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Newsletter No. 27 Friday 9th August 2016

16th September

Term 3 ends

3rd October

Term 4 Begins

4th—10th October

Life Education Van

7th & 14th October

Fire Education (Preps)

13th October

Chess Tournament

Father’s Day

Breakfast - reminder

For the second year running, staff have

organised the Father’s Day breakfast, where

Dads and their children are invited to school to enjoy a

‘just cooked’ hot breakfast of egg and bacon rolls. The

information went home via paper note. For those who

have made their order, please don’t forget this annual

event is happening on Monday, 5th September from

7.30am to 8.45 am in the Multi-Purpose Room.

Grade Two Sleep-Over – first ‘camping’

event for Grade Two children

Friday, 9th September is an exciting time for Grade Two

children as they begin their school camp experience with

an overnight sleep-in at school. The students meet on the

Friday night and set up their ‘bed’ in the middle school

corridor (this could be a blow up mattress, a sleeping

bag, or whatever suits the family best). After some games

and sometimes a G rated movie, the children go to bed

after a snack. Teachers and parents are available over

the night and morning, with the main task encouraging

some students to close their eyes. In the morning,

breakfast is provided by some helpful parents. The

students are collected by their parents, often going home

to have a little more sleep after the excitement of

sleeping with so many friends.

The out of school camping program begins in Grade 3

and a 3 day camp happens each year until, and

including Grade 6. We have four tried and tested camps

we have been using for a while. The Grade 3 and 4

camp usually happens in the second semester, whilst the

Grade 5 and 6 camp happens in the first semester. All

camps are activity based, with ACA accreditation.

Regards, Karyn

Principal’s Message-

Karyn Simes-

Martin

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest

adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and

the learned. Taylor Caldwell

Monday 5th: Father’s Day Breakfast

Tuesday 6th:

Wednesday 7th:

Thursday 8th: Interschool Athletics

Friday 9th: Grade 2 Sleep Over

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CARE Awards

Congratulations to this week’s

winners of the

Kerrimuir CARE Awards!

These students have all been recognised by their teachers this

week for an achievement related to one of our four school

CARE values.

Meeting Dates

17th October

21st November

School Council

School council meetings are held monthly during school

terms, on Monday nights in the staff room from

7.30-9.30. Parents are welcome to attend school

council meetings as observers.

NOTICES

First Aid Roster

Friday 9th September – Amy Gavriel

Thursday 16th September – Lily Cui

Friday 7th October - Melissa Duanne

Fruit Roster

Monday 5th - Nyapuon Bie Nyabor

Tuesday 6th - Hongtai Wu

Wednesday 7th - Jill Pham

Thursday 8th - Erica Sorrenson

Friday 9th - Nicole Popplewell

Car Parking Improvements

Over the coming holidays some work will be completed to expand our onsite

car parking capabilities.

When the senior school building was completed in 2010, a significant proportion of car

parking was lost. Restoring at least some of this parking has been on the school’s

infrastructure plan since that time. Now that our higher priority infrastructure projects

have been completed (including refurbishment of both the middle school and junior school

buildings, external painting, new fencing and grounds improvements) we are now in a

position to address this problem.

Car parking is one of few sources of disharmony with our local residents. While it is

difficult to solve problems of congestion at pick up and drop off times, taking

responsibility for our car parking requirements for staff and visitors during the school day

is one thing we can do to minimise the impact and be a good neighbour.

Providing adequate car parking is also a service to our staff. Investing in infrastructure

that improves working conditions is one way we can say thank you for the wonderful job

they do, and helps to attract great applicants for future positions.

The new car parking spaces have been designed so that they do not impinge on existing

play spaces. They will be installed along the grassed area at the edge of the driveway

leading into the existing car park. This area is not used as part of the oval, and will not

affect the adjacent shade sail. The work will also include improvements to fencing

between the car park and oval, as well as a proper access point for vehicles onto the

oval for the purpose of maintenance and special events (such as the school fair).

The works will be completed during the upcoming school holidays so there will be no

impact on the students during construction.

NOTICES

School Canteen

Lunch Orders

The school canteen is working well following changes introduced in term 2. Lunch orders

continue to be provided by Balanced Living Catering, odered online from the Balanced

Living Catering website: www.balancedlivingcatering.com.au.

Remember that lunch order payments are managed using a “Flexischools” account. You

can register for a Flexischools account from the Balanced Living Catering website.

Counter Sales

Counter sales are being offered from the canteen window for approximately 15 minutes

(or until all children are served) at the beginning of lunchtime. We have a wonderful

team of Grade 6 students taking turns to serve, supervised by our senior school teachers.

