Kerang Primary School 1410 News

Issue No: 491 15.10.2020 75-79 Victoria St. Kerang Email : [email protected] Phone:5450 3181

Kerang Primary School 1410 News Our Values: Compassion Accountability Respect Inclusiveness Nurture Gratitude

school is 5450 3508.

We will advise when it has returned to the previous number. (It is all around transferring our refurbished phone connection points to accommodate the NBN connection apparatus).

PMP Room Painting is complete. New floor-coverings going down on Oct. 30

th. The room is already looking fresh

and vibrant.

Late Arrivals As per new Department Guidelines. All students arriving at school after the beginning of school instruction time of 8:50 a.m. will be required to enter via the front office. They will also need to be signed in by a parent/carer as a late arrival. We are under Dept. instructions to be strict on this as well as extremely limited parent access into the school site.

Parent Club Hamper Raffle Students are working with their class teacher to decide upon a Class Hamper Theme. Each class will fill the hampers with items appropriate to that theme and will be raffled. Tickets go out next week and will be drawn in the last week of term. Funds raised will go toward purchasing items for the students this term. Full details next week’s newsletter.

Term 4 Hat Wearing

All students are required to wear the school sun-smart hat when outside in term 4.

‘No Hat – No Play Policy’ is mandated during term 4.

Ensure that your child’s name is clear on their hat.

On-Line Gym Sessions

Emma Carmody of Palmer’s Gym in Bendigo will be conducting a series of On-Line Gym sessions for each class later in November. This as a result of a successful Sporting Schools Grant which we applied for. Children are looking forward to it.

2021 Prep Enrolments

Prep enrolments are coming in for 2021. Enrolments are still being taken for next year. If you are aware of future enrolments please encourage them to contact the school. New Transition information under the new Guidelines is being forwarded to parents and Kinders this week.

Mr. Taylor. Principal.

Home Readers

Spring time is a great opportunity to have a good clean and tidy up in many households. When you do this I urge you all to have a good search for any school readers or borrowed MARC books that you may find hiding under beds, in cupboards, draws or on shelves. Please bundle these up and return to the school with your student or drop off at front reception. Many readers went home during the COVID break and not returned. Please help us with this. Ta.

Parent Opinion Survey Each year the school conducts an opinion survey amongst a

sample of the school community. This year, all parents are

invited to participate. Results will be used to inform and direct

our future school planning and improvement.

I ask you to please take the time to complete the survey as your

opinions are important to us and will contribute to the future

management and organisation of our school.

Further information will be forward tomorrow to all family email

addresses. Please check your emails and follow the link.

Pupil Free Days – No students at school

*Monday 2nd

Nov. – Staff 5 week reflection/planning day

*Monday 30th

November – Report Writing Day.

Public Holidays – No students at school.

Friday 23rd

October.

Tuesday 3rd

November.

Loud Shirt Day Thursday 22nd.

Gold coin Donation Funds towards helping people with hearing

impairment.

Temporary Phone Number

Please note that the temporary phone number for the

We would like to respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet.

We would also like to pay our respects to their Elders, past and present and emerging

October 23: AFL Grand Final Public Holiday

November 2: Pupil Free Day

November 3: Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

November 30: Pupil Free Day—Report Writing Day

Important Dates

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Amazing Prep!

Welcome to Week 2 of Term 4!

This week in Investigations the Preps have been

loving the Campsite and the Puppet show! It has

been great to see their imaginations running wild

in these areas and they have been playing

together so well. We have been continuing to

look at rhyming words this week in Writing so far

we have covered /ed/, /un/, /ing/ and /ake/.

Students have written some great story’s

incorporating a variety of rhyming words in

them. In Jolly Phonics we have been revising 2 of

the sounds we learnt in Remote Learning; /v/

and /oo/oo/. In Maths we are practising our

handwriting of numbers, counting to 100 and

subitising. We have also been looking at

Subtraction. In well-being this week we looked at

the emotions; bored and curious. We discussed

when we feel these emotions and the facial

expressions we use to show how we feel when

we are feeling them.

Please remember:

Students need to be reading their home

reader and Magic 100 words at home

every night. This must be signed once

done.

Please ensure you return any HOME

READERS at home to school, we are

missing a lot from our book boxes and we

need them back as soon as possible.

With the warmer weather coming students

need to ensure they are bringing a drink

bottle to school each day and are dressed

appropriately.

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to the following children who celebrated their birthday

this week …

Mollie Edwards

A BIG Thank You to Phersson Family for supplying the

whole school with icy poles yesterday!

