soon as they arrive. School Banking Don’t forget school banking is every Thursday. Bank books need to be handed in at the classroom at the start of the day. Thank you to our dedicated team of banking volunteers for your help on this day each week. Containers for Change Thank you to those who have supported us already with your container donations – every container counts! Anyone wanting to further support our KSS community can do so by donating their bottles and/or cans to any recycling centre and quoting our code C10049765. Thank you for your extra support with this. P&C Meeting Our next P&C meeting is Monday, 9th November at 5.30pm, in the back of the library, if you would like to join us. Have another fabulous fortnight everyone. Team P&C

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SCHOOL NEWS

Principal’s Awards “Being a Trustworthy Student”

PK Luigi, Sophie

PA Kaiden, Ava

PW Dallas, Harrison

PU Ashton, Patrick

PN Kyah, Harrison

1K Lily, Cooper

1A Jax, Olivia

1W Elodie, Laura

1U Mackenzie, Chloe

1N Allyah, Lachlan

1G Pippa, Josephine

2K Aydin, Reesha

2A Jason, Indiana

2W Cooper, Flur

2U Claire, Lukas

2N Hayley, Beau

2G Maddison, Myles

3K Jackson, Charlotte

3A Jacob, Grace

3W Ava, Aidan

3U James, Ethan

3N Rhylie, Layton

3G Arialle, Alex

4K Tahlia, Lachlan

4A Phoenix, Zelia

4W Kiana, Saskia

4U Dakota, Riley

4N Tyler, Claire

5K Olivia, Jett

5A Claire, Elke

5W Kadie, Brodie

5U Logan, Payton

5N Daniel, Ava

6K Rachael, Matilda

6A Ruby, Bridie

6W Monique, Riley

6U Karly, Sarah

6N Meeka, Chelsea

PE NEWS Hello Term Four! It has been beautiful weather for our swimming block and we are now 3 weeks in. All of our students gain something from our swimming lessons, whether it be improving their confidence in the water, their fitness and/or their strokes. They learn about water safety and scenarios to better prepare them for real life situations they may find themselves in. Most of all I

love seeing the smiles between peers and sense of achievement when they push themselves to try new things.

Wide Bay Representation Congratulations to our students who have represented the Wide Bay at State Championships this year. Recently, Rachael N and Breanna T competed with the Wide Bay Hockey team. Imani E is currently competing at the Gold Coast this week for basketball. Caelan B will be heading away for cricket representing the Wide Bay. Good luck to our Kawungan students yet to compete. AFLQ Finals, Maroochydore Both our boys and girls teams played their hearts out at the AFLQ Schools Cup finals in Maroochydore on Friday 16th October. We scored points in every game and held our heads high even though it was a tough day of competition. Mrs Robertson and Mr Dalton couldn’t be prouder of every single player, our students stayed positive, had excellent sportsmanship and put a lot of effort into every single game. Every game we played we grew in confidence.

We would like to thank Mrs Jankovic for helping our teams on the day and the parents who came along to cheer and encourage our teams, it was very much appreciated. Many of our students said they look forward to signing up in town next year for club AFL as they enjoyed the training and gameplay throughout the year.

MUSIC NEWS Music Awards Night Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Annual Music Awards Night at the Brolga Theatre will not go ahead. Instead, we will be holding three music nights at school, so as to minimise the number of people in the audience. Each ensemble will get their own performance night. It does mean some families may need to come to more than one night but each concert should only last between 20-30 minutes. Trophies will be presented at each night for outstanding music students. Students will need to wear their music uniform. If you have any problems with this contact Mr Gillard as soon as possible. There will be no charge for these concerts.

Dates for Concerts Week 5 Monday, November 2 6:30pm – Senior Choir Night Week 6 Thursday, November 12 6:30pm

– String Night for both String Orchestra and Beginners Strings. This date has changed since previously published last term. Week 7 Monday, November 16 6:30pm – Concert Band Night

LIBRARY NEWS

Wanted The Library would LOVE any small cardboard boxes and paper towel rolls for construction activities at lunchtime. If you are able to send any in with your child we would be most grateful.

What’s On In The Library There is something on offer for your children to do everyday in the Library. It would be great if you could talk to your child/children about what they could be doing in First Break each day.

COMMUNITY NEWS Helping Hands Kawungan Care Helping Hands Network operates in the Kawungan

State School hall/grounds. We pride ourselves on providing your child/ren with fun, play-based learning experiences before and after school as well as during the school holidays. Whether your child attends the

Kawungan OSHC daily or only occasionally, each visit is an exciting and engaging adventure. Contact our Kawungan coordinator, 0429 836 879 or email kawungan@helpinghandsnetwork.com.au to make an enquiry. Brochures are also available at the school office.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Drawing Card Games Storytime Board Games Construction

Come to the back of the Library and follow the instructions (YouTube) to create a drawing.

Come to the back of the Library and either learn to play or play: - Uno - Skip Bo - Monopoly - Snap - Fish - Sevens

Listen to a story and do an art activity based on the book.

Come to the back of the Library and either learn to play or play: - Snakes & ladders - Trouble - Connect 4 - Bounce Off - Hungry Hippos - Ludo - Checkers - Chess - Twister

Get creative and make something out of paper, cardboard, boxes etc.

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