Term 4, 2018 Friday 21st December Last day of school! 2:30pm dismissal
Term 1, 2019 School resumes for ALL students (Prep - Year 6)
On Thurs 31st January at 8.30 sharp.
Remember, be on time for learning time, make every minute count!
2019 Pupil Free Days; Tuesday 29th January
Wednesday 30th January
20th December 2018
Welcome to the final newsletter for the 2018 school year! Wow! The year has gone so fast, it is hard to believe that Term Four is coming to an end to round off a terrific year! What a terrific year we have had with so many significant successes and, above all, our students achieving great results across the entire curriculum. Throughout the year the children at Kingsley Park have been recognised for their excellent talents and skills, receiving many curriculum achievement and You Can Do It Value awards each week. Congratulations to all of our students for their contribution to the school year – I am so very proud of all of you! Final Assembly Our final assembly is tomorrow at 1:30pm. At this assembly we congratulate and farewell our 2018 Year 6 students who celebrated their Graduation Night on Tuesday night at Mt Erin Secondary College. There were highlights shared along with their messages of wisdom to next year’s Year 6 students. They shared their hopes and aspirations and finished off with two great songs. We are very proud of our students and wish them all the best for their future. Last Day Dismissal Friday 21st December is the last day of school for 2018 and it is approaching way too fast. Children will be dismissed at 2:30pm. Staff leaving At the end of this year we say farewell to; Miss Courtney Mason, Sarah Letho, Mrs Jan Migliore, Miss Debbie Westhead, Ms Niambh O’Reilly, Mrs Jess Emery, Mr Bill Griffin and Miss Melissa Croon. Mrs Donna Fogarty is also taking a year of leave. All of these wonderful staff members have made highly valuable contributions to Kingsley Park over the past years. We wish all of our departing staff success and happiness in their new roles. Reports All children brought home their end of year report on Tuesday. It was pleasing to see so many children performing at quite a high level as well as so many children showing fine growth in skill, effort and attitude. We congratulate all our students on their achievements and successes throughout the 2018 year. Thank you Thank you to all parents for your continual support in helping to make Kingsley Park the best place it can be for our students. In particular I would like to thank our wonderful parent helpers, those who come in each week and at key times throughout the year to offer their time and support. Our KP Group who been amazing and have put enormous effort into fundraising, cooking toast in the mornings and helping around the school. Thank you also to our outgoing school councillors, for your amazing efforts over the past years in supporting Kingsley Park. You are truly fabulous and will be missed. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. Thank you to all parents for your wonderful support throughout the year. We look forward to 2019 being even bigger and better for your children. Kind regards Gill Gray Principal
A reminder to our families
Friday 21st December is the last
day of the school year for 2018.
Children will be dismissed from
school at 2:30pm.
Congratulations to our Spell-a-thon
winners and all who participated. What a
terrific effort from so many students. Well
done for practicing so hard to compete to
your finest form.
Our final winners were ;
Prep Archie W.
Year 1 Chloe M.
Year 2 Ariella C.
Year 3 Melodie H.
Year 4 James C.
Year 5 Anastasia S
Year 6 Rachel S.
Archie from Prep took home the trophy of
the most correctly spelt words - what a
SUPERSTAR !
Kingsley park Staff Leaving
Every good school has some super teachers, sadly at times they move on to new schools or other job
or life opportunities. We would sincerely like to thank the following staff who have put years of effort,
time, sweat and tears into Kingsley Park. Tomorrow we farewell 9 staff who will be dearly missed by
our school community.
Words just can’t express thank you enough, for all you have done for our Kingsley Kids
and families.
Good-bye, good luck.
We wish you THE VERY BEST for your future.
Miss Westhead Miss Mason Sarah Letho Bill Mel (no photo)
Mrs Migliore Mrs Fogarty Miss O’Reilly Mrs Emery
Well done Team Kingsley – Our final total raised for our Colour Explosion run was a very impressive $8106.81. We can't thank you enough for your support. Well done to all students who gained sponsors, completed the run and had a fabulous time. We look forward to our next one. A MASSIVE thank you to our KPG, in particular Kristy Dastey and Jo Abbott for their organisation of the event, it couldn't have happened without you!! Here's the top fundraisers for the colour run. Each of these students raised $200 or more with Anakin from P20 raising the most with an impressive $1133. Anakin C P20 Tipene H J2 Ruby Mc F J2 Christian B J3 Jack D P20 Leah S J3 Darcy E J6 Cadence P P20 Kalob V J2 Bonnie-Lee Mc F M16 Sienna W P20.
A huge thank you to all those who helped raise money.
