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Newsletter A Great Place to Be!

30 October 2018 | Week 3 | Term 4

From the Principal Welcome to Week 3. WOW, what a Friday Funday Fete we had last Friday! So many happy smiling faces having fun. I would like to personally thank all the P & C Executive and the many helpers that came along on Friday to help set up and pack up. Your ‘can-do’ attitude and ‘many hands’ approach made the Fete come together in no time at all. From the cooking in the canteen, cake decorating, second hand book stall, student class stalls, show bags, plant stall, the mega raffle, cake stall, multiple market stall holders, and megamania, there was something for everyone. Specifically, I would like to extend my personal thanks to both Helena Hannan and Emily Harland for their outstanding organisation and commitment to ensuring that all aspects of the Fete ran smoothly and everything went off without a hitch. Without you both at the helm, events like this do not happen. Thank you Helena and Emily. Please see further on in the newsletter for some action from the day. Please see the survey link on the P & C page at the end of the newsletter, to add your feedback on the Fete. Yesterday, the year 5 Leadership program begun. This process is in preparation for our year 6 leaders for 2019. The students go through a program of identifying leadership qualities in significant people in history, review the qualities needed for leadership and develop these through a series of workshops. Our students also self-nominated for leadership positions; school captain, vice school captain and prefects yesterday. Six boys and six girls have been shortlisted and will deliver their speeches to the staff and students later in the term. Voting for positions will happen after their speeches. The leadership positions are announced on Presentation Day 10 December. Exciting times. Thanks to Ms Payne and Mr Eldridge for their work across the leadership program. Save the Date: LIGHT the NIGHT ! For the first time ever, KSPS will be hosting an end of year performance for families and community to come along and enjoy. The event will take place on the oval as an informal gathering with BYO picnic blankets and nibbles. Students will perform their end of year item for your enjoyment. Light the Night is Thursday 6 December, gathering from 5:30pm, performance starts form 6pm-8pm. Can’t wait! As you know, stage 2 have been leading the way with ‘Wrapper Free Wednesday’. Students have been collecting weekly data on the classes that are eliminating waste. We all know it is soft plastics that are the biggest issue in our environment. Thanks to stage 2 students and staff who are committed to making our school a wrapper free. A reminder that school Parliament is on this Thursday in the hall from 2:20pm. This is the opportunity of students have to exercise their ‘student voice’ and practice democracy in our school environment. Parents are always welcome to attend. This Thursday, students from K-2 and HSUB will be involved in Pet Safety Talks K-2 in the hall. These annual talks show, discuss and give scenarios about being safe with pets and other animals. We urge parent to continue this conversation with children for the safety of both the child and the pet. More information to come in next week’s newsletter about the process of approaching an unknown dog to pat it. A reminder that Mr Warren on long service leave for two week Mrs Heidi Lingren replacing him during this time. Did you know that you can use our KSPS Skoolbag app to send an absent note to school? You can also use the Parent Portal to review absences. Please see the front office for further information. Have a great week learning and thanks for making #KSPSagreatplacetobe

Susan Maxworthy – PRINCIPAL

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Fete Fun

#theFeteisFun

#KSPSisagreatplacetobe

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Friday Funday Fete 2018

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School News KINDERGARTEN OAKVALE FARM EXCURSION Just a reminder that our Kindergarten excursion to Oakvale Farm will be in Week 5 on Thursday 15th November. Permission notes and money must be returned and paid for by next Friday 9th November (Week 4).

If you have any questions about the day please don’t hesitate to contact Miss Partridge, Miss Ross or myself.

We are all very excited and looking forward to the day!

Miss Shannon O’Reilly – KO’R CLASSROOM TEACHER

KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION – TEDDY BEAR’S PICNIC Our second student orientation session will be held on Wednesday November 7th, from 9.30am -11am. The session will begin in the school hall where children will meet our current Year 4 students, who will become their buddies next year. They will visit the Kindergarten classrooms together to do some ‘school work’ before heading back to the hall to enjoy a Teddy Bear’s Picnic provided by our wonderful P&C. Our new students and Year 4 students are welcome to bring a teddy in for the morning. We can’t wait to see you all next week!

