DATE: Thursday 5 September 2019 TERM 3 WEEK 7

KINGSWOOD SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL Address: 60-68 Smith St, Kingswood, NSW 2747

Phone: 02 4736 2408 Fax: 02 4736 6001 Email: kingswoods-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Sandra Martin

BELL TIMES

8:53AM - SCHOOL STARTS

11:00AM - LUNCH

1:25PM - RECESS

2:45PM - SCHOOL ENDS

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Term 3 2019

Week 7

Thursday 5 September

BMNDF Matinee

Friday 6 September

Preschool Featherdale

BMNDF Night

Week 8

Tuesday 10 September

K-2 Fire Safety Visit

Wednesday 11 September

Assembly K/1S

Friday 13 September

Summer PSSA Starts

Week 9

Monday 16-18 September

Free Dental Program

Thursday 19 September

KSPS Public Speaking

Competition

Friday 20 September

PSSA

Week 10

Wednesday 25 September

Assembly Support

Friday 27 September

Last Day of Term

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Blue Mountains Dance Festival Good luck to our three dance groups who are performing at the Blue Moun-tains Nepean Dance Festival at Thursday’s Matinee and Friday night’s per-formance this week. Thank you to Mrs Papsdorf, Mrs Gibson and Ms Beavis who have coached the dance groups and to Mrs Tania Gibson. Thank you to the parents that have helped with the costumes and getting their children to and from the performances. I’m sure our student will make our school proud with their performances. Zone Athletics Carnival The Penrith District Zone Athletics Carnival was held on Wednesday the 28th August and Thursday the 29th August, 2019. Congratulations to Zachary Bateman who was the only student to qualify to the Regional Carnival. We wish him the very best in his next event. Free Dental Program All children under 18 years of age can access free dental care provided by NSW Health at public dental clinics. In addition, from July 2019 children at-tending participating primary schools in NSW will have access to free dental care through the NSW Health Primary School Mobile Dental Program. Don't forget to fill the Dental Forms that have been sent home. At their first appointment, children will re-ceive the following care (if clinically indi-cated and if parents have consented): •a comprehensive examination •dental x-rays •dental clean •fluoride varnish application •fissure sealants A review appointment may be also be scheduled within 12 months for a check-up and a second application of fluo-ride. If a child needs follow-up dental care (e.g. fillings), public dental service staff will contact parents to discuss options for treatment. This may include providing further treatment at a school-based mobile dental clinic or in a local dental clinic. Parent consent is required for any further treatment. At Kingswood South Public School, the program will be delivered by experi-enced NSW Health staff, who will be using a combination of fully equipped portable dental equipment set up in our school hall. An Information and con-sent form has gone home to all families The Dental Clinic will operate in the school hall on the 16th, 17th and 18th September, 2019. Please return the filled in form to the school office be-fore Friday the 13th September, 2019.

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE

Whole School Assembly

Our next whole school assembly will be on Wednesday, 11th September, 2019 at 2pm. This assembly will have K/1S performing. Parents are invited to attend the assembly which begins at 1.50pm. Preschool and Kindergarten Enrolments for 2020

If you, or someone you know has a child ready for preschool or turning 5 before July 31, 2020 they are eli-gible to enrol in either preschool or kindergarten next year. Please visit our school office between 8.30am and 3.00pm Monday to Friday to collect the enrolment forms. Completed application forms should be re-turned to the School Office together with the child’s original Birth Certificate, current Immunisation Certifi-cate and proof of address.

Stewart House The Stewart House Collection Bags have gone home to families. If you have clothes that your children have grown out of and are in good condition please consider donating them to Stewart House. Each year some of our students are selected to attend the Stewart House Program which is solely supported by charitable funds. While the children stay at Stewart House for 12 days they are provided with dental, opti-cal, hearing and medical screening and treatment. The children also participate in educational programs and excursions designed to develop their social and emo-tional skills, build self esteem and improve their overall wellbeing. Parking around the School Can I ask that parents please be careful when driving and parking around the school grounds. A number of parents are U-Turning in the staff carpark driveways and in front of the pedestrian crossing—both dangerous actions which can cause an accident. Also the speed limit around drop off and pickup times is 40km/h for child safety. Finally, many parents have let us know that their children have experienced online bullying and need infor-mation regarding how to support their child and report issues around online safety. The school is organis-ing student and parent sessions with the Nepean Police to educate families about safe online use. I have included some information in this newsletter on cyber bullying that may be useful for you. Regards Ms Sandra Martin Principal

