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KENT PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

2015 EVERY CHILD, EVERY OPPORTUNITY to SHINE

No 38. TERM FOUR Thursday 3

rd December, 2015

Monday 7th

December School Council Meeting – 7pm

Tuesday 8th

December Year 6 to 7 and 2016 PREP ORIENTATION DAY

Wednesday 9th

December PREP INFORMATION EVENING – 7.30pm

Thursday 10th

December CHRISTMAS COLORS DAY and CLASS PARTIES

CAROLS EVENING - 7pm to 8pm – more information in coming weeks

Friday 11th

December Grade 6 BIKE RIDE to Upper Ferntree Gully National Park

Reports sent home

Monday 14th

December Year 6 Graduation Evening

Tuesday 15th

December Parent Helpers’ Morning Tea – 10.30am

Wednesday 16th

December Whole School Assembly - Year 6 Graduation Awards

Thursday 17th

December Year 5/6 Excursion – Rollerama and OASIS pool

Friday 18th

December LAST DAY OF TERM – Assembly at 1.15pm. DISMISSAL at 1.30pm

FAREWELL and BEST WISHES TO LILY PROWD (3K) AND REILLY PROWD (4S) who have moved to

Bayswater and will be attending Bayswater Primary.

CHRISTMAS COLORS DAY and CLASS PARTIES – December 10th The Junior School Council have requested a Gold Coin donation on this day to support the Walker Family (Adele,

Jenny and Jamie) whose husband and father sadly passed away after moving to a rural area earlier this year.

HELPERS REQUIRED for Y6 GRADUATION If you are able to spare some time to help out at our Year 6 Graduation Dinner, please contact Carol Butler on 0421

899 427. Your help would be very much appreciated on this very special evening.

Aussie of the Month Award – October 2015 HAELEE SMALL (6M)

Aussie of the Month Award for October 2015 has been awarded to Haelee Small.

Haelee is very community-minded and part of the Junior Fire Brigade, competing in State

Competitions. Haelee has been very involved and enthusiastic about our School Grounds

Management Plan. She tested soil quality for the new plants for our garden beds and has

watered those plants and weeded the garden beds nearly every day since.

Congratulations Haelee!

Aussie of the Month Award – October 2015 KYUVIN MOON (6C)

Aussie of the Month Award for 2015 has been awarded to Kyuvin Moon for having

beautiful manners and being such a friendly, caring student. Kyuvin always greets staff

members in a polite and friendly way and is very considerate of others.

Congratulations Kyuvin!

Excursion/Incursion Notices Sent Home – Please read carefully and ensure deadline dates are met Year Date of Event Incursion/Excursion/Event Due Date

Prep Friday – 4th

December Melbourne Zoo Fri – 27th

November

1 Tuesday – 8th December IMAX/Melbourne Museum OVERDUE

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3 Tuesday – 15th

December K-Mart Boronia & Metro Cinema Boronia Fri – 10th

December

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5 Thursday – 17th December Caribbean Rollerama & Oasis Dandenong (Swimming Pool) Fri – 27

th November

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Year 3 Christmas Stall On Wednesday 9

th December, the Year 3’s will be holding our Christmas stall in the BER Hall. Our Inquiry

unit this term has been ‘Consumerism’ – making, buying and selling. We have become producers and have

made some wonderful Christmas crafts that will make fantastic gifts for family and friends. Items are priced

between $1.00 and $5.00. Items will include Christmas cards, finger puppets, pet rocks, bracelets, snow cones,

stress balls, Christmas ornaments and recipe books. Check out the posters around the school. With the money

raised from the stall, the Grade 3’s will visit K-Mart in Boronia to purchase and place gifts under the Wishing Tree for

children who are less fortunate. Please remember to come.

BOOK COLLECTION DATES

On presentation of the Receipt (pink slip), individually packaged school books may be collected at school

from the LIBRARY on:

Wednesday, 9th

December 3.15 pm - 4.00 pm, and

Thursday, 10th

December 8.30 am - 10.00 am .

