Inside this issue

Volunteers……..………………………….2

OSHC News ................................. 3

School Photos ............................. 4

Carpark Safety ............................ 5

Sport Update .............................. 6

Superathon……….…………..............7

Can Drive .................................... 8

Nihongo News ............................ 9

Student Work………………………….10-11

Thankyou .................................... 12

Student Work………………………….14-17

Diary Dates ................................. 18

Community News ....................... 18

Tuesday 6th June 2014

Term 2 Issue 5

KPPS NEWS

CROWS VISIT

Tex Walker and Jake Kelly visited the Learning Centre on Thursday, May 22. Students

had prepared questions for the players based on our term topic of Occupations.

They asked their questions using an iPad and with help from their buddies. We

discovered that one thing Tex does besides training, weights and attending meetings

is yoga! Jake told us that the reason he plays football is because he loves it and he

enjoys being part of a team and working hard to improve himself. After the

interview Tex and Jake gave us some coaching on how to handball properly which

was followed by a contest with a target and everyone had a go! They generously

gave all the students a Crows cap, and an individually signed poster. There were

more posters and stickers for students in the whole school! Afterwards Nina said

with her PODD “like-beautiful” and Duncan thought it was fun. You can tell by Finni’s

happy face that she enjoyed it!

It was a surprise for all to arrive at school last Wednesday to find the tree in front of P3 to have toppled to the

ground. It is believed the strong gusts of wind that blow across Collins Reserve took its toll on a tree that has had

many students hang from it, climb the lower limbs or use it as a seat. For probably 40 years it has provided shade

to the students of our school.

Inspection by the arborist suggested the tree was in fact not well and that it was only being supported by a couple

of healthy roots. We will organise a new tree for the location soon.

NOTES SENT HOME:

Entertainment Books

are available from the

front office

Term 2 & 3 2014

Canteen Price List

Incredible Insect

excursion U3 & U6

School Photos

envelopes

SA Museum and Botan-

ic Gardens excursion

Rm10, P4, P5

Eco-forensic incursion

Rm10, Rm11, P4, P5

REMINDER:

PUPIL FREE DAYS

Thursday 5th June &

Friday 6th June

THE WHIM OF THE WIND

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VOLUNTEERS Thankyou to our wonderful team of

volunteers at Kidman Park Primary

School.

Just a reminder, that ALL volunteers

should sign in the Visitors Book at the

front office and collect a badge.

Please sign out when departing and return the badge.

This is an OHSW requirement in case of fire, evacuations etc so we know who is on

our site at all times. Thankyou.

REMINDER: all volunteers need a Criminal History Screening, forms are

available from the front office and when you receive your clearance,

please bring a copy in to the front office.

“All volunteers need a Criminal History Screening check, forms available from front office.”

UNIFORM SHOP

There have been a few price increases to our Uniform Shop price list, please make sure you use the new order form available from the front office.

CANTEEN

A new Canteen Price List for Term 2 and 3 has been sent home today with students. There have been a few price increases, so please make sure you use the new price list.

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Pupil Free & Closure Days Our next Pupil Free Days are:

Thursday 5th June 2014

Friday 6th June 2014

OSHC will be available, please call Preeti on: 0401 121 740 to book.

SCIENCE PROJECT For those who are curious about insects please come and visit us at OSHC and admire the stick insects exhibition that our children have designed this term as part of our Science Program.

ACTING DIRECTOR Our OSHC Director will be on leave until the 7th of July. Preeti will be acting as Director in his absence. Please contact her at: preeti.christian636@schools.sa.edu.au if you need assistance. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Thanks to our Parents who have been supporting our Management Committee. New Members are always welcome. Please let our Director know if you are interested. PUPIL FREE DAYS We still have places available for our next Pupil Free Days on 5/6/14 and 6/6/14. There is a form in our OSHC room for those families who need care on those days. POLICIES Part of the role of our Management Committee is to review our policies and make recommendations to our Governing Council. We will be in this process this term and the following one. There is a copy or our policies in our office. Any suggestions to improve are always welcome. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Last year our Educators received training in QA1 and later this year they will be training in QA2 . RENOVATIONS Thanks to all the families who have given their compliments about the new appearance of our OSHC room. We still have some new furniture to arrive. It is really pleasant for us to see our participants enjoying a refreshed environment.

Freddy Santos OSHC Director

OSHC NEWS

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LUNCHTIME DISCO

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Thankyou to everyone who attended the lunchtime disco on Friday 30th May (Foundation to Year 4 students), which was organised and run by our Student Leaders. A gold coin donation was given, with $209 raised, going towards the Starlight Foundation. Regular lunchtime discos will be held in the hall for the remainder of the term.

Each child has been given a personalised photo envelope. Family envelopes

are available at the front office for those families requesting a family photo.

