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TERM 1 2024 SWIMMING TIMETABLE GRADES 4-6

Events

School Photos

Our annual school photos of class groups and individual portrait photos will be taken at Kororoit Creek Primary School by Arthur Reed Photos on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 February, 2024.

Sibling photos will be taken on Monday 25 March, 2024.

There is no need to return any forms or money to school.

Families can register online to view images when they become available in the webshop.
Registration is simple, just follow the 3 simple steps on your child’s personalised flyer and remember to add the codes for all your children attending this school.
Even if you registered last year, it’s important that you do again this year using your child’s 2024 image code to link their images for the current year with your contact details.
When images are ready to view and in the webshop, all parents who have registered will be notified by SMS and email.

Once registered, please wait for notification that 2024 images are online to view before making your purchase.

Weekly Year Level Updates

Happy Week 2 Prep Families. It was a short but fulfilling week with the Preps, we’d like to acknowledge the independence and courage the Preps displayed on their first day of swimming.

Literacy

In reading, the preps have continued using their decoding strategies to support themselves with getting stuck on unknown words. Students would use monitoring strategies such as asking themselves – Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense? To ensure they are not only decoding but monitoring their rereading skills.

In writing, the students have begun looking at how to develop an idea. In Prep, we use the word ‘seed’ as their idea development. Students would use their thinkers’ journal to develop an idea through detailed drawing. Students will then practise labelling it using dominant sounds they hear.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the preps have continued looking at 2D shapes. The Preps were showing that they were knowledgeable by using the language to describe the attributes of a 2D shape. The preps then began exploring 3D shapes. Students made the connection of finding 3D shapes in the real world by going on a hunt in school.

Unit of inquiry

This term unit looks at exploring the impact people make on our community. The preps focused on what makes a community and when delving deeper, they understood it could be their family, friendship group, extra-curricular activities that they are part of. We thank families for bringing in the school photos as this heavily supported the student’s opportunity to talk and write about who is in their family and how their family has impacted the community.

Homework

The students will be receiving a new grid for homework this term. We encourage students to continue completing their homework every week and returning it by Friday. Some students are practising their letter recognition and sound, while others are beginning to work on High-Frequency Words. Students are expected to complete one activity from the grid with either alphabet or High-frequency word four. Students can repeat an activity from the grid. Students are also asked to complete a numeracy activity from the grid.

Swimming

We congratulate the Preps on a successful and seamless transition to swimming. We ask that parents continue practising the routine of changing in and out of swimming and school clothes at home to support their independence when swimming at school.

If parents have yet labelled all clothing items, we encourage parents to do so as many pieces of clothing may be misplaced during the changing times of swimming.

Dear Grade One Families,

What an exciting week the Grade Ones have had with the swimming program beginning and students attending the Hands on Science incursion.

In Reading, students have been identifying the overarching problems within the mentor texts while recognising the minor challenges the character faces within the story.

In Writing, students have continued through the writing process to complete and publish their innovative writing pieces. They have focused on adding more detail to their writing but include noun groups to help enhance their audience’s reading experience.

In Numeracy, students have been creating and counting large collections identifying the most efficient way to accurately count. They have been working really hard to develop their counting skills to count beyond 100.

In Inquiry, students participated in the Hands on Science incursion, where they were able to experience creating different designs using all kinds of materials built for different purposes. Students were highly engaged and came back with lots of wonderings about how humans build and design for different purposes.

Swimming Reminders:

Please send your child to school wearing their bathers and label all the clothing with their name to ensure nothing is lost.
We have had a number of students with their hair down this week so please remember to tie your child’s hair back in a ponytail or a bun. This helps teachers and students when putting on swimming caps.
Please continue to support your child with drying and dressing themselves at home in preparation for their swimming session.

Kind Regards,

Natalie (H10), Jasmine (H11), Abbey (H12), Ana (H13), Renee (H14), Amanda (H15), Laura (H15) and Jade (H16)

Dear Grade Two Families,

This week through our Unit of Inquiry which has the central idea -“People care for places they belong to”, students explored how to care for places in the local community by locating familiar places on the map, discussed who takes care of these places and how.

This week in Numeracy we have continued looking at various additive strategies and deciding on which is the most efficient strategy. This week we focused on the Jump Strategy on a number line to add 2 digit numbers together.

