KINGSTON CIRCULAR Macquarie Drive, Kingston Australind WA 6233

Tel: 9797 0451 Fax: 9797 1060 PRINCIPAL: Alan Kidd

Tuesday 8th April 2014

Last Week of Term 1 This week is the final week of term 1 and what an action packed term it has been with a successful year 7 camp, successful year 6 camp, school photographs and House Captain elections. We finish the term off with the ANZAC dawn service to be held this Thursday. School finishes for students on Thursday afternoon at 3.00pm. Friday is a designated School Development Day and is specific to Kingston Primary. Term 2 Term 2 commences on Tuesday 29th April for students. On Monday 28th April all teaching staff from the 18 schools in the Bunbury Northern Network will be gathering at Australind Senior High School to workshop components of the Australian Curriculum to ensure that the public schools in this area have a common understanding. ANZAC Dawn Service The Kingston Primary Dawn Service has become a great tradition. We encourage all students and their parents to attend. Extended family and members of the community are very welcome. The service commences at 6.30am in the passive play area around the flagpoles in the school grounds. Those attending are asked to gather at 6.15am to ensure a prompt start. The service, which is run by the student executive and involves an art installation, will be followed by a free community breakfast for those who attend the service, coordinated by the P&C. Students must be in the care of their parents or parent designated supervisor to attend. The administration team will provide a duty of care from 8.00am. Entry to the service will be via the gates on either side of the administration building, or the Braidwood Drive car park. Students can wear service uniforms such as Joeys, Scouts, Cubs and Guides. I hope to see you all there. Swimming Lessons

I spent some time negotiating with the Shire of Harvey and we have agreed that the pool entry fee will drop to $3.00 per day for swimming lessons. This will mean that the costs will be reduced to parents this year. Last year only 53% of students attended swimming lessons, providing significant supervision issues

for the school as we had half of the students at the pool and half at school. I encourage all parents to send their child to swimming lessons and I have sent out a survey asking for parents to feed back their intentions for 2014 and the reasons behind their decisions. If we don’t increase the rate of attendance some important decisions will need to be made about the future of in-term lessons. Financial Support It is a strong belief of the administrative team that we will make significant allowances for parents who are having difficulty paying for school organised activities such as camps and excursions. We offer a confidential meeting where a payment plan is signed off by both parties. What I am not prepared to accept is people who make a commitment and make absolutely no effort to honour their commitment, prompting continual follow up and reminders. The school is not a profit making entity and we can not afford to suffer debts incurred by people who take advantage of the flexibility that we provide. To those people who have honoured their commitments, thank you. To those who have not, I expect you to. Leavers Shirts

Year 6 and 7 students have taken home information about their leavers shirts. Orders including money are due back this Thursday so that they can be placed by the end of term and hopefully be available close to the beginning of the new term. These shirts then

become part of the accepted school uniform.

Year 5 Aussie Sports Last Friday the year 5 students walked to the grounds of LLC to join other schools in the area for a day of Aussie Sports. From all reports the day was great and the students had a great time. What is even more pleasing is the feedback that I have had from parents and even teachers from other schools which was very positive about the behaviour, initiative and sportsmanship of our students. Congratulations year 5’s, you represented the school so well.

Alan Kidd

Virtue of the Fortnight COURAGE Courage is personal bravery in the

face of fear. It is doing what needs to be

done even when it is really hard or scary.

Courage is going ahead even when you feel

like giving up. Courage is needed in trying

new things. It is admitting mistakes and

then doing the right thing. Courage is the

strength in your heart.

I have courage. I am willing to try new things. I admit mistakes and learn from them. I listen to my heart. I have the courage to do the right thing

INTERSCHOOL SWIMMING SUCCESS! Last Tuesday, the 25th March, the students from Kingston participated in the annual L.I.S.A Swimming carnival. The event was held at the Harvey swimming pool, competing against Parkfield and Eaton PS. As always the Kingston Students cheered the loudest and displayed the 4 key virtues of courage, excellence, care and respect throughout the day. At the end of the carnival Kingston came away with the Handicapped shield for the 3rd year in a row and had several individual runner up champions. A big thank you to Miss Kremer and Mrs Cornelius for their help on the day.

