KURUNJANG PRIMARY SCHOOL ~ “Learning Together”

NEWSLETTER 11 - 2021

Thursday 29th April, 2021

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

As mentioned last week, we held a whole school assembly (the first in 18 months) to commemorate Anzac Day. All the students are to be commended for their respectful observation to our school student leaders who led the assembly which included the reading of a Banjo Patterson poem, the Ode of Remembrance and the sharing of personal photos and medals of family members of individual staff who have or are, serving in the armed forces. Each class had prepared for the commemoration with activities around ANZAC day, and the creation of a wreath. Please view the display of all wreaths in the main building foyer (next to the trophy cabinet at the top of the ramp) Thank you to Deb Layton and the student leaders for planning and conducting the assembly.

On Sunday, you may have seen 60 minutes or heard elsewhere on the media about the current, prominent issue of consent and the need to support students to build and manage safe and respectful relationships.

As part of the curriculum, the Respectful Relationships initiative of the Department of Education, supports schools to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours and teaches students how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. The whole school approach to Respectful Relationships helps to embed a culture of respect and gender equality across the entire school community, and aims to build students’ social, emotional and positive relationship skills. Learning activities help students learn and practice social skills and apply them in a positive way to learning, life and relationships (including understanding consent).

Our school also provides sexuality education to our senior students as part of the Health curriculum through provision by Djerriwarrh health services. At the other end of the school, our Foundation students will soon participate in the Australian Early Developmental Census, which is a checklist of over 100 questions completed by the Foundation teachers. The AEDC checklist looks at five areas of child development:

physical health and wellbeing

social competence

emotional maturity

language and cognitive skills and

communication skills and general knowledge

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

The aims of collecting the information are to:

help communities to understand how their children are developing by the time they reach school age

help schools, local agencies and early childhood professionals to work together to improve the outcomes for all children in the community.

Summary data from the analysis of the census will be available to the community based on whole groups of children in a way that means no-one will be able to identify individual children. Following the recent practice tests for the forthcoming NAPLAN (National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy), students in Year 3 and 5 have been regularly practising the skill of identifying what a question is asking and articulating the strategies they would use in answering the question or solving the problem.

The NAPLAN assessments will be held on Tuesday 11th May (Writing), Wednesday 12th May (Reading), Thursday 13th May (Language Conventions) and Friday 14th May (Numeracy).

~ Learning Together

NOTIFICATION AND APPROVAL

REGARDING EXTENDED ABSENCES FOR

FAMILY HOLIDAYS OR EVENTS

We appreciate that families from time to time may be absent for family holidays or events. In the event that you know you will be absent please come to the office to collect a notification regarding extended absences for family holidays or events form for approval. This will enable the class and specialist teachers to be aware of the absence and for the absence to be recorded on compass

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

AWARDS

Student of the week awards are made each week and announced in the newsletter on a Thursday. The awards are presented to the

students at assembly on Friday at 2.30pm in the Gym.

Foundation Potts ~ Aila Mulalic Foundtion Potts ~ Savannah McNamara

Foundatoin Lisa ~ Chase O'Brien Foundation Lisa ~ Fiona Ho

Foundation Amy ~ Aleana Lonie Foundation Amy ~ Cooper Van Someren

Foundation Ryan ~ Hannah Spencer Foundation Ryan ~ Exaviah Muavaa

1/2 Patton ~ Kazmel Solomua Kasapa 1/2 Patton ~ Tiahna Tahata-Bentley 1/2 Krystyna ~ Saiarena Solomua

1/2 Krystyna ~ Tyson Knabel 1/2 Micallef ~ Levi Shaw 1/2 Micallef ~ Isla Toskas

1/2 Dovaston ~ Emily Bartlett 1/2 Dovaston ~ Phoenix Thorne 1/2 Estelle ~ Melodee Djugum

1/2 Estelle ~ Riley Briggs

FORWARD PLANNING

Thursday 6th May

Mother’s Day Stall ~ Gifts 50c to $5.00 Friday 7th May

Book Club ~ Orders Due Thursday 27th May

Year 3/4 Camp ~ 1st Instalment Due

Year 5/6 Camp ~ 1st Instalment Due Thursday 17th June

Year 3/4 Camp ~ 2nd Instalment Due

Year 5/6 Camp ~ 2nd Instalment Due Friday 25th June

Last Day Term 2 ~ 3.10pm Dismissal Monday 12th July

Curriculum Day ~ Student Free Day First Day Term 3

Thursday 12th August

Year 3/4 Camp ~ Final Instalment Due

Year 5/6 Camp ~ Final Instalment Due Wednesday 25th August – Friday 27th August

Year 5/6 Camp ~ Urban Camp Parkville Wednesday 8th September – Friday 10th September

Year 3/4 Camp ~ PGL Campaspe Downs Adventure Camp

Friday 17th September

Last Day Term 3 ~ 3.10pm Dismissal Monday 1st November

Curriculum Day ~ Student Free Day Melbourne Cup Eve

Tuesday 2nd November

Melbourne Cup Day Friday 17th December

Last Day Term 4 ~ Early Dismissal 1.10pm

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING IN THE

VISUAL ARTS 2021

In term one, year 3 and 4 students learnt about the French artist Henri Rousseau. They learnt about all the challenges, teasing and rejection he endured through most of his artistic life and students were inspired by his resilience to go on with painting, believing in his own abilities, even when the “experts” did not. His resilience was rewarded with his artwork being exhibited around the world. Students were also inspired by his jungle paintings and they created their own jungle artwork featuring a tiger. They were completely engaged in creating the many facets which made up the complete collage, including painting leaves with primary colours, learning to draw a tiger, assembling their collage by cutting shapes, gluing and overlapping, resulting in a three-dimensional artwork. A brilliant job all.

Year 5 and 6 students have begun term 2 with some pencil drawings of still-life objects. They were able to bring the humble apple to life through their carefully honed drawing skills, turning a flat shape into a three-dimensional form. An impressive attempt by all. I’m looking forward to seeing their final artwork.

Later this year, you’ll be able to see the students work in the KPS Art Show which will feature the wonderful art they will create this year.

BOOK CLUB

It will be handed out this week and will need to be returned by next

Friday the 7th of May for processing.

Whether your child is at school, or still at home, you can place your order on LOOP as normal. Online orders will close on this date for delivery at school. Please

make sure all orders have the child’s name, grade and correct money placed in a sealed envelope/bag.

LOST LIBRARY BOOKS

We currently have a large number of overdue library books. Could I ask all Parents and Carers to help their children look at home over the holidays for books that belong to our school and return them to the library.

Thank you Lynne Notman ~ Library Technician

CANTEEN

3 Party Pies Flavoured Milk (Chocolate or

Strawberry)

$5.00

DISCLAIMER

All advertisements placed in this newsletter and flyers sent home on behalf of sporting groups and auxiliaries are done so in good faith. It should not be assumed that Kurunjang Primary School is recommending these activities. Parents have a responsibility to make sure that activities are suitable and safe

for their children.

LATE ARRIVALS:

If your child is running late for any particular reason, please take them to the office to be signed into school. A late pass will be issued to your child to be given to the teacher.

Wilson Pee Wee Tennis (4 – 7 years) MLC Hot Shots (5 – 12 years)

Junior & Adult Coaching (Group & Private Lessons available)

Squad Training for Elite Juniors Mums in Tennis Program

Professional Racquet Restringing Ask us about NEW Cardio Tennis!

Phone: Steve Kelly 0409 173 273