SASS Recognition Week – next week we Celebrate our SAS Staff. Do you know what SASS

means? SASS stands for School Administration and Support Staff. Next week students, parents and staff

at KPS would like to acknowledge the hard work done by our SAS Staff.

This year's theme is "SAS Staff Essentials" and our SAS staff are definitely essential to Katoomba Public

School.

Our SAS staff at our school are Mrs Blackley, Mrs Williams, Mrs Shannon and Ms Brown, Mrs Gaut who

work in our office, classrooms and library. Mr Wilson, is our General Assistant who looks after our

grounds and maintenance.

Every day, in so many ways, our valuable SAS staff support us in our school. Without our SAS staff we

would not be able to provide the wonderful school that we have here at KPS.

National Recognition Week is a great time to thank all our SAS staff for their hard work and dedication to

our school. Please give them all an extra big smile and thankyou next week!

…………………… What a fabulous Tuesday night we had at the Sydney Opera House.

The 2016 Festival of Instrumental Music – Banksia Concert featured musically diverse

performances by NSW Public and High School students in the Concert Hall.

This magnificent concert series involves more than 400

schools and literally thousands of students from across NSW

in Combined String and Combined Recorder Ensembles.

These ensembles present diverse and challenging repertoire

including specially commissioned or arranged works from

Australian composers.

Thank you to Mrs Schoeler and Mrs Galbraith. It really was

an amazing night and a wonderful opportunity for our KPS

students to play at the Opera House. Congratulations to all the students involved.

Fiona Paine

Principal

From the Principal

Friday 26th August Book Week Parade

Thursday 1st September Monty Pryor performance

Friday 2nd September District Athletics Carnival at Blacktown

KatNews Newsletter Date The official newsletter of Katoomba Public School

Volume 2016 No: 27

Term 3 Week 6, 25th August 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

tomorrow will

be led by KB

Breakfast Club

every Tuesday

before school

The Virtue this week

is Helpfulness

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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Book Week Parade Tomorrow & Monty Pryor Monday

Dance News Dear Dance Families,

Our rehearsal date is next Tuesday 30th August. All students are required to be in our school library

at 7.30am on this day to have their hair and makeup done and this is when they will receive their

costumes to put on prior to having their hair and makeup fixed. It’s a full dress rehearsal and

professional photos will be taken as well.

Please ensure that children are wearing warm clothing (preferably a jacket with zipper). If you have not returned

all notes and money can you please do so ASAP. Refer to your dance notes for all other details

Amanda Galbraith

Don’t forget our Book Week Parade will be held tomorrow at 2.10pm in the Hall. Parents/carers are welcome to

come along and watch. The Parade is always lots of fun, with the students dressed up as their favourite book

character and the teachers adding to the festivities in their own interesting outfits!

The Monty Pryor performance is on Monday. Payments and permission notes were due back on the 19th August. If you still

want your child to go you will have to pay by tomorrow or your child will miss out.

Please remember we cannot take payments on the day as it is during the payment freeze for the finance changeover.

Sport News Basketball Gala Day On Wednesday 10th August eight girls from years 4, 5 and 6

attended the UBMPSSA Basketball gala day. All teams played

7 games each.

The Katoomba team won 5 games

and came third. All girls had a great

time and played extremely well. A

big thank you to Kim who coached the team.

By Alana and Tarni

T20 Milo Cricket Gala Day On the 15th of August 28 students went down to Katoomba Falls Reserve for a cricket gala

day. The girls’ team did really well and so did both of the boys’ teams. The highlight of the

day for some people was batting. Thank you to Ms Wilson and Mr Gero for looking after us.

By Ashton & Tom

Father’s Day Stall The Father’s Day stall will be held on Wednesday 31st August (with any extras unsold

available on Friday 2nd Sept). Gifts will range in price from $1 to $5. Volunteers are

needed to help on Wednesday morning (1 - 2 hours maximum).

Please phone Nerolie on 0434 536 256 if you can help.

All photos courtesy of Michelle Scully

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Congratulations to the following students who received awards in Weeks 5

Principal Book Awards: Finn Cousins, Georgia Kane, Natasha Bedoya, Luther Miles.

Academic Awards

KB: Mahalia McIntosh KG: Abbie Delfsma

1S: Angus Guerra-Ricketts 1/2C: Ivy McManus

2W: Alana Willey 2/3N: Amerie Okun, Dexter Berthon

3/4D: Zahra Roberts, Tyler Daniels 4/5K: Eva Mai Wakelin

5/6A: Tarni Roberts 5/6W: Colt Hooper

K/6N: Andy Wade

The POP (Parent Online Payments) button on the website will not be active during the finance system

change over period 31st August to 5th September.

We will be unable to take payments or receipt any money that week so please do not send in camp payments or any other money during that period.

A new receipting system will be set up when the school “Goes Live” with the new LMBR office systems during the week starting 5th September. Until the system is running smoothly it will not be possible to receipt at the front counter, so please follow normal protocols and send any payments in an envelope to your child’s teacher or pay online when the POP button is re-installed.

There may be some disruption to normal office functions during that week as we set up the data and transition to the new systems. We thank you for your patience at this time.

Finance System and Changeover to LMBR

This Term, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in the Tell Them From Me student

feedback survey. The survey aims to help improve student learning outcomes and measures factors that are known

to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student

wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.

You may remember that our 4 – 6 students also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this

year. Asking students to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as

well as track engagement and motivation across the school year.

Each 4 – 6 student will be bringing home a note containing some more information and a note to complete and

return if you do not wish your child to participate. More information is also available at: http://

surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents

Next week we will also be opening an online parent survey. The Partners in Learning survey asks parents and carers

questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement. Look out for

KatNews next week for more information on how to access this survey and have a chance to have your say. Angie Wilson, Assistant Principal Wellbeing

Tell Them From Me Student/Parent Feedback Survey

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5/6 W had a fantastic time celebrating Education Week and the

Olympics Opening Ceremony with our family and friends.