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RPS Newsletter 16 September 2019 16 September 2019 Dear Parents, Grandparents and Carers As we draw to the end of this busy term, it is a good time to reflect on the many wonderful opportunities our students, teachers and parents have enjoyed. Improve learning and achievement for all students Year 1 and 2 students are currently engaged in a science inquiry with the key idea, simple machines serve a purpose for all people. In week 8, students explored through hands on activities the concepts of friction, forces and how pullies operate. This science incursion was led by Paula Taylor from the Centre of Innovation and Learning. Last week six students from year 3 to year 5 participated in Tuggeranong Schools Senior Enrichment program. The year 3 day focused on digital technologies, year 4 on STEM including robotics and year 5 had an active day focusing on physical education. As part of our Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) our teachers continue to work collaboratively in their teams to improve student outcomes. This term PLCs have been analysing reading data and reading programs to ensure individual needs of all students are accommodated with the aim of a year’s growth for every student. We invite you to join as for the first Richardson’s Got Talent on Friday 27 September at 9am in the school hall. Students have been busy preparing at a lunch time with the assistance of Mrs May and they are very eager to share with the community their skills and talents. See you all there! Develop an expert teaching team I will be taking long service leave for the first eight weeks of Term 4. I will spend this time with my family on an overseas vacation. My absence provides an opportunity for a staff member to develop their leadership expertise in covering some of my role. An expression of interest process is currently underway to fill these duties in Term 4. Once this process is finalised, we will share this information with the community. Provide a safe, inclusive and respectful school culture A reminder that our kindergarten to year six Learning Journey is on this Thursday 19 September before and after school. Look out for the hand-written invitation from your child to attend. We look forward to seeing you next week as you share the many and varied achievements of your child/ren over this year. Over the coming weeks students will be introduced to the PBL Expectations for the Assembly and Bag Areas. These expectations will be reinforced using our DABs system. Keep a look out for the signs in these areas and read through them with your child/ren. Men’s Link will be visiting our 5/6 boys this week. They will discuss with the boys the hassles of life and how boys find it hard to talk about problems and ask for help. The enduring message of the visit being, Don’t stay silent, Silence is Deadly. We have been blown away with the community engagement and response with this year’s School Satisfaction Survey. The final count of completed surveys from families was 90. This is almost double last year’s contribution. We are humbled, thankful and excited to view the results early next term and put the thoughts and ideas into action. Last week staff participated in professional learning around, Responding to Parents Reports of Bullying. This was a useful and practical session which will assist to strengthen our relationships with parents when discussing and following through with their concerns. We have had some wonderful new activities in RIPP this term. Thanks to the support of Bunnings we now have a Frog Pond in the preschool and students enjoyed being part of the construction process and we are looking forward to seeing frogs in the future. Our bikes are now in good working order, thanks to the bike maintenance group and hopefully students have taken some knowledge home and have been ensuring their own bikes are safe and road worthy. We also look forward to the artwork the bottle top mosaic group have been creating with links to our local Indigenous community and finding a prominent position for its display. Wishing you all a relaxing and safe October break. Kind regards, Deborah Watling Executive Teacher Dear families, Students are continuing to learn new skipping skills and build their stamina as we head towards the SRC’s Jump Rope for Heart’s ‘Jump Off Day’. Currently our fundraising is at $3, 382.85! Keep it up! If your child is still yet to sign up to the online portal to gain sponsorship, there is still plenty of time! Use this link to sign up: Sign up here today: www.jumprope.org.au/parents The sporting equipment that was purchased at the start of this year has been put to good use over the past few weeks. It has been lovely to see the children playing cooperatively together. This week in our SRC the students discussed: • Possible future fundraisers • The skipping skills that each class is learning for Jump Off Day (20th September) • How we can care for the Frog Pond • How to look after the SRC equipment • How to conduct an SRC meeting in class Emma Vince SRC Coordinator Page ~2~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer The following students will be receiving an award at assembly on Wednesday 18 September 2019. Assembly is 9:15am in the Hall. Congratulations to the following students who will receive their Bronze 25 DAB Certificate at Wednesday’s Assembly. NAMES CLASS These students have consistently displayed our signature behavioiurs of being Respectful, Positive Learners and Safe. Theodore Currie KM NAMES CLASS Benjamin Waters KM Matilda Studham 5/6S Congratulations to the following students who will receive Tobias Kerr KB their Silver 75 DAB Certificate at Wednesday’s Assembly. Annabelle Bonaccorso KB Xavier Mini 3/4V Paige Goddard KM Cade Clarke 1/2Q Chloe Wicks KB Bree Ingram 1/2Q Tahlise Haines KB Harry Lowes 1/2N Matthew Griffiths 3/4V Koa Jordan 1/2N Congratulations to the following students who will receive their Gold 150 DAB Certificate at Wednesday’s Assembly. Ulia Vaana 1/2N Ali Kafalaj 4/5SG Richard White 3/4V Ellsie Brunton-Pennell 4/5SG Dakota Degroot 4/5SG Olivia Britt 3/4V Lara Henriques-Costa 4/5SG Liezel Perejoles 4/5SG Eissa Saeed 2-6T Thomas Studholme 2-6T Sarah Buttriss 5/6S There is a basket near the front office that is Yazan Habeb 5/6S full of lost property. If your child/ren are missing anything please take the time to check the lost property basket. Thank you. Richardson Primary School acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, the traditional custodians of this land. We would also like to pay respect to the United Ngunnawal Elders Council and to the Elders, both past and present of the Ngunnawal nation. We also extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our community. Page ~3~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer Look What Is Happening In Kirrang In literacy this term 1/2 have been learning about cause and effect sentences and understanding how the cause is what happens first and the effect is the result. 1/2 love playing maths games to build their fluency in number operations. Page ~4~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer Look What Is Happening in Kirrang continued…… We were excited to conduct some experiments on friction and forces with the help of Paula Taylor from the Centre of Innovation and Learning. SCHOOL AGE CARE Parking unsafely and illegally around Before and after school care is available at schools Richardson Primary School. Enrolment forms are available from www.ywca-canberra.org.au or As we drive and park our cars around schools we from the front office. Once you have completed all need to ensure the safety of school students is the enrolment form you will need to scan and our priority. Parking illegally and unsafely across email to - pedestrian crossings, corners and verges puts [email protected]. children at risk. We all need to help keep our children safe. Here is a short video Contact details for the YWCA: demonstration: https://youtu.be/AslMVXpA9Zc Phone: 6180 5777 Address: Level 2, 71 Northbourne Avenue, Access Canberra inspectors will be patrolling our Canberra ACT 2601 school zones to help us ensure drivers do the Postal Address: YWCA Canberra, GPO Box 767, right thing. Canberra ACT 2601 Page ~5~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer Page ~6~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer Page ~7~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer You are invited to our Learning Journey Date: Thursday 19 September 2019 Time: 8:30am-9:00am OR 3:00pm-4:30pm Venue: Richardson Primary School Page ~8~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer Page ~9~ ACT Public Schools So much more to offer It’s that time again! Warehouse Circus are enrolling now for the October School Holiday Program. There’s something for everyone, with programs for anyone aged 5 and up. Programs will run from the 30th of September to the 11th of October (excluding public holiday Monday 7th October). Available programs include: • Half Highs (ages 5-7) • Kick Ups (ages 8-12) • Next Step (ages 12-17 and/or intermediates) Warehouse Circus School Holiday Programs cater to all young people, from those who have never done any circus before right up to experienced young circus performers. Participants inevitably leave the program feeling fit and having built lasting friendships with other young circus performers.
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