TERM ONE

12.03.2019

Term 1 Week 7 2019 PHONE - 4274 2024

ADDRESS - Shellharbour Road, Port Kembla 2505

DATE UPCOMING EVENTS

WEEK 7

14/3 Sports Ready (Every Thursday)

15/3 Assembly (3-6)

National Day of Action against

Bullying & Violence

WEEK 8

21/3 AECG Stem Camp

21/3 Harmony Day

22/3 AECG Stem Camp

PSSA

Gala Day (P-2 & 3-6)

WEEK 9

26/3 Debating Workshop—Year 5&6

27/3 STEPS Kindergarten Vision Tests

29/3 PSSA

Gala Day (3-6)

WEEK 10

3/4 Cross Country

4/4 PLP BBQ

5/4 PSSA (Backup Day)

WEEK 11

11/4 Dragons Gala Day (Years 5 & 6)

12/4 ANZAC Ceremony

Easter Hat Parade

3-6 ASSEMBLY

Our 3-6 Assembly will be taking place this Friday, 15 March starting at

9.10am in our school hall. All parents and caregivers are welcome to

attend the assembly. Letters will be sent home by Thursday afternoon

informing parents if their child will be receiving an award at the assem-

bly. Please make sure awards are given to the teacher before Thursday

so they can be organised for the assembly.

HARMONY DAY Harmony Day is celebrated across Australia on 21 March. Harmony Day is about inclusiveness, respect and sense of belonging. Harmony Day allows us to celebrate Australia’s cultural diversity. It is a day for all Aus-tralians to embrace cultural diversity and to share what we have in common. The central message and theme for Harmony Day 2019 is that ‘everyone belongs’, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to all Australians. Our school will be celebrating Harmony Day on Thursday the 21st of March from Preschool to Year 6. We ask students to wear something orange. During the day, all students will meet on the back oval to form a peace sign that will further demonstrate inclusiveness, respect and sense of belonging for everyone. Students will also bring their recess with them and we will have a picnic as a whole school to celebrate.

You can visit the following website for more information:

http://www.harmony.gov.au/

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT KPS

The ninth National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence is being held on Friday 15 March 2019. This annual day is Aus-

tralia’s key anti-bullying event for schools to stand united against bullying and violence with school communities across the

nation.

Students will engage in a range of lessons, discussions and videos on bullying within their classes. The national definition of bullying for Australian schools is the starting point for bullying prevention.

Bullying is an ongoing misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that causes

physical and/or psychological harm. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power over one or more persons. Bul-

lying can happen in person or online, and it can be obvious (overt) or hidden (covert).

Bullying of any form or for any reason can have long-term effects on those involved, including bystanders.

Single incidents and conflict or fights between equals, whether in person or online, are not defined as bullying. However, these

conflicts still need to be addressed and resolved.

It is important that we are all well-educated and know the various forms of bullying. Students will be provided with an anti bullying wrist band, a ribbon and information cards for themselves as well as parents and caregivers. Please join us in educating the students on bullying and the impacts it has on everyone.

Colourful wristbands to support Bullying. No way! will be sold by the SRC this Friday morning for 50c.

If you would like to support our school fundraiser please send money with your child.

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST BULLYING AND VIOLENCE

In Week 6 the preschool staff Mrs Gibbs and Ms Hughes attended SWAY training. This is Sound, Words, Aboriginal Language and Yarning. It allows Preschool teachers to embed aboriginal perspectives in their teaching and provide an intensive speech program for students to access. Ms Hughes also attended ELSA training. This is Early Learning STEM Australia which focuses on interactive apps relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the classroom.

2019 PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE

Welcome to the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge

The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to ena-

ble them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read,

to read more and to read more widely.

2019 Key Dates:

March 4: Challenge opens. Students will be able to log books on their Student Reading Record, and

coordinators will be able to create accounts for new students.

August 30: Closing date for student entries.

