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http://www.kentparkps.vic.edu.au Greenaway Drive Ferntree Gully 3156 Ph 9763-8055 Fax 9763-1532

Out Of School Hours: Ph: 9763-4515

KENT PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

2014 EVERY CHILD, EVERY OPPORTUNITY to SHINE

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5. TERM ONE Thursday, 27th

February, 2014

Wednesday 5th March Closing date for payments for KPPS Footy Tipping Competition

Thursday 6th March School Council Nominations Close

Thrusday 6th March Year 2 Religious Education begins

Friday 7th March School Sports Victoria Regional Swimming (Selected students)

FRIDAY 7th

MARCH CURRICULUM DAY – PUPIL FREE DAY

**Special dates for diaries: WATCH THIS SPACE for special news

Friday 28th

March Kent Park School Community Market – 5pm to 9pm

Friday 4th

April SPECIAL PERSONS’ DAY – more information coming soon

Wednesday 7th

May Whole School Photos

Please remember to visit the newly updated school website, which includes our weekly newsletters and regular updates of school events and news at www.kentparkps.vic.edu.au, to include 2014 Term dates

2014 EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES during LUNCHTIMES

Each year the teachers organise Extra Curricular activities for our students at lunchtime, and this year they have

volunteered to organise an even greater range of engaging and exciting activities. This will allow students to develop new

skills, make new friends, learn to cooperate in groups and make a commitment to their team for the Term.

It is important for the students to attend all rehearsals and/or trainings, so that their team is successful if required to perform

at assemblies/special events or compete in sporting events.

We would really appreciate it if parents would help encourage or remind their children to attend ALL sessions during the

Term. A timetable has been provided (above) indicating when the activities are being held.

We are looking forward to having fun with interested students.

Mrs Higgins – Extra Curricular Coordinator

Excursion/Incursion Notices Sent Home – Please read carefully and ensure deadline dates are met Year Date of Event Incursion/Excursion Due Date

Prep

1 Tuesday – 18th

March Taskworks Wed - 12th

Mar

2 Monday – 3rd

March Team EXPO with Coach Approach OVERDUE

3 Tuesday – 4th

March Eureka Skydeck & Federation Square Fri – 28th

Feb 4 Thursday – 20

th March School Performance Tours (Then and Now) Thurs – 13

th Mar

5 Tuesday - 11th

March Journeyman Starlab Incursion Wed - 5th

Mar

6 Tuesday – 11th

March Journeyman Starlab Incursion Wed - 5th

Mar

Extra Curricular Activities Teachers supporting the groups Lunch Times Location Junior Choir Mrs Key & Mrs Keir Friday Room 10

Middle Choir Miss Hogan & Mrs Higgins Wednesday Perf. Arts Room

Senior choir Mrs Higgins, Miss Mau, Miss Bertuch Monday Perf. Arts Room

¾ Dance - Aerobics Mrs Higgins, Mrs Witte, Mrs McComb Thursday Assembly Hall

5/6 Dance - Cheerleading Miss Hazeltine, Miss Scobell Tuesday Assembly Hall

Gymnastics Group – Term 2 Mr Johnston & Miss Scobell Wednesday B.E.R

Chess Club – Gr 3 & over Ms Khosh Thursday Room 15

Book Club – Library Mrs Nicholas & Ms Meier Tuesday Library

Fabric/Knitting 3,4 Mrs Creighton & Mrs Toogood Tuesday Art Room

Gardening Mr Johnston All Lunch times

Sporting Activities 5/6 Mrs Matthews & Mrs Hughes Thursday B.E.R

Sporting Activities 3/4 Mrs Cross & Mrs Higgins Monday B.E.R

Netball 4,5,6 Mrs Bennett & Mrs Hughes Friday B.E,R

Fairhills Dance Competition Mrs. Higgins T.B.A. Perf. Arts Room

http://www.kentparkps.vic.edu.au/

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‘Oops!’ Due to some errors in the Swimming Team lists published

in last week’s newsletter, we have re-printed the

information with correct names below and overleaf.

