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NEWSLETTER 8 21st May 2014
ROSEWORTH
PRIMARY
SCHOOL
30 Stebbing Way
Girrawheen
Ph: 6240 4000
Fx: 9247 3106
COMING
EVENTS
MAY
23rd
I/S vs Hudson
Park PS at home
Circus Show (am)
(Yr 1-7)
27th
RAPP #3
27th – 29th
Book Fair
28th
Picnic Lunch
Open Afternoon
12.45pm
30th
School
Development Day
JUNE
2nd
Public Holiday
3rd
RAPP #4
4th
W8 Assembly
WELCOME TO MR ADAIR – OUR NEW PRINCIPAL
This week we welcome our new Principal, Mr Jamie Adair, to Roseworth PS. Mr Adair
has recently been at Connolly PS and before that he was working at Warriependi PS.
Mr Adair will be with us until the end of the year and we hope that he enjoys being at
Roseworth as much as the rest of us do. You may have already seen Mr Adair out in
the playground or in the classrooms getting to know our students and teachers. We
look forward to working with Mr Adair and showing him all the great programs and
activities we have at Roseworth. May I take this opportunity to thank the staff and
parents who have been very supportive during my time as Principal since the
beginning of the year. We have had a very busy start to the year, with many activities,
shows and special events and I look forward to all the other fun things that are to
come during the remainder of the year.
SDD and PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Term 2 is another 10 week term, which finishes on Friday 4th July, and includes a
number of exciting events for our students, staff and parents. We do have a Public
holiday on Monday 2nd June and a School Development Day the Friday before this on
Friday 30th May - on both these days students will not be required to attend school.
Staff will be involved in a Planning Day on the SDD and I’m sure we will all be looking
forward to the long weekend coming up.
BOOK FAIR and OPEN AFTERNOON
Next week we will be having our annual BOOK FAIR. This is a great opportunity to
purchase good quality books at reasonable prices and all purchases help our Library
too. The Book Fair is on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week and we are
combining the Book Fair on Wednesday 28th May with our “Open Afternoon”. We are
inviting parents/carers to come to school and have a picnic lunch and then visit
classroom during the afternoon to be part of some Values Education games and
activities with your children. The focus of the Open Afternoon will be Values Education
and we would like to showcase some of the activities and strategies we are
implementing in the classrooms on a regular basis. Please come along and join in the
fun with our classes. Please invite Grandma and Grandpa too!!!
STAFFING UPDATE
E3 - Mrs Foreman finished up with us towards the end of Term 2 as she was
expecting the birth of her first child. Miss Chantelle Edwards has capably taken over
the class in E3 and will be there for the remainder of the year. Mrs Edwards has
settled in well and the transition from teacher to teacher has been a very smooth one,
thanks to the hard work of both teachers.
W7 – Mrs Bennett will be going on Maternity Leave at the end of Week 5. We are still
in the process of finalising a replacement teacher for the class and will advise parents
as soon as we know who will be replacing Mrs Bennett.
NAPLAN - WEEK 3
The NAPLAN Testing Program is for all students in Years 3, 5, & 7 in our school and
tests were held during last week, as they were in all schools. We had tests on the
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with Friday being used as a “Catch-Up” if
students were sick/absent at all during the week. A big thank you to Mrs Roser who
co-ordinated the NAPLAN Testing Program and to the teachers involved in
administering the tests during the week.
POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT IN OUR YEAR 6/7 CLASSES
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. It is a framework /
approach comprising of effective practices, interventions and systems change strategies for establishing a social
culture needed to achieve academic and social success for all students. Our Yr 6/7 classrooms are trialling PBS
and implementing this during the term. The Yr 6/7 teachers were involved in a one day Professional
Development Workshop, with the CMS staff on site, last week. They have begun to work with the students and
parents to implement this approach in the classrooms over the past couple of weeks. PBS builds on existing
strengths, complementing and organising current programming and strategies and we look forward to the
positive changes the implementation of PBS will bring.
INTERSCHOOL SPORT
We have again started our Interschool Sport Program for Term 2. We are competing in three sports - Netball,
Soccer and Football and all students involved represented the school in a very capable and sensible manner so
far. As always, we expect our students representing the school to be well behaved and have an appropriate
level of attendance in order to be considered for selection in our teams. We play Hudson Park this Friday and
the games are here at Roseworth. We welcome parents/carers who would like to support our teams to come
along to watch the games on the oval (football), netball courts (netball) and Ferrara Park (soccer). The weekly
interschool games culminate in a Winter Carnival at the end of term. This will be held at Dryandra PS on the
Friday of Week 9 (27th June).
AFL MULTICULTURAL GALA DAY
Miss Collier and our Yr 6/7 teachers have organised for some of our students from Years 6/7 to participate in the
AFL Multicultural Gala Day last Monday. This was an AFL - inclusive event aiming to welcome new players from
all backgrounds and skill levels to Aussie Rules Football. It is a 9-a-side AFL tournament which had AFL skill
stations and was supported by West Coast Eagles players. Throughout the day our students were involved in a
round robin tournament under the exciting new AFL format known as AFL9s. Well done to Miss Collier for
continually organising fantastic activities for our students. Thank you also to Mr Bennett and Miss Riley who
accompanied the students to the Gala Day.
