Term 2 events include:

Monday 22nd — Friday 26th May is

Education Week Book Fair – Monday to Thursday

Friday 12th May Years 3-6 Breakfast morning

Friday 19th May Years P-2 Breakfast morning

Wednesday 24th May Education Week

Open Morning 8.45-9.45am and Open Evening 6-7pm. Thursday 25th May Years 3-6 Breakfast

Friday 26th May Year 1 / 2 Myuna Farm

Tuesday 30th May Senior excursion to Sovereign Hill

Thursday 1st June May Years P-2 Breakfast

Friday 2nd June Years 3-6 School Disco 7-9pm

Thursday 8th June Middle Supreme Incursions

Monday 12th June

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Tuesday 13th June

Years 3-6 House Athletics Day at Ballam Park Friday 15th June

Interschool Chess comp

Email address: kingsley.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website address : http://www.kingsleypark.vic.edu.au

Karingal Hub Education Week

We have been invited to participate in the Karingal Hub celebration ‘Education Week’ which will be held from Friday 19th May to Sunday 28th May. We will have an exhibit showcasing some of our students work from across the various year levels. Display boards will be located throughout the centre so if you are shopping at Karingal Hub please make sure you visit our display.

Dear Parents, Last week our Year Three and Year Five children sat for the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests. The children participated in tests in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy. Questions were in multiple choice format or required a short written response for all tests except the Writing test, where children wrote a continuous text. NAPLAN is not a test of content. Instead, it tests skills in Literacy and Numeracy that are developed over time through the school curriculum. We treated NAPLAN test days as just another routine event on the school calendar. We continually reassured our children that NAPLAN tests were just one part of their school program, and urged them to simply do the best they could on the day. NAPLAN tests are one aspect of our assessment and reporting process, and do not replace the extensive, ongoing assessments made by teachers about each child’s performance. We receive the results much later in the year. The children should all be very happy with how they approached the NAPLAN assessments and we will inform the parents of results when the are returned later this year.

18th May 2017

Year 3/4 Incursion - Date Change Parents, please note that the date for the Middle Supreme Excursion has been changed from 25th May to 8th June.

Tiqbiz has been rebranded as FlexiBuzz - see page 2 for more details.

Monday 22nd May - Thursday 25th May See page 2 of newsletter for some IMPORTANT information !

Lunchtime Art What a fantastic effort. Thank you for all of your support brining in your plastic bottle lids. With a lot of hard work and time, the Year 5 and 6 students have nearly completed the recycling tree. We are still in need of a few more pink and purple lids to complete the piece.

PIRATE Book Fair

Monday 22nd May - Thursday 25th May

OPENING HOURS: Monday 8.15am - 8.45am & 3.15pm - 3.45pm Tuesday 8:15am -8:45am & 2:30pm -3:45pm

(during class time which allows parents to come alone) Wednesday 8.15am - 8.45am & 3.15pm - 3.45pm

PLUS OPEN NIGHT, WEDNESDAY 24th MAY

6:00PM - 7:00PM ON Thursday 8:15am - 8:45am & 2:30pm - 3:45pm

(during class time which allows parents to come alone)

WHERE: IN THE RESOURCE CENTRE

We are once again running our Book Fair in conjunction with Education Week. There will be a large selection of books available for purchase, levelled at all ages and across a wide price range. Something for everyone! The theme for this year’s Fair is PIRATES so throughout the week there will be a focus on this topic across the school, including a Dress Up day on Tuesday 23rd May with a PIRATE focus! Children are invited to dress up as a pirate - from a book, a movie or maybe an imaginary pirate. Join in the fun - be as quirky, weird or strange as you like!

Please come along, buy some fabulous books, help us get more valuable resources for our school and encourage your child to enjoy reading ! We look forward to seeing you. Regards, Ros Carlton & Rachelle Kregor

Have you found us on FaceBook?

DON’T FORGET:

Have you changed your address, medical details or

phone numbers recently? If so, it is vital that you provide updated details to the school.

Tiqbiz has now officially rebranded to Flexibuzz. Parents will notice changes to the name, logo and other content on the app, desktop site and website over the next few weeks as the changes are com-pleted. To stay up to date with Kingsley Park news, please ensure your app is updated during this process.

Module Assemblies - Prep, Junior, Middle and Senior School Module assemblies are held each fortnight and commence at 2:45pm, with the next date being May 26th. Please note there will be no assembly on May 26th for the Junior Module due to the Myuna Farm excursion. Full school assemblies are held each alternate week. Parents are welcome to attend the module assemblies.

KPG NEWS KPG Committee Coordinators

Hayley Laird Joanna Abbott (0438 250 611)

Term 2 Lunchtime Clubs

Lunchtime Clubs are available for our students throughout the week.

Monday:

Year 5/6 Production Rehearsals with Mr Mills Year 4 Soccer Comp with Miss Garrity

Tuesday: Wakikirri rehearsals in the hall

Wednesday:

Wiggle Wednesday on the basketball courts. Chess Club in Room 18 with Ms Reed.

Year 5/6 Production Rehearsals with Mr Mills

Thursday: SRC meeting with Ms Reed and Ms Papettas

Wakikirri rehearsals in the hall

Friday: Art Club in the Art room with Ms Maini

Reading Club in the Library with buddies. Senior One Million STARs making in S13

RACV Teams in the BER

Come along and join in with the many Fun FREE activities.