We apologise for the errors.

The KPPS team came FIRST out of the 8 schools

competing. Good luck to the highlighted swimmers -

Alex Peacock, Jade Appleby, Ty Renshaw, Thomas

Gasparroni, Lauren Coulston, Thomas Brady, Sarah

DallaValle, Luke Varney, Jessie Porta, Aaron Williamson,

Charlotte Lampard, Olivia Renshaw, Heetal Varsani, Ty

Christensen, Trinity Pierce, Gabby Petersen, Molly

Roche, Chloe Martin, Shayla Brown, Ben Gasparroni,

Lachlan Hickey, Olivia Roche, Thomas Uhr-Henry, Luke

Smith, Max Buxton, Darshan Varsani, Ashlynn

O’Halloran, Eliza Jones, Lauren Ward and Yolanda

Maharani, who will compete and represent KPPS at the

regional competition on March 7th

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Knox Festival Dunking Machine: Mr Martin has volunteered to represent Kent Park Primary

School at the Knox Festival this Saturday. He will be

appearing at 12:30 so if you would like the chance to get

him a little wet come along and give it your best shot. All

funds will be going to a family in the local community who

are having upgrades to their home to help their disabled

child. Rhys Martin

IMPORTANT PREP REMINDERS We would like to remind parents/guardians that the Prep

students will be –

attending school for the full 5 days commencing next

week Monday 3rd

March

dropping off schoolbags to the line up area on the Prep

side on MONDAY mornings (prior to school starting)

and walking straight to the assembly hall as the music

is playing at 8.55am.

IMPORTANT SCHOOL COUNCIL REMINDERS: 2014 School Council Nominations will close on

Thursday 6th

March. We invite all members of the

community to consider this important role and remind

them that attendance at the 8/9 monthly meetings is

essential to be able to actively contribute.

Knox Council officers will continue to patrol

schools, particularly in peak drop off and pick up

times. We urge all drivers to be safe around the school

and abide by the parking and speed limit rules. Drivers

must abide by the ‘drop off’ bay signed regulations –

NO DOUBLE PARKING!!. Cars are not to be left

unattended in this area. Parking over driveways and

nature strips is STRICTLY prohibited at all times. The

safety of our students and thoughtful consideration for

our neighbours' property are imperative. Pedestrians

(students and parents) are also reminded to use the

Council crossings before and after school.

It is extremely dangerous and unacceptable to allow

children to cross the road between parked cars.

Students (even with a parent) are not permitted to

enter or exit the school via the staff car park before

and after school. This rule is a DEECD safety

regulation and ensures the safety of all members of our

community.

In line with DEECD regulations dogs are not permitted

in the school grounds. Please ensure that dogs are

leashed away from the main gate entrances, when

collecting children.

Smoking is strictly prohibited on DEECD grounds and

we ask that parents refrain from smoking near the

entrances.

Please ensure that your child has their bucket hat at

school at all times. We must abide by the Sunsmart

“NO HAT, NO PLAY” rule during Terms 1 and 4.

Students will be required to sit in the foyer during play

times if not protected with the school bucket hat. The

application of sunscreen at the beginning of the day is

advisable.

To ensure the wellbeing and safety of all community

members students are reminded not to play ball games

and chasey games between 8.45am and 9am, and

3.30pm and 3.45pm. The riding of SCOOTERS and

BIKES is also strictly prohibited in the playground

during these hours.

To ensure student safety please close pedestrian gates

if you are exiting the school grounds after 9.00am.

Parents are reminded to only enter classrooms when

teachers are present. During class times we ask that

corridors and breezeways e.g. Greenland Tunnel and

Alley remain quiet and clear.

On wet day mornings students are permitted to enter

classrooms at 8.45am. Years 1 and 2 children are

reminded to wait under the cover way near the art

room on wet mornings, rather than at the exterior

classroom entrances near the basketball courts.

