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P U B L I C SCHOOL

n P (02) 6922 6443 n Lake Albert Rd, Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

n kooringal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au n www.kooringal-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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KOORINGAL

Encouraging excellence Educating for the future

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n 2016 n Term 3 n Week 5 n Newsletter

CalendarAUGUSTThursday 18 August Trent Barrett ShieldFriday 19 August Touch Football FinalsSaturday & Sunday

20 & 21 August Band Sydney Trip

Monday 22 August NAIDOC Week beginsMonday 22 August Aboriginal Performer

Fred ReidThursday 25 August Book Week Celebration

SEPTEMBERThursday 1 September Eisteddfod

Band - 9.30am

Kooringal Public School n Acting Principal Beverley Jenkyn n kooringal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au n www.kooringal-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

UNIFORM SHOP NEW OPENING HOURSThursday 3.00pm - 3.40pm

Friday 9.00am - 9.30am

CANTEEN NEWSThe canteen opening hours have changed. Please note the following changes;

Monday and Wednesday – Open Lunch Only

Tuesday – Closed

Thursday and Friday – Open Recess and LunchIntroducing new chicken wing things and vegetables. Can be ordered in lunch order $4. Check out our Kooringal Public School Canteen facebook page for image.We will no longer be stocking Jumpys****DRAWING COMPETITION****Draw your favourite fruit or vegetable with a smily face and lots of colour on a A4page, to be displayed on canteen wall.Chosen pictures will recieve a bag of POPCORN or FROZEN ORANGE WEDGES. Please label your drawing with your name and class.Entries will close Friday at recess.

Thank you.

Zi Tye - Canteen Manager

MERIT AWARDS WEEK 4

K-6 FoxTriton Stoddard

Kinder ApplesRuby RobertsTheo Jackson-ParsellMichael Johnson

Kinder BlackberriesConstantina TsaliagosJack LawrenceIsaac Moffitt

Kinder DellLachlan FisherPippa TaylorJasper Pizzolotto

1 GigHamish CrawfordHarmony Peters

1 BoldJamie DarlingtonAmelia GallowayEvie Perry

1 MP3Brady SpearsSam GumbletonTyler Barratt

1/2 JavaMadison ToddTiarna EllicottEva Maloney

2 FontTanilha MunroAnnabelle MulleyElijah Kelleher

2 TweetAiden CraigChester TremainLakyah Curtis Dremel

3/4 ExplorerTitus MadeleySophie HuntGeorgie-Ree HavensteinKayden Pope-Gilchrist

3/4 YahooEthan EdeChad MayfieldLachlan MaxwellOlivia Fynn

3/4 BingMadison TurnerBrennon CoxBrett RobertsonAmy CasnaveMalakai Tremain

3/4 SafariLayla VenerisBelsie Wiliams-BoneyCasey WalshJayce Vigar

5/6 ClarkeHayley HindsEmma BangerRuby ReillyFletcher HolmesHarriet Priest

5/6 GatesJonathon MulhearnBriana IngramJake HockleyTravis ChurchillLucy Peisley

5/6 JobsKiri GriffithsJasmine JonesBlake MurphyOlivia Casey Thomas Casnave

5/6 SassonCharlotte PriestTaylah StanleyMadison CrawfordBreanna Dowler

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGEKindergarten Enrolments

Starting school is an important step in a child’s life. At Kooringal Public School we believe in the importance of strong home/school, parent/teacher partnerships from the very first day of your child’s schooling. For this reason, we organised last term an information afternoon around Readiness for School. This term we will commence with an information session for the parents and an afternoon gathering to meet and greet current kinder and new parents. In Term Four we will be running an extensive transition program for two hours each morning over a period of six weeks. It is now really important that if you have a child that will be commencing kindergarten in 2017 to come in and fill out an enrolment form. This is critical for our planning and class formations for 2017. Please just phone or drop into the office to pick up a form.

Calendar

Thank you to all the families that completed the survey about Tiqbiz and our communication methods at school. The feedback was excellent and has provided great direction to build a stronger relationship through enhanced communication methods to keep everyone up to date. From this feedback we have already opened up a Facebook page. Here you can see updates of happenings at our school. Another feedback was a term calendar with an overview of events across the school. So we have attached a calendar for the remainder of the term. Please put this on your fridge and add events to it as they come out. We have also adjusted the Tiqbiz messages so hopefully you are now not receiving the same message three times. A major concern was the timeframe with excursions and payments, losing or not receiving permission notes and knowing when payments are due. We will now upload excursion notes to the webpage and parents will still need to closely watch the reminders that are sent out of when the cut off dates are for the excursions. The booking of buses and accommodation determine when we need to have deposits in and it is critical everyone adheres to the cut-off dates. These cannot be extended and are not determined by the school, but by the venues.

Professional Development

Over the past two weeks all teachers have had time out of their classrooms focusing on building their skills in reading texts, comprehension and writing and tracking students against expected cluster markers on the literacy and numeracy continuums. Commencing this week certain

students will be targeted within the class by working in small groups intensively for three days per week over a three week period. We have employed an additional teacher to be in the classroom to work with the remainder of the students, whilst the class teacher works with identified students on reading texts and comprehension. This focus is one of the Premier’s priorities of moving at least 8% of students into the two highest bands in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).Bev Jenkyn,

Acting Principal

BREAKFAST CLUB DONATIONSDonations of Milo and Honey would be greatly appreciated please.

