The Week Ahead Future Diary Dates Kerrimuir Primary School is committed to Child Safety and the inclusion of all the children Newsletter No. 07 Friday 13th March 2020 23rd March School Council AGM 7pm 26th March ChessKids Tournament 27th March Last day of Term 1 - finish 2.30pm Super Egg & Kerrimuir Gift 14th April Term 2 commences 9am 14th April - 23rd April Prep - Grade 2 swimming Monday 16th: Fire Ed visit Preps Tuesday 17th: Wednesday 18th: Parent/Teacher interviews - Students at school for interview time only Thursday 19th: The Lab incursion - Gr 2 Gr 5/6 Gala Day Friday 20th: Extending our students at K.P.S. Beginning in term 3 2020, KPS will be part of the Education Department’s initiative the “Student Excellence Program”. We are excited to be training Jo Jolly as our High-Ability Practice Leader who will coordinate the school’s programs and supports for high-ability students. Along with providing an inclusive education environment for all students via our K.P.S. approach to synthetic phonics, we have also been at the forefront of schools in our region by providing enrichment programs such as Extension Maths (with Kirrily Glouchev) and the Extension Writing groups started last year. We are all looking forward to this new initiative to help further our high-ability students through a variety of programs and activities. Please see a short snippet from a recent Department release regarding this exciting new initiative. “The Student Excellence Program provides $60.2 million to support government schools to provide a great learning environment for high-ability students through: structured learning extension programs for high-ability students upskilling classroom teachers to better support their high-ability students more resources for government schools to build their programs for high-ability students. Together these three strategies will lift the learning, engagement and wellbeing of high-ability students and help them thrive now and into the future. The Department will be managing the selection process for the program centrally, and there will be more information about this early next year.” (from https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/ Pages/student-excellence-program.aspx last accessed 12/03/2020) Music Bus Update After feedback from our community, starting from Term 2 the Music Bus lesson times will change at Kerrimuir to be offered on Wednesday morning before school and Friday afternoon from 1.45pm until 3.30pm and then continue after school on Friday afternoons. We feel that this will alleviate disruptions for some students who wish to continue with their individual music studies.
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The Week Ahead
Future Diary Dates
Kerrimuir Primary School is committed to Child Safety and the inclusion of all the children
Newsletter No. 07 Friday 13th March 2020
23rd March School Council AGM 7pm 26th March ChessKids Tournament 27th March Last day of Term 1 - finish 2.30pm Super Egg & Kerrimuir Gift 14th April Term 2 commences 9am 14th April - 23rd April Prep - Grade 2 swimming
Monday 16th: Fire Ed visit Preps
Tuesday 17th:
Wednesday 18th: Parent/Teacher interviews - Students at school for interview time only
Thursday 19th: The Lab incursion - Gr 2 Gr 5/6 Gala Day
Friday 20th:
Extending our students at K.P.S.
Beginning in term 3 2020, KPS will be part of the Education
Department’s initiative the “Student Excellence Program”. We
are excited to be training Jo Jolly as our High-Ability Practice
Leader who will coordinate the school’s programs and supports
for high-ability students.
Along with providing an inclusive education environment for all
students via our K.P.S. approach to synthetic phonics, we have
also been at the forefront of schools in our region by providing
enrichment programs such as Extension Maths (with Kirrily
Glouchev) and the Extension Writing groups started last year.
We are all looking forward to this new initiative to help further
our high-ability students through a variety of programs and
activities. Please see a short snippet from a recent Department
release regarding this exciting new initiative.
“The Student Excellence Program provides $60.2 million to support government schools to provide a great learning environment for high-ability students through:
structured learning extension programs for high-ability
students
upskilling classroom teachers to better support their high-ability students more resources for government schools to build their programs for high-ability students. Together these three strategies will lift the learning, engagement and wellbeing of high-ability students and help them thrive now and into the future. The Department will be managing the selection process for the program centrally, and there will be more information about this early next year.” (from https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/student-excellence-program.aspx last accessed 12/03/2020) Music Bus Update After feedback from our community, starting from Term 2 the Music Bus lesson times will change at Kerrimuir to be offered on Wednesday morning before school and Friday afternoon from 1.45pm until 3.30pm and then continue after school on Friday afternoons. We feel that this will alleviate disruptions for some students who wish to continue with their individual music studies.
Kerrimuir Primary School is committed to Child Safety and the inclusion of all the children
SCHOOL News
Kerrimuir Primary School is committed to Child Safety and the inclusion of all the children
Hiragana masters
Grade 3 and 4 students are learning how to read and write hiragana, the
Japanese alphabet. They have been exploring various hiragana activities such
as playing hiragana Jenga, puzzle and writing with a chalk pen or playdough.
I like making hiragana with playdough because it is creative. – Matthew (3B)
I like playing hiragana jenga with my best friends! – by Ava Rose (3B)
We like playing puzzle because it is easy and fun to learn hiragana. And we
can show our team work. – By Ashaz, Ajeeth & Aneesh (3B)
Writing hiragana with chalk pen is my favourite activity, because I’ve never
used chalk pen before. – By Ally (3B)
SPORTS News
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Swimming Competiton
Following on from our District swimming, we had 6 students compete in the
Division swimming on Monday 2nd March. Ruby, Inara, Zoe, Cici, Kieran and
Aidan swam so well and did their best in each of their races. Kieran and Cici
have made it through to the regional competition for their individual events
which is has been raced this morning in Ringwood.
I am so proud of all the students involved in this swimming competition
Natarsha Kenny
SCHOOL News
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BRAIN Training
Fundraising
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Please see the roster below for the weekly Assembly Cake Raffle. Please let your Year Level Abassadors know if you can bring along a cake for the raffle. This can be done via your grade’s
Facebook page or leave your name on the roster at the canteen.
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Date Class
Friday 20th March 2020 Grade 1C + 1D
Friday 27th March 2020 Grade 6
If you can help out with selling tickets at the canteen on Friday mornings
from 8:30am-9:30am please contact Dannii Natario-Yong or