Dear Parents/Carers

We have passed 'hump' week in the term and are officially heading downhill towards holidays.

SMOKING CEREMONY
We were honoured to participate in a smoking ceremony last Friday as part of our assembly. Thank you to Gillian and Josh for taking their time to come to our school to perform the ceremony.

HARMONY and FRIENDSHIP DAY
Our Annual Harmony and Friendship Day took place yesterday, whereby we recognise and stamp out bullying and violence, whilst celebrating culture and diversity. Students enjoyed the day participating in activities and having pizza for a special hot food lunch.
Thank you to Breigh DW and her team of helpers for organising the hot food lunch.

SCHOOL CONCERT
Our School Concert is on Monday night. Mary and Louise, along with their numerous parent helpers, have put in an enormous amount of work to secure costumes and props and getting the students ready. I have no doubt this year will be even better than last year.  The Frankston Arts Center is nearly sold out and a raffle prize of Gold Class tickets will be drawn on the night. Classroom teachers are supporting Mary and Louise and also our invaluable parent community who have offered so much of their time and resources. As always, it is very much a team effort. Everyone is very excited.

CURRICULUM DAY
Tuesday 22^nd August students will not be required to attend school. Staff will be participating in Professional Development. I think all students will enjoy the day away from school after a big night at the school concert.

CHESS TOURNAMENT
Karingal Primary School will be hosting a chess tournament on Wednesday 23rd August. If you have not already signed up for this, please do so.

FATHER'S/SPECIAL PERSONS DAY 
* Father's Day stall will be on Friday 1st September. Please make sure your child/ren bring some money to buy a present.
* The Father's Day raffle will be drawn at Assembly on Friday 1st September. Please make sure you have bought your tickets. Another wonderful prize will be on offer.
* Father's Day breakfast will be on Saturday 2nd September. We would love to see as many father's/special persons with their child/ren attend breakfast.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
Parent/teacher/student conferences will be held Monday 4th September and Wednesday 6th September. Please look out for further communication which will be sent home.

BOOK WEEK/SUPERHERO DAY
Karingal PS will celebrate Book Week in Week 9. It has been a decision to combine the Book Week Parade with the Superhero Day Parade. Book Week activities will also take place during Week 9.

AN EVENING WITH ADELE
Our talented student Adele, in an effort to raise money for a school fundraiser, will be performing a number of her favourite cover songs from Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Lady Gaga just to name a few... Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to our school, to assist with the costs of resurfacing the Basketball Court. Adele will be performing at 239a Beach St, Frankston, on Saturday 9th September, 6-7.30 pm. Tickets are $15 and we would love to see as many members from our school community as possible to support Adele.

SCHOOL REVIEW
The key directions for Karingal Primary School (4922)'s next School Strategic Plan (SSP) have been extracted from the final school review report and entered into SPOT by the Improvement Support Unit at central office.

We are now ready to commence consultation with our school community and finalise the new SSP.

Tinsa Johny from the School Compliance Unit will be visiting on Wednesday 23rd August to do a final completion of the Child Safe Standards.

Take care

Samantha Cooke 
Principal (Acting)

Parent, carers or responsible adults are expected to stay for the whole concert but are not allowed backstage before, during or after the concert.  If you have to take your child home early, this MUST be pre-arranged with the school before the Concert. They will be brought out to the foyer for collection, but this will mean that your child will miss the finale whole school song on stage.

Local Young Talent and Karingal Primary School student, Adele, in an effort to raise money the school, will be performing a number of her favourite cover songs from Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Lady Gaga just to name a few....

Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to assist with the costs of resurfacing our Basketball Court.

Check out the door prizes below!! 

This is what we are aiming for...

• 21 August - Concert Raffle
• 28 August - Cookie Dough Ordering Starts (Delivery in 1st week of term 4)
• 1 September - Father's/Special Persons Stall and Raffle
• 12 September - Footy Day Hot Food

Dear Parent/Carer

Each year the school conducts an opinion survey with the school community. All families are invited to participate in the survey. Results will be used to inform and direct our future school planning and improvement.

Please take the time to complete the survey as your opinions are important to us and will contribute to the future management and organisation of our school. The department will use the results from the survey for research purposes and to improve outcomes for students.

• The survey will be conducted online and only takes 20 minutes to complete.
  • The survey can be completed on any internet enabled device (desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone) and is compatible with most browsers.
• The survey will be open from Monday 7 August to Friday 8 September 2023.

Please be assured that your responses are completely confidential. The survey is conducted anonymously, and it is important to us that you complete the survey as honestly as possible. You will be provided with a PIN to complete the survey. This is to ensure that parents / caregivers / guardians only complete the survey once. The school can never see your responses linked with the PIN.

Please follow the instructions below to complete the survey. PLEASE NOTE: Only one parent / caregiver / guardian from your family is invited to complete the survey. Please DO NOT share the survey link and PIN with others, or on a public website, forum or similar.

To complete the survey, simply:

1. Click on the link below, or copy and paste the text into your browser. This link will take you directly to the survey.

https://www.orima.com.au/paren

2. Select the School and Campus name below.

School Name: Karingal Primary School

Campus Name: Karingal Primary School

Enter the School PIN below.

PIN: 975508

When complete, please click on the tick button at the end of the survey to submit your answers. Please note that the survey will time out after 60 minutes of inactivity.

Thank you for taking the time to participate. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.