In Readers workshop, students have been viewing and reading articles/videos/texts relating to caring for places, to support finding out more information beyond not littering. In Writer’s Workshop, students have innovated on a text that highlights a choice we make and the impacts of ‘what if everybody did that’ e.g. What if everybody threw their rubbish on the floor.

A few reminders:

– Swimming next week has swapped. Monday swimmers will be on Wednesday and Wednesdays swimmers will swim on Monday just for week 3. Please spend time with your child practising getting dressed themselves, after a shower or a bath would be ideal as students will be drying themselves and independently getting dressed after each swimming lesson. Please ensure all school uniforms are labelled with your child’s name. Pupils should be wearing their bathers under their school uniform.

– As it gets colder, this is a reminder for pupils to wear their winter uniform and school based jumpers.

Have a wonderful long weekend and we look forward to welcoming all the smiling faces back on Monday.

From Cassie, Rebekah, Monique, Emily, Eleanor, Taylah and Preet.

Dear Grade 3 families,

It has been another fantastic week in grade 3!

Reminders:

Please ensure you make a payment for the upcoming ‘Bouncing Back’ incursion.
Although the weather is cooling down, students must be coming to school infull school uniform (including KCPS branded jumpers and jackets). Hats also must be worn until further notice. For all uniform purchasing needs/ KCPS school uniform guidelines please see: https://kororoitcreekps.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/School-Uniform-Price-List-2023.pdf
Next Monday (29th of April) is Athletics Day. Students can come to school in athletic gear which is their house colour.
Swimming has begun. Please ensure your child brings:
Swimming clothes
Towel
Spare bag for wet clothes
Flip flops
Goggles

You must label all of your child’s belongings with their full name so we can easily return/locate anything that goes missing.

Literacy:

In reading, students have been inferring character traits in the texts they read and watch, then comparing them with other characters from different texts they previously read and watched.

In writing, students have continued working through the writing cycle, learning the processes writers take to publish a piece of writing!

Numeracy:

Whilst exploring chance, students have been identifying the probability of events occurring and how variables affect those events. Students have been extended this week by exploring dependent and independent events.

Unit of Inquiry:

This week, students have been tuned into the central idea ‘we encounter different challenges as we grow and change’. They have explored the key concepts of ‘causation’ and ‘change’ and how these connect to our current unit of inquiry. Students have continued to generate thought provoking wonderings that they will find out about in coming weeks.

Thanks,

The Grade Three Team

Bianca, Anne, Giorgia, Jamila, Jayde, Kafa, Yasemin and Sam

Dear Families,

What a short week we have had, but we were able to pack in lots of amazing learning.
Students have been continuing to use case studies on different people and events to explore how beliefs and values influence our lives. We have started unpacking the reading skill of inferring by understanding the difference between literal and implied meaning of a text, and we are innovating on sentences within our writing to develop well-crafted sentences.

We have become statistics investigators in numeracy, analysing data to find the mode and make inferences of what we know. (Check out our seesaw task to see more!)

Upcoming events/dates to remember:

ANZAC Day – no school for students Thursday 25th April
Curriculum Day – no school for students Friday 26th April
Athletics day- Monday the 29th of April (Week 3) Wear house colours!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

The Year 4 Team

Clayton (H32), Ashlee and Escher (H33), Gabriel (H44), Deanna (H45), Dharma (H36), Beth (H37), Krystal (H38) and Chloe and Romy (H39)

Dear Grade 5 families,

It’s been a short but sweet week. Our students have successfully settled back into classroom routines and learning. This week we had some fun exploring some wonderings our students have in regard to our unit of inquiry: Consumer choices impacts our world. We have been transdisciplinary within literacy by exploring non-fiction texts, summarising, note taking and writing a text to describe.

In numeracy, students have been mathematicians by exploring units of measurements and how we can measure mass accurately, and justify our reasonings.

Please ensure all students are wearing the correct winter school uniform.

A few upcoming reminders:

29^thApril – Athletics Day
8^th– 9^th April: Mothers Day Stall from 9am-1:30pm. 1 gift for $5

Have a lovely long weekend,

The grade 5 team

Dear Families,

It has been another busy week in Grade 6!

