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60 Crook Street (PO Box 45)
Strathdale 3550
www.kenningtonps.vic.edu.au
[email protected]
Phone: 5443 2011 Fax: 5441 7321
Principal:
Assistant Principal :
Assistant Principal:
Assistant Principal
(Deaf Facility):
Kennington Primary School Values Awards
Community
Inclusion
Personal
Best
Caring
Preps
Grade 1-2
Grade 3-4
Grade 5-6
Specialist
Marg Tope
Thursday 13th November, 2014
Newsletter No. 35
Is showing concern for
others
and
being
thoughtful,
and
understanding of their
feelings.
It
means
your
thoughts; words and
actions
show
consideration
for
others.
Glenda Miller
Trudi Jacobson
Jo Menzel
Is working together for
the common good.
It means being able to
work together and act
positively with others.
PA
Tyler McL
1A
1B
Doll Pai Su T Keira B
3A
3B
Ethan F
Darius T
5A
5B
Jade D
Lachlan P
MUSIC:
Mattia C (6A)
AUSLAN LOTE:
Isabelle M-A (5B)
Is respecting and
valuing differences.
It means we include
others in work and
play.
Term 4
November
th
Prep 2015 Orientation
Morning
Fri 14
Is always aiming high
and being the best I
can.
It
means
being
optimistic: that I will be
successful in the end.
PB
Nicole V
1C
1/2D
Imogen C
Todd E
3C
4A
Nathan E
Poung Shu T
5C
6A
Brent H-W
Holly J
VISUAL ARTS:
Jenna B (4C)
EAL:
Poung Shu T (4A)
Dates to Remember
Kennington Pre School
11:45am –
12:45pm
Other Pre School and
settings
Fri 14
th
Fri 14
th
Fri 14
th
8:10am –
8:25am
9:00am –
9:30am
th
9:15am
th
1:45pm
Mon 17
th
Mon 17
1
Is treating everybody
and everything with
consideration
and
courtesy.
It means looking after
myself, others and the
environment.
PC
PD
Ambrose W
CJ J
2A
2B
Jorja R
Gate Shine M
4B
4C
Taylah M
Hannah B
6B
6C
Moo Nay Thar
Jack T-D
PHYS.ED:
Tari S (6B)
Mon 17
9:30am –
10:30am
Respect
2C
Samantha J
Breakfast Club
Auslan Class
Grade 6
Interschool Sports
P & F Meeting in staffroom
after assembly
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Semi-final in the
amphitheatre
Grade 6
Award Night Parents,
th
Mon 17
th
Tue 18
Wed 19
7:00pm
9:30am 10:15am
th
st
Fri 21
8:10am –
8:25am
9:00am –
9:30am
Fri 21
Fri 12
th
Fri 12
th
th
Breakfast Club
rd
Wed 26
th
Wed 26
th
th
4:30pm –
6:30pm
10:30am
8:10am –
8:25am
9:00am –
9:30am
Fri 28
th
Fri 28
th
Fri 28
th
th
Fri 28
6:30pm
Family Picnic
7:30pm
Carols Commence
Instrumental Music
Lessons conclude 2014
Reports sent home
6:30pm –
8:00pm
Grade 6 Disco
th
Auslan Class
Winter Family Fundraiser
Nutbush World Record
Attempt – KPS Oval
D-Feet MND Walk
Lake Weeroona
Icy Pole Day
Fri 19
th
9:00am –
5:30pm
Fri 19
th
1:30pm
Meet the Teacher for 2015
session
Grade 5 – Grade 6 (2015)
Last day to order
Commemorative Shirt from
Fashion Plus
Last Day of School
Dates to Remember 2015
Term 1
January
Grade 6
Puberty Lesson
Breakfast Club
Last for the year
Auslan Class
nd
8:00am –
4:00pm
Book Collection/Payment
Day
Staff Only
Thu 29
8:35am
th
8:35am
Term 1 commences
Grade 1 – Grade 6
Preps commence
Thu 22
Wed 28
th
th
Bookclub Issue 8 order and
money due
Grade 5
2015 Commemorative
Shirt, Name Permission
Form due
Grade 6
Award Night Dinner
permission and $18.00 due
Fri 28
KPS Carols
Thu 18
T20 Blast
nd
Sun 23
Mother Goose
Tue 16
st
Sat 22
Thu 11
Grade 6
Puberty Lesson
Energy Breakthrough
th
Thu 20 –
nd
Sat 22
st
Fri 21
th
Family & Friends Tickets
on sale in office $4.00 each
School Council
Fri 30
8:45am
Prep Parents, carers and
new families welcome.
Refreshments at the front
of the school.
