Issue No. 23 – 3rd August 2018

General Guidelines for Parents when making any Payments to the school: Preferred method of payment is BPay. Your BPay reference number can be located on your family statement and will remain the same throughout your child’s time at KPS. EFT/credit card facilities are available over the counter at the main office. Cash payments – correct money is required as there is not always access to change. Please do not send large amounts of cash with your child. Receipts will be issued through your child’s classroom. To help the office in finalising accounts, where possible, please limit payments in the last week of any school term. Sharyn Fletcher, Business Manager School Council President Glen Yates 0447 520 058 School Council email yates.glen.j@edumail.vic.gov.au School Uniform Primary School Wear 9768 0342 OSHC Camp Australia co-ordinator Sarah 0401 054 261

2018 Dates to Remember

Term dates 2018 Fliers attached Term 3 - 16th July – 21st September KPS Centenary (page 8) Term 4 - 8th October – 21st December Foundation 100 days phots (pages 9-10)

Term 3 August Sat 4th Aug

Trivia Night (FOKPS event)

Thur 9th Aug Australian Mathematics Competition Fri 10th Aug Foundation Zoo excursion 18 – 24 Aug Book Week ‘Find Your Treasure’ Wed 22nd Aug Year 6 Exhibition Conference Thur 23rd Aug Book Week Dress Up Day

Year 6 Exhibition Parent Information Night 6.30p.m. – 7.30p.m.

Fri 24th Aug Thur 30th Aug

Summer Sports Gala Day Father’s Day Stall (FOKPS event)

Fri 31st Aug Level 5 Share and Connect September Wed 5th Sept Year 5 Broken Hill excursion 10th -14th Sept Grade 3/4 Camp – Camp Oasis

(10th – 12th grades 34AM, 34SP, 34MC) (12th – 14th grades 34HL, 34GP, 34KG & 34JL)

18th – 20th Sept School Concerts Fri 21st Sept Casual Clothes Day (FOKPS event)

Last Day Term 3 (2.30p.m. dismissal)

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Principal’s Message All 625 students at Kingsville Primary are fortunate to be IB Learners. They attend a school which is both a well regarded Victorian Government school and, one authorised to offer a program of the International Baccalaureate Organization. That program is the “Primary Years Programme”, a curriculum framework for international primary education.

Kingsville began its journey to authorisation back in 2006 and became fully authorised in 2009. That required school council, staff, students and community at that time to make a commitment to the philosophy and requirements of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. We have worked collectively since then to ensure that the PYP is not something that is ‘done’ so to speak at a particular time or, is seen as separate in any way to our core practice. Rather, it has been successfully embedded into our daily practice and should be evident in all aspects of how we live and learn together as a community. In 2017 as an authorised school we took part in a PYP evaluation. This was a valuable experience and now in 2018 work undertaken will help inform the DET school review which is taking place over the next 3 weeks. The independent reviewer and the review team during this time will visit classrooms across the school, speak to the children and the teachers and, gain an insight into instructional practices at KPS. Children will have the opportunity to talk about their learning, goal setting, assessment and, give examples where they have a voice in decision making. I know that our confident and articulate students will enjoy this experience and take advantage of the opportunity. Have a look Inside the front door there is a large display board with a heading of ‘At Kingsville we strive to be’. This provides key information about the PYP program and also displays the Kingsville Primary School mission statement and the IB mission statement. There is also a very attractive framed Certificate of Authorization – Certifical d’autorisation. I ask all parents to view this when they come into the school, pause and take a few minutes to refresh their knowledge about what we are collectively working towards and striving to be. Student Attitudes to School Survey Well done to our students in Years 4, 5 and 6, the results of the DET Student Opinion Survey (Attitudes to School) they participated in earlier in the year have been received. I am very pleased to say that there are improvements across all areas in 2018 with highlights in the areas of Social Engagement, School Connectedness, Student Voice and Agency and Sense of Inclusion. These saw improvements of between 22 – 27%. Teachers at these levels will be providing feedback to the students. Parent Opinion Survey 2018 In the newsletter last week information was provided regarding the Parent Opinion Survey. In 2018 180 Kingsville parents form the random sample who have been asked to log in and complete the survey. Due to the way the government designs this survey around 15% of parents who have been selected this year will also have been included in previous year samples. There will also naturally be some parents who will not be included in any year of their 7 years or more of involvement at KPS however, hopefully that will be a small number. So, if you were in the sample last year and are included again this year we are hopeful you will take the time to respond again. As of Thursday 2nd August, 24 parents had responded to the survey.