September 13: Final date for validation of Student Reading Records by coordinators.

From the literacy committee , Miss Lee & Mrs Gjorseska

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

Positive Behaviour for Learning is an evidence-based whole school process to improve learn-ing outcomes for all students. PBL brings together the whole-school community to contrib-ute to developing a positive, safe and supportive learning culture. The framework assists schools to improve social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for children and young people.

At Kemblawarra Public School, the PBL framework is being implemented school-wide from Preschool-Year 6.

Our three core values are Respect-Safe-Responsible. These values underpin the expected behavioural out-

comes across the school and are the focus of our weekly PBL class lessons, school-wide behaviour system and

the focus of our Circle Time sessions at school.

TEACHERS ARE LEARNERS TOO

KEMBLAWARRA FUNDRAISING

SRC EASTER HAMPER RAFFLE Dear School Community,

Our SRC reps across the school have met this term to start organising our first fundraising event.

We are asking for donations of Easter eggs for our Easter Hat Parade fundraiser on Friday 12 April of this term.

We will be sending home raffle books this week but we need prizes! Eggs of all shapes and sizes would be greatly appreciated.

Every year our raffle has become bigger and bigger.

The SRC hopes that this year we will have the big-gest success yet!

All money raised will go toward the S.R.C to fund school projects.

Thank you on behalf of the Kemblawarra School Representative Council (S.R.C)

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK

This year Kemblawarra Public School are using the Enter-tainment Book as a form of fundraising for the school. Please help us to achieve our goal by purchasing your En-tertainment Membership from us. The Entertainment Memberships are available as a book or as a digital Mem-bership App. Both are full of great value and you only need to use your membership once or twice and it will have paid for itself. Anytime you use the book after this you will be saving money.

You can purchase your membership online today at

http://www.entbook.com.au/940q619.

If you purchase before 4th April 2019, as an early bird special you will receive two special vouchers to spend online (conditions apply). Alternatively you will be provid-ed with a book at the beginning of July to take a look and decide if you would like to purchase the membership as part of our fundraiser.

Please ask Mrs Josevski if you have any questions.

ATTENDANCE

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NEW COMMUNITY CENTRE & LIBRARY Council is planning for a new community centre and library to be built at the corner of Greene and King Streets, Warrawong.

This new community facility will provide for the needs of the community who live in the south eastern suburbs of Berkeley, Lake Heights, Cringila, Warrawong, Port Kembla, Primbee and Windang.

At the start of our planning we want to ask you how it can be a welcoming place for all and what you would like to do at the Community Centre and Library. This will help us design a centre and library that is a place for everyone.

The project website has more information - https://www.haveyoursaywollongong.com.au/warrawong-district-community-centre-and-library You can provide your ideas and feedback directly via the website. You can also:

Talk with us in person at a “drop in” information stand (see dates below)

Send an email to: engagement@wollongong.nsw.gov.au

Write to us at Locked Bag 8821 Wollongong DC NSW 2500.

We are holding information stands where people can get information, talk with staff and provide their feedback in person:

Wednesday 13th March, 12.30 - 2.30pm, Warrawong Community Centre

Friday 22nd March, 10.30am – 12.30pm, Warrawong Library

Saturday 30th March, 10am -1pm, outside the Warrawong Plaza (near the bus stop on Cowper Street). Macedonian and Arabic interpreters will be available at this stand only.

Comments close on Sunday 7th April, 2019.

WOLLONGONG HIGH SCHOOL

AUDITIONS

Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is holding auditions for students starting high school

in 2020. Students are able to audition in one or two of the four arts disciplines (Dance, Drama, Music and Vis-

ual Arts).

The audition application for entry into Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is now available online only, on

the WHSPA website:

https://www.millenniumschools.net.au/whspa

The online application must be submitted at the Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts website by midnight

Wednesday 13 March 2019.

Auditions will be held from Monday 25th March to Friday 12th April, the last 3 weeks of Term 1.