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Hello KSPS families,

We are already halfway through

the term and there are a lot of a

great events happening at KSPS! Today

students, parents and staff participated in

the annual school fun run. This event

again proved to be very popular with our

school community and it was great to see

so many parents attend and complete the

course made up of many challenging

activities! The event of course raises

money for our school, while students who

have fundraised receive excellent prizes

for their efforts. Total fundraising efforts

will be announced in the next couple of

weeks. I would like to particularly thank

Ms Howard for her efforts to coordinate

this years Fun Run.

Also, student NAPLAN reports

were sent home with students (years 3

and 5) last Thursday. As explained

previously KSPS has demonstrated

positive overall progress in NAPLAN. If

you need more clarification regarding

your child’s NAPLAN results, please

make an appointment to see your child’s

teacher.

Independent Public School News

Thank you to all of those parents

who completed the one question and

comment survey regarding the idea of

Katherine South Primary School

achieving IPS status. To date the survey

responses are overwhelmingly in favour

of KSPS to complete the process of

becoming an IPS. I thank parents who

completed the survey for reading up on

the concept and making an informed

decision with their responses. Based on

the support the school has received from

the school community, KSPS will submit

an IPS application. This still does not

guarantee the school becoming an IPS, as

the final stage of the process is a

presentation to an executive board, where

the decision based on school data and

programs is made. I will keep you well

informed of our progress with this

exciting journey.

School Survey: Parent Perception

Just a reminder that Katherine

South Primary School invites you

to complete a parent feedback

survey. A link to the survey can be

accessed below and by using the access

code provided below. The survey aims to

gather feedback from parents on their

children’s experience at the school.

Surveys are also being conducted with

students and staff at the school and the

findings will be used to inform the

schools priorities and improvement plans.

Your opinions are important to us and

will help us understand what we are doing

well and how we can improve your

child’s schooling experience. The survey

is confidential and is expected to take

about 10 minutes.

The results of the survey will be shared

with students and parents in Term 4

through the school newsletter and

reported in our Annual Report in 2017.

As the survey is confidential and

anonymous, no results will identify any

individuals. I encourage all parents to

take this opportunity to complete the

survey by Friday the 2nd of September

(next week) to provide us with feedback.

Survey Link:

https://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/

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Access Code: EYHHkeHa

and Week

Next week is National Literacy and

Numeracy Week. KSPS have had our

literacy and numeracy team working hard

to put together an engaging program for

students to promote the importance of

literacy and numeracy. We have many

high quality activities planned for

students and KSPS Book week will also

coincide with Literacy and

Numeracy week. Mrs Piper will

be promoting great book sales in

the library and next Wednesday

we will be having our book character

dress up day where students, staff and

parents are encouraged to dress up as

their favourite book character. There will

be prizes for the best dressed student,

staff and parent! Character day will

commence with an assembly to parade

our dressed up students, which will be

judged by our Town Mayor Fay Miller. I

look forward to seeing you there.

Questacon Science Circus

This week we were fortunate

enough to have the Questacon Science

team at KSPS to present interesting

science experiments and explanations to

our students. Our students were very

knowledgeable in the presented areas as

they have worked on these previously in

science class. This was a great

experience and promotion of science for

our students, especially as it followed

Science Week lessons.

Have a great week! Dan Murtas

Principal

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Riverbank Drive Katherine NT 0850

PO Box 721 Katherine NT 0851

Telephone (08) 89721277

Fax (08) 89721857

Email

[email protected]

Community Achievement Respect Engagement

FRONT

OFFICE Please notify the front office if your

child/ren will be absent or late for

school on

8972 1277 or 0488 584 471

Or email

[email protected]

We are a Learning Community


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Term 3 Week 5 Wednesday 24th August 2016


One of the Fun Run activities

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Congratulations to T/1 Azzopardi with 93.64% attendance! Our school average for week 4 was 86.91%

