CLIPSAL 500 EXCURSION On 27th February the Middle Years classes went to the Clipsal 500 for an

excursion. After arriving by bus in the morning we entered by gate 1. First we

went to the Armour All show. Then we went to the Tractor Pull section but

there was no action so we moved on. Then we went to Route 66, V8 Supercar

Paddock, Go Pro Traction Zone, Australian Defence Force and finally we

stopped in gold section track side and watched the race. Yianni

Our group went to get signatures and I got about 8 signatures from great

drivers such as David Reynolds, David Wall, Fabian Coulthard and heaps more.

Our group also went to the concert where The Sheppards and Potbeleez

performed. When the Potbeleez were performing one guy jumped off the

stage and I got to touch his hand. Olivia

Our group’s last stop was at Route 66 where there were luxurious muscle cars.

I loved the muscle cars because they were fascinating. I think Clipsal 500 was

suitable for all ages but you might need ear plugs. Ellie

KPPS NEWS

Inside this issue

Teacher / Staff Awards ................ 2

Superathon ................................. 2

Pupil Free Day ............................. 3

M&S Fees .................................... 3

NAPLaN ....................................... 3

Easter Raffle ................................ 3

Diary Dates .................................. 4

Nihongo News ............................. 5

Student Work .............................. 6-11

Sport Update ............................... 12

Clean Up Australia Day ................ 13

Sport Results ............................... 14

Community News ........................ 15

Tuesday 1st April 2014

Term 1 Issue 3

V8 Supercar Paddock

Route 66 Muscle Cars

Armour All Show

Congratulations to Mike Paluszkiewicz and Peter Georgeopoulos for being nominated in the ‘SA Excellence in Public

Education awards’. Over the years we have had a number of our staff nominated in these awards, well done everyone!!

“Mike is an outstanding teacher he engages his students in learning by nurturing their development as independent learners and members of the wider community. He is creative and clever in engaging children to try new tasks and to grow into active learners. His calm approach and comfort with students discovering natural consequences of their actions has increased confidence and the independence of many students. Our school community are grateful to have Mike work with our students. Thank you.”

“Peter is a class teacher and the wellbeing coordinator at our school. Over many years I have observed him support and enable children who face challenges in the school. My son lives with ASD and he has been completely supportive of his individual learning style and modifies the curriculum so he is happy, successful and is motivated and able to learn. He is a champion for

inclusion in the school and often has many children with complex needs in his class and still has 28 pupils. He has created an environment where all children thrive. He also supports other teachers to better understand the importance of social and emotional wellbeing as a foundation for all children's learning. He deserves to be recognised for his efforts.”

NOTES SENT HOME:

Year 7 Jacket Order

Entertainment Book

orders

Sausage Sizzle Order

(for Superathon)

Easter Raffle books

Superathon

(Kidmanathon)

Sponsor forms

TEACHER / STAFF AWARDS

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SUPERATHON (Kidmanathon) Friday 11th April (the last day of term one)

On Friday 11th April, students will be walking, running and wheeling around the school to complete

as many laps as possible in 60 minutes in the school Superathon. In past years we have had our

Kidmanathon, but this year we have changed it to a superhero themed Superathon in honour of

Chase Peerman, a popular and engaging student in LC2. All funds will be going towards the school

and Chase’s family to help towards paying for his funeral expenses.

Please support our school and Chase’s family by sponsoring a student. Students can either be given

a donation for participating or be sponsored for every lap completed.

The canteen will be offering a Sausage Sizzle lunch for students (order forms sent home last week)

and coffee and cakes will be on sale for parents.

Don’t forget to let your child’s class teacher know if you are able to assist with stamping lap cards

etc on the day.

10.30 Memorial service for Chase Peerman in the KPPS Memorial Garden area by the canteen

10:50 – 11.10 Recess

11:20 Opening Ceremony outside P1/P2.

