6th June 2019

From the Principal

Last week we celebrated Education Week. This was the 75th consecutive year that Education Week has run

and the state-wide theme for 2019 was “Celebrating Careers”.

Education Week is a great opportunity for schools to open their doors to the community and showcase the

great work that they and your children are doing. To invite family and friends to come into our school and

admire the many art installations on display.

You may think that Primary School children are too young to be thinking about careers but the truth is that choosing a career is one of the most important decisions you will make in life. It's about so much more than deciding what you will do to make a living. If you think about how much of your life you will actually spend working, you can understand just how important it is to be doing something that you enjoy.

So this week we focused on the many and varied careers available to our children. We encouraged them to start thinking about their “Dream Job” and to make those dreams big. They were to think about all of the career choices available to them and then focus on the ones that excited them or peaked their interest. I like many things in life, it is much easier to find your way to somewhere, if you first know where it is your going.

This is how the week unfolded.

On Monday, the students all made stick people. They first drew on and coloured their stick people to represent a career path they would like to take. After cutting out their completed person, it was then attached to a stick and displayed around the school. Mrs Koskolos made a few stick people as an example to the students and then encouraged them to let their imaginations run wild. With hard work and determination, there is no goal that cannot be achieved.

KEYSBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

2019 NEWSLETTER Address: 33 Coomoora Road Springvale South 3172 Principal: Leanne Armao Phone: 9798 4764 Assistant Principals: Chris Baker and Christopher Williams Fax: 9798 3413 Email: keysborough.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

On Tuesday, I sat in front of the entire school and read “Josephine Wants To Dance” to our students.

“Josephine Wants To Dance” is a story about dream, believing in yourself….and a dancing kangaroo. Josephine is a kangaroo – who loves to dance. Her little brother Joey, tells her that kangaroos don’t dance, they hop – buy Josephine continues to point her toes and leap through the air. When a ballet troupe comes to town and both the lead ballerina and the understudy are injured, Josephine’s talents are called upon to help save the day. Can she do it and, more importantly, does it matter that she’s a kangaroo?

It’s a beautiful story. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend that you do.

After finishing the story, the students went outside to the agora area and completed chalk drawings of their dream jobs in groups of 3 or 4. Each student group had a mixture of older and younger students and the beautiful drawings they created were completed on a cloud background to symbolise their dreams. I wish that I could show you all of the photographs as the drawings were truly inspiring. Not only because they were skilfully executed in wonderful colour, but because they represented the dreams and aspirations of our children.

On Wednesday, our students enjoyed an Oz Opera performance of “The Barber of Seville”.

Oz Opera is the touring arm of Opera Australia, who since 1996 has been delivering fully staged, specially adapted performances of popular operas Australia wide. Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” is a romantic comedy that revolves around Rosina the pretty young maid, Count Almaviva the man who falls in love with her, and Figaro the local Barber who tries to help them against Rosina’s aunt’s wishes.

The production was wonderful and our students loved it. The four main characters were very engaging and soon had the audience involved with the story line. I watched as even our youngest students “Booed and Cheered “appreciating that the performance had been perfectly adapted to appeal to school aged children.

On Thursday, we had open day. Families and friends were invited to attend school throughout the day to walk around and admire all of the wonderful things that our students have been doing this Term. Classrooms became galleries as much of our student work went up on display. Coffee was made available during the visit and the CEIT team served ice creams for free from the canteen. It was a cold afternoon, but that didn’t seems to stop our students from eating the treat.

Friday was “Dream Job” dress up day. Students came to school dressed as the professional that they one day hoped to be. At assembly, all the students paraded around the hall and displayed their stick people from the activity on Monday. I tried to get around to all the classes but only seemed to manage a few. It was wonderful to see so many students and teachers dressed up for the day and having such fun.

At assembly, each year level performed an item or presentation and the whole school joined in singing “A Million Dreams” from the movie, “The Greatest Showman” beautifully presented by the Year 4 students. Our younger students sang whilst our older students presented works studied during the Term and Year 6 showed a presentation made up of photos from the Leadership Camp.

Year 3 presented a very interesting cultural item. So interesting in fact, it deserves its own story. Hopefully, I will be able to show it to you next week.

Lyrics “A Million Dreams”

Every night I lie in bed The brightest colours fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see A million dreams is all its gonna take

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

They could not have selected a more appropriate song. Today’s students will decide how the world will be in 50 or 100 years from now, may they always dream big and may they always dream in colour. Have a great weekend everyone Leanne Armao

NPSSA District Cross Country

On Thursday, 30th May, 59 students from Years 4-6 competed in the NPSSA District Cross Competition at Wachter Reserve. These students qualified for the event after finishing in the Top 10 in the House Cross Country that took place earlier in the term. In very challenging and near arctic conditions all KPS students tried their best in running the 2km (9/10 Year Olds) and 3km (11 & 12 Year Olds) course. KPS finished a very pleasing 4th position out of 12 competing schools. The 9/10 Girls team, in particular, were outstanding clearly winning their age group by 67 points. Congratulations to the following individuals who finished in the Top 10 for their race and have thus qualified for the Greater Dandenong Division Cross Country that takes place on Friday, 7th June at the same venue:

