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Website: kincumber-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 2 - Week 10 P & C meet THIRD Monday of every MONTH, 7.00pm Thursday 30 June, 2011

FROM THE PRINCIPAL:

This week: Reports State Cross Country Dance Festival New complaints handling policy Parent forums Attendance rates Rule of the Week

Reports Reports go out tomorrow and represent the hard work of students, teaching staff and office staff. We are using a new reporting software system and have been experiencing some minor hiccups as we migrate data from the old system to the new. However, we still need some practice to get used to the new software. Some reports for students working on individualised programs are not formatted as accurately as we’d like. This will be rectified as soon as possible.

State Cross Country Congratulations Bilal and Jamal Belkadi and Ottie Clarke who will be competing in the State Cross Country Carnival at Eastern Creek early next term. Well done boys – great effort!

Dance Festival Our two dance troupes have given stellar performances at the Central Coast Dance Festival over the last two weeks. Both groups were a credit to the school and their families, both onstage and off. Well done boys and girls and thank you Mrs Wardlaw, Ms Kerrie, Mrs Matchett and all of the parents who trained, rehearsed, sewed and gave up time to support the performing arts.

Complaints handling policy A school-based complaints-handling policy has been developed and will be posted on the website to assist you to understand

the way that the school manages complaints. In essence it explains that we expect that most problems can be resolved through a process of informal resolution and, where this is not possible, our process for handling formal complaints. It will be implemented as a trial from the beginning of term 3, evaluated during Terms 3 and 4 and may be revised at the end of the year as a result of feedback.

Parent Forums Thank you to Kylie Long, P & C Vice President, for conducting several sessions of our parent forums today. As a school we want to hear your opinions and asked for a P & C representative to run these sessions rather than school staff so that parents would feel free to be candid. Kylie kindly offered. I also appreciate the assistance of parents, Di Twomey, Jenelle Kent and Kel Butcher in running these forums. Many thanks.

Attendance rates Yesterday we completed the annual school absences survey for the Department. We have made some pleasing gains in attendance. I am very impressed with Kindergarten’s attendance rate – it is well above the state average and an improvement on last year’s. While overall attendance is terrific, we still have many students who arrive late to school and this is an area for improvement.

By the way, attendance listed on school reports is only entered up until 17 June. Up until today the following students had 100% attendance: Emma KH, Tallon K/1W, Jessica and Zack KL, Jade 1D, Koby and Noah 1D, Anneke 2N, Drew 2M, Jack 2C, Holly and Kaela 2A, Andrew 3T, Henry 3W, Ashleigh, Lara and Erin 3G. Great effort.

School Performance Our school performance Waltzing Kincumber is ready to step up to the next level of preparation. Rehearsals will become more frequent and excitement will increase as we countdown the days until we perform.

Tickets will go on sale online from tomorrow from a link on the front page of our school website. Although we have not limited the number of tickets or the number of performances that you can attend, I would encourage everyone to think about being mindful that everyone would like to see their own child perform.

The P & C supported our proposal to start school late on 4 August to allow children to have a little sleep-in before two performances on Thursday. School will start at 10.30am when we will have recess. Children will be able to place lunch orders then and lunch will be at 1pm after the matinee. Supervision will be provided for students who arrive at school at the

President P&C

Sam Cardy

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June/July/2011

ASSEMBLY ROSTER Parents are welcome to attend School Assembly on: Friday 1 July - 2M assembly 12.20pm Tues 28 - Sydney North Cross Country Wed 29 - 3K Maths group excursion to Coles Fri 1 July - Reports home - last day of Term 2 TERM 3 Mon 18 - Staff Development Day Tues 19 - All students return to school

KH Teah Miller 1EL Michael Bushnell 2C Jaycob Matterson 3M Corey & Emily Pethebridge

KL Jessica Ryan 1G Ezekiel Masters 2M Kieran Vella 3T Seanne Kearney

KM Ashton Groom 1K Leah Haigh 2N Kayden Shaw 3W Amelia Gillies

K/1W Dakota Leighton 1S Tyla Stuart 3G Ashleigh Uzelac Library Ashleigh Uzelac

1D Corey Verkade 2A Bella Matthews 3K Anna Jensen

Guitar Students -

Please note NO LESSONS NEXT

WEEK (WK 10) Due to teacher

illness

CLASSROOM READER AMNESTY

Please have a look around at

home and if you find any class-room readers (or any KPS books

in fact!) we would really appreciate their return. You can

drop them in at the office —no questions asked!!

Our reader resources are severely depleted and we would love to

replenish the boxes.