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Please note The survey does not seek opinion across all areas of school experience for parents. The focus is to seek opinion on measures of set areas being school climate and student engagement and effective teaching practice known to influence student engagement and student outcomes. In line with this statements are provided by DET across a range of Domains being –

Parent Community Engagement

School Ethos and Environment

Student Cognitive Engagement

Student Development

Safety

Connection and Progression

Parents in the sample in any year respond to the DET statements on a given scale. These responses are then later in the year reported to the school by the company contracted to carry out this work by DET. The information is then used by the leadership of the school in reviewing policy, practices, resourcing, staffing and determining components of the Annual Implementation Plan and specific programs and budgets for each year. This of course also links in with the undertakings of School Council as they review programs and initiatives, make decisions and ultimately pass the yearly budget which supports all undertakings. When parents respond to the opinion survey they are not putting down personal suggestions about school practice or policy but, are recording a rating against the DET determined statements. Parents can be assured however that interrogation so to speak takes place each year and the trends of responses are also considered for the four year period within the school review process. Impact and response to parent opinion responses and trends can be evidenced in the everyday work, undertakings and school improvement actions that are spoken about and illustrated in daily practice throughout the year. They can also be linked to information that goes to school council from the work of sub committees and working parties and will be considered collectively in a range of governance decision making. Gaining a satisfactory level of responses to the survey each year is very important. In 2017, 194 Kingsville parents were included in the sample and there were 81 responses. This is seen to be relatively sound response when compared to results across Victoria. However, these 81 responses were out of a total of nearly 600 families so, the opinions were really representing only around 13% of Kingsville parents. The 2017 survey however did reveal that 86% of parents who responded were satisfied with their child’s schooling overall. In 2017 across the State, the overall satisfaction score was 81.5% in Primary schools.

Grade 2 Sleepover Update This year Scienceworks have informed us that they have significantly reduced the number of sleepovers they are allowing at the venue. The result of this is that Kingsville will be returning to the previous school camping program, which prior to the Scienceworks experience ran successfully for many years. This program runs on a Friday night and this year it will be on Friday 9th November. So, please mark the date in your calendar and further information in regards to the times, cost and the program for the night will be sent to parents later in the term. Blagma Veljanoska, Leading teacher/Camp organiser

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Kingsville Awards To be presented on Friday 10th August

FCM 34AM Molly Strachan

FCW 34GP Nadya Abdu

FDG 34HL Caitlin Caldwell

FEE Jude Prendergast-Withy 34JL

FLI Olivia Pizzirusso 34KG

1JG 34MC Fynn Buttigieg

1JH 34SP Ella Parnham

1RM 5AO Lewis Lorimer

1SH Alison Tran 5DS Charlotte Rine

2AT Mahli Yacin 5GM

2GJ 6JD Semhal Haddis Beyene

2LB Harry Robertson 6MM

2RT 6SE Ryder Kynion

Happy Birthday 2nd to 8th August Happy Birthday to Lyric Anderson, Lucette MacDonell, Leah Watsford, Albert Hamlyn, Nellie Dummett, Frankie Marmo, Mae Keating, Eva Jugovic, Joseph Burton, Ruiha Gemmell, Mia Kisto, Kitty Honisett, Benjamin Becker, William Coghlan and Chilli Schmidt.

Grade 6 Canberra Trip 2018 Students in Year Six, from our school have recently undertaken, an education tour of the national capital. Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy. Over the course of the five day trip, they visited Parliament House, Old Parliament House, The War Memorial, The Australian Electoral Education Centre, The Royal Australian Mint, Government House, The National Capital Exhibition and Questacon. The students were able to develop a greater depth of knowledge and understanding of their current unit of inquiry into ‘How We Organise Ourselves’. The experiences were well received by the students and their level of engagement in their learning was impressive. The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government is contributing funding of $30 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion. Blagma Veljanoska, Leading teacher

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Foundation: 100 Days of School Last Friday was a very special occasion for the Foundation students – we celebrated 100 days at school!

