NO. 12 THURSDAY MAY 7th, 2015 CALENDAR Friday 8th May Tuesday 12th Wednesday 13th Thursday 14th Sport – Rosanna vs Banyule Primary (away) Mothers’ Day Stall NAPLAN testing (Yrs 3&5) NAPLAN testing (Yrs 3&5) NAPLAN testing (Yrs 3&5) What’s Inside: Principal’s Report Mother’s Day Stall tomorrow Assistant Principal’s Report Sports News Dear families and friends, As Autumn kicks into full swing this week, we are still enjoying snatches of sunshine but May is not only a transition into winter, but a special month to celebrate the women in your life. Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday and is a perfect chance to practice our FISH philosophies – ‘Make Their Day’, ‘Be There’ and ‘Play’! Every day your mums, grandmothers, aunties or special ladies give everything they can to support, nurture, challenge and care for you. Sunday is your chance to show how much you appreciate them. The best way to do that is to spend some quality time together. I hope you all enjoy some special family time together on Sunday with some laughter, kind words and maybe even breakfast in bed. Our Mother’s Day stall will be on Friday, so bring along a few dollars and choose something special for your special lady. CURRICULUM DAY AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING On Monday, the teachers had a busy day of learning with Marg Armstrong focusing on the Restorative Practices program. It was a fabulous opportunity for us to increase our knowledge in the area of building positive relationships with and between our students and enhancing our approaches to managing conflict. Marg is an experienced teacher who had first had understanding of how the program can benefit students and strengthen the social culture of a school. We also updated our CPR and asthma training. Thanks to all staff for their commitment to their continued professional learning. Next Monday we have engaged the services of Michael Ymer (Mathematics Education Consultant) to work with groups of students and their teachers in building maths teaching skills. We are very excited to have Michael back this year after a great introduction in 2014. NAPLAN Next week is NAPLAN week. Your 3 and 5 students will complete the assessments on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Teachers have worked with their classes to support them in understanding of the test processes and we are sure that our students will feel comfortable and confident in completing the tasks to the best of their abilities. If you would like any more detailed information about the NAPLAN tests, please see your class teacher, area coordinator or myself. SCHOOL PHOTOS Today there was much primping, preening and cheesy grins (mostly from the staff), for the ever popular school photo process. Please see the attached note which will help you to complete your order for your lasting memories. Thanks to Julie, Sharon and Jeff in the office for their thorough organization and to all the FORPS helpers who made the running of the day so smooth. EDUCATION WEEK Coming up in Week 6 (May 18 – 22) is Education Week. This is a chance to celebrate learning and all the fantastic things we do at school. Please keep an eye out for more information on the events taking place in that week. PARENT INFORMATION EVENING Last night we hosted a parent information evening for prospective parents to our school. It was a great turn out with 24 families attending. Information about RPS was presented along with a tour and plenty of questions were answered. Thank you to the FORPS committee for providing a lovely supper which always helps parents to mingle and get to know one another. We continue to receive enrolments for prep in 2016 and would encourage you to complete your enrolment forms and forward them to the school office as soon as possible. It is especially important to know enrolments of siblings of current students to assist us with plans for 2016. Heather McIntosh Principal ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Working Bee Keep 30th May at 1:00pm in your diary for our upcoming Working Bee. It will be a chance to tackle a number of jobs around the school including some regular gutter cleaning, shifting of material from under the old building as well as shifting our mulch in the top playground. They'll be more as the date creeps up to us. Sign up for Tiqbiz Thanks for all those who have signed up for Tiqbiz, our new notification provider. It is great to see people register for alerts from their areas so that class specific information can be recieved. Please make sure that you also register for 'Whole School' information as this will let you receive information such as Curriculum Days, special whole school events and our students of the week. If you hare having trouble pickup a how to card at the office or come along to assembly next week and meet our student tiqbiz experts who will help you with registering. Anyone can download Tiqbiz on their android or apple device. Once this has been done and Rosanna Primary chosen then you simply need to register for the information you wish to receive. The registration codes are; Whole School Prep/1 area 1/2 area 3/4 area 4/5/6 area Online Publishing Permission and Student Agreement Forms A gentle reminder that our ICT Student Agreement and Online Publishing Consent permissions are due back to classroom teachers by this Friday. These are important opportunities to open up conversations around the safe use of digital technology at school and home. Please feel free to speak with Mr Buckley and/or myself if you have any questions. Jeff Jackson Assistant Principal STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Congratulations: Gemma Russo, Aliyah Hussein, Sam Duong, Nawal Hoque, Jacob Walker, Elle Butcher, Amy Flakemore, Dustin KershawRichards, Izaak Honarasa, Bethany Toner, Mohamed Abdullahi, Jessie Philp, Mason Hopkins, Tom Manolakakis, Najma Ahmed, Natasha Lowe, Ava Ragazzon, Lucas Walker, and from Reading Recovery: Lilly O’Flynn, Rohan Agar and Yusuf Ahmed. HOUSE CUP A win to Blue Gum for week 12. Yearly Totals: Blue Gum =2; Golden Wattle =2; Red Waratah =2; Green Grevillea=4. Literacy News Premier’s Reading Challenge RPSWS RPSP1 RPS12 RPS34 RPS456 Curriculum Day Catchup On Monday teachers explored a range of strategies and concepts related to Restorative Practices. Restorative Practices affirms that most profound learning occurs when there is a healthy relationship between teacher and student as well as between student and student. It assists teachers and students to build, maintain and restore relationships by building the capacity to enable students to self regulate behaviour and contributes to the improvement of learning outcomes. Already teachers in our grades from Prep through to Year 6 have been working in 'restorative circles' to strengthen student relationships. The day was also an opportunity to refresh our CPR and asthma training to ensure that we are providing a safe environment for all students. Book of the Year is a major literacy event at RPS and, as such, the decision has been made not to participate as a school in the 2015 Premier’s Reading Challenge. We feel that by also making the Premier’s Reading Challenge a biennial event (alternating with Book of the Year), we will be able to better focus our resources and efforts to make both of these events exciting, interesting and meaningful to student learning. We encourage students, with the support of their families, to participate in the 2015 Premier’s Reading Challenge as home-based readers. Follow the link to find out more information and the forms to register: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Page s/childregister.aspx The Premier’s Reading Challenge will be back, bigger and better than ever, as a whole-school event in 2016! SPORTS NEWS This week we are playing against Banyule Primary, an away game. So everyone needs to bring $7 for the bus! Netball will be played at Banyule Primary. Soccer will be played at Banyule Flats. Football will be on the Beverley Road Oval. All children not involved in a sporting team will participate in a sporting program at Macleod College. No money is required for this program. Good luck to all teams! School Cross Country 2015 Thank you to everyone who assisted or attended the RPS cross country last Thursday. It was a magnificent day for an outing in the beautiful Rosanna Parklands. Congratulations to all students for their efforts in the various age group races. It was truly an example of displaying persistence to achieve personal excellence. A wonderful feature of the day was the way the students supported each other. Special congratulations goes to those students who qualified to go on the district level cross country that will take place on Wednesday 27th May. BOYS GIRLS 8/9 YEARS 8/9 YEARS 1st Bogdan Olenko 2nd Leo Hobson-Nicholls 3rd Mika Takahashi 4th Thomas Lazzaro 5th Liam Madrigale 6th Kevin Liu 7th Lachlan Fraser 8th Joshua Donohue 9th Bilal Abdirahman 10th Lachlan Morrison 1st 10 YEARS Anton Chuchuva 2nd William Tsitsis 3rd James Scott 4th Oisin Taifernopolous 5th Baxter Hurst 6th Gian Ayria 7th Mohammad Abdullahi 8th Dakshitha Ediriweera 9th Tom Halbish 10th Luca Smith 1st Lillian Marriner 2nd Jenna Calabrese 3rd Scarlett Winter 4th Mariana SanchezCuesta 5th Kaylah Wilks-Smith 6th Eve Petsetas 7th Mischa Wicks-VanBraak 8th Laura Hope 9th Natalie Piardis 10th Chiedza Karavina 1st 10 YEARS Evalyn Frazer 2nd Jessie Walker 3rd Aimee Adcock 4th Matilda Mee 5th Jessica Watson 6th Evelyn Peric 7th Bethany Harris 8th Sirad Warsame 9th Eva Boxall 10th Ella Maynard 11 YEARS 1st Ethan Donohue 2nd Angus Carmichael 3rd William Turner Dickason 4th Aaron Dimovski 5th Dylan Flakemore 6th Logan Butcher 7th Ben Philip 8th Liam Walker 9th Brock Ahern 10th Lochie Carmichael 12/13 YEARS 1st Miku Takahashi 2nd Sam Walker 3rd Charlie Turvey 4th Thehan Pothuhera 5th Daniel Pirdis 6th Dylan Connolly 7th Sam Madrigale 8th Gareth Nugent 9th Scott Fletcher 10th Steven Chan 11 YEARS 1st Tannah Hurst 2nd Zoe Allen 3rd Billie Pearson 4th Amelia Mariscovetere 5th Emma Murphy 6th Saskia Rose 7th Metissa Ayria 8th Natasha Lowe 9th Molly May 10th Amy Agar 12/13 YEARS 1st Cassie Long 2nd Holly Wittmann 3rd Tianah Wilks -Smith 4th Zoe Costin 5th Emma Colosimo 6th Mandolin Marriner 7th Tara Scott 8th Abbey Hopkins 9th Labibah Shaikh 10th Madeline Halbish A Big THANK YOU to our wonderful parent helpers who assisted with marshalling on the day: Yoko Takahashi, Di Carmichael, Sarah Nugent, Karen Blackbourn, Anne Wilks, Carla Marsicovetere, Ffion Walker, Dennis Turner, Anne Turner, Bronwyn Meaden, Michelle Peric, Peita Walker, Alan Marriner, Chanel Ayria, Clare Dynon and Margaret Calabrese. Presentation of medals for 1st 2nd and 3rd will happen at next Monday’s assembly. Kelli Lambert Sports Coordinator FORPS NEWS A huge thank you to Pam Halbish and all the volunteers who coordinated our school photos today. Everyone will be thrilled with the photos when they arrive and the kids look so good as a result of the hard work of our volunteers THANK YOU! FAIR NEWS - preparation for our school fair are well underway and this is where we call upon our entire school community to pull together to make this our most successful