From the Principal

 Dear Karoo PS Community, 

Thank you to our wonderful school community for a fantastic Term 1. Your enthusiasm, support, and hard work have made it a truly exciting start to the year. From students and staff to families and volunteers, everyone has contributed to creating our inclusive, positive learning environment. 

KPS Colour Run 2026!

The Karoo PS Colour Run 2026 is almost here! Only 29 days to go! The event will take place on Friday, 1st May from 4:00pm to 5:30pm at Karoo PS.

This exciting event is our MAJOR fundraiser for the year, helping us enhance our school by completing upgrades to our basketball courts and purchasing additional decodable readers to support student learning. I am excited to share that we have already raised over $7500 and are now over halfway to our goal of $15,000 - What an incredibly supportive community we have!  Keep up the great fundraising efforts :)

Our winning classes of our first incentive of an 'icy pole and movie' afternoon is: 1D, FD & FT.   A huge congratulations on achieving having the most students logged onto our platform by Thursday 2nd April @ 9am.  We look forward to your celebrations!

 To find out more about the prizes up for grabs and the next incentives, please have a look through our KPS Colour Run Information Booklet

• KPS Colour Run Information Booklet 

              Includes prize details, student and class incentives, and the course outline.

If you need support logging on to the platform, please see the information below;

• How to Set Up Your Child’s Fundraising Page 

             Step-by-step instructions: 

• Link to 'Shout for Good' webpage
• Pages 1–2: Setting up your child’s fundraising page
• Page 3: Re-accessing the fundraising page: Mobile access instructions
• Page 4: Re-accessing the fundraising page: Computer access instructions

Once you set up your child's fundraising page - they can start fundraising straight away!  

Lastly, we have created a KPS Colour Run Social Story, which you are welcome to read with your child, to support them to understand what the colour run will look and feel like.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your child’s teacher, the school office, or myself.  Thank you in advance for your support! We can’t wait to see our community come together for this fun and colourful event!  Happy fundraising Karoo PS!

Karoo Parents Association (KPA) and Volunteering @ upcoming Events

At Karoo PS, we have many fun community events throughout the year, however many of these are only able to occur with the support of our KPA and families volunteering their time.  Volunteering to support at school comes with many benefits, not only does it support the school it also connects the volunteer to other parents/families and gives a positive feeling that comes from giving back.

We would like to provide as much opportunity for our community to be involved, and as a result our KPA has created a KPA Volunteer Google form.  The form outlines all the events that are coming up over the rest of the year and provides you with the opportunity to put your hand up and come and join the team when you can.  Our first event is the Colour Run - so please jump onto the link and come join the KPA and our school community to support our sensational school to thrive!

                                          Karoo Parents Association – Event Volunteer Sign-Up

Easter Bonnet Parade & Easter Raffle Winners

Thank you to all our community that came to support our Easter Bonnet Parade this morning! What a sensational event! It was wonderful to see the colourful Easter Bonnets on show from our Foundation to Year 2 students and how supportive our 3-6 students were of their peers.

Congratulations to our raffle winners:

Tregan T (6H), Mia M (5B), Dhyana M (1M), Eleni T (5W), Jeffrey family, Sienna & Rosie P, Charlie E (FM), Noah (2W), Jivansh (2BE), Elise B (3M), Braxton R (5E), Jobe K (6C), Maya V (3SG), Hazel K (1M), Ava Y (2S),  Grayson L (1D), Sue B (Crossing Supervisor) and Sue A.

Family Fun Night Scavenger Hunt Winner

Our Family Fun Night was a community night to remember and one activity that was a major hit was the scavenger hunt! I am pleased announce the winner was Damian C  (1M). 

Road Safety - Thank you Karoo PS!

Wow! What a sensational community we have! Thank you to everyone for supporting us in ensuring our students and families are safe when arriving and departing our school.  Our wonderful School Crossing Officer, Sue, passes on her heartfelt thank you as well, as over the past weeks our community has continued to:

• Ensuring they 'drop and go' in the 2-minute parking bays or only remain there for the allocated time.
• Use the roundabouts to turn around, rather than U-turns over the single white line.

Therefore, please keep up the great work and thank you for your continued support in ensuring the safety of our community into Term 2!

Enjoy your holiday and I look forward to seeing you on Monday the 20th April for our first day back in Term 2!

Courtney Hoffmann

 Principal