Not only is this a great experience for the students both buying and selling, the canteen is

making a small profit each term which is contributing to school fundraising.

Canteen Counter Sales Menu

Red Rock Deli Chip 28gm $1.50

Piranha Vege Cracker 25gm $1.50

Koala Popcorn 25gm $1.50

Quelch Icypoles 70ml $1.00

Berri Frozen Orange Juice cups 110ml $1.00

Life Education Van

The Life Education Van will be visiting Kerrimuir from the 4-10th October. Life Education

offers specialist teaching in the areas of health education, personal safety, physical

activity, cyber safety, safety with medicine and legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, caffeine).

An event has been posted on Compass. Consent and payment are due by 14th

September.

For more information about the Life Education Van visit: www.lifeeducation.org.au

NOTICES

Interschool Athletics

Next Thursday, 8th September, selected students from Grades 4-6 will be

participating in the district interschool athletics carnival at Rieschiecks Reserve,

George St, Doncaster. Parents and

supporters are welcome to come along to

cheer on their children. Students will travel

to and from the event by bus and need to

bring a packed lunch and water bottle.

An event has been posted on Compass.

If your child is participating in this event,

please complete your consent and

payment as soon as possible.

Kerrimuir Olympics and Sausage Sizzle

On the last day of term we will be hosting the Kerrimuir Olympics. All

students will be allocated a country, and are invited to come to school dressed

in their country’s colours and/or national dress. After an opening ceremony,

students will be competing for their countries in a variety of different events.

Sausage sizzle lunch

On this day the Grade 6 students are also

organising a sausage sizzle as a fundraising

event for their graduation festivities. Order

forms have gone out in school clipboards and

are due back by Tuesday 13th September. The

cost is $2.50 for a sasuage in bread or veggie

burger.

STUDENT Leadership & Extra curricular activities

Lunch/snack

time activities

Lunch & Snack Time Activities Book Club Tuesday 2nd half

lunchtime Grades 1-4. Choir: Monday lunch time

Grades 1-6. New members welcome

Chess Club Tuesday lunchtime, Mr

Bevis’ room. All ages, all abilities welcome.

Gardening Club Friday lunchtime.

Everyone welcome Hiragana Reading Challenge Wednesday lunchtime,

Japanese Room. Craft with Georgi Wednesday/Thursday

snack & lunch, Georgi’s room, BER building.

Enrolled students only: Special Religious Instruction Tuesday 1st half of

lunchtime Kelly Sports Dance Tuesday lunchtime Tennis Thursday lunchtime Jam session Thursday snack,

instrumental music students.

Sports Captains Next term, sport shed borrowing will continue. Students will have to line up outside the sport shed. Make sure that you bring back the equipment. If you don't bring it back, you won't be able to borrow again. We would love more people to come and borrow sport equipment. Will and India Sport Captains

Junior School Council The Junior School Council have been surveying

students to find out what improvements we can

make to the schoolyard. Some suggestions include

adding equipment like spades and buckets to the

Village, new sports equipment such as basketball

rings, and new grass for the oval! We have looked

at the suggestions and we will be buying

equipment for the Village very soon. Mr McLean

has also recently installed new basketball nets on

the basketball court. Keep a look out for the

equipment in the Village soon!

Che and Yanning

Junior School Council Captains

BRAIN Training

Fundraising

TRIVIA NIGHT Thank you to all our supporters!

On behalf of Kerrimuir Primary School we would like to thank the following businesses for their

generous donation that went towards our Trivia Night which was held on Friday 19th August

2016. Their commitment to helping our school raise over $11,000 in funds towards improving

our school facilities is sincerely appreciated.

Please support these businesses.

