First Day Junior Campus

A special welcome to our students, families and staff for the first day back at the Junior Campus! Senior Campus Year 8 Students

RSC Year 8 students looked amazing wearing their formal uniform. Students are invited to wear formal uniform on days they have Year Level Assembly. The following day’s students are invited to wear formal uniform: *Year 7 Thursday *Year 8 Tuesday *Year 9 Tuesday *Year 10 Wednesday *Year 11 Thursday *Year 12 Thursday

PCYC SYLP Leadership Camp

This year, two year 12 students, Zoe Jones-Drennen and Hannah Lacey, had the privilege to attend the PCYC SYLP Leadership Camp in January. The program is a weeklong camp that is located at the Gold Coast (Bornhoffen) that is designed for youth future

leaders (aged 14-25). Throughout the week, different adventure activities (creeking, hiking, camping and canoeing) were set, as well as theory lessons, teambuilding actives, and the ‘Magic Dinner’ (a fancy goodbye dinner at the facility). When the girls weren’t off having fun with their group members, they relaxed with the other participants in free time in the pool, basketball court, or dining hall, at lunch and dinner times. Overall the experience was amazing, and in some aspects life-changing: the two girls made a lot of new friends from across Queensland (that they still keep in contact with), learnt new things about different people and most importantly learnt how to be a better leader. If anyone has the opportunity to be a part of the PCYC SYLP program, take the offer! New friends, new experiences, and new leaderships skills, what more could anyone ask for? Hannah Lacey and Zoe Jones-Drennen would like to thank everyone at the camp (staff and participants) for a wonderful time and support throughout the week, and also the Roma PCYC for selecting them for the PCYC SYLP Leadership Camp

From our Heads of Campus and Principal Alese Woods, Margaret Mawn, Kate Van Der Meulen and Guy Hendriks

4th February– 15th February 2019 NEWS ACROSS THE COLLEGE

DATE CLAIMER

February 2019 19

th Middle Campus Photos

19th

Junior Campus Swimming Start Yrs 1 and 2 20

th Senior Campus Photos

March 2019 6

th Clean Up Australia Day

8th

International Women’s Day 14

th March World’s Greatest Shave (Senior Campus) and Crazy

Hair Day for Junior and Middle Campuses 15

th RSC Cross Country

21st

Harmony Day Avoid Island Trip

On the 21

st – 23

rd January, myself and 6 other girls from across

Queensland (two from Mount Isa, two from Bundaberg and two from Bell) were invited on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to research and experience the hatching of baby flatback turtles on Avoid Island. We were accompanied on this trip by two Wonders of Science Ambassadors, a QTFN representative and leading marine scientist, Dr Nancy Fitzsimmon and her team, who all taught us important information on the flatback turtles that we were collecting data from and the human impacts that affect sea turtle’s lives and survival in the Australian region. On the island, we participated in digging up hatched nests, walks across the island to understand its geology and how protected it is, beach clean ups, weeding dangerous, introduced plants and of course, turtle research. We weighed, measured and notched each hatchling from the nests with the help of Nancy, then let all the turtles go to find their way to the ocean, which was very rewarding. I would like to thank the staff at RSC and the Wonders of Science program for making my stay at Avoid Island possible; it is an experience I will never forget!

Middle Campus Students of the Week Week 1

Week 2

Congratulations to our Students of the Week! These students showed their commitment to the 4 ‘Be’ expectations: Being committed to learning, Being respectful, Being responsible and Being safe.

