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Kotara South Public School 150 Rae Crescent Kotara South 2289

Email: kotarasth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.kotarasth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 6 18 August 2015

Silver Award Recipient Congratulations to Lucy (3E) who was presented with a Silver Principal Award at Friday’s assembly. These awards recognise their efforts and excellent achieve-ments in earning regular weekly Assembly Awards. Con-gratulations Lucy! Debating Congratulations to our Year 5 and Year 6 debating teams who debated at school today. Our Year 5 team won against Glendore Public School and have two debates remaining in the competition. Our Year 6 team won against Charlestown Public School in their final debate of the preliminary rounds. We hope to hear of our Year 6 team making the finals soon. Well done to all our debat-ers! NAPLAN Results 2015 Year 3 and Year 5 Naplan results have been sent home today. If you do not receive these results please contact the school. Stage 3 Touch Football Gala Day Congratulations to all the Stage 3 students who partici-pated in the Touch Football Gala Day last Thursday. It was a fantastic day and the students involved enjoyed developing their touch football skills. Well done to all the students who participated on the day! Newcastle Permanent Primary Mathematics Test The Newcastle Permanent Mathematics Test will be held next Tuesday 25th August for all Stage 3 students. The Newcastle Permanent has proudly supported the Primary Schools Mathematics Competition for 30 years and is one of the longest running events of its type in Australia. The annual competition is designed to test young stu-dents’ mathematical and problem solving abilities. Each year almost 20,000 Year Five and Six students from 300 schools throughout the Hunter, Central Coast, New Eng-land, Mid North Coast, Central West and Northern Rivers regions participate in this competition. School Disco and Parent Seminar The school disco is on Wednesday 26th August. The K-2 disco is from 6 to 7pm and the 3-6 disco is from 7 to 8.30pm. The theme for this term’s disco is free choice. During the disco there will be another parent information session. The topic for this session is on Mathematics, particularly place value. Mr John, Ms Payne and Ms Gib-son will be hosting the 30min seminar in the school li-brary during both disco times. The aim of the seminar is to give parents an insight into the progression of student learning from understanding units of 1 and 10 to decimal

This Week: Monday-Thursday: PSSA Girls Touch Footy

Next Week: Monday: GATS Enrichment Day-Art Gallery Tuesday: Stage 3 Newcastle Permanent Maths competition Wednesday: Disco K-Yr2 6pm-7pm Yr3-Yr6 7pm-8.30pm

place values and measurement conversions. The ma-jority of parents who attended the two previous ses-sions evaluated them as both valuable and important. If you would like to attend, please RSVP on the school Facebook page.

CATHERINE WARD - RELIEVING PRINCIPAL Children Crossing Zones It has recently been brought to our attention that some members of our community are parking illegally in the Children Crossing Zones. These areas (Rodway Pde and Rae Cr) are there for the safety of all our children. If you park or stop illegally in these zones you are risk-ing the safety of others. We ask that you adhere to the signed parking and drop off areas. Note: Parent’s/carer’s need to be reminded that there are parking restrictions around the school. There have been observations of cars parking longer in 5min zones, if this persists the school has no alternative but to call the parking rangers. Stage 2 Sydney Adventure Last Thursday Stage 2 students were excellent KSPS ambassadors on our Stage 2 Sydney adventure. The students learnt a lot about the role of convicts during the early settlement. Students also learnt about the Gadagal people from the Eora nation and their way of life. At the observatory, students were amazed by the Planetarium and 3D movies as well as the amazing artefacts. Students were also able to look at the sun through a high powered telescope. Thank you to Mr Bowden, Mrs Ottery and Ms Kelly for your valuable assistance on the day. These excursions are a valuable experience for our students and for some, their first big trip away without mum or dad. A great day was had by all.

MR ENGLEFIELD - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Eat Fresh and Win Canteen Campaign It is important that children eat more fruit and vegeta-bles. The ‘Eat Fresh and Win’ Canteen Campaign promotes fruit and vegetables and offers each stu-dent the opportunity to win great prizes. Each time a student makes a fresh fruit and/or vege-table purchase from the canteen, they receive an ‘Eat fresh and Win’ sticker card. Fresh fruit and/or vegeta-ble purchases at our school canteen include: frozen fruit, fresh fruit, salad sandwiches, salad wraps, salad rolls and salad bowls. Your salad alternatives can include meat or egg. To be eligible for a minor prize, students must make two separate transactions at the canteen in which they will receive stickers, to complete the entry form. The minor prize is a Fresh for Kids pencil with eraser. Once the entry form has been completed, it must be returned to the canteen where they will receive their minor prize. Entry forms are available until stocks run out, so students may enter more than once. All entry forms will then be sent to Sydney Markets to be in the running for major prizes. Best of luck! Interschool Visual Arts Enrichment Day Excursion On Monday August 24, Mrs Cox and Mrs Fear will be taking a group of twenty students from Year 1 to Year 6 on an excursion to the Newcastle Art Gallery and Newcastle Regional Library. The excursion will also include twenty students from Belair Public School and twenty students from Adamstown Public School. The aim of our excursion is to provide an enriching visual arts experience for all nominated students from all three schools. If your child received a note for this excursion, please return it by Wednesday August 19 with your payment of $20. KC Friday Groups Our last KC Friday Groups will be in Week 7 on Fri-

day August 28. Thank you to all the parents who

have made the time to come and assist in our class-

room. Your commitment and efforts have been won-

derful and the children have thoroughly enjoyed hav-

ing you share their learning experience.

MS VIOLET COX - ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Premier’s Reading Challenge Entries for the Premier’s Reading Challenge closes this Friday 21 August. K - Yr2 children can bring their list of books to Mrs Harvey by tomorrow, Wednesday 19 August. Yr 3 - Yr 6 children should log their own books.