LIBRARY AWARDSChloe Swaffield Toby TyeJack Lawrence Chelsea PearceAbby Towse Grace PriceDeclan Lambert Kieran GumbletonAva Sweeney Rosyln PetersMalakai Tremain Ivy Liu Samara Angel-Kabba Deanne Vagg Olivia Gardiner Deacon Crawford Lilly Lewis Sebastien Coyle Jake Scott Lucy Peisley Jake Hockley Hayley Hinds Olivia Kirkup Madison CrawfordPreston Oakman

BOOK WEEK AND NAIDOC WEEK CELEBRATIONSThis year we are celebrating Book Week – ‘Australia: Story Country’ and Naidoc Week – ‘Songlines’ in Week 6 commencing Monday 22nd August with an Aboriginal performance by Fred Reid. Throughout the week classes will be involved in both Aboriginal and Book Week activities.

On Thursday 25th August we will highlight Book Week with our traditional Book Character Costume parade. Students are invited to come to school dressed as a character from a book or represent the theme – ‘Australia: Story Country’

Our parade will be held under the top cola Thursday from 12.20pm - 1pm. Parents are invited to join us in our parade festivities. After the parade parents are also invited to ‘Rug Time’ at 1.00pm where we will be sharing reading time and Aboriginal legends. Do you have a book or story to share or tell from your childhood? We’d love to hear it!

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GIRLS AND BOYS TOUCH TEAMCongratulations to the girls and boys school touch teams on winning both round games in the PSSA Primary School Touch Knock-out. Both teams took on Lake Albert Public School in the first round with the girls winning 7-0 and the boys winning 7-3. After progressing to the second round the girls met Sturt Public School and won convincingly with a 14-7 win. The boys followed in the girls footsteps by also winning their second round against Sturt Public School by 8 tries (13-5). Both teams played amazingly well all day with each player contributing to their team’s success. A big thank you to our wonderfully supportive parents, your assistance was very much appreciated. Both teams now progress onto the next rounds of the PSSA Primary School Touch Knock-out competition that will be held on the 19th August. Well done boys and girls.

Morgan Kennedy

Touch coordinator

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

TONY LOCKETT SHIELDOur KPS AFL team competed in the Tony Lockett Shield Competition last week. The team won 2 games and lost 2 games but were placed second overall based on for and against percentages. As always our students were wonderful ambassadors for our school! A very big thank you to Kyle Scott for his coaching and support on the day as well as all our other wonderful parents and family members who have regularly washed uniforms and provided transport and encouragement.

Julie Smith

AFL Coordinator

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

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P&C NEWSFather’s Day Breakfast – Friday 2 September, 2016

The P&C will be holding a Father’s Day breakfast on Friday 2 September, 2016 from 7am – 9am. If you did not receive a note, please collect one from the office. Can you please RSVP numbers of attendance for catering purposes.

Trivia Night – Friday 2 September, 2016

The P&C are holding a Trivia Night on Friday 2 September, 2016. If you are able to provide any donations to be used in the raffle on the night, it would be greatly appreciated. Please email below to advise.

If you are interested in booking a table, please email the P&C email address below.

P&C Meeting

The next P&C Meeting will be held tonight Tuesday 16 August, 2016 commencing at 7pm in the school staffroom. All welcome to attend.

If you are interested in becoming involved with the P&C please email kooringalpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au.

Tiqbiz - Kooingal Public School App It is a great App for keeping in touch with what your child is doing at school…. and it is free to download!

At Kooringal Public School we take every opportunity to recognise the positive steps our students make towards their development. Below you will find an outline of our reward system at K.P.S, which explains how each merit certificate received by our student helps them to attain their next Welfare Level.

Welfare Levels and the Awards System

*- Students who receive the required amount of merit certificates are nominated for the Bronze, Silver and Gold awards. If student’s behaviour is deemed unsatisfactory, students may have their nominations withheld by their classroom teacher. *- Class, library, office and principal awards are the only awards that are used to move to the next level. Tim Harris Wellbeing Coordinator

•10  merit awards in total in that school year. *

•Privileges include morning tea with Principal and parents once a term; Library privileges; Computer Lab privileges ; a movie session  in the hall at the end of the school year. 

Gold

• 6 merit awards in total in that school year.*

•Privileges include a movie session  in the hall at the end of the school year. Silver

•3 merit awards in total in that school year*

•It will be expected students will be on this level to be considered to be a school leader. Bronze

•Entry level for all students (students starting after the beginning of the year will be placed on a level comensurate with peers in their class ‐ evidence provided from previous school;

•Welfare Levels refresh at the start of each year ‐ all students return to Green level.Green

•Cautionary Level ‐ parents contacted via RISC letter;

• Students placed on Behaviour Monitoring Program for 2 weeks and then return to their original level;

•Students unable to represent the school at any sporting activity, cultural event or school camp/excursion.

Amber

•Suspension Level ‐ students who are suspended are dropped to Red Level . They are placed on a Behaviour Monitoring Program for 1 week, before returning to Amber Level, then another 2 weeks on Amber Level, then they return to their original level.

Red