Any student arriving after the bell at 9am must report

to the Office with their parent/guardian for a late pass

and be escorted to their class.

When returning from school after being absent for one

or more days please complete an Absence Slip

(attached) and return to the classroom teacher. This

slip replaces the need to write a note explaining a

child’s absence. This process simplifies the procedure

for parents and the school. (Also available on Kent

Park Primary School website or office).

All students P to 6 require an art smock and library bag

to participate effectively in these programs.

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Weekly Merit Awards for Week Ending 21st February, 2014

Class Student’s Name Reason

Prep A

Mitchell Steers For giving everything a go and for trying his best. Great job!

Tyrese Ohi For an amazing effort with listening and trying his best. Great job!

Prep B Ryder Pierce For always having a go and trying his best. Well done!

Natalia Baulch-Crawford For always using scissors safely and trying her best wide cutting.

Prep C Isaak Georgiou For making a wonderful Jigaree out of coloured paper. Well done.

Livinia Hogan For drawing a fantastic picture of a giant from the story “The Hungry Giant”.

1A Nate Shefelbine For his beautiful writing about his Sunsmart hat. Keep up the good work.

1B Mitchell Buckingham For putting so much effort into everything he does.

1C Leway Wang For his accurate sequencing of a story.

1D Mack Bradford For super work all week.

2A Kirra Bover-Groen For excellent thinking when learning about odd and even numbers.

2B Macey Smith For having a positive attitude and staying focused no matter what her

surroundings.

2C Callum White For your enthusiasm and effort to make your writing about your renovations

very interesting to read.

3A Lexi Jeeves For putting in such effort and positivity into all her learning. Awesome work

Lexi!

3B Ji-Min Lee For carefully editing her writing using our editing checklist. Well done!

3C Kavan Shah For making such a great start to the school year after your extra long holiday.

3D Fogut Sakaeklang For settling in so well to her new school and working hard with her reading.

3E Hanna Beydoun For settling in to Kent Park Primary School and focusing so well on her

learning.

4A Ryan Lacy For a great start to Grade 4. Keep up the positive attitude and great effort with

all tasks.

4B Alle Bortignon For her caring nature and eagerness to learn.

4C Flynn Handy For his enthusiasm and perseverance whilst reading.

5A Haelee Small For an excellent effort with all work tasks. Keep up the great work Haelee.

5B Vithara Gunawardena For fantastic automatic response of multiplication and division facts.

5C Jayde Duane For taking a responsible and mature approach when sorting out a difficult

social situation. Well done!

5D Lachlan Brearley For an outstanding piece of writing. Fantastic work!

6A Aaron Barnes For outstanding efforts to complete his Winter Olympics project!.

6B Shane Pierides For his enthusiastic approach to researching facts about Russia. Great work

Shane!

6C Ethan Aldridge For using imagination and humour in his newsletter writing. Great job!

Visual Arts Elijah Moss For recognising a “spark” of creativity and using his imagination to extend it!

Perf. Arts Riley Hamilton For his amazing concentration whilst playing a variety of instruments.

Japanese Ella Reid For being brave and using the new Japanese words that she has learnt, even

outside the classroom.

Assist. Prin. Thomas McLaren For his excellent, exciting but sad story about ‘Teenagers’. Well done

Thomas!

Principal Charlie Brady For showing such a positive attitude with his school work in 2014.

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Wantirna District Swimming Carnival 2014 Results

Thursday, 13th February

EVENT STUDENT PLACE

Freestyle

Boys 10 Years

Girls 10 Years

Boys 11 Years

Girls 11 Years

Boys 12 Years

Girls 12 Years

Ty Christensen (A) Ben Gasparroni (B)

Trinity Pierce (A)

Jade Appleby (B)

Thomas Uhr-Henry (A)

Luke Smith (B)

Gabby Petersen (A)

Chloe Martin (B)

Ty Renshaw (A)

Thomas Gasparroni(B)

Shayla Brown (A)

Lauren Ward (B)

