Newsleer Week 10 , Term 1 - 30 March 2016 1 Ringrose Ave, Greystanes 2145 | Ph: 9631 8637 | www.ringrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au From the Principal’s Desk Dear Parents and Carers, Over this past term, we have been self-evaluang our progress, successes and achievements from the 2015 year and where our future direcons lay, culminang in the compleon of 2015 Annual School Report which will be available at the end of this term. In our processes, we have carefully mapped our successes against the School Excellence Framework and Policy which has idenfied our achievements and the next steps to be pursued. Confirmaon from our assessment and evaluaons are that we are on track in both the delivery of processes and products outlined in our three Strategic Areas: Excellence in Learning Excellence in Teaching and Leading Excellence in Strong Partnerships A small poron of the Self-Assessment Review as it appears in the Annual Report reads: In the domain of Learning, we have been focussed on strong evidence based literacy and numeracy programs to deeply engage all students. This consistent approach has also ensured that student performance and growth is ploed, tracked and monitored carefully to ensure that benchmark levels are being met. In the domain of Teaching, teachers have been focussed on ensuring that all student needs are accommodated across the school inclusive of Individual Learning Plans (ILP’s) and Personalised Plans (PLP’s). Students are engaged in their learning and connected to aspects of school life such as in sports, interest groups and in creave areas. In the domain of Leading, idenficaon and mentoring of Aspiring leaders and experts amongst staff and across the school has ensured that distribuve leadership is celebrated and is sustainable over me. The consistency and successes we have achieved has been due to a strong foundaon of leadership capacity across the school. As a result, I can confidently state that through the exemplary delivery and ongoing monitoring and tracking of the 2015 - 2017 School Plan, we are seeing both changed pracce aligned to 21 st Century Learning and impact on student learning and achievements. Ringrose Public School, it’s a great place to be! Yours sincerely, Mr Loughhead Principal Dates for your Diary Wed 30/03 P&C School Fete Meeting - 7.00pm in the Staffroom Fri 01/04 Junior Winter PSSA Trials Fri 01/04 School Disco Tues 05/04 Camp Quality Show Tues 05/04 + Wed 06/04 Parent/Teacher Interviews Wed 06/04 P&C Canteen Jelly Day Fri 08/04 Senior Winter PSSA Trials Fri 08/04 Last day of Term 1 Wed 27/04 First day of Term 2 School notes, newsleers and event photographs can be found on the School Website.
We would like to congratulate our following parents who have been elected to the Executive positions of the school's Parents and Citizen's Association (P&C):
President - Lisa Harvey
Vice President - Chris Fitzpatrick
Vice President - Sue Harris
Secretary - Katherine Cox
Treasurer - Vacant Posi-tion - Interim Craig Wyer
Congratulations also to our parents who have been elected to P&C Sub-Committee positions:
Canteen Coordinators - Katherine Cox and Heather Nicholas
Uniform Shop Coordinator- Suzanna Bendevski
Fundraising Coordinator - Steve Sharp
Banking Coordinator - Steve Sharp
We know this year is going to be very busy with our School Fete coming up in Term 4 and we look forward to our year ahead with the new P&C Team.
2016 School
Fete Meeting Ringrose P&C would like to invite parents and caregivers who wish to be involved in organising this year’s fete to a meeting that will be held in the staffroom at 7pm tonight (30/03/16). Our fete will be held in Term 4 this year. Any help is appreciated as it provides much needed profits that go towards improving our school and providing additional resources for our children.
Roy Ringrose has visited
this week!
This week the students in 5/6T have been focussing
on improving their reading comprehension through
using a variety of strategies. They have been learning
about reciprocal reading and a small group of students ran a demonstration
on how this strategy works. Each person in the group had a role in the
discussion. There was a leader (leads the group), a questioner (asks questions
about the book they have been reading), a clarifier (explains difficult words of
phrases in the text), a predictor (predicts what they book will be about by
looking at the pictures, reading the blurb, looking at pictures and skimming
and scanning the text) and a summariser (summarises the main points of the
text). From the demonstration, students will be able to have a clearer
understanding of how discussions can help us to improve our comprehension
of a text. The students in 5/6T will be able use this strategy in their own
learning during reading groups and they will be learning from each other.
This week 5/6T have also been reading the book “My Place” by Nadia
Wheatley. To gain a deeper understanding of the author’s purpose they
wrote questions that they would ask the author if they had the chance to
meet her. Students re-enacted an interview with one student per group
pretending to be Nadia. This was lots of fun to watch and it was interesting to
hear the types of questions the students has like “what is the message you
want to send to your readers, through this book?”
5/6T have been working very hard this week and are enthusiastic readers.
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Canteen News
Canteen Jelly Day will be held on Wednesday 6 April. Please return order forms to the Canteen before Friday 1 April.
As our school is growing and as you can see on our roster for this term we are in need of helpers. If you are able to help out on one or more of these days whether it is until recess up until 11.10am or all day until 1.30pm, please give me a call on 0411 143 609.
If you are ordering your lunch using our school lunch bags or on an envelope please include 10 cents for the bag.
Year 3 and Year 5 NAPLAN 2016 The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is an annual national assessment for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. All students in these year levels are expected to participate in tests in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
NAPLAN 2016 Tests Timetable
For further information regarding the NAPLAN tests please see the NAP website: www.nap.edu.au
Tuesday 10 May Wednesday 11 May Thursday 12 May
Year 3
Language
Conventions
40 minutes
Writing 40 minutes
Reading 45 minutes
Numeracy
45 minutes
Year 5
Language
Conventions
40 minutes
Writing 40 minutes
Reading 50 minutes
Numeracy
50 minutes
More photos can be found on the School Website
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School Reminders
School Payments The School Office can only accept payments
made via: Cash Cheque Credit Card
(MasterCard and Visa ONLY)
Payments made by American Express
(AMEX) or EFTPOS will not be accepted.
MultiLit 2016
The MultiLit program is based on research and has proven to help children improve their word attack skills, sight word knowledge and reading fluency. Volunteers will be required to work with students for up to 30 minutes per session, ideally between three-four times per week.
If you would like to volunteer your time for the MultiLit program, please visit the School Office or see Mrs O’Neill for more information.
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