JUNIOR CAMPUS

SWIMMING REMINDER

Year 1 and 2

Start in Week 4 – 7 Tuesday and Friday

Thomas Schefe Young Endeavour Recap

The 4th

of January saw me (Thomas Schefe) standing outside fleet

base east in Woolloomooloo Sydney waiting to board STS Young Endeavour. The ten-day voyage aboard the 44-metre-long sailing ship saw myself and 23 other youth crew (aged between 16-23), literally learn the ropes to sail the ship. The voyage saw us visiting places like Jervis Bay (ACT), going for a scenic walk on Deal Island (Tasmania), swinging off the rope swing in Refuge Cove (VIC), exploring the town of Cowes on Phillip Island (VIC), enjoying the Mussel Festival in Portarlington (VIC), and a visit to Williamstown, Melbourne (Vic) which was where the life changing experience ended. Throughout the voyage I had the opportunity to meet many other young Australians from all over the country who have become life-long friends, climb the 30-metre-tall mast, get to see parts of Australia that not many people have heard of let alone actually seen, and learn more about myself. The navy crew encouraged us to have no regrets and to view challenges as opportunities. If you are given the opportunity to have an experience like this I would recommend that you take it with both hands. I am extremely grateful to the Roma RSL for sponsoring me participate in this amazing experience.

Junior Campus Arts Roma State College values Arts in education through learning both in the arts and through the arts. We are committed to ensuring the provision of high quality arts education for all levels of our learners. At Junior Campus, in addition to Music education taught by Lindy Montgomery, Michelle Clout joins her this year in teaching the Arts. Over the year the students will study the full Arts curriculum of Dance, Drama, Media Arts and Visual Arts. This term the Junior Campus students will have an arts education focus on both Music and Dance. Both Lindy and Michelle are looking forward to providing some wonderful experiences that will extend our students creative thinking to support academic learning.

Senior Campus World’s Greatest Shave will be happening at the RSC Senior Campus on Thursday 14

th March.

Students and staff will have the opportunity to shave or colour for a cure on this day Keep an eye on our facebook page for more details

Maths Tutoring open to all students from Year 7 - 12 at

Senior Campus Every Tuesday

Break 2 Room A2.13

On Tuesday, 5

th February, Senior Campus held their Stymie launch

day. We were excited to have Rachel Downie, founder of Stymie, at the school for the day, and she spoke with all students, and staff, about cybersafety and how to use Stymie. Rachel presented some very informative and thought provoking statements to students, and some great ‘tips’ on how to continue to keep themselves safe. All students now have access to the Stymie notification site, and it is as easy as following the steps below.

Junior Campus

At RSC our 4 School Rules are: Be Respectful Be Safe Be Responsible Be Committed to Learning Thank you to Mrs Clout for the new sign.

Junior Campus Year 2 scooter board action during our first week of PE

Junior Campus Homework Club will NOT be on next Monday 18

th due to staff training. It will

resume Monday 25th

February.

Junior Netball Junior sign on day - Saturday 9th & 16th February and Wednesday 13th February Where Bassett Park Netball Courts Time TBA All players to come to one of the sign days. JotForm will be again used to register players - iPads will be able available. Grading games/Training - Saturday 23rd February & Wednesday 27th February Where Bassett Park Netball Courts Time TBA All players need to attend both days Representative Netball Trial Day - Sunday 24th Febuary Where Bassett Park Netball Courts Time TBA 12yrs to opens State Age & QPL Prep for Rep Days - Wednesday 6th, 13th & 20th February Where Bassett Park Netball Courts Time TBA 12 years to opens Any enquires please email mna@outlook.com.au

Say Something Helping You to Say Something About Bullying and Harm at Your

School

stymie.com.au encourages you to support your peers by making anonymous notifications through their site. These notifications will be about other students who you see being bullied or experiencing harm at Your School. You can also make notifications about illegal activity and any other kind of harm to your school community. The notifications can include evidence such as screen shots of social media conversations or messages and are automatically forwarded to the appropriate adult You Can Put Who Is Receiving Them If You Want To here at Your School. The first confidential conversation we have, will be with the student who is experiencing harm - they will know they are not alone.

Your School is committed to supporting all of you in being able to make positive choices about bullying and harm in our community. Please use it. Use it responsibly and thoughtfully and know that you can make a difference.

HOW DO I MAKE A NOTICATION? Go to stymie.com.au Make a very detailed notification, with at least 3 sentences of information in the ‘what happened’ box. Click ‘send’.