Wednesday 23rd October 2013

Dean Avenue, Kidman Park SA 5025 Phone: 8353 2444 Fax: 8235 1357

Email: dl.0996_admin@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.kidmanpkps.sa.edu.au

ASPIRE and SOAR

TERM 4 ISSUE 16

Our 2013 Sports Day was a great event. All of our students lived by our school values, tried their best, played collaboratively and had a ton of fun. Thank you to all of our parents and friends that came along and enjoyed the day. Most importantly the weather was perfect! Thanks once again to Terry Ahern for his great organising of Sports Day. Thank you to all staff members for their effort to ensure the success of Sports Day. And the winners are…. The competition on sports day has never been so close throughout the day. Rarely was there more than 10 points dividing the four teams. But, at the end of the day our brand new trophies were presented to –

BLUE 403 RED 384 YELLOW 359 GREEN 352

For everyone attending Sports Day you would have seen Marina Lekkas (U6 class teacher) carted away to hospital by ambulance. Marina was attempting to ensure a ‘fair start’ to her class’s tug of war competition by placing her foot on the rope. Unfortunately the students enthusiastically started pulling before Marina moved her foot meaning she was flung back onto the ground.

Marina spent the first few days of the holidays in the

Queen Elizabeth Hospital whilst a plate was inserted into

her arm to secure the broken bones. She is currently in

still a bit of pain and will be away from school for another

couple of weeks. It wasn’t quite the hotel accommodation

Marina had been planning for the holidays.

HAVE YOU BEEN RECEIVING EMAILS FROM KPPS? It has taken a bit of time, but our new ‘Student Management Tool’ is currently being tested. This now allows us to send bulk emails to parents in classes or, across the school. Once some improvements have been made to the system, we will be ready to distribute our newsletters electronically to the KPPS community along with other notes and updates.

This term we have emailed all KPPS parents about the following topics: Gastro outbreak PJ Day Class placement letters If you have not received these emails then it means we do not have an up-to-date email address for your

family. Please send an updated email address to :

dl.0996_admin@schools.sa.edu.au

A note will be sent home next week with any student in Years 2-5 interested in learning a stringed instrument in 2014. An Expression of Interest form will be required by all interested students. Numbers assist in determining 2014 funding. New students will participate in an audition lesson early in term one. Lessons are provided by a DECD Instrumental Music teacher. Costs will be $30 per term for the hire and maintenance of the instrument. Students can choose to learn to play cello, violin or viola.

Tanya Welsh provides piano and flute lessons for students at the school. She has a few vacancies available for next year. If your child is interested in lessons, please contact Tania on: 0411 772 892 to check times available and cost.

Letters were distributed Tuesday October 22nd requesting parent feedback for 2014 classes.

Responses must be returned by MONDAY OCTOBER 28th. A copy of the notice can be found at:

http://www.kidmanpkps.sa.edu.au/excursions.htm

Thankyou to all families who have paid school fees, arranged instalment payments, direct debit payments or applied for school card.

All outstanding school fees will now be sent to Debt Collectors.

SPORTING FUN!

KPPS EMAILS

KPPS EMAILS

MUSIC IN 2014

PIANO / FLUTE 2014

NOT AN ENJOYABLE SPORTS DAY

CLASS PLACEMENT 2014

SCHOOL FEES

JOSIAH MITTON PRIZE 2013

Kidman Celebrates

2013 The planning has begun for our massive end of year celebration to be held at the Family Centre on Frederick Rd, Seaton, at 7pm on Wednesday December 11 th. Details about tickets will be sent home soon. Put the date in your diary now and support our students as they display their special talents and performing arts skills. All classes will perform on the night. Kidman Celebrates is a fun night for our community to celebrate the end of the school year and for students to; show what they have learnt as a part of our arts program, develop their confidence all in front of a supportive and appreciative audience. Once again, tickets will be $5 with a limited amount available.

Bon Jovi will be performing at Football Park on the same night traffic might be a little more congested on the night.

An order form for the Year 7 Polo tops 2014 was sent home earlier this week with all year 6 students. A copy can also be downloaded from our website at:

http://www.kidmanpkps.sa.edu.au/excursions.htm

Year 7 polo tops cost $38.00. All orders must be returned

by Friday 1st November and no late orders accepted.

These tops are only available by placing an order, we do

not keep stock in the Uniform Shop.

The Josiah Mitton Prize is offered to the most outstanding or best "all round" student in all primary and high schools in the City of Charles Sturt.

Josiah Mitton was one of the first elected Councillors of the Corporation of the Town of Hindmarsh and its third Mayor (1878-1880). He participated actively in local affairs and in the Hindmarsh Institute Library, which was formed between 1852 and 1855. On his death a bequest of over 50 Pounds was presented to the library to set up a library scholarship for school children. The Josiah Mitton Prize was initially presented annually to a student from each school in the Hindmarsh area to perpetuate the memory of the Josiah Mitton Scholarship to the Hindmarsh District Library and Mechanics Institute.

