Number 33 October 24th 2019

Principal: Mrs Loren Peavey

Ph: 5429 5099 School Council President:

Mrs Elizabeth McDonell Email:

romsey.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website:

www.romseyps.vic.edu.au Our School Values Are: Respect Integrity Responsibility

COMING EVENTS OCTOBER Friday 25th: Preparation for Puberty program starts Yr6 Monday 28th: Western Water Incursion Yr5/6 Wednesday 30th Staff Meeting (All Staff) 3:45-5:45pm

NOVEMBER Friday 1st: Werribee Zoo excursion Yr1/2 Monday 4th: Report writing day—pupil free day Tuesday 5th: Melbourne Cup public holiday Wednesday 6th Staff Meeting (All Staff) 3:45-5:45pm

Monday 11th: Whole school walk to Cenotaph 10:40am Remembrance Day ceremony Wednesday 13th: 2020 Prep Transition 9.15-10.30am Staff Meeting (All Staff) 3:45-5:45pm Monday 18th—Friday 22nd: Water Safety Program Yr3/4 Wednesday 20th: Staff Meeting (All Staff) 3:45-5:45pm School Council 6:45pm Thursday 21st: Instrumental music students—Soiree Friday 22nd: School disco Monday 25th—Friday 29th: Water Safety Program Yr5/6

Wednesday 27th: Staff Meeting (All Staff) 3:45-5:45pm Friday 29th: 2020 Prep Transition 9.15-10.30am

DECEMBER Thursday 5th: Whole school concert 6:00pm Tuesday 10th: State-wide transition day Thursday 18th: Year 6 graduation evening Friday 20th: Last day of the school year: finish at 1.30pm

Romsey Primary School is an inclusive and empowering learning community which fosters confident, creative, caring, curious and collaborative learners who “dare to be excellent”.

Performing at assembly on Monday October 28th: 1/2SH

The Science Dome was a great learning tool for our Year 5 and 6 students when discov-ering facts about our Earth and its place in the solar system. This is the starting point for our inquiry unit on Earth and Space.

Mrs Peavey’s Post

Learning News Bendigo Bank Night Market Yr5/6 Congratulations to the Yr 5/6 children on their extremely successful night market. Everyone had a magnificent evening. The evening raised over $1700 and the students will now be discussing how they will be using the money they have raised. Thank you to all of the families from across the school who attended and made this a wonderful experience for the Yr5/6 business owners. I would also like to thank the Bendigo Bank for sponsoring the event and Ms Murphy for bringing this real life project to fruition. This project is a wonderful example of learning with purpose and a true audience. We will keep you informed about the decision making process around the profits. Please see photos. Dome excursion Yr 5/6 I was privileged to spend some time in the Dome with the Year 5/6 children on Tuesday morning. Inside the dome we learnt about the creation of our universe, the planets and the environment of the world. It was a wonderful experience and a great jumping off platform for the Inquiry unit “ Earth’s Place in Space”, it was very similar to being at the Planetarium. 2020 Planning and Grade Placement 2020 Planning is well underway for 2020. If you have a Prep child attending in 2020 it is imperative that we have your enrolment now. We are trying to secure teachers for 2020. 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 academic 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 – 2020 Grade Placement’. Requests for grade placement should be lodged at the office no later than Friday, 1 November. Any parent, who has lodged a request in a previous year, should resubmit their request in writing even if their circumstances remain unchanged. BYOD The portal for the BYOD devices for Yr 3 is now open. Please go to www.jbeducation.com.au/byod the password is ROMSEYPS2020 . It is an expectation that all Yr3 children have their own Chromebook, with the same specifications as the Chromebooks on the portal. It is now optional for Year 1/2 families to also purchase a device for their students. If you have further questions please do not hesitate to call and make an appointment.

School Matters Defibrillator The school now has its own defibrillator which is suitable for ages. It is housed in the office area. We want all families and community members to know that during school hours this machine is available if required in the school or the community. We would like to thank the Parent Committee for fundraising to purchase this valuable piece of equipment for the school and to the St John’s Ambulance association for selling it to us for a great price. Toasty Tuesday, Just a reminder that Toasty Tuesday continues all term, we would like to thank IGA for their ongoing support and donating bread each week to Toasty Tuesday and thank you to our parent volunteers. We all love Tuesday mornings. School Review Our 2017-2020 School review will take place in Term 2 next year. In preparation for the review we will be conducting a self-evaluation in Term 4 2019 and Term 1 2020. During this time we will be conducting parent and family forums and surveys in which we will be inviting all families to participate. We had a very low participation rate in the Department Parent Survey so we are hoping more families will participate and provide feedback and their aspirations for their children as we review and plan for the next 4 year Strategic Plan. We hope all families will participate at some level whether it by via surveys or at CCC meetings dates will be published in next week’s newsletter. We will keep you informed via the newsletter, Updated, and the facebook page on how you can be involved. We looking forward to hearing from everyone. If you have other ideas on how we can engage you in this process please let us know.