11:30 Official SUPERATHON Start

12:35 (When siren sounds – depending on starting time) Students complete their final lap

12:45 Closing ceremony outside P1/P2

12:55 Lunch (Sausage Sizzle for students)

1:10 Play time

2:10 Early Finish

Sponsorship forms and money must be returned by Thursday 1st May.

“Nominate a DECD employee for the SA Excellence in Public Education Awards, forms are available from the front office. Nominations close Thursday 10th April.”

EASTER RAFFLE

Thankyou to everyone who donated items to the KPPS Easter Raffle.

Raffle books were handed out to students last week and spare books are available from the front office.

Please return raffle books and payment to the front office by Tuesday 8th April.

Thankyou for supporting our school.

M&S FEES

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Thankyou to all families who have paid their M&S fees, applied for school card or made

arrangements to pay by instalment. Materials & Services fees are now due. Payment

can be made at the front office. If you think you are eligible for school card, please

collect a form from the front office.

Final notices will be sent out early term 2 and if payment is not made, they will be

referred to debt recoveries.

Payment can be made by cash, cheque or Eftpos at the front office, also can be made

by direct deposit into our bank account: Kidman Park Primary School, BSB: 105 147,

Account Number: 551006440. Please ensure you include name of child and reason for

payment in description.

Our first Pupil Free Day will be on

Monday 28th April, 2014 Term 2, will commence on Tuesday 29th April, 2014

OSHC will be available on the day, BOOK NOW

Call Freddy or Preeti on: 0401 121 740

This year students in years 3, 5 & 7 will participate in the national tests during week three of term 2 (13th -15th May)

We hope that most of our students will participate in the tests but, we know that some families have different beliefs about the tests. We also acknowledge that for some students it can be a traumatic experience that actually hinders their learning.

Students may be withdrawn from some or the entire testing program by their parent/caregiver. This is a matter for consideration by individual families in consultation with staff members. Withdrawals are intended to address issues like religious beliefs and philosophical objections. To discuss withdrawing your child please contact Karen Duval (8353 2444 or

Karen.Duval291@schools.sa.edu.au) before the end of this term.

More information about NAPLaN can be found at:

1. www.nap.edu.au/.../NAPLAN_2014_Information_for_parents_brochure_ web.pdf

2. www.nap.edu.au

NAPLaN

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Ellie C

who was successful in

gaining a position in the

Primary Schools’ Music

Festival for the 2014

concert series.

She will be playing her

violin as part of an

orchestra in one of the

concerts to be held at

the Festival of Music

performances later in the

year.

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CAN YOU HELP?

DIARY DATES Some important dates to put into your diary:

Friday 11th April KIDMANATHON

TERM 2

Monday 28th April Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 29th April Term 2 begins

As part of our social skills program we will be

setting up extra activities in the yard at lunchtimes

next term. Activities will include puzzles, board

games and construction.

If any families have access to recyclable materials,

offcuts, masking tape, sanded building blocks, or

other clean, safe materials please contact

Kay Bosworth in ‘The Shed’. Thank you

This term U1 and U2 have been studying water and its impact on human life.

Students were encouraged to consider others who don't have access to clean water so they decided to raise money by collecting and recycling containers that they collected from all classes over a two week period.

The students raised $23. This money will be forwarded to World Vision to be put towards one of their water projects in a third world country. Thank you to all the classes and staff for helping us to raise the money. U1 and U2

U1 & U2 RECYCLING—WORLD VISION

“2014 SUPERATHON - Friday 11th April, put the date in your diary now!”

