CALENDAR OF EVENTS · Jackson – planting the plants (WOW) Ali – utting the pizza with the pizza cutter. 5-6s reflections: We liked how there was a lot of icing but i got a belly

Kensington Primary School Newsletter

5th September 2019 McCracken Street Kensington Vic 3031

Phone: (03) 9376 6013 www.kensingtonps.vic.edu.au E-mail: [email protected]

Care Program: 0432 830 856

Principal: Bridget McLaughlin Assistant Principal: Julie Stephens

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

September Fri 6th Year 5/6 District Basketball Tournament – Selected students

Tue 10th 9:00 – 11:30am Year 2 – Local Heritage Walk

Wed 11th 9:00 – 10:00am 2:30 – 3:30pm

Year 5/6 Open Classroom – Yr 5/6 Parents are invited to attend. Year 5/6 Open Classroom – Yr 5/6 Parents are invited to attend.

Thu 12th 9:00 – 11:00am 9:00 – 11:00am

5/6E Cooking & Gardening FD Excursion to KCCC

Fri 13th 9:00am – 3:00pm 3:00pm

Year 1 Scienceworks Excursion Assembly - Indonesian

Sat 14th From 4:00pm CINEMA UNDER THE STARS – TOY STORY 4

Tue 17th 7:45 – 8:45am 5:00 – 6:00pm

Finance Sub-Committee Meeting Policy Sub-Committee Meeting

Wed 18th 8:00 – 8:40am 9:00 – 11:00am 2:00 -3:30pm

Facilities Sub-Committee Meeting FC Excursion to KCCC Fundraising Sub-Committee Meeting

Thu 19th 9:00 – 11:00am FB Excursion to KCCC

Fri 20th 1:45pm 2:30pm

Assembly END OF TERM 3

October Mon 7th TERM 4 COMMENCES

Mon 21st 6:00 -8:00pm

Year 3 & 4 Camp – Lake Dewar Lodge School Council

Tue 22nd Year 3 & 4 Camp – Lake Dewar Lodge

November Mon 4th CURRICULUM DAY – NO STUDENTS TO ATTEND SCHOOL

Tue 5th Melbourne Cup Public Holiday No students to attend school

Tue 12th 7:45 – 8:45am 5:00 – 6:00pm

Finance Sub-Committee Meeting Policy Sub-Committee Meeting

Wed 13th 7:30 – 8:30am 2:00 -3:30pm

Facilities Sub-Committee Meeting Fundraising Sub-Committee Meeting

Mon 21st 6:00 – 8:00pm School Council Year 5/6 Swimming – Beach Program

Mon 25th 6:00 – 8:00pm School Council

December Mon 9th Year 1 – 4 Swimming Program

Wed 18th Year 6 Farewell

Fri 20th Moving Up Day

January 2020 Tue 28th Curriculum Day

Wed 29th Curriculum Day

Thu 30th Year 1-6 Students return to school

Fri 31st Foundation students start school

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Principal’s Message

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Throughout this term I have referred to the school’s vision; to be a safe and caring community who learn and grow

together, to make a difference for us and our world. I have also spoken about the values. Responsibility is one of our

school values. I notice our youngest learners being responsible for carrying their school bag every day and being

ready to start their learning. Having spent time in the year 1 and year 4 classrooms this week I have noticed the

values displayed and the student’s thinking recorded as to how they take responsibility. Some of the year 1’s

thinking about being responsible is:

I will put my stuff away

I will come to the floor

I will look after the school

Listen to the teacher

Put rubbish in the bin

Do something good without being asked (I think this

statement is my favourite).

Every student is encouraged to display responsibility for themselves,

their peers and our wider school community. Students at times are required to take responsibility for words or

actions that have offended or hurt the feelings of others. All staff at Kensington Primary take the time to discuss the

actions and choices students make and how a word or gesture may impact another student, staff member or

member of the community in a negative or positive way. Teachers work with students during class meetings to

discuss a concern or event that may be positive or negative to develop strategies and personal resilience to be

responsible.

Late in Term 3 I wrote a submission for a grant to provide the funds for the construction of an accessible entrance. I

would like to personally thank the members of our community who supported the efforts to ensure all our school

community were offered the dignity to enter and exit our school grounds when required. I will be working with

architects from the Accessible Building Program to develop a vision and planning for the works to commence.