Congratulations
Once again our Year 6 students did themselves and our school proud. Tuesday evening’s Graduation Ceremony was a wonderful occasion for both them and their families. The achievements of all of our students were highlighted and we applauded the wonderful work that they have completed over the course of the year. We wish them well as they embark on the next part of their learning journey and we wish them all the very best in 2019. A number of students excelled in a particular area and were recognised with specific awards. Congratulations to all of the students who were presented with an award. Kingsley Park Endeavour Awards English Zachary Searle & Audrey Bechaz Mathematics Ryan Nolan & Holly McGregor Science Kayde St Anne & Lily Rose Hall Krause Performing Arts Joe Thompson & Isabelle St Anne Visual Arts Alycia Hermawan & Ashby Norford Physical Education Braiden Browne & Rachel Smith Music Jaidyn Abbott & Kayla Davies Digital Technologies Lachlan Gollings & Ryan Baker
Mt Erin Secondary College Scholarships Sports Award Logan Fenwick Performing Award Holly Warne Academic Award Liam Savage All Rounder Logan Wilkie All Rounder Emilie Hamilton-Free
Mt Eliza Secondary College Scholarship
Enhanced Performance Program Shawn Guo
2018 School
Leaders
2018 School Captains and House Captains A very big thanks to our wonderful 2018 captains: Bodie Free, Logan Wilkie, Rachel Smith and Audrey Bechaz together with our House Captains, Braiden Brown, Laylah Cook, Logan Fenwick, Grace Lowe, Charlotte Mol, Tiarnah Page, Kayde St Anne and Nicholas Writer who have been exceptional this year. They played a key role in many areas. It has been very pleasing to see their growth in their skills and being excellent role models.
Newsletter Advertising 2019
Prices :
Full Page $50
Half Page $30
Quarter Page $20
(Prices are per newsletter
including GST )
For Sale Items $10
Commercial Items for sale $50
(Business card size)
Flyers
Our school Carnival for 2019 is fast approaching.
To help make our Carnival a huge success we are asking for donations of:
Empty Jars for Mystery Jars
Mystery Jar contents Cans of coloured hair spray
If you can donate any of these items please drop them
into the office.
If you know of any families or businesses that would kindly make donations to the school
please let us know.
Sentral Parent Portal App
Flexibuzz will be phased out by the end of this year and all
communications will be sent out primarily through the Sentral Parent Portal App. Using
the Sentral App gives the school the ability to communicate information to each year level, small groups or
individual families, at the school's discretion. It allows for private messaging between parents, students and
teachers. Parents have the ability to report future absences and notify the school of daily absences. Whole
School emergency incidents are communicated through Sentral. Further down the track we will use it to
book parent/teacher meeting times. Please ensure you have the Sentral App on your phone, device or
computer and have created login details.
A reminder to drivers in
the school vicinity during
drop-off and pick-up
times - please
remember our children’s
safety comes first and
road rules together with signage
should be observed. The council have
been made aware of recent
concerning issues and will be
patrolling the area. Thank you
Are you leaving our
school in 2018 to
transfer to another
primary School?
If you are leaving the school
in 2018 please inform
the office
as soon as you can.
SCHOOL TERM DATES 2019
Teachers begin Tuesday 29th January - Curriculum Day
Wednesday 30th January - Curriculum Day
Term 1 Thursday 31st January - Friday 5th April
Term 2 Tuesday 23rd April - Friday 28th June
Term 3 Monday 15th July - Friday 20th September
Term 4 Monday 7th October - Friday 20th December
Class Organisation for 2019
On Tuesday students received their reports along with their teacher and class information for 2019. When placing students in classes we aim to place your child with a teacher they will identify with positively and with some friends in the same class whilst ensuring each class has a balance of gender, year levels, learning styles and student abilities and dynamics. Class placement takes a lot of time and effort.
We highly emphasise that ‘Inside time is Learning Time, Outside Time is Socialising Time’, please understand the merits behind this. We want the best for all children and for them to have the opportunity to reach their best learning potential. Student voice will be heard in helping us to make classes for next year, they will have a say in who they would like to be in a class with. This however is not guaranteed as often close friends, who spend a lot of outside time together don’t always learn best together. Some parents have put forward letters of concerns or issues, these have been taken into account wherever possible if highly valid reasons have been given. Please place your faith in us in helping your child’s learning needs as best we can as we want each and every child to achieve success at school. Student class placement will not be changed once decided.
