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Newsletter No. 35 - Term 4– Week 6 Thursday 12 November 2015

Remembrance Day

CLOCKTOWER SERVICE On Wednesday, 11

th November our Student Leadership Team laid a wreath at the Remembrance

Day Service at the Ringwood Memorial Clocktower. Remembrance Day is a very special day and the service at the Clocktower is always a lovely service for children to attend. The Ringwood RSL members are very welcoming to schools and their service simply gives the message that we all should live peacefully together. Each year there is a group of schools that attend and the children from each school are very respectful and highly interested in the service. As usual I was very proud of our Leadership Team at the service, but especially when we were driving back to Kalinda and they were discussing the service in the car amongst themselves. Their comments really highlighted to me the importance of these services in, not only remembering the fallen, but also looking ahead to what should be a world without conflict. We really should take notice of the wishes children have for the future of the world. Remembrance Day marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). Each year Australians observe one minute silence on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts.

Lest We Forget

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RIDE ON MOWER

Unfortunately, our ride on mower was stolen at some stage during the night of Tuesday10th to Wednesday 11

th November. The thieves came well equipped with

steel cutters. The padlocks were actually left intact but the steel was cut around the padlock. If any of our families living around Mundara Drive heard or saw anything unusual, please give us a ring at school or the Ringwood Police.

SPECIAL FOOD DAYS Four times a year we have a special food day. These days are usually hot dogs or pies and the teachers tell the children all about the difference between treats (special foods) and everyday foods. These are meant to be fun days and it is purely optional whether you would like your child to participate. No child is discriminated against if they do not want to participate. You are very welcome to send along your own special food for that day.

TWILIGHT MARKET Don’t forget our Twilight Market next Friday night. Due to the popularity of the first Twilight Market last year we have lots of food for families to munch on for a quick dinner. There will be entertainment, activities and rides for the children. Let’s hope it’s a lovely warm night and parents are very welcome to bring chairs and picnic rugs to sit and enjoy the evening. GAIL POLLARD PRINCIPAL

The stage is set!

Twilight Market

Performances

Friday 20th

November

We’re all getting very excited about the upcoming Twilight Market. It is our pleasure to

announce that along with the fantastic stalls and activities, we will also be hosting a variety of fabulous performances on the

night, involving both students and teachers! At this stage, Miss M is busy scouting talent among the

students and there is a lot of interest! Stay tuned for who is

performing and when.

See you there!

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Events Calendar

FOUNDATION 2016 TRANSITION SESSIONS A reminder to parents of children who will be starting Foundation in 2016 of the Transition Sessions as follows: Friday 20

th November - 9:30 – 11:00am

Tuesday 8th December - 9:30 – 11:00am (Orientation Day)

There is also an Information Night for Foundation parents on Monday 7

th December at 7pm in the Library.

The Uniform Shop will be open on each of these sessions Tuesday 8

th December will be the last opening day for Uniform Shop for 2015.

THRASS Charts are still available at the Office for $6.95 each.

REMEMBRANCE DAY POPPY APPEAL

Thank you to everyone who purchased an item for the Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal. The RSL is very grateful for your donations.

November

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th - Gr. 5/6 Dancing Lessons

20th - Foundation 2016 Transition - Session 3

- Twilight Night Market 21

st - Working Bee – 10am-Noon

23rd

- P&F Mtg – 9.30am – Stadium 26

th - Gr. 5/6 Dancing Lessons

December

1

st - Parent Helpers Morning Tea

2nd

- Hot Dog Day in Canteen 3

rd - Gr. 5/6 Dancing Lessons

4th - Holly’s String Group – 9.30-10.30am - Library

- Junior Athletics Day Last day for Canteen orders

7th

-11th - Foundation – Gr. 2 Swimming

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th - Foundation 2016 Information Night – 7pm

8th - Orientation Day - Year 6/7 & Foundation

9th - Kalinda Carols Night

10th - Gr. 5/6 Dancing Lessons

14th - P&F AGM & Mtg – 9.30am – Stadium

16th - Year 6 Graduation

18th - End of Term 4 – 1.30pm Dismissal

TERM DATES 2015

Term 4 – 5 October - 18 December – Please note that students are dismissed at 1:30pm on the last day of school.

