Inside this issue

Working Bee Thankyou ...2

Farewell Helen............3

Meditation...........4

Congratulations................ 6

Library News ............................... 7

Working Bee ............................... 9

Sports News ............................... 14

High School Visit ......................... 15

Action Teams.18

Tuesday 31st March 2015

Term 1 Issue 3

KPPS NEWS

Email:

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

Website:

www.kidmanpkps.sa.edu.au

Bringing History to Life

After researching the HMS Buffalo, U2 made models. We used our Design and

Technology skills to problem solve as we were building the models.

Thanks heaps to all of our volunteers and staff members who spent last Saturday making a difference to our

school: John P, Vince M, Lyndall F, Richard F, Sean F, Daniel F, Leah, Jarrod, Sean, Caitlin, Ashley K, Giosi M, Nicole

M, Anthony M, Simone V, David V, James V, Giuseppe L, Carolyn P, Olivia P, Lauren P, Tanya A, Darren A, Mitchell

A, Thomas A, Katherina H, Jade H, Sandie G, Dale G, Michael B, Kate D, Rose D, Amy D, Kylie S, Cam N, Bridget N,

Mads N, Desy P, Peter G, Kay B, Sean C, Michael K, Michael G, Kati B, Kay B, Phil B, John C, Enza M and Tara S.

An extra special thankyou to Maria Gianquitto who did a fantastic job in overseeing and coordinating the working

bee. Well done everyone your effort has made a difference to our school.

Trees have been pruned

Garden beds weeded and trimmed

Playground pipes painted

Wind proofing for the canteen area prepared

Both sheds have been cleared, tidied and repacked

The activity room emptied of excess furniture

Whats next?

Our next working bee (early next term) will focus on a massive planting around the school. (We just need

some rain.)

The facilities team will now draw up some plans on what we want the garden bed outside the office to look

like. With some extra fundraising we hope to have the area finished by the end of the year.

Ideas are now being developed for what to do with the beach volleyball area. A major project for 2016?

NOTES SENT HOME: Kidmanathon notes

signed consent due

back Easter Raffle books

due back Tuesday 31st

March Zoosnooze (Rm 7) Pastoral Care Worker

consent form

Massive Effort Great Results!

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All our dreams can come true - If we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

FURNITURE TO GIVE AWAY We have some surplus furniture and edging pavers to

give away. If interested, please see the front office

staff. All items must be gone by the holidays.

SPORTYATHON 2015 Thursdays the big day for our 2015 event. Family

members are welcome to join in the fun walking,

running or assisting at a class checkpoint. Its a

sporting theme and classes will have discussed

what to wear on Thursday.

11:20 Opening Ceremony

11:30 Sportyathon

12:45 Closing Ceremony

1:00 Sausage Sizzle picnic lunch

3:10 School closes for Easter weekend

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Have we done this before??

48 years ago KPPS opened with just the main building in place. There was no Collins Reserve,

many houses or roads in the area. Some land was empty other parts were market gardens.

There were snakes and other animals inhabiting our space. The school slowly grew to 800

students. Portable buildings lined the edge of the oval and where the hall and Chase Peerman

playground is located. The Southern Unit was its own separate Junior Primary School. Student

numbers then declined to around 150 before climbing back to our current numbers. Theres

been high achieving students, staff romances, parent netball teams, the South Asian Village and

much more.

How do we know all of this? From our resident historian and cleaner, Helen Smith. Helen has

been here since the day the doors opened 48 years ago. For nearly 40 years Helen had the

contract to clean the school. The department then decided to outsource all cleaning and we

said farewell to Helen. But then she returned employed by the new contractors!

Helen has trained all of us to do it her way (well she thinks she has!) Helen has always been

fussy about clean desks, has been our security person by being in the school during the holidays

and hides the glitter or any other items that makes a mess. There is lots we could say, but the

most important is thankyou to a person who has treated our school as her second home and

family. A person who puts in more than required, cares for our facilities and who has always

loved a chat!

Many of you wont know that Helen had a fall at KPPS last year that resulted in a hip

replacement. At 80++ years of age youd think its time to retire. But not Helen, shes moving to

Lockleys North Primary working reduced hours!

We will miss Helen be prepared for far more glitter being used in the Southern Unit!

DECISIVE ACTION FROM OUR STUDENTS Our Student Action Teams are now up and running with groups of students collaborating and

planning to make a difference to our school. Well done to Peter, Tricia, Sandra, Noeleen, Terry,

Desy and Denys for taking the time to support our student groups. Check out what our teams

have been doing on pages 18 - 21.

