24th August 2017

Kismet News

McEwan Drive Sunbury. Victoria 3429 Phone: (03) 9744 4566

Email: kismet.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: http://kismetparkps.vic.edu.au

Building the Foundations for Success and Happiness

Fri 25th August Father’s Day Breakfast Orders Due

Mon 28th Aug Father’s Day Stall

Wed 30th Aug Meal Deal Day

Fri 1st Sep Father’s Day Breakfast

11th September School Council

22nd Sep Last Day of Term 3

Mon 9th Oct First Day of Term 4

Dear Parents, Staff and Students,

Congratulations to everyone who participated in last week’s Book Week Dress Up Day. It was great to see such a wide range of characters on display.

‘NO HAT NO PLAY’ FROM FRIDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER!

From Friday 1st of September students will need to have their school hat at school. Here are 5 things to remember... 1. Slip on clothing that covers as much skin as possible.

2. Slop on SPF30+ sunscreen.

3. Slap on a wide brimmed hat.

4. Seek shade.

5. Slide on some wraparound sun glasses (labelled AS 1067).

Thank you to all those families who have been collecting Woolworths ‘Earn and Learn’ stickers while shopping at Woolworths. Stickers can continue to be placed in our collection boxes at Sunbury Woolworths and the school office. Stickers are available while stocks last or up until Tuesday 19th September. We look forward to adding to our reading resources for students with the points earned.

NAPLAN reports for students in Years 3&5 will available for collection at the school office on Monday 25thAugust. On collecting your child’s report you will be asked to sign that the report has been received. If you are unable to collect your child’s NAPLAN report from the office and would like us to send it home with your child please advise us in writing or by completing and signing the form sent home today. If you require any further clarification please contact your child’s teacher.

Out of School Hours Care

Due to increasing demand for ‘Before School Care’ to be available earlier than 7:00am School Council, after much discussion, supported an earlier opening time of 6:30am. Key considerations included a ‘Duty of Care’ to students and that students can not be left at the service until the agreed opening time.

A summary of homework survey results was presented. Key

points raised in the survey included:

72% of families believe students should have regular home-work

30% believe homework should begin at Prep

80% prefer paper based homework

Homework should ‘help learning’ and consist of:

Reading activities /Activities that reinforce class work

Spelling / Maths

Activities that families can participate in together

Homework assists students to develop organisation skills

Homework should ‘increase’ through each level of the school, starting with a focus on Reading in the lower grades

We need to be aware of the stresses that homework can place on families

A draft policy is now being developed and will be shared for further comment when completed.

Our Building Project, including a Multi-purpose / Performing Arts Space, new school entrance on McEwen Drive, reconfigured office area as well as general maintenance is underway. Due to the approval process and budget constraints plans were being adjusted right up until the last minute. As stated earlier copies of the final plans will be dis-played around the school and on the school website when they are made available to us by the architect. Following our site meeting on Tuesday we will provide a general time line in next week’s newsletter.

Invitations to our Father’s Day Breakfast on Friday 1st September have been sent home. The morning’s activities include:

7:45 – 8:30am Breakfast

8:15 – 9:00am Classrooms open for visits

If you would like to attend our special breakfast, which includes 1 bacon & egg roll per person, cereal, fruit juice and tea or coffee, please complete and return your RSVP along with payment by TOMORROW, Friday 25th August 2017. Please note that DUE TO CATERING DEADLINES, NO LATE ORDERS CAN BE ACCEPTED. Children currently attending Kismet are welcome to attend.

Regards, Glenn & Cynthia

On Wednesday Kael, Nathan, Lachie and myself visited the Goonawarra Nursing Home. We visited low and high care areas. Low care was a lot more fun because we played a game called carpet bowls and ate afternoon tea with them. Before we ate afternoon tea we handed out the stress balls—it was a very cool place. Then Paul, who was looking after us took us up a corridor and into the high care area. It had a completely different vibe. We could only hand out a few stress balls to people. In the end I think more staff had stress balls than the old people did. Riley Dracchio.

WOOLWORTHS ‘EARN & LEARN’ STICKERS

BUILDING PROJECT

CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM— STUDENT REPORT

FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST—Friday 1st September

Homework Survey

SCHOOL COUNCIL REPORT

YEAR 3 & 5 NAPLAN COLLECTION

SUNSMART IS COMING!

PC William Hack

PJ Emily Wilkie

PL Thomas Markmann

1G Oliver Heath

1M Alexis Yacoub

1T Ava Drummond

1/2H Ollie Kerr

2A Marley Beaumont

2G Rhyley Cusack

3/4M Kaiden Jenkins

3C Grace Herridge

3W Tenaya Bewley

4A Amelia Malcolm

4B Sharmaine McCubbin

4S Athena Avramopoulos

5/6A Maddison Vowles

5/6B Harry Casey

5/6L Liam Cherry

5/6O Ayden Evans

‘YOU CAN DO IT’

FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST VOLUNTEER FORM

NAME:

NUMBER:

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK: YES / NO

TIME FRAME YOU CAN ASSIST : am - : am

If you are available to assist with our Father’s Day breakfast please fill out this slip and hand into the office.

Hours we need help are from 6:30am—9:30am

Weekly recap

Last week at Before and After School care we had card week. The children were really looking forward to this week and thank you to Alexia.C and Ame-lia.M for helping to organise the week! We started the week with a big group game of snap which turned into a tournament and of course Josh.C won. Then we played a speed tournament, we are still waiting to see who wins out of Matil-da.W and Josh.C. We also played UNO and spent the entire time laughing and we learnt a new game called French snap which in-volves knowing your friends of ten and is super fun! We ended our week with a game of Go Fish using themed cards rather then normal playing cards which made the game a lot more exciting! Stay tuned for our next big adventure! Sarah, Team Leader

NEW BEFORE SCHOOL CARE OPENING TIME

*In response to parent demand, we are delighted to announce that the Before School Care service will be commencing at 6:30am effec-tive Wednesday, 23 August 2017.

For a break down of the new fees or for any questions please visit the OSHC room, contact our Head Office or manage your bookings online via the Parent Portal. SPRING HOLIDAY PROGRAM BOOK-INGS ARE OPEN! To check out the daily schedule, visit our website at extend.com.au and book via the Parent Portal.

What's on next week:

SARAHS BIRTHDAY WEEK Monday 28 August: Bath bomb making and group games Tuesday 29 August: Unicorn bookmark making and tennis Wednesday 30 August: Baked doughnuts and football Thursday 31 August: Spray bottle Disney art and volleyball Friday 1 September: SARAHS BIRTHDAY so its time to PARTY and dodgeball

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR IN THE LIBRARY

The Library is having a SCHOLASTIC Book

Fair. The Book Fair will be open after school

on Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and Thursday 30th of AU-

GUST from 3.15 -4.00pm Hope to see you there!

If there is anyone who could help out with the Book Fair

( even just for one afternoon ) please come and see me in the

Library.

Thanks, Jennifer