Tuesday 18th August 2015

Term 3 Issue 8

Principal Mr John Clarke

Phone (08) 8353 2444

Dean Avenue, Kidman Park South Australia 5025

Email dl.0996_admin@schools.sa.edu.au

Website www.kidmanpkps.sa.edu.au

KPPS Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

2. Book Week

4. Shed Report

6. Spring Working Bee

7. Chess Team

8. Student Action Teams

11. School News

12. Student Activities

AMANDA GORE VISIT Thanks to all of our parents who met in the activity

room during the student disco. We hope to have Amanda back early next

year to run a parent session. Our newsletters contain information about

The Joy Project. Including our detailed outline of activities from term one.

http://issuu.com/kidmanpkps/docs/term_1_week_6_7bcf09d72b70a8

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Let’s Shine a Light on

BOOK WEEK! Abbey A, Hayley C, Amy D, Lucy F, Sotira F, Imogen N,

Jawad O, Eve O, Griffith P, Thomas S, James S,

Manvinder S and Tameka T.

Thankyou to the above thirteen students from P3 who

volunteered and very capably led this year’s Book

Week celebrations.

The Action Team worked together to promote and

report on all the Book Week events at school

assemblies and also led lunchtime activities in the

Resource Centre. Students (196 visitors) gave

fantastic feedback often describing the activities as

awesome with a 10 out of 10 rating. Last week the

Team reflected on their Book Week experiences:

“Mark Greenwood kicked off Book Week with an inspirational performance” -

Jawad and James

“What Book Week Action Team meant to me was improving my leadership

experience, a good fun time and working with my friends and class mates” –

Manvinder

“In Book Week we explored the world of books and we learnt to appreciate

them more” -Sotira

“Book week taught me that while being a leader I can still have fun” –Eve

“It was fun seeing the kids use their imagination and creativity while doing

the activities” -Abbey

‘’The main thing that I loved about Book Week was hearing the laugh-

ter and seeing the smiles of the kids during lunchtime activities’’ -

Imogen

“Being in the Book Week Action Team made me feel proud of myself, I

loved being with my friends and making Book Week feel joyful” -

Thomas

“Book Week was fantastic because of the Book Week Action Team,

Ms Kellett, Pam & Karla, with the help of each & every participant” -

Griffith

Thank you to all the children & parents for your participation

throughout Book Week. Thank you to Mrs Kellett and Mrs Grant for

making Book Week awesome! The Book Week Action Team

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With Miss Kay, Cathy, Deb, Freya, Lee, Pam, Nadia, Jen, Karina and Iarla, The Shed and the

early years intervention room (the Shack) have been a hive of activity with over one hundred

students being supported in their learning. In addition to this, Miss Maria has been providing

literacy support to the students with English as an Additional Language/ Dialect. Jaki Peris has

also joined The Shed team and is the new ACEO (Aboriginal Community Education Officer) at

KPPS.

Throughout the year, The Shed Team has seen several students graduate from the

individually supported MultiLit reading program. This is a wonderful achievement and each of

these students has been presented with a certificate of completion in recognition of this.

Miss Kay has been continuing to provide small group writing and spelling support to students.

Deb, Freya, Cathy, Iarla, Lee, Pam, Nadia, Karina and Jen continue to provide support to our

Students’ with Negotiated Education Programs as well as working through literacy programs.

In addition to all of this, we have all had fun incorporating the fabulous ‘Joy Project’ into our

programs….

Room 10 students hard

at work, learning about

noun groups.

Above: The Shed’s ‘Ta-Da’ sign. The ‘Joy Book’ where positive moments and achievements are recorded

Billy gets a ‘Ta-Da’ for his

work on ‘clauses’!

Below: ‘Ta-Da!!’ Joseph, Branson,

Austin and Beau showing gratitude.

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Jaki has been at the school for half a term and is already building a strong and positive

relationship with the Indigenous families, students and staff. She has also been finding out

about programs being offered within our community for our Indigenous students. Jaki is a

valuable resource to KPPS and also plans to support the classes in their units on Aboriginal

studies. We are thrilled to have her ‘onboard’.

Miss Maria has been working with the students who have English as an Additional Language/

Dialect (EAL/D). The initial stage of these support sessions with Miss Maria was for students

to recognise that cultural identity and understanding plays a big part in developing a strong

sense of awareness, confidence and pride. This term, each student contributed to creating a

fabulous ‘Cultural Identity’ display in the corridor outside of The Shed.

Miss Maria’s students have also been doing plenty of work developing their writing skills.