HOW IS YOUR CHILD PROGRESSING? Reports are sent home at the end of next term with interviews held at the beginning of term

three. If you have any concerns or questions about your childs learning then please email the

appropriate teacher for a phone chat or face to face meeting.

EASTER RAFFLE Thanks to the generosity of our school community we have been inundated with donations for our Easter raffle. We now have 5 Easter baskets for prizes (check them out in the front office). Tickets and money need to be returned by today (31st March), with the raffle being drawn at Kidmanathon. A big thankyou again to everyone who donated items and a special thankyou to Luciana H (u4) and her parents, Joshua Y (rm7) and his parents, Josh P(rm 10) and Daniel P (u4) of Joes Pizza Bar and James V (rm 11) and Emma V (u2) of Cupcakes & More for donating the major prizes.

Farewell Helen!

BRINGING MEDITATION TO THE CLASSROOM

The aim of guided mediation is to present children with an

environment that the emotions in their minds release a feeling of

comfort and safety. It also offers each individual a place of personal

ownership where they can come to feel endless calmness, joy,

happiness and all the pleasant feelings that gives them a sense of fulfilment.

Classes this week used visualisation - children were asked to close their eyes and

imagine: A peaceful place, a safe place, a magic place where they feel

comfortable and imagine what they might see and sounds they might hear.

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One little word can light up someones day. Ainsley

Some examples of what the students wrote about meditation:

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CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations and very well done to Kayla McAllister -

SSO and new teaching graduate working in the Learning

Centre for winning the Lydia Longmore Memorial Award.

The award is given to the final year student in the

Bachelor of Early Childhood Education who has

completed the most outstanding Junior Primary teaching

practicum and has achieved high academic results over

the four years of the program.

We are very proud of you Kayla!

GOVERNING COUNCIL NEWS The Governing Council has approved the establishment of a review committee to

consider the possible outsourcing of the KPPS OSHC program. As part of the review

process, a short survey has been developed to capture feedback from the school

community.

Please take 5 minutes to complete this short survey. All feedback will be considered by

the review committee.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WJL5QBY

CANTEEN NEWS

It has been a great start to the year in the canteen, from fresh salads to hot

foods, so keep your orders coming!

Firstly a big thankyou to all volunteers; the new, the regulars and the

parents who have put their names down to help. Without these generous

people our canteen could not function.

We are ready for the Kidmanathon sausage sizzle on Thursday, it is sure to

be a great success.

The first Friday of next term we are holding a Showdown Donut day, so

support your team and get a Crows or Port donut! This is one of the schools

allowed Red Days. Order forms will come out later this week, so keep an

eye out for them.

Lastly a winter menu for term 2 & 3 will be distributed by the end of this

term. Please ensure all ordering is done using the current terms menu and

prices. Carli Tanti Canteen Manager

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Friday, February 27th 2015 the school participated in Clean Up

Australia Day. Our class P1 made a graph from 2013-2015 of the

rubbish found in the Chase Peerman Park.

It was our responsibility to count all the rubbish and add different

types of rubbish found to the graph. We discovered that 2015 had a

dramatic increase of food packets and also had an increase of cling

wrap, paper bags and tissues.

On the bright side there was a decrease of ice block sticks, drink

containers, paper, cardboard, tins and packaging.

We have come up with a range of ideas to reduce litter in the yard

and we will pass these on to the sustainability group to discuss. Some

of the ideas are the possibility of having a bin on the oval, replace

yellow spots with picking up rubbish or having an eating time before

recess.

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Saturday 28th March 2015

On Saturday the KPPS school community volunteers, students and staff, worked tirelessly to improve our school grounds. We achieved a tremendous amount and the KPPS children were particularly impressive as they displayed strong KPPS Values (Achieve, Respect, Responsibility and Care). We thank you all and please take a look at our achievements in the photos below. It was great to work alongside some great people. THANK YOU Maria Gianquitto On behalf of KPPS Grounds & Facilities Sub- Committee Together, we proudly achieved the following tasks. FRONT OFFICE GARDEN

Remove plants and stumps, clean up dried / dying plants, general pruning and clean up, removal of excess soil.

GENERAL GARDEN AREAS (Including Vegetable Garden area) Prune plants, clean up undergrowth, remove dried vegetation. SOUTHERN PLAY SPACE GARDEN Prune plants, clean up undergrowth, remove dried vegetation. PLAYGROUND AREA ADJACENT HALL

Paint tunnels in bright colours. Clean up garden area.

LEARNING CENTRE & SCHOOL STORAGE Clean out existing storage room, classroom and two storage sheds and sort out items for relocation, donation and disposal.