Mrs Peavey’s Post

Playground Project Our Start Up Meeting for the Playground Project will take place on Tuesday 28

th Nov. After this meeting we will

be able to provide you with the building timeline. Prep- 2 Swim/Safety Program We ask all P-2 families who participated in the swim/safety program to complete the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q3K26YC to assist us in meeting the needs of our families. The survey will close on Nov 1 at 4pm. Happy learning.

Loren Peavey School Council News School Council met last night and the following were the main items on the agenda.

CCTV

Building Project

Playground Project

School self-evaluation for review and school focus group

ICT 2020

School fees and family contributions

Classroom structure 2020

Whole school concert

Aths cage

BYOD

Parent Committee fundraising

Facilities up keep Please feel free to come ask about any of these matters with any of the school councillors or the leadership team.

Night Market On the 18th of October, the 5/6s held a night market as a part of our term 3 Grade ⅚ Inquiry unit. We sold items such as homemade food, origami, hand sewn crafts, plants, stickers and badges. We also had games, including the bottle flip challenge; guess the amount in the jar, soda bottle coin-toss and an aeroplane competition. We sold popcorn and zooper doopers too. We were successful, and made $1,246.20. It was a fun day and we all enjoyed it. We would like to thank Miss Murphy for helping us and all staff on the night. A big thank you to Romsey Bendigo Bank for sponsoring us. Michael came to see our stalls and congratulate us. We would like to thank all the parents and students who brought some materials for us to make our products. A big thank you to all students, parents, staff and family who supported such a successful event. -Emily B and Alice B

PARAGRAPHS The 1/2 unit has been looking at the structure of paragraphs. We start writing a paragraph by using a topic sentence. Then we add sentences that have detail to match the topic sentence. Lastly we add a concluding sentence. We used a hamburger template to help see the different parts of the structure.

Bendigo Bank: Proud spon-sors of our

Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrate birthdays this week: Connor B. Tyrian S.

Awards to be presented Monday October 28th: Prep EM – Brayden H for doing a great job when building your house, trying different things and finding solutions to the challenges you faced. Well done! Prep MS- Ruby C. for her amazing writing about Tasmania! Prep/1 AG – Confidence - Max I.- for his fantastic work on his castle design. 1/2MK Confidence-Trentyn F. for having the confidence to challenge himself to learn new skills and strategies. 1/2 MK Organisation- Piper C. for listening to instructions therefore completing activities correctly. 1/2MC – Persistence: Henry T. for expanding numbers into the tens of thousands and challenging himself in Maths. 1/2SH Confidence- Marcelle R. for composing a paragraph that follows the correct structure and engages the audience. 3/4LS 3/4AG Organised: Saqqara A. for taking the utmost care to write a detailed and well-structured scien-tific report. 3/4FH Resilience: Jaxson C. for accomplishing a personal challenge, presenting at assembly with positivity and confidence. Well done! 5/6DM to Emma-Lee M. for working hard to complete her business plan to create badges and rock people for the night market! Well done! 5/6SD Persistence to Aaron C. for working hard to complete set activities. 5/6LD - Persistence: Ji S. for his excellent visualisation and syllabification when creating Haiku poetry. STEAM Persistence- Riley M. for accomplishing the LEGO challenge and adding more code to your program. Persistence- Ryan C. for accomplishing the LEGO challenge and adding more code to your pro-gram. Visual Arts: 5/6LD for a fantastic effort and attitude towards your animation work in art this week. Physical Education: Ashlea D. (1/2SH) for showing confidence during the Cricket program run by Cricket Victoria.

Our award winners at assembly this week.

Using Qkr for Excursion and Other Payments Following a number of queries from parents about Qkr we would like to remind you that:

Qkr payments for excursions and incursions etc. can only be made up to the closing date for payments as stated on the notice of the event that is sent home with students. After this date all payments must be made through the office or by phone using a credit card. (We do expect that all payments will be made by the closing date).

Partial payments cannot be made through Qkr, so if a notice says a deposit is an option you cannot make a deposit payment via Qkr, just a full payment.

DONATE YOUR SECOND HAND UNIFORMS! Do you have a child in Grade 6? Or perhaps your youngest school child has outgrown their uniforms?

