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Issue No. 08– 22nd March 2019
General Guidelines for Parents when making any Payments to the school: Preferred method of payment is BPay. Your BPay reference number can be located on your family statement and will remain the same throughout your child’s time at KPS. EFT/credit card facilities are available over the counter at the main office. Cash payments – correct money is required as there is not always access to change. Please do not send large amounts of cash with your child. Receipts will be issued through your child’s classroom. To help the office in finalising accounts, where possible, please limit payments in the last week of any school term. Sharyn Fletcher, Business Manager School Council President Terry Cumming School Council email [email protected] School Uniform Primary School Wear 9768 0342 OSHC Camp Australia co-ordinator 0401 054 261
2019 Dates to Remember
Term dates 2019 Term 1 - 29th January (students begin Wednesday 30th January) – 5th April Term 2 - 23rd April – 28th June Term 3 - 15th July – 20th September Term 4 - 7th October – 20th December Student Free days 2019 Fliers/Information attached Tuesday 11th June Easter Raffle tickets Page 8 Monday 4th November Hansen Reserve information Pages 9-10
Term 1 March 18th – 29th March Foundation – Grade 2 Swimming Program 9a.m. – 12.30p.m.
Grade 3 – 4 Swimming Program 12.30p.m. – 3.30p.m.
Fri 29th March No Assembly April Mon April 1st Easter Raffle draw Fri April 5th Casual Clothes Day (FOKPS event – gold coin donation)
Easter Hat Parade (no assembly)
Last day Term 1 (2.30p.m. dismissal)
Term 2
April
Mon 22nd April Public Holiday - Easter Monday
Tue 23rd April First day Term 2
Thu 25th April Public Holiday – ANZAC Day
June
Mon 10th June Public Holiday – Queen’s Birthday
Tue 11th June Student Free Day (no students at school)
Fri 28th June Casual Clothes Day (FOKPS event – gold coin donation)
Last day Term 2 (2.30p.m. dismissal)
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Principal’s Message Throughout this year Kingsville will celebrate its long and proud history in many different ways. We are however moving closer to the month of August when 100 years ago the first students entered the school on day 1 August 1st and, the official opening took place on August 15th. The school council will be approving a schedule of dates for
celebrations and events for August 2019 at their meeting next Monday night and these will then be published to the community. It is also expected that a Centenary Working Party will be officially formed and planning for the finer details can then begin. As a long time principal of this wonderful school I have been looking forward to the centenary celebrations for many years. I will be engaging with the working party, parents, volunteers and students as we celebrate throughout the year and plan for the key August events. As outlined in my message newsletter of February 22nd I am providing some KPS history snippets in each newsletter as the year progresses and I hope these are being enjoyed. If any family members with connections to the school back over the decades have information they would like to share do not hesitate to send this to me.
“Kingsville Primary School is proud of its past pupils” An article in the Mail/Advertiser 27/7/1994 tells us that the school celebrated the 75th birthday with a ‘slap-up’ party on 5/8/1994. There was in the news item acknowledgement of a number of former students including such luminaries as the celebrated Dargie brothers, William and Horrie. The Dargie
brothers are two brothers who made a profound national impact. Sir William, renowned as one of Australia’s finest portrait painters, won the Archibald Prize eight times. He numbers among his most notable commissions portraits of the Queen, Prince Phillip, Sir Henry Bolter, Sir Robert Menzies, author Hal Porter and Sir Norman Myer. He painted many other captains of Australian industry. The “Wattle Painting” of Queen Elizabeth II, 1954 by William Dargie In December 1954 Sir William Dargie was commissioned by Melbourne industrialist James P Beveridge to paint Australia’s official portrait of Queen Elizabeth, who posed for him at Buckingham Palace. The “Wattle Painting” was well received by the Australian public and shortly after its completion colour prints were made available to every school hall, government office, police station, RSL and library in Australia. In recent years a former student and past city councillor has often visited the school to pass on some history news or, a photo or item he may have located. He has had a habit of asking Jeff McDonald, Assistant Principal if he knew about William Dargie being a past Kingsville student and, where our government issue print of his painting of the Queen was. We knew that Kingsville had one of these official prints in the school in the 60’s as a newspaper