Alicija Sajkar Tori Phillips Riley Prime Kiannah Bryant Joseph Wendt Sean Hill Isabella Lonergan Ava Campbell-Anderson Mundy Scomparin Betty-Anne Roughton Joel Kuhn Lilly Nowack-Mathieson Jazzlyn Karamatali

Makki Lowe-Eglinton Coen Goody Jack Drury Thomas Usher Jasmine Thompson Chenoa Devlin Kayla Ebborn Ruby Prime Jorja Gamble Ethan Redpath Caitlin Simpson Raven Kaestner

Green Card Awards

Student Attendance Week 4 Term 3

This weeks assembly is hosted by: 5/6 Short

Jarren Dore

House Spirit Points

Victoria 2118 Buchanan 2142 Stuart 1975

“1” Wear your School Shirt

“2” Wear your Sports Shirt

“3” Wear your CARE

Bracelets

“3” Bring in second hand

School Shorts

Calendar Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 5 22nd August 23rd August

Questacon Science

Show

24th August

Fun Run

25th August 26th August

Week 6 29th August

Literacy & Numeracy

Week

Book Week

30th August

Literacy & Numeracy

Week

Book Week

31st August

Literacy & Numeracy

Week

Book Week

Character Day

1st September

Literacy & Numeracy

Week

Book Week

2nd September

Literacy & Numeracy

Week

Book Week

Week 7 5th September 6th September 7th September 8th September 9th September

Swimming Carnival

Week 8 12th September 13th September

School Council Meeting

14th September 15th September 16th September

Fun Day



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Swimming Carnival Clarification regarding Nominations

Nominations for racing in the events WILL

be accepted on the day of the carnival.

The students in years 2-6 will be asked

beforehand if they would like to nominate

for events to assist with preparation for the

day however, if they decide to race on the

day of the carnival they will be allowed to

do so.

Apologies for any confusion in this matter.

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5/6 Short

5/6 Mather-Brown

5/6 Chauhan

3/4 Shipway

3/4 Shield

3/4 Piper

3/4 Patterson

3/4 East

2 Hopkins

2 Grieves

T/1 Tomlinson

T/1 Righton

T/1 Beckett

T/1 Azzopardi

BREAKFAST IS AVAILABLE DAILY From 7.45am until 8.15am

2x Toast $1.00 (with vegemite, peanut butter, honey or

jam), Milo $1.00

Tuesday Breakfast:

Toast x 2

$1.00

Scrambled Egg & Toast

$2.00

Milo

$1.00

Thursday Breakfast:

Hash Browns

$0.80

Scrambled Egg & Toast

$2.00

Milo

$1.00

Friday Special: $5 Meatloaf with mash and veg

CANTEEN NEWS



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The staff of Katherine South Primary

School have formed a team to

participate in the Relay for Life.

The relay in on Saturday, 3rd

September and we are currently

seeking donations for our team.

Donations can be made to the office or

by using the link below.

http://fundraising.cancer.org.au/site/TR?

team_id=49405&pg=team&fr_id=4386

This week in Science, the Year 3/4 students have

been learning about heat energy. They

investigated the expansion and contraction of

water as it heats and cools as well as exploring

how it produces energy. It was also great having

the Questacon Science Circus here, They put on

a fantastic show for our students.

Father’s Day Stall

KSPS will be running a father’s day

stall on the 1st & 2nd of September and

are looking for volunteers to come and

manage the stall.

You may remember that earlier in the

year we held a mother’s day stall with

fantastic results, so we have purchased

items from the same supplier to run

our father’s day stall.

The hours that we need are from

8.30am to 2.30pm for those two days.

Please let Jacqui know if you are able

to help out so she can put a timetable

together.

http://fundraising.cancer.org.au/site/TR?team_id=49405&pg=team&fr_id=4386

http://fundraising.cancer.org.au/site/TR?team_id=49405&pg=team&fr_id=4386

Newsletter by email

Please let us know if you would like your

newsletter by email.

Please let Steven Highet know either by email

or a phone call.

Email:

[email protected]



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