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Term 4 2021 

Monday 1 November: All students return full time, with staggered starts

                     Families with surnames starting with 

                     A-K school hours are 9 am - 3.10 pm pick up 

                     L-Z school hours are 9.20 am - 3.30 pm pick up

Canteen resumes on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursday and Fridays (unless blocked out in QKR eg special foods day)

Tuesday 2 November: Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday. 

Friday 5 November : 2022 Foundation Onsite Transition 1

Monday 8 November : 2022 Foundation online story time session 4

Thursday 11 November: Remembrance Day 11:11

Friday 12 November : 2022 Foundation Onsite Transition 2

Thursday 18 November : Japanese Online incursion 

Japanese Online Incursion Activity 

Tuesday 23 November: ICAS Maths assessment ( new date )

Friday 26th November : 2022 Foundation Onsite Transition 3

Tuesday 7 December: 2022 Year 7 & 2022 Foundation Transition Day for Government Schools

Thursday 9 December: Canteen closed

Friday 10 December: Student free day  ("Curriculum Day")

Tuesday 14 December: Special Ice cream day (orders through QKR orders close 2/12)

Wednesday 15 December: Grade 6 Graduation

Thursday 16 December: Last day Canteen open for lunches.

Friday 17 December: End of the school year, students dismissed at 1.30 pm

2022 Dates

Tuesday 1st Februry : Term 1, first day for students Grade 1-6

Thursday 3 February : First day for 2022 Foundation students

Tuesday 22 March  : Kalinda Primary School Photo Day 

Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 November : 5/6 camp to Sovereign Hill 

ICAS Assessments

Due to current restrictions, we are unable to run the ICAS Writing assessment on 12th October as scheduled. The sitting window for this assessment closes on Oct 15th and will not be extended, therefore Kalinda students will not be able to sit the test this year. I am waiting for advice from ICAS on how to obtain refunds. 

Please note, we are not able to process any refunds through the school office as parents made payments directly to UNSW. If you have any questions, please visit the ICAS website or contact me through the school office.

At this stage, we are hopeful that the Maths assessment will be able to go ahead as the sitting window for that subject closes on November 26th. I will send out further information about rescheduling a date for Maths in the next couple of weeks.

Michelle Anderson

Learning Specialist

Jokes for the newsletter

Q. How do you know if a vampire is sick?

A. Check if he's coffin

Q.Where do ghosts go on vacation?

A.Mali-boooooo

Q. Why do skeltons have low self esteem?

A. They have no 'body' to love.

Q. Whats a witches favorite subject at school?

A. Spelling

 Thanks to Alice O this newsletter for these spooky jokes!

Remembrance Day 2021

Origins of Remembrance Day

Why is this day special to Australians?

At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In November the Germans called for an armistice (suspension of fighting) in order to secure a peace settlement. They accepted allied terms that amounted to unconditional surrender.

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month attained a special significance in the post-war years. The moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front became universally associated with the remembrance of those who had died in the war. This first modern world conflict had brought about the mobilisation of over 70 million people and left between 9 and 13 million dead, perhaps as many as one-third of them with no known grave. The allied nations chose this day and time for the commemoration of their war dead.

On the first anniversary of the armistice in 1919 two minutes' silence was instituted as part of the main commemorative ceremony at the new Cenotaph in London. The silence was proposed by Australian journalist Edward Honey, who was working in Fleet Street. At about the same time, a South African statesman made a similar proposal to the British Cabinet, which endorsed it. King George V personally requested all the people of the British Empire to suspend normal activities for two minutes on the hour of the armistice "which stayed the worldwide carnage of the four preceding years and marked the victory of Right and Freedom". The two minutes' silence was popularly adopted and it became a central feature of commemorations on Armistice Day.

This information is taken from the Australian War Memorial webpage and the link is below.

https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/remembrance-day/traditions

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