こんにちはKonnichiwa,

Did you know that this year Year 3-7 students will be using Edmodo (www.edmodo.com) in Japanese? Edmodo is a free and secure learning network for teachers, students, and schools. It provides a safe way for teachers and students to connect, share content, access homework, participate in discussions and receive class information. Unlike other social networks, such as Facebook, Edmodo is a tool strictly for educational purposes and we will be enforcing the following guidelines:

1. Edmodo does not allow private student-to-student messaging - the site will be used to discuss school-related content only, and the teacher will monitor all Edmodo activity No put-downs or sarcasm toward another’s ideas. All school rules and consequences related to harassment apply (I moderate every post by all students)

Students who violate these guidelines will face consequences at school and/or face losing the privilege of using Edmodo. Edmodo is accessible to Teachers, Students and Parents at any time on any device through the Web. If you wish to follow your child’s account to stay up to date on class activities and grades, you can by signing up for a Parent Account. Ask your child to show you how! Once your account is created, Parent Accounts will give you a dashboard like view of your child’s activities but no actions or communication can be taken in this account. Note: with one single parent account you are able to add multiple children and will not need to create any other parent account moving forward! Here is my home page so you know what Edmodo

looks like. I have checked then allowed each of the posts you see on the page. Teaching the students how to keep safe and sensible on the internet is one of the benefits of using Edmodo. If you did not sign and return your child’s permission to use Edmodo form earlier this term it would be great if you could so that we can all work together creating a great year of exciting learning, incorporating the use of technology into Japanese. If you have any questions about Edmodo please pop in to the Japanese classroom to chat or contact me at Belinda.Brenen164@schools.sa.edu.au

さようならSayonara

Belinda Sensei

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SYDNEY ARTs CONFERENCE

Nihongo News

On 12th March to 14th March, 2014, I attended a conference in Sydney led by Linda

Lorenza, Senior Project Officer, The ARTS for ACARA Australian Curriculum, Assessment

and Reporting Authority. There were two generalist teacher representatives (R-2 and 4

-6), each from Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Brisbane. Our task was to unpack each

of the bands in the five areas of The Arts, Dance, Drama, Visual Arts, Media Studies and

Music in the Primary Years and identify where progression could be made in year levels

in relation to the students we currently teach.

This was a fantastic experience for me as a generalist teacher as I was able to examine

and question The Arts documents in a unique collaborative group. Not only did we

have different syllabuses being used from state to state we also had representatives

from Catholic Education and our discussions were richly rewarding in reaffirming that

although there were so many different state expectations we were already delivering a

curriculum that was closely matching the Australian Curriculum. We discussed how The Arts is integrated across Curriculum

Areas and shared our experiences of doing this successfully. A website to explore: http://www.incredibox.com/

Incredibox -Make your own music arrangements Tricia Matthews

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SPORT FEES

Invoices were given out to all cricket and netball players last week. Please pay ASAP before the end of term at our school office. SOCCER We are currently sorting players into teams and will get info out shortly. Thanks to Tony Hall, Sandie Golledge and Darren Marshman for their help. Royal blue shorts , socks and used boots will be on sale from our uniform shop soon. Have you filled in your order form? Please pencil in an important meeting for players and parents to meet their coaches first Friday after school next term, May 2nd. Games begin the following week, Saturday May 10 (week 2 ). SAPSASA A reminder: all forms must be emailed directly to coaches or Trevor Hall , NOT returned to our school office.

All students who wish to be considered for selection in a SAPSASA 12 and Under State Team must nominate on-line. The nomination must be completed and submitted by the due date by accessing the following web address www.decd.sa.gov.au/sport then click on SAPSASA, go to List of Sports and drop down to the relevant sport and locate the nomination form in the interstate section of that sport. If you have any problems please contact the unit on 8416 5900. A confirmation email will be generated within 2 days of nominating.

