Education Week !!

You and all your family are invited and welcome at our Education Week Assembly next Friday

morning 5th August, start time 9.20am. The Assembly will be led by 5/6A . The theme of the

Assembly is the Olympics and it will be followed by Open Classrooms and Morning Tea with

your children. Plus, after Morning Tea we will be having the KPS Walkathon!! Come along to all

or part of the day. I hope to see you there! It’s going to be awesome

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4 traits of strong, emotionally smart families

1. Members come together regularly and enjoy each other’s company. A variety of Strong

Families Studies agree on one fact – that people in strong families come together either

formally to share a meal or meet on people’s birthdays and other special events; or come

together informally –they just hang out together.

2. People share their feelings, even unpleasant feelings, and they learn how to manage them

effectively. People in strong families connect on a deeper emotional level. When someone is

unhappy or miserable; it’s not ignored. It’s acknowledged and it informs how people behave –

whether to give that person space; provide a shoulder to lean on or simply cheer them up.

3. Family members care deeply about each other – come together through difficulty. People in

strong families draw together when the chips are down and crisis happens. Hardship galvanises

rather than pushes people away.

4. Family members communicate positively and show affection. People don’t always get their

communication right but there is a willingness to forgive the transgressions of others and to

look for ways to move forward rather than be stuck in the past.

Fiona Paine

Principal

From the Principal

Mon - Fri 1st to 5th August Education Week

Tuesday 2nd August ICAS English

Friday 5th August Education Week Assembly, Open Classrooms, Walk-a-thon

KatNews Newsletter Date The official newsletter of Katoomba Public School

Volume 2016 No: 23

Term 3 Week 2, 28th July 2016

School Expectations

Respect Yourself

Respect Others

Respect the

Environment

Uniform Shop

opens Tuesday

mornings from

9am-9.30am.

The canteen is

open on

Wednesdays. My

School Lunchbox

is available for

online ordering

Fridays only.

Assembly will

be led by 2W

Breakfast Club

every Tuesday

before school

The Virtue this week

is Compassion

Merriwa Street, Katoomba NSW 2780

Tel: 4782 1226 Fax: 4782 2996

Email: katoomba-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.katoomba-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Upcoming Events …………

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KPS Olympic Walk-a-thon

Only one more week to go before our Olympic Walk-a-thon. Classes have been busy learning about the country they will represent and they will do the walk-a-thon dressed in that country’s colours. The Walk-a-thon is to raise money for our climbing wall. We hope you are going well filling your sponsorship sheets ! If you have lost your sheet there are some spares in the school lobby - please ask friends, family and neighbours to sponsor you for our Walk-a-thon, either a set amount or per lap. Good Luck!

Surprise Visit from Costa Georgiadis of Gardening Australia

Last Friday we were so lucky to have Costa Georgiadis, the landscape artist

and television personality, visit Katoomba Public School. Students from our

environmental group the S.Q.I.D. Squad together with our Koori Club Leaders

met with Costa in our school hall and then took him to visit our kitchen garden.

Costa was incredibly inspiring and his energy was infectious.

He spoke to us about water as life and painted clear pictures about our water cycle and the role the SQID Squad

would play in caring for our catchment area. He really loved the name SQID Squad!

Costa was impressed by our kitchen garden, answered lots of questions our students asked and he shared some

brilliant ideas from getting rid of weeds to building a rain garden.

“We can’t save the whole world but we can save our little part of the world” were Costa’s parting words.

Sue Campbell-Neale

Classroom Teacher

Bathurst Goldfields Here We Come!

Stage 2 : Years 3 and 4 Overnight Excursion

Thursday 27th October to Friday 28th October 2016

We will be staying at the Goldfields Motel

on Mount Panorama and also be visiting the Dinosaur and Fossil

Museum in Bathurst. Permission notes are going home this week.

The cost of our excursion is only $125.00. A BIG thank you to our

P&C for their support in paying for the bus.

We are all looking forward to a great trip.

Narelle Barrie and all the Stage 2 Teachers

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Congratulations to the following students who received awards in Week 1

Principal Book Awards: Sylvie Argall, Amber-Lee Bergmann, Hamish Bruce, Rome Fraser,

Pascal Macri-Etienne.

Academic Awards

KB: Pascal Macri-Etienne, Chloe Hawkins KG: Max Haynes , Marah Darias

1S: Gilbert Argall 1/2C:

2W: Ariah McIntosh 2/3N: Jude Bennett

3/4D: Beren Rodziewicz 4/5K: Henry Kane

5/6A: Tobey Shyne 5/6W: Jackson Hanemann

K/6N students and helpers were rewarded with a cash prize for their

recent entry in the Waste to Art competition. There is a booklet in the

Library with photos of all winning entries if you would like to view it.

Community Notices

K/6N Waste to Art Prizewinners

Blue Mountains City Band Concert Sunday 14th August at 2.30pm in the Pat Heffernan Hall

Come along and enjoy an afternoon of brass band music with Blue Mountains City RSL Band

as they prepare for the NSW Band Championships. Entry is by gold coin donation.

P&C Fundraising Success The election day BBQ organised by our wonderful P&C raised $975 for the Climbing Wall.

The cake stall raised an incredible $550! Many thanks to our amazing helpers on the day,

slaving over the BBQ and serving hundreds of sausage sandwiches!

Many thanks also to our amazing bakers who prepared for the cake stall.

You are all fantastic!!! Thank You !!!

School Banking - Spectacular Prizes for Regular Savers! Students who make 3 or more school banking deposits during Term 3 have a chance to win a Star Saver prize including one

of 50 camping kits, 90 instant cameras and 200 magazine packs. What’s more, students who complete the fun Stargazing

online activity, along with making their 3 deposits in Term 3, will also go in the draw to win one of 50 Playstation 4 packs.

Students can complete the Stargazing activity online at commbank.com.au/prizelights

Our school is also in with a chance to win one of 75 bags full of sport equipment, valued at $200, when at least one of our

students make 3 school banking deposits during Term 3—so keep on banking!

Parents/Carers: If you’re interested in helping out with the school banking this term, please contact Linda Brillante on 0407

655 039. It only takes an hour once a week, and kids get great satisfaction from watching their savings grow!!

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Recently we have noticed that many parents/carers are parking in bus zones and no stopping areas around the

school when they pick up their children in the afternoons. There is also an increase in cars travelling at more

than 40 km an hour in Merriwa Street during school pick up and drop off times. Some parents have also

beckoned their child to cross the road to their car instead of using the school crossing.