RAPP
We have 6 families attending our very successful Roseworth And Parents Program (RAPP) this semester. Our
second night was last night and everyone involved has enjoyed the activities and sessions on offer at RAPP.
Thanks to the Canteen staff for catering for the RAPP sessions and to the teaching staff and EA’s for assisting to
run the program.
OUR 2013 ANNUAL REPORT
Our school has a website which has been designed to be informative and useful and we hope that you find it
easy to navigate. There are class pages for your children and their teachers to upload events and activities
going on in their classrooms and around the school which already have a wide variety of articles and photos for
your view. The website can be found at www.roseworthps.wa.edu.au . Links to newsletters and school
documents can also be found on the site as well as history of our school and other interesting and relevant
information for existing, new and prospective families. Please enjoy the website and we will keep it updated with
all of the news and events happening at our school. The school Annual Report for 2013 is on our school website
so you might like to have a look at the 2013 highlights.
Sue Brockman
Deputy Principal
HONOUR CERTIFICATES & AWARDS
ASSEMBLY: 21st May 2014
E2
Riley French, Tara Nolan
W1
Nathan Hunter, Steven Hoang
E3
Seb Bocsa, Tammar Al-Alyawy
W2
Phillip Talbot, Martin Isaacs
E4
Jenny Par, Yonatan Henok
W3
Mahina Oneroa, Samra Hafeez
E5
E6
Keyziah Young, Chloe Suiter
Ozyfa Rind, Jian Caleja
W4
W5
Tanika Gilles, Aaron Rawlins
Ahmed Gulled
N5
Tamika Conduit, Samuel Turuneh
E1
Sarah Knight
N4
Jade Rickards-Kent, Sherrie Croft
C2
Tony Van
W6
Tony Luong, Kelilah Birch-Osborne
SPORT
W7
W8
LOTE
Brocky Cox, Daniel Bristow
Samantha Tahapehi, James Humphry
Spanish: Ericha O’Donoghue
MUSIC
LIBRARY
Nakita Quinn, Sebastian Bocsa,
Opal Mohammad Zainurrafiq
E4
W7
VALUES AWARDS
Confidence :David Bristow Resilience: Yaa Kuranchie Organisation: Stacey Collie
Getting Along: Alisha Muckleston Persistence: Javela Anderson
ATTENDANCE AWARDS – High
Hayden Wallace, Jack Paterson, Samantha Tahapehi, Shondelle Garlett, Liana Jones, Logan Wood,
Mohammed Al Baldawi, Narjes Rahimi
PLAYGROUND & STUDENT LEADER AWARDS
Sarah Knight, Samantha Tahapehi, Courtney Little, Heath Calyan
P&C NEWS
Fundraising: We have had a great start to Term 2 with our successful Mothers Day stall. We raised $270 and hope all
the mothers who received gifts enjoyed them. Thank you to all who donated the merchandise and their time to the
stall. We will be sending home cookie dough forms next week, this is a great fundraiser for our school. Last year we
made the equivalent of six iPads in profit. Delivery will be in the last week of Term 2. Let’s try to make it even better
this year!
Uniforms: Uniform shop is only open on Tuesdays now from 8.30am till 9.30am. If you would like a uniform outside
of this time you can either put an order in an envelope with cash and hand in to the office or see Jessica in the office or
canteen.
Canteen: Jane is working hard in the canteen to provide our children with healthy lunches and the winter menu is now
available. The canteen is there to not only provide well priced nutritious lunches but to raise money for our school.
Jane and the volunteers also provide catering for events such as RAPP. Without the support of the school community
and Jane’s superior management skills the canteen cannot survive. Buying lunch once a week for your child can act as
a great reward for a good week at school, or home and takes the pressure off the early morning rush to get to school.
Next P&C Meeting: Thursday June 19th in the staff room at 2.00pm.
School Banking: A big welcome to our new School Bankers. It is fantastic to hear some of the goals that students
have for the money they are saving, some are even saving for their first car. It is exciting and certainly impressive to
hear some of the goals being set.
Some students have already received their bronze certificates and may have noticed that they are receiving a gold
token with their certificate. The gold tokens are keepsakes and therefore not eligible to be used for redeeming rewards.
It is 10 silver tokens that are eligible to redeem rewards. Well done to those consistent savers who have already
received their bronze certificates. We have several more who are very close so keep on saving.
Due to the long weekend where there is a Staff Development Day on Friday the 30th of May, School Banking will
open on Thursday the 29th of May at the usual time instead for those wishing to bank. We are hoping one of our
students is a winner in the fantastic competition running this term. Paula Green, School Banking Co-ordinator
Thanks Roseworth P&C
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LIBRARY NEWS
It’s finally here! Book Fair! We open next week on Tuesday 27th and finish up on the Thursday. I am
chasing Parent Volunteers to assist me either of those days. Passport points can be earned for any volunteers.
Please drop by the Library if you think you can help.
The students have also been working very hard on some lovely Egyptian themed artwork to display during
Book Fair so please come in to have a look at your child’s artwork while you browse!
Please come to our Book Fair
WHERE: ECU room—just off the Library
WHEN: Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th May, 2014
Students are welcome at recess and lunchtimes
Parents/guardians (with their children) are welcome before
school (Tue, Wed, Thurs) and afterschool (Tue, Wed).
Please note Wednesday 28th is our School Open Day, and the
Fair will be open across the afternoon.