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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.

CARE Awards

Congratulations to this week’s

winners of the

Kerrimuir CARE Awards!

These students have all been recognised by their

teachers last week for an achievement related to

one of our four school CARE values.

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Prep enrolments for 2021

Kerrimuir school families

We are currently taking enrolments for

current 4 year old Kindergarten students

who turn 5 by April 30th, 2021 for the

2021 school year.

School Council Meetings Term 1

Monday 23rd March

AGM

Commencing 7pm in the staff room

Visitors welcome!

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Blackburn High Hockey Program

A reminder for those who have registered for the hockey program,

that it’s on Tuesdays at 3.30pm on the basketball court.

First Aid Volunteers

We require more volunteers to assist with our weekly first aid job on Friday

afternoons. All this entails is stripping the bed linen in the First Aid room,

replacing the bed with fresh linen and washing the dirty linen over

the weekend.

Please let the office staff know if you’re able to help. We would like to create a

roster with a number of volunteers this year so the task is shared.

Thank you in advance!

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

2020 SCHOOL FEES

The winners of the school fee raffle are

Otmar Family

Congratulations!

SCHOOL News

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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

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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

see her in the canteen on Friday mornings.

dnatarioyong@hotmail.com

or

0401 903 008

This weeks’ winners:

Mikhaila, Vincent, Frankie, Amelia, Holly & Layla

Amount raised: $36.80

Community Notices

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