LUNCH SHED WINDBREAK

Organise new panels to form windbreak to existing steel structure. Paint panels Fix Memorial Bench Seat

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Golledge, Dale, Michael Balin, Kate Denton, Rose & Amy, Kylie Smith, Cam Neal,

Bridget, Mads, Desy Pantelos, Peter Georgeopoulos, Kay Bosworth, Vince Maselli

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THANK YOU Sean Connors, Michael Koster, Leah, Jarrod, Sean & Caitlin Tieman

THANK YOU Kate & Ashley King,

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SPORTS ACTION TEAM Our Dynamic Dozen year 5 and year 6 volunteers are up and running, adding more sporting activities for our KPPS students. Im impressed already with their initiative organising classroom sports gear, lunchtime basketball competitions for our year 4 to year 7s and soccer clinics and small sided games for our R-3s. Stay tuned for more plans from our regular meetings.

SOCCER Important information was given out to all players last week. They have been placed in KPPS teams for 2015 and now need to go online for registration with MyFootballClub. While registering please note you are able to apply for the government's $50 sports voucher.

Please return your slip for royal blue shorts and socks from our uniform shop as soon as possible. Be aware players will need soccer boots and shin guards are compulsory. Try Port Road Sports Store and mention KPPS soccer for a discount.

IMPORTANT SOCCER MEETING A reminder , important meeting for all players first Friday back, May 1st next term straight after school in our hall. To meet coaches, collect strips, and info regarding training and game times. All players please and parents most welcome. Games begin the following Saturday 9th May, week 2, term 2.

TEEBALL Thanks to our manager Natasha Crosby and parent support, our kids have thoroughly enjoyed a taste of t ball this term at West Torrens baseball club. Looking forward to hitting off again in term 4.

Terry Ahern Sport Coordinator

SPORTS RESULTS Netball

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Kidman Sapphires 1

Whitefriars Stars 26

An extremely tough game! The girls did their best to compete with such an experienced team.

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Kidman Sapphires 8

St Josephs 6

Goals scored by Sarah F 3, Faith M 2, Jazmine B 3

Well done Sapphires!

Kanga Cricket

Both teams played each other in the last game of the round with all players playing well.

Kidman Blue teas has improved all term with their fielding and bowling, claiming lots of

wickets in the last game. Matthew nearly got a hat trick (one more and it would have been)

and thats with the help of the team. It was great to play against our school and to see all the

parents praising both teams with the batting, catches and almost catches. Well done to all

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Findon High School Visit Reflection On the 13th of March 2015, P1 and year 7s from P2 visited Findon High School

where we did two lessons and experienced a day at high school. At 9am the bus

arrived at school to take us to Findon High School. When we arrived at the school

we went to the Maria Daley Shelter, where the organiser Lyn Meynell was waiting

for us. She talked to us about the school and showed us a room where we can put

our bags. She split us into groups and three Findon High students took us for a tour

around the school. On the tour we saw all the different class rooms like the Maths

room, the Home EC room and the Technical Studies room. We also saw where the

toilets, the canteen and the office were. After the tour we went back to the Maria

Daley Shelter to have our recess at 10:30am.

When we finished recess we were split back into our big groups. Our group went

to the Technical studies lesson and the other group went to the Maths lesson.

In the Maths lesson the students played a game on the computer called Bug on a

Wire then recorded seconds taken and check the mean, medium and mode.

We walked in the Technical Studies room and the teacher in the class introduced

himself to us, his name was Mr. Williams. He told us what they do in the class,

which is wood work and what we are going to make, a key ring holder. First we

had to choose a partner, my partner was Sebastian. Then we collected our equip-

ment. The equipment that we used included a saw, a pencil and a ruler. We had to

get a piece of wood and find the centre of it with a ruler and cut it in half with a

saw. One half was for me and the other half was for Sebastian. After that I cut the

two top corners of my piece of wood with a machine. I went to the sanding ma-

chine and sanded the edges. Then I sanded the rest with sanding paper. I got a nail

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was a long piece of paper and we had to write what we should have more at our

school, what we enjoyed about Findon High School and give a score out of ten. For

what we should have more at our school I wrote down P.E and computer studies, for

what we enjoyed about the school I wrote down wood work and for the score out of

ten I gave 7/10. We went to our second lesson Geography and the other group went

to Home EC. When we went in the class the teacher introduced himself to us, his

name was Mr. Hill. He showed us a website called Tour Builder:

(https://tourbuilder.withgoogle.com/), where you can show the route of your trip.

When he finished showing us tour builder he took us out for P.E to play a game of

soccer in their hall. When the game of soccer ended we went back to the Maria Daley

Shelter and got our bags to get ready to go on the bus back to school.

At Home Economics the students tasted food blind folded and had to rely on their

other senses to guess the food eaten.