Nic Newton, Zeke Hiron, Dylan Briggs, Tahlia Harris, Montana Cornelius, Chelsea Griffith, Milli Harris - All Medal winners

Matt Campbell – Phys Ed Teacher

Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students who received Merit Awards this fortnight:

Jack Dutschke, Lachlan Henderson, Oliver

Giffen, Tracey Kelly, Jack Morrow,

McKinnon Turnbull, Koby Rowles, Cameron

Williams, Aaliyah Puccio, Owen Grantham,

Emily Sterrett, Calen Cooper, William

Martin, Ashlyn Meyer, Aimee Fisher,

Katelyn Wickham, Brooklyn Powell, Kai

Summers, Kyle Sommerville, Rory Given,

Ruby Ward. PIZZA WITH THE PRINCIPAL Congratulations to the following students who were treated to Pizza with the Principal for displaying their virtues around the school recently:

Dylan Malatesta, Cody Daley, Marlee

Vlahov, McKinnon Turnbull, Morgan

Anderton, Shaun Butterly, Nelmarie de

Swardt, Caleb Bekker.

GIVE A DAMN, GIVE A CAN 2014 We have started collecting donations for Rotary's Give a Damn, Give a Can in classrooms across the school. Last year Kingston donated more than 1500 items to local charity organisations and was recognised as the school with the highest number of donations across the Bunbury district. This year it would be great if we could match that total, or even beat it by collecting more items. Rotary will accept any non-perishable packaged food (cans, packets, boxes) as well as toiletries and baby products. Please help us to help others! Donna Vernon – Year 3 Teacher

SUSTAINABILITY CORNER

Litter Trolleys: The first project for the Sustainability Super Squad will be the implementation of a competition between two classes every week to see who can pick up the most litter. This might be hard with all students at Kingston Primary School showing the virtues of Care and Responsibility to place their own rubbish or rubbish they walk past in the bins every recess and lunch but there will always be some that we need to pick up. The winners receive 'BW' the Battery Recycling Ranger for the week. The first week was a close one and the winners were LA1 and LA2. NAIDOC Week Term 2: The staff sustainability team will begin organising NAIDOC activities for next term. If you are interested in helping out with resources or knowledge, please see Ross Millington, LA5, to see how we can work together to show respect for the indigenous cultures of Australia. Sustainability Team

P&C UPDATE WHAM WINNERS! Congratulations to Blake Whitehead (T6) who is the lucky winner of the scooter this term. Thank you to our sponsor for this term, Charlie Viola, and the fantastic volunteers! Congratulations to all the students who won ice creams and Pizza with the Principal for wearing their helmets to school this term. Keep wearing your helmets for more chances to win! You never know when we’ll be there! Term 1 Proudly Sponsored by:

• Limestone block retaining walls and feature walls

• Cultured stone cladding feature walls

• Concreting: slabs, paths, patios, driveways, pools

• Bobcat work and general earth works, driveways and clean ups.

P&C MEETING The next P&C meeting is on Wednesday 7th May at 7.00pm in the Kingston Primary School staff room. Everyone welcome!

FUNDRAISING NEWS Easter Raffle: Tickets will be drawn today, and the lucky winners will be notified. We will announce the winners of the top prizes in the next newsletter. Mother’s Day Stall: Dates to be confirmed – we will notify you next term via the newsletter and/or App. Thank you for all your support for our fundraising activities so far this year, and for all the volunteers who have helped throughout the term. Megan Schneiker – Fundraising Co-ordinator 0431 583 583

CANTEEN NEWS Allergy Aware Canteen: At Kingston Primary School we recognise that there may be children at the school with food allergies, and endeavour to ensure our students’ safety by serving appropriate food at our canteen. Call in to the canteen for a full copy of our policy. Volunteers: If you are able to volunteer, please contact us, we need your help! You can email us at kingstonpnc@gmail.com or ring the school and they will put you through to us. Thank you to everyone who has put their name down to help us this year we really appreciate it.

Menu Planning Meeting: If you didn’t make it to

the meeting you could email us with your menu

ideas to kingstonpnc@gmail.com or ring the

school and they will put you through to us.

On-line Ordering: Please ensure you have updated your child’s class number and teacher names with the new school year. Stationery: Please note that the canteen has a small amount of stationery available, either from the canteen or on-line: red or blue biros 50c, erasers 50c, sharpeners $1.50, rulers $1.00, lead pencils 50c. Thankyou Wendy, Meegan and Nicki

UNIFORM NEWS Another term is almost over and we are starting to think about warmer options for uniforms. This winter we will be discontinuing the option of the long sleeve polo and retaining the ruby jumper and zip front jumper. So if you like having a long sleeve polo for those cold days, call in to the uniform shop as there is limited stock available. Opening hours are Mon-Thurs from 8.30-9.00am. EFTPOS is now available. The Uniform Committee will be meeting early next term. I will advertise the date in the Newsletter and on the App at the beginning of term 2. Sharlene Mahaffey – Uniform Co-ordinator

COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD TRIPLE P – POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM (3-8 YEARS) A free Seminar Series Triple P Program will be held at Kingston Primary School. This 3 week program covers positive parenting and how to promote confidence, competence and resilience in children. You can attend all 3 or individual sessions. Dates: Tuesday 10, 17 and 24 June from 9.30-11.00am. Free crèche provided. Register by calling Bunbury Community Health Services on 9795 2888.

