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Katherine South Primary School

Riverbank Drive Katherine NT 0850

PO Box 721 Katherine NT 0851

Telephone (08) 89721277

Fax (08) 89721857

Email [email protected]

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Term 1 Week 9 Wednesday the 25th of March

Community Achievement Respect Engagement



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Term 2 Week 1 Wednesday 15th April 2015

FRONT OFFICE

Please notify the front office if your child/ren will be absent or late for

school on 8972 1277 Or email

[email protected]

Hello everyone, Welcome back to the second term of 2015! I trust that everyone has had a great Easter break. It is very clear from my visits in classrooms that students have made a great start to the term and are showing the school CARE agreements to a high standard and are also demonstrating good learning. Swimming Carnival Presentations This Friday at assembly, students who have achieved age champion and runners up status at our swimming carnival will be presented with their medallions. I would like to praise all students who were involved in the water fun day or the swimming carnival for their outstanding efforts and attitude on the day. It was great to see students trying their best and demonstrating excellent sportsmanship during and after their events. I would also like to thank all parent volunteers, supporters and staff for your contributions in making the 2015 swimming carnival a successful day for our students. NAPLAN Testing The National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy will be held from the 12th of May to the 15th of May for all students who are in years 3 and 5. Students will participate in national tests for reading, numeracy, spelling, writing and grammar & punctuation. The purpose of the testing is to provide the student and the school with a snapshot of their leaning and achievement to align with other school testing that shows student improvement or growth in

their learning. Information brochures for parents about NAPLAN were sent home last term. Playground upgrade for T/1 Work will commence this week to upgrade the Transition/Year 1 playground. For safety and access reasons the sand in the playground will be replaced with ‘soft fall’ material. The playground will be fenced off until work has been completed. In the meantime, students will still have access to the sandpit area and will have special activities set up and run by House Captains and SRC students. Visible learning at KSPS KSPS are implementing an action plan around ‘visible learning’ (the highly regarded research conducted by Professor Hattie). This initiative focuses around the factors that have the greatest impact on student learning. The plan will be implemented to address areas for school improvement including the aspect of students knowing where they are at in their learning and what they need to do to progress towards or above the expected benchmark. ANZAC Day Ceremony Next week’s assembly will be a special assembly to mark respect for ANZAC Day. The School Captains and SRC will run the assembly to express the importance and purpose of ANZAC Day. As usual we encourage as many students as possible to participate in the town ANZAC Day ceremony to march with the school. I will send out more details about this in next week’s newsletter.

Try this one again! Try this tricky word riddle: Pronounced as one letter but writ-ten with three, only two different letters are used to make me. I'm double, I'm single I'm black, blue, and grey. I'm read from both ends and the same either way. Let Mr Murtas know the answer and you will have a chance to win a prize at assembly. Have a great week, Dan Murtas

Last term we had many students receive ‘Green Cards’ for outstanding

work in class. We also had several students receive ‘Merit Awards’ like

Ava above

Principal Puzzle



Victoria 595

Buchanan 575 Stuart 638

House Spirit Points “1” Wear your school Shirt “2” Wear your Sports Shirt “3” Wearing Care Bracelets “3” Bring a Mothers Day Item for our raffle

Profile of the week! Where were you born? Katherine Favourite Music? Pop

Favourite Sport/Team? Rugby 7’s How long have you lived in Katherine? 18 Years

Favourite Place? Adelaide

Favourite Hobby? Reading

Miss Alice Brummitt

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Congratulations to T/1 Chatterton with 93% attendance! Our school average for week 10 was 79.6%




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Term 2 Week 1 Wednesday the 15th April 2015

Calendar Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 1 13th April 14th April 15th April 16th April 17th April Interschool Sport—

Tennis

Week 2

20th April Preschool Committee

Meeting

21st April

22nd April

23rd April Ghana “Beat my

drum” Performance

24th April ANZAC Assembly

Week 3

27th April Rivers Netball in Alice

Springs

28th April NO Council Meeting

Rescheduled for 5th May

29th April Rivers Netball in Alice

Springs

30th April

1st May

Thank You! The KSPS fundraising committee would like to

thank the school community for making donations to our Easter raffle.

We raised $479.40!

Oliver Smith Sam Smith Holly Guymer Tumai Yates Shelby O’Malley Landon McElhone Cooper Peirce Angus Copelin-Walters Arianna Fox Charli Mazzaracca Abigail Paschke Kristy Gamble Laythan Ricky Tahlia Smart Charli Simmonds Mundy Scomparin Georgia McWhirter Naomi Fridd

Declan McElhone Jude Karples Ava Campbell-Anderson Calais Reid Pryha Allen-Bell Jescelle Remulla Bianca Gamble Henry Frogley Peter Bright Shae Roddenby Kirk Grant Tryce Clancy Jade Short William Shepherd Jasmine O’Malley Ross Sutherland Josh Hill-Kopp Stephanie Pererra

Jaycee-Tiggie Hughes Sophie Wilton Tahni Zofrea James Morrow Celine Thomas Jessieanne Story Charli Lonergan Jess Richards Riley Holland Hayley Simpson Cate Wigan Sharalle Perera Ashton Odgers Antonio Scomparin Harley Byers

Green Card Awards

Help Needed On Wednesday night of week 10, the front desk receipting book went missing. We need all parents that came and paid money to the front office on the 1st April 2015 and have received a receipt between the numbers of 300—320 to either come in and see us or scan your receipt and email to [email protected] Some people paid by EFTPOS on this date also. They would have received a receipt but could also check their bank statements to see the transaction if they do not have their KSPS receipt.

Student Attendance Week 10 Term 1



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Term 2 Week 1 Wednesday the 15th April 2015

Junior Cricket Players aged 11 to 17yrs

NT Institute of Sports and NT Cricket are hosting in conjunction with Katherine & Districts Cricket Association

Skills and Drills sessions Graeme Smith from NT Institute of Sports will be running the

sessions to give Katherine kids greater skills in cricket and he will be espe-cially looking for star players to join rep teams for Katherine and the

NT. These sessions are FREE

Thursday 16th 4:30—6pm Friday 17th 4:30—6pm

Saturday 18th 9—10:30pm Stay on after the junior session Saturday and watch the first

senior games for the session at 11am.

For more information contact Mel Sauer President of Katherine & Districts Cricket Association on 0429847569 or email

[email protected]

KSPS are seeking small donations for our Mothers day raffle that we would like

to run as a fundraiser for our school. Spirit points this week will be given for all donations made.

Raffle books will be sent out next week.

Lost iPad

The iPad owned by Simon Henley, it is an iPad Mini in a black cover from Geko. The iPad has his name on it.

If found please hand in to the front office. A reward is offered if found.

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