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NEWSLETTER Wednesday, 29by Anna-
ANZAC DAY
Remote Learning
Year 3/4 Nature Sculptures Week two of remote learning saw our year 3 & 4 students out in nature, creating sculptures inspired by the work of
Andy Goldsworthy. Here is just a sample of their creations, using just what they could find in their gardens.
2020 KPS Anzac Day Art Challenge
Hi everyone, I hope you are well. ANZAC Day is a day where we commemorate the soldiers who fought in wars. Lots of people may have a tradition to go to the dawn service, but it was put off this year because of coronavirus. Instead, people listened to the dawn service on the radio out on their front driveways or in their lounge rooms. Me and my family decided to go out in our driveway, with a candle each and listened to the dawn service. The day before I wrote to my street to encourage them to join us and to bring a candle and mostly everyone came out to pay their respects. I enjoyed seeing my street coming out to their driveways. All the candles looked beautiful, all in one place. My Great Grandpa fought in World War 2 in the 2/22nd Infantry Battalion in New Guinea and trained close to where my dad grew up. My Great Great Aunty Flo was a nurse in the World War as well. They were awarded 7 medals and 1 badge between them both. On the left is Grandpa’s medals and on the right is Aunty Flo’s medals and her nurses badge. And the photo is of my Great Grandpa (good looking bloke!) and his memorial plaque. by Annabelle Varcoe
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating their birthday in the coming week.
We hope you have a lovely day.
May
2nd Sophie FM 3rd Abby 2J Bryden 2S Anna 2T Harper 4V Maddison 5M 5th Logan FL Hudson 6M 6th Tanesha 4M Charlotte 5H
Guess Who………
I am 39 years old and have been teaching for 18 years! I have taught every year level except Grade 4, but do not have a favourite.
I live in Kilmore East on just over an acre of land with my husband and two daughters.
We currently have three birds as pets but are deciding whether to get a new puppy soon or not. We have plenty of ‘wild’ animals that come to visit us every day, such as rosella’s, kangaroos and wallabies, kookaburras, rabbits and hares, even lizards.
Some of my hobbies include jigsaw puzzles, exercising, camping and hanging out with friends and music. We often have friends come over and take turns to play our favourite songs to each other and sing along!
During recent times, I’m finally getting plenty of time to complete all the puzzles I have stored in my home. I am also able to focus on many home improvements, such as hanging things on walls and spring cleaning. I have also been doing a lot of cooking, which I don’t normally do!
But I am missing my students very much!
Be sure to send through your guess to [email protected]
Last week’s Guess Who…... was Miss Davies.
Well done to Beau Curran-Kuchel from Miss Davies own
2D class.
Numeracy News Mrs Vilinskis and Captain Marvel the Amazing Mathematician have been working with the teachers to plan interesting Maths activities for all of the students. Captain Marvel would love it if students could email pictures of their maths work to Mrs Vilinskis at [email protected] especially so he can continue his mission to see how ‘Maths is everywhere!’, even when you are working remotely. See you next time.
CAPTAIN MARVEL
(The Amazing Meerkat Mathematician)
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The Most Important Things
The most important thing right now is your family’s wellbeing. Remote learning will last for weeks, your relationship with your child will last for decades. Your child’s journey at school will last for 500 weeks. Remote Learning will end up being a very small part of those 500 weeks. Those other 490 (or more) weeks will have a far bigger effect on your child’s education than these weeks. If you feel you or your child are struggling with the workload, ask your child’s teacher “What are the most important parts?” Your family relationships are the most important thing during the remote learning period. Be gentle on yourself, be kind to yourself.
We know and understand that you are doing the best you can.
Neil O’Sullivan
Principal
Mr O’Sullivan
On Tuesday, our school community celebrated the significant growth we have made together adapting to remote learning, by wearing Green for Growth. It is in these challenging times when we get to see the character and resilience
of our community and KPS is certainly proving itself to be a strong, resilient and adaptable community. Well done everyone! Keep up the great work!
IF YOU FIND A PATH WITH NO OBSTACLES, IT PROBABLY DOESN’T LEAD ANYWHERE.
Frank. A Clarke
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN AN OBSTACLE AND
AN OPPORTUNITY?
OUR ATTITUDE TO IT.
EVERY OPPORTUNITY HAS
DIFFICULTY, AND EVERY DIFFICULTLY HAS AN
OPPORTUNITY.
J.Sidlow Baxter
IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT’S DONE.
