Notices
Dates for your Diary
18 Oct – U11s Cricket starts
19 Oct – Kindergarten Pyjama Day
20 Oct – U12s Cricket starts
23 Oct – Assembly 3R
30 Oct – Assembly 3S
31 Oct – Year 6 Council Dinner
2 Nov - Grandparents Day
3 Nov – Prep Open Day
5 Nov – Year 5 excursion
6 Nov – 2018 Sport Assembly
8 Nov – SRC Gala Afternoon
13 Nov – 2018 Performing Arts Assembly
13 Nov – Band Concert
15 Nov – 2019 New Students Orientation Day
19 Nov – Assembly – T4 House Awards
19 Nov – Year 6 Farewell
19 – 21 Nov – K-2 Swim school
21 Nov – K-2 Swimming carnival
26 – 30 Nov – Outdoor Education Week
4 Dec – Celebration Assembly
4 Dec – Prep School year finished
5 Dec – Speech Day
Gail Kennewell
SRC News
The SRC will hold a Gala afternoon involving a walk-a-thon for their final event and fundraiser for 2018. The walk-a-thon will support the charity ‘Let’s Make Better’. The Walk-a-thon will take place at school on Thursday 8th November. The children will be involved in a variety of outdoor activities throughout the afternoon in their Peer Support Groups. All activities will be organised by the SRC members and House Captains. To participate in this Gala afternoon each child is asked to donate a non- perishable food item to support the local charity, ‘Let’s Make Better’. Please deliver all no- perishable food items to the old undercover area where an SRC member will collect your goods. A tally of all food items donated will collected and House points awarded. The SRC look forward to sharing more information about this event and awarding House points. More information will follow in the next bulletin.
Rebecca Essex
Prep School SRC Co-ordinator
Best Shot in the West
Thank you to the wonderful audience at the performance of Best Shot in the West for their kind donations during Woman, over $90 was collected and will be donated to charity.
Romko Hordynsky
Help needed for Prep Open Day
P & F will be running a BBQ to cater on Open Day - Saturday November 3. If you can spare an hour of your time to assist either cooking or selling drinks between 10 am and 12:30pm it would be greatly appreciated. Please email to pandfpresident@kws.nsw.edu.au
Siobhain Harvey
P&F - Review of IT Services and Systems
We are seeking parent input as we undertake a review of IT services and systems at KWS
NetStrategy will attend the first 45 minutes of the next P&F meeting to undertake Q&A with parents who wish to give feedback on the current review of KWS IT services and systems.
All welcome - Wolaroi Boardroom 24th October 7pm.
Siobhain Harvey
KWS Shop News
Summer Uniforms
Please be reminded that girls summer uniforms are to be worn in Term 4 (starting from 16 October).
Summer uniform for girls includes Summer Blouse, Summer Tunic, White Socks, Straw Hat, Criss Cross Tie (Year 11-12 only), Summer A-Line Dress (Prep Girls only). For more information please contact Gail or Sharron in the Shop.
Clothing Pool
Any current school uniform items of no longer use, can be delivered to the KWS Shop to be sold on your behalf. Items need to be in good condition are of current designs and are washed or dry cleaned. With the up and coming School Orientation Day and seasonal uniform changes there is now the opportunity to have your items processed quickly.
Second Hand Blazer
The KWS Shop is seeking a size 20 or 22 second hand Prep KWS Grey Blazer.
If you have one available, please contact the school shop for more details.
Sharron Ryan
KWS Shop Assistant
Volunteers for HSC Disability Provisions
The Student Academic Services team are on a desperate search for a bank of volunteers to use for Year 12 HSC Disability Provisions in Term 4. Volunteers are required to act as readers for a number of our Year 12 students. If you are available (or know someone who might be available) to assist between 18 October and 9 November, please contact Tina Moshkanbaryans (tmosh@kws.nsw.edu.au) at your earliest convenience.
Please note: Working with Children Check required (free for voluntary work); current Year 12 parents cannot act as readers
Tina Moshkanbaryans
Australian National Field Days
Kinross Wolaroi School will be an exhibitor at The Australian National Field Days from Thursday the 25 through to Saturday the 27 of October.
This year our focus will be The Regional Engagement Enterprise (TREE) and how our students are ‘Rethinking Learning’. The focus of TREE is to provide our students with contextual, cross-curricular, community based learning experiences. Within TREE, our students learn outside the confines of conventional classrooms, so come along and have a look at what our students have been up too.
We will be at site K30, so feel free to come and say hello. If you have any friends or family that are interested in learning more about KWS, we would love to meet them!
DPI at the Field Days
Are you heading to the Australian National Field Days at Borenore 25-27 October?
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) is excited to be the feature exhibitor this year and invites families to drop by our DPI Education Hub.
DPI will have lots of engaging hands-on activities, including the opportunity to:
- Experience a new DPI virtual reality experience of beef, sheep, egg and dairy enterprises
- Learn about DPI’s research projects on display and chat to the researchers
- Explore the exhibits with the Biosecurity Warrior Passport to collect stamps and learn about your role in biosecurity
- Discover upclose weeds and pests through microscopes and touch table
- Give the Biosecurity Warrior a high-five who’ll make appearances throughout the day
- Track ‘Fang’ the feral cat through his aMazing adventure
- Plus lots more!
When: DPI Education Hub will be open from 8.30am to 5.00pm from Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 October 2018
Where: DPI’s Feature Exhibit & Pavilion, Site C1-5 @ Australian National Field Days, BorenoreFor more information on ANFD visit www.anfd.com.au
Be a FoodFighter in Orange!
OzHarvest is one of Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, collecting quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivering it directly to more than 1,000 charities supporting people in need across the country. The incredible story of OzHarvest Founder and CEO Ronni Kahn is the focus of a film; ‘Food Fighter'. The film follows Ronni for 2.5 years on her mission to tackle food waste and feed those in need, both in Australia and abroad. Food Fighter is a powerful insight into what it takes to positively disrupt and be a change-maker for good. On behalf of FoodCare Orange; the local agency helping address the issue of Food Insecurity in Orange NSW, we are hosting a screening of Food Fighter in Orange on Monday 29th October at 6.30pm at the Odeon5 cinema.
You are invited to join the screening. You can see the trailer and book tickets at:
https://fan-force.com/screenings/food-fighter-odeon-cinemas-5/
After the screening there will be a short Q&A session to discuss the issues raised in the film and what we can do about it in our community.
Go on, be a FoodFighter!