IN THIS ISSUE: Principal’s report: 2 Award Winners: 3 Swimming Program: 3 Vandalism; 4 Athletics Day: 4 Sunbury Netball: 5 Romsey Cricket Club: 5

Number 34 November 2nd 2017

Principal: Mrs Loren Peavey

Ph: 5429 5099 School Council President:

Mrs Elizabeth McDonell Email:

romsey.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Our School Values Are: Respect Integrity Responsibility

COMING EVENTS OCTOBER: Thursday 26th: Art Show 5.30-7.30pm Monday 30th: Book Club orders close NOVEMBER: Monday 6th: Report Writing Day/Pupil Free Day Tuesday 7th: Melbourne Cup Public Holiday Tuesday 14th: Coffee, Cake & Conversation Wednesday 15th: Coffee, Cake & Conversation Friday 17th: Meal Deal Day Tuesday 28th: District Orienteering DECEMBER: Friday 15th: Sausage Sizzle Day Friday 22nd: Last day of Term 4

Bendigo Bank: Proud sponsors of our

Dare to be Excellent

Our Annual Art Show is

Program of events

5:00 - Parent Committee Sausage Sizzle 5:30 - Official opening 6:00 - School Choir Performance 7:00 - Drawing Competition (Design a house)

Prizes awarded at assembly for best house in each year level

7:30 - Doors Close

Here is a sneak preview of what’s on show tonight. Come down, grab a sausage and see the wonderful work that your children have created.

Art Show Our annual art show is on this evening, we look forward to seeing all of our families in attend-ance, the BBQ begins at 5pm and the official opening is at 5:30pm. The children have created some beautiful pieces for you to view and purchase. This is one of our biggest fundraisers for the year and we look forward to all of our families participating. Don’t forget to bring along some cash for artwork purchases and for the sausage sizzle and refreshments. I would like to thank Mr Devlin for all of his work preparing for the Art Show over the year. I would also like to thank the Parent Committee for all of their work in supporting Mr Devlin with the preparation for the event. School Devised Survey Our school survey is available till Friday 3rd November at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017RPS2 . The survey link has also been sent to you via Updated. We hope to hear from you all.

Coffee, Cake and Conversations will be held on Tuesday 14th Nov 9am and Wednesday 15th Nov to discuss the results of both surveys. Please put these dates in your calendar we would love to see you at these sessions.

Planning for 2018 Planning is well underway for 2018. If your child will not be returning to Romsey Primary School next year could you please notify us as soon as possible. Reminder: If you have not enrolled for Prep 2018 please complete the enrolment forms and re-turn them to the school office. Our final structure will depend on our student enrolment numbers, available classrooms, teacher schedules and possible changes to government policy that may im-pact on our decision-making. Regardless of these factors there is always some very relevant in-formation that parents convey to us that we take into consideration when arranging student groupings. Some examples of parent requests we consider have included: • Siblings may be in consecutive year levels eg: a Year 5 and a Year 6 and the parent wishes that they are not placed in the same class. • The separation of twins or alternatively parents may prefer the twins to be placed in the same class. • Two individuals may learn together really well and would benefit from being placed together in the same class or they may not learn well together and should be separated. Each year, we ask parents to inform us in writing of relevant information. Please note that this is not a teacher selection opportunity but one which may influence the children’s social and aca-demic grouping to ensure all students’ needs are met. Whilst we cannot guarantee your requests will be met, we assure you that the information you present will be carefully considered. Requests must be made in writing and should be addressed to the Principal as follows- ‘Confidential – 2018 Grade Placement’. Requests for grade placement should be lodged at the office no later than Friday, 10th November. Any parent, who has lodged a request in a previous year, should resubmit their request in writing even if their circumstances remain unchanged.

Water safety / Swimming Program The Prep -2 program has continued this week. I had the pleasure of attending Day 2. The children were all having a wonderful time. The 6 lessons are designed to increase the children’s abilities to keep themselves safe in and around the water. The program is not designed to replace weekly private swimming lessons. Ongoing swimming lessons teach children how to swim with correct technique and develop swimming stamina. Our program is designed to teach children how to stay safe and to develop techniques to save themselves. The program also develops independence in our children as they manage dressing and undressing themselves and looking after their belong-ings. After the program we will be seeking feedback from the families in relation to the program. I hope all families will participate in the chance to provide feedback both constructive and posi-tive. Enjoy your child’s creativity, Have a great week,

We are into the second week of our swim-ming program for our Prep to Year 2 stu-dents and everyone is having a great time learning new skills, or improving skills they already have! This is an important part of the Sports and Physical Education Program at Romsey Primary School.

Awards to be presented Monday October 30th

Organisation Catherine T - (Prep TC) For always being ready to start the day especially with a smile. Tony I 1/2 SW – for consistently helping others organise the classroom so everyone is ready to learn Ella W 1/2 KC – for listening well during teach-er instruction. Rylan C 5/6DM- For listening to instructions and working well during all learning tasks. Well done! Eden S 1/2JH for getting star ted straight away in independent reading and reading the whole time. Jessica B 3/4SH for the pr ide in her presenta-tion of all tasks. Lyla F 4/5 EP – For her excellent and well or-ganised plan for her written information report. Well done Lyla!

Confidence Abigail B 5/6LS - For her excellent star t on our ‘Travel Project’. The questions you are ask-ing to help you travel to Asia are excellent. Resilience Zac D 3 / 4 BT for working hard to improve his skills throughout the year.

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st Prize

$50 Red Door Books of Lancefield Gift Voucher and

2 Readings (Sunbury) Movie Tickets

2nd

Prize 4 Readings (Sunbury) Movie Tickets

3

rd Prize

Hamper of Goodies

Last Monday Jerome Ristevski represented our region in the Regional Atlhletics Day at Bendi-go, competing in Hurdles. We would like to Congratulate him on his amazing effort at win-ning his hurdles event. He will now compete at the State Athletics day next Monday 30th Oc-tober. Congratulations Jerome we are all so very proud of you - Good Luck for next Mon-day.

Vandalism

Unfortunately over the weekend we had some van-dalism at the school in the courtyard and on the basketball court. The broken glass has all been cleaned up and the graffiti will be removed. The police have been informed and are investigating. If you see any inappropriate behaviour at the school over the weekends could you please call the police straight away. This is the 3rd weekend in a row that we have arrived back at school on a Monday to broken glass in our playground areas. I also ask that if you are out and about on the weekend could you just walk through or past the school and provide a positive presence .

From the Office:

Dogs At School Parents are reminded that dogs are not permitted in the school grounds. This is for the safety of all students, staff, parents and other visitors. Your cooperation with this is most appreciated. Parking Reminder Parents are again reminded that the staff car parks are NOT to be used as drop off and collection points for students. We have noticed some parents not adhering to this requirement. This is for the safety of all students, staff and parents.

SAVE THE DATE

Coffee, Cake and Conversation

Tuesday 14th Nov Wednesday 15hth Nov Topic – Help us bring out the best in your

child/ren.

ROMSEY CRICKET CLUB The Under 11 team is still looking for members to join their squad. Training is on Wednesday afternoons 5:30pm—6:30pm and games start on 10th Novem-ber and every Friday night thereafter. Please contact James Collins on 0429 378 724

Monday November 6th: Pupil free day. Report writing day for our teachers