December
st
8:45am
st
9:15am
Mon 1
Mon 1
nd
Tue 2
9:30am 10:15am
rd
Wed 3
rd
Wed 3
rd
Wed 3
th
3:15pm –
6:00pm
6:30pm
5:30pm –
8:00pm
Thu 4
th
Fri 5
th
9:30am –
11:30am
Mon 8
th
Tue 9
th
Tue 9
Wed 10
th
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Grand Final at assembly
P & F AGM in staffroom
after assembly
Mother Goose
Last one for the year
Parent Helpers’ Morning
Tea
Grade 1
Pizza & Games Night
Parents & Friends’
Community Dinner at the
RSL
Instrumental Music Concert
Walk to School
Thank you to all those students and their families who
participated in the Walk to School Month.
As part of the program the City of Greater Bendigo
Healthy Communities program, we have been given a
scooter and helmet to award to a student. All students
who walked to school every day during the program, will
be in the running for it. The draw will take place at
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assembly on Monday 17 November.
It is a wonderful habit to establish and I would encourage
all students to continue to walk each day. Even walking
from the St Aiden’s Road gate or being dropped off at the
Crook Street entrance and walking up the path is great. It
would be lovely to see more bikes in our new bike shed
also!
The ‘Hands Up’ program will continue so keep walking
and riding to school.
Thank you.
Grade 6
Interschool Sports - BSE
Carols in the Mall
Hargreaves Mall
Statewide Transition Day
Grade 6
Awards Night
Grade 6
Puberty lesson
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Principal’s Report
will perform. The Bendigo and District Concert Band will
also be playing. Each year it has been an enjoyable
community evening, and it would be terrific to see a large
representation from our school community in attendance.
Families are welcome to arrive from 6:30pm to share a
picnic tea on the artificial grass area. The carols will start
at 7:30pm. More information re planning will follow but
please diary this event now.
Dear Parents/Carers
Grade 5 Camp
As is usually the case we had very positive feedback
following our Grade 4 and 5 Camps at Weekaway last
week. The following is part of an email I received in
relation
to
the
grade
5
camp.
Pre-loved Uniforms
We often have need for second hand items of school
uniform. If you are going through your cupboards and
have some used items that are in good condition, they
can be donated to the school through the office.
Just wanted to let you know what a fantastic Grade 5
Camp KPS had this year. Hats off to Jeremy for doing an
excellent job with organising the camp, I know a lot of
background work goes into organising one. There were
very few issues and this was as a result of good planning
by Jeremy I am sure! The teaching staff were great, I
really enjoyed the way they interacted with the kids and
provided guidance, support and discipline when required.
Even after they had been at it for over 12 hours a day
they still managed to give kids one-on-one time or group
time when they could have just sent them to bed! It would
be great if more parents could experience a school camp,
as it reveals a lot about student/teacher relationships and
how committed the teachers are to their students.
Attending the camp has assured me that we have the right
teachers, teaching the right students and that Kennington
is a great school.
Education Maintenance Allowance 2015
It is really important for parents/carers to be aware that
there will be no EMA in 2015. This will mean that on
Book Collection Day 2015 all costs will need to be
covered by you.
Family Accounts
To help with your books and fees on book collection day
nd
(Thursday 22 January, 2015) parents are welcome to
come to the office anytime from now on, between 8:00am
to 4:15pm to put money on their family accounts to help
with their 2015 payments.
Money you put on your account this year will be carried
forward to next year.
Webpage
The KPS webpage also provides extra information and is
updated regularly. www.kenningtonps.vic.edu.au. The
current webpage is changing format so may not be as up
to date as usual over the next month. We appreciate
your patience during this upgrade process.
Energy Breakthrough
The Link
The Link is the main form of communication with you and
the school. The Link will be sent home with the youngest
child
in
each
family
or
look
on
www.kenningtonps.vic.edu.au. The Link is published on
Thursdays. Sometimes, where we need to ensure that a
piece of information gets to all of our school community, a
notice will be repeated in a number of newsletters.
The RACV Energy Breakthrough is an exciting annual
program for students, teachers, parents and local
industries to work together to design and construct a
machine which represents an 'energy breakthrough'..
As you are aware we have two teams representing
Kennington Primary School. Our teams of Grade 5 and 6
students have been training really hard in their Human
Powered Vehicle, including many after school and
weekend sessions. They have been supported by Mr
Hague and Miss Rady. The event is next week and the
teams will be camping in Maryborough for two nights.
Regards
Glenda Miller
Principal
Nutbush Fundraiser
nd
On Saturday 22 November our school community is
hosting a Guinness Book of Records attempt for having
the most people doing the Nutbush at the same time.
Flyer attached. Tickets now available from the office. At
lunch times we have had many students leading, and
many others following, Nutbush practice!!!
Carols at Kennington Primary School
This year, we will again have our Carols at
Kennington as an end of year community
gathering. This event will be held on
th
Thursday 11 December. All grade levels
will be performing a carol. Our school
singing choir and our school signing choir
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Rock, Paper, Scissors Competition
Chinese Immersion Program
The Annual Rock Paper Scissors
Championships has commenced.
