SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Issue 10 2019 Rosebank Public School Email: [email protected]Website: www.rosebank-p.schoos.nsw.go.au Principal: Juanita Thomson Phone: (02) 66882126 THIS WEEK AHEAD Coming Up Soon Tuesday 9 th April P&C Meeting 3.15 Library Friday 12 th April Easter Parade, Raffle and Egg Hunt State Swimming Carnival Last day of Term Canteen Set up: Lisa R Serving: Lisa H Monday 29 h April Staff Development Day at SCU Tuesday 30 th April Students start back at school for Term 2 Wednesday 1st May FN Cross Country at Clunes (Monday 6 th May as Back Up Day). Term 1 Week 10 2019 Please Note: This will be the last newsletter for this term. ANZAC Day 25 th March This year ANZAC Day falls in the second week of the school holidays. The Lismore Community have a strong tradition of showing support for this important National Day through services and the ANZAC march. Rosebank Public School students are invited to participate in the march. We would ask all parents and carers to encourage their child/children to attend the march. Students need to assemble, in full school uniform including black shoes, navy/black socks, school hat, on ANZAC Day at 8.30am. Look for Mrs Thomson, in the Clyde Campbell (Browns St) Car Park, as the march commences at 9.00am. All students can be collected prior to the service opposite the Post Office in Conway Street. Parents can then take their children home or to the service if they wish. Students will need to take their school hat home before the holidays. Easter Hat Parade, Raffle and Easter Egg Hunt! Parents, carers and community members are invited to attend our Easter Hat Parade led by our student leaders on Friday 12th April from 2pm. The Easter raffle will be drawn followed by an Easter Egg hunt. Hope to see you there! Thank you to everyone who has sent in donations for our Easter raffle prizes and bought tickets. Money raised will go towards replacing our Senior Classroom Air Conditioner. Students of the Week Felix: Super word work to aid reading. Emma: Exhibiting kindness towards others. Thursday 4 th April School Disco-Theme: Favourite Character $5 entry including dinner Friday 5 th April Canteen Set Up: Kate Serving: Ana
Coming Up Soon Tuesday 9th April P&C Meeting 3.15 Library Friday 12th April Easter Parade, Raffle and Egg Hunt State Swimming Carnival Last day of Term Canteen Set up: Lisa R Serving: Lisa H Monday 29h April Staff Development Day at SCU Tuesday 30th April Students start back at school for Term 2 Wednesday 1st May FN Cross Country at Clunes (Monday 6th May as Back Up Day).
Term 1 Week 10 2019 Please Note: This will be the last newsletter for this term. ANZAC Day 25th March This year ANZAC Day falls in the second week of the school holidays. The Lismore Community have a strong tradition of showing support for this important National Day through services and the ANZAC march. Rosebank Public School students are invited to participate in the march. We would ask all parents and carers to encourage their child/children to attend the march. Students need to assemble, in full school uniform including black shoes, navy/black socks, school hat, on ANZAC Day at 8.30am. Look for Mrs Thomson, in the Clyde Campbell (Browns St) Car Park, as the march commences at 9.00am. All students can be collected prior to the service opposite the Post Office in Conway Street. Parents can then take their children home or to the service if they wish. Students will need to take their school hat home before the holidays.
Easter Hat Parade, Raffle and Easter Egg Hunt! Parents, carers and community members are invited to attend our Easter Hat Parade led by our student leaders on Friday 12th April from 2pm. The Easter raffle will be drawn followed by an Easter Egg hunt. Hope to see you there! Thank you to everyone who has sent in donations for our Easter raffle prizes and bought tickets. Money raised will go towards replacing our Senior Classroom Air Conditioner.
Students of the Week Felix: Super word work to aid
reading. Emma: Exhibiting kindness towards
others.
Thursday 4th April School Disco-Theme: Favourite Character $5 entry including dinner Friday 5th April Canteen Set Up: Kate Serving: Ana
Disco Fever! Our first disco for the year will be held on this Thursday 4th April. The students have selected the theme, ‘My Favourite Character’. This character can be from a book, Disney, Marvel, a TV show, the list is endless. The disco will be run by school staff in the Library from 5–7pm. The entry fee will be $5, which includes dinner. There will also be glow sticks and treats for sale so bring some gold coins. NAPLAN Early next term, our Year 3 and Year 5 students will participate in NAPLAN online. If you have any questions, please speak to Mrs Thomson. More information can be found at- https://www.nap.edu.au/home GRIP Leadership Notes were handed out last week to Year 5/6 students about the upcoming GRIP Leadership Conference in Lismore early next term. Numbers need to be submitted and confirmed by the end of this week so please return forms asap. This form is on our school website if you need another copy. Term 2 SDD Rosebank staff will be combining with staff from the Lismore network to take part in a range of professional learning experiences at Southern Cross University on Monday 29th April. The day will offer a wealth of professional learning for executive, teaching and support staff, plus a formal address by the Vice-Chancellor and keynote speaker-Dom Thurbon. Opportunity Class Application 2020 Opportunity classes are located in some government primary schools (our closest are at Goonellabah PS and Byron PS). They cater for highly achieving Year 5 and Year 6 academically gifted students. Online applications for entry into the 2020 Opportunity Class open on Monday, 30th April. There is more information at https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5 Library Borrowing Days K-2 Fridays 3-6 Mondays K-2 Class Awards Araluen: Weekly homework completion. Jay: Descriptive writing. 3-6 Class Awards Beau: Great inferential comprehension when reading tables to gain information. Saskia: Excellent mapping skills. Have an awesome week everyone from Juanita, Nicky, Oliver, Kim and Jen (Rosebank Team). ‘Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out’.