They may also be collected on Wednesday 27th

January, 2016

from 8.45 am - 10.00 am from the OFFICE.

Lucky Draw – Bonus Chance – All people who have paid the full amount for the Parent Contribution

Requirement for 2016 for each child by December 1st, 2015 will go into the draw for the refund of one

child’s Parent Contribution Requirement.

2016 UNIFORM SHOP HOURS The Uniform Shop will be open on Wednesday 27

th January, 2016 from 8.45 am - 10.00 am.

TERM DATES for 2016

TERM ONE – 28th JANUARY to 24th MARCH – Year 1 to 6 students

29th JANUARY to 24th MARCH - 2016 Preps

TERM TWO – 11th APRIL to 24th JUNE

TERM THREE – 11th JULY to 16th SEPTEMBER

TERM FOUR – 3rd OCTOBER to 20th DECEMBER

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School Community Helpers’ Thankyou Morning Tea –

Tuesday December 15th at 10.30am in the Assembly Hall If you or a family member has assisted with any of the many, many tasks throughout the year, the staff would like

to invite you to attend our 2015 Appreciation Morning Tea, as a small way of showing our appreciation for the

support you have given in helping to make our school a great place for students and community.

This includes classroom helpers, PMP Program, School Council members, Canteen, Uniform Shop, Book Club, Library

and School Banking facilitators and helpers, incursions, excursions and special event helpers. For catering purposes

please complete the slip attached if you are able to join us.

We look forward to seeing you there!

I will be attending the School Community Helpers’ Thankyou Morning Tea on Tuesday December 15th

at 10.30am in the Assembly Hall

Name ---------------------------------

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Weekly Merit Awards

PLANNING for 2016 CLASSES Are you leaving Kent Park Primary at the end of 2015 and haven’t yet contacted the school?

If so, please complete the notification form below and return to the Office asap to assist with the

allocation of students to classes for 2016. Thank you.

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NOTIFICATION FORM for Student(s) leaving KPPS at end of 2015

Student Name (s) ……………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………

Parent/Guardian Signature ……………………………………………………………………………………

Class Student’s Name Reason

Prep H Mitchell King For demonstrating an excellent understanding of place value. Fantastic job!

Prep M Caiden Moran For his excellent writing on what he likes and dislikes. Well done!

Prep S Tyler Hawkes For his fantastic understanding of place value. Well done Tyler.

1B Isabelle Antonopoulos For always trying hard with all of her learning. Superstar effort.

1K Alicia Rizio For using fantastic reading strategies when reading to me. Keep up the great

work!

2K Keira Quirk For continuing to make a great effort in class to focus and give your best effort.

2P Chloe Pitch For her outstanding growth in spelling. Well done.

2W Jai Westerman For his wonderful dancing at the Australian Bush Dance. Well done Jai!

3M Norah Chhim For the excellent effort she puts into all her learning and presentation of her

work.

4H Zoe Christensen For her detailed book reports that include an excellent explanation of the

author’s message. Well done.

4HU Lucas Mann For writing an information filled life cycle of a pig.

4R Logan Forster For writing a great book review and always putting 100% into his learning.

4S Logan Sweetnam For being amazing with all the kids during our kinder visit. You will make a

great buddy!

5H Ollie Bird

Luke Morgan

For his positive attitude and efforts to work consistently. Keep it up Ollie!

For his positive attitude and efforts to work consistently. Well done Luke!

5M Tamsyn Hansell For her excellent behaviour and positive attitude.

5NM Lilly Mavropoulos For always approaching all tasks with extra care.

6B Abbey Hodge For her willingness to help others around the school. Keep it up!

6C Sarah Bowie For her cheerful, positive attitude at all times.

6H Riley O’Hagan For a great effort to measure angles. Well done Riley!

