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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

2013

EVERY CHILD, EVERY OPPORTUNITY to SHINE

No 24. TERM THREE Thursday, 8

th August, 2013

Monday 19th August SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING – 7.00PM

Thursday 29th August Father’s Day Stall

Friday 30th August Father’s Day Stall

Friday 30th August BOOK WEEK – Kent Park Whole School Dress Up Day

PLEASE TAKE the OPPORTUNITY to VISIT OUR SCHOOL WEBSITE at www.kentparkps.vic.edu.au

SPECIAL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Molly Roche of 5C will be travelling to

Adelaide to represent Kent Park Primary

School as part of the School Sport Victoria

Diving Team in September.

In order to help pay for the trip, raffle tickets are

available from the office at $2.00 per ticket. The school

and family would appreciate the community’s support

and wish Molly lots of luck!

REMINDER: ABSENCE NOTES A reminder to parents to please fill out and return an

Absence Slip to the class teacher (included in this

newsletter), if your child has been absent from school as

teachers are reporting numerous unexplained student

absences throughout the year levels.

REMINDER: CLASS BLOGS and Privacy Some grades have now introduced class blogs. This

school based media allows children the opportunity to

share class news with family. For privacy reasons

information and photos from class blogs are not to be

shared/copied on social media sites such as Facebook.

CANTEEN ROSTER FOR TERM 3 Monday 12

th August – 9-1.45: Fran O’Connor, Betty

Shurink. 9-11.30: Jane Moss. 11.30-1.45: Rashelle

James, Calista Stuttard.

Tuesday 13th August – CANTEEN CLOSED

Wednesday 14th August – CANTEEN CLOSED

Thursday 15th August – 9-1.45: Bianca Baker. 9-11.30:

Leonie Higginbotham, Lauren Durant, Sharon Bell,

Sandra Foster. 11.30-1.45: Christine Scott, Jane Pierson,

Liz Sauter.

Friday 16th August – CANTEEN CLOSED

IMPORTANT: If you are unable to carry out your

canteen duty on your allocated day, please contact

another parent from your Canteen Roster/Contacts List

and arrange a swap. If you have any problems, please

call Alica Cuthbert on 0407-534-043 or Debra Sutherland

on 0404093724.

Aussie of the Month Award – August 2013 JAY WAGNER – 5C

Jay is a hardworking, polite and caring student who always tries his best!

Jay is also a very responsible student and a great role model.

Jay is a great Kent Park kid!!

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

Prep

1

2

3 Monday – 2nd

September Don’t Move Puppet Theatre Incursion Mon – 26th

Aug

4 Mon–Wed (21st –23

rd October) Year 4 Camp – Permission Slip & Payment Form Wed - 11

th Sept

5 Wednesday – 28th

August 5/6 Hooptime Basketball Tue – 20th Aug

6 Wednesday – 28th

August

Mon – Fri (7th

–11th

October)

5/6 Hooptime Basketball

Graduation Bears/Footballs

Year 6 Camp – Permission Slip, Medical Form, Horse Riding

Permission & Payment Form

Tue – 20th Aug

Fri – 9th

Aug

Wed– 4th Sept.

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

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HEAD LICE MANAGEMENT-Please refer to the govt. website for information www.health.vic.gov.au/headlice.

The following website may also provide useful information and support http://dontbugme.net.au/

Weekly Merit Awards for Week Ending 2nd

August, 2013 Class Student’s Name Reason

Prep B Cooper Stephens Make the tallest tower ever during our designing and making day! Awesome

job!

Lily Evans For happily settling back into Prep B after her Australian adventure.

Prep C Jackson Bate For designing and making an impressive puppy dog money box.

Tyler Murray For designing and making a wonderful house out of egg box cartons.

Prep D Ashlea James For designing and creating a wonderful box.

Jacob Baldacchino For using a range of materials to make his design.

1A Xander Kidd For his enthusiastic approach to all learning tasks.

1B Jack Hodge

Spencer Randles

For making a great effort with this reading.

For writing an interesting recount about our Community Action.

1C Jordan Vezey For his great effort when writing his Community Action recount.

2A Madison Orani For always giving everything her very best effort. You are a star!

2C Tiannon Cuthbert For her enthusiasm at Healesville and bravery during the bird show.

2D Kathryn DallaValle For her excellent work habits and always doing her best.

2E Harrison Congreve For a great plasticine model reflecting his learning at Healesville.

3A Jordan Jalowicki For a great improvement in his writing skills. Fantastic effort Jordy. Keep it up.

3B Evie Gonsalves For working well and remaining focused during class activities. Well done.

3C Jesse Brown For his enthusiasm in our Treasure Island maths and fantastic treasure map.

4A Erin Stirling For always trying hard and finding her own solutions.