Every child in the school
competes for the honour of being
KPS Grand Champion. The
winner is awarded a gold medal
and the runner up, a silver
medal. Each Class Champion plays off in the semi-finals
and the grandfinal is played out in front of a live audience
st
of nearly 1000 people, at assembly on Monday 1
December. This is a game of skill and in the past there
have been serious competitions between Grade Preps
and Grade 6s. Age has proved irrelevant.
Every Tuesday we have English language sessions at
Kennington Primary School for the visiting Chinese
students. We have 10 Chinese students from Kennington,
Spring Gully, Eppalock and Quarry Hill who participate in
the program. During the sessions the students have
been learning about Australian animals. So far the
students have investigated the kangaroo, koala, a
wombat and an emu. At the end of each session they
made a felt fridge magnet.
The students have sung along to Home Among the Gum
Tree and learnt some Aussie slang: G’day, arvo, ta, and
see-ya. This week the Chinese students looked at
Aboriginal art and decorated boomerangs. Next week we
will fly the boomerangs.
Classroom Champions
PA
PB
PC
PD
1A
1B
1C
1/2D
2A
2B
2C
Jamie W
Miya McN
Eloise C
Abigail W
Maddison W
Ryan S
Aaron H
Grace H
Ronan T
3A
3B
3C
4A
4B
4C
5A
5B
5C
6A
6B
6C
Palwasha K
Izzy K
Zachary W
Poung Shu T
Fraser R
Hannah B
Jakob DeS
Kawishka H
Alex C-D
Lisa M
Grade 6 Yearbook
Thank you to the parents and carers who have already
paid for the Grade 6 yearbook. Just a friendly reminder
that the order will be processed on Friday 14th
November, therefore money cannot be accepted after this
date.
The cost of the yearbook is $10.00. Please return the
order form to school as soon as possible to secure your
copy of the publication.
Thank you to our community sponsor, Bendigo Modern
Press, for heavily discounting the printing and binding of
the book to make it cost-effective for KPS families.
Commemorative Shirts - Grade 6 2015
A note has been sent out to our current Grade 5 students
seeking permission to have their names printed on the
2015 Grade 6 commemorative T-shirt. The permission
th
note needs to be returned to the school by Friday 28
November. This note is only for permission to have your
child’s name on the back of the shirt.
Further information in regard to ordering commemorative
t-shirts, prices etc will be provided at a later date.
Michele Chng
EAL Teacher
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Prep News
Eighty students in grade prep washed, peeled, chopped,
discussed and measured vegetables before cooking and
eating vegetable soup which they all agreed was
delicious!
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Parents and Friends News
Visual Arts News
Fun Food Day
Icy Poles will be available on
th
Wednesday 26 November, for
$1.00.
Helpers need to arrive by
10:45am on the day to organise
handing out the icy poles.
Annual General Meeting – Parents & Friends’ 2015
st
Parents and Friends' AGM will be held on Monday 1
December, at 9:15am in the conference room (near the
office). A general meeting will follow the meeting, as well
as morning tea.
All positions for the committee will be declared vacant
and the school community can nominate for positions on
the 2015 P&F Committee. The P&F is a vital committee
for the school, its main role is to raise valuable funds for
our school. It is also a good chance to meet other
members of the school community, as well as keeping
informed about your school.
Please consider being
involved in the P&F for 2015. Nomination forms are at
the back of the LINK.
Instrumental Music Concert
Thursday 4th December
5:30pm – 8:00pm
The December Instrumental Music Concert will be held in
the new BER (F Block) building on Thursday 4th
December.
In order to provide an opportunity for our students to
perform, we will again have a combined concert featuring
a mixture of beginner and experienced students.
Congratulations to our Artists of the Moment. This group
of students has created outstanding work and can be
enormously proud of their efforts. White circles were
printed on black paper to prepare a background. Once
dry, pastels were used to add colour and rainbows to
form the illusion of bubbles. Fine detail was added with
white ink pens. We think you will agree that these
beautiful bubbles really do seem to float on the page.
Fabulous work from Grades 2, 3 and 4.
The concert will commence at 5:30pm and conclude by
8:00pm. The order of performances is provided as a
guide.
Arrival
Performance
Time
Time
Trumpet,
Flute, Clarinet
5:20pm
5:30pm
Strings
5:30pm
5:40pm
Singing
5:40pm
5:50pm
Keyboard
5:45pm
6:05pm
Drums
6:20pm
6:35pm
Guitar
6:50pm
7:05pm
Lisa Findlay
Before and after performing the students should sit with
their own family. I understand that people will be entering
and leaving the building at different times, but I do ask
that there is minimal movement whilst students are
performing.
