KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Website: kinglake.ps@education.vic.gov.au

Together We Achieve

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Address: 20 McMahons Road Kinglake 3763

2nd September 2021

Newsletter 26

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Dates to Remember

Sept 2021

Frid 10th -Science Works Postponed

Office Hours

Monday to Thursday

8:45am – 4pm

CAR PARK SAFETY

For the safety of your children, students and parents

are encouraged to use the supervised crossing

between the safety flags.

Also, please ensure that younger siblings are

supervised by an adult during drop off and pick up.

Thank you for your assistance in making our school a

safe place for our children to grow.

Reminder – Anaphylaxis’s Please remember that we have students within our school community with an anaphylaxis allergy to nuts. Please be mindful when packing your children's Lunchboxes, treats or lollies that contain nuts.

From the Office

KIDS CLUB NEWS

Kids Club would love any donations of vegetables or fruit that have been grown in your veggie garden at home.

If parents have any enquiries regarding after school care, please feel free to drop in and talk to one of our friendly staff. Kids Club Staff

Anita and Clare: Joint Coordinator/Certified Supervisor. Di: Accounts.

Bookings and Cancellations

To book/cancel your child/children into before or after school care, please ring the school on 5786 1284. IMPORTANT: All enrolment forms must be up to date for 2021 and your child/children must be enrolled to use our service. This is part of the Education and Childcare National Regulations.

Accounts can be paid by EFTPOS at School Office Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. If you are having problems please see Di for a Payment Plan. NO B-PAY!

School Year Term Dates 2021

Term 2 19th April—25th June

Term 3 12th July—17th September

Term 4 4th October—17th December

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Principal’s Report

NAPLAN

Congratulations to Year 3 and Year 5 students on their

excellent achievements at NAPLAN this year, particularly

after remote learning! Well done to the teachers, Education

Support Staff, and parents for keeping the students’ skills up

and ready for national testing. An outstanding effort!

Lockdown Extended

At 1.00pm yesterday the Premier announced a continuation

of the period of lockdown until 70 per cent of Victorians have

had at least one dose of vaccine. This is estimated to be

around 23 September. Schools will remain in remote and

flexible learning for the remainder of Term 3. We are all very

sad by this announcement as we miss all the students. We

hope to see our students and parents back safe and well in

term 4. Please keep students connected to their teacher and

classmates via the daily check in and roll at 9.30am.

Teachers will run small group teaching sessions from

10.00am – 10.30am, and we are running an additional help

session at 11.00am for all students. Teachers are available

throughout the day via email, chat via teams and additional

video meetings when required. Each Thursday students will

participate in live specialist sessions (Italian, PE, STEM) and

will complete an art and wellbeing activity.

Principal’s Hour – every Friday 12.30pm – 1.30pm

To end this week, I have organised a fun and uplifting activity

for all students and families. We have the very talented Joel

Quinn (guitarist) performing for our students and families.

Please see the attached flyer for details on how to log into

WebEx. Please test this before the session on Friday at

12.30pm.

Education Support Staff - Appreciation Week

A massive thank you to our hard working and extremely

dedicated Education Support who go above and beyond for

every student. We are so fortunate to have Chris, Anita, Di,

Karen and Clare on staff.

Communication

Currently we send all notifications to parents via Skoolbag

and Facebook. Keith, our IT technician, is currently setting up

our parent email distribution list via GradeExpert, and we are

hoping to use this before the end of this term.

Planning Day

On Thursday 16th September (week 10) classroom teachers

will be involved in their planning day for term 4. Only the live

specialist sessions and activities will run on this day. I will be

checking in with all students at 9.30am via the Principal’s

page in Teams!

Shade Sail Application

We are currently in the process of applying for a second

shade sail grant. We have obtained two quotes as part of the

grant requirements, and are now completing the final stages

of the application. Thank you to Anna Bunbury for her

assistance.

Happy Father’s Day!

Wishing all the Dads a wonderful day for this Sunday!

R U OK? DAY

R U OK? Day is next Thursday 9th September. It is a national

day of action dedicated to reminding everyone that any day

is the day to ask, “Are you OK?” and support those

challenged with life’s hurdles. This year’s message is “Are

they really OK? Ask them today! Please check in on each

other and reach out if you need support!

As a staff, we have created a wellbeing pack for every

student. These can be collected at the school foyer on

Thursday. The wellbeing pack is a token of students efforts

during remote and flexible learning. We understand it is a

challenging time for students and we are hoping the

wellbeing pack will put a smile to students faces!

Indigenous Literacy Day! This annual event provides a

window into the richness, diversity and multilingual world of

Indigenous Australian peoples, through storytelling. If

families get time this week during remote and flexible

learning, you might like to listen to some fabulous stories

https://www.ild.org.au/

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Principal’s Hour – Friday 3rd September 12.30pm – 1.30pm

‘Get your singing voice ready’

Joel Quinn

Joel Quinn is a Guitarist and Vocalist from Melbourne, Australia.

Students can request songs for Joel to play during the live session!

Please use WebEx

Instructions – (Please test this process before the meeting!)

Type www.webex.com in your browser.

Click on join a meeting – see the blue circle.

enter the meeting number. ‘see above’

enter the password ‘music’

5. Press join meeting!

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Calm Down Spaces for Kids

Everyone experiences the feeling of being overwhelmed, stressed or anxious. For children during lockdown these can oc-cur quite frequently. A calm down space where they can escape too, may assist them in relieving some of these feelings. What is a calm down space? It's exactly what it sounds like, a place to calm down. You can call it a cozy corner, safe space, anything you’d like! As long as the goal remains the same—it serves as a calming, relaxing, welcoming, and quiet space for kids to go to when they need a break.

REMINDER: This is NOT a time-out space or to be used as punishment. Don't send kids here to be isolated, it is a safe

space where kids should want to go to when BIG feelings arise. Your calm down space doesn't need to be complex, require a lot of space, or contain expensive materials—keep it simple! Cozy but cool! Make this space feel special by adding colourful pillows and blankets or set up a children's tent for privacy. Include items like:

Stuffed animal Books about feelings and emotions Colouring/drawing materials Feelings/emotions posters

Calm down spaces are easily customizable for different ages, and when it comes to activities, you know your kids best! As long as you give them activities that they can do to calm down and self-soothe, you've created a successful calm down space. Resource: SanfordFitKids

LIVE LESSONS – Thursdays!

STEM ITALIAN PE

9.00am – 9.30am Year 1/2

9.30am – 10.00am (Daily check in with class-

room teacher)

Prep / 1 (Class check

in for these students will be at a different time – Mrs Hocking will advise!)

10.00am – 10.30am

Year 3/4

10.30am – 11.00am Prep /1 Year 5/6

11.30am – 12.00pm Year 1/2 Year 3/4

12.00pm – 12.30pm Year 3/4 Year 5/6

12.30pm – 1.00pm Year 5/6 Year 1/2

1.00pm – 1.30pm Prep / 1

Stress balls

Child-safe mirror

Pinwheel

Sensory bottles or glitter jars

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School Birthdays

September 2021

1st Michael 7th Makayla

8th Liam

Reminder – Anaphylaxis’s

Please remember that we have students within our school community with an anaphylaxis allergy to nuts. Please be mindful when packing your children's Lunchboxes, treats or lollies that contain nuts.

All book club orders are due to be submitted via the loop by September 3rd. Instructions for using the Loop can be found on the scholastic website. Please do not send cash to the office.