A Word from your Acting-Principal

Thursday, 15 September 2016 Kallista Primary School, 72 Monbulk Road, phone 9755 2633 Important Diary Dates September Fri 16th Last day Term 3 Footy Colours Day 2:45 Final Assembly 3:30 Finish October Mon 3rd First day Term 4 Mon 3rd- Swimming Program begins Fri 14th A Word from your Acting-Principal Hello everyone! Well!! The holidays are nearly upon us. After such a busy and exciting term, I m sure everyone is looking forward to a well-deserved, relaxing break and an enjoyable holiday time. This term we have seen some fabulous performances in our Kallista Clowning Around production, our Mini-Olympics, our 5/6 Music performances, the lunchtime chess competitions and importantly it has been a wonderful term for learning. The classrooms are full of fabulous pieces of writing, maths and research projects and we can see our students enthusiastically engaged in learning across all areas of the curriculum. Wed 19th Thinking Outside the Box program begins Well done Kallista kids!! November Book Week Dress-up Day Tues 1st Cup Day Fri 4th Ball Sports Fri 11th Athletics Day At Kallista Primary we all value: The parade of characters we saw at assembly was amazing! Dressing up and sharing our favourite book characters was a great success and so much fun. We saw humorous characters, scary characters, historical characters, animals and robots, as well as a living, breathing sheep. Amazing! But this was really a wonderful celebration of the great Literacy learning that takes place at Kallista. Books really do play an important role in our lives!! Well done students of Kallista. (Look for the photos in this issue of Miniscope) Book Week Book Fair A big Kallista thank you to Kerrie and all the parents who helped make our 2016 Book Fair such a tremendous success. Some beautiful books and novelty items brought big smiles to many of our enthusiastic shoppers. Happy reading everyone.

KALLISTA PRIMARY SCHOOL 72 Monbulk Road Phone: 9755 2633 General Purpose Rm: 9755-3740 Fax: 9755 1960 Email: kallista.ps@ edumail.vic.gov.au Web site: www.kallista.global2. vic.edu.au Principal: Christine Finighan Office Staff: Andrea Gunn Bronwyn Laidler Bernie Smith Class Teachers: Kirsten Belloni Heather Glover Bonnie Ledger Stefanie McEwan Gail McIntyre Kate Nadji Simone Patterson Amy Roworth Anne Vear Sonja Winkler Art & Library: Georgie Ruzyla Physical Education: Hilary Morris Fabulous Family Foodie Festival Last Thursday after school our GP room buzzed with excitement as the crowds rolled in to sample the wares of the 5/6 cook-up. The smells of delicious snacks filled the air as dozens of tastes were sampled by the enthusiastic crowd. Congratulations 5/6s on excellent food preparation, marketing organisation and profit-making!! And many thanks to Kylie and the group of parent helpers and teachers who spent the whole day slaving over hot stoves with the kids in the kitchen. The staff at Kallista wishes all students and their families a safe and enjoyable holiday. Have fun everyone and we ll see you all in October refreshed and ready for a terrific last term. Gail (Mrs. Mac) as acting Principal Lunchtime Chess competition Well done to all of our participants in the lunchtime chess classes and Congratulations to the winners of the Term 3 competition. Gold medal: Brodie McIntosh Literacy Support: Marg Brooks Japanese: Matthew Harris Garden Specialist: Sonja Wittmann Kitchen Specialist: Kylie Eklund Silver medal: Bronze medal: Tikaani Tatton Fionn Burns KALLISTA CLOWNING AROUND Teacher Assistant: Kerrie Tully Ben Andrews Joan McCluskey Before & After Care: Liz Nia Jayne Turner S. C. President: Emma Miller Uniform Shop: Hannah McHardy Miniscope email: miniscope@ kallistaps.vic.edu.au PLEASE NOTE: A limited number of Production DVD orders can still be received. Envelopes and order forms available at the office. Sunsmart HATS to be worn each day Term 4

SWIMMING SWIMMING SWIMMING DON T FORGET IT STARTS FIRST DAY BACK AFTER THE HOLIDAYS Please stick this notice on your fridge as a reminder Parents, please remind your children of the following- Advise teachers of any medical problems eg asthma Cover papillomas etc with a cotton sock Do not wear jewellery to the pool Tie long hair up Name bathers, towel and other belongings and bring them in a strong bag eg Enviro bag that holds everything Be prepared to have lots of fun. Prep/1A and Prep/1K 11.55am 12.35pm 1/2H and 2/3B 12.35pm 1.15pm 3/4S and 3/4K 1.15pm 1.55pm 5/6A and 5/6S 1.55 2.35pm Hilary Morris. Physical Education

Kallista Primary School - Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) Don t forget we provide high quality before and after school care. This program is conveniently run at school in the GP room. Bookings can be made through the school office 9755 2633 or directly to the GP room during program hours 9755 3740. Fee assistance- our program is great value and is linked to the Child Care Management System via Centrelink and can offer substantial fee reductions to many families. The government assists with the costs of childcare by providing CCB Child Care Benefit and CCR Child Care Rebate for families registered with the Family Assistance Office for these benefits. CCB is means tested based on family income and CCR is not and provides 50% out of pocket rebate which can be paid as a quarterly or annual lump sum or as a further fee reduction to your account. Full Fee Before School Care $13.00 After School Care $18.00 October After 100% CCB $5.90 $6.89 After School Care Activities After 50% rebate $2.93 $3.74 Mon 3rd Pom Pom Pets Tues 4th Twister and Silent Teddy Wed 5th Paper Monsters Thurs 6th Octopus Fri 7th Bubbles Mon 10th Paper Plane Comp Tues 11th Dragons Wed 12th Skeletons Thurs 13th Space City Fri 14th Box Decorating Please Note: Before and After School accounts can now be paid via Qkr Thanks, Liz

On Tuesday the 13 of September, the senior classes participated in an interschool sports round robin. 10 senior girls did netball. It was super rainy and we were all soaked to the bone. Unfortunately, the KPS girl s netball team lost all three games, but scored two goals. Even though we weren t that successful, it was still a great experience By Zahra and Amy. Minky We had a great day out in the wet playing Minky at the Monbulk soccer grounds. We played really well against the other teams and Rowan and Indi scored a few goals. It was raining throughout the whole day but everyone kept their spirits high by cheering for the other Kallista team. There were two teams and they alternated playing games against the other schools. We won one game and the lost the other two, but all the games were really close separated by only one goal. I d like to thank Jakob especially for helping me out during the course of the day and everyone else for being a really great team. This day couldn t have been done without Mrs Morris organising and coaching us to become Minky players. Written by Indi Football inter-school sports It was a cold and wet day at Monbulk. It was the 13/9/2016, our school had Inter-school sports. I m talking about football so hope you enjoy. We played two games, could have been three but thanks to Harkaway it was two because they forfeited, our whole team played great but we have some players that played there very best like Brielle, Ollie G, Billy and Jett. Our team won all of our two games. The captains were Jett and Billy they sure deserved it, everyone tried hard and had a go. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, we made it happen today at Kallista primary football team! By Billy, Jett and Ollie G.

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