In reading students have been looking at symbolism. Through a variety of texts, students have been looking into how authors use symbols in their writing to represent hidden meanings or messages. We are now going to connect that to and make inferences about the themes of texts. In writing students have continued to draft their stories that follow the emotional arc from the character in Heart and the Bottle, showing students can innovate on texts. Our Grade 6’s are very excited that they are working towards publishing these pieces in a new and interesting way.

In numeracy, we have started a new unit which is multiplicative thinking. We have been focusing classifying numbers, such as prime, composite and square numbers. Students have just started using this knowledge to create factor trees for a variety of numbers.

Students will be playing in their first game of Interschool Sports next week on Friday the 3rd of May. This will be a home game against St Lawrence Primary School.

Can we please ask that parents or guardians provide Grade 6 students with walking permission, as some of the games will need to be played across the road at Burnside Oval.

A few quick reminders:

ANZAC Day is on Thursday the 25th of April.
Friday the 26th of April is a Curriculum Day.
Athletics Day is on Monday the 29th of April.
Year 7 transition forms are due back by the 10th of May.

If you have any questions please feel free to pop in and see us anytime.

Have a wonderful long weekend!

From the Year 6 Team
Daniel, Simon, Mel, Sarah, Shannon, Shana, Bernadette, Elyse, Ashley and Bryoni

Canteen

Canteen Menu with instructions 2024

Instructions on how to change your child’s school or class on the App

Flexischools Online Canteen Ordering

Compass Communication

Attendance entry in Compass

Booking interviews on Compass

Parent Guide to Compass

Medication Authority Form

This form MUST be completed if a child is to be given medication at school.

Medication Authority Form

Note: Wherever possible, medication should be scheduled outside of school hours, eg. medication required three times a day is generally not required during a school day: It can be taken before and after school and before bed.

Kingswim Induction

KCPS Kingswim Induction

Uniform

Kororoit Creek Primary School has a uniform policy, stating that the wearing of school uniform is compulsory. The uniform must be worn correctly without fashion accessories or enhancements (including leggings under dresses) every day. Please make sure that every item of clothing is named. Please note that plain black school shoes should be worn with the uniform (no colours). Summer uniform terms 1 and 4 and winter uniform terms 2 and 3. (Exception will be made for extreme weather conditions). Summer dresses are not suitable for winter and should not be worn with skivvies or tights underneath as winter uniform. Uniforms can be purchased directly from the supplier – Primary School Wear, 2/51-53 Westwood Dr, Ravenhall 3023.

Uniform Policy

KCPS Uniform Collection

School Uniform Price List 2023

Disability Inclusion

Kororoit Creek Primary School is excited to introduce Disability Inclusion, a new approach to help us improve support for students with disability and build a more inclusive school for all our students.

Inclusive schools have better outcomes in learning, engagement and wellbeing for all students.

Disability Inclusion will help our school better understand what our students need to help them learn, through:

a new funding model with more investment
a new strength-based process called the Disability Inclusion Profile to help identify the student’s needs and required adjustments
more training and coaching for teachers and school staff about the best ways to support student learning.

A new funding model with more investment

The new funding model provides additional investment that our school can use to support many students including those with autism, learning difficulties and more.

This additional investment will provide more support for students with disability, including students who haven’t been eligible for individual funding through the Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD) in the past.

Our school can use this funding for a range of activities including

more training and professional development for teachers and school staff
getting expert advice about disability
hiring teachers or other staff to help plan and deliver changes for students
equipment and resources to support learning.

The Disability Inclusion Profile

The Disability Inclusion Profile will help us find out more about your child’s strengths and needs. It will inform personalised funding allocations, help us plan student learning and any changes a student may need to better learn.

The new Disability Inclusion Profile process will replace the Educational Needs Questionnaire used as a part of the current PSD. Disability Inclusion img 300x282

As we transition over the next three years, families of students who are part of the PSD will be asked to attend a meeting to complete a Disability Inclusion Profile.

People who know your child will be involved in the meeting, along with an independent, trained facilitator who will help our school and families complete the profile.

If your child is part of the PSD, we will work with you to find the most suitable time to complete their profile.

The profile will also be available to a broad group of students with high needs.

We will identify students who are not currently part of the PSD, who may benefit from a Disability Inclusion Profile. If we consider that your child’s education will benefit from having a profile, we will contact you.