Richmond Primary School Brighton Street Richmond 3121 > Tel: 9428 1909 Fax: 9428 9085 OSHClub Tel: 0447 330 481 E: [email protected]www.richmondps.vic.edu.au > EFTPOS facilities available Diary Dates Number 19 25 July 2017 July 24 First Aid for students Incursion 26 School Council 31 Prep Travelling Kitchen Incursion August 1-2 Parent Teacher Interviews / Student Led Conferences 4 100 Days of Prep 7 Grade 1/2 Multicultural Day and Incursion 14 Book Parade & Grandparent’s Day 16 Pupil Free Day 23 Grade 3/4 Camp Information ses- sion 28- 31 Grade 6 Play Boot Camp 30 School Council September 4-8 Grade 6 Play 6-8 Grade 3/4 Camp ( Lady Northcote ) 14 Grade 1/2 Sleepover 15 SRC Dress Up Day & Pizza After- noon 22 End of Term Van Gogh - The Seasons: RPS On Show Your school community is here to help. If you have any comments, concerns or praise, please speak to your child’s teacher, the principal or a School Council member. A proud group of students attended the National Gallery of Victoria for a special showing during the holidays of their own paintings inspired by Van Gogh – The Seasons Exhibition. Many family members attended to hear a presentation by Gallery staff and our students about the nature of their project. We then got to view their works and an accompanying letter written by the students as ‘artists’ that helped explain what inspired their painting. We have shared some of these with you in this newsletter and hope to display them all again as part of our Arts Gala in October.
1-2 Parent Teacher Interviews / Student Led Conferences
4 100 Days of Prep
7 Grade 1/2 Multicultural Day and Incursion
14 Book Parade & Grandparent’s Day
16 Pupil Free Day
23 Grade 3/4 Camp Information ses-sion
28-31
Grade 6 Play Boot Camp
30 School Council
September
4-8 Grade 6 Play
6-8 Grade 3/4 Camp ( Lady Northcote )
14 Grade 1/2 Sleepover
15 SRC Dress Up Day & Pizza After-noon
22 End of Term
Van Gogh - The Seasons: RPS On Show
Your school community is here to help. If you have any comments, concerns or praise, please speak to your child’s teacher, the principal or a School Council member.
A proud group of students attended the National Gallery of Victoria for a special showing during the holidays of their own paintings inspired by Van Gogh – The Seasons Exhibition. Many family members attended to hear a presentation by Gallery staff and our students about the nature of their project. We then got to view their works and an accompanying letter written by the students as ‘artists’ that helped explain what inspired their painting. We have shared some of these with you in this newsletter and hope to display them all again as part of our Arts Gala in October.
If you’re not in to yoga and you havehalf a brain, get a team together, get
your best Hawaiian shirts on and join us for the Richmond Primary School
Trivia night!
Join us for the Richmond Primary School Tropical Trivia night
When Saturday 5 August 7.30pm
Where Richmond Town Hall
book tickets trybooking.com/QQKI
Richmond Primary School trivia night is back…
Do you like Pina Colada?
Getting caught in the rain?
Student Led ConferencesOur Grade 1- 6 Student Led conferences will be happening next week on Tuesday August 1 and 2. A Signmee booking form went out today for all families to book a time. (This includes the Prep families who may book an interview slot with their child’s teacher.) We have found student-led conferences to be a valuable experience that have the potential to improve the communication patterns of both students and parents.
In a student-led conference, students learn how to reflect on their learning, evaluate their progress and communicate this information to their parents. Parents experience how to listen to their child speak as a learner, how to encourage growth and how to best help their child with specific problems. Below are some hints for parents attending these conferences – we hope you find them helpful.
HINTS FOR PARENTS• Express positive interest and anticipation about the
upcoming conference.• Listen and respond to your child.• Express pride in growth and progress.• Ask questions (below are some examples).• Be positive, offering to help in areas where
improvement is needed.• Recognise that students need to develop
independence in communicating progress – remember that the teacher will be there to facilitate and answer specific questions but will not take charge of the conference.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING THE CONFERENCE• Can you explain this to me?• How did you come up with this idea?• How have you grown in this area?• How can you improve in this area?• How can we help you at home?• What was important to you about this?• If you could do this work over again, how would
you change it?• What future goals do you have as a student?
Scholastic BookclubThis week’s newsletter includes a copy of the latest Scholastic Book Club catalogue. Book Club is a brilliant way to shop for great quality books at low prices whilst also benefitting our school. 20% of each sale is given back to RPS, which will be used to purchase books for our school library collection.
