Important Notices
Clothing Pool System Change
With the upgrade to the uniform shop due to be implemented at the start of Term 4, school clothing pool will go through a few changes to align with Noone Imagewear’s procedures and policies.
The continuation of the clothing pool with a selected range of second-hand items will be sold by Noone Imagewear through the uniform shop, anyone wishing to leave future consigned items will be required to supply contact details. Accepted second-hand clothing pool items to be retained for resale by Noone Imagewear are as follows: Blazer, Kilt, Tunic, Jumpers, Sports Jacket and Anoraks. All other currently consigned non-saleable clothing pool items may be collected by families up until the 18th of September after which, all non-saleable items will be donated to an appropriate charity or disposed of.
Anyone requiring collection of consigned no-saleable clothing pool items are asked to contact Gail or Sharron on (02) 6392 0385 or alternatively at kwsshop@kws.nsw.edu.au no later than the 18th of September.
Due to current Covid-19 conditions please be reminded that parents and guardian are not permitted on the school campus.
Thank you for your continued support.
Gail Pearce & Sharron Ryan
KWS School Shop
Junior School Parent Teacher Interviews - Online
Changes have been made to the dates for interviews due to the Term 2 interviews being cancelled. Interviews for Kindergarten through to Year 6 will be held Tuesday 11th August and Thursday 20th August.
Due to the restrictions on campus interviews will be online via MS Teams and parents will need to book in a time via our online booking system PTO. Interviews will be a maximum of 10 minutes in duration and only 1 per child. The times will be from 3:30pm 6:45pm.
- We have provided PTO with the mother’s email address (unless there is no address and then the father’s email address has been provided). The email address provided will need to be entered by you to request the login details from the PTO website.
For parents living apart - both parents’ email addresses have been provided in order for separate logins to be requested. - You can access PTO to book from Thursday 6th August. Bookings cannot be made after 8am on any day of the interviews.
- If you have a specific question and to help teachers better prepare please email this to junioroffice@kws.nsw.edu.au.
- Go to www.frog.kws.nsw.edu.au and login with your Frog credentials
Frog credentials are supplied by the school to all parents and to new parents/caregivers (NB: Frog username is first name. lastname). - Click on ‘the Parent Teacher Online (PTO) link on the Frog landing page (beneath "Useful links").
- Select ‘Obtain PIN/Password’ and follow the prompts using the above email (alternatively, you may use your PTO Login and Password from previous interviews if you still have them).
- Your login will stay the same unless you change details or request a new login so you keep the login details for all parent teacher interviews in the future.
If there are any questions, please contact the Junior School Office 6392 0316.
Gail Kennewell
Junior School Office
Year 10 Girls - Kilt fittings
In preparation for the 2021 school year, any Year 10 female student returning or new student to Kinross Wolaroi School as a senior for Year 11 will require a school kilt. All kilts need to be ordered by 3 September 2020.
For information on getting fitted and ordering, please refer to the documents below:
Gail Pearce & Sharron Ryan
KWS School Shop
Duke of Edinburgh
The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is a voluntary program offered at KWS. The Duke of Edinburgh is a non-competitive self-development international program available to all young people which encourages them to set and achieve goals at a level appropriate to their needs and aspirations.
In 2020, as a Wellbeing initiative the Year 9 cohort are encouraged to complete the “Bronze level” of the Award. KWS will pay the $150 registration fee for each Year 9 student as KWS acknowledges the benefits to the individual and community of undertaking the Award. In accepting this offer participants will need to complete their Bronze award in 2020. If you are currently in Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 and are thinking about completing the Bronze, Silver or Gold Award please come and see Mr Callaghan. “Duke drop in Fridays” are every Friday of the Term in Room 94- Anderson Centre at 100pm.
If you have any questions please contact Mr Liam Callaghan, via:
Liam Callaghan
Co-ordinator Duke of Edinburgh Award
Junior School dates for your diary
20 Aug – Parent Teacher Interviews online
24 Sep – Term 3 concludes
25 Sep – Pupil Free Day
13 Oct – Term 4 commences
Gail Kennewell
Junior School Office
Junior School Fathers’ Day Stall
On Wednesday 2nd of September, the Junior School will be running our annual Fathers’ Day Stall, kindly assisted by the Prefects and House Captains.
All gifts will be $5, with students allowed to initially purchase 1 gift each. If there are gifts left over, we will run a ‘Second Chance Stall’ the following day.
To help us with the safe handling of cash, it would be appreciated if parents could send the correct money in a labelled envelope or zip lock bag.
Students will attend the stall in class groups, with teachers keeping a list of gifts chosen by the students to ensure that siblings purchase something different to each other.
Every year the students love having the opportunity to go shopping by themselves and we look forward to helping them celebrate their families.
Thank you in anticipation of your support.
Emma Charlton
Stage 3 Coordinator
Visitors to Main Reception
Parents please be reminded that if you need to come into the School's front reception for any reason, it is imperative that you stay in your car and phone reception on 02 6392 0300 prior to entering the building.
Ruth Edwards
KWS Reception
Enrolment Webinars
Due to the COVID-19 health pandemic we are holding a number of enrolment webinars for interested families to learn more about our school. If you have any family or friends who may be interested in enrolment at Kinross Wolaroi School, they can head to the following link for details.
Jennifer Divall
Head of Marketing & Communications
Sibling enrolments
Are siblings in your family enrolled to commence in 2022?
Demand for places at KWS has grown steadily in recent years, to the point that there are now very limited spaces in a number of year groups in the years ahead.
This demand is wonderful news for the school, reflecting as it does the efforts of our staff and the reputation of KWS in the wider community, but it does mean that our current families need to be particular about waitlisting their children for enrolment well ahead of time.
The school prioritises enrolment of siblings but can only do this once enrolment applications have been lodged: for current families, it is very important to ensure that siblings of current students are waitlisted for enrolment at least two years prior to their planned entry year. This is because places in the school are filled 18 months to two years prior to commencement, after which it is often no longer possible to accommodate late enrolments. We are now offering places to students commencing in 2022.
Families who wish to send students to KWS are encouraged to enrol their children to ensure they are waitlisted for their desired year of commencement.
KWS has been the choice of education for generations of families, and we heartily wish to maintain these wonderful family relationships. Given the limited spaces in some year groups however, it is important that our existing families complete the enrolment process for their other children as early as possible.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Admissions Team directly on 02 6392 0303.
The KWS Admissions Team