Newsletter No. 4
Thursday 25th February 2016
Diary Dates
Principal’s Report
Compass
Thursday 25th February
Twilight Sports
5:30-7:30 Weather Permitting
Thursday 10th March
Whole School Photo Day
Monday 14th March
Public Holiday
Tuesday 15th March
Chess Tournament
Monday 21st March
City Excursion—Gr 5 & 6
Notices Sent Home
Term One events
Each term Kerrimuir develops a few special events, which the
children participate in, created and often run by the staff.
Tonight we are holding the Twilight Sports, which is a chance
to meet people for the whole family, whilst joining in with some fun
games. Food will be available to purchase and the fun starts on the
oval at 5.30pm, so children can be home shortly after the 7.30pm
finish. Many thanks to parents who have volunteered to assist in the
cooking and delivery of food. Staff this year are running both the
events and the food, so they will be exhausted after a long day in the
classroom. Parents, if you are able to lend a hand, your support would
be greatly appreciated. In the future, some events may not be able to
run if we don’t have enough people prepared to lend a hand for 30
minutes or so.
Friday 19th February
Head Lice– PA, PB P/1C
Information 2016– Grade 1
This Friday afternoon we are running a CALC (Creating a Learning
Community) event. The CALC program ensures children settle well into
their new classrooms, develop classroom rules to follow, and begin
bonding as a group. Friday highlights the end of the CALC program,
with a fun multi-age collaborative group event.
Tuesday 23rd February
Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser-Youngest
Calling for Class Reps– All Students
Parent – Teacher Interviews are also happening later this term, from
the 7th to the 11th March. If you haven’t yet booked a time through
Compass, there are still some good options available.
The Kerrimuir Super Egg competition day will be held on Thursday,
24th March. More information will be coming shortly regarding how this
works. Children decorate a plastic egg, and try to make it move swiftly
down a corrugated slope, with the aim of being first to reach the
ground. Class competitions find the fastest eggs for each class, then the
class winners race against each other in the Super Egg final. On this
day we also run the Kerrimuir Gift, which echoes the Stawell Gift, and
is run on the school oval, with year level races, for both girls and boys.
Regards
Karyn
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no
further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Performing Arts Students of The
Week!
During Term 1 in Performing Arts, we are an introducing a new concept
called 'PA Students of The Week'! This will be given during most classes to a student who may
do a great dance, be a great team leader, help others in the class or even for helping the
teacher with demonstrations. The names of these students will go up on the PA Students of
The Week board, located in the entrance to the front office all day on a Monday and in the
Performing Arts Room for the remainder of the week. From this group of students, one will
be chosen to receive the Performing Arts Award at the following Monday morning assembly.
Congratulations to the following students for receiving the award in their class for Week 5 of
Term 1, 2016.
Alice Farrow
Jordan McTaggart
Bronte McIver
Joshua Murray
Grace Sharkie
Lucas Shelley
Spencer Jose
Claire Chong
Takumi Yamamoto
Brianna Ingram
James Murray
Isabelle Heath
Ben Harding
Airi Weston
Daniel Traikos
P1/C
PA
PB
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
4A
4B
5A
5B
6A
6B
Congratulations to Isabelle Heath in 5A for being awarded the Performing Arts Award this
week for being a very patient, sensitive and encouraging group leader! Well done Isi!
Mrs. Thomas
Maths Challenge
Challenge 2 answers
5.
On each row the second number plus the third number gives the first
number and the fourth number plus the fifth number gives you the first
number.
Challenge 3
Which of the following numbers is the odd one out?
198
497
132
561
275
352
SCHOOL PHOTOS
Students are receiving Envelopes this week. Please
return the envelopes
By the 4th March.
Photo day is on 10th March 2016.
Please collect envelopes from the office for Family
photos.
Thank you
PE NEWS!
PE has been full of fun, fitness and skill development so far this term! It has been terrific to see such enthusiastic students!