Throughout the day I enjoyed the experience of high school. I had fun and really

enjoyed doing the wood work. My favourite part was when our group played a big

game of soccer in their hall. Thanks Findon High for the experience. by Nicholas

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play area for the south west corner of the school.

The Adventure Play Area Action Team have taken a walk around the school through the school play areas using our senses to see what sounds and sights were the same and what was different. Did you know that each play space is different and the plants and environment attract different birds and animals and the play equipment is different. In the south west area of the school we could also see that students at Kidman Park like to dig the dirt, collect natural objects like tree bark, rocks and plants, look for small animals, move the wooden logs around, listen and look at the birds in the trees. So what will the Adventure Play Area look like? We are not sure yet. But we have started to think about it. The Adventure Play Area Action Team have found some good ideas to help our thinking about the play area. Some good ideas include - Nature natural things

Stream of Water

Dirt for digging Trees for shade and plants to attract birds and animals

Rocks

Different areas with different plants

Plants to touch and smell Places for all students including the Learning Centre to come into the adventure play area Safe places This is a big job but its exciting and our team is to help make this happen for our school. So, the next time you are visiting a park, beach or in your backyard stop and take time to look around and listen, for ideas for our Adventure Play Area. We want you to be involved too. We want to hear about how you use this area and also your ideas. So soon we will be sending out surveys to gather this information.

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Sustainability Action Group Amy P3, Rose Rm9, Griffith P3, Isaiah Rm10, Eve P3, Mrs Matthews

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Keeping our world healthy, sustaining our world resources, keeping the world beautiful,

Protecting not destroying and not wasting our resources!

The team: (Absent Phoenix, and Shaun) Harry, Daniel, Nicholas, Hayley, Nathan, Jade, and Chris.

In term two the X box will be run by the multimedia action team in the Activity room.

Soon we will be putting short videos in the school news letters that are presented on Issuu (our

newsletter website). These videos are going to be short so they will be easy to run and download.

This year the Multimedia Student Action Team will be running the sound system at events. At the

art show outside the hall we will be projecting animations to go with the theme of Building

Bridges, and we will also be helping people to fix computer problems and to help people use the

devices around the school properly.

By Nathan and Hayley

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THE JOY ACTION TEAM

Today the Joy Action Team organised some great activities for the whole school during lunch time.

Some of the activities were spoon and egg race, making Easter baskets, Origami rabbits, a colouring in competitionwinners announced at assembly next week, egg toss and an Easter egg hunt tomorrow.

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The Art Exhibition Action Team meet every Friday at 10am to discuss

plans about the Art Show. Mr G shares minutes that he has taken from

the Come Out Committee meeting and then we action jobs from this

list.

We have been responsible for promoting the Art Show to every class

and running an Art Poster competition to advertise the Art Show. We

helped to pick which poster would best advertise our Art Show. We

have shared information in our class Circle Time, Focus meeting and

school assembly.

At the present time we are organising student led activities for the Art

Show. We have organised grass heads, loom bands and painted shoes

that we will sell at the Art Show. Currently we are helping to create

some signs for the Art Show which will be held on Tuesday 19th May.

We hope to see you all there!

Art Exhibition Action Team

WEEK / DATE DAY / TIME EVENT

TERM 1

10 31st March Tuesday School Photo Day

31st March Tuesday Newsletter

2nd April Thursday KIDMANATHON

& Sausage Sizzle

3rd April Friday Good Friday

11 6th April Monday Easter Monday

10th April Friday 2.10pm Last day of term 1, 2.10pm Finish

TERM 1

19th May Tuesday 6.00-8.00pm ART SHOW

DIARY DATES

DONT FORGET:

KIDMANATHON Thursday 2nd April

FRIDAY 10th APRIL (last day of term)

2.10pm Finish

SCHOOL NEWS

KPPS will be changing banks soon, keep an eye out and well let you know when this happens. This

means there will be a change in account numbers, it hasnt happened yet, but will be soon.

FUNDRAISING NEWS

Entertainment Books can now be ordered at: http://www.entbook.com.au/161k453

Hard copies of the book will be available soon from the front office.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Come and Try the Fastest Sport on Two Feet!

The Woodville Lacrosse Club (Findon Oval, Drummond Avenue, Findon) is looking for players for their U8

(Mixed), U11 (Girls & Boys) and U13 (Girls & Boys) teams for season 2015! We are a successful, fun, family-

oriented club. Matches are played on Saturday mornings in Terms 2 and 3, with trainings on Thursday evenings.

For more information, e-mail Mark Southwell at juniors@woodvillelacrosse.com or phone 0438 164 507.