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Dates to Remember

May 2020

Wed 6th -Vital Mothers Day Stall Orders due

Sun 10th -Mothers Day

June 2020

Mon 8th -Queen’s Birthday

Fri 26th -End of Term 2

July 2020

Mon 13th -Commencement of Term 3

Office Hours

Monday to Friday

8:45am – 4pm

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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.

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 Mandy: 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 2019 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 2020

Term 2 14th April—26th June

Term 3 13th July—18th September

Term 4 5th October—18th December

1st May 2020

Newsletter 12

Address: 20 McMahons Road Kinglake 3763

Together We Achieve

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Our School Value Pillars

Resilience

Respect

Achievement

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Website: www.kinglakeps.vic.edu.au

From the Office

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.

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you want is already sold out. The orders will be filled on a

first come first served basis and we can not guarantee that

all of the stock you want will be available. At this stage, all

orders will be made by the order form only. You can return

the order form by scanning and e-mail

(kinglake.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au) , take a photo and send,

fax 5786 1725, or drop it in the school letter box at the front

of the driveway (this will be checked twice daily) until the

due date of the orders 4pm Wednesday 6th May. You will

be contacted and a time to pick up your order from the

school will be made for Thursday or Friday. Do not ring the

office to make an over the phone order, please use the

order form.

Kids Teaching Kids project

Although we are deep in isolation and trying our best to do

learning from home, we are determined to continue with

Kids Teaching Kids project this year, because it’s a great

one! Each year 10 students nominate to work with me on an

environmentally sustainable project that makes our local

environment better or increases awareness and educates

students and community. Those 10 students complete a

new project each year and then teach other students about

their project and learning. They do this at a fabulous event

at the Yea Wetlands each September and meet other KTK

student groups from 9 other local schools. It’s a fabulous

day of learning and child leadership.

This year our KTK team will be working with KTK co-

ordinators, Landcare and Parks Vic representatives to focus

on and construct habitat or biodiversity corridors that will

link local patches of forest together. One of those corridors

includes the fence line that the school shares with the next

door farm. It is a vital piece of work for local endangered

species and the sustainability of populations. I am so excited

about this year’s project and so are our KTK student team.

Have a great weekend!

Deb Keating

Principal

Principals Report

Hello everyone,

Week Three of on-line learning done and we are all

hoping it ends soon. We miss the children greatly and we

just want to get back into face to face teaching!

In all seriousness, we wish you all health and safety and

thank you to those families working hard to home school

and work. It’s it not easy, but the investment in your

health, your child’s health, the school community and

local community’s health is worth it. Hang in there, do the

best you can, get what work you can get done but look

after you and your family’s physical and mental health.

Take care everyone.

Worksheets vs on-line learning

I would like to take this opportunity to address the

reasoning behind choosing to use Microsoft Teams, an on-

line learning platform compared to just giving out

worksheets once a week. As a teaching team we

acknowledge the extra work an on-line learning platform

creates and the issues with internet. It also creates a lot

of work for staff. However, we believe that what we offer

on line is in fact “teaching and learning”, interaction with

a teacher and learning that is following the term 2

curriculum. Worksheets are just that – worksheets.

Pieces of paper that cover basic level skills that have no

teaching instruction attached to it and that do not have a

challenging skill level to it, as the child has to be able to do

the work without contact with a staff member. We

believe that what we are offering will ensure your child’s

education continues in a meaningful way and will not be

affected by a long break in curriculum based learning

when they do return. Worksheets is the easier way,

however we feel it is not the best for our school, our

students and their learning.

Mother’s Day Stall

We are still offering Mother’s Day stall this year, as we

don’t want the children to miss out on this annual and fun

event. This is a good will gesture by the school and I hope

that parents can appreciate that and we have tried under

difficult circumstances to make this as easy and accessible

as possible for all.

Attached is the order form. Please read the instructions

carefully. Each student can spend no more than $10 each

(not $10 for Mum and $10 for Grandma – just $10 for all

purchases per child). Please circle the items that you

would like and perhaps a spare one in case the product

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School Holiday Birthdays May 2020

Polly 1st Jedd 5th

All book club orders are due to be submitted via Loop by 8th May. Loop is so easy, why not try it this issue. Instructions for using Loop can be found on the second last page of the catalogue.

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T R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y R E S P E C T

KINGLAKE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tel: 03 5786 1284 Fax: 03 5786 1725

Address: 20 McMahons Road Kinglake 3763

R E S I L I E N C E R E S P E C T A C H I E V E M E N T

Website:www.kinglakeps.vic.edu.au

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To access the Virtual Book Club Catalogue, please click on the link below:

https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/virtual-catalogue-1/

Orders for the first issue of Term 2, should be submitted via Loop by Friday May 8th.

Once the order has arrived at school, Susie will contact parents to arrange a collection day or drop off to your

home.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Here’s a couple of resources that might be of use at home too.

Online support documents to help you upload your photos to the sugarloaf S.T.E.M. site and your schools online platforms:

http://sugarloafstem.global2.vic.edu.au/online-support-documents-for-office-365-google-classroom-and-cisco-webex/

Our weekly activities in case you misplace your hard copies or are having problems finding them in your online classrooms:

http://sugarloafstem.global2.vic.edu.au/category/weekly-s-t-e-m-summary/

Some students have also inquired about Tinkercad and Kodable, these logins can be found HERE:

http://sugarloafstem.global2.vic.edu.au/category/technology/

Additional science resources for bonus activities at home:

http://sugarloafstem.global2.vic.edu.au/s-t-e-m-resources/