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 2 Week 6 26 May 2015 Silver and Gold Awards Well done to Sophia (Y2) and Ruby (Y3) who received Silver Awards at Friday’s whole school assembly. It was also my pleasure to present Sophia (Y6) with a Gold Award. A wonderful achievement! As the number of Silver Award recipients continues to outstrip Bronze this year, I assume there are many stu- dents who are close to achieving Bronze (for 5 Assembly Awards). Silver Awards are presented to students who have received a Bronze Principal’s Award and a further 10 Assembly Awards; and students are eligible for a Gold Principal’s Award when they have achieved a Silver Prin- cipal’s Award and a further 15 Assembly Awards. Quite a feat! Assembly Awards can be brought to me directly or through the office. Community Participation to The Fore Sincere thanks to Matt Playdon for organising Sunday’s working bee and to all who volunteered their time. The P&C Gardens and Grounds Team is making a fantastic difference to the school environs. Further details are be- low in this newsletter. While on P&C matters, please note that the P&C May Meeting has been postponed until Wednesday 17 th June as a school disco and literacy sessions will be held on Wed. 10 th June. The meeting will commence at 6pm to allow an early finish for State of Origin devotees. Debating Congratulations to the KSPS Premier’s Debating and Train On teams who have commenced their rounds of debates. The Year 5 Train On Team debated West Walls- end South Public School last Thursday and the Year 6 Premier’s Team will debate Kahibah Public students at 10:30am on Thursday morning. Thanks to Mrs Thompson who is co-ordinating the teams and to parents who assist- ed with transport last Thursday. On a personal note, it’s been a pleasure to be involved in a couple of workshops with our debaters. Year 6 students are: Bridie, Pia, George and Bailey. Year 5 students are: Makenzie, Callum, Madeline and Jordie. I know you’ll do yourselves and KSPS proud. This Week: Wednesday: National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) 11am PSSA Soccer Knockout Thursday: Yr 6 debating vs Kahibah Friday: Walk Safely to School Day Next Week: Monday: School Readiness Session 6-7pm Tuesday: Wrapper free day Wednesday: ICAS - Science Kindergarten 2016 To the parents and community at Kotara South Public School, we are pleased to remind you that we have started taking Kindergarten enrolments for the 2016 school year. This is an exciting part of the process of beginning “Big School”, getting to know the new peo- ple and environment. We encourage you to contact the office to place your child’s name on our list. Also if any families are leaving in 2016 could you please let the school know. Medical Information Update Thank you to those parents who have returned medi- cal forms sent out last term. Many families received a letter asking for anaphylaxis, allergy, asthma or medi- cal needs to be updated by your child’s treating doc- tor. We need medical information updated annually to be able to best care for your children. We also need parents to check medication supplied to the school for expiry dates as many ventolins and even some epipens are out of date. Please complete these forms as soon as possible and return them to the school office. If you received a letter and your child no longer has a medical need, could you also please in- form the office. MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL PSSA Soccer Knockout The senior boys will play their first PSSA Knockout game against Merewether on Wednesday 27th May. They will play at Lugar Park at 1 pm. Wishing the boys luck. Hunter PSSA Selection Well done to the boys who attended the Hunter PSSA Touch Football trials on Friday in the terrible condi- tions. Both boys were successful in making the possi- ble/probable. Congratulations to Ky who gained selec- tion in the Hunter Boys Team and will compete at the State Championships in Coffs Harbour. PAUL JOHN - SPORT CO-ORDINATOR
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What’s Coming Up....................
Kotara South Public School 150 Rae Crescent Kotara South 2289
Well done to Sophia (Y2) and Ruby (Y3) who received Silver Awards at Friday’s whole school assembly. It was also my pleasure to present Sophia (Y6) with a Gold Award. A wonderful achievement! As the number of Silver Award recipients continues to outstrip Bronze this year, I assume there are many stu-dents who are close to achieving Bronze (for 5 Assembly Awards). Silver Awards are presented to students who have received a Bronze Principal’s Award and a further 10 Assembly Awards; and students are eligible for a Gold Principal’s Award when they have achieved a Silver Prin-cipal’s Award and a further 15 Assembly Awards. Quite a feat! Assembly Awards can be brought to me directly or through the office. Community Participation to The Fore
Sincere thanks to Matt Playdon for organising Sunday’s working bee and to all who volunteered their time. The P&C Gardens and Grounds Team is making a fantastic difference to the school environs. Further details are be-low in this newsletter.