When libraries became a free service the scholarship became irrelevant and an annual book prize was introduced and has been awarded annually by the City of Charles Sturt ever since.

Award recipients will receive an invitation to attend the Mayoral Make a Book and Josiah Mitton award night Thursday 7 November 2013.

Our school has nominated Matilda (Tilly) Krywanio. Tilly has represented our school in many ways- Japanese Quiz Day, Hiragana Contests, Debating, Chess and Choir. She also plays netball for the school team. Tilly has successfully taken part in the Australian Maths Challenge, and ICAS tests of Spelling, Maths and Computing. Outside of school she extends her talents with playing the piano and dancing with Henley Beach Dance Group.

When she is not striving for excellence in all subject areas, Tilly looks for ways to support our school. Her peers elected her as a Student Leader and she has taken on the responsibility as Open Day tour guide, supporting Kidman-a-thon and Discoes, as well as, hosting and judging in Kidman’s Got Talent. Committees have included fund raising, ICT Student Mentor program, School Magazine and Trees for

Life.

Tilly volunteers in the school canteen and has completed both the Premier Reading and Premier Be Active Challenges.

An excellent role model and worthy Josiah Mitton recipient!

FRONT OFFICE NEWS

YEAR 7 POLO TOPS

FRONT OFFICE NEWS:

The front office hours are: 8.25am to 4.00pm

SCHOOL PAYMENTS:

For your convenience you can also make

payments / deposits directly into our bank account:

Kidman Park Primary School

BSB: 105 147

Account no: 551 006 440

BRANDON’S VAN

DON’T FORGET THE CONCERT FOR BRANDON is on this Sunday 27th October 2013. Tickets are

available from the front office, until first thing Friday morning.

Please return Brandon’s Van raffle tickets to school by Friday 25th October (this week) to be able to go

into the draw on Sunday.

A big Thankyou to our school community, so far we have raised $3,216.30!! The raffle has raised

1366.40, Ticket sales $420, Pyjama Day $805.60 and $624.30 in donations.

PYJAMA DAY

On the 18th of October, people all around the Kidman Park

Community hopped out of bed in the morning and didn’t get dressed

for school because it was a pyjama day fundraiser to raise money for

Brandon’s Van.

There were a lot of people in their pyjamas and their onesie’s. Even

some of the teachers didn’t get dressed in the morning!

It was a fun day and everyone who was brave enough to show off

their pj’s joined in and there were heaps of photos to remind

everyone of pyjama day.

In total the Kidman Park Community raised $805.60 for Brandon’s Van

and we would like to think that there will be fundraisers like this to raise

money for Brandon’s Van in the future.

By Jasmine and Erin

SPORTS DAY

The sun gods smiled on us again and sports day went off

without a hitch. A big turnout of parents and family added to

the carnival atmosphere.

Thanks to all our school staff who worked hard to make it a

success. A special mention to David Krieg and P3 and

Teresa Marshall’s P2 who set up a truck load of gear all

week.

The ‘Battleball’ demo was a hit with our R-2 children and

parents. If you would like to buy one for $33, please contact

me.

TROPHY NIGHT

A reminder: our annual sports trophy night for all teams is

on Friday 15th November (week 5). The BBQ run by our

governing council starts about 5.00pm, with our streamlined

trophy presentation in our hall at 6.00pm. Lock in the date

now.

KANGA CRICKET

Begins this Saturday 26th October at 8.30am for a 9.00am

start. Woodville South Cricket Club, Ledger Rd, Woodville

South. Notes have been given to all players. Please ring

Dean Clark on mobile: 0408 757 650 for more details.

TEEBALL

Games start this Friday 25th October at 4.00pm, WTBC,

Lockleys Oval, Rutland Ave, Lockleys. We have few

players, so they will join a combined Yr 2/3 Eagles team. If

you are interested, please contact Andrew Scott at WTBC

on: 0413 511 347.

BASKETBALL

The season winds up for our 3 teams in a few weeks.

Special thanks to our fab coaches over the whole year.

REMINDER: to receive your $20 singlet refund you’ll need to

return your singlet washed and bagged to the office, with

your NAME and TEAM clearly marked, no later than Monday

9th December, last week of term. Alina will swap your

singlet for $20 cash.

Terry Ahern

Sports Coordinator

BASKETBALL

U11 27/09/13

KPPS 22

Nazareth Gold 14

Great last game. Well done boys.

NETBALL

U9 18/09/13

KPPS Diamonds 7

Woodville Rockets 1

Thanks to Renee and Portia for filling in. All played well.