Term 3, Week 6 – K-6 Merit Awards

KM Zachery Hawton

Caleb Gibling KR

Lucas Solomon

Logan Leathan

K/1S Nash McRae

Joshua Loadsman 1/2L

Quahzel Thomas

Aylah Broad

1/2T Jonah Shelton

Guneet Dhillon 2H

3/4J Marc Baroudy

Foreva Felise 1-2M

Charli Matejus

Isabella Seupule

3/4T Grace Turner

Isaiah Bolton 3/4G

Avinoorpreet Kaur

Nikolaos Katsanos

4-6B Josiah Parnell

Aiden Todorovic 2-4Y Samuel Moeono

5/6R Rhiannon Blunden

Ethan McSweeney 5/6B

Anna Raketic

Jai Thornton

5/6S Zoe Cladingboel

Tyson DeFreitas K-1F Alivia Greenup

Term 3, Week 6 – Maths Giant Awards

KM Lucas Seckold KR Isaac Turner

K/1S Dalton Cini 1/2L Riley Thompson

1/2M Kayne DeFreitas 1/2T Braxton Sadleir

3/4G Sebastian Gerace 3/4J Ivy Lane

5/6B Lincoln Douglas 3/4T Mia-Jayde Watene-Rogers

5/6S Aaliyah Bavadra 4-6B Ellah Adrichem

5/6R Jonty Fenton

Term 3, Week 6 – Writer of the Month Awards

KM Ivy Ipekdizer KR Savannah Brock

K/1S Hayden Mattingly 1/2L Louella Morales

1/2M Sienna Zammit 1/2T Valerie Falconer

K-1F Mitchell Nagle 3/4J Noah Manners

3/4G Jia Brahmbhatt 3/4T Leland Vernon

5/6R Taylor Spring 5/6B Isabel Egert

5/6S Isaac Rossiter

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Term 3, Week 6 – K-6 Bronze Awards

K/1S Zain Al-Ashwal

Aiden Taylor KR Judaea Lolesio

5/6B Zak Hallak

Joshua Irwin 1/2L Elijah Talbert

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Term 3, Week 6 – K-6 Silver Awards

KM Daniel Marsh-Tidyman

Emily Bissett KR

Sarah Maczek

Autumn Van Der Meer

K/1S Tyler Cooper Ford 1/2L Skye Spitzer

1/2T Alister Clarke

Amara Budiman 1-2M Aaliyah Vaigalepa

3/4J Seth Karabeleski

Elizabeth Fielder 3/4T

Jordon Zaatini

Katie Studholme

3/4G

Hayley Turton

Madison Forbes

Emma Cooper-Ford

Liam McSweeney

4-6B Isabella Phillips

5/6R

Alyssa Kehoe

Erika Damevski

Ajmal Muhammad

5/6B Alana Safir

Fia Foley

2H Abby Luck K-1F Elijah Hunt

5/6S

Matilda Miller

Summa-Lee Witek

Holly Richardson

Shamika Ducacez

Term 3, Week 6 – Overall Writer of the Month

K-2 Savannah Brock 3-6 Isaac Rossiter

Thank you to everyone who purchased from our Father’s Day Stall. We hope all our Dads, Uncles, Grand Fathers and Male Carers all had a fantastic day. Thank you to the following parents/carers who helped on Thursday – Nicole Oldham, Donna Fry, Helen Peters, Alan Dews, Jenny Pratten, Jadeth Zam, Shez Rayner, Sevgi Ipekdizer, Shickura Neivandt without your help the stall wouldn’t have been as successful as it was. Our Father’s Day Raffle was drawn on Friday morning. Congratulations to our winners. 1st - Makayla Hazell 1/2M 2nd – Wendy Spowart 1/2T 3rd - Patrick Harrison 1/2L A huge thanks to the following children who during the week leading up to the Father’s Day Stall helped myself, Donna Fry, Nicole Oldham and Amanda Curtis move stock. Cristiana Fry Megan Pittaway, Patrick Gorman, Malakai Bavadra, Abdeen Mostafa, Isabella Sloan, Erika Damesvki, Harry Bassford, Amielle Harland, Sabrina W, Tyson D, Daniel Oldham, Ryan Oldham, Ethan McSweeny, Liam McSweeny, Harmony Curtis, Cody Curtis and our runners on the day of the stall Rhiannon Blunden and Alyssa Keyho. Silver coin roundup will finish at the end of this term, get your coins in for a chance to win a class party. Top three classes will win a class party to be held in Term 4. Uniform Shop is open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings 8.30am – 9.15. If you can help on any of these days please see Donna Fry. Please note the Uniform shop will be closed on Thursday 26th September. School Banking is Thursday morning. If you can help please see Debbie Witek. We are also looking for a Secretary for the P&C. If you want to give it a go please see Leigh Gozzard. Thanks to all our parents for their support, without them we as a P&C would not be able to do what we do for the kids. Our next P&C Meeting will be Wednesday 6th November at 7pm in the school library. We hope to see you all there. Everyone is welcome. P&C Committee

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