OSHCLUB School holidays are at OSH! Book in FAST to get your spot, we are going on a wildlife hunt to Cape Naturaliste, having a giant Masterchef day AND a lego building competition day! Please enrol online at www.oshclub.com or call 0411 038 413 to speak to Kelsy and Emily with any questions. PLEASE book in fast as spots fill very quickly and we LOVE to meet new families!! AUSTRALIND LIBRARY HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES Mon 14

th April: Board games

Tues 15th April 10am – Easter rhyme time

16th April 10am – Easter story time and activities

17th April – all day Easter craft and activities

22 April 10am – Rhyme time 23 April 10am – Story time and craft 24

th April all day – Make a wreath to help

commemorate ANZAC Day. HBLJFC 2014 FOOTY SEASON Players are needed in Grade 5 and 6. Registrations are online at www.hbljfc.com.au. Season commences 3

rd May 2014. For further

information contact Adam at ashine77@bigpond.com. RIVERLINKS VACATION CARE PROGRAM Riverlinks Outside School Hours Care are now taking bookings for the April holidays. Lots of fun activities for children from Kindy to Year 7. For more information call Leonie on 9796 0400. Bookings essential.

Auslan Sign of the Fortnight

School:

How to sign it: Hold

hand flat, palm towards

face, finger pointing

upwards. Starting in

front of face at one side

move hand across all of

face twice.

Teacher:

How to sign it: Start

with pointer finger and

thumb extended in an L

shape, pointer finger

pointing up near ear.

Move hand so that

pointer finger points backwards,

back up and backwards again.

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School Required apps Thank you to all parents who have been vigilant with downloading the required apps onto their child’s BYOD iPad. If an iPad is missing some apps this limits the child’s access to the learning program. The BYOD program continues to grow and as we are learning we are finding the need for more apps to support the learning program. The app ‘Flick’ allows students to pass their work from their iPad to the teacher’s iPad without the need for passwords and account names. Below is a reminder of the Set Up apps that are required on all BYOD iPads and a very small list of new FREE apps. Please download these onto your child’s iPad.

Set Up apps Parents are required to supply the following apps on the iPad. (The cost listed in the brackets has been provided as a guide.)

• iMovie- video editing/vodcasting/podcasting; only for iPad 2 (free with every device

purchased after 1st September 2013)

• Keynote - presentations (free with every device purchased after 1st September 2013)

• Numbers - spread sheets (free with every device purchased after 1st September 2013)

• Pages - word processing (free with every device purchased after 1st September 2013)

• Google Earth – world maps (Free)

• Wikipanion – easiest way to access wikipedia (Free)

• iBooks – create own books (Free)

• Aurasma – augmentation (Free)

• Nearpod Student – collaboration with other iPads (Free)

• Schoology – collaboration (Free)

• iTunes U – creation app (Free)

• Spelling City – spelling (Free)

KINGSTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

KEY iPAD APPS

• Math Fire – math game (Free)

• PuppetPals HD – creativity (Free)

• Tellagami – create and share animated messages (Free)

• Comic Life – comic maker ($5.49)

• Popplet – brainstorming ideas ($5.49)

• Book Creator - program to make iBooks ($5.49)

• Sling Note - splits screen to enable web browsing and creating a document ($2.99)

New apps Parents are required to supply the following NEW apps on the iPad.

• Flick – document sharing, productivity, collaboration (Free)

• Rover – education app that streams educational Flash content to your iPad (Free)

• Trading Cards – read, write and think, creativity and understanding(Free)

• Puffin Free – mobile flash browser (Free)

• Venn – maths creativity (Free)

• Timeline – maths creativity (Free)

• Number Line – maths (Free)

• Student Clicker Socrative – student accountability and tracking student response (Free)

• Number Pieces – maths calculating strategies (Free)

• Opposites – English, teaching antonyms (Free)

Sync Your iPad Please ensure that you have backed up the iPad by syncing to iTunes. If you are unsure of this process do a Google search, ‘How to sync iPad to iTunes’ or go to: https://www.apple.com/au/support/iphone/syncing/ Syncing an iPad to iTunes should be done regularly to save all information on your personal computer in case your iPad is lost or broken.