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Grade F/1 JC

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Grade 3/4 ....incredible!

It was pleasing to see the way our grade

settled back into their learning at school

with them all getting back into the routine.

Our reading and writing focus has been

information texts concentrating on key

words. In maths we completed chance

and data experiments using coins and

dies.

We continued our Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen Garden with the cooking group

making gnocchi using potatoes, silverbeet,

spinach and spring onions grown in our

garden.

The gardening group did a great job

weeding, composting and pruning. In art

we folded origami fish that we added to

an ocean scene.

Mr A, Mrs Mac and Mrs Dee.

*** Check out some of the SAKG photo’s on

Page 5 of the newsletter ***

Magical Grade 1/2…....

Hello everyone,

We have had a busy week at school.

Yesterday we welcomed another new student

into our classroom, Andy. We hope he

settles in well. Crazy hair day was a fun

day for all last Friday.

In literacy, we have been catching up on

reading and still needing all children to

bring their readers back to school that

were sent home for remote learning.

Readers need to be signed and sent to

school every day. In class, we have been

busy doing spelling and informative writing.

In maths, we have been learning about

multiplication, division and addition arrays.

We are also playing lots of fun maths

games. Our champion of around the world

this week is Mitchell, he made it around

the world in one go. Congratulations

Mitchell!

Drink bottles

Reader – signed by an adult

Appropriate shoes for school

MARC books before every Monday

Jumpers need to be labelled

Have a lovely week

everyone,

Miss Janelle

Mrs Lake

STUDENT PROFILE

name: Mollie

my favourites

are:

food: Cake

colour: Blue

movie: The Grinch

book: Fairy Books

toy: Barbie Dolls

MY HOBBIES

ARE: Swimming, Colouring in

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Book Club orders are due:

Friday October 23rd

You can also place your order online at:

https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/Parent/Login.aspx

MARC VAN NEWS, TERM 4, WEEK 2

The new truck has arrived at Kerang Primary !! Yipee!! I will

be back travelling to schools in the MARC van from next week

– I have used my car as a mobile library for the first week!

In 2020, Book Week will be next week, 17th October to the

23rd October. The books that have been shortlisted will be

judged this Friday the 16th October, by the CBCA. Families

can look up the winners on the CBCA website Friday

afternoon. Next week we will look at the winning books in

MARC lessons.

We will also be focusing on the different forms of Poetry,

such as Acrostic and Classic Australian Poetry.

Borrowing from the MARC van still looks a little different at

the moment. I have allocated a tub of books for each school

for children to borrow during MARC lessons. However these

books will need to be left at school please. This will remain

the procedure until we hear more from the Department

Guidelines. Any special requests can be made and I will bring

that particular book the following week. All books, once

returned, are sanitised and quarantined for a week.

Thank you and isn’t it great to back to school and to see your

friends again? I know I am loving it !

Mrs. Kylie Leahy (Mrs. MARC)

MARC Library Teacher

5/6 Brilliant!!!!.

The weeks are already beginning to feel like they are

flying! We have already been discussing graduation

for our grade 6 students and brainstorming ideas for

lots of COVID restricted situations. The children have

loved exploring the options.

All students need to be wearing a hat now at school

and it is ok to send sunscreen to school with your

child should you wish them to reapply throughout

the day.

This term I have been giving students the

opportunity to write down the daily puzzle, riddle or

cryptic challenge, which they can take home and

share with families – encourage this as they are

pretty tricky and also fun for the whole family to be

involved in.

This week we have been:

Spelling: au and oy words

Reading: using illustrations, diagrams, maps etc to

learn the authors intent

Writing: information report – structure, paragraphs,

paragraph structure, language used etc

Maths: fractions, 4 processes, percentages and

decimals

Respectful relationships: problem solving, positive

self talk

Note:

Don’t forget to name students jumpers etc – a

few have been hanging around with no names

already this week

Homework – none this week, just a lifeline to

complete and hand in the first weeks homework.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Ms. Closter & Mrs Morris

Lunch orders are BACK!!

TOMORROW’S SPECIAL:

Chicken Pasta

***See Term 4 menu on last page of newsletter***

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Child Safety Kerang Primary School is committed to Child safety. The safety and wellbeing of our students is a primary concern. We

want children to be safe, happy and empowered. We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers. We have zero

tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and consistently with our robust policies and

procedures. To ensure the safety and best interests of all students, we take into account the needs of those with an Aboriginal or Torres strait

Islander heritage and those from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.

What's up in the garden…

Issue No: 491 15.10.2020 75-79 Victoria St. Kerang Email : [email protected] Phone:5450 3181