In 2019, our staffing includes; The Prep team: Mr Scott Bloomfield, Miss Bree Bacon and Miss Jesse Sinclair The Junior Team; Ms Sam Gilchrist, Mrs Kate Cox, Mrs Rebecca Gilbert, Mrs Leonie Heeley, Mrs Felicity Dexter and Mrs Kellie Fillis. The Middle Team; Mr Scott Gardner, Mr Pat Galante, Mrs Yvonne Reed, Mrs Lynda Cameron and Mrs Stephanie Van Twuiver The Senior Team; Mr Kieron Quick, Ms Trish Papettas, Mrs Elle Sullivan, Mr Paul Leslie and a teacher yet to be appointed. Specialist and admin staff include; Mrs Kathryn Kenway, Mrs Mai Stodden, Mrs Danae Maini, Mrs Janine Atkinson, Mrs Sally Vella, Ms Ros Carlton, Mrs Jo Toombs and Mrs Janine Coe (our new Business Manager) The Integration Support team; Mrs Cap French, Mrs Janiene Miller, Mrs Jo Treveil, Mrs Andrea Whiteside, Mrs Niomi Murphy, Mrs Zana Cameron, Mrs Kim Williams, Mrs Julie Sutton and Mrs Natalie Walsh.
Email address: [email protected]
Camp Australia are really excited to be
offering a brand new Holiday program
“STEAM WORKS” for January 2019.
Bookings are open now.
To view the full program and make bookings please visit:
https://www.campaustralia.com.au/HolidayClubs/Program/
KingsleyParkPrimarySchool/28610
AWESOME KIDS CALENDAR
Merry Christmas! Each family received an Awesome Kids Calendar this week. Our school was proud to participate in this wonderful calendar and have some great students artwork displayed within. The eldest child in each family received a copy of this special calendar to bring home. If families would like additional calendars, they can be purchased via https://www.booktopia.com.au/stationery/awesome-
kids-family-calendar-2019-anglicare-victoria/prod9781925642292.html
What a great Christmas gift worth purchasing. All proceeds will go to a Community Chest to fund additional local projects for participating programs and schools.
School Council PRESIDENT - Karen Russell
The school council and KPG have had an amazing year working together with students and staff. We worked
towards one common goal, which is to make KPPS the best community school, who provide a safe, friendly learning
space for our children. We have listened to your needs and wants and tried to deliver
on them. We have communicated to you often and had much success on many
projects during the year including: grants, updating school policies, approving a new
reporting system, and discussing budgeting to name a few. Unfortunately we were not
successful with PYP however we need to continue to improve our indoor and outdoor
facilities and resources. The school will always need fund raising and we appreciate
your assistance on this matter, our most recent success being the Colour Run raising
over $8000. Congratulations to all and special thanks to the KPG.
This year we loved seeing so many of you at our community days, I have never seen
attendance at Remembrance Day so large, not to mention the support at the Colour
Run.
We really do appreciate all of the parental support that you have provided this year, from assisting with reading,
canteen duty, cheering at sport days, helping with wrapping and the Mothers/Father’s Day stalls, attending Gala
nights, cooking Bunnings sausages, to helping with numerous other items. We are all part of this community that
make Kingsley great. We couldn’t do this without your help.
On behalf of the parents and children - A very big thank you to our teachers and staff. We thank you for your
support, without the dedication of the teachers and staff we would not be able to offer all the amazing
opportunities. Our teachers and staff put in many additional hours to make us a wonderful school supporting all of
our community events like HPV, school discos, Christmas concerts, Breakfast Club to only name a few. We are very
lucky to have teachers who truly care about our children’s education and welfare.
Some of our staff will be leaving us and we wish all of you the very best. In particular I thank Donna for all her
wellbeing initiatives particularly introducing Kids Matter. Niambh thank you for many things especially your hard
work greeting hungry children at Breakfast Club, always with a warm smile. Thank you both for 6 amazing years.
Thanks to Jan our Business manager of 23 years who is sadly moving on to a school closer to home. Thanks to
Courtney Mason, Jess Emery, Bill Griffin, Mel Croon and Sarah Letho for all your hard work. Finally, a big thank you
and farewell to Debbie, who has been part of the school since 1999. We thank you for all your work, there are so
many things but particular all your work on productions, Wakkakiri, 100 of braids and costumes and the wonderful
annual memories in our Year books.
It has been an honour to be your school council president this year. Thank you for the privilege. Thank you to my
fellow school councillors (Lisa, Elisa, Matt, Tanya, Kristy Hayley, Beck, Donna, Gill and Marc ) for all your tireless efforts.
I have enjoyed working with all of you, its been a great experience and you are a great team. I would like to take
the opportunity to specially thank our retiring members of the council – Beck and Donna. You will be missed.
Finally, we wish the families leaving us, the best of luck and thank you for being part of our community. To the
children graduating from Year Six, congratulations and good luck next year. For the remainder of you please have
a Safe and Happy holiday and I look forward to seeing you all in 2019 for our School Carnival.
Merry Christmas
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