Terry Ahern Sports Coordinator

TEAM SPORTS SSA CHAMPIONSHIP DATES VENUE NOMINATION DUE DATE

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL 19 - 26 July Sydney, NSW April 4, 2014

BASKETBALL - BOYS 16 - 22 August Townsville, QLD April 4, 2014

BASKETBALL - GIRLS 16 - 22 August Townsville, QLD April 4, 2014

FOOTBALL - BOYS 14 – 19 September Bendigo, VIC April 4, 2014

FOOTBALL - GIRLS 14 – 19 September Bendigo, VIC May 1, 2014

HOCKEY - BOYS 3 - 8 August Hobart, TAS May 1, 2014

HOCKEY - GIRLS 3 - 8 August Hobart, TAS May 1, 2014

NETBALL 30 Aug - 5 September Gold Coast, QLD May 22, 2014

RUGBY LEAGUE 9 – 16 August Wollongong, NSW June 12, 2014

SOFTBALL 9 – 14 November Toowoomba, QLD May 1, 2014

TENNIS 16 – 23 August Darwin, NT March 20, 2014

TOUCH - BOYS 19 – 24 October Morwell, VIC June 12, 2014

TOUCH - GIRLS 19 – 24 October Morwell, VIC June 12, 2014

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY 2014

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FIRES

On Friday 28th February we had Clean Up Australia Day. P1 did a snap shot of

the litter collected on the day and made a graph comparing the rubbish

collected in 2013.

This was presented at

assembly.

We found out that more litter

was collected in 2013 but a

greater variety of litter types

was found in 2014. Many

more foil wrappings and ice

block sticks were collected this

year and these need to be

our target to reduce for 2014.

The graph is on display in the

Resource Centre.

On the 17th of March Mr Evans from the

Metropolitan Fire Department came to

Room 10 to talk to us about being safe in

fires.

He talked about the causes of house and

outdoor fires. He also showed us a video

about a modern bedroom and a 1950s

bedroom. They set them both on fire and

waited 3 minutes for the modern bedroom

and 32 minutes for the 1950s bedroom.

The results were the modern bedroom was

covered with smoke and destroyed but the

1950s bedroom only had a small fire and

smoke. This is because today we use lots of

new materials like plastics. These are very

flammable.

We enjoyed the presentation because we learnt important things,

like how to make a fire plan and to call 000 in an emergency.

By Luisa and Jade

SPORTS RESULTS

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U9s Netball Team: Kidman Park (B) Pink Panthers Played against: St Josephs (A) Score: Opp. St Josephs 0 Kidman Pink Panthers 7 Great sharing of the ball and goals everyone! Thank you to our supporters; including special guest Pink Panther and his pink offsider Bridget N Goals: Sarah F 1 Jazmine B 2, Faith K 2, Annelise M 1, Erin K 1.

Netball U9A

27/03/14

Kidman Park 4

STJ Ottoway 1

Well done girls, a great win!

Netball 11

27/03/14

Kidman Park 1

St Francis 7

Both teams played a really good game, well done team!!

Kanga Cricket

29/03/14

Kidman Park 288

Grange 324

Sam & Matthew both had a brilliant game. Sam was hitting the ball well while

batting and Matthew bowled good overs.

Learning Centre students were leaving spilt milk all over the school, making such a mess!!!!

Or was it an April Fools joke??

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS

No use crying over spilt milk…...

COMMUNITY NEWS

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Foster Carers can be single, couples, people at home, working full-time,

part-time or studying. Free training and ongoing professional support

(including 24-hour assistance) is provided. Find out more at one of our up-

coming information sessions:

Tuesday 16th April 2014

Lockleys Bowling Club

46 Rutland Ave

Lockleys SA 5032

6.30-8.30pm

For more information or bookings call Linda on 8131 3456 or visit

www.anglicare-sa.org.au/foster-care

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Entertainment Books will be available for ordering at the beginning of next term.

Please keep an eye out for the order form which will be sent home with the first

newsletter, term 2. $13 from each membership will go towards the school

fundraising, so keep an eye out for it! This year you will only receive a book (or

more) if you place an order via the order form. Entertainment Book is also available

as a digital membership ideal for your apple or android smartphone, so you can

always have a copy on you!

COMMUNITY NEWS

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