3G has been learning about Rene waste Energy

Our group did a project on Geothermal energy. Each of us contributed to a poster with information. Our group also made a diagram of the layers of the earth and how the geothermal cycle works. By Jade, Holly, Sami, Georgia and Erin

Our Group did a project about wind power. We have cre-ated some cardboard posters and some information on the computer. During school time we have found some useful and good information that helped us with our PowerPoint. By Aaron, Harry, Bilal, Zak, Leon and Dylan

Did you know that hydro-electricity is a renewable energy source and that it comes from water? Our group the hydro irators (Bobbi, Anais, Millee and Teagan have been working for the last few weeks on a project and finding answers for hydro-electricity. It has been FUN! By Bobbi, Anais, Millee and Teagan

Our project is on solar power. For Home Learning this term we had to do a project on Solar Power. We have completed two posters and a solar panel. The solar panel works by the sun shining on the side that has the electrons in it. Then the electrons go crazy and the lights on the other side light up! By Kirralee, Emily, Nicole and Ashleigh

Our project is about Wind and Power. Wind mills are pow-ered by wind. When it spins the wind mill creates electric-ity and an underground cord transports the electricity to the power station. Some countries that use wind energy in-clude: Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, Austria. By Daniel, Damien, Riley, Liam and Ottie

The Bio Girls are Hayley Sim, Lara Dye, Tayla Eland and Georgia Graham. We have made a PowerPoint and a poster on biomass.

1. Biomass is a renewable energy source. 2. Biomass is made by recently deceased animals or liv-

ing plants. 3. Some of the sources of biomass are wood, crops, land-

fill, gas, garbage and alcohol fuels.

Kincumber Public School will

be celebrating NAIDOC week next term with a

variety of activities including a flag

raising ceremony

SCHOOL PHOTOS School photos have been delivered and distributed to students. If you have any enquiries about your order please contact MSP direct on 4966 8292.

LEADERS/SPORT CAPTAINS/YEAR 6 PHOTOS School leaders, sport captains, year 6 group and ‘year 6 fun shot’ photos are displayed in the foyer at school. These photos can be or-dered - forms are available from the office, and need to be returned to school with payment by Friday 29 July (Week 2, Term 3). Photos are $15 each with reduction in price if you purchase more than one.

normal time. A note will go home in the week before the performance to give more details and for you to advise whether your child will be starting late.

Rule of the Week

This week’s rule is “Be on time for school”. When the morning bell goes at 8.50am, children should be lined up for class as soon as possible. The reason for this request is to avoid missing the roll call, early remind-ers, notes, money collection and important lesson begin-nings. If your child is late, please accompany them to the office or send a note or phone. Children who arrive at the office without an adult or note or oral advice are deemed to have an unjustified partial absence. Sleeping in, traffic, couldn’t find shoes and similar reasons are also considered as unjustified reasons for late arrival. Be on time.

Hope you had a great week at our great school!

Trish Peters Principal

 

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Date

MONDAY

TUESDAY 19 July Michelle

WEDNESDAY 20 July HELP NEEDED

THURSDAY 21 July HELP NEEDED

FRIDAY 22 July Jo

Rule of the Week “Be on time for school”

I encourage all of our students at Kincumber Pub-lic School to complete the challenge this year.

Congratulations to Bella Matthews and Sarah Carter who have completed the PRC this week. Over the

holidays remember to keep reading and to add books read to your online book list.

NEW for NSW DET Students - Software savings Under the NSW DET Microsoft agreement, students can now download the most popular Mi-crosoft programs at greatly dis-counted prices. Visit www.sigroup.com.au/download/studentdownload.pdf

Kincumber's annual Community Festival is on Sat 17th Septem-ber 2011 9.30am to 2.30pm. Put the date in your diary. Fun for all the family. We need stallholders, street per-formers, volunteers etc. for the event. Go to www.kincumber.nsw.au or ph 43631044

Kinder enrolments are now being accepted for 2012. Please apply at the front office for an application package.

SYDNEY NORTH CROSS COUNTRY On Tuesday 28th June nine Kin-cumber students went to Sydney North Cross Country. Three of our runners made it to State but every-one tried their best and were proud of where they came. Jamal Blekadi came 3rd, Bilal Belkadi and Ottie Clarke came 5th. They were the three that made it to State. Sam Webb came 11th, Kevin Robertson came 9th, Zzk Belkadi came 10th. Anais Staff came 54th, Dylan Booth came 33rd, Caitlin came 30th. Eve-ryone tried their best and finished their hardest. By Bilal Belkadi & Sam Webb

Waltzin’ Kincumba

Tickets to our gala production Waltzin’ Kincumba are now on sale through Trybooking.com. To pur-chase tickets use this address http://www.trybooking.com/OKJ Parents who require internet access to purchase tickets can use a computer in the school library between 8.20 and 8.50am Mondays Tuesdays or Thursdays. Tickets will cost $8.00 for the matinee perform-ance and $10 for the evening performances. Opening Night Wednesday 3rd August 6.30pm Matinee Thursday 4th August 11.30am Closing Night 4th August 6.30pm Parking will be available at Frost Reserve. We look forward to seeing you at one of our shows.

Rug up the children for the perfect opportu-nity to get them “actively” out of the house! Mt Penang Gardens School Holiday Pro-gram is coming up on Tuesday, 5th and 12th July 2011.

Mt Penang Gardens will have a selection of activities such as Kite Making, Bean Pod Sail Boating, Sack Racing and other games as well as our favourite Dip Netting activity!

There are two sessions 10:30am or 1:30pm. Children are $5.00 (under 5 free) and adults are $7.50. Bookings are essential by phoning 4340 1002 or email ccrdc@lpma.nsw.gov.au.

This is a fun, educational day for the chil-dren as well as great value. To see how much fun the children have, please visit www.mpp.nsw.gov.au.

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