Lots of Ta-Da stickers are being given out each week as the students grow in their

understanding of punctuation, clauses, proper nouns etc.

Pictured left:

Evan and Anthony receive a “Ta-Da’

for consistently being able to

identify the subject and verbs in a

clause! Great work boys!

Pictured right:

Miss Maria with Angelo, Kim, George and Yianni from P1

learning about clauses.

SPRING WORKING BEE

A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ASSISTED WITH THE SPRING

WORKING BEE

PORTABLES- GARDEN BEDS

Samantha, Mathew and Natalie R, Kylie S, Elena and Katya Z

LEARNING CENTRE STORAGE

Enza and Vince M and Barbara B

VEGIE GARDEN

Amanda, Jamie and Branson K, Naomi, Jeremy and Annika N, Uyen H, Matthew R, Natalie R,

Sarah B, Calix B, Maria G and Sebastian G

LEARNING CENTRE/ MEMORIAL GARDEN

John P, Jeffrey, Carolyn P, Lauren P, Olivia P and Daniel P

SOUTHERN PLAY SPACE GARDEN Graeme D, Sean C, Michael B, Gloria and Sidney D

FRONT OFFICE GARDEN

Warren K, Tameka T, Lorraine J, Gloria and Sidney D

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Kidman Park was well represented at the Interschool Chess Competition on Friday, 18 September

held at Whitefriars. It was a close competition - going into the last round both schools were on

equal points. After a marathon battle between Alan D and Whitefriars' top player, Whitefriars

won 23 to 20. All players played well and there were a number of students playing in the

competition for the first time. All were excellent ambassadors for the school. KPPS top 4 players

were George N, Alan D, Liam M-M & Sean F.

SAPSASA Congratulations to Jackson S who finished in the top 20 amongst about 130 of our best young golfers at the recent state golf day. Keep on swingin'.

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This year the sport action team has

done many activities with older and

younger kids. Some things we have

done are;

Football clinics, Soccer clinics, Bowling

tournament, Indoor soccer, Basketball

clinics/games and Dress up day.

We all thank the people for donating

money during the dress up day. We

raised a total of $367. The next big

event we will be doing is a sports fun

day next term.

On sports fun day there will be several activities to do on the oval. It will be a

gold coin donation at the start of the day if you would like to participate in any

activities. And a few activities will have prizes!!

Nine dynamos run our Sport Action Team: Sam H, Stefan S, Alexandra T, Isabella W, Daniela S, Joah F, Charlie S, Sean F, and Rodan J. They are bubbling with ideas, up and about this year getting our F - 7s active and skilled with lunchtime activities. I have been most impressed all year how they take the initiative and run with it : organising teams, promotion posters, going online for drills/games ideas . Plus keeping balls pumped, class gear topped up and sports sheds tidy. As you can see they are already rarin' to go with term 4 activities! Terry Ahern PE Teacher

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This term the Art Action Team have been

collecting positive pieces of art.

This artwork is put around the school to

make kids more positive when they are

down. A lot of the artwork is based

around the new movie ‘Inside Out’, the

characters include Joy, Sadness, Anger,

Disgust and Fear.

Some classes did some artwork on what

makes them happy, others made up their

own ‘Inside Out’ characters.

The PEARLS room and other classrooms have been looking at

forgiveness and how it is very important to forgive people for their

mistakes or choices they make.

So put on your Gratitude Glasses and be grateful to everyone

around you!

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As well as their usual duties of newsletter

videos, setting up audio visual equipment

and providing X box 360 activities at lunch

time, the Multimedia Student Action Team

have started to create some Legomation

movies to recreate school activities or explain

their learning.

After

some initial discussion and brainstorming

the team storyboarded their ideas in

smaller groups and set about

constructing their lego film sets and then

started to take photos of every step of

their animation. This takes a long time as

each step between frames has to be

small so the final film does not end up

being too jerky. Filming is still in progress! The next stage will be to transfer

all the images into Movie Maker, join all the photos together and add narration

or sound effects and music to make a short Legomation film. We will share the

final results in next term’s newsletter.

The Multimedia Student Action Team members are:

Shaun, Andrea, Nathan, Hayley, Daniel, Harry, Jade, Chris, Nick and Phoenix

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Do you have any old saucepans, plastic utensils, plastic bowls or

even plastic farm animals that could be used by our very creative

sand pit users? They love making cakes, sand castles, roads and

cities.

As long as it is safe and unbreakable the students would love to

explore their uses in the sand.

Please ask your child to take the containers etc to P1 or give

them to their classroom

teacher.