MRS HARVEY - LIBRARIAN

Spelling Bee News Congratulations to the winners of the final round of our ‘Premier’s Spelling Bee'. The following students will represent our school on Tuesday 8th September at Hamilton Public School. Stage 2-Amelia S and Callum C Stage 3-India V and Jack G Well done to all involved!

MS PAYNE - SPELLING BEE COORDINATOR

Father’s Day Breakfast On Friday, 4 September the staff of KSPS will be hosting a breakfast to celebrate Father’s Day. The event will take place between 6:30 am and 8:15am. We will be providing egg & bacon rolls, cereal, toast and juice for the cost of $15 per family. All you have to do is fill in the attached order form and send it in with your money and come along on the day. We look forward to seeing you there. MRS BRYANT - ORGANISING TEACHER Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students who received awards at last week’s assembly. KC Eloise, Jaylen, Imogen KF Thomas, Yulanda, Mathew 1V Jesse, Lexie, Clare 1W Jeremiah, Jennifer, Stela 2G Luke, Charlotte, Curtis 2MG Sophia, Kyran, Emma 3E Layne, Caitlyn, Christian 3P Liam, Evelyn, Jayden 4E Mikali, Kade, Eve, Thomas, Joe, Lily 5/6J Pia, Jorja, Jessica 5/6P Thomas, Noah, Anna Rose 5/6W Liam, Jasmine, Finn HSUB Leo COMPUTER Melati, Kunga, Jessica, Yulanda

Choir Choir is now open to Year 2 students. I have already received a lot of keen student's wanting to join us. If your child is interested please see me.

MS VENEABLES - CHOIR COORDINATOR Canteen News Hello from the canteen for another supa unreal week. I wish to clarify our exciting FRESH FROZEN FRUIT FOR FRUIT BREAK and for purchase at lunch times. The fresh fruit is apples, oranges, grapes, mandarins, bananas, pineapples and strawberries .50c each

Eat Fresh Deal $1.50 1 salad sandwich/wrap or roll or bowl

This week’s specials Wrappin nugget $4.00 1 chicken nugget salad wrap 1 sunny boy 1 pkt cookies

FIONA BEST- CANTEEN SUPERVISOR P&C News Cadbury Chocolate Fundraiser Letters will be sent home this week to remind those families who may have forgotten to return their Cad-bury chocolate money. Please return all money to the office by this Friday 21st August, 2015. Entertainment Books - FREE POSTAGE. Order your entertainment book at https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/346s62., by 31 August 2015 and it will be posted directly to you. Disco We are looking for helpers for both the Infants and Primary disco to be held Wednesday 26th August. Father’s Day The Father’s Day stall will be held on Thursday 3rd September. Items will again be priced between $2 and $10. The wrapping night will be held on Wednes-day 2nd September from 5.30pm in the old hall. We would appreciate helpers for both events. Please email Leanne at timeandleanne98@bigpond.com if you are available to help with either or both events. Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be opened on Thursday 20 August – 8.30am to 9.00am If you are unable to attend the uniform shop when it is open, please leave your order and money at the office and it will be given to your child to take home. Trivia Night – 24 October 2015 Which horse won the Melbourne Cup in 2002? Ok people time to start planning your tables for the trivia night. As previously advised it is being held at Alder Park Bowling Club starting at 7pm. The cost is $10.00 per person. There is a maximum of 10 peo-ple on a table. If you would like to come along but cannot organise a table we are more than happy to organise it for you, just indicate it on the form at-tached. Watch this space for the theme of the

night!!!!!!! Please hand form and money into the office in an en-velope marked “Trivia night”.

The P&C are looking for donations to make up prizes on the night. If you are able to assist in contacting organisations to request donations or alternative, if you know of any organisation that may wish to donate please contact Scott Pilgrim via email at SPilgrim@baptistcare.org.au Like us on Facebook The P&C now have a Facebook page. Please like us for updates and reminders from KSPS P&C Associa-tion. P&C Meeting The next P&C meeting will be held on 9 September 2015 at 7.00pm in the school library. P&C Dates to remember 26 August – Disco 2 September @ 5.30pm – wrapping for Father’s day stall 3 September – Father’s day stall 9 September @ 7pm – P&C Meeting 24 October @ 7pm – Trivia night

HELENA TAYLOR - P&C SECRETARY KSPS Gardens and Grounds Newsletter What a great Sunday! The weather turned on a beautiful morning and a record number of families turned out for some gardens and grounds activities. Well done to everyone involved, you put in a big morning and went above and beyond to get every-thing finished that we set out to achieve. A big thank you to Valerie Main who planned and co-ordinated the upgrade of the schools front entrance, to Susie Long for the coordination of the expansion of the Primary School Vegetable Gardens and Joanne Barfield and Katrina Cowie for undertaking some bush regeneration on Bender Parade. I am certainly humbled by the willingness and effort everyone put in especially our children who helped with mulching, watering and planting. Matt Playdon, KSPS Gardens and Grounds Group

Become an Ethics Teacher at KSPS Public School

Primary Ethics provides the opportunity for NSW public primary school students who don’t attend scripture classes (SRE) to participate in philosophi-cal ethics classes. We have a few vacancies for volunteers to teach Years 1-6 ethics classes in 2016. Ethics classes teach children how to approach ethical issues and develop their capacity for considered moral judge-ment, which will enable them to respond more thoughtfully to many of the problems and issues they will face in their lives. Volunteer Ethics Teach-ers are trained to deliver our age-appropriate curric-ulum every week and to use the accompanying learning and teaching materials.

For more information, please contact: Valerie Main

Ethics Coordinator for KSPS Public School 4023 8744 or kingvdom@yahoo.com

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