Newsletter
No 12 3rd May 2024
Acknowledgement
Fire Education 2024
Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) provides a program for primary schools local to FRV fire stations and KHPS are lucky enough to be one of those primary schools.
Fire Education is important for children who are in their first year of school as this is the age at which most children become able to effectively learn and utilise fire safety information when presented within a formal program.
The program delivered to the junior students was presented over two session. To prepare for the Firefighters visit, the students read a picture book and completed worksheets which promoted awareness that firefighters are an integral part of the community as community helpers.
During the first firefighter visit to our school, the firefighters provided an interactive presentation about the following:
- Firefighters are helpers
- Good fires and bad fires
- Crawl low in smoke
- Safe meeting place
- What is an emergency? 000 (Triple Zero)
The firefighters then returned today for their last visit to revise the concepts of their visit, discuss and observe the students safe meeting place worksheets, introduce the concept 'Stop, Drop and Roll' and the most exciting part of the program, a visit to the fire truck!
District Field Athletics 2024
On Wednesday 1st of May some of our 4, 5 and 6 students went to Ballam Park to compete against other school in our area in the District Field Athletics. The students represented our school well and put in an amazing effort.
Congratulations to all the students who competed on the day and a special mention goes out to the following students who all came away with ribbons in their events.
Alby B - 2nd in Triple Jump
Jaxon C - 2nd in Triple Jump
Cian K - 3rd Triple Jump
Rosalee T - 3rd Triple Jump
Soyara S - 4th Triple Jump
Kerry M - 2nd in Discus
Ryder K - 2nd in Discus
Audrey M - 3rd in Discus
Cooper D - 3rd in Discus
Shreya HS - 3rd in Shot Put
Charlotte H - 4th in Shot Put
Well Done!
School Notice Board - 3rd May 2024
2024 Student Attitudes to School Survey | |
| Dear Parents / Caregivers / Guardians, The Student Attidudes to school Survey will be offered to all grade 4-6 students from 13/5/2024 - 31/5/2024. Information around the survey has been emailed out to all the families with children in this cohort. | |
Mother's Day Morning Tea | |
| Our annual Mother's Day morning tea will be held on Friday 10th May at 10:00am We welcome any mothers/ carers/ grandmothers to come for morning tea. Most of the food is made by the students for you enjoyment. Please come mingle with other's. |  |
School Photo Infomation | |
| This Wednesday is school photo day. Important information: * Students must be in school uniform * Coloured hair ties and coloured hair accessories are not allowed for photos. * Student photos start at 9:00am - please be on time to school. | |
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When: Wednesday 8th May. |
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Current Notices | |
 | Please keep an eye out for the dates on the following notices: * Mother's Day Raffle |
Coming Events
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Please look at the events calendar for future events.
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| Please refer to the EVENT Calendar on the website to find out information about future events. It is the easiest place to go to when you are unsure about what is coming up, dates and times. |
Peter Combe is coming!
Premiers' Reading Challenge 2024
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Karingal Heights PS is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:
- access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
- a modern user-friendly interface
- rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
- the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 6 September 2024.
Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.
To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge
Book Club
Book Club provides families with affordable and convenient ways to bring the best in children's literature into their homes. Each issue contains curated, age-appropriate titles carefully selected and levelled by a dedicated team of professional book lovers.
BOOK CLUB ISSUE 3 is out now! You can view online at https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/Parent/Login.aspx
A paper catalogue was sent home on Wednesday.
Just a reminder that orders are due back by 6th May via Scholastic Loop online ordering system or by bringing the order form which is in the catalogue back to school in a sealed envelope.
Orders will be delivered to school and distributed to the students. There is also a GIFT function which you can select if you prefer orders to be sent to the front office for secret collection!
For every Book Club order placed, Scholastic gives back 15% of the order value to our school to purchase valuable educational resources via its Scholastic Rewards program.
Thank you for your support of our KHPS Book Club.
Awards, Birthdays, Celebrations
Congratulations to our Students of the Week recipients from the latest assembly
We would like to congratulate the following students for receiving an award at our last assembly.
| P/1D | 1/2B | 3/4S | 4/5/6H |
| Maximus P Ciarrah T Danariel F Aurora B Jaxon H | Lucas J Lylah-May M | Logan J Tony L | Tyler F-G Alby B |
| ART | MUSIC | ||
| Blake B Annabelle T | Matilda C |
Birthdays in May
| 3rd | Mason K |  |
| 11th | Harley T | |
| 12th | Shreya HS | |
| 13th | Matilda C | |
| 17th | Tony L | |
| 18th | Catalina L | |
| 22nd | Ollie B | |
| 24th | Zeva D Russell M Axel L | |
| 25th | Zeina H | |
| 27th | Ryder K | |
| 29th | Zain H |