We have commenced planning for and developing the playground for the back park. Students have contributed to

the plans and agree with the concept that has been developed. The removal of the back park was not an easy

decision, however the safety of all students is a responsibility. Saturday the 14th of September will see a little

Hollywood descend upon KPS with the screening of Toy Story 4. Thank you to the most amazing fundraising

committee and supportive parents who have so generously supported the school with their time. A huge thank you

to all parents/guardians who have so generously donated items for the hampers, you are amazing! I was speaking

with one of our year 6 students about the event. Her question was, how much money do you think we can raise? My

reply was $50,000.00. She stopped looked at the ceiling and asked the question, how many children at KPS? My

reply 504. Well, she stated if everyone helps I think we can do it! With such a positive attitude I agreed, we can do it!


HELP THESE DRAWINGS BECOME A REALITY

Parents and guardians in years 3 and 5 will receive the NAPLAN documentation on Friday. Please check those school

bags to find a large white envelope which contains your child’s results. NAPLAN tests are constructed to give

students an opportunity to demonstrate their skills and should be recognised as another page of the assessment

portfolio. At Kensington Primary parents are informed as to the growth of their child/ children’s skills and

understandings across all curriculum areas via school reports each Semester with the supporting evidence of the

work samples contained in the student portfolios. If you require further clarification as to the NAPLAN report please

make a time to speak with your child/ children’s teacher. As a staff we will be examining the data collected to further

inform the continuous improvement of our teaching and learning programs. I will share our results in the final

newsletter for term 3.

Enjoy your weekend – Bridget

Excursion / Incursion permission

The Department of Education and Training’s Policy on the treatment of parent/guardian/carer permission for camps, excursions and incursions is very clear about obtaining written permission. Verbal and phone permissions are NOT allowed – only electronic or paper written (Incursion/Excursion notes). https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/safety/pages/consent.aspx

Enrolment for 2020

Any families wishing to enrol a student for 2020 are asked to contact the office and complete all paperwork as soon

as possible.

Also if your child will not be attending Kensington Primary School next year and going to another school (other than those currently in Year 6) could you please advise the office. This will assist with 2020 planning.

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/safety/pages/consent.aspx


Cooking and Gardening – 5/6B and 5/6C

Over the past two weeks 5-6B and 5-6C have participated in our cooking and gardening program. We fired up the

pizza oven to prepare some delicious pizzas as well as enjoying our now famous chocolate zucchini cake for dessert.

5-6B’s reflections:

My favourite thing about cooking and gardening was:

Bonita – ‘seeing the path resorted’

Bess- ‘eating the delicious pizza’

Kate & Shona– ‘seeing the chicken nesting on its’ egg’ & feeding the chickens

Aakif- ‘assembling the pizza

Riya – ‘eating all the icing so there was none left for Grace (teacher)

Harvey- ‘eating the brownie, how did you make a vegetable cake taste so good ?!’

Zack O – ‘cutting the grapevine’

Rowan – ‘soaking the plants with water (and each other ho ho ho )’

Hamish- ‘saving some plants from the most painful death’

Grace – ‘cutting the vegies (watch for your fingers!)’

Zach R- ‘I invented the cheesy crust’

Minh- ‘clearing the path’

Eliza- ‘eating cake – yummy in my tummy’

Sarah- ‘covering my face in cake mix!’

Lawson- ‘feeling the sand between my toes … mmmm’

Claudia- ‘falling over like the angel I am’

Freya- ‘practising my ‘Australia’s got talent’ act … with Sarah and creating an almighty mess with

Bess- thanks for all the help cleaning it up, parents’

Jackson – ‘planting the plants (WOW)’

Ali – ‘Cutting the pizza with the pizza cutter.’

5-6C’s reflections:

We liked how there was a lot of icing but i got a belly ache. we liked the cake it was nice thank u Kate -from Analise and Kaitlyn

We enjoyed the cooking because of how we cut the ingredients which was satisfying. But most of all we obviously enjoyed the Eating part. Eating was an amazing experience not only because of the taste but the feeling of our achievements and hardwork. Out of the gardening we loved seeing and interacting with the chickens since we dug worms for them which was entertaining to watch the chickens devour the worms that we dug up. Planting the plants was also great, sometimes after all the rush in the kitchen and seeing the chickens we need a relaxing time to calm down and that time was planting. - Liam, Jafir and Alli

I liked sitting down and patting the chickens.🐓🍕-Daniel

Zeinab-I loved collecting the new chicken eggs they were warm.then I found out what the chickens like to eat sunflower seeds and corn!

