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What’s Coming Up.................... Kotara South Public School 150 Rae Crescent Kotara South 2289 Email: [email protected] Website: www.kotarasth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 2 Week 7 2 June 2015 Buddy Benches KSPS was delighted to welcome Mo and Dallas from Car- diff Men’s Shed who presented handcrafted ‘Buddy Benches’ to the school at Friday’s assembly. Thanks to Welfare and Environment Ministers (Ashleigh, Holly and Patricia) and the initiative of Mrs Leslie and Mrs Bryant these benches are colourful additions to the school play- ground – somewhere comfortable for students to sit and chat. Materials were paid for from funds raised by Stu- dent Parliament. Silver Award Congratulations to Rosie (Year 2) who received a Princi- pal’s Silver Awards at our K-6 Assembly recognising her excellent effort and achievements in all areas of school life. Well done! Public Speaking & Debating The high quality of public speaking has been apparent throughout all rounds and the support of families is appre- ciated. It has been an outstanding showcase of public speaking at its best and a wonderful opportunity for K-6 students to hone their talking, listening and thinking skills. Stage winners will present their speeches at the special Book/Education Week Assembly tentatively planned for Thursday 30 July. The school will also select some additional speakers (by draw) to present at student as- semblies over coming weeks. Our Premier’s Debating Team (Bridie, Pia, George and Bailey) won their round against Kahibah Public School last Thursday in opposition to the topic ‘Computer games should be banned’. Well done The Year 5 Train On This Week: Wednesday: ICAS - Science Next Week: Monday: Queen’s Birthday, Public Holiday Tuesday: Yr 5 Train on debating Vs Wallsend PS Wednesday: Disco - Parent Info Sessions, read- ing strategies during disco times Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: Star Struck Team will compete against Wallsend Public in the ‘old hall’ at KSPS at 10:30am on Tuesday (9 June). Book Week, Education Week and NAIDOC 2015 KSPS is looking to make Week 3 of Term 3 extra special and are keen to give parents – carers and families plenty of notice. On Tuesday 28 July we’ll have JD’s World of Magic promote reading through the artistry of Novocas- trian magician, juggler and speaker, Joel Howlett. Sepa- rate sessions will be held for infants and primary stu- dents. The cost will be $2 per student. NAIDOC will be celebrated with a special program to raise Aboriginal cultural knowledge at Wetlands Environ- mental Education Centre (Shortland) with K-Year 2 stu- dents on Wednesday 29 July and Year 3-6 students on Friday 31 July. The cost will be $5 per student. Open Day will be likely be held on Thursday 30 July commencing with Book Week Parade, classroom visits and a special assembly followed by barbecue lunch. PSSA Zone Field Athletics is slated for Tues 28 July and a Year 6 visit to Kotara High School is likely on Wed 29 July. A big week indeed! Full details will be sent home between now and then. Please pencil these dates into your diary. Student participation was a feature of Walk Safely to School on Friday and hopefully the good habits will pre- vail each day. Thanks to Ms Squire and student helpers for the project, and to all who joined in. Kindergarten 2016 To the parents and community at Kotara South Public School, we are pleased to remind you that we have started taking Kindergarten enrolments for the 2016 school year. This is an exciting part of the process of be- ginning “Big School”, getting to know the new people and environment. We encourage you to contact the of- fice to place your child’s name on our list. Also if any families are leaving in 2016 could you please let the school know. MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL KSPS Student disco next Wednesday 10 June Infants 6 - 7:00pm Primary 7 - 8:30pm Entry: $4.00
Transcript of Kotara South Public School
What’s Coming Up....................
Kotara South Public School 150 Rae Crescent Kotara South 2289
Email: [email protected] Website: www.kotarasth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Term 2 Week 7 2 June 2015
Buddy Benches KSPS was delighted to welcome Mo and Dallas from Car-diff Men’s Shed who presented handcrafted ‘Buddy Benches’ to the school at Friday’s assembly. Thanks to Welfare and Environment Ministers (Ashleigh, Holly and Patricia) and the initiative of Mrs Leslie and Mrs Bryant these benches are colourful additions to the school play-ground – somewhere comfortable for students to sit and chat. Materials were paid for from funds raised by Stu-dent Parliament.
Silver Award Congratulations to Rosie (Year 2) who received a Princi-pal’s Silver Awards at our K-6 Assembly recognising her excellent effort and achievements in all areas of school life. Well done!
Public Speaking & Debating The high quality of public speaking has been apparent throughout all rounds and the support of families is appre-ciated. It has been an outstanding showcase of public speaking at its best and a wonderful opportunity for K-6 students to hone their talking, listening and thinking skills. Stage winners will present their speeches at the special Book/Education Week Assembly tentatively planned for Thursday 30 July. The school will also select some additional speakers (by draw) to present at student as-semblies over coming weeks.