1st

4th

1st

4th

2nd

1st

2nd

2nd

4th

3rd

4th

1st

Breaststroke

Open 10 Years

Girls 10 Years

Boys 11 Years

Girls 11 Years

Boys 12 Years

Girls 12 Years

Lauren Coulston (B)

Trinity Pierce (A)

Jessie Porta (B)

Max Buxton (A)

Thomas Brady (B)

Sarah DallaValle (A)

Eliza Jones (B)

Tom Gasparroni (A)

Aaron Williamson (B)

Molly Roche (A)

Shayla Brown (B)

4th

3rd

5th

5th

2nd

4th

3rd

3rd

3rd

3rd

4th

Backstroke

Boys 10 Years

Girls 10 Years

Boys 11 Years

Girls 11 Years

Boys 12 Years

Girls 12 Years

Ty Christensen (A)

Ben Gasparroni (B)

Trinity Pierce (A)

Olivia Renshaw (B)

Thomas Uhr-Henry (A)

Luke Smith (B)

Gabby Petersen (A)

Ashlynn O’Halloran (B)

Ty Renshaw (A)

Luke Varney (B)

Molly Roche (A)

Heetal Varsani (B)

1st

4th

1st

2nd

4th

1st

1st

1st

5th

1st

3rd

2nd

EVENT STUDENT PLACE

Boys Medley Relay

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Butterfly

Freestyle

Thomas Uhr-Henry

Ben Gasparroni

Luke Varney

Ty Renshaw

4th

Girls Medley Relay

Backstroke

Breaststroke

Butterfly

Freestyle

Gabby Petersen

Molly Roche

Chloe Martin

Shayla Brown

1st

Relay Boys 10 Yrs Ty Christensen

Ben Gasparroni

Lachlan Hickey

Olivia Roche

1st

Relay Girls 10 Yrs Trinity Pierce

Jade Appleby

Jessie Porta

Charlotte Lampard

4th

Relay Boys 11 Yrs Thomas Uhr-Henry

Luke Smith

Max Buxton

Darshan Varsani

1st

Relay Girls 11 Yrs Gabby Petersen

Chloe Martin

Ashlynn O’Halloran

Eliza Jones

1st

Relay Boys 12 Yrs Ty Renshaw

Tom Gasparroni

Aaron Williamson

Alex Peacock

2nd

Relay Girls 12 Yrs Molly Roche

Shayla Brown

Lauren Ward

Yolanda Maharani

1st

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Year 4 Writers Of The Week

On the weekend I went to the Australia versus England cricket match and I was up the top of the stadium. Then I walked

over to the big screen and I touched it. It felt bumpy and from close up it just looked like lights. In the end we won. I

was happy when I got home and went to bed. When I woke up I played my windows 8 surface pro which is a tablet and

computer in one. Then I went to basketball, we lost the scores were 12-2. Then we went home and my dad got some

foam and we made a sort of surface for my surface pro. Then we got our cricket stuff and played in the cages. Then I

went home and had dinner and went to bed.

By Albie Cunningham 4A

Biography of Jesse Jesse has five family members. He loves his family. He has two awesome sisters, named Keely and Shayla. Keely is the

oldest and Shayla is the second oldest. Jesse also has a mum and dad. His dad’s name is Dion and his mum’s name is

Simone. He also has two dogs named Bosly and Buffy. Jesse loves playing footy and cricket with his dad. He enjoys

going toy shopping with his mum. He loves playing games on the trampoline with Shayla and Keely.

Jesse’s hobby is cricket. Jesse likes playing cricket because there is lots of exercise and Jesse loves running and using all

his energy. He also likes cricket because when he is batting all the attention is on him.

Jesse would love to be a scientist when he his older. He would like to be a chemistry scientist because he loves mixing

different things and there are lots of explosions. He would also like to be married with a son named Ben. He would like

his son to play sports with him and also play cricket for a club.

Jesse’s interests are meerkats because they are very cute. He also likes them because they are super active. He also

thinks they stand funny. They are hilarious says Jesse.