Mother’s Day

Year 3 - 6 Disco Friday 2nd June 7:00pm - 9:00pm

$5.00 entry To make this a great night for our children we need

lots of parent helpers to help in the cloakroom, canteen and supervise children on the dance floor and in the toilets. So put the date in your calendar

and practise your dance moves. Attendance forms will be sent home closer to the

date.

Sausage Sizzle Saturday 17th June

We will be running a sausage sizzle on Saturday 17th June at Bunnings Frankston. We would love for everyone to come down and support the school on the day, but we will need volunteers to help us run it. Sign up notices have gone home asking for volunteers. Last year our sausage sizzle was a major success, with your help I’m sure this one will be too!

A massive thank you to our amazing parent helpers for organising, setting up and selling gifts at our recent Mother’s Day stall. All children were given the opportunity to choose and purchase gifts and we hope that all the special women in our children’s lives had a wonderful day.

Next KPG Meeting :

Thursday 1st June

in the Green Room

All welcome - Please join us for a cuppa and chat. Toddlers welcome :-)

Thanks to our wonderful KPG, we were able to purchase $1500 worth of new take home books at the end of last year. These books have

now been added to the take home boxes in the Prep, 1 and 2 classrooms. It is important that we take care of our resources, as they can be expensive to replace. Every year we lose a large number of take home books. This means that there are often not enough books to go round and children are having to read the same book multiple times. We would appreciate it if parents could help with this by ensuring that books are being returned to school. We understand that sometimes things can get mixed up so would also ask our families to regularly have a look through their shelves at home for any books with the Kingsley Park stamp. If you find any, please return them to your child's classroom teacher so that we can get them back into circulation.

Parent Feedback / Questions We aim to please so would love more feedback on how we can improve. There are feedback forms that you may complete at the office, these can be placed in the red letterbox labelled Parent Feedback. Are the new uniform tops mandated as of 2018? Response: Although we are adding new tops to our uniform supplies, along with new style jumpers/jackets, parents do not need to discard old styled uniform. We don’t wish to waste your money. Any school uniform can be worn until the wearers grow out of it, it may also be passed down to siblings for wearing. Some parents are allowing their children to play with and climb on the trees outside the music room area after school—please look after our trees. Response: Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Lots of love and care has gone in to fixing up that garden area and the poor lemon tree inside the tyre is being ruined. Please keep children off the trees and help look after our gardens. Please drop us a note, we would love to hear your thoughts and help make Kingsley Park the best it can be for our students.

Hi Kids – Running Club has started back for Term 2. If you are interested in improving your fitness, challenging yourself or just have a bit of fun. You can also walk if you don’t want to run ! When: Tuesday & Thursday mornings (weather permitting) Time: 8.10am - 8.30 am Bring: Wear your school shoes and bring your runners - don’t forget a drink of water too !

Hope to see you there!

Kingsley Park Running Club

This fortnight’s focus is

Getting Along Getting along means working well with teachers and classmates, resolving problems peacefully and contributing positively to the community. I can get along with other children, teachers and people in the community. When I am getting along:

I am a positive role model to people around me.

I show generosity and kindness.

I interact with people and show them respect.

I am helpful.

I demonstrate the best way to be a good friend, in the classroom and in the playground.

I am a friend to someone if they are alone at school.

I show manners wherever I go, especially when in school uniform.

I take pride in who I am, a Kingsley Park Kid.

Do you have a child beginning school in 2018?

Tours are being held now! Enrolments for 2018 are being taken

now.

If you haven’t chosen a school yet, please organise a tour to find the school that best suits you and your

child’s needs. Kingsley Park conducts regular school tours most

Thursday mornings. Please call the school on 9789 0077 to book in for a tour time.

Term 2 Breakfast Mornings We invite our children to participate in the Breakfast Club for the term. The dates for this term are listed below.

Breakfast Mornings run from

8:00am to 8:30am in the School Hall.

Parents are asked to bring children participating in the breakfast to the hall. Teachers will be supervising children and serving the breakfast. Parent helpers are most welcome. We encourage children to participate in this whole school program to promote a healthy start to their school day.

Friday 19th May - Prep–Year 2 Thursday 25th May - Years 3-6 Thursday 1st June - Prep-Year 2 Thursday 8th June - Years 3-6 Thursday 15th June - Prep-Year 2 Thursday 22nd June - Years 3-6

Thursday 29th June is a Whole School end

of term Celebration Breakfast.

Camp Australia Kingsley Park PS

Before and After School Care

Phone : 1300 105 343

This year’s Education Week will be celebrated from 22nd to 26th May with the theme of Healthy Mind, Healthy Body.

Join us during Education Week for;

Tuesday 23rd May

for our Pirate dress up day and come along to the Book Fair

All students taking part in learning CPR and Emergency strategies with

St Johns

Wednesday 24th May Open classroom mornings

8:45am - 9:454am Open Night 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Friday 26th May

Module assemblies starting at 2:45pm

As part of this weeks activities all students will participate in a free CPR session with St. Johns First Aid Crew. A summary of content for each

year level for the First Aid in Schools Program is listed here.

NEWSLETTER

ADVERTISING

Price List

Full Page $50

Half Page $30

Quarter Page $20

For Sale Items $10 (Business card size)

Flyers $40 Prices are per newsletter and includes GST

School Production Years 3 - 6

The Amazing Adventures of Super Stan

Thursday 22nd June 2017

Frankston Arts Centre