All payments are given directly to photographers on the day.

Orders can now be placed online, each envelope is personalised with student

name and unique ordering code, this saves having to have the right money on

the day. If a student loses their envelope, their opportunity to order online

will be lost. They will need to place their order by handing in the envelope on

photo day to the Leading Image staff (not the front office). NO CHANGE is

given on the day, all envelopes must have the correct money enclosed. Credit

card orders are now strictly online.

“DON’T FORGET: PUPIL FREE DAYS - Thursday 5th June & Friday 6th June 2014”

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CARPARK SAFETY There have been a few cases of ‘near misses’ reported in the carpark. For student

safety, please always remember the following:

The speed limit is 10km (this is walking pace) so don’t drive through the park too

fast

Ensure that you pull into a carpark when dropping off students and don’t stop on

the crossing or in the middle of the roadway

Please be patient and don’t overtake cars in front of you, wait

Don’t stop in the No Standing areas

Always be courteous and polite, it is student’s safety we are concerned about!

On Friday the 9th of May, a group of Year 6 and 7 students from KPPS went to a Japanese Quiz

Day. There were many students from many other schools. There were several different teams, a

host, and two judges. We had to answer questions on a sheet.

Once one round had been finished the host would put on a Japanese commercial for everyone

to watch while the judges were collating the results. There were ten rounds, and the questions

were hard to answer. Some of the rounds were called Hiragana, Anime and Cities.

At the end of the rounds, the results were tallied and the host announced first, second and

third. The winning teams were allowed to choose from a variety of prizes imported from Japan.

Students from KPPS were split up into the teams that came 1st, 2nd and 4th.

By Olivia and Bia

JAPANESE QUIZ DAY

SPORT UPDATE SOCCER NO GAME this Saturday long weekend for our 9 teams. Thanks for a smooth start to the season to our dynamo coaches, parents and players. New timetables will be given out shortly. They are listed on the website:

www.nwjsa.org.au SOCCER PATHWAYS Starts Thursday 12th June next week (wk. 7) from 2.10 - 3.10pm. Infor-mation will be sent home to all paid up players this week. N.B. Please provide your email address to the school so we can notify you asap of any cancellations due to wet weather etc. NETBALL Sam Corns has organised a bye this Thursday closure day for her U9 and U11 teams. Danielle Matto's U13 team also has a bye.

Terry Ahern Sports Coordinator

SPORTS RESULTS SOCCER 31/05/14 U7 KPPS Blue 4 St Francis Blue 1 Excellent team skills!

NETBALL 22/05/14 KPPS U11 8 Woodville Diamonds 13 Well done team! 28/05/14 KPPS Pink Panthers 4 St Francis B 1 Goals scored by Jazmine B 3, Faith M 1. A strong defence played by the team, some terrific intercepts also. Great game!

29/05/14 KPPS U9A 1 North Adelaide 3 Great playing girls. 29/05/14 KPPS U11 15 Rosary Rebels 2 WOW!! Well done girls, great team work showed in your score!!

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SUPERATHON

I wish I could be there today to tell you all how much I appreciate everyone’s hard work and generosity, the loss of my beautiful boy Chase has torn myself and family to pieces and we thankyou from the bottom of our hearts for lifting the financial burden from our shoulders at this very difficult time. I think of Kidman Park Primary so often, this school and it’s community will always have a piece of my heart, I will never forget all of your love and support not only at this difficult time but from the moment we walked in the doors for the first time. This is a very special school and I feel honoured to have been a part of it. Much love and gratitude……

Katrina and family

A BIG thankyou to the school community, the Superathon raised a total: $8 851.55 so far, please make payments to the front office if you haven’t done so already.

BRAINTEASER: Test your brain to the limit!

UPSIDE DOWN

Which number written in figures increases in value by 21

when turned upside down? (Clue: It is between 60 and 70)

ANSWER: 68

P5 CAN DRIVE

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Dear Parents and Students,

Abbey, a student in P5 thought of an idea of collecting cans of food for

people with no money or very little and people living on the streets.

The idea to collect cans was taken to the class by Abbey and it was decided

that we could do this as a school. We then asked Ms Karen if we could do it

and she said yes.

We are going to send the cans to Food Bank SA to distribute to the people

with no food. We are hoping to get a few boxes filled with cans of food. We

are going to collect cans of food for the homeless and those who have no

money to buy food.

P5 will give your class a box to put the cans in. Students from P5 will come

and collect your boxes every week for a month.