We will be utilising the Scholastic online ordering system, called LOOP, which enables you to pay online (no hunting around for cash!) and the books will be delivered to child’s class in a labelled pack soon after the catalogue closing date. In saying this, PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH TO THE OFFICE. All orders must be placed online. The website is:
www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP
2017/2018 Entertainment Book is here!The Entertainment Book is now available featuring hundreds of discounted offers for local cafes, restaurants, attractions and more.
For $70 you can order the digital version or hard copy book. RPS will receive 20% of all sales on orders made by school families and their friends.
Ordering is easy
• Visit https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/
If you have any questions about Book Club, please direct them to Sam at:
Sam’s sidekick, Jo Tyrrell, may also be able to answer your queries.
The closing date for catalogue 5 is Friday 7th of August.
orderbooks/1885w17 and enter your details.
• Select ‘pick up $0’.
• Email your child’s name & class to [email protected] and the book will be delivered to your child’s classroom (or select post with the extra fee).
For more information, contact our school’s Entertainment Book representative, Fiona Tomé, at the email address above.
Student of the week
Prep JAva Bond For always showing a positive attitude towards all learning tasks. Congratulations on your persistence you have shown to use your letter and sound knowledge to write your recounts by yourself. Keep on working hard and trying your best Ava. You’re a star!
Prep RMinnie Pacey For her enthusiasm for reading. What a fabulous reader you are! Keep it up Minnie.
Prep SLivinia Venetis For your excellent holiday recount and fantastic use of Magic Words in your writing Livinia! I am very impressed! Well done!
1/2 CWilliam Tefler Working really hard to describe and draw the feelings that are in your heart. Awesome descriptions and illustrations William – the details and effort are really impressive! Well done!
Obadiah Laa For writing a terrific description of the feelings in your heart. Your spelling and choice of words was fabulous. Great work Obadiah!
1/2 DDeclan Webb For making a super positive start in the first week of Term 3. I’ve been really impressed with the effort you have been putting into all of your work Declan, keep it up superstar!
Tadhg Lenaghan For showing off his impressive mental maths skills when being tested on his Basic Facts and playing maths games in class. You are able to answer with the speed of Lightning McQueen. Well done!
1/2 JKAli Torfi For your great writing all about Slug Power!
1/2 NOwen Boxer For the outstanding work he completed in multiplication this week and the terrific improvement he has made in Reading. Congratulations Owen!
1/2 PJoseph Matyear For a great start to Term 3. Your random acts of kindness are an example to the whole class.
3/4 AGemma Gowans For your wonderful Haiku about dusk using beautiful imagery.
3/4 CMiles Pacey For creating a beautiful, imagery-filled haiku about the sun. Your revisions and hard work paid off, you are a very eloquent writer.
3/4 FAva Behrens Well done Ava forAll the excellent haikusYou’ve written, great work!
3/4 JJackson Stone Making a great start to Term Three by having a positive attitude
towards his work in class. Great effort Jackson!
5/6 CNaoko Ogawa-Javes For your expressive, vibrant and well-plotted story, “Mr Linden’s Library”. You really know how to pull your reader’s heartstrings! Well done, Naoko!
5/6 LEmily Phillips For a fantastic start to Term Three! You always work to the best of your ability and are happy to help those around you. Great Job Em!
5/6 RWil Ransom Congrats on a great start to term 3 Wil! You’ve hit the ground running. Keep it up!
5/6 SKaitlen Swenson For showing great resilience and flexibility in Reading Circles this week. Your positive attitude sets a great example for everyone around you! Well done, Kaitlen!
Every week, we pose a quiz question based on the name of one of our wonderful students.
Write your answer on a piece of paper, along with your name and grade, and put it in the cream letter box in the office. The first correct entry drawn will win a Student Pass for one hour.The winning entry will be drawn on Wednesday at 3.30 pm.
NOTE:> You may place only one entry per week in the box.> Each player must put in their own entry (no joint
entries)> If you win, you are win-binned (disqualified) for one
week, to give others a go.
As there was no winner from last week, this week’s clue is the same as last issue:
**KIDS QUIZ**
This week’s clue: Remove the last two letters from the Grade Prep student’s name, and you’ll have a ship that’s supposed to have carried a lot of animals.
Save the Date
Monday 14th August
Grandparents Day/Book Week Celebration 9.00-10.30 AM
RPS Trivia Night Saturday 5th August7.30 PM Richmond Town Hall
Selling your house? Mention RPS at the time of listing and Biggin & Scott Richmond will donate $1,000.00 to the school. They will also donate $500.00 to the school for every new management property signed up, where RPS is mentioned.
If you’re not in to yoga and you havehalf a brain, get a team together, get
your best Hawaiian shirts on and join us for the Richmond Primary School
Trivia night!
Join us for the Richmond Primary School Tropical Trivia night