Nelson Mandela
We have had another fantastic week of Literacy Learning at home. Look at some of our Year 3 students’ information reports!
Giraffes — Isla 3R
Tigers — Blake 3R
Cheetahs— Abigail 3R
One of my favourite books is ‘The Important Book’. In the book, the author takes everyday things and writes about what is im-portant about them. Here is a page featuring green!
If you would like to read the whole book you can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS6F2EBWyk4 You might like to be a ‘writing thief’ and copy this idea. You could choose an object and write about what is important about it.
The colour green is associated with sustainability and the environment. Last week, on April 22, was ‘Earth Day’. Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now acknowledged all over the globe. Earth Day in 2016 was used by over 120 countries to sign the landmark climate change Paris agreement. For more information and activities about Earth Day, please see https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/ Earth day for kids clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl3zgcL0Tv8 Actions you can take
https://www.earthday.org/7-eco-friendly-actions-for-kids-during-the-pandemic/
This week, the Office of the Governor has launched a new initiative for children and young people. This initiative aims to encourage young Victorians to identify someone who inspires them, because of the work or actions they take in support of others. The Office of the Governor is asking children and young people to make a video, draw or write a short poem or paragraph about their special someone. It might be a family member or friend, someone in their school or neighbourhood or a local faith, sports, performance or other community group. They are encouraged to share their work with the Office of the Governor via email. The Office of the Governor will then select a few of these pieces each week and share them on our social media channels and on our website. For more information, please see https://www.governor.vic.gov.au/all-news/someone-special-program
If you would like to share your Literacy work in next week’s school newsletter, please email Ms White at [email protected] Have a great week,
Emma White
Match The Teacher
Each teachers Grade Prep Photo is labelled A-T on this page, and their current photos are labelled 1-20 over the page.
We’ll leave to you to try and match them up. Be sure to let us know who you think is who with the letter and the number, by emailing your
student’s name and the letter and number combination to [email protected]
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
P
Q
R
O
S
T
Miss Davies
Mr Farrell
Mr Hore
Miss Hunt
Mrs Jacobs
Mrs Magdato
Miss Melling
Miss MacCaskell
Mrs Sibbison
Miss Balintong
\Miss George
Mrs Lewis
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Mr Wilson
Mrs Nelson
11
12
13
14
Miss Veitch
Mrs V Smith
Mrs J Smith
Miss McKenzie
Mrs Fandrich
Mr Babic
15
16
17
18
19
20
Parenting in a pandemic
We all have an individual story, within a community experience that has impacted all of us, in similar, and different ways Many of the conversations I am having with families right now is around the difficulties of trying to navigate parenting and juggling our whole world from home. The basis of these conversations have been around the current impact physical distancing is having on the community – at an individual and collective level. We are currently parenting in a crisis. Survival: What we have all been experiencing is a mixture of grief - drastic life changes; change in routines, loss of our typical ‘normal’ routine, lack of predictability and a range of economic and social stress. There are several stages of grief and the process is not linear. Many of us have felt various degrees of the following over the last couple of weeks: shock and denial – anger and frustration, bargaining, and anticipation regarding our current temporary situation. Our current boundaries may have felt really blurred because our usual ‘safe place’ for most of us, our home, has now become our ‘work place’, ‘teaching space’ and we are all wearing a range of different ‘hats’ and identities from home. This can initially feel really confusing when we are ‘staying at home’ for the ‘greater good’, but feeling more exhausted, disconnected and less-effective at an individual level. Acceptance and Growth: Our initial focus on ‘survival’ and responding to immediate needs, has now transitioned to a new normalcy, reinforcing a critical time to maintain connections to family and friends and reflecting on what is going on. We are supporting our children’s schooling, from home, not by choice, but due to our current community situation. Each family will have different needs right now, and the focus needs to be on meeting them as best as you can today, and then r e-evaluate and address them differently tomorrow. Some of us might be enjoying a slower-pace life and utilising this time as a reflection period but, for the majority of us right now, we need to try and focus on what we can control within our world and that every minute and every hour might be really different. This too shall pass,
Kimberly
Words from Wellbeing
The following services are available outside of school hours:
Kids Helpline
Ph: 1800 551 800
https://kidshelpline.com.au/
Parentline
Ph: 13 22 89 https://parentline.com.au/
Safe Steps Sexual assault, domestic and
family violence Ph: 1800 015 188
https://www.safesteps.org.au/
Lifeline
Ph: 13 11 14
https://www.lifeline.org.au/
**In the event of an emergency please call 000**
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