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Newsletter No. 7 Friday 15th March 2019

25th March Parent, Student & Teacher conferences (Students at school for conference only) 29th March Interschool Gala Day - Gr 5&6 1st April Democracy, Community & Me Incursion - Gr 3&4 23rd-24th April Curriculum Days 5th April Super Egg Race & Kerrimuir Gift Term 1 ends 2:30pm 26th April - 25th June Footsteps Dance Lessons

Monday 18th: School Council meeting 7pm

Tuesday 19th:

Wednesday 20th: The Lab incursion - Gr 2

Thursday 21st:

Friday 22nd:

School Review Update

This coming Tuesday (19th March) is the first of our School Review days. The first day (known as validation day) is where the review team examines all the great things we have been doing at Kerrimuir over the last four years. 24 students from grade 2 – 6 have been selected to be our focus students and will have an opportunity during the day to speak to the review team about their experiences at KPS. The reviewers will also be visiting classrooms and talking to students and teachers about what they are up to in the class.

Parent Teacher Conferences

A reminder that on Monday 25th March individual students, their parents and their teacher will have the opportunity to meet throughout the day for a parent teacher conference. During this time, students will be able to share their

achievements and future goals with their parents and teacher.

These conferences/discussions can be booked online

through Compass or be made at the school office.

Parents will be able to select their conference time from

12:00pm until 7:30pm, for a duration of 15 minutes.

Please note as approved by School Council there are no regular classes on this day and students are ONLY required

at school for the duration of the conference.

Cultural Understanding and Safety Training (CUST)

On our curriculum day this week the teaching and support staff participated in Cultural Understanding and Safety Training. This is an important Education Department initiative aimed at improving our knowledge of cultural heritage and incorporating it into our curriculum. The staff enjoyed a range

of tasty aboriginal inspired finger foods to celebrate the day.

Acting Principal’s Message:

Michael McLean

CARE Awards

Congratulations to last week’s

winners of the

Kerrimuir CARE Awards!

These students have all been recognised by their

teachers last week for an achievement related to

one of our four school CARE values.

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Prep enrolments for 2020

Kerrimuir school families

We are currently taking enrolments for

current 4 year old Kindergarten students

who turn 5 by April 30th, 2020 for the

2020 school year.

School Council Meetings Term 1

Monday 18th March 2019

Commencing 7pm in the staff room.

Visitors welcome!

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SCHOOL News

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This weeks wordsmith is: Archie P

Kerrimuir Primary School

Word of the Week

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Super Egg

For all new parents, Super Egg is a

long held tradition at Kerrimuir Primary

School which involves students

decorating/filling a plastic egg to roll

down a ramp in an egg race. Each

class has a race, and the winners of

each class go in a final race to become

the Super Egg Champion!

We also hold a “Kerrimuir Gift” during

the day which is based on the Stawell

Gift held every year over the Easter

long weekend.

Eggs are now available to be

purchased from your teacher.

Congruent: in agreement or harmony.

Example: His behaviour was congruent with his ideas.

SCHOOL News

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What’s going on in 2B? During the first few days of 2019, students in 2B spent time getting to know one another. Completing autobiographical lap-books, holding a friendship scavenger hunt, crafting and comparing personal data cubes and coming up with a Class Charter for acceptable

conduct really helped bond everyone together.

We have thoroughly enjoyed playing Maths games to re-inforce classroom learning. Place Value Wars strengthened knowledge of numbers to 1000. Rounding Bingo helped us round up or down to the nearest 10 or 100.

This term in Science our topic is ‘All Mixed Up’ and we have worked collaboratively with 2A to experiment with different mixtures. We have asked questions, made predictions, observed and drawn conclusions from our results.

Eating the chocolate crackles we made was a definite highlight! We are currently looking forward to our upcoming incursion ‘The Lab’.

LIBRARY News

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How are books selected for the Library?

There are quite a few strategies for selecting books. Here are just a few:

Constantly seeking recommendations from students regarding titles to purchase,

purchasing them and then promoting them as recommended titles. As adults we can’t

imagine all the kinds of reading materials that students could be interested in, nor be

aware of every great book (new or old) that is published and available.

Cover – The saying goes “You don’t judge a book by its cover!” but the fact is that

you do. The purpose of the cover is to entice the reader to pick the book off the

shelf. Authors don’t choose their own covers, publishers and marketers do, and an

author doesn’t always like the choice. Sometimes different covers are chosen to

attract different audiences, as when Harry Potter was released with different covers

for children and adults. The cover might suggest characters, story elements, genre,

reader age, reader gender or just reveal the author and title.

PARENTS please remember to discuss reading with your children as enthusiastically as

you do about other interests like sport, movies, games and things they may be

passionate about – legitimising reading as an important and vital aspect of the whole

package of our lives.

Here are a few of our new books available this week:

HAPPY READING! Denise Atkins

Librarian

BRAIN Training

Fundraising

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Every Friday at assembly we have a Cake Raffle to raise funds for the school. We’re

always looking for people to help bake cakes for the raffle prizes, so if you can help

please contact Sue Jones, or follow the link below to Sign Up Genius.

Raffle tickets are 20c each and can be bought from the Canteen before school on Friday

from 8.40am or before assembly from 2.20pm.

To sign up please contact Sue Jones on:

Email smdavies@ihug.com.au OR phone 0477 443 121 or

Put your name on the sign up sheets at the Canteen or office, or

Sign up at:

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0E4DAAA92AA3F58-kerrimuir

Last week’s winners: Lucy, Sienna S, Aidan, Emily, Oliver, Holly, Ewan

Funds raised: $111.00

Next weeks chefs 22/03/2019: Susy Rudge, Olive Porcaro

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Baker’s needed

Please!

NOTICES

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This is a free Hockey Program being held at Kerrimuir.

Registration forms are available outside the office.

Community Notices

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Community Notices

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