Robert Collier
We respectfully acknowledge the Elders past and present of
the Wijabul Wiyabul people and other peoples of the
Bunjalung Nation.
They are the first peoples of this land, which has long been
a place of learning for Aboriginal people.
Woolworths –earn & Learn Rosebank Public School is participating in the Woolworths earn & learn promotions. Between 1st May and 25th June 2019. Collect as many stickers as you can. Stick them on the sticker sheets and return them to school.
A proud member of the First North Community of Schools and The Rivers P- 12
Library We would like to show you the new books we have bought for our Library. Mrs Thomson asked for student suggestions when ordering. Thank you for ordering from Scholastic Book Club Issue 2. The orders have been placed and are on their way to us in the post.
Easter raffle donations are starting to build up. It’s not too late to send in donations!
Creative and Performing Arts There are several Creative and Performing Arts opportunities available for students this year at Rosebank Public School. The Lismore Performing Arts Festival provides an opportunity for students from local schools to work together to create items specifically for the festival in September. This year there will be an opportunity for year4-6 students to participate in the LPAF (Lismore Performing Arts Band and Choir. Notes have been issued to interested students in Years 4-6 for the Small Schools Choir and Concert Band for the Lismore Performing Arts Festival (held in the first week of September. Cost to participate is $20 for each item. This includes all tuition and rehearsal days as well as a LPAF Concert Band or Small School Choir T-Shirt. It does not include any transport costs. Transport is by private means. If your Year 4-6 child is interested but has not received a note please let office know asap.
ANZAC DAY MARCH 2019 Return Slip: PLEASE RETURN TO THE OFFICE BY FRIDAY, 12th APRIL My Child/Children _____________________________________ will be participating in the ANZAC march on 25th April 2019.
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A MESSAGE FROM MR MARK SCOTT SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION In March we celebrate Harmony Day’s twentieth anniversary. Harmony Day was established to celebrate Australia’s cultural diversity and to be a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. Harmony Day is all about togetherness and kindness, about sharing experience and knowledge. In a small but meaningful way this day of celebration - of respect for diversity - works to create the conditions that erase fear and create friendships. Of course, this year’s celebration comes at a difficult and challenging time, following the terrible attacks in New Zealand. We are shocked and sobered by what we have seen, but we increase our resolve to make our society one which celebrates multiculturalism and recognises that together we are so much richer for what each of us brings and contributes to our community. For twenty years schools and workplaces around the country have put on wonderful celebrations – feasts of international food, music and dance events, talks and workshops. Parents across the country have scrambled to find orange t-shirts, often frustratingly difficult to source but gleefully worn by throngs of excited children. Communities have come together and really celebrated difference and diversity – as well as the things that we have in common. Our very best chance for a happy and harmonious future comes with what our students learn together every day in our rich and diverse school communities. As is often the case, the rest of society could learn much from how schools go about their work every day, as beacons of tolerance and respect. This Harmony Day I hope you enjoy the fantastic events that our schools and workplaces put on. I hope that every student, every member of every school community, and all who work across the Department enjoys the feeling of belonging and the strength of community that comes from cultural respect and friendship. My hope is also that this feeling and celebration of our diversity is something we all continue to embrace and reflect upon on a daily basis as we live our value of equity under the Strategic Plan. In our schools and our corporate offices – wherever you are – have a wonderful day. As this year’s Harmony Week theme reminds us, ‘everyone belongs’. Kind regards Mark Mark Scott | Secretary | Department of Education
KEEP COUGHING KIDS HOME AND SEE YOUR GP The Department of Education has requested this be placed in all school newsletters: Whooping cough (also called pertussis) began increasing across NSW towards the end of 2018, especially in children between the ages of 5 and 14 years. NSW Health anticipates that this increase will continue into 2019. School-aged children who are infected with whooping cough usually experience a troubling cough that can persist for months, but they rarely get severe illness. However they can spread the infection to younger siblings and other more vulnerable people, who are at higher risk of severe disease. Whooping cough can be a life threatening infection in babies. What can you do to prevent whooping cough? 1. Make sure vaccinations are up to date for all family members 2. Be alert for symptoms of whooping cough 3. Keep coughing kids home, to prevent them spreading the infection to others, and see your GP to get them tested for whooping cough For more information on Whooping Cough and vaccination, visit the NSW Health Website https:// www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/ whoopingcough/Pages/default.aspx You can also find out about other important infectious disease alerts by visiting the alerts page https:// ww w.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/ alerts/Pages/default.aspx
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Triple P Course Triple P is an approach to parenting that emphasises the positive. It aims to equip parents with the skills and confidence that may be needed to prevent problems before they arise and help children reach their full potential. If you are interested in participating in a small group Triple P course (6 x 2 ½ hours and one telephone session) please contact The Family Centre on (07) 55248711.
More information is available at www.thefamilycentre.org.au Child minding is available
