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 3 Week 10 15 September A Big End To Term 3 Last week provided another varied week for KSPS stu- dents. Activities including the Spelling Bee finals at Ham- ilton Public, Debating, Creative Arts Camp and Colonial Day were part of the mix. The focus this week will be on the three Stars On Stage performances. Yesterday’s dress rehearsal ran smoothly and augers well for the shows ahead. Wednesday’s P&C General Meeting included a busy agenda to support the school. The end of term provides a welcome opportunity to express heartfelt thanks to all KSPS volunteers for making a huge difference for all our students. The support of parents who are helping out this week while Mrs Best is on leave is also very much appre- ciated. Please note that the usual Friday assembly will not be held this week. Awards will be presented on Friday morn- ing at 9am under the Infants COLA. Stars on Stage commencing today will showcase all K-6 students and highlights the creative, collaborative enter- prise of our students and staff team. Thanks to parents and carers who have assisted with costumes and en- sured all three shows will have full houses. Congratulations to Ms Louise Gillespie and Mr Ashley Latimer who have successfully completed their Intern- ships this term on 5/6W and 5/6J respectively. It is pleas- ing to see the skills, commitment and enthusiasm of our beginning teachers. Best wishes for the future. Principal Awards Congratulations to James (Y6) and Wesley (K) who re- ceived Bronze Awards at Friday’s assembly. It was also a pleasure to present Sabine Y6 with a Gold Award. These awards recognise their efforts and achievements in earn- ing regular weekly Assembly Awards. Well done to James, Wesley and Sabine! Park Safe Stay Safe Since early 2015 KSPS has participated in this Newcastle City Council (NCC) program to raise awareness and safe practice around school zones. The initial phase involved council officers visiting the school crossing zones and talking to parents; banners; and newsletter items. NCC parking officers will visit the school this week and next term to monitor drivers’ compliance with parking reg- ulations and will issue fines for breaches. While the school appreciates that parking outside the school is lim- ited, safety is of obvious concern. Your continued care to safely drop off and collect your child is appreciated. This Week: Thursday: Stars On Stage 10am & 6pm Friday: End of Term - Out of Uniform day Students return Tuesday 6 October KSPS 2015 School Evaluation Survey We would like parents and caregivers to have their say about KSPS in 2015. Below is the link for our 2015 Parent survey. This is also available on the school Facebook page and the school website. We would like as many parents as possible to contribute to this 5 minute survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/ d/1dFKvwJNdRgaWbez_Y3_DGkOyn3nAFyD8qmsgH zCBJ9U/viewform?usp=send_form Out-of-uniform Day – this Friday Friday is the last day of Term 3 and students are invit- ed to come out of uniform and make a gold coin dona- tion to the Year 6 fundraising drive. Students should still wear broad rimmed hats, sport suitable joggers and be appropriately dressed for sun safety. Best wishes to all students, families and staff for a well -earned break. Term 4 commences on Tuesday 6 Oc- tober for students and staff. In the meantime, have a restful and safe school holiday! MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL PLEASE NOTE: ALL STARS ON STAGE CONCERTS ARE SOLD OUT. Stars on Stage Performing Arts Concert It is show time! Tickets for the Stars on Stage concert went home last Friday. Please remember that all stu- dents need to be at school in their designated holding rooms by 5.30pm on Thursday evening to get cos- tumes, etc. organised for a 6.00pm start. Children must be accompanied to their holding room and picked up at the end of the concert from their holding room as set out below at approximately 7.50pm. If your child/children attend OOSH on Thursday after- noon, please inform OOSH staff that you give permis- sion for a KSPS staff member to sign your child out at 5.30pm and escort them to their holding room. Holding Rooms: 5/6W, 5/6J and 5/6P – Library 3P, 3E and 4E – 4E classroom Year 2 – in their classrooms Year 1 – in their classrooms All Kinder – KC classroom If you are taking other children home after the Thurs- day night concert, a note concerning this needs to be given to class teachers prior to the concert.
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What’s Coming Up....................
Kotara South Public School 150 Rae Crescent Kotara South 2289
A Big End To Term 3 Last week provided another varied week for KSPS stu-dents. Activities including the Spelling Bee finals at Ham-ilton Public, Debating, Creative Arts Camp and Colonial Day were part of the mix. The focus this week will be on the three Stars On Stage performances. Yesterday’s dress rehearsal ran smoothly and augers well for the shows ahead.
Wednesday’s P&C General Meeting included a busy agenda to support the school. The end of term provides a welcome opportunity to express heartfelt thanks to all KSPS volunteers for making a huge difference for all our students. The support of parents who are helping out this week while Mrs Best is on leave is also very much appre-ciated.
Please note that the usual Friday assembly will not be held this week. Awards will be presented on Friday morn-ing at 9am under the Infants COLA.
Stars on Stage commencing today will showcase all K-6 students and highlights the creative, collaborative enter-prise of our students and staff team. Thanks to parents and carers who have assisted with costumes and en-sured all three shows will have full houses.