6M Lauren Evans For her positive contributions to our classroom.

Visual Arts Ryda McNeill For being a sensational Art Room assistant. You are a Super Star. Thank you.

Japanese Daisy Gibson

Bentley Hale

Kylie Smith

For being a mature and helpful class member.

For being a brilliant Origami instructor.

For great speed and accuracy with the Japanese alphabet.

Ass. Prin. Loudy Kieffer For being a polite, friendly and thoughtful student.

Principal Ben Morgan For being such a reliable, thoughtful and caring student.

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CANTEEN ROSTER FOR TERM 4

Monday 7th

December: 9am-2.30pm: Jacqui Jeffery

9am-12.00pm: Amie Crane, Lisa Pettitt-Brown

12.00-2.45pm: Lauren Davidson, Sharelle Campbell

Thursday, 10th

December: 9am-2.30pm: Maria Gagic, Carly McNeill, Nikki Jalowicki

9am-12.00pm: Sally Macpherson

HOUSE POINTS

Year 2 Writer Of The Week

SUGAR GLIDERS – INFORMATION REPORT POSTER

DIET – Sugar gliders eat insects, spiders and saps of trees.

HABITAT – Sugar gliders live in trees in the forests and woodlands in North Australia.

BODY COVERING – Sugar gliders are covered with fur, so they can glide from tree to tree.

SPECIAL FEATURES – Sugar gliders live in groups. They are flying marsupials. The common sugar gliders are night

time animals.

By Chloe Pitch 2P

Prep Writers Of The Week

Weekly Total Progressive Total 1

st Eureka 148 1

st Daintree 796

2nd

Daintree & Franklin 140 2nd

Eureka 702

3rd

Uluru 132 3rd

Uluru 686

4th

4th

Franklin 626

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Prep Writers Of The Week

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YEAR SIX INQUIRY – ACTION DAY

In Term 2, Year 6 was inspired by a visit to the Dandenong Ranges and the undertaking of school grounds survey, to create

a “School Grounds Management Plan”. They identified the areas of need around the school to be: fixing garden beds, quiet

places to sit, working bee clean ups, planting more native plants, outside art work and bird boxes to encourage native birds.

They choose to work in the group that they are most interested in. The Year Six students worked very hard across three

Inquiry Action Days to implement this plan.

While beautify our school, the students were also gaining valuable skills and learning in the areas of: taking pride in their

surroundings, connecting to the wider community, their sense of value and self-worth as well as meeting many curriculum

outcomes. The Year Sixes are to be commended on their efforts and should feel proud of their achievements.

Garden Bed Group

We decided that the garden beds needed some updating. So we pulled out weeds and dead plants, tested the soil, planted

new native plants and we laid out mulch. We even planted a Lone Pine, to remember the soldiers who fought for us in the

war. In the end, our garden beds look fabulous and it was all worth it.

Art Group

The dedicated Art Group decided to make some Poppies to go with our Lone Pine Tree to create a memorial wall. The

Poppies were made of old lids or platers and painted red. After they were red we put a black dot in the middle to make it

look like a Poppy. Once we did that we stuck them to the wall behind the Lone Pine and added some hoses under it for a

stem.

Compost Group

Over a period of time, the compost group has helped to make the school more sustainable. We started by putting buckets in

each classroom and encouraged people to put their fruit scraps in it. We collected them every second day of the week and

emptied them into the big compost bin.

Tables and Chairs Group

On Wednesday we had our last action day and we painted the tables and chairs a nice shade of blue. This made the tables

look newer and more inviting. We got to this stage by cleaning the tables, asking for permission and lots of planning.

Our main idea to start with was to create more tables and chairs around our school grounds. But that idea was too

challenging and out of our reach. So we settled on a less challenging but still effective idea, painting them.

We all had a great time and we all feel really great because we’ve made the school a more beautiful place.