Jesse’s favourite holiday has been Thailand because he went snorkelling. He also went on a boat to three islands! While

Jesse was in Thailand he went on an elephant ride! Jesse stayed in a resort in Thailand. While he was there he saw a

bull! Jesse loved the zoo.

By Troy Partridge 4B

Jordan

Jordan’s favourite colour is pink. His favourite animals are a cat and a dog. His favourite holidays are at Yanakie and

Paynesville. Jordan’s favourite movie is Grown-Ups. His favourite food is Chicken Parma. His favourite sport is

basketball and he plays for the South East Eagles. Jordan’s favourite book is Diary of a Wimpy Kid. His best friend is

Oscar. His favourite room is his mum and dad’s room. In his family he has a mum, dad and his brother Levi.

By Mackenzie Procter

The Time of My Hot Shot Experience

On Tuesday it was the day of me playing on Rod Laver Arena. It felt like a dream when I was playing, but it also felt

like a normal court. I played on there for about 20 minutes. Then I met Roger Federa, Venus Williams, Maria

Sharapova, Victoria Azaranka, James Duckworth and lots more.

After that one of us twelve got chosen to toss a coin in a game, but I did not get chosen. Then I also watched a couple of

other games. The next day we went back to the Australian Open. I got to have a photo with the Cup, but I could not

touch it because it would leave finger prints.

It was the best 3 days of my life.

By Charlie Brady

HOUSE POINTS

Weekly Total Progressive Total

1st Uluru 144 1st Uluru 492

2nd Daintree 136 2nd Eureka 486

3rd Eureka 130 3rd Daintree 470

4th Franklin 120 4th Franklin 451

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Dear Parents/Guardians,

AN IMPORTANT HEAD LICE NOTICE

We would like to advise parents/guardians of recurring head lice throughout various year levels and request

that parents be vigilant and ensure your child/children’s hair is checked regularly.

It would be appreciated if any evidence of head lice was treated prior to students returning to school for the benefit of all families to help prevent further outbreaks. A few tips for parents:

Regularly check the hair (long and short) of all family members using a fine tooth comb and white hair conditioner to help locate the bugs.

Tie back and braid long hair and apply a light coat of hair spray daily. Check the nape of the neck for rashes and scratching. All family members to be checked and treated if necessary.

Guidelines for treating Head Lice While children are at school many families will have contact with head lice. The information contained on the

website below will help you treat and control head lice. We have also attached a copy of the Department of

Health guidelines for treating headlice for your information.

www.health.vic.gov.au/headlice

Alison Macauley

Principal

FERNTREE GULLY EAGLES JUNIOR FOOTBALL

CLUB

SEASON 2014

INTERESTED IN PLAYING FOOTBALL

COME AND JOIN THE EAGLES IN 2014

UNDER 8’S TO UNDER 17’S

GIRLS UNDER 12’S & UNDER 15’S

ALL ABILITIES

AUSKICK

SPECIFICALLY NEEDING UNDER 11’S , 12’S, 13’S

15’S, 17’S & GIRLS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

THE

SECRETARY GAIL ON 0400 055 368

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Kent Park Primary School Community Market

ALL WELCOME

WHEN: Friday 28th

March 5 – 9pm

Entry cost – Gold coin donation

Over 35 FANTASTIC Variety of Stalls including:-

Clothing, Cosmetics, Handmade Crafts, Jewellery, Tupperware, Candles, Cooking, Photography, Lollies and more!

Entertainment for the kids including jumping castles, Pony and

Donkey rides, Henna Tattoos and more!

Sausage sizzle, Slushy machine, Snowcones, Fairyfloss, Popcorn, Coffee cart and other great food and drinks available on the Night!

Plenty to look at and purchase on the night at great prices!

Come and support your local Primary School

Have a fun family night out and pick up a bargain at the same time!

Enquiries can be directed to the school on 9763-8055 or refer to our website

www.kentparkps.vic.edu.a

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