Congratulations to Ms Louise Gillespie and Mr Ashley Latimer who have successfully completed their Intern-ships this term on 5/6W and 5/6J respectively. It is pleas-ing to see the skills, commitment and enthusiasm of our beginning teachers. Best wishes for the future.
Principal Awards Congratulations to James (Y6) and Wesley (K) who re-ceived Bronze Awards at Friday’s assembly. It was also a pleasure to present Sabine Y6 with a Gold Award. These awards recognise their efforts and achievements in earn-ing regular weekly Assembly Awards. Well done to James, Wesley and Sabine!
Park Safe Stay Safe Since early 2015 KSPS has participated in this Newcastle City Council (NCC) program to raise awareness and safe practice around school zones. The initial phase involved council officers visiting the school crossing zones and talking to parents; banners; and newsletter items. NCC parking officers will visit the school this week and next term to monitor drivers’ compliance with parking reg-ulations and will issue fines for breaches. While the school appreciates that parking outside the school is lim-ited, safety is of obvious concern. Your continued care to safely drop off and collect your child is appreciated.
This Week: Thursday: Stars On Stage 10am & 6pm Friday: End of Term - Out of Uniform day
Students return Tuesday 6 October
KSPS 2015 School Evaluation Survey We would like parents and caregivers to have their say about KSPS in 2015. Below is the link for our 2015 Parent survey. This is also available on the school Facebook page and the school website. We would like as many parents as possible to contribute to this 5 minute survey. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dFKvwJNdRgaWbez_Y3_DGkOyn3nAFyD8qmsgHzCBJ9U/viewform?usp=send_form
Out-of-uniform Day – this Friday Friday is the last day of Term 3 and students are invit-ed to come out of uniform and make a gold coin dona-tion to the Year 6 fundraising drive. Students should still wear broad rimmed hats, sport suitable joggers and be appropriately dressed for sun safety.
Best wishes to all students, families and staff for a well-earned break. Term 4 commences on Tuesday 6 Oc-tober for students and staff. In the meantime, have a restful and safe school holiday! MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL
PLEASE NOTE: ALL STARS ON STAGE CONCERTS ARE SOLD OUT. Stars on Stage Performing Arts Concert It is show time! Tickets for the Stars on Stage concert went home last Friday. Please remember that all stu-dents need to be at school in their designated holding rooms by 5.30pm on Thursday evening to get cos-tumes, etc. organised for a 6.00pm start. Children must be accompanied to their holding room and picked up at the end of the concert from their holding room as set out below at approximately 7.50pm. If your child/children attend OOSH on Thursday after-noon, please inform OOSH staff that you give permis-sion for a KSPS staff member to sign your child out at 5.30pm and escort them to their holding room. Holding Rooms: 5/6W, 5/6J and 5/6P – Library 3P, 3E and 4E – 4E classroom Year 2 – in their classrooms Year 1 – in their classrooms All Kinder – KC classroom If you are taking other children home after the Thurs-day night concert, a note concerning this needs to be given to class teachers prior to the concert.
Stars on Stage – Group Photos During our Dress Rehearsal on Monday 14 Septem-ber, group photos were taken of each class/combined group performing in the concert. If you would like to order any of these photos at the cost of $2.00 each, you can do so at any of the concerts. A table will be set up outside the school hall where or-ders will be taken by a KSPS staff member. PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO PHOTOS AVAILABLE TO TAKE HOME AT ANY OF THE CONCERTS. THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN LAST WEEK’S NEWSLETTER. All ordered photos will be printed over the school holidays and will be given to your child/children early next term. All money raised will go towards a project to install insect screens in classrooms.
MRS VIOLET COX - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Email contact If you would like to get in touch with your child's teacher via email to inform them of urgent matters or to touch base, there are two options.
Survey of School Website Service The department’s School Website Service is looking at how its service can be improved. With parents be-ing a key audience of the KSPS website, the Depart-ment of Education website service wants to find out what you think of the current service and to your sug-gestions as to what functionality and enhancements might improve the quality of communication. A parent survey is now open through the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WSVSCXG The survey will be open until midnight Thursday the 24th of September. Your help to improve the school website will be greatly appreciated. MR ENGLEFIELD - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Colonial Day What a Colonial Day! Last Wednesday Stage 2 and 3 stepped back in time engaging in a day of fun Coloni-al Activities. Students made damper, pottery, mud bricks whilst learning what the historical classroom was like. They finished the day playing olden day games, listening to a yarn about bush rangers and participating in a bush dance. The day integrated learning about the Colonisation of Australia and the Gold Rush that the students have been learning about in HSIE. A huge thank you to the parents who shared antique
items and provided equipment for us to help make the day as realistic as possible. A special thank you to the mums and dads who help set the day up and assisted the students in the activities throughout the day, mak-ing it a colonial day to remember. Sports Colours Day The last day of term is an out of uniform day, Fri-day 18th September, Stage 3 are holding a gold coin fundraiser. As the finals of all the winter sports are occurring or have come to an end, students are ask to wear the colours of their favourite sport team. Woolworths Earn and Learn As you know, our school has been participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. The program has now finished for this year, so a big thanks to everyone who supported our school. We're now at the important stage of the program where the Sticker Sheets are collected and lodged as our Earn & Learn claim. We will then be able to get new educational equipment for our school. The more we collect, the more we can redeem. So this week, please send in your Wool-worths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheets and any loose Earn & Learn stickers you may have. Remember to check your handbag, the car glove box or they may be stuck on the fridge. Every little bit helps. Thanks again for all your support! Stage 3 Bathurst Excursion Parents of Stage 3 students are invited to a parent information session about our upcoming Bathurst Ex-cursion. The parent information night will be held on Wednesday 14th October, 2015. The session will clarify any questions or concerns whilst outlining the itinerary and expectations of the excursion.