While on P&C matters, please note that the P&C May Meeting has been postponed until Wednesday 17th June as a school disco and literacy sessions will be held on Wed. 10th June. The meeting will commence at 6pm to allow an early finish for State of Origin devotees. Debating
Congratulations to the KSPS Premier’s Debating and Train On teams who have commenced their rounds of debates. The Year 5 Train On Team debated West Walls-end South Public School last Thursday and the Year 6 Premier’s Team will debate Kahibah Public students at 10:30am on Thursday morning. Thanks to Mrs Thompson who is co-ordinating the teams and to parents who assist-ed with transport last Thursday. On a personal note, it’s been a pleasure to be involved in a couple of workshops with our debaters. Year 6 students are: Bridie, Pia, George and Bailey. Year
5 students are: Makenzie, Callum, Madeline and Jordie. I
know you’ll do yourselves and KSPS proud.
This Week: Wednesday: National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) 11am PSSA Soccer Knockout Thursday: Yr 6 debating vs Kahibah Friday: Walk Safely to School Day
Next Week: Monday: School Readiness Session 6-7pm Tuesday: Wrapper free day Wednesday: ICAS - Science
Kindergarten 2016
To the parents and community at Kotara South Public School, we are pleased to remind you that we have started taking Kindergarten enrolments for the 2016 school year. This is an exciting part of the process of beginning “Big School”, getting to know the new peo-ple and environment. We encourage you to contact the office to place your child’s name on our list. Also if any families are leaving in 2016 could you please let the school know. Medical Information Update
Thank you to those parents who have returned medi-cal forms sent out last term. Many families received a letter asking for anaphylaxis, allergy, asthma or medi-cal needs to be updated by your child’s treating doc-tor. We need medical information updated annually to be able to best care for your children. We also need parents to check medication supplied to the school for expiry dates as many ventolins and even some epipens are out of date. Please complete these forms as soon as possible and return them to the school office. If you received a letter and your child no longer has a medical need, could you also please in-form the office. MARTIN FROHLICH - PRINCIPAL PSSA Soccer Knockout
The senior boys will play their first PSSA Knockout game against Merewether on Wednesday 27th May. They will play at Lugar Park at 1 pm. Wishing the boys luck. Hunter PSSA Selection
Well done to the boys who attended the Hunter PSSA Touch Football trials on Friday in the terrible condi-tions. Both boys were successful in making the possi-ble/probable. Congratulations to Ky who gained selec-tion in the Hunter Boys Team and will compete at the State Championships in Coffs Harbour.
PAUL JOHN - SPORT CO-ORDINATOR
Terrific teacher-tested Reading Strategies Parent Information Session
Join Mrs Sargent and Mrs Venables in the KSPS library on Wednesday June 10th during the school disco times for a brief information ses-sion which will provide parents/carers with some practi-cal strategies to assist your child decode unfamiliar words when reading. The Infants session will run from 6:10–6:45pm and the Primary session will run from 7:10–7:45pm. Light snacks and a cuppa will be provided. We hope to see you there.
Walk Safely to School Day (WSTSD) is an annual, na-tional event encouraging all Primary School children to walk and commute safely to school. It is a Community Event seeking to promote Road Safety, Health, Public Transport and the Environment. WSTSD is an opportunity for parents and carers of Pri-mary School aged children to promote safe pedestrian behaviour and healthy habits. Regular walking has sig-nificant physical, mental and social health benefits. It is recommended that parents and carers closely supervise their young children, especially those under 10 years of age, in all road environments. In particular please re-member to hold hands when near or crossing the road. For more information you can look at the WSTSD web page, www.walk.com.au. The event is supported by the Australian Government and all State, Territory and Local Governments. KSPS will participate in the Walk Safely to School Day on this Friday the 29th of May by encouraging students to walk to school with their parents using safe behaviours such as holding an adult’s hand and to look, listen and think about traffic as they cross the roads in our local area. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in classroom activities to promote safe pedes-trian behaviours.
MS SQUIRE – WSTSD CO-ORDINATOR
Wrapper Free Day - June 2
As part of our school’s environment program we are holding a wrapper free day on Tuesday, June 2. All stu-dents are encouraged to bring their lunch to school in containers that can be re-used rather than being wrapped in paper, foil etc. The canteen will operate as normal. We thank you for your support and look forward to see-ing less rubbish around the school.
Lunch Wallets to order
In addition to the wrapper free day we have also organ-ised an opportunity for students to purchase Lunch Wal-lets that can be used to order lunch at the canteen. These wallets can be used over and over again - cutting down on paper bags and wastage. Please see the order form attached to this newslet-ter. The cost of the bags is $7 each and orders need to be in by Friday, 5 June. They will be distributed to stu-
as soon as they arrive back at school. At this stage there will not be additional bags for sale - they will ONLY be available through the attached order form.
ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS
School Readiness Session for parents of students commencing Kindergarten in 2016 Monday June 1, 6-7pm
You are invited to attend our School Readiness Ses-sion at Kotara South Public School on Monday June 1 from 6.00 - 7.00pm presented by our 2015 Kindergar-ten teachers Mrs Regina Fear and Mrs Violet Cox. The session will be held in the KC classroom. (Directions to the classroom will be displayed near the open middle gate on Rae Crescent). If you are new to the school system, want to know how to prepare your child for school or you are unsure whether your child is ready to start school, please join us for this informal evening. Please contact the school office before Friday May 29 if you wish to attend the session.
