A Message from the

Head of Prep School

The last few weeks have seen many ‘extras’ occurring and further demonstrated the great community we have at KWS.

Last week Grandparents and Open Day saw many families visit our school looking at the wonderful work our students are involved in.

We had our Year 3 families make cupcakes which the P&F generously offered to sell and all the monies have been donated to The Kids with Cancer Project. $560 has been forwarded. Thank you.

Speaking of helping others our SRC promoted a walk-a-thon last week. The purpose was to enable our SRC to organise activities within our school. They have been very successful with the “special lunches’ and now this project. The entry was for a non-perishable item and families contributed 636 items to Let’s Make Better which is the charity arm of our local IGA store. All these items will form Xmas packages for those people in Orange who have fallen on hard times. Again thank you for an amazing contribution and well done to Mrs Essex and the SRC.

Over $7500 was raised by Oliver Garard (Year 3) for Randwick Children’s Hospital through a bike-a-thon. Over 40 of our students were involved and again evidenced of the generosity of our families. Well done.

Mr Jason Belmonte and Miss Amy Stevens have been guests of honour at our recent Sports and Performing Arts assemblies – Both are ex-students of the Prep and it is terrific to see them achieving so much in the world of sport and music.

Our recent Year 6 Council Dinner was another successful night where our student speakers Amelia Hill, Charlie Hansen and Samuel Fabar spoke very confidently illustrating how far they have developed as leaders through 2018. All the Year 6 deserve commendation for their conversation, manners and behaviour.

We look forward to our dinner dance next Monday evening when our Year 5 students farewell our current Year 6. Always an enjoyable night. Just a reminder there is NO sport next Monday. 

Our last regular Assembly for 2018 (Week 6) will be held on Monday 19 November at 12:30pm. This is a different day and time than usual so please keep this in mind if you intending to come for the Term 4 House Awards.

Our Outdoor Education week begins in 2 weeks with all our students involved in various activities. For some students there will be anxiety leading up to camp. Staff will be addressing these issues over the next and explaining to the students what is involved. For many it is the fear of the unknown.

Again, many thanks to all for your great support of the happenings at KWS. It is greatly appreciated.

At Assembly we acknowledged the following students:

• Week 5 Respect Award - William Stratton (Year 2)
• Week 5 Commitment Award - Harriet Johnston (Kindergarten)
• Week 5 Principal's Award - William Knight (Year 6)

Enjoy your week.

Rob McLean

Head of the Preparatory School