The milestone allowed us to reflect on the incredible learning that has already occurred for all of our 97

Foundation students’ start to school.

We began our celebrations by showing the school our impressive counting skills during our Assembly

performance. Each class enjoyed a variety of reading, writing, maths, arts and STEM activities based

around the number 100. The students also relished the opportunity to share a range of items brought in

from home that represent 100, including bags of 100 lollies or 100 toys, the number 100 in various

languages, books that contained 100 dinosaurs, cars or machines, posters, written stories about 100,

necklaces made with 100 beads or pieces of pasta.

Thank you to all Foundation families for supporting this event and celebration.

Well done, Foundation students on a marvellous start to school.

(please see photos of this celebration at the end of this newsletter)

Louise Iero, Foundation teacher

School Concerts At the end of this term we will once again hold the annual Kingsville Concert. It's an exciting week for everyone and a chance for our Kingsville stars to shine! Please find below the evenings and times for each grade. Further details regarding ticketing etc. will follow soon. Sincerely , Concert committee Kingsville Concert at The Yarraville Club

Tuesday 18th Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th September, 2018.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Session 1 FLI FCW FCM

For session 1, children arrive at 6.00p.m., show starts at 6.30p.m. Each session will run foe approximately 45 minutes.

1SH 1JG 1JH

2AT 2RT 2LB

5GM 34J 34M

6MM 6SE 34K

FINALE FINALE 5AO

FINALE

Session 2 FEE FDG

For session 2, children arrive at 7.30p.m., show starts at 8.00p.m. Each session will run for approximately 45 minutes.

2GJ 1RM

34A 34H

34G 34S

5DS 6JD

FINALE FINALE

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Italian News

Here is some vocabulary about insects in Italian. Insects - Insetti

la formica – the ant la farfalla – the butterfly la mosca – the fly la coccinella – the ladybug l’ape – the bee il bruco – the caterpillar

FOKPS News Do your bit for the environment! KPS re-usable bags are now available for purchase at $2 each. They will be available every Friday before and after school during Term 3, on the decking near the hall. If you are unable to get to school, please feel free to contact cassandra@paddysbricks.com.au.

Thank you Cassandra Le Marshall, Fete 2018 Committee

Will your child / children be at Kingsville in 2019? If you know your child / children will not be returning to Kingsville in 2019 or If they will be only here for a short time e.g. you could be moving in Term 1

Please fill in below if you have not already informed the school --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHILDREN NOT ATTENDING KINGSVILLE P.S. IN 2019 Name: ……………………………………… Year level in 2018: ……… Date finishing at KPS: …………

Name: ……………………………………… Year level in 2018: ……… Date finishing at KPS: …………

Name:……………………………………… Year level in 2018: ……… Date finishing at KPS……………

New school (if known): ………………………………………………………………………………………… Signature of parent/guardian: ……………………………………………………. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Community Noticeboard Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College Open Mornings 2018 16th August, 20th September, 18th October and 15th November 9.15a.m. – 10.30a.m. There are limited vacancies for 2018 and 2019. Year 7, 2020 enrolment application close 17th August, 2018. Register online: www.msj.vic.edu.au 133 Maidstone Street, Altona PH: 8398 2000 Registrar: Sherri Collins registrar@msj.vic.gov.au MSJ College Reunion (classes of 1968/78/88/98 and 2008) Saturday 27th October, 2018 2p.m. – 5p.m. Tennison Woods Learning Centre, 133 Maidstone Street, Altona Drinks and light refreshments provided. Tickets through www.tickethost.com.au (free of charge) Wembley Basketball Club Wembley Junior Basketball Club is looking for new players to join new and, existing boys and girls teams. Registrations are open now, summer season starts in October. Children under 8, 10 or 12 interested in joining register your interest at www.wembleybasketball.com.au/waitlist

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2018 Foundation Students 100 days

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