The Brown Hare, Kerrimuir Box Hill Golf Club Masters, Box Hill

Novotel, Glen Waverley Phillip Island Nature Parks Mitcham Bowling Club

Tien Dat Restaurant, Box Hill

Healthways Recreation Centre

Koonung Cottage, Blackburn North

Harvey Norman, Nunawading

Elgar Road Veterinary Hospital, Box Hill

Blackburn Square Shoe Repair

Darkzone, Box Hill Puffing Billy Bob Jane, Box Hill

Doncaster Inn, Doncaster Box Hill Action Indoor Sports Sparkles Car Wash

Danny’s Flowers, Blackburn North

Watermarc, Greensborough

Gillian’s Jewellery, Blackburn South

Nick’s Fruit Shop, Kerrimuir Officeworks, Doncaster Kerrimuir Newsagency

Global Art North Blackburn Dry Cleaners Autobarn, Nunawading

Strachan Eyecare, Blackburn North Square

Bertocchi Smallgoods, Thomastown

Planet Pet

Fratelli Motors, Second Ave, Box Hill North

Enriks Restaurant, Blackburn

Big 4 Phillip Island Caravan Park

Salt & Pepper Giftware NumberWorks, Balwyn Mars Foods

Bunnings Box Hill South TImezone, Forest Hill Future Music Blackburn

Prospect Wines, Blackburn Aqualink Box Hill Kate Gibson Photograpy

Comedy Club Rubix Café, Kerrimuir Wriggle It - Watsonia

Ace Parking, Tullamarine The Paella Pan Shoppingtown Hotel

Kerrimuir IGA Toy Island Blackburn North Cycle Works

BRAIN Training

Fundraising

…..But wait there’s more!

Special thanks also to:

Our host Brian Barry, Julie Norris for helping on the night

Artists Julia Weston and Wendy Ewert, as well as our students Airi, Genevieve, May,

Caitlin, Chloe, Daiety (from Grade 6) and Erin, Emil, and Sophie (Grade 5) for their

wonderful artwork

Other members of our members of our Kerrimuir Community who made donations for

the night including Blair Barker, Georgi Watts and our Kerrimuir Face Painting Team.

The following companies who made a financial contribution:

The City of Whitehorse for providing the venue.

Everyone who contributed to the Class Hampers from all year levels, and to those who

assisted the trivia team through individual donations, wrapping hampers and

everyone who assisted during the day and night.

Everyone who came along and supported us on the

night by buying tickets, participating in the events,

making auction purchases, buying raffle tickets and

bringing along your friends and families.

Lastly thank you to the Trivia Team: Sue Silva, Jane

Barker and Adele Pasquini.

Adele Pasquini

School Council President

Bendigo Bank, Blackburn South Kerrimuir Pharmacy Kerrimuir Fish n Chip

Pizza Heart Kerrimuir Elite PVC Box Hill Cricket Club

iHomes Real Estate Kerrimuir Hello World Camberwell

BRAIN Training

Fundraising

Cake Raffle

The famous Kerrimuir

Cake Raffle takes

place every Friday

morning at assembly.

Thanks to the parents

and other volunteers

who bake our yummy

prizes. Tickets just

20c at the canteen

window.

This Week’s Winners: Lavi T x 2, Jordan, Gibson L, Jimmy W

Funds raised: $121.40

Next Week’s Chefs (9.9.16): Natalie Daw x 2, Emily Retallick

x 2, Penny Saver, Tiffany Tchen x 2.

We need bakers for the cake raffle for every week in term 4! Thank you so much to the parents who have offered to help with the raffle. Can you bake a cake? To sign up...

Email barb.sorell@gmail.com OR

Click below to go to Sign up genius: www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d4cafae2ea6fa7-term OR

Put your name on the sign up sheets at the canteen

window during Friday assembly.

(NO fresh cream please – due to storage & food safety issues)

Thank you. Barb 0415164753 (Brooke 5A)

REBEL SPORT

FUNDRAISING

Register for Rebel's

loyalty program at

www.seasonpass.com.au

and nominate Kerrimuir

Primary School, and

5% of the value of

your purchase goes

back to the school.

Jump to it!

Get behind Kerrimuir Primary School to give us a

chance of winning $7,000 worth of prizes in our

Great Bake Sale 2016.

Just go to the website to vote now,

and share it around

http://www.greatbakesale.com.au

BRAIN Training

BRAIN Training

Weekly Maths Challenge Challenge 27

Olympic team captains are holding pieces of fruit as part of a healthy eating promotion.

The Croatia captain is holding an apple, the

Austria captain is holding a tangerine, the

Iceland captain is holding a lime and the Belgium captain is holding a grapefruit. Is the

German captain holding a mango or a

peach?

Email your answer to:

kerrimuir.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Answers revealed in next week’s

Newsletter.

Last Week’s Challenge & Answer

Here is an unusual safe. Each of the buttons

must be pressed once only in the correct

order to reach the center X and open the safe. The number of moves and direction to

move is marked on each button.

Which button is the first you must press?

Answer

1L on the fourth row.

This week’s

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G

Rules

This week’s spelling

Common Middle Spellings

for /ē/

The letters ee say /ē/ usually

in the middle of a word

meet keep street

The letters ea also say /ē/

usually in the middle of a

word

meat ear stream

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