We liked hypnotising I mean playing with da chickens in da garden and making da pizza’s it was realllllly fun and cutting with knives and thank ya Kate -AbiPIG & CindoRAT


I really enjoyed cooking and gardening today. Because I have not done it in awhile I was really excited and I had a good time. - Grace

Ayah-I loved eating the pizza and putting the toppings on! I also liked the chocolate zucchini cake but I may have had too much!! I,especially enjoyed feeding the chickens and I also saw the new eggs(YESSS!!!)!!

It was really fun and we made a lot of food that we all managed to eat somehow (pizza ,cake with to much cocoa powder and icing .) -Oliver

My favorite thing was finding worms and maggots in the garden and "sacrificing" them to the chickens. In the garden we also planted spider plants. the spider plants were very easy to plant because we just needed to dig a hole then put it into the ground. l also helped make the zucchini and chocolate cake with Grace, Henry and Kaitlyn. the cake was extremely spongy. It was a piece of cake! - Will Hampton

I enjoyed it. I liked how we did activities that kept us busy and entertained. -olla

In the gardening we had fun feeding the chicken coop and having a ball with planting spider plants. In the kitchen we enjoyed making pizzas. Nupur Mischa Tanecia

I liked cooking and gardening because I got to hold the chickens and we gave two of them nicknames, the white fluffy one Bok-Bok and one of the brown ones Carl. - Maisie

It Was very fun with my friend in cooking and gardening. I liked making the with Grace, Will and Kaitlyn. After we went to gardening we looked for worms and maggots to sacrifice to the chicken. Then at the end we planted spider plants. Then we ate the delicious pizza and zucchini cake. Henry N

I liked how we had a lot of ingredients to choose from to make the YUMMY Pizza! 🍕-Duc

It was good because I cuddled bokbok and i made pizza with only vegan stuff. –Harvey

A huge thank you to all of our wonderful parent helpers. Next week it’s 5-6E’s turn. Feel free to come along!

With thanks,

Kate and the Grubbies

Thurs September 12th 5-6 E (Claire)


Fundraising News

Get ready for the Kensington Primary School Cinema Under the Stars! Kensington Primary School is proud to invite you to our Cinema Under the Stars event. The evening promises fun for the entire family – and offers an excellent opportunity to support our school, whilst mingling with our local community. Our Cinema Under the Stars event will be held on the 14th September, with gates opening at 4pm before the movie starts at 6:30pm. Cinema Under the Stars is the major fundraising event of our school year, and we hope to raise a total of $50,000 in 2019 for a new school playground! Toy Story 4 Come join Woody, Buzz and the gang as they embark on an adventurous journey! Toy Story 4 is set to become a family classic, which appeals to both kids and adults alike. The fourth instalment of this much-loved franchise has received rave reviews from critics and is sure to be a crowd-pleaser! What could be better than relaxing back under the stars and going on a journey with everybody’s favourite toys? Don’t forget to bring a rug to sit on. Entertainment The Cinema Under the Stars event will also include a ‘kid zone’ complete with face painting, nail painting, crazy hairstyles, a colouring competition and the KPS Speedway attraction. There will also be a lucky dip and mystery bottles to win. For the adults there will be both silent and live auctions, raffle and plant stall. As part of the celebrations, we have received a brand-new Ultra Medium Trampoline from our friends at Vuly Play, Australia’s most trusted manufacturer of outdoor playsets and safe trampolines. Valued at $799 (plus free delivery), the Ultra Medium Trampoline is designed to withstand Australia’s changing outdoor conditions and includes built-in safety features to protect even the littlest members of our family. What an outstanding prize for one lucky family to win! Food & Drinks We are pleased to announce that our Cinema Under the Stars event will have a delicious range of food and desserts on offer, to satisfy every movie-watcher! For the main course, there will be a sausage sizzle and food stalls available. For sweet-tooths, there will be a delectable dessert bar featuring a range of ice blocks, and a ‘decorate your own cookie’ station. There will also be all your favourite movie snacks including fresh popcorn, fairy floss and a healthy juice bar. It goes without saying that the Cinema Under the Stars would not possible without the support of our community and sponsors. Thanks to all – we look forward to a fantastic event!

https://www.vulyplay.com/en-AU/choose-a-playset

https://www.vulyplay.com/en-AU/trampolines





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CALENDAR OF EVENTS · Jackson – planting the plants (WOW) Ali – utting the pizza with the pizza cutter. 5-6s reflections: We liked how there was a lot of icing but i got a belly