Families and school community members are most
welcome to join us. Please remember that all students
are expected to wear their full school uniform to the
concert.
Admission is by gold coin donation. Funds raised will go
towards purchasing a stage as currently a stage is hired.
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GRADE 6 Awards Evening and Student Meal Tuesday December 9th 2014
The Grade 6 Awards Evening will be held
on Tuesday 9th December at the Baptist
Church, McIvor Highway, Junortoun at
7:30pm. Doors will be open for guests
at 7:15pm.
Students are to wear school uniform.
Students are invited to share a meal together with staff
prior to the ceremony. The cost of the meal will be
$18.00. Students should be dropped off at the venue for
the meal at 5:45pm. Please inform your child’s class
teacher or the office if your child has any food allergies or
dietary requirements. A personal invitation will be given to
each student at the end of November.
Hi my name is Jacob and I am in 6A.
As part of my Grade 6 Genius Hour project, I am running
an animal food drive.
My aim is to make people aware that the RSPCA houses
lost, abandoned and sick animals and is constantly
requiring food to feed them.
Guests, including family members, will require a ticket.
Guest tickets may be purchased from the school office
from Monday 17th November at a cost of $4.00 per ticket.
If you have any unopened cat, dog or rabbit food, please
send it to school with your child and ask them to place it
in the tub in the office foyer.
The evening will consist of a Principal Welcome, student
performances, presentations to all Grade 6 students, and
presentations to award winners. We look forward to the
evening being a celebration of the completion of primary
school for our Grade 6 students.
All donations will be delivered to the RSPCA in
December.
Thank you very much for your help.
Jacob I (Team leader)
Breakfast Club – Every Friday
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Hi, my name is Phoebe.
I am in Grade 6 this year. This term my grade is doing a
project called Genius Hour.
Breakfa
st Club will be on every Friday from 8:10am until 8:30am.
(This allows time for students to get to their classrooms
before the bell at 8:40am).
My goal:
To create a quilt of knitted squares for a resident of
Strathhaven, but I can't do it alone. I would like everyone
to join in. If you can, please try and complete a knitted
square.
Breakfast Club – Gold Coin Donation
All students participating in Breakfast Club are
encouraged to make a gold coin donation each week.
The money raised is used to purchase fruit for the
classrooms for all students to access, which the students
INFORMATION
are enjoying.
Small knitted square – 20cm x 20cm
Roster Term 4
To be completed by Monday 24th November
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14 November
Julie Keleher
Lisa Tangey
Sonia Lewis
Luci Kenna
st
21 November
Vanessa Cheng
Heather Stinton
Shona Barton
Brenda Blake
Juanita Viljoen
Please drop off to
Kennington Primary School Office
60 Crook St
Strathdale VIC 3550
For more information. Email
[email protected]
th
28 November
Julie Keleher
Shayne Hyatt
Luci Kenna
Sonia Lewis
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5 December
No Breakfast Club finished for the year
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COMMUNITY
ASTHMA FOUNDATION – for your information
www.asthmafriendlyschools.org.au
FREECALL 1800 645 130
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Strathfieldsaye Junior Netball Club
AGM and Registration for 2015 Season
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When:-
Wednesday 19 November
Where:-
Flight Centre Park
Strathfieldsaye Storm Club Rooms
Tannery Lane
Time:-
5:00pm
Registration forms, AGM information and uniform forms
are available for you to fill in prior to the night. Please
contact Michelle Thomson on [email protected]
or Allison Richards on [email protected] and we
can email you a copy
All Welcome
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ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH SPONSORS 2014
We would like to thank all our generous sponsors
MAJOR SPONSORS
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Parents and Friends’ Committee 2015
The Parents and Friends’ Committee undertakes a vital fundraising and consultative role within
our school community. Please consider joining this worthwhile committee and being actively
involved.
The P&F 2014 AGM will be held on Monday 1st December at 9:15am in the Conference Room.
A number of the current committee members will not be re-nominating for positions; therefore,
we need new nominations.
If you would like to nominate for a position please complete the form below and return it to the
school office before 9:00am on Monday 1st December.
It is preferable that nominees attend the AGM to accept a position.
Nominees must be nominated by members of our school community.
Parents and Friends’ Committee Positions
President / Team Leader
Vice President
Treasurer
Minutes Secretary
Correspondence Secretary
Mothers & Fathers’ Day Stalls Coordinator/s
Newsletter Secretary
………………………………………………………………………………………………
Kennington Primary School Parents and Friends’ Committee 2015 Nomination Form
I _____________________________ would like to nominate _______________________
for the position of __________________________.
This nomination is seconded by
________________________
Signed Nominee (Person being nominated):
________________________
Signed Nominator (Person nominating):
________________________
Signed Seconder (Person seconding the nomination): _______________________
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Grade 5 Camp
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