Miss Brooke Partridge – KINDERGARTEN COORDINATOR

NSWPSSA STATE ATHLETICS On Wednesday and Thursday this week Nate W, Luke F, Cameron O, Kyran D, and Campbell D will compete at the NSWPSSA State Athletics. This is the final major event for the NSWPSSA and is held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Stadium. We wish the boys competing best of luck in their individual and teams events.

NSWPSSA TOUCH FOOTBALL Last Tuesday our KSPS Boys Touch Football Knockout team travelled to Singleton. They competed in the Hunter Region semi-final.

The boys played in a challenging game against Valentine. Unfortunately the boys were defeated 6-4. This is the furthest a Kotara South team has reached in the NSWPSSA Knockout competitions. Thank you to Mr Baker who accompanied the team in Mr John’s absence. Also, a HUGE thank you to all the parents who supported the team with transport. Well done boys.

Mr John – SPORTS COORDINATOR

Important Dates This Week This Month This Term

1 Nov: Pet Talks K-2 1 Nov- Parliament 2:20 2 Nov- Assembly 2:20

7 Nov Kindy 2019 Teddy Bears’ Picnic 14 Nov P&C Meeting 7-8.30pm 18 Nov Garden & Grounds Volunteer

day 20-23 Nov Stage 3 Camp - Canberra 21 Nov Kindy 2019 Class Session 10 Dec Presentation Day 12 Dec Volunteer Thank You Morning

Tea 12 Dec P&C Meeting 7-8.30pm 13 Dec Yr 6 Farewell 19 Dec End of term

For more details and events visit http://www.kotarasth-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/calendar.

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Canteen Hello from the canteen for another awesome week. A BIG thank you to everyone for your ongoing support.

Fiona Best – CANTEEN SUPERVISOR

Hot Diggy Dog $4.00 1 hot dog with tomato sauce optional

FREE cheese and mustard 1 pkt chips 1 Bulla Splitz

Wrapp’n Chippy $4.00 1 chicken chippy salad wrap 1 Bulla ice block

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P&C Association FRIDAY FUNDAY FETE Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you is all I can say to the whole KSPS community for all your support towards our Friday Funday Fete. The day was a great success. The atmosphere was amazing.

I would like to acknowledge and thank the following people who put in so much hard work behind the scenes to make the day happen.

Emily Harland, P&C Secretary, thank you for all your hard work in keeping the ball rolling with the Fete and making sure we stayed on track and making the day run so smoothly and successfully, as well as baking a lot of the delicious cupcakes.

Michelle Ryan for all your effort in obtaining fantastic raffle prizes. To be able to offer 23 raffle prizes, of such outstanding value, was amazing.

Andrew Brock for your assistance in the canteen as well as picking up all the supplies we needed.

Susan Fuller for all your help with the preparation and running of the 2nd hand book stall.

Matt Playdon for organising and running the Grounds and Gardens Plant Stall.

Arianne Galvin & Steve Hill for your help in organising and running the showbags stall. As well as for baking over 150 cupcakes for the cupcake decorating activity!

Andrew Grant for your expert management of the financial side of the fete.

James Martin and Justine Daly for organising the wonderful entertainment during the fete.

To all the parents who volunteered to help out on the first aid stall. The amount of parents who put their hands up was overwhelming, Emily and I are extremely thankful to you all for your help at such short notice.

To all the KSPS teachers for your support towards the class stalls from 2pm to 3pm, as always they were a great hit and a fantastic way to start off our fete.

To all the parents who were able to help us with the set-up, running of the stalls and pack up. It really goes to show what a great community we have in Kotara.

To all the stall holders, Officeworks Kotara, Tradie Wash, Shelley Kearns Independent Tupperware Consultant, SugarPOP Parties, CP Airbrush tattoos, Sprocket coffee as well as Megamania Rides you really helped make our day an event to remember.

And lastly to all the KSPS children and families, thank you for your support towards our P&C Friday Funday.

Regards,

Helena Hannan - PRESIDENT, KOTARA SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C ASSOCIATION

FETE FEEDBACK If you’re interested in having your say and helping us to plan for our next fete, we have a very short survey available by clicking here, or just email the P&C: we’d like to know what you loved about the fete, any challenges you experienced, and what you’d like to see next time. Thank you for your feedback.

BOOK CLUB Don’t forget, Book Club orders are due on Thursday 1st November. Fill in the form and send it back to school or use the online LOOP system to order and pay.

Next Meeting: 14 November

7pm in the Library

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