The Parent Committee welcomes second hand uniforms in good condition as donations for the second hand uniform shop. This important service provides good value uniforms to the school community while raising money for our kids education at RPS. Sort through and send yours in to the office today!

FROM OUR PARENT CLUB: _ MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING UPCOMING EVENTS Toastie Tuesday- The kids are loving this and we are all doing a fantastic job keeping this going, Wendy has updated the procedure. School Disco- 22

nd November, more details to come. Free Entry, we will sell drinks and lollies. Could we

please get some volunteers for this night. Each class will be given an option to write down songs they want to hear at the disco. Prep-2 5:30-6:30 3-6 6:40-8:00 We will need to start organising lights and music asap. Halloween Sausage Sizzle- Evans Wine Bar hosts a Halloween event on the 31

st of October each year

and they have offered for us to run the BBQ to raise funds for the school. We will need volunteers for this if possible, even if its just an hour or so. We need sausages, sauce, bread, pop tops, drinks, Trish is donating onions.

Our next meeting is this coming Monday 11th of November at 2pm.

New members are always welcome—please come along.

End of Year Concert All classes are now rehearsing concert items for our end of year whole school concert.. The children are working hard to learn their lyrics and dance moves. Some Grade 5/6 children are auditioning for cast positions for the event. Please save the date for this event: Thursday, 5

th December,

2019. Watch the newsletter for more details.

Year 6 Bomber Jackets for 2020 Orders are now being taken for the 2020 Year 6 bomber jacket. Please call in to the office to see and try on the sizes available. Our preferred payment method is the Qkr app. We are planning to have the order finalised in time for delivery of jackets at the beginning of the 2020 school year so please place your order as early as possible. The cost is $56.00. Orders will not be placed unless full payment is received.

Absences: We ARE Getting Better But…. Thank you to the vast majority of parents who are now becoming much more vigilant about informing us of students absences. We are improving but we need to remind parents that any absence from school must be communicated to the office as soon as you know that your child will be away, as per Department of Education requirements. This can be done by phone, email or the UpDated app. This saves the office staff a lot of time following up unexplained absences. We don’t like having to contact you or send letters, asking for an explanation of a child’s absence.

Grade 5/6 students building and erupt-ing volcanoes.

Grade Prep students working together to make a plan for a zoo enclosure.

Grade 5/6 students building shelters to protect a family from

Students explored keva planks with a variety of challenges.

LEGO Robotics – students worked collaboratively to build our LEGO robots.

Miles form the Science Discovery Dome introduces the students to the concept of the dome before they enter to discover the wonders of space.

A Busy Time in 3/4 and 5/6

The Hands On Science incursion for our 3/4 students last week focused on Chemical Science. The 3/4 unit is studying the properties of materials, chemical reactions and how substances can change as their inquiry topic for this term.

Science Discovery Dome Incursion On the 22

nd of October, the 5/6 Unit went to the

Science Dome incursion in the Library. Miles presented some amazing Space facts. He explained about the evolution of Space. We also learnt about stars, constellations, the Solar System, the concept of day and night, the sun, the moon, famous Astrologers and Scientists. The incursion was a lot of fun and it was easy to understand Space and how life started. Cooper and Nathan

Science Discovery Dome Incursion On the 22nd of October, the 5/6 Unit went to the Science Dome incursion in the Library. Miles pre-sented some amazing Space facts. He explained about the evolution of Space. We also learnt about stars, constellations, the Solar System, the concept of day and night, the sun, the moon, famous Astrologers and Scientists. The incursion was a lot of fun and it was easy to understand Space and how life started. Cooper and Nathan

SPORT STATE ATHLETICS On Thursday 24

th October, Emily Wilmann and Oscar Kruss Alexander are representing Romsey Primary

School at the State Athletics Finals. Emily is in the 9-10 girls Long Jump and Oscar is in the 9-10 boys Triple Jump. Good luck to both and results will be in the next newsletter.

CRICKET PROGRAM On Wednesday 23

rd October, Matthew Hoyt (ex Romsey PS student and current Romsey CC player) who

works for Cricket Victoria/Melbourne Renegades came to the school to run a fun and engaging program for the Grade Prep-2 students. The students had a great time learning about batting, bowling and fielding. This was an opportunity for students to have a ‘taster’ of the game of cricket and the chance to see what is done at the local club for kids aged 5-10. All students should have received a flyer with details about the Blasters programs being run at Romsey Cricket Club starting November 7

th. If they didn’t, please see the classroom

teacher.

Jarrod Milsom Sport Co-ordinator