Our Premier’s Debating Team (Bridie, Pia, George and Bailey) won their round against Kahibah Public School last Thursday in opposition to the topic ‘Computer games should be banned’. Well done The Year 5 Train On
This Week: Wednesday: ICAS - Science
Next Week: Monday: Queen’s Birthday, Public Holiday Tuesday: Yr 5 Train on debating Vs Wallsend PS Wednesday: Disco - Parent Info Sessions, read-ing strategies during disco times Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: Star Struck
Team will compete against Wallsend Public in the ‘old hall’ at KSPS at 10:30am on Tuesday (9 June).
Book Week, Education Week and NAIDOC 2015 KSPS is looking to make Week 3 of Term 3 extra special and are keen to give parents – carers and families plenty of notice. On Tuesday 28 July we’ll have JD’s World of Magic promote reading through the artistry of Novocas-trian magician, juggler and speaker, Joel Howlett. Sepa-rate sessions will be held for infants and primary stu-dents. The cost will be $2 per student.
NAIDOC will be celebrated with a special program to raise Aboriginal cultural knowledge at Wetlands Environ-mental Education Centre (Shortland) with K-Year 2 stu-dents on Wednesday 29 July and Year 3-6 students on Friday 31 July. The cost will be $5 per student.
Open Day will be likely be held on Thursday 30 July commencing with Book Week Parade, classroom visits and a special assembly followed by barbecue lunch. PSSA Zone Field Athletics is slated for Tues 28 July and a Year 6 visit to Kotara High School is likely on Wed 29 July. A big week indeed! Full details will be sent home between now and then.
Please pencil these dates into your diary.
Student participation was a feature of Walk Safely to School on Friday and hopefully the good habits will pre-vail each day. Thanks to Ms Squire and student helpers for the project, and to all who joined in.
Kindergarten 2016 To the parents and community at Kotara South Public School, we are pleased to remind you that we have started taking Kindergarten enrolments for the 2016 school year. This is an exciting part of the process of be-ginning “Big School”, getting to know the new people and environment. We encourage you to contact the of-fice to place your child’s name on our list. Also if any families are leaving in 2016 could you please let the school know.
MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL
KSPS Student disco next Wednesday 10
June Infants 6 - 7:00pm Primary 7 - 8:30pm Entry: $4.00
Terrific teacher-tested Reading Strategies Parent Information Session
Join Mrs Sargent and Mrs Venables in the KSPS library next Wednesday 10 June dur-ing the Infants and Primary school disco times for a brief information session which will provide parents/carers with some practical strategies to assist your child with decoding unfamiliar words when reading. To assist with organisation, if you wish to attend, please fill in the slip below and return to school as soon as possible. Light snacks and a cuppa will be provided. We hope to see you there.
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I will be attending the Reading Strategies Information Ses-
sion next Wednesday June 10th on behalf of my Child/
ren________________________Class/es_______
I will be attending the Infants session from 6:10–6:45pm I will be attending the Primary session from 7:10-7:45pm I will be attending both sessions
MRS VENABLES - YR 1 CLASSROOM TEACHER & MRS SARGENT - LEARNING SUPPORT TEACHER.
………………………………………………………………… Lunch Wallets to order In addition to the wrapper free day, held today, we have also organised an opportunity for students to purchase Lunch Wallets that can be used to order lunch at the can-teen. These wallets can be used over and over again - cut-ting down on paper bags and wastage. Please see the order form attached to this newsletter. The cost of the bags is $7 each and orders need to be in by this Friday, 5 June. They will be distributed to students as soon as they arrive back at school. At this stage there will not be additional bags for sale - they will ONLY be available through the attached order form.
ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS Library news The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) is well under way. Students have until the 21 August to complete the chal-lenge. Please see the table below to check your child’s reading requirements for the PRC. Students need their regular student login to register their books on the website. I am happy to help log on should you need help. Congratulations to the following students who
have already completed the challenge: Jasmin, Alex-ander, Benjamin, Cameron and Cameron. Last Wednesday, during the National Simultaneous Story time, the infants classes, HSUB and 3E thorough-ly enjoyed Aaron Blabey’s ‘The Brothers Quibble.’ We viewed the AUSLAN version of the story, as well as, Aaron personally reading the story. Borrowing days reminders (please bring library books and a library BAG): Monday – 2MG, 2G Tuesday – KF, KC, 1V, 1W Wednesday – 3E, 5/6J, 5/6P, 4E Friday – 5/6W, 3P MS NESBITT - LIBRARIAN School Readiness Session As part of our Transition to School Program, KSPS held a School Readiness Session on Monday night. Parents who attended the session were impressed with the in-formal structure of the night, the chance to meet staff and the ability to ask questions. Thank you to all who attended and I would like to take this opportunity to thank our P&C for providing refreshments on the night and also being there to assist during the discussion. More information regarding our Kindergarten Orienta-tion Sessions will be sent out to relevant families at the end of this term. MRS V COX - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Stage 3 Bathurst Excursion We apologise for the delay in advising the total cost of the excursion. The bus company contracted to transport us to Bathurst sustained substantial flooding of their offices. This has impacted on finalising details of costs associated with our excursion. Students have now been invoiced for the $50 deposit. Please forward this amount by Friday 12 June. A further note will be for-warded home with details outlining the total cost and the dates for further instalment payments. Thank you for your understanding.
