Issue No.7 Wednesday, 22nd March 2017

Principal: Mrs. Kim Laffan Kind Proud Safe

Kilmore Primary School 35 Lancefield Road, Kilmore 3764

PO Box 105, Kilmore 3764 Ph: 03 5782 1268 Fax: 03 5782 1553

Email: kilmore.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Last Thursday students at KPS were involved in the government initiative Bullying No Way Day. The focus for the day was on how bystanders to unfriendly situations can help prevent an incident from occurring and be a supportive friend. Well done to all our SRC’s and peer mediators who helped with our activities and special thanks to Jane Marks, our schools liaison police officer and Sharon Blackwell our School Support Officer for working with different groups of students.

Julie McCarthy

BULLY NO WAY DAY

Help - Book Coverers Needed!!!

Have you got an hour to spare next week?

We will be covering books in the library from 8.50 – 9.50 each morning next week. This will enable us to get our lovely new take home readers into grades ready for the start of term 2.

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their birthday in the coming week. We hope you have a lovely day. March 22nd Alby FS 23rd Caitlyn 6D Joey 6D 24th Holly 2C Liam 2G Annabelle 3H Ashley 4J 25th Mikaylah FS 26th Tyson 4T 27th Cooper 2C 28th Blake 1V

Calendar

March

Thursday, 23rd March Classroom helpers training session 9.00am

STOMP Dance Incursion

All year levels Parents, guardians and extended family members are invited to attend a whole school energetic performance in the stadium. From 2.10pm—3.10pm

Friday, 24th March School Photo Day

Icy Pole Day

Assembly 2.30pm

All Welcome

Tuesday, 28th March Homework Club

3.10pm—4.00pm

School Council AGM & Meeting, 7.00pm

Friday, 31st March Icy Pole Day

Last day of Term 1

2.30pm finish

April

Tuesday, 18th April First Day Term 2

June

Friday 23rd June

CSEF applications close

CSEF - Camps Sports and Excursions Fund Application forms for 2017 are now available. If you are the holder of a valid means-tested concession card, please request a form from the Office.

Parent applications close 23rd June 2017

Late applications can not be accepted

The office needs to sight and take a copy of your concession card as per the CSEF policy.

If you are unsure whether you are eligible or not, please see Kim Parker in the school office.

Sick Bay Linen Roster Term 1

24th March Ainsley Sporle 31st March Samantha Paton

Thank you for your support

Payments Due Dates

Please note any payment received after the due date will not be accepted.

From the Principal’s Desk…………... Welcome to Week 7 at Kilmore Primary School. Thank you to the warm welcome back that I have received from everyone. I had an amazing Long Service Leave break, spending most of the time sailing the Pacific with my husband and four friends. The weather was perfect, the food amazing and the sights stunning! I would like to thank Jennene Cooney for the wonderful job that she did in running the school in my absence and thank the leadership and staff for their support of her. As the term rounds up there is much to do. I am putting the final touches to the school annual report in preparation for the AGM which will happen next Tuesday evening. The AGM will be followed by the first School Council meeting for the year. I would like to welcome Sally Chadwick and Samantha Densworth to council as new members and also welcome the return of Kristy Brooks and Tracey Crane. School Council plays a very important part in the governance of a school and I look forward to working with this year’s team to continually improve and develop Kilmore Primary School. I would like to thank Liza Whitefield, Kylie Rogers and Russell Edwards who have retired from School Council after several years of wonderful work and commitment. Next week will see all teachers involved in planning for term two. Each unit will have a day together to assess the progress of term one and map out the term two program. These days are crucial to ensuring the highest quality, most relevant and explicitly targeted instruction for all students. The leadership team are meeting this Friday to map out the professional development calendar for term two which will support the achievement of our Annual Implementation Plan (AIP). The AIP is the key document that outlines the specific planning, actions and resources that are needed to achieve our targeted improvement goals. Please remember that you can at any time contact me with suggestion for parent forums. These are great opportunities to gain information about the what, why, how or who of the school’s operations from administration to curriculum delivery. I am running the last Classroom Helpers Program for the term on Thursday March 23

rd at 9.00am, so please feel free to come along if you

would like to assist in classrooms. Have a great week

Kim Laffan Principal Kilmore Primary School

Have you visited the Kilmore Primary School website lately?

Stay up to date with news around the school, hear from Units

and see photos of school events and much more! www.kilmoreps.vic.edu.au

Hello everyone! This is already my second newsletter as a two year old! Time is flying. Only 51 weeks until I turn three! Kim counted all of our gold coin donations from my birthday pawty. Are you sitting down? We raised a huge $392.65. Thank you for being so generous. I got my pawmission note signed and took some of my two legged friends to SEDA to present KPS’s donation. SEDA were very grateful and said to say thank you. It was my first time on a school bus with KPS. I was even allowed to sit on a seat. Thank you bus driver. However, I decided that I preferred the aisle and soon fell asleep. At SEDA we saw some puppies. They were tiny – they hadn’t even had one birthday! Some were three weeks old and some were seven weeks old. They were behind glass because they were so little. I wasn’t allowed to play with them, but I still barked a ‘Hello!’. There were some puppies that were a bit bigger and we were allowed to pat them. We saw the puppy centre, kennels, the doggy swimming pool and met Eadie. Eadie has had nine birthdays and she knows a lot of things. She showed us some tricks. She can push a pram, ride a skateboard, open doors, twirl, crawl and talk. I’ve got a lot of things to learn in the next seven years!

