Term 2, 2021

Wednesday 21 April : Canteen reopens for Term 2

Thursday 22 April: Open Classrooms and Family picnic

Monday 26th April: Kalinda House Cross Country

Tuesday 27 April : Anzac Special Morning Tea (orders and payments now closed)

Tuesday 4 May : Grade 1/ 2 Excursion to Zoo

Thursday 6 May : Mothers and Special Persons Day Stall in MPR (payment through QKR)

Tuesday 11- Thursday 13 May: NAPLAN for Grade 3 and 5

Wednesday 19 - Friday 21 May: Grade 5/6 Camp, Camp Rumbug in Foster.

Tuesday 25th May: Kalinda Open Night

Wednesday 26 May : District Cross Country ( selected students only)

Monday 24 May - Friday 28 May: Education week. Kalinda Book Fair in Library

( please note new date )

Monday 14 June: Queen's Birthday Public Holiday ( no students)

Friday 25 June End of Term, students dismissed at 2.30 pm

Term 3, 2021

Monday 12 July : Students start Term 3

Monday 23 - Friday 27 August Book week

Friday 27 August - Lisa Keskinen ( Author visit )

Later in the year

Public Holidays

Melbourne Cup Tuesday 2 November

Grade 3-6 House Athletics Wednesday, July 28

Foundation - 2 Athletics Carnival Tuesday, November 9

Yr 7 2022 and Foundation Transition day Tuesday December 7 for Government Schools

Working Bee Dates for 2021

Saturday 1 May

Sunday 30 May

Saturday 19th June

Sunday 25th July

Saturday 28 August

Sunday 17 October

Sunday 14 November

School Camps

Grade 5/6 Camp 19-21 May Camp Rumbug

Grade 4 Camp 23 - 25 August, Phillip Island

Grade 3 Camp 13-15 October, Wombat Corner

Term Dates for 2021

Term 2, Students dismissed Friday 25 June 230pm

Term 3, Students return Monday 12 July. Students dismissed Friday 17 September 230pm

Term 4, Students return Monday 4 October. Students dismissed Friday 17 December 130pm

ANZAC Day Biscuits

The following information is taken from the Australian War Memorial website, as per the links below.

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/anzac-biscuits

Every year, as Anzac Day approaches, people become curious about Anzac biscuits. Maybe it's because the thought of them is a delectable relief to the sombreness of that day and all that it represents.But it is easy to make mistakes about Anzac biscuits, strangely enough. The biscuit that most of us know as the Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit made from rolled oats and golden syrup. These must not be confused with that staple of soldiers' and sailors' rations for centuries, the hardtack biscuit.

To deal with these rather unpalatable objects first, hardtack biscuits are a nutritional substitute for bread, but unlike bread they do not go mouldy. And also unlike bread, they are very, very hard. On Gallipoli, where the supply of fresh food and water was often difficult to maintain, hardtack biscuits became notorious. So closely have they been identified with the whole Gallipoli experience that they are sometimes known Anzac tiles or Anzac wafer biscuits. Hence the confusion with the sweet biscuit.

There is actually nothing wafer-like about hardtack biscuits. Soldiers often devised ingenious methods to make them easier to eat. A kind of porridge could be made by grating them and adding water. Or biscuits could be soaked in water and, with jam added, baked over a fire into "jam tarts". Not at all like Mum used to make, but better than nothing.

Anzac biscuit recipes

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/anzac/biscuit/recipe

The popular Anzac biscuit is a traditional, eggless sweet biscuit. Early recipes did not include coconut.

The following recipe (without coconut) was published in The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Queensland) on Saturday, 14th August 1926.

Ingredients

2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup plain flour
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tbls golden syrup
2 tbls boiling water
1 tsp bicarbonate soda (add a little more water if mixture is too dry)

Method

Combine dry ingredients.
Mix golden syrup, boiling water and bicarbonate of soda until they froth. Add melted butter.
Combine butter mixture and dry ingredients.
Drop teaspoons of mixture onto floured tray, allowing room for spreading.
Bake in a slow oven.

The Country Women's Association of New South Wales Calendar of Cake and Afternoon Tea Delicacies: a recipe for each day of the year (Sydney: The Association, 1933) included two recipes for Anzac biscuits, one without coconut and the following version which included coconut.

Anzac biscuits, No 2

Ingredients:

1 cup each of rolled oats, sugar and coconut
1 tablespoon syrup
3/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water)

Method

Melt butter.
Add syrup to dissolved soda and water. Combine with melted butter.
Mix dry ingredients and stir in liquid.
Place small balls on ot buttered tray and bake in moderate oven.
Lift out carefully with a knife as they are soft till cold.

2021 Australian Auslan National Anthem

Please take the time to watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlG1dmVI58

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