Fitness Track Group

On Wednesday some of the year sixes helped improve and brighten the school by spray painting yellow feet on the fitness

track. We’ve completed a quarter of the track and are planning on completing the rest. We were held back by the wind

blowing the spray paint everywhere but we’re happy with the outcome. A small group of children also swept the fitness

track. This helped out the school because the fitness track was cleaner and safer. We all had a great time.

Window Washing Group

On the 25th November all of the Year 6 students had their 3

rd hard working Inquiry Action Day. The purpose of the day was

to make Kent Park a nicer, cleaner and happier place to be. Our group washed windows. We worked really hard to make

the school look good. After we were done, they looked amazing and we were all really proud.

Sweeping Paths

On the end of the 25th November the Year Six children of Kent Park Primary School were exhausted. We had just

participated in our third and last action day. The windows sparkled and the paths were spotless. The results were excellent

and everyone was filled with pride.

Bird Boxes Group

After all our hard work across the last two terms, our Inquiry action finally came to an exciting conclusion. After a lot of

research and planning, we decided to try and attract native birds by making bird boxes to go up in the school grounds.

Bunnings Scoresby volunteered to help us make the bird boxes as part of their community program, bringing with them all

of the tools and wood that we needed to build our bird boxes.

We worked strenuously in pairs to hammer the pieces of wood together and finally had life-sized bird boxes built. No bird

box is complete without the finishing touches of natural colours. We painted our boxes so that they would camouflage with

the native trees. We hope the boxes will attract the native Crimson Rosellas as a nesting place.

A special thanks to Bunnings Scoresby for making this project possible.

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Kent Park Primary School

Volunteer Canteen Help For 2016

MONDAY & THURSDAY

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Yes, it’s that time again to think about Canteen duty for 2016. Without your help the Canteen will not be able to open on

the 2 days it is presently, so we need your help to keep the Canteen open. Can you spare YOUR school 2 to 4½ hours of

your time a month?

If you’re willing and are able, please volunteer for Canteen in 2016. Without your help and support, the availability of the

Canteen will be limited.

It is a great opportunity to catch up and have coffee with your friends as well as bringing a smile to your child’s face. It is

not hard and we will be there to show all the new-comers the ropes. An information session will be held for all volunteers

regarding the running/procedures of the Canteen prior to opening. The Canteen Policy states that toddlers are not permitted

in the Canteen for health and safety reasons. Healthy practices are used for food handling during preparation of food

(washing hands regularly and wearing an apron).

If you, mum, dad, nana, grandma etc. can volunteer your time for the canteen, it would be appreciated if you could return

the attached form to the School Office AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The Canteen will NOT open until all positions are

filled adequately and we will advise the community as soon as possible.

Please note: If someone other than the student’s parents are volunteering, ie. grandparent, aunt/uncle etc, a Working With

Children Check must be produced. When filling out the Working With Children Check form (available at all Australian

Post Offices), there is no charge if you are filling it out as a ‘Volunteer’.

A big thank you to all our volunteers.

Alison Macauley

Principal

~~~~~~~~~~~ Please return to the office AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ~~~~~~~~~~

Kent Park Primary School

VOLUNTEER CANTEEN HELP for 2016

Name:………………………………… Ph no:……………………………………

(Please print name)

Eldest Child’s Name:…………………………………. Year 2016:………………..

PERSON(S) YOU WISH TO DO CANTEEN WITH:

Name:………………………………………… Ph.no: ……………………………..

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Frequency: (please circle) Fortnightly Monthly

Time and Day you prefer to help: (Please tick) Monday ( ) 9.00am - 1.30pm or ( ) 11.30am - 1.30pm or ( ) 9.00am - 11.30pm

Thursday ( ) 9.00am - 1.30pm or ( ) 11.30am - 1.30pm or ( ) 9.00am - 11.30pm

Or Be an Emergency (please circle) Monday Thursday

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