fair ever! NEXT MEETING - Wednesday 20th May, 7pm everyone welcome! Donations are needed for our giant raffle and auction, so if you have any contacts, please see if you are able to obtain any prizes that can be used. Donations are also needed for entertainment (if you're a talented parent we'd love to hear from you!) and equipment (i.e. trestle tables, chairs, marquees), so again if anyone has these or has contacts that we can use please let anyone of the fair coordinators below know. Nicole Maslin - [email protected] Leah Lazzaro - [email protected] Clare Jones - [email protected] Mother’s Day Stall TOMORROW!! Tomorrow we hold our Annual Mother’s Day Stall. This is a hugely popular event with all the children. Children choose their own special gift for their Mum, Grandmother, Aunty, Sister or any other special lady in their lives. Lovely presents will be available for them to choose from, ranging from $1 to $8. It would be appreciated if you could also send your child with a plastic shopping bag for them to bring home their ‘secret’ gift for you. Don’t worry if your child is at away games for Interschool Sports, all grades are timetabled so there will be plenty to choose from when they are back at school! Hi everyone, We had a great Curriculum day on Monday, with the theme on Mother’s Day. The day also involved playing many games, such as Treasures and Prisons, and much more. This week we’ve been focusing more on Mother’s Day activities. Children continue to do their own group and individual activities, such as playing our board games, playing with dress ups (very popular) and dancing to music. BOOKINGS ON THE DAY: If you’re going to book your children for a same day booking, you will not be able to book online. You are welcome to call the service during our operating hours (or leave a message on our mobile phone) instead. As our numbers are increasing, it would be of great assistance if you can contact us in the morning at before hours care, as we may need to arrange staffing for the service. However, we continue to encourage parents to book online, and to do so 24 hours in advance. If you’re having any difficulties at all, please contact our customer service team on (03) 8564 9000 between 9am – 5pm. LOST PROPERTY: Please ensure your children have their belongings clearly labelled. If they are not labelled, they are taken to lost property. TERM 2 – Week 5: Animals. FORPS PARENT CLASS REPS What does it involve?? This year we would like to trial FORPS PARENT CLASS REPS. These volunteers will be the point of contact for all parents within a class group and will be a liaison between FORPS and the parents. They will be responsible for organizing any social events for the parents within the class or liaising between the year level(s) to involve the broader school community. These can be coffee dates, play dates, parent dinners and be the point of contact for volunteers for any FORPS events that require parent help. If you would like to be the FORPS champion for your child’s class, please fill out the form below and return to the office. FORPS PARENT CLASS REP SHEET NAME: __________________________________ MOBILE: ________________________________ EMAIL: _________________________________ CHILD’s NAME: _________________________ CHILD’s GRADE: _________________________ (The grade you wish to be class rep for) FORPS COMMITTE CONTACT Nicole Maslin – 0403 230 412 [email protected] Mon 11th Tue. 12th Wed. 13th Craft: Animal Masks Game: Jungle Run Art and Craft: Felt animals Game: 1, 2, 3 Basketball Art and Craft: Learn to draw an animal Children’s choice of game Thurs. 14th Fri. 15th Before Care Activities Art & Craft: Felt animals Finish up Friday After Care Activities Art & craft: Felt animals Finish up Friday MAY Before Care Activities After Care Activities OSHC program phone: 0427 966 146 Co-ordinator: Adam Assistant: Fariba OSHClub Head Office: (03) 85649000 All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is free! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au. All bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings, please contact the Coordinator direct at the program. ROSANNA BOOK FAIR Dear Parents and Families: Reading is the most important skill you can teach a child. Of all the skills children learn, it is the one you can influence the most. We invite you to visit our Scholastic Book Fair and experience a celebration of reading that provides families the opportunity to get involved in a universal mission: encouraging kids to open a world of possible. Our Scholastic Book Fair theme – Kings, Queens and Castles: Enter the Kingdom of Books! – surrounds students in the celebration of reading with hundreds of fun, engaging, affordable books for them to discover. Giving kids access to good books and the opportunity to choose their own books will motivate them to read more, and like most acquired skills, the more children practice reading, the better they’ll achieve. Reading is vital to every child’s success, and raising children as readers means getting involved while they’re young. Now is the time. Since there will never be a substitute for a parent’s direct involvement in his/her child’s education, please make plans to visit our Book Fair. Hope to see you there! Book Fair Dates: Shopping Hours: From Wednesday 27th May to Friday 29th May 2015 Wed 3:30 to 4:30pm Thursday/Friday 8:30 till 9:00am – 3:30 till 4:30pm WIN!! WIN!! WIN!! : During the book fair we have three $20 vouchers to give away! Keep a look newsletter for details on how to win. Michelle & Rhonda out in the
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