Newsletter
No 17 7th June 2024
Acknowledgement
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples.
Swimming Week 2024
This week the students have been diving into swimming lessons at PARC pools. Swimming is an essential life skill and providing these swimming lessons ensures our students develop confidence and competence in the water. As well as teaching swimming skills, these lessons also promote physical fitness, coordination and water safety.
During these lessons, students have learnt skills such as floating, kicking, and basic strokes. One of the key components of these lessons is teaching water safety, a crucial aspect that ensures our students not only enjoy their time in the water, but do so safely. Some of the water safety skills they learnt included floating and treading water, safe entry and exit and basic rescue techniques.
It was great to see the students' enthusiasm and watching their confidence grow with every splash!
During these lessons, students have learnt skills such as floating, kicking, and basic strokes. One of the key components of these lessons is teaching water safety, a crucial aspect that ensures our students not only enjoy their time in the water, but do so safely. Some of the water safety skills they learnt included floating and treading water, safe entry and exit and basic rescue techniques.
It was great to see the students' enthusiasm and watching their confidence grow with every splash!
Peter Combe
On Thursday the 6th of May our students were lucky enough to have the talented musician and beloved children's entertainer Peter Combe perform for them. Peter Combe is known for his catchy, fun songs and engaging performances.
The students had a wonderful time interacting with Peter and singing along to songs such as 'Tadpole Blues', 'Spaghetti Bolognaise', 'Ting Tang Teng Tong' and 'Mr Clickety Cane'. The energy in the BER was incredible with everyone clapping, singing and moving to the music.
A special highlight of the concert was when our very own music teacher, Mrs Freeman joined Peter Combe to sing 'Planet Earth 3rd From The Sun!
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School Notice Board - 7th June 2024
| What a wonderful school climate! | |||
| Students, teachers, parents, carers and guardians should all be proud of the way the children hold themselves at school. Data shows that the number of incidents that are considered major, have falled dramatically from this time last year. We are also experiencing fewer low level behaviours of concern across the school than ever before. Everyone has contributed to ensuring the Karingal Heights in a calm and kind environment. Visitors coming in continually comment on how lovely this school is to enter. Thank you everyone for making KHPS the best school around! | |||
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Reminder that there is no school Monday | |||
Just a reminder to all families that the school is closed on Monday for the King's Birthday public holiday. |  | ||
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Do you know of a local sporting or community group that the students or families might be interested in? |  | ||
| Donations for Art and STEM Please | |||
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Current Notices | |||
 | Please keep an eye out for the dates on the following notices: * Camp medical forms * Special treat - due Tues 11th June * Moonlit Sancturary (Junior school) | ||
Coming Events
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Please look at the events calendar for future events.
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World Environment Day 2024
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World Environment Day 2024 in Australia is held on the 5th of June. This day is an international day of environmental awareness and action that takes place on the same day each year.
The theme for 2024 is 'Our Land, Our Future' which focuses on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience.
To inspire thought and discussion on small actions we can do help our earth, 12W completed an activity where they put thier bright ideas onto a light bulb which will be displayed in the classroom.
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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 | 1/2W | 3/4S | 4/5/6H |
| Zain H Tabitha M Kian L Emma L | Ewan K Dustin G | Rosalee T Cian K | Jet K Luca L |
| ART/STEM | MUSIC | ||
| Harley T Ciarrah T Max P Aurora B Levi P | Lucas J |
Birthdays in June
| 1st | Lachlan P |  |
| 11th | Rhyder L | |
| 16th | Kyrah R | |
| 25th | Joel H |
Book Club Issue 4
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 4 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 14th June 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.
Community News
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| If you know of any sporting clubs or after school community groups that would like to promote on this page, could you please get them to email the school? |