TERM DATES 2016

Term 1 – 27 January – 24 March (Students resume Friday 29

th Jan 2016)

(Easter – Good Friday 25th

March) Term 2 – 11 April – 24 June Term 3 – 11 July to 16 September Term 4 – 3 October to 20 December CANTEEN ROSTER

18/11/15 - Susanne H. 19/11/15 - Amanda C. & Justine W. 20/11/15 Kate M. & Nicole D. If you wish to contact Jo in the Canteen, her mobile number is 0402 031 447.

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PUPIL OF THE WEEK

F/D Natasha R. - For doing such an amazing job learning her ‘HOT’ words! Ray D. - For working so cooperatively in his Reading Group. Well done! F/M Isaac L. - For knowing all the sounds of the alphabet. Wow! I am so proud of you. Declan K. - For doing a great job at sorting money into the correct amounts. F/T Mitchell Mc. - For being a wonderful mathematician. You are great at explaining Maths to the class! Jordana S. - For consistently using her THRASS chart to help sound out tricky words! 12D Jyden P. - For being a wonderful, caring friend in the playground. Cooper W. - For being a beautiful friend to everyone in the playground. Flinders W. - For a sensational effort during your first week at Kalinda Primary School. 12N Zach P. - For wonderful attention to detail, enthusiasm and focus during our Maths division lessons. You are a star Zach! Nathan McC. - For your fabulous focus and enthusiasm during our chemical change experiments – you are a ‘mad scientist’ in the making! 12R Will J. - For doing an excellent presentation of your Change Interview. You knew lots of information about your topic. Holly McC. - For working well in Literacy Groups and being an attentive listener. 12T Callum S. - For his detailed procedure on how to make a pizza. Your descriptive step-by-step instructions made it easy to read and understand. Kai F. - For remembering the success criteria of procedural writing and always using it to do fantastic writing. 34C Ava G. - For knowing that the moon affects the world’s ocean tides. What a great mind! Espen V. - For working so intently on your wonderful treasure map to show coordinates and

a key. 34L Alexey K. - For making a strong effort at getting good details for his information report. Max N. - For making such a good start as our newest class member. 34P Peliza C. - For investigating the archives of Kalinda Primary School to demonstrate change in our community. Great work, Peliza. Harrison G. - For researching at home information on change in our community using Google Docs. Well done, Harrison.

CANTEEN NEWS Thank you to those students for using their manners at the canteen, it is appreciated by me and our volunteers. Please remind your children that we have a 2 icy pole limit per day. We still have requests for 4 or 5 icy poles at the one time - these requests will be rejected. It is great to see so many children writing their own lunch order bags. Could all parents please ensure they are written in black or blue pen or texta. It is very hard to read some of orders when they are written in pencil or obscure texta colours. It is ok to combine money into one lunch order bag if you have 2 or more children with orders. Please ensure that you write that the money is included with ??????'s order. Hot Dog Day forms for Wednesday, 2

nd December went home earlier this week. If you did not receive a form,

spares are available from the office. You will need one for each child. JO O’CALLAGHAN CANTEEN MANAGER

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The Next (and last) Chapter A reminder to all students that the third and final chapters for the 2015 novels are due on Friday 4th December.

See below for the winning stories for Chapter Two.

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ART AT EASTLAND

When you’re visiting Eastland make sure you look at all the fabulous original artwork by

David Bromley. This community project is the largest Bromley has ever been involved in. He

believes art is an important aspect of a community and that you don’t need to be an art

expert to know what you like. We often talk about sharing our own art at Kalinda by

displaying it for others to see. This is a good example of art in a public community space.