In Prep we are focussing on basic movement activities, minor games, and fundamental motor skills, including
running, skipping, jumping as well as ball skills such as bouncing, rolling, throwing and catching. Prep students also participate in a Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) once a week. This program aims to develop
spatial awareness, body control, co-ordination, motor skills, memory and problem solving skills. Whole
group floor sessions have been a focus this term. Next term we will begin rotations and will be inviting parents to assist.
So far this term, Year 1 and 2 students have participated in minor games and activities to develop particular fundamental motor skills such as running, jumping, dodging as well as ball handling skills such as overarm throwing and hand dribbling.
Year 3 and 4 students have been involved in fitness activities and co-operative games and are developing
ball handling skills such as catching, overarm throwing, chest and shoulder passing. Students at this level
participate in modified sports and games to practice these skills.
Year 5 and 6 students are currently participating in a unit on modified volleyball. Students have also have
participated in games and activities to develop fitness and team work skills. The development of students’
ability to use game sense and tactics is an ongoing part of the PE program at this level through participation in major and modified sports.
We have been fortunate to have a number free clinics run at school this term that support the PE program.
These have targeted various year levels and have included; a tennis for the whole school (Prep to Year 6),
Kelly Sports for Years 1 and 2 and a hockey clinic for students in Years 2 to 4. Soccer clinics are scheduled
for later in the term for students in Years 3 to 6.
We’re a Sporting School!
Kerrimuir Primary School has registered for Sporting Schools, a
new Australian Government programme designed to give our
students the opportunity to have access to sport-based activities.
The Sporting Schools program will complement our existing PE
curriculum, allowing our students to explore a range of dynamic
new sports. Sporting Schools will help us work more closely with
sporting clubs in our community, and tap into the large pool of
talented sports coaches in the local community.
The good news is, Sporting Schools is funded by the Australian
Government, which means there are no additional costs to parents. This term students in Year 5 and 6 will participate in an Orienteering program run by Orienteering Victoria.
Friendly Reminder:
Please ensure that your child wears or brings their runners to school on the days they have PE or sport. Water bottles
are also strongly recommended. If for any reason your child cannot participate in PE please send a note.
Many thanks for your support,
Kirrily Gloufchev
PE Teacher
CALC - whole school Newspaper and Masking
Tape costume–making activity – Friday, 26th February.
We’re all looking forward to our traditional ‘end of CALC/
first month back at school’ activity this Friday afternoon.
Traditionally, this activity provides an opportunity for
students across the school to celebrate their first weeks
together and to get to know each other even better. As
usual, the quick-thinking, creative minds and nimble fingers
of Kerrimuir students will astound their teachers – staff
members are quite sure of this!
We will conclude the activity with a quick ‘show and share’
of newspaper creations in the Multi-purpose room. Photos
will no doubt appear at a future Friday Assembly.
In Grade 5 this term we have been studying Earth’s place in Space in our Science lessons.
We have been looking at our place in space. Here is some of the students work exploring
the different parts of space.
We have also been calculating ‘5A in numbers’. We have
measured our height, weight and how many siblings, pets
and computers we have. We also collocated all this data
with some interesting results.
Spelling for the next three weeks, Grades One to Six:
When Spelling always think…….
Base word first
How many syllables
How many sounds in each syllable
Remember: There are exceptions to the rules
Short vowel sounds (phonemes)
ă
ĕ
ĭ
ŏ
ŭ
Closed syllables
A closed syllable has only one vowel followed by a consonant
The vowel will say its short sound
map
get
it
hot
up
Open syllables
An open syllable ends with a vowel
The vowel will say its name (long sound)
ba by
me
o pen
di rect
mu sic
Exceptions: The letter I will not always follow the rule
CARE Awards
Monday 22nd February
Prep A
Jordan Mc T
Prep B
Ted K
Prep 1/C
James R
1A
Harvey T
1B
Charlotte L
2A
Lucy S
2B
3A
Jessie N S
3B
Scarlett T
4A
4B
Isabel G
5A
Brooke S
5B
Mitchell S, Ben H
6A
Genevieve R
6B
Lilita M
Japanese
Tilda PA, Tisha 4B, Grace 6B
P.E
Isabelle H 5B
Visual Arts
Emily Ingram 1B
Performing Arts
Isabelle H 5B
Congratulations to the following students
who were the recipients of our CARE
awards at Monday Assembly.
