Develop ing Respons ib le Learners for a Changing Soc ie ty

PO Box 126 HAMPTON PARK 3976 Web: www.kilberryps.vic.edu.au Phone: 9702 8688

Term 1— Issue 6 6th May 2020

Principal’s Message

Dear Parents/Guardians, Over the past fortnight, we have focused on refining and consolidating our approach to Remote Learning with great success. I am pleased with our outcomes so far, with our school attendance remaining at 92%. Our staff are working very hard to ensure your students are provided with the highest quality of learning that we can provide. So I would like to extend a very big THANK YOU to our staff for their work during this time. Looking through student work on SEESAW, it is wonderful to see the work our students are doing and that they are connecting with their teachers. Our teachers are becoming very innovative with how they present the learning activities and many of our students are very dedicated. Although this is not the same for all children, so please continue to encourage your child and provide them the support where you can. I would also like to thank our parents. As a parent of 2 primary school aged children myself, I know firsthand, the challenges around children learning from home and parents working from home too. It is very important to take time to have breaks, exercise and family time. This weekend is Mother’s Day, unfortunately we are not able to have our Mother’s Day stall this year but we hope our students have made their mum’s a card and a homemade gift. My mum always considered these the best gifts! Please share some of these photos with us on our FACEBOOK page.

Regards,

Corey Fleming Principal

Friday Assembly—’LIVE’

On Facebook @3.00pm

Friday 8th May

Online Book Club Orders close

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and pay our respect to all the elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia”.

ANZAC DAY This year we were unable to run our normal celebration assembly for ANZAC DAY. However many of our students, families and staff still commemorated the special occasion with a Driveway Dawn Service or lovely artworks. Below are just a few of the beautiful images. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Assembly Last Saturday, we were able to present our first remote assembly. This was recorded by our students and teachers from their homes and presented from our Kilberry Connect YouTube Channel. This will be a weekly feature from our school, so please take some time to watch it with your children on Fridays. Congratulations to those students who received student of the week! Attendance While our attendance at Kilberry is remaining high, it is very time consuming for our teachers to monitor their student attendance. Therefore we are now refining this and using a streamlined approach. From Monday, 11th May, all students will be sent an attendance activity each day. This should be the first activity for each day and simply requires the children to draw a tick in the box to show they are present and ready for learning. Teachers will still continue to mark each child’s attendance, this should hopefully just make this easier and less time consuming. Please remember if your child is unwell and not partaking in the learning for the day, you should notify the teacher either through SEESAW or leave a message with the office. Thank you Device and Internet access While the majority of our families are now connected, we are still hearing a few with internet issues. Please remember these two helpful hints to stay connected and contact us if you have issues around this. If you require internet access, while the department have suggested they will be assisting schools with this, they are yet to communicate how. In the meantime, there are 2 things you can do.

1. Firstly you can create a hotspot on your mobile phone for a tablet, computer or laptop to use. Please check your mobile settings on how to do this.

2. Secondly, contact your mobile provider, many of them are offering customers extra data without any further cost. Below are some links to companies that are offering FREE internet to families for remote learning.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/superloop-uses-nbn-scheme-to-offer-free-broadband-to-5000-low-income-homes-54688

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/531553?fbclid=IwAR0FpxYIjbwRT1V_227baBMiO-RfMsEMwybnwOoWHaIZ5Dp8b1nwkXaMrT

https://superloop.com/education Tech Support Our School Tech Support Team are can be reached at connectkvps@gmail.co so please email us any issues you need support with. OnSite Supervision We are continuing to offer the at school Onsite Supervision Program. The message from the premier remains the same, that all students who can work from home MUST work from home. The onsite supervision is a last resort for those parents who are unable to work from home and are unable to make any other arrangements for their children to be supervised at home. If you believe you require this service, you must contact the school by phone or email to complete a week by week application form. These forms are considered on a needs basis and I will contact you directly once you have completed the application form. Furthermore, we are able to support our vulnerable students, identified as out of home care; deemed by child protection or family services to be at risk of harm or as identified by our school as vulnerable. If you believe your child is in need of this supervision and you meet this criteria, please contact our Wellbeing team.

0A Izabella

0A Eden

0B Sammar

0B Ananya

0C Elyas

0C Adshaya

0D Luca

1A Miranda

1A Pelawatta

1B Khemi

1B Sarfaraz

1B Eva

1C Annabelle

1D Luksheka

1D

1D Jayera

2A Mazhar

2A Pia

2A Muhammad

2B Davina

2B Esme

2B Nilofar

2C Dhavij

2C Patrick

2C Serena

3B Ethan

3B Preet

3B Ashanti

3D Gabriel

3D Nevaeh

3D Yukta

3D Kiarna Rose

4C Julian Jethro

4D Benjamin

4D David

5A Jerryl

5A Freshta

5B Bryce

5C Anirudh

5C Sannaa

5C Joshua

5D Anzelia

6A Virote

6A Rohan

6A Sanadi

6B Mehdi (Mohammad)