Spiny Leaf Insects – The Perfect Pet Babies and eggs for sale. $2 each. (All money donated to Clown Doctors). All they need is a small enclosure to live in and fresh gum leaves once a week. Easy to care for, interesting to watch and hold. For more information speak with Bridget in Rm 9 or phone Kylie 0417 832 942. CANTEEN NEWS—SPORTS DAY A big THANKYOU to James A who has kindly donated an assortment of lamingtons which will be available for purchase on Sports Day, along with coffee and various other cakes. A Sausage Sizzle will also be available for parents and grandparents on the day—first in best dressed! CAR BREAK INS Please do not keep valuables in cars. We have had an incident reported to us, where out of school hours, a car was broken into and a handbag stolen, by Collins Reserve.

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Footsteps report by Ethan S

For the past five weeks P1, P2, P3 and the year 6’s of P4 have been attending

‘Footsteps’, a dance program spreading across South Australia schools that

teaches Middle Years students individual and partner dances. During the course

the classes have been learning five dances made up of two individual dances and

three partner dances. The dances were: Party, Modern Progressive, Pasadobla,

Canned Heat and Jenny from the Block. Party was an individual dance, Modern

Progressive was a progressive partner dance (where everyone dances with every-

one), Pasadobla was a partner dance, Canned Heat was a partner dance and

Jenny from the Block was an individual dance. Our teacher’s name was Stephanie

and she taught us four of the dances while another teacher, called Tiffany, taught

us the other dance known as Canned Heat. The dances taught us cooperation,

team work and developed friendships. Overall Footsteps is definitely a great

program.

Watch the Footsteps Video Here

Pasodoble.mov Party.mov

Modern Progressive.mov Jenny from the block.mov

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On Thursday 20th August Rm 10, U1, U2 and U6 went Geocaching with Simon Hutchinson who is from Nature Play SA. Our task was to find caches hidden around the school and on Collins Reserve using a GPS. Here's some comments from U1 students: Simon showed us how to use a GPS. By Abbi I liked doing Geocahing with my partner. By Deanna My group and I found two hidden stamps with a GPS. By Tamara We had fun doing Geocaching. By Sam F For more ideas and fun outdoor activities go to the NAture Play SA website: http://sa.natureplay.org.au/ SPORTS RESULTS SOCCER 29/08/15 U6 Kidman White 1 West Lakes Shore 1 Captain: Alfie M, Goal scored by Jacob C

05/09/15 U6 Kidman White 5 West Lakes Shore Blue 1 Captain: Jacob C, Goal scorers: Alfie 2, Stavros 2, Joseph 1

NETBALL 3/9/15 Kidman Sapphires 2 Nazareth Gold 22 Goals scored by Selena 2 It was a tough game! Thank you to Olivia, Kaitlyn and Megan from team Pegasus who filled in for the girls absent from team Sapphire. Our only two goals were shot by Selena which were spectacular! Well done Selena. --

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Room 11 have been investigating and learning about data collection and graphing. They have constructed several data displays from given collected data as well as collated their own data then constructed some pictographs and column graphs from these. Here are some examples: Surveying the class about the number of birthdays that occur each month Class survey about their favourite pet from the data given Survey generated about students’ own choice of favourite ice cream flavours Student generated survey of on organised activities Column graphs were made from date of Fruit tallies, World’s ten fastest

animals, the World’s sleepiest animals and Packaged products at home The 4s were asked to compare picture graphs and column graphs and explain their best features/advantages and worst features / disadvantages. Advantages of Picture graphs Disadvantages of Picture graphs

You don’t need to count Andrew

It is easy to understand Byron

The pictures are fun to draw Nathan S

The best feature in the picture graph is you can be creative Maddi

It is easy to make Jeiden

The best feature about the picture graph is you can draw Annelise

The drawings are small Annelise

You have to take time and draw Nathan A

It gets a little messy Connor

You might be bad at drawing Renee

It can be confusing James V

You have to draw them Ashleigh

“I prefer column graphs because it is a lot quicker” Andrew

“Column graphs because it’s really easy to do.” James A

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Advantages of Column graphs

You need less info Byron

All you have to do is colour Maddi

It is easy to read Jeiden

It is nice and simple James A

It is simple Ashleigh

You can write a lot James V

Quick and easy Renee

“I prefer column graphs because it is a lot quicker” Andrew

“Column graphs because it’s really easy to do.” James A

Disadvantages of Column graphs

Slow & you have to rule lines Nathan S

It takes some time to make Jeiden

It’s not that fast Andrew

Harder to understand Byron

It is hard to include if you sometimes get a zero in your data

Annelise

“I love doing graphs it is fun.” Maddi