PAUL JOHN - CLASS TEACHER Spelling Bee Congratulations to the students that attended the Premier’s Spelling Bee last Tuesday. The students did exceptionally well, considering how nervous they were and the competition on the day. A big congratu-lations to Jack, India, Callum and Amelia for repre-senting KSPS.
MS PAYNE - ORGANISING TEACHER Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students who received awards at last week’s assembly. KC Jaylen, Tom, Lexie KF Genevieve, Violet, Rhiannan 1V Molly, Savannah, Madden 1W William, Freya, Oliver 2G Aiden, Maddie, Phoebe 2MG Chloe, Emma, Josh 3E Holly, Hugo, Campbell 3P Oliver, Harry, Emerson
KSPS Gardens and Grounds Newsletter The date for the final Volunteer Day has been set! Our ‘Planting Day’ will be Sunday October 18th from 9am to 11am. We will be holding a Thank You BBQ for everyone who helps on the day and to recog-nise those of the school community who have helped make the school a great learning environment. Remember, if you are looking for a way to contribute to the expansion of the Primary Veggie Garden pro-ject then why not plant some SEEDS! Watch them grow over the next few months and then either come along to the volunteer day to plant them or donate them to the school for others to plant. Not sure what to grow? Well anything really, we will need herbs, flowers, vegetables; anything that you think will brighten up the gardens for the final months of the school year. We ask that plants be brought to the school the week before the Volunteer Day in October so you will need to care for them until then. But this is a great exercise for the children to ‘Get into the Garden’. Have a great break. Matt Playdon - KSPS Gardens and Grounds Group
4E Niri, Amelia, Kurtis 5/6J Zac, Campbell, Samantha 5/6P Ethan, Holly, India 5/6W Jasmin, Rishi, Josie HSUB Kian Ukulele classes Just to give you a reminder that we have finished uku-lele classes for term 3 (no class this week) and will start back in week 2 of term 4. Start date: TUESDAY Oct 13th (week 2) & ends on Dec. 8th (week 10). There will be 9 weeks of classes which will cost $88. Just to let you know that the children will do a perfor-mance in the auditorium at South's Merewether (46 Llewellyn St) on Sunday 13 December. There will be quite a crowd there and it will be a great opportunity for the children to show their 'chops'! Please keep this date free if you can and please help your child to find time to practice, just 2 x 5 minutes a week would be great! Also I have asked the school to give us a time during school assembly some time next term to perform.
JANE JELBART - UKULELE TEACHER Canteen News Hello from the canteen for another extraordinary week. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for your on-going support, I couldn't do this without your help. A BIG thank you to those mums who have kept the canteen sailing in my absence. This week I am having a SUPA HOLIDAY DEAL available this Fri-day only.
Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday. SUPA HOLIDAY DEAL $4 6 chicken chippies 1 sour nugget sparks 1 pkt chips (any) 1 wicked fizz 1 yogo snapo
FIONA BEST- CANTEEN SUPERVISOR
P&C News Upgrade of art works to concrete throughout the school It could be a long shot but I was hoping to get helpers (maybe 2 or 3) for the weekend of 3rd and 4th Octo-ber as that’s when I have taken some annual leave from work. Perhaps three hours on each day would cover it from 9:30 - 12:30, weather permitting. No ar-tistic skill is required, just a steady hand. I can be con-tacted on 0435095594 or [email protected] Trivia Night – 24 October 2015 at Alder Park Bowl-ing Club We are starting to receive some fantastic prizes, how-
ever the P&C are looking for more donations to make up prizes on the night. If you are able to assist in con-tacting organisations to request donations or alternative, if you know of any organisation that may wish to donate please contact Scott Pilgrim via email at [email protected]
Tables of 10 with the cost of $10.00 per person. Please hand form and money into the office in an envelope marked “Trivia night”. Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be opened on Wednesday 16 & Thursday 17 September – 8.30am to 9.00am P&C Meeting The next P&C meeting will be held on 14 October 2015 at 7.00pm in the school library. P&C Dates to remember 14 October @ 7pm – P&C Meeting 24 October @ 7pm – Trivia night 18 October – Grounds & Garden working bee