I’m a very good listener and I heard some comments this week which made me smile. Here are some that I’ve remembered: “I wish it could be your birthday every day, Asha!” “Asha, I want your ears. Can I borrow them?”

“Asha, I drew you a picture!”

Eadie also likes to

pretend she is a ‘Supaw

Model’. She posed

using her big box. My

two legged friends also

channelled their inner

supaw models. Being a

supaw model looked a

little bit like too much

hard work to me. I

chose to sit and watch

instead.

Below: Every second Tuesday I go to a SIT

meeting. Turns out they have nothing to do with

sitting – which by the way, I’m very good at – just

not in this photo. SIT stands for School

Improvement Team. I was awake for a little bit of it

and heard the words The Kilmore Way, NAPLAN,

‘I can…’ statements, data, moderation,

assessment, Mappen and unit meetings.

Above: Did you meet Jane? She works with

the pawlice and visited KPS as part of Bullying

No Way Day. She spent a little bit of time in

each classroom and a little bit of time patting

me.

Icy Pole Fridays Every Friday in Term 1 $1.00 each - Limit of one per student Please put your child’s name and grade on an envelope with the money. Orders are collected from each classroom and icy poles are distributed at lunch time. Koolstix Naturally Coloured and Flavoured Water Ice Confection Split supplied by Home Ice Cream. Ingredients: Water, Cane Sugar, Maize Glucose, Citric Acid, Natural Vegetable Gums (412, 410), Natural Flavours, Natural Colours [Pineapple (101, 120), Apple (120), Orange (Mixed Carotenes, 120)], Natural Plant Extract.

School Photo Day

School Photos will take place on Friday, 24th March. Today your child has been given a personalised order form to bring home with instructions on how to order their school photos. Photos can be ordered online using the individual student ID shown on their photo form at www.schoolpix.com.au before photo day. Sibling photos will also be available. Sibling order forms can be collected from the school office. Photo order forms and money must be enclosed in a sealed envelope and returned to the classroom teacher on Friday, 24th March. If you are ordering your child’s school photo’s online then you do not need to return their order form. Orders placed online after Tuesday, 28th March will incur a $14.95 fee. Please contact SchoolPix direct on 1300 766 0556 for all enquiries relating to School Photos.

I was a very lucky Labrador last week. I donned my party hat and headed to the Spanish room to see Senorita Molina and FW. Guess what? They sung me Happy Birthday. In Spanish! How clever of them!

KPS Easter Raffle

Donation Box – Please & Thank You

We are asking that families please donate 1 item each,

to help make up the prizes.

All items will go toward making up hamper prizes for our

2017 Easter Raffle.

Thanks again for your support.

Please (gently) place items in the box, in the office area.

The raffle will be drawn on Thursday 30th March.

Tickets will be available to purchase, for $1 each, on Wednesdays 8.30am -9.00am &

Thursdays 8.30am - 9.00am & 2.30pm-3.30pm

Find Kristy wandering around the yard at the above times to

grab a ticket for your chance to win some Easter goodies!

Alternatively you can place an envelope with your child’s name

and number of tickets required in their teacher box at the

office and raffle tickets will be given to your

child’s teacher to distribute.

From the KPS Fundraising Committee

Numeracy News

Parent Survey Almost 50 parents have completed the parent survey sent home last week via email and also as a hard copy in the newsletter. Thank you. Each week, we will grant wishes by focusing on something parents identified as an area they would like to know more about. This week it is times tables. The table below also grants part of another wish, showing the areas of maths our students are learning about in different year levels.

The Numeracy Hour – Whole Class Focus Last week we focused on the first 5 – 10 minutes of the maths lesson. This week we explore what happens in the next 10 minutes – the Whole Class Focus. During this part of the lesson, the teacher might make links to the real world and/or prior knowledge, ‘think aloud’ to model a particular strategy used to solve a problem and ask students to explain their thinking to a peer/whole class. Depending on the concept, there might be visual models and word problems. At the beginning of the Whole Class Focus, the teacher introduces the Learning Intention and Success Criteria for the lesson. For example, in Foundation this week, one lesson’s Learning Intention is ‘To measure the length of my foot’, with the Success Criteria being ‘I can use unifix blocks to measure my foot’ and ‘I can find someone who has a longer foot than me.’ The teacher models how to measure correctly before students practise measuring their own foot independently or as part of the teacher group. More on that part of the numeracy hour next week!

Times Tables There are a number of ways students are taught their times tables, beginning with skip counting. As we all learn in different ways, a variety of approaches are used, with everything from visual number patterns to songs/chants/rhymes and writing out times table facts. Students apply their multiplication and division knowledge to other areas of the curriculum, including fractions. The statements below come from the Victorian Curriculum we implement at KPS and form part of our planning: Level 1: Investigate and describe number patterns formed by skip counting Level 2: Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays Level 3: Recall multiplication facts of two, three, five and ten and related division facts Level 4: Recall multiplication facts up to 10 × 10 and related division facts Times tables are one of many parts of the curriculum. For example, there are 26 curriculum outcomes in Level 2 and 30 in Level 6. Throughout the course of a year, all outcomes are included in the KPS mathematics curriculum.

Below: A prompt used in a Whole Class Focus to teach students about finding and using rules to solve problems.

This Week Next Week

F Addition Length

1 Counting Pat-terns

Counting Patterns

2 Length

Counting Patterns

3 & 4

Length /

Counting Pat-terns

Counting Patterns

5 & 6

Geometric Rea-soning/ Number Sequences

Number Sequences