YOUR GUIDE TO THE SCHOOL NEWS, INFORMATION AND EVENTS

Kellerberrin District High School

Chalkdust Chat

Welcome to Miss McTaggart & Miss Forknall

We are pleased to welcome Miss

Jody McTaggart and Miss Rachel

Forknall to our school in term four.

Miss McTaggart is taking on Physical

Education and The Arts whilst Mrs

Nicholls and Mrs Innes are on leave.

Miss McTaggart has recently

graduated from university and is

excited to begin her teaching

career.

Miss Forknall is working in the Middle

School and has experience

teaching in a range of schools

across Western Australia and the

Northern Territory.

We are very fortunate to have

secured the services of Jody and

Rachel and we trust our community

will make them feel very welcome.

DON’T FORGET….

BOOKFAIR| Tuesday, 7th -10th November 9am-3pm

ASSEMBLY| Wednesday 15 November - Year 5/6 Yellow

ASSEMBLY | Wednesday 6th December – PP/Yr 1 Xmas Assembly

CELEBRATION NIGHT | Wednesday 13th December

Term 4 – Issue 11

25th Oct, 2017

Principal

Greg Hunt

Deputy Principal

Tish Clarke

Contact Details:

54 James Street

Kellerberrin 6410

PH: 90454308

FAX: 90454537

EMAIL:

Kellerberrin.dhs@

education.wa.edu.

From the Principal

Welcome to Term 4 everyone!

I would like to thank Mrs Trish Hewitt who was Acting Principal in my absence during Term 3. Mrs

Hewitt did a great job in progressing our School Improvement Agenda.

Planning for 2018 has been well underway for some time. I am currently in the process of finalising

staffing and class arrangements for next year. Even the best laid plans may need to alter

dependent on many factors such as an increase or decrease in enrolments.

As soon as I am able I will publish our arrangements for next year.

I would like to thank the P&C for their support in allowing us to host the visiting authors last week.

As you can see form some of the class news they were very well received by the students and

staff.

Kellerberrin has been very fortunate to have our crossing guard back in place on the highway. I

would urge all parents and students to make use of this valuable service.

Mr Greg Hunt | Principal

‘Successful Students, Quality Staff,

A Connected Community’

PBS UPDATE

As you are no doubt aware, our school is

working towards a culture of high

expectations and school improvement. The

impact on this for our students is across both

academic and social emotional domains.

As reported previously we are working

through the Positive Behaviour in Schools

process with the aim of establishing a

positive, school wide behaviour

management process and practices that

will impact positively on the educational

goals of all students.

The PBS committee have recently sought

feedback from students, staff and families

around behaviour and will now pool these

results to establish clearly defined behaviour

expectations and a school wide behaviour

matrix which will identify specific behaviours

suitable for each setting in our school.

If you have any questions about this process

please do not hesitate to contact us.

Tish Clarke | Deputy Principal

NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOMS

Kindy

In Kindy we have been learning about our

senses and how we use each sense to learn

about our world. Slimy spaghetti is sooooo

much fun to play with!!

PP/Year 1

What a busy start to term 4 we have had! We loved speaking to the visiting

authors and keeping the beat with Musica Viva.

In Literacy this term we have started looking at the story The Gingerbread

man. We have orally retold the story, made puppets to support our retell

and will now look at changing the characters in the story to help

develop our vocabulary when telling and writing stories. In

Numeracy we have started learning about money. We have learnt

about the features of the Australian coins and the value of them. This

term Mrs Cox has introduced a “reporter” instead of news telling we

have one student a day who has to ask the class a question and

they then share back the information they have gathered to the

class. We have had some very interesting questions like do you like

dogs or dinosaurs? Do you like building or going on holidays? I bet

you can guess which one had the most votes.

Year 1/ 2 We enjoyed reading to our buddies in the PP/1

class so much last term so have decided to

keep it up for term four! Last Thursday was our

first buddy reading session for the term and we

were very excited because we got a new

buddy to read to. Sometimes if the weather is

nice, we get to read out in the sunshine which is

lovely. Mrs Cox even sets up some fun stations in

her class to have a go at in our small teams.

Have a look at some of our buddies doing some

fabulous reading!

Year 2/3

Wow! Can you believe that we are in Term 4 already? This year has absolutely flown by. This term in Room 15

we are going to be learning how to write Information Reports and will be doing some speaking and listening

activities. We will also be continuing our work on Australia in Geography, in particular looking at important

places, our climate and our neighbouring countries. We are also looking forward to working closely with Mrs

Wilkins to enhance our knowledge of digital technologies. As you can see it is going to be another big term

of learning, but we will have

lots of

fun

doing

it.

NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOMS

Year 4

The year 4 class have welcomed two new students, Blaize and Nitro

into our class late last term. This term is going to be a busy term. We

are busy planning and rehearsing our assembly item and going on

incursions, all on top of our normal classes too. We loved working

with Raewyn Caisley, the visiting author on Monday and Tuesday of

week 2. She showed us some easy and effective ways to improve

our writing! In Maths, we are putting our thinking skills to work while

focusing on statistics and probability. We love making and using

spinners! In HASS, we are still continuing to learn all about Africa and

South America, including animals that are native to each continent.