article shows a photo of a teacher at Kingsville in 1969 (Mrs Wilma Roberts) showing the print to pupil Ian Johnson. We could not however locate the print and believed may have been destroyed in a fire at KPS in the seventies. This gentleman visitor is in fact Bill Hodgart and our past staff member Graeme Hodgart (school historian) only found out he was related to Bill in the early 1990’s. Bill’s insistence regarding the whereabouts of our official print was ultimately instrumental in us now having the new fresh copy that we will proudly displayed during centenary celebrations. Bill we hope will be an honoured guest at the open day. . The search for the print of the “Wattle Painting” Investigations on a number of fronts resulted in the school gaining a new framed copy of the Wattle Painting these included -
in follow up to Bill Hodgarts request Jeff McDonald asked teachers and students who went to Canberra in 2018 to ask about the image during their visit to the National Portrait Gallery
the Gallery did not have a copy of the image but directed the search to the National Museum of Canberra
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at the same time staff members were made aware of the investigation. The search widened
Hilary Fairlie, a long term KPS staff member (currently on Parental Absence) on viewing an online image of the “Wattle Painting” thought she recognised the style of the painter. As it turns out Hilary remembered that she often looked at a painting in her childhood home of her grandfather Wilfred Holt who was a parish priest of an Anglican church in Camberwell and, a good friend of William Dargie. History now tells us that Wilfred approached Dargie with the idea of a portrait being painted in a public setting where, the community could see an artist at work and, be able to come in and watch this and donate some funds towards a fundraising action. Dargie felt that Wilfred being well known to locals in his area would make a suitable subject for his project. The result was an oil on canvas titled ‘Wilfred Holt’ painted in 1982 and the fundraiser did contribute funds to an overseas charity. The portrait in the years following found its way to Hilary’s home and her sharp eye led to further important information regarding Kingsville’s connection with this famous artist.
A result I am pleased to say that following communication with the National Museum of Canberra a new copy of the print was sent to Kingsville along with permission to reproduce and display the print from their collection. The school would like to acknowledge the images and their use to the Dargie family. Well done Jeff McDonald, Bill Hodgart, Hilary Fairlie and family and, all others involved in pursuing this historical link.
Updating emergency contact details When a student is enrolled at school parents must provide a range of information. THIS INFORMATION COMES TOGETHER TO PROVIDE KEY REFERENCE POINTS FOR EACH CHILD ON A DAILY BASIS. Whilst this information can be brought up instantly on a computer screen it is only as accurate as what parents and guardians provide and update during the seven years of primary school. ‘Legal Duty of Care” which requires Principals and teachers to take all reasonable steps to reduce risk to students, may be compromised if we do not have up to date and accurate details for each child. Ensuring such information is updated is ultimately a parent responsibility, but in turn the school has a responsibility to remind parents and look for strategic ways to assist parents in gaining these updates.
Please contact the school if any of your details have changed [email protected] with a subject heading of ‘Change of personal details’. Jeff McDonald, Assistant Principal/Welfare coordinator
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Melbourne Water and John Holland Mains Water Project During the term a large black pipe has been sitting in our school grounds next to the Julian Street sandpit. This pipe was delivered into the grounds by Melbourne Water as a section of the pipeline being laid as part of the new West Footscray to Yarraville Water Main. A few weeks back every children and staff member at Kingsville, in 2019, had the opportunity to sign the pipe. On Wednesday our section of pipe was laid into the ground. A number of excited children got to see this happen.
Please read further information to support Kingsville families as the work being undertaken by John Holland and Melbourne Water impacts upon daily life at Kingsville.A number of post via Compass to the community were sent during the week. Please see the relevant information as we move into the second last week of school:
Bishop Street is closed to vehicle traffic until further notice. Pedestrians will still be able to enter the
school via Bishop street.
Somerville Road entrance: the crossing of Somerville Road will return to the original crossing point.