PSSA Knockout Soccer Unfortunately the boys soccer team was knocked out of the second round, against Merewether. The boys dominated the game but unfortunately could-n't close the two goal lead that Merewether gained early in the game. Well done overall boys.
Zone Athletics Carnival The Zone PSSA Athletics Carnival is being held Friday 24th and Tuesday 28th July (Term 3 Week 2 and Week
3). The Kotara South team will be an-nounced in Week 9 at assembly. Notes and information regarding the carnival will be sent home upon announcement.
PAUL JOHN - SPORT & EXCURSION COORDINATOR
Challenge Number
of books
you must
read
Minimum
number of
PRC books
Maximum
number of
Personal
Choice books
PRC booklists
you can read
from
K-2 30 25 5 K-2, 3-4, 5-6,
3-4 20 15 5 3-4, 5-6, 7-9
5-6 20 15 5 5-6, 7-9
Merit Awards
Congratulations to the following students who received awards at last week’s assembly.
KC Tom Sebastian Evelyn KF Sienna Oliver, Jessica 1V Chari, Jay, Cooper 1W Riley, Brittney, Zali 2G Libby, Luke, Jack 2MG Alex, Emma, Kai 3E Lawson, Jackson, Jake 3P Charlie, Khushinka, Oliver 4E Grace, Melati, Cohen 5/6J Sabine, Charlie, Nic, Jacob 5/6P Ethan, Jordie, Emily 5/6W Lachlan, Madeline, Rishi HSUB Kian Library Ben, Latana Canteen News
Hello from the canteen for another great week. A BIG thank you to all my helpers, without your help the can-teen would not run smoothly. This week I will be running an EAT FRESH DEAL THURSDAY RAFFLE. If you or-der from the eat fresh selections you will go in the raffle to win ANY ice cream in the freezer. The selections are - Eat Fresh Deals ONLY $2-00 1 pizza english muffin filled with ham and cheese
with pizza sauce 1 fresh roast chicken and cheese warm roll 1 ham or fresh roast BBQ chicken salad wrap, roll
or sandwich Salad bowl with choice of ham or chicken. In the
salad bowls are carrot, cheese, cucumber, tomato and lettuce
This weeks specials Chick ‘n chedd $4-00 1 chicken ’n cheese mayo burger 1 pkt chicken jumpys 1 sunny boy Chicken pock pock $4-00 6 chicken chippies 1 garlic bread 1 cordial cup Prices are now garlic bread $1.50 hash brown ovals $1.00 gingerbread kids $1.50 Cottees cordial cups are no added sugar they come in apple raspberry and GI
lime .70c each. Please note: Hot dogs are not on our everyday menu.
FIONA BEST - CANTEEN SUPERVISOR
P&C News
Thank you to Michael O’Connor, Matt Playdon, Emily Harland and Valerie Main for assisting with the School Readiness talk presented by Mrs Cox and Mrs Fear last night. Entertainment Books The old book has expired!! Purchase your new 2015-2016 Entertainment Book or Digital Membership for only $60, with $12 from each book coming back to KSPS P&C, to benefit our school. Please go to the link:-https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/346s62 to order today. If you have que-ries please contact Leanne Smith at [email protected]. Cadbury Chocolate Fundraiser Chocolates will be sent home soon as a P&C Fund-raiser. The school makes $20.00 per box of choco-lates sold. If you do not wish to have a box of choco-lates sent home with your child please complete the form below and return it to the office ASAP. Or if you would prefer to make the $20 donation rather than receive a box of chocolates to sell, please see the office.
……………………………………………. Please do not send a box of chocolates home
with my child. I would prefer to donate $20 to the P&C rather
than receive a box of chocolates to sell.
CHILD’S NAME………………………………………….
CLASS: ………..
Parent’s Signature……………………..Date…………
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Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be opened on Wednesday 3 & Thursday 4 June – 8.30am to 9.00am If you are unable to attend the uniform shop when it is open, please leave your order and money at the office and it will be given to your child to take home. Like us on Facebook The P&C now have a Facebook page. Please like us for updates and reminders from KSPS P&C Associa-tion. P&C Meeting
The next P&C meeting will be held on 17 June 2015 at 6.00pm in the school library. P&C Dates to remember 17 June – P&C Meeting @ 6.00pm 16 August – working bee HELENA TAYLOR - P&C SECRETARY
Community News
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FIRST LESSON IS FREE WITH YOUR FIRST
BLOCK OF LESSONS!
Our swim centre is opening June 1st
9/4 Statham St Bennett's Green