We have been lucky to have Mrs Wilkins helping us last term and this

term as well, to develop our ICT skills.

Year 5/6 (Yellow)

The year 5/6 yellow class are looking forward to the huge term ahead. We have already enjoyed visiting

authors provided by the P&C and have been inspired to write and illustrate our own books. This term we are

continuing to work with Miss Michelle to create a classroom full of positive and happy learners. For HASS this

term students are learning about business and economics, and how it relates and affects our lives in

Kellerberrin. We are looking forward to presenting our class assembly to you all in week 6.

Year 5/6 (Blue)

This term, the Year 5/6 Blue class can’t wait to get

started on preparing for our Celebration Night

performance at the end of the year. We have

already started brainstorming ideas! In Maths we will

be exploring more division strategies and problems,

linking percentages with decimals and fractions and

lots of work with money. In Writing, we will be

constructing poems, narratives and some exposition

texts. We have been using the app Explain

Everything to make simple procedures in Digital

Technologies. Explain Everything is an interactive whiteboard app that allows students to create,

collaborate and share their work. The app has infinite uses and we have been watching YouTube tutorials to

help us learn how to best use it. The Year 5 students are looking at needs and wants in Business &

Economics, and will be exploring mobile phone plans and the associated advertising tricks. The Year 6

students will be looking forward to their End of Year Dinner too. Thank you to our parent representatives for

organising this. We look forward to a very productive and fun term with water polo at the pool coming up

soon and also our end of term rewards day!

Middle School

Welcome back to school! The Middle School has a new

teacher this term, Miss Forknall. Miss Forknall is very

excited to be working with the Middle School students

this term at Kellerberrin DHS. We are trialling a new

maths program where we can cater to the students

abilities and also incorporating Digital Technologies by

using the individual iPads. The students really enjoyed

the visiting authors in a Week 2 and we are reading one

of Norman Jorgenson's books in class. We have had a

great start to the term so far and we are looking forward to a busy but fun term full of learning.

Camp Fire with Miss Michelle (Chaplain)

Science This term in Science every year group is studying Chemistry. This is sure to be a fun and hands

on unit with lots of interesting experiments happening looking at how things change.

Home Ec This term the Middle School is participating in Home Economics activities, with a main focus

on the food aspect, with possibly a little exposure to how to use a washing machine and basic sewing skills.

The main focus of the food side of Home Ec will be to plan, budget, purchase, prepare and serve/partake

of a 3 course meal with all members of the class and staff.

Digital Technology This term classes are going to be exposed to the new learning area of Digital Technologies. I am excited to

be going into classrooms and introducing students to coding, algorithms and other components of Digital

Tech, as well as having students play and experiment with the different robots we have in our school.

This term we have also started a

coding club at school called

Codebusters. Students who are

interested in coding are invited to

come along at lunch times to

participate in fun, hands on

activities that are related to

coding.

If you would like to see some of the

things your student is learning and

you have access, Scratch Jnr is a

free coding app that can be

downloaded onto Apple and

Android devices, or Scratch 2.0

can be accessed via laptop or

desktop computers and doesn’t

need internet access if you decide

to download it.

CAPTAIN AttendANT

Attendance at our school is

vitally important.

At KDHS we present Captain

AttendANT to the class who

receives the highest

attendance percentage each

week.

CAPTAIN AttendANT – Term 4

Week 1 Year 5/6 Yellow

Week 2 Year 2/3

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Nab Student Banking

TERM 4 DATES

8th November

22nd November

6th December

2018 KINDY ENROLMENTS Please be advised that

we are accepting

enrolments for Kindy

2018. Packs and further

information are

available from the

Administration Office.

SCHOOL HATS A reminder that school hats are part of our school

uniform.

“No Hat = No Play”

If you have lost your hat you can purchase a new

one from the office

(Navy hats for Yr 7-10 & Royal blue hats for K–

Year 6 )

$12.00 per hat

STUDENT ABSENCES

TEXT ABSENCES TO: 0437 202 819

It is a requirement that parents or carers advise

the School if your child will be absent.

For your convenience please text if your child will

be absent from School.

If your child is recorded as

being absent by 10am you will

be contacted by our SMS

message system.

Please reply text to provide the

reason and acknowledge your

child’s absence or ring the

school on 90454308.

VACSWIM ENROLMENTS

Vacswim enrolments are open.

VacSwim swimming lessons are in the

December/January school holidays. Lessons are

open to children over five years and under 18

years. Your children can join in the fun of learning

to swim with lessons conducted at pools and

open water venues across the State. Lessons are

for beginners through to advanced survival,

rescue and resuscitation.

https://www.education.wa.edu.au/web/at-

school/swimming

We are a “Nut Friendly” School

Please think of others when

packing food for your children.