Welcome back to Term 2.

I want to start by saying “Thank you”. Thank you to our great community who have man-

aged to stay well over the last month and who have rallied around to support one another

through this difficult time of isolation.

It’s pretty safe to say the staff and myself are missing your children, we are missing the

routine that school brings to all of us. Our teachers are to be congratulated for their re-

markable dedication and commitment to the education, health and psychological wellbe-

ing of our KPS students under the most challenging circumstances since the outbreak of

the COVID-19 pandemic. The staff immediately adapted to remote learning through every

online, electronic and hard copy means available, ensuring that each student was able to

benefit from education continuity. This commitment continues now that term 2 has com-

menced.

Term 2 has started with two pupil free days. Giving our teachers time to plan for the term

ahead. For the first two weeks of term 2 schools will remain operational for students who

need to attend. Where practical, parents/carers are encouraged to continue learning from

home.

As many of you already know, to support the continuity of education for students and in-

crease face-to-face teaching, a staged return to school model will be rolled out starting in

Week 3 (Monday May 11th). Students learning either at home or in school will engage in a

single unit of work provided by their teachers. You will be contacted next week to let you

know which day your child will be allocated to come in to school.

Take care everyone... I am looking forward to the day we will all be back together again.

Fiona Paine Principal

From the Principal

Going for walks (and noticing things I haven’t noticed before)

Spending time in the garden (and finding secret places)

Watching the leaves change colour (and collecting them and pressing them)

Reading books and drawing and playing and making art

Sleeping in (and staying up a little too late sometimes)

KatNews Newsletter Date The official newsletter of Katoomba Public School

Volume 2020 No: 8 Term 2 Week 1, 30th April 2020

School Expectations

Respect Yourself

Respect Others

Respect the

Environment

Merriwa Street, Katoomba NSW 2780

Tel: 4782 1226 Fax: 4782 2996

Email: katoomba-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.katoomba-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Things we’re loving right now……

“Our success as a

species has been

made possible by our

ability, particularly

when our vital

interests are

threatened, to

cooperate. At the

very heart of

cooperation is the

principle of taking

into account the

interests and welfare

of others. I am

therefore confident

that we humans will

once again find

ways, through

cooperation, to

overcome our

current challenges.”

Dalai Lama

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Hello everyone. We hope you

have been enjoying this

beautiful Autumn weather. We

have. Can you guess which

teacher is which??!

My favourite colour is pink

Can you pick my NZ

accent?!

I love fresh raspberries

& brie

It’s time for some Forest Play

Stage 3, can I have a

cuppa please?

Sorting books is what

I do (and I hand out

nicknames!)

I climb to great heights I am your illustrious leader

I only play football if the

ground it not moist

Woof, woof!

You want to pat Teddy, I just

want him to behave!

I hope I don’t mix up my dance

moves and my soccer moves

I’m little Miss Sunshine

A run a day, keeps the

boredom away

I’m Quick and I’m

Smart

I’m great at patching

up scraped knees

Let’s learn about the

Wollemi pine

“Sing, sing, sing with

me”

I love having the

Big Buddies

helping in class Wednesday’s are for

Science Fun Karate is fun!

I taught the

teachers how to

dance

I love strawberry

freddos

Guess who?!

Come to my class for

some amazing bark

art!

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Our Kitchen Garden mural is finished ... A huge thank you to MAN.De (Mandy Schöne-Salter) and the Katoomba RSL for our new Kitchen Garden

mural—it’s absolutely gorgeous!

Mandy designed and created the artwork that runs along the RSL wall that adjoins our Kitchen Garden

and has been working hard on it since mid-March. And now it’s all finished!

The Katoomba RSL generously paid for the mural—thank you, RSL for your lovely, neighbourly gesture! If

you’re walking past the school, have a peek through the fence and prepared to be amazed.

Page 4 KatNews Volume 2020 No: 8

...And now we’re planning some more murals We were lucky enough to receive a Community Building Partnerships grant from the state

government to paint some more murals around the

school.

We will be inviting artists to submit Expressions of

Interest to paint a number of spaces around the

school very soon, but first we want to hear from

KPS Kids. What murals would you like to see

painted around the place … have a think about it

and let us know your ideas.

And so do the chooks

The chooks have been looking a little scruffy lately, what

with moulting season and all, but they’re being well

looked after by Ms Brown and Freya and Willow.

We’ll have to have make sure we give them some extra

special “chooky chocolate” when we all get back to school

to make up for all the snails they’ve missed. We’ll also

have to give them lots of extra hugs and attention too.

Teddy misses you all