VIOLET COX - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS)
This Wednesday, at 11am, the Australian Library and Information Services (ALIA) is celebrating National Sim-ultaneous Storytime (NSS). National Simultaneous Sto-rytime is an annual campaign that aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books. Now in its 15th successful year it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and lit-eracy using an Australian children's book. This years book is 'The Brothers Quibble', written by Aaron Blabey. Aaron has visited our school and signed several of his books. The books are on display in the library, feel free to pop on in and have a look. They are very funny! I recently sent Aaron an email, about our school par-ticipating on Wednesday in NSS and I explained how the students were looking forward to listening to his sto-ry, especially as they have such fond memories of his school visit.
Here is his reply:
Hi Ms Nesbitt, Thanks for writing. Please pass on to the kids that I have nine new books coming out before the end of next year (including two more about pig the pug) and that I hope they enjoy them. Because of the crazy number of new books, I'm visiting less schools these days but I'm glad your kids enjoyed my last visit. It's always lovely. And thanks for joining in on Wednesday. All the best Aaron If you are free at 11am on Wednesday go to https://www.alia.org.au/nss to see the story read by Aaron.
Myself and the classes joining me can't wait!
MS NESBITT - LIBRARIAN
Dance Festival Parent Costume Committee
The next Year 2 Dance Festival costume meeting will be held in the 2G/2MG classrooms on Monday 1 June at 2.30pm. All help is much appreciated. For those parents who are unable to attend but would still love to help please contact Stacey O’Connor - [email protected] Star Struck Major Movement Rehearsal
The next combined major movement rehearsal is the Wednesday 27 May. All Starstruckers will be rehearsing their hardest and polishing their act. Not long now!. It will be AMAZING! MS GODDEN & MS GIBSON - DANCE CO-ORDINATORS
Merit Awards
Congratulations to the following students who received awards at last week’s assembly.
KC Imogen, Lily, Sophie KF Violet, Mitchell, Thomas 1V Madden, Imogen, Tegan 1W Isobel, Cooper, Matilda 2G Madeleine, Curtis, Elissa 2MG Luke, Bodie, Alexis 3E Olivia, Ruby, Maeve 3P Liam, Kayla, Blake 4E Bella, Cohen, Lily 5/6J Callum, Latana, Samantha, Jayden 5/6P India, Anna-Rose, Ryan 5/6W Elise, Jack, Bryce HSUB Luke Canteen News
Hello from the canteen for another extraordinary week. This Friday I am in much need of another helper, if only for an hour, it would be much appreciated. If you can help please call or text me on 0410 436 227. A big thank you to all my helpers, without your help the canteen would not run smoothly. The specials last week especial-ly the Eat Fresh Deal went amazingly well, so I will run that again- Eat Fresh Deal $2-00 1 English muffin filled with ham and cheese with pizza tomato sauce wrapped in foil and warmed in the oven, optional extras pineapple, baby spinach, onions and black olives -no charge.
Hot Diggity Dog $3-50 1 hot dog with sauce, options of cheese and Ameri-can mustard 1 ice mony 1 pkt cookies
FIONA BEST - CANTEEN SUPERVISOR
P&C News
Entertainment Books The new 2015-2016 Entertainment Books and Digital Memberships are here! To order securely please use the following link https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/346s62 or contact Leanne Smith via email at [email protected]. We will have some
books available through the office for cash sales.
Chocolates
In June the P&C will be sending home Cadbury choc-olates. However if you would like to start selling chocolates now, please contact Leanne at [email protected].
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KSPS Gardens and Grounds Last Sunday the school community got together once again for a bit of fun, getting our hands dirty for the benefit of the school grounds. This time around we had a bit of a focus on the natu-ral areas of the school with some bush regeneration activities. We had twelve families come along to undertake some much needed natural area restoration. One group tackled the weed commonly known as Aspara-gus Fern (Asparagus aetheopicus) along the Rod-way Parade boundary. A great group of parents and children helped to remove a massive pile of this very invasive and prolific weed so that the native plants can now begin to take more of a foothold in this ar-ea. Another group led by Mrs Gibson rediscovered the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) in the area on the corner of Rodway and Rae Crescent. The Wollemi Pine had been donated to the school and much to everyone’s surprise has really thrived to become a healthy tree standing at about three metres. This group cleared up some vine choking some of the previously planted natives to allow the trees and shrubs a chance to keep on growing. Some of the students assisted in sowing some seeds of rocket, dill, radish, lettuce and basil with some Everlasting Daisy also thrown into the mix for the vegetable gardens in the Primary and Infants ar-eas. This was a great activity for the children whilst the parents were in the bush areas tackling some of the bigger tasks. Well done kids. The next volunteer day will be on the 16th of Au-gust. Matt Playdon,