Traffic Controllers from John Holland/Melbourne Water will continue to be managed the crossing of
Somerville Road until it is handed over to Maribyrnong Council crossing supervisors.
access for pedestrian and vehicles to Julian Street will be closed during Monday 25 March, Tuesday
26 March, and part of Wednesday 27 March, due to resurfacing and asphalting of Charlotte Street
and Julian Street. As a result, the entrance to the school on Julian Street will be closed on these
days. During this disruption the school will open the gate onto the oval from Cruickshank Park to
allow children to enter the grounds.
the gate entrance on Julian Street will be reopened on Thursday 28 March, and all public access to
Julian Street will be available on Friday 29 March
Jeff McDonald, Assistant Principal/Welfare coordinator
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Happy Birthday 21st to 27th March Happy Birthday to Sophia Yates, Akur Awar, Harry Robertson, Oscar Mulhallen, Gideon Finlay, Ted Elg, Caitlin West, Mobashera Kader, Oliver Bailey-Stegic, Tahmid Hasan and Jack Reinoga.
Italian News Sauce Day On Tuesday the 19th March we had Sam’s mum and Nonna (grandmother) come in and assist all the grade 5 and 6 children to participate in the Italian tradition of making sauce. History and information Sauce Day is the traditional annual day for many Italians even though you can buy it at the shops these days. Also it can only be made in summer when the tomatoes are ripe so you can buy them by the box-full. It is a special tradition as it brings the family together because they all work on the sauce. Interesting fact – some Italians preserve the sauce by ‘putting the bottles to bed’ instead of boiling the bottles (as in covering them with blankets, that keeps them warm which helps preserve them). Some people add chilli or basil to their sauce once it is in the bottle however, this can easily be done when it’s time to cook it. Process Normally, you need to pre-boil the tomatoes in a big drum and then cut them in half, put them in the machine and put them into bottles and then seal them. The bottles then go into a drum to be boiled again, this preserves them and gives them a longer shelf life. Reflections We used an electric sauce maker to make a lot of sauce but there was also an old fashioned manual sauce making machine too. Most children found it more fun using the hand machine, but it was definitely hard work. It was so fun, I diced up so many tomatoes, I took my sauce home and made pasta, it tasted so good! Sauce day is the best – Angus E I thought it was a great activity because we got to experience how Italians make their sauce. I put mine in my sauce in a lasagne at home. It was delicious! We were really lucky to have Sam’s Nonna and mum to help us make the sauce. – Zoe H We want to thank Carla (Sam’s mum) and Rina (Sam’s Nonna) for helping us out during Sauce Day. My favourite part was when I used the manual sauce making machine. We chopped up the tomatoes and then put them into the machine. The skins went out one side and the sauce on the other. We composted the leftover skins. - Ben B (See photos below on page 6) Sam Meddis, Italian teacher
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FOKPS News Easter Hamper Raffle Time to get cracking. It’s Easter Hamper Raffle time. We aren’t yolking, this raffle
will be EGG-STRAORDINARY! Calling for donations for the Easter Hamper raffle, to be drawn at Monday morning assembly on Monday 1st April. Donations of eggs and other Easter related goodies appreciated. Please leave near tables at the office. All donations need to be dropped at the school by Friday March 29th a.m. (at the latest). Easter Raffle Tickets Raffle tickets are attached to the end of this newsletter. Tickets are due back to school by Friday 29th March. The raffle will be drawn Monday 1st April at the last Morning Assembly for this term. Tickets are also now available on trybooking “kps easter raffle”- minimum spend $5 ($5 = 5 entries) or, follow this link https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=481756&
Community News Christian Boys College St Kilda Open Day Sunday 31st March, 2019 12p.m. – 3p.m. Enquiries: 9529 6611 Email: [email protected] www.cbcstkilda.com 11 Westbury Street, St Kilda East 2020 Year 7 applications close soon – limited places available 2021 Year 7 application in August 2019 – late application accepted if places exist Presentation College Windsor Open Day Sunday 31st March, 2019 1p.m. - 4p.m. Book at www.pcw.vic.edu.au 187 Dandenong Road, Windsor Aussie Hoops programs Basketball for 5-10 year olds VU Community Sports Stadium, Whitten Oval or RecWest Footscray Skill sessions, fun drill and friendly games Wednesday or Thursday afternoons, Saturday or Sunday morning Pink Ball Program for 5-10 year old girls VU Community Sports Stadium, Whitten Oval For more information www.westgatebasketball.com.au
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