Goals: Alexandra 2, Erin 2, Sienna 1, Jazmine 2

U9 25/09/13

KPPS Diamonds 2

St Francis 0

Well played by all the girls. Goals: Marie 1, and Faith 1

U11 17/10/13

Kidman Park A 8

Nazareth Gold 7

Another great effort by a committed team - prepared to play

any position and always at their best. Well done.

PE in Term 4

I offer 45 minute sessions once a week with most of our R-5

classes this term, often in 3 week blocks to reinforce individu-

al sport skills.

My focus for the final assessment—hitting/striking, will be

‘stick’ skills and sports.

A lock of teeball will be given to all R-5s with modified games

for our R-2s.

Next, lacrosse will be introduced to our year 3-5s using our

new set of equipment and R-2s will enjo9y some soft hockey

using ‘fat’ sticks and big balls.

As the weather heats up, indoor ‘striking’ activities will in-

clude indoor hockey and bran ball for our 3-5s and the al-

ways popular scooter hockey for our R-2s.

Twin towers, gaga ball and Oscar’s garbage bin will be re-

vived as ever popular warm up activities.

I’m looking forward to another fun, active term.

Terry Ahern

Sports Coordinator

SPORTS NEWS

SPORTS RESULTS

PE NIT in Term 4

こんにちはKonnichiwa, Welcome back to term 4, it’s sure to be busy so I hope you are refreshed from the holidays. This week all classes have been

starting to talk about 日本のたべも

のNihon no tabemono – Japanese Food. We are

looking at Obento and other well-known, popular Japanese dishes. We may get to try some cooking of our own before the end of the year! Have you ever eaten Japanese food? Which is your favourite? For the rest of the term the students from Year 3 to 7 will

be continuing their ひらがなhiragana learning from term 3.

They are だ ん だ んdandan

(gradually) becoming very proficient at recognising the 46 symbols and are starting to read words – very exciting!

Students in P3 have received their first letter from Warren the Wombat. He’s living in Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan (try to find it on a map)! Our new friend Baikinman

has also arrived and has started adventures visiting homes of students. We will take photos of his adventures then write a class journal to go with the photos. All in simple Japanese! What a fun way to make use of our language skills! Students in the Early Years will

learn more about Japanese culture through Autumn talk – foods, activities and customs, with all language woven through this topic. You should see some displays of this appearing near our room soon! Please pop in and see me if you want to find out more about this term’s work, our Japanese programme, second language learning or your child’s progress. I look forward to meeting some of you during the term.

さようならSayonara

Belinda Sensei

ベリンダ 先生

VACATION CARE

Vacation Care is available during the school holidays.

Week 1 16/12/13 - 20/12/13

Week 2 06/01/14 - 10/01/14

Week 3 13/01/14 - 17/01/14

Week 4 20/01/14 - 24/01/14

Please contact Freddy at OSHC on: 0401 121 740 to arrange

bookings and forms.

NIHONGO NEWS OSHC NEWS

WEEK DATE ACTIVITY

2 Wednesday 23rd October Newsletter

Thursday 24th October OPEN MORNING (Tour of school) 9.15am

3 Monday 28th October Ride a Bike Right

Tuesday 29th October Ride a Bike Right

Tuesday 29th October Assembly—LC 2.15pm

Thursday 31st October OSHC meeting 6.00pm

Thursday 31st October Governing Council meeting 7.00pm

4 Monday 4th November Ride a Bike Right

Tuesday 5th November Ride a Bike Right

Wednesday 6th November Newsletter

Thursday 7th November Book Fair—Buy one get one free

5 Monday 11th November Remembrance Day

Monday 11th November Ride a Bike Right

Monday 11th November Ride a Bike Right

Tuesday 12th November Assembly—P4 2.15pm

Friday 15th November Trophy Night

6 Wednesday 20th November Newsletter

Wednesday 20th November Premier’s Reading Challenge Picnic—Collins Reserve

Thursday 21st November Reception Transition Visits 9.00—11.20am

7 Tuesday 25th November Assembly RM 7 2.15pm

Thursday 28th November Helpers Morning Tea

Thursday 28th November OSHC Management 6.00pm

Thursday 28th November Governing Council 7.00pm

Thursday 28th November Reception Transition Visits 2.00-4.30pm

8 Wednesday 4th December Newsletter

Friday 6th December COP Christmas Story

Friday 6th December Reports sent home

9 Tuesday 10th December Kidman Celebrates Rehearsals

Wednesday 10th December Kidman Celebrates Rehearsals

Wednesday 10th December Kidman Celebrates—Christian Family Centre

Thursday 12th December Year 7 Graduation

Thursday 12th December Party Day

Thursday 12th December Year 7 Excursion

Friday 13th December Final Assembly—Special Awards

Friday 13th December Last day of Term 2.10pm Finish