4B Ayesha Malik For enthusiastically sharing her knowledge about other countries and cultures.

4C Claudia Angus For great listening and asking interesting questions.

5A Ness Walters For the great effort you have put into your Sustainability Action.

5B Ben Cole For the excellent work on creating your buddy story plan.

5C Jumaane Waenga For the great effort you have been putting in during spelling groups.

6A Kane Mitchell For a wonderfully organised and accurate floor plan project. Well done Kane!

6B Jade Fletcher For improved attitude and effort towards her learning tasks. Great job!

Visual Arts Stella Hall For wonderful work habits and individual ideas in Visual Arts.

Japanese Ryan Smith For a huge improvement in effort and attitude over several weeks. Keep it up

Ryan, it’s paying off!

Assist. Prin. Charlotte Morrison For being a happy, enthusiastic and friendly Kent Parker.

Principal Claudia Angus For being such a mature, responsible and happy Kent Parker.

TERM THREE HOUSE POINTS

Weekly Totals End of Term Final Totals

1st Uluru 178 1st Daintree 507

2nd Daintree 172 2nd Uluru 444 3rd Eureka 162 3rd Eureka 438

4th Franklin 160 4th Franklin 417

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Year 5 WRITERS OF THE WEEK

Kent Park Primary School

Greenaway Drive

Ferntree Gully

Vic 3156

Ph. 9763 8055

6th August 2013

Tupperware Australia

21 Brenock Park Drive

Ferntree Gully

Vic 3156

Dear Sir,

We are Year Five from Kent Park Primary School and we have been learning about Sustainability.

We have started running a Nude Food Day and are encouraging everyone to bring their food in containers instead of

wrappers. We are trying to reduce the amount of rubbish we produce in our school.

We are running a competition to encourage everyone to participate. Each Nude Food day the classes are asked to count

their wrappers and the class with the least amount of wrappers for the day are given tickets for each child to go into a

raffle draw. At the end of each month we will draw the raffle and give containers as prizes.

We hope that you may be able to assist us with the donation of lunch boxes, small containers or drink bottles for prizes.

Thank you for your support,

Chloe Martin, Caitlin Quinn and Heetal Varsani

Year Five

Kent Park Primary School

Inquiry Letter for Year 5 Sustainability

To Mrs. Macaulay, Mrs. A’Vard and School Council,

Grade 5 is learning about Sustainability. Our sustainable action is to build a chicken coop for Kent Park for students to

enjoy.

The sustainable feature is that we can collect our own free range eggs and sell some in a raffle; we can also cook them at

the canteen.

The chicken can eat food scraps from the class room compost bin. This means that there will be less rubbish in the yard

and in the class room.

The chicken will help other students get interested in Sustainability, learn about the environment and become more

sustainable people. The students will also learn to care for animals and be responsible for feeding and locking them up at

night.

Grade five plans on doing some fund raising to cover most of the cost but we would like School Council to contribute

towards the cost of the coop, food, chickens and the fencing.

We would like to invite you to a presentation on Thursday 15th of August at 9:30am in Room 21. We are sure that that

after the presentation that you will be as excited as we are about getting a chicken coop.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the presentation.

From Connor Payne 5A

on behalf of Grade 5

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Year 5 WRITERS OF THE WEEK

CERES On Friday the 24

th of May the year 5 students and teachers went CERES in East Brunswick. We travelled in 2 buses. We

went To CERES because grade 5 students are learning about Sustainability. CERES is an Environmental Park for the

community; it shows you all the different things to help the environment.

For instance we looked at a Solar Powered car. Solar Powered cars are great because Co2 doesn’t come out of the car. We

went to Ian’s car and he brought a big bag. Ian told Ty to put the bag over the exhaust pipe and Ian turned on the car. The

bag started to get bigger, because all the Co2 was going into the bag. We timed how long it would take to fill one bag, it

took 31 seconds. That gave us a rough idea how much Co2 enters the atmosphere from every car on the road.

We talked about E waste with Ellie, we sat in a circle and she was explained what E waste is. She told us to grab out a

battery and she told us to see where it was made, mine was made in China. Most of the batteries were made in China and

Japan; there were only about 3 or 4 in Indonesia and U.S.A. When we watched a video that was a bit sad because people

were pulling apart TV’S that can kill you and these people were doing it with their bare hands.

By Shelby Clarkson 5B

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SUCK IT UP FITNESS is springing into shape for the warmer weather with group circuits as of August 19th!

Location will be at the Glenfern Rd footy oval at 9:30am sharp Monday - Friday.

Cost: $15pp

Duration: 45 minutes of High Interval Training

All fitness levels are welcome, so before you go have that latte to warm you up after school drop

off, burn off some energy and kickstart your fitness goals in time for summer!

Contact Calista on 0412 232 131 for further information and booking

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Reason:________________________________________________________________

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