You will notice that the works are a combination of printed images and paint. Once the

huge posters were installed, the artist added his finishing touches by hand. You can read

more about David Bromley and his Eastland murals by following the link below.

https://www.eastland.com.au/visit/articles/artful-experiences

Grade 3 & 4 in the Kitchen Another exciting time was had in our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen this week. Freshly harvested from our garden were spring onions, spinach and snow peas along with other fresh produce, which was finely diced and then cooked to be included in our wonderful meal of Fried Rice. The recipe (which is so simple to make) is on our Level 3 homepage under SAKG recipes. All the children thoroughly enjoyed this meal and we compliment our wonderful Grade 3 and 4 children on their excellent table manners. GRADE 3&4 TEAM

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OSHClub News Before School / After School Care Program Term 4 – Week 6

What a fun week we have had at OSHClub this week, we have had so many different and fun activities! This week we have had set up outside, where we could paint, hang out in the tent and play outside. We have had some awesome artwork this week too with finger painting! Everyone has been getting involved in the group games such as dodge ball, silent ball, octopus and dead fish and it’s been great to see everyone having so much fun. We created Santa masks with paper plates, cellophane and paper, and made poppies for Remembrance Day. There were also same amazing paintings of poppies made! Some yummy snacks this week, fruit salad, smoothies, nachos, corn on the cob (everyone’s favourite) and so much more! We even had delicious icy poles on Monday when it was boiling hot! Everyone has been enjoying getting outside in the sunshine, playing on the playground, games of cricket and basketball on the courts! And the most exciting news at all for this week - WE GOT STICK INSECTS. Our new OSHClub pets. We have two, a boy and a girl, named Oshy and Sticky! Come on in and meet our friendly new pets. On Wednesday night, we got the window markers out and drew all over the windows, so much fun! We have also had the dress ups, games of pool, battleships, colour ins, Lego and chalk drawings. A reminder that children MUST WEAR hats AND sunscreen whilst at our Before and After School Care service. We supply Coles’ branded 50+ protection sunscreen here at the service, however, if your child has specific sunscreen needs we encourage parents to either leave some with us at the program or ensure that children have some in their bags when they arrive. Children will strictly NOT be allowed to play outside if they do not have both hat and sunscreen. We appreciate your feedback for our program and our team. We are available during program hours on 0439 992 434. Feel free to leave a voicemail message if we are unavailable. We are also contactable at oshclub.kalinda@gmail.com. Alternatively, you are always welcome to contact our Area Manager (Kathi Rowan) on 0432 212 817 or Kathi@oshclub.com.au. We have a GOLD suggestion box on the “sign in” table and we invite everyone to leave suggestions whenever they wish! These can be anonymous We welcome everyone in OSHClub, and it would be awesome to see some new faces in our program, so come on in and see everything we have to offer! We look forward to seeing everyone over the rest of the term! Kind Regards, Michelle Dark, Samantha Lawrence, Wendy Reid and Tayla Alderson.

Program phone: 0439 992 434 Coordinator: Michelle Dark

Assistants: Wendy Reid, Samantha Lawrence, Tayla Alderson.

OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the program.

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P & F are organising a school dinner! When: Tuesday 1

st December

Where: Castello’s (the old Daisey’s)

Time: 6.30pm til not too late as it’s a school night

There’s a great playground there for the kids

and an opportunity for the mums and dads to catch up over a meal...

We’ll need to know numbers so a notice will be coming home with your child so you can RSVP today

Last Chance to Join in

Even if you have not registered as part of Team Kalinda, you are very welcome to come on down from 3:30pm this Saturday and stay for as long as you like (overnight if you like!).

Or, if you can’t make it on Saturday, come along on

Sunday morning for a yummy Egg and Bacon Breakfast.

Maroondah Relay For Life

14th – 15th November 2015 Starting 3:30pm Saturday, finishing 10:30am Sunday

Town Park (Little Aths Track) Norton Road, Croydon

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COMMUNITY NEWS

OFFICE NEWS Please be aware the 2016 Parent payment and contribution have gone home. Payments can be made at the office with cash or credit card, through CompassPay through your login, or using your personal code for BPAY. If you wish to organize a payment plan, please contact the office. If you wish to organize Centrepay to make your payments, please contact the office as well. (Please note you must have a Commonwealth Heathcare Card to use the Centrepay option) Those parents on a Payment Plan, or those who have paid the Student Materials cost, are able to pick up the packs on any of our book collection days. Collection days for packs are – Monday 7

th, Tuesday 8

th and Wednesday 9

th December from 8.30am until 10am from the office foyer. Alternative dates

are Wednesday 27th

or Thursday 28th

of January 2016

Credit Card & BPay payments – Please remember that we cannot accept payments of less than $10 for credit card and less than $30 for BPay. If you are paying by BPay, please also send in a short email or note letting us know the amount, what the

payment was for and the BPay Receipt number, to kalinda.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au If payments of less than $10 are received, we will be returning them home and asking for cash payment.