Each of these children experienced
success recently.
Cake Raffle - Volunteers Required
Last week’s winners:- 19/2/16 Ada, Maddie, Sienna, Ruby, Sophie
We raised $119.20
This weeks chefs : Tanya Hall, Marina Scherbaruk
The following week– Larissa Halonkin, Marina Scherbank
Many thanks to all who
contribute!
Please sign up through signup genius to volunteer or contact the
Office. Thank you. Current Roster in this newsletter.
Login: [email protected]
Password: KerrimuirPS
Fruit Duty Roster
Monday 29th February
Georgina Di Giovannangelo
Tuesday 1st March
Hongtai Wu
Wednesday 2nd March
Choi Hung Ha Phleps
Thursday 3rd March
Rachel Allsop
Friday 4th March
Louise Heath
First Aid Roster
Friday 19th February - Melissa Duanne
Friday 26th February - Tanya Hall
Friday 4th March - Barb Sorell
Firday 11th March—Amy Gavriel
FIRST AID
A reminder to all parents,
when borrowing clothing
from the First Aid Room for
your child, to remember to
wash and return the
clothes the next day.
Camp Australia Newsletter – Week beginning ---22 Feb 2016--Last week the OSHC team introduced the children to an acknowledgement tree for their collective and individual actions that staff
observe during before and after school care. The tree contains a
wooden peg which has each child’s name printed on it plus a
‘whole OSHC’ wooden peg. There are five branches of the tree
each child starts at ‘Nice Job’ and can climb two steps either way.
Positively up through Great Work to Superb Actions or be asked to
Make Better Choices on the way down before Alert. Since its introduction on Tuesday morning (16 Feb), the whole OSHC group has
climbed and remained on Superb Actions - the highest spot on the
tree. I would like to complement all the children who attending
OSHC over the last week for working so well as a collective group
to remain at this position. Some children have also reached the
‘Superb Action’ position individually for observations such as:

consistently packing up after others not just the items they
used themselves
 repeatedly showing role model behaviours
 supporting staff by influencing peers to follow educator instructions
using initiative to contribute to shared responsibilities (e.g. packing
up breakfast)
We have also introduced the reflection journal of which children,
parents and teachers are welcome to contribute by adding feedback about their observations or experiences with OSHC. This is
placed at the sign in/out table.
If you have any enquiries, or need to contact us for any reason,
please call us on 0401 279 208 or our Camp Australia Customer
Service Team on 1300 105 343.
Regards,
Mary-Anne (Coordinator) & the OSHC team
Community Notices
PAID ADVERTISEMENTS
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She Babbles. You Laugh.
They Sing. We Dance.
Come and create beautiful memories at Cuddle & Bounce and give your child the gift of
music. For Babies 4 months – 1 year
0412 271 637
14 Selwyn Street, Blackburn
www.linda.kindermusik.com
Community Notices
PAID ADVERTISEMENTS
PLAY TENNIS
Dear Parent,
Your child is participating in a free, two week Hot Shots tennis program at your primary
school run by coaches from the Nunawading Tennis Club in Blackburn North. This is a
tennis program which aims to provide a fun introduction to tennis for primary school
children. Tennis is a fun, cheap, social and all year round sporting option for your child
and family.
As a final part of the program, your child is invited to enrol in our afterschool programs
and receive a FREE Wilson tennis racquet.
Please note: This offer is for new enrolments only. Please mention this ad when enrolling in a program. Offer expires at the conclusion of the school program.
To register please call Peter Caruana on 9836 0097 or [email protected]
Community Notices
PAID ADVERTISEMENTS
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Uniting Church, 147, Woodhouse Grove,
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