6B James

6C Valerie

6C Lachlan

6C Phoenix

May

Prep A Eden

Prep A Jasviraaj

Prep B Nikita

Prep B Devon

Prep C Hamza

Prep C Zavier

Prep D Diyon

Prep D Tianna-Belle

1A Yazdan

1A llie

1B Aftab

1B Roseka

1C Gabi

1D Willy

1D Jasmine

2A Jayden

2A Azad

2B Lilly

2B Mahtab

2C Leah

2C Tristian

3A Sankalp

3A Jack

3B Mason

3B Ayvah

3C Lucas

3C Eeva

3D Aleeah

3D Ainsley

4A Cael

4A Halicia

4B Keilana

4B Liam

4C Aayan

4C Riya

4D Kayden

4D Benjamin

5A Mohammad

5B Tzyon

5C Zac

5C Danielle

5D Anzelia

5D Chandler

6A Dominic

6A Ella

6B Bianca

Awarded to the following students for

Being ready to Learn

Prep A Albert

Prep B Kody

Prep C Ashar Fayaz

Prep D Indianna

1A Andrew

1B Peter

1C Xavier

1D Mariana

2A Sapphire

2C Ashleigh

3A Natasha

3B Sasha

3C Maddison

3D Jiaxin

4A Jyotsana

4B Ella

4C Julian

4D Rakshitha

5A Lutfullah

5B Shachi

5C Merilyn

5D Omid

6A Max

6B Saira

6C Imran

Specialist Awards

DigiTech

The families of KVPS!

Performing Arts 1A

P.E 3D

Visual Art Prep B

Spanish 5C

Awarded to the following students for

Taking Care of Resources

The book Club Issue 3 is be available ONLINE!

In these unprecedented times we’re all being asked to change the way we work and live. Our book club leaflets are made available to students to browse and order, this isn’t going to change, but for Term 2, we’re doing things a little differently.

After browsing the catalogue you can go to the link below to place your order.

At present the only way that an order can be made is online by credit card via LOOP.

www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP

All orders will be delivered to the school and you will be advised when and where they can be picked up from.

8th May

How to help your child with their reading…

Dear parents/carers, Due to the current COVID-19 situation Kilberry Valley Primary School has decided not to take part in this year’s upcoming Australian Mathematics Competition and University of New South Wales Competition ICAS Assessment. These are optional assessments which the school have had many students successfully take part in on previous years. Due to the difficulty in organising registrations not to participate in the year 2020 as-sessments. We look forward to offering your children the opportunity to take part in the Australian Mathematicss Competition and University of New South Wales ICAS Assessment in 2021. Thank you for your understanding, Dylan Tickell Australian Mathematics and ICAS coordinator Kilberry Valley Primary School

&

The following events have been cancelled or postponed

due to the current COVID-19 government guidelines.

Halogen Foundation Young Leaders Day (free) - Cancelled KVPS Fun Run Day—Postponed—date in future to be confirmed Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne—Year 4’s— Cancelled Shrek The Musical—Cast—Cancelled Year 4 Urban Camp Melbourne—Cancelled Year 5 Camp Mill Valley Ranch— wait until further notice Prep Information night for Term 2-Thursday 7th May has been postponed till further notice due to Covid-19. Cancelled activities; Families who have paid will have this money credited to their family account to use in the future.

If you would prefer a refund, you will need to send an email to

our email account: kilberry.valley.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au. You must include the following information in the email:

1. Child’s name and grade

2. Excursion/Camp to be refunded due to COVID-19 3. Bank account holder’s name/s

4. BSB & Account no.

Note; Camps or Excursions paid by CSEF are unable to be refunded to a bank account.

CSEF money will be credited to your child to be used for future Camps, sports and excursions.

4 March 2020

Is your Lollipop person the sweetest? School Crossing Supervisor of the Year Award

As part of our commitment to the ongoing safety of your students, School Crossing’s Victoria, together with your local council, is looking for the ‘Supervisor of the Year’ 2019/2020. There are seven regions across the state. A winner will be selected in each region, and the overall winner, will be selected from the regional winners. The winner of the 2017/2018 Supervisor of the Year is Margaret Coulson from the City of Greater Geelong and School Crossing’s Victoria would like to enlist your help to boost this year’s nominations. It is our goal to reach as many parents, residents and school staff as possible and by involving them in the nomination process encourage all road users to think about, and reward, the active role the Supervisors play in the safety of their children. Your support of this program will help ensure your Crossing Supervisor is shown the appreciation they deserve. We would appreciate if you could include the attached advert in your next school newsletter. Nominations are open now, and close on Friday 8

th May 2020 go to the School Crossings Victoria website

www.schoolcrossingsvictoria.com.au and complete an online nomination. Thankyou for taking the time to read this letter and I hope you will be able to support this initiative.

Over the holiday break QKR will be updating their system to allow parents to amend their profile to show any serious selected allergies (only from the list on QKR), this includes products that hold anaphylaxis problems. Although we do have a no nut policy, we have included nuts on the list. Parents will be asked to update their profiles next term to allow this change to go through on their account.

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