The CAN DRIVE will begin in week 7, June 10th

Thankyou

P5 students

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こんにちはKonnichiwa,

During the first few weeks of term almost all children created a piece of

さくらsakura (cherry blossom) art using popcorn. You can pop past the

Japanese room if you’d like to see some of these cool creations. U6 and Room 7 were very proud of their achievements! After finishing off our weather work, many of the older classes are now researching the Japanese cherry blossom viewing season to share their learning with younger students. Some of the presentations so far have been wonderful. One source of their information is the Kids Web Japan site – please find out more for yourself here:-

http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/calendar/april/hanami.htm

We have also started learning the days of the week in Nihongo.

日ようび = nichiyōbi = Sunday

月ようび = getsuyōbi = Monday

火ようび = kayōbi = Tuesday

水ようび = suiyōbi = Wednesday

木ようび = mokuyōbi = Thursday

金ようび = kinyōbi = Friday

土ようび = doyōbi = Saturday

Have you heard your children singing this song? It really gets in your head!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7CDIrImW7E

Please pop in and see me if you want to find out more about this term’s work, our Japanese programme, second language learning or your child’s progress. I look forward to meeting you.

さようならSayonara

Belinda Sensei

Nihongo News

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U4

Every Friday U4 students are lucky enough to have their buddy class P1 come to

play! U4 students are engaged in their usual play investigations, centred on topics

covered in learning areas including English, Maths, Science, The Arts and History.

Although the older students think they are visiting simply to have fun themselves,

they are playing a vital role in the Foundations students’ oral language

development. The older students are asking questions about what their younger

buddies are doing, exposing them to new vocabulary and introducing them to

new skills.

This term in play Foundation students are taking on new roles whilst

investigating. Each day students are assigned roles a reporter and a photographer.

These students are given jobs specifically chosen by the teacher to target explicit

teaching points.

For the purpose of this article Max. A from U4 was asked to report on why

Foundation students enjoy play based learning. Here is what he found……

Kyhanna : “You know what you are learning, and how to do it”.

Duke “You get to choose what you investigate”.

Emma “You get to be who you want” (in the dramatic play area).

The task of the photographer was to take pictures of students working

collaboratively.

Photography by

Oliver U4

Last Wednesday a

team of parents and students descended on

Bunnings Mile End to choose some plants, compost and other garden necessities

for the school garden worth well over $300 which was kindly donated by

Bunnings.

Then on Saturday, another team of helpers spent a wet afternoon removing

more than 20 garbage bags of plant material from the garden beds,

recomposting, and generally tidying up the area ready for u6 to plant out this

week.

So hopefully with some sunny winter days to help the plants along, there will be

a feast of winter vegetables in a couple of months!

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Thankyou Bunnings and Garden Helpers

Thanks to Chloe, Amy, Caitlin, Rose, William, Sebastian, Ellie, Sunny, Emillya, Dale, Alexis and Emma for being our

Bunnings helpers (and Marie, Connie, Sandie, Kate and Lucy who helped with transport).

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Thankyou Bunnings and Garden Helpers

Thanks to Tony, Jude, Maria, Sebastian, Sue, Hamish, Natalie, Matthew, Samantha, Peter, Kylie, Bridgett, Madeline, Kate, Amy, Rose, Carol, Renee, (and Myrna taking the photo) - our gardening helpers

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NCE In Week 4 of Term 2, the Middle Year’s classes had Emma Chesterman come in from

‘Oresome Science’ to do a mining workshop. Emma focused on a different aspect of

mining each day for 4 days.

Day 1- We had to find the ‘Mystery Mineral’. To

identify the mineral we had to go through 7

steps-

1. Lustre- appearance under light and whether

it’s metallic or non-metallic.

2. Colour- streak test. You rub the mystery

mineral on a piece of unglazed porcelain and see

what colour rubs off.

3. Heaviness- compares the mineral to other

minerals.

4. Breaks- you smash the mineral and see whether

it breaks with sharp edges or not.

5. Hardness- you have a look at the hardness scale

and see what object on the hardness scale breaks

the mystery mineral.

Softest

Hardest

6. Acid test- drop some acid on the

7. Magnetism- see if the mineral

is magnetic.

After doing all this we found out

that the mystery mineral was

calcite or its scientific name-

calcium carbonate.

By Alexandra, Georgia and

Carmen

In our second lesson learnt what you have to do when you mine. First you need a $1,000,000 (and

that's for a junior miner). What makes it expensive is the machines and other things you need. Then

you need to get your mining licence to mine but then you need to check if there are special indigenous

places that you are not allowed to mine (and you check it with special indigenous people) and then

you've got to get your exploration licence. If you want to mine under somebody's house then you

(obviously) have to ask the owner. We also found out that you only own 20 centimetres under your

house (which is why mining companies can ask to mine underneath).