9/10 Year Old Boys

9/10 Year Old Girls

11 Year Old Boys

11 Year Old Girls

12 Year Old Girls

8th Oliver 4B 1stVanessa 4A 4th Ian 6C 2nd Shelley 6C 10th Jenny 6A

10th Paras 4C

4th Vilis 4B

10thHumaira 5B

A special mention and BIG thank you to Mr Murray, Mrs Bourke and Mrs Phillips who supported the students on the day and braved the wintry conditions. Vanessa 1st place in the 9/10 Year Old Girls

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 27/5/19- 31/5/19

Prep B Kalen 3B Angelina

Prep C William 3C Anastasia

Prep D Caitlyn 4A Elena

1A Kelly 4B Joseph

1B Sithyrith 4C Vincent

1C Karol 5A Daniel

1D Kevin 5B Tiana

2A Mia 5C Sunny

2B Victor 6A Jenny

2C Lucas 6B Terry

3A Benjamin 6C Angela

EWA Irene 5C DIGITECH Chelsea ART Luul 1A SPORTS Bridget PRINCIPAL’S AWARD Matthew 3B – Excellent work on his Mind Map.

UNIFORM SHOP – OPENING HOURS The uniform shop

opening hours for 2019 are: Wednesday 8.30 – 10.00 am

and Wednesday 3.00 – 4.00 pm

Parents can place orders for uniform on the Qkr App. Orders will be delivered to student’s classroom the

following day. Please contact the office if you have any

questions or require assistance regarding

the use of Qkr.

STUDENT SAFETY MESSAGE...STUDENT SAFETY MESSAGE

Students should be picked up school at 3.30pm.

After this time they are collected by staff who are on yard duty until

3.45pm. Students then will be taken to the Office for safety reasons.

Huai’an

Experimental

Primary School

Our Chinese Sister School are coming to visit.

We will be welcoming the group of 12 students and 2 teachers from our Sister School Huai’an Experimental Primary School on Monday 22nd July. We are delighted by this opportunity to host students from China and hope that our school community will be prepared to welcome these students into their families. If you would like to be involved in this wonderful opportunity, please contact the office or Christopher Williams on 9798 4764.

Missing Bag Mystery Last Thursday, during Education Week when everyone was enjoying their ice-cream three students lost their school bags. An appeal to the Keysborough community to please check if your child has his/her own right bag. The 3 students are desperate to get their school bags back.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER

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newsletter every week, go to the school website by

clicking on the link www.keysboroughps.vic.edu.au

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Newsletter” and enter your name and email address,

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OUR SCHOOL WEBSITE

Have you checked out our school website recently?

www.keysboroughps.vic.edu.au

There are lots of photos and the Semester Academic

Achievement Grade Winners are listed.

Under the heading “Students” then “Videos of school events”

there are some great videos of events at school.

Students You also have access through the website

to many fantastic educational links.

Under the heading “Students” then “Useful Student Links”,

there are many familiar educational links that students use

regularly at school such as Mathletics and many, many more.

KEYSBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Keysborough Primary School would like to invite your child to participate in the Prep for a Morning sessions throughout this year. These sessions focusses on developing your child’s familiarity with the school environment as well as creating opportunities for them to develop friendships, which will support their adventure at school in 2020. Please complete the details below and return to the school office (or phone 9798 4764) to book your childs’ place for the session Child’s name _________________________________________ Date of birth _________________________________________ Parent’s name ________________________________________ Contact mobile _______________________________________ Home address ________________________________________ Would you like information on Keysborough Primary School enrolments? YES/NO

Prep for a Morning 2019 Wednesday 19th June 9:15 - 10:30

Bring along a snack and water in a

drink bottle.

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With only 4 weeks until school holidays, it’s time to get them sorted!

Come on a journey with Wonders of the World!

This Winter we’re getting creative, innovative and active as we bring to you heaps of brand-new and exclusive activities to Holiday Club.

In Planet Protectors we’ll learn about sustainability and how to recycle old paper into cool and colourful paper. Then head outside for recycling games – sporty & fun!

All around the world, in street markets, historical sites and museums, we see amazing clay work from years gone by. In Clay Bazaar we’ll roll, mould and shape our very own clay creations. From world

bowls to trinkets and everything in between.

Book now. To find out when these activities are on during the school holidays and join in the fun, visit: www.campaustralia.com.au/holidayclubs. You can also call our friendly Customer Care Team on 1300 105 343 - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We look forward to seeing you and your family at Wonders of the World. The Camp Australia Team

JUNE 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3

4

5

6 Breakfast club

Winter Sports

7 Breakfast club Play Group

9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

School Assembly 2.40 pm

10

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

11 Breakfast club

3yr & 4yr Old Play Group

9.30 AM to 11.00 AM

12 Breakfast club

Play Group 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

13 Breakfast club

Winter Sports

14 Breakfast club

Play Group 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

School Assembly 2.40 pm

17 Breakfast club

18 Breakfast club

3yr & 4yr Old Play Group

9.30 AM to 11.00 AM

19 Breakfast club

Play Group 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

20 Breakfast club

Region Cross Country

21 Breakfast club

Play Group 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

School Assembly 2.40 pm

24 Breakfast club

25 Breakfast club

3yr & 4yr Old Play Group

9.30 AM to 11.00 AM

26 Breakfast club

Play Group 9.00 AM to 10.30 AM

27 Breakfast club

28 No Breakfast club

No Play Group

School Finishes at 2.30 pm

End Of Term 2