THERESA JARVIS BUSINESS MANAGER UNIFORM SHOP

Opening Hours – Mondays from 3pm – 3.45pm. If you are unable to make this time, order forms are available from the office

or you can download from the website at www.kalinda.vic.edu.au / Notices and Forms. Just send in your order, with payment and it will be processed as soon as possible. SPECIAL - GRADE 6 2015 TOPS & JACKETS – Very Limited Sizes Polo tops $30 Jackets $40

SHANNON & JO UNIFORM SHOP VOLUNTEERS SCHOOL BANKING - FRIDAYS

Rewards Update - The bank has made a decision to recall the Cosmic Light Beam Torch and the upcoming Lunar Light Band reward due to a potential safety issue. To avoid disappointment there is a new reward item, the Galaxy Glider Frisbee,

available for redemption in Term 4 while stocks last. The alternative reward items that are available also include the Outer Space Savers Money Box, Invisible Ink Martian Pens, Intergalactic Rocket, ET DVD and from the 2014 rewards, the Shark Key Ring, Scented Pencils and Swimming Bag. Disneyland Competition - Keep regularly saving to ensure you have banked 25 times at school before the end of the year to

be eligible for a chance to win a trip to Disneyland. Happy Banking! Julie & Kylie Volunteer Student Banking Coordinators

Here at Kalinda we are a SunSmart school, which means students are now required to wear a Kalinda-approved hat. These hats are wide brimmed with the Kalinda Logo and can be purchased at our Uniform Shop for $15.00. During Term 4 students will need to bring their hats to school and wear them at all times outside for sport, recess, lunchtimes and any other activities outside. If your child is not wearing their hat he/she will be asked to sit in the shade and may miss out on recess, lunchtimes, or any activities being held. Please read the SunSmart advice sheet below.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD BRINGS THEIR HAT TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY THIS TERM.

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KALINDA COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD

APPLES - STRAIGHT FROM THE ORCHARD…….

Chris, our apple man will next be delivering apples on, Thursday 19h November (Wk 7). If you

would like to order apples, please see Gill or Annie at the office with your order and payment by Wednesday 18

th November.

Bags are approximately 5-6kg. Available are:

Pink Ladies ALL apples are now $10 per bag. Fujis Granny Smiths Green & Brown Pears are available Golden Delicious at $8 per bag.

See the Community Board in the Foyer for more events. The Department of Education & Training (DET) and Kalinda Primary School, do not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser. DET and Kalinda Primary School accept no responsibility for accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.

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The 17th Mullum Mullum Festival

Saturday 14 November, Sunday 15 November (Opening Day)

(The Opening Day celebrations are supported by an Auslan Interpreter)

Saturday 21 November & Sunday 22 November 2015 Celebrate the ecological and cultural significance of the local Mullum Mullum Creek Valley at the 17th Mullum Mullum Festival. The Festival starts on Saturday 14 November with a look at the night skies through telescopes, and activities continue on 15, 21 and 22 November at various sites and times along the Mullum Mullum Creek valley. The opening day is centred around Aboriginal culture and is full of entertainment, music, food and traditional craft workshops suitable for both adults and children. This is followed the next weekend by and exciting selection of over twenty expert-lead walks and presentations on various aspects of the environment. If you are interested in learning about Aboriginal culture and craft from local Aboriginal people then there will be something for you in the 17th Mullum Mullum Festival on ‘Opening Day’, Sunday 15 November at Yarran Dheran reserve, Mitcham. If you are interested in learning about birds, wallabies, echidnas, moths, reptiles, plants, trees, bush noises or many other features of our natural world from knowledgeable and passionate people, and would like to learn more about how you can help protect the environment then there will be something for you in the 17th Mullum Mullum Festival. For further details: http://mullummullumfestival.org.au https://www.facebook.com/MullumMullumFestival