When you mine you also have to keep aware of animals and especially endangered species You've also

got to explore (but first you need an exploration licence) you can use metal detectors or a plane to

scan the gravity (because the gravity would be different where the minerals are). Some of us got

chocolate coins for participating. By Elian

Core Samples

On Wednesday we learnt about ore bodies and all the

different types of mining, first of all ore bodies are

another name for the minerals underground, the first

type of mining she explained was open cut mining, open

cut mining is the method used when the ore bodies are

closer to the surface when doing open cut mining you

just have to dig up the top layer of dirt but then there

is also underground mining.

This session of oresome science was really fun she showed us a video

of the miners underground and the gear that they wear and then she

lent us a hat and vest that they use for mining the vest was nice and

bright so everyone knows where you are and the hat a light on it and

then there’s a huge battery so the light does not run out.

After that Emma selected Yianni and I to be her miners and what we

got to do was collect coal from one side and take it to the other the

hard part about it was that we had to crouch low like what the miners

have to do because it is only 1 metre high.

By Nathan

On Thursday the topic was ‘Mining within Our Environment’.

Minerals are in houses, cars, IPads, bicycles, washing powder and lots of other things. Population, houses,

food, packaging and pollution makes it difficult to save the environment. The environmental scientist studies

flora and fauna around mines. They use dust monitoring stations, water trucks and plug drill holes. They also

do some seed collecting. They rehabilitate by building houses, bike tracks, museums planting trees, Sturt

Desert Peas, and Spinifex Grass.

We played a matching game on the board. There was a foot print on the board and we had to guess which

animal it belonged to.

After playing the game groups were given a timer, some stickers and a sheet for the scavenger hunt. We had

15 minutes to find as many yellow cards with pink ribbon. The map had co-ordinates to show where the yellow

cards were hidden. Our group took 9 minutes and we were the first group back because everyone split up and

came back with the answers.

When we were close to end of the session, Emma gave us a quiz. The quiz was about what we had learnt over

the four days we had her. There were five questions for each day. We received a sugar crystal every time

we said the right answer. Our group received 7 sugar crystals. By Ellie, Erin, Wendy and Portia

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We also got to do bird seed mining which

is where we looked though the bird seed

to look for coloured beads and the group

with the biggest earning got to have a

mineral. By Kosta and Mishelle

This session of oresome science was really fun she showed us a video

of the miners underground and the gear that they wear and then she

lent us a hat and vest that they use for mining the vest was nice and

bright so everyone knows where you are and the hat a light on it and

then there’s a huge battery so the light does not run out.

After that Emma selected Yianni and I to be her miners and what we

got to do was collect coal from one side and take it to the other the

hard part about it was that we had to crouch low like what the miners

have to do because it is only 1 metre high.

By Nathan

On Thursday the topic was ‘Mining within Our Environment’.

Minerals are in houses, cars, IPads, bicycles, washing powder and lots of other things. Population, houses,

food, packaging and pollution makes it difficult to save the environment. The environmental scientist studies

flora and fauna around mines. They use dust monitoring stations, water trucks and plug drill holes. They also

do some seed collecting. They rehabilitate by building houses, bike tracks, museums planting trees, Sturt

Desert Peas, and Spinifex Grass.

We played a matching game on the board. There was a foot print on the board and we had to guess which

animal it belonged to.

After playing the game groups were given a timer, some stickers and a sheet for the scavenger hunt. We had

15 minutes to find as many yellow cards with pink ribbon. The map had co-ordinates to show where the yellow

cards were hidden. Our group took 9 minutes and we were the first group back because everyone split up and

came back with the answers.

When we were close to end of the session, Emma gave us a quiz. The quiz was about what we had learnt over

the four days we had her. There were five questions for each day. We received a sugar crystal every time

we said the right answer. Our group received 7 sugar crystals. By Ellie, Erin, Wendy and Portia

We enjoyed having

Emma with us because

we learnt new things

that would help us to

an swer t he b ig

question.

“Should Olympic Dam

be expanded?’

DIARY DATES

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WEEK/DATE DAY/TIME EVENT

Term 2

6 3rd June Tuesday Newsletter

3rd June Tuesday 2.15pm Assembly - Rm12

5th June Thursday PUPIL FREE DAY

6th June Friday PUPIL FREE DAY

7 9th June Monday PUBLIC HOLIDAY Queen's Birthday

10th June Tuesday KPPS Update

12th June Thursday School Photos

12th June—13th June Thursday & Friday ZOO SNOOZE Rm7

8 17th June Tuesday 2.15pm Assembly - U1

17th June Tuesday KPPS Update

19th June Thursday 7.00pm Governing Council

9 24th June Tuesday KPPS Update

10 1st July Tuesday Newsletter

1st July Tuesday 2.15pm Assembly - P5

3rd July Thursday Reports sent home

4th July Friday LAST DAY OF TERM 2.10PM FINISH

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