“Together we can for every child, every day in every classroom”

Friday October 11th. Issue No. 31 Principal: Mrs Roma McKinnon Dip.Ed B.Ed MSchLdrshp

www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au | Phone: 9799 1216 | Fax: 9799 3389

Dates to Remember

Tuesday 15th October

Foundation Transition begins 2:15pm

Monday 4th November

Curriculum Day -

No students required at school

Tuesday 5th November

Melbourne Cup Public Holiday - No school

Wednesday 6th November

School Validation Day

Thursday 7th November

Grade 5 Enchanted Garden Excursion

Thursday 14th November

Foundation Brickworks In School Visit

Thursday 21st to Monday 25th November

Life Education Van Sessions F - 2

Wednesday 27th November

School Review Day

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Dinosaurs in Middle B In Term 3, the middle school students learnt all about Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous period for our

inquiry topic. As part of the unit, the students designed and created their very own dinosaur park.

During the last week of term, the Middle B students were able to share all of their creative work

with each other in an exhibition style gallery walk; all students presented their achievements

amazingly well and enjoyed the event.

You can visit our school website www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au for further information about our school vision and how we showcase our students owning their learning.

Foundation Enrolments and Transition If you, family or friends have a child

ready to start school in 2020, please

contact the office to fill out

enrolment forms as soon as possible.

The 2020 Foundation Teachers are

looking forward to meeting new

students and their families at

transitions sessions beginning next

week.

Transition sessions begin Tuesday 15th October at 2:15pm

What’s happening at School?

2019 School Review

In 2019, we are in a year of review. Our review is scheduled for Term 4 and will look at our data from 2016 to 2019 and where we have achieved our goals. Furthermore this will assist us to create goals and benchmarks for student achievement at River Gum for the next 4 years and form part of our Strategic Plan.

Throughout the year, staff and School Council have assisted in preparing River Gum Primary School for our review to ensure that our selected priorities and focus on our key areas have had the greatest impact on school improvement. Our self evaluation is now complete and ready for the 3 day review which will take place in Term 4.

We will continue to engage with School Council, parents and students so that our self evaluation reflects how we have done the work in the past and what might we do differently or focus on in the future.

2020 Enrolments

Our 2020 Enrolments are now due and transition is beginning for our new Foundation Students next Tuesday the 15th of Oc-tober. If you, family or friends have a child ready to start school in 2020, please contact the office to fill out enrolment forms as soon as possible.

Road Safety

To ensure student safety please remind students about the importance of road safety when crossing roads before and after school and when

You can visit our school website www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au for further information about our school vision and how we showcase our students owning their learning.

- Principal Roma McKinnon

Zooper Doopers are back!

During Term 4, all students are required to wear a hat with a broad brim outside during recess and lunchtimes.

Please remind students to bring their hats to school everyday otherwise they will be required to stay in the ‘No hat, No play’ area.

School bucket hats in house colours can be purchased from the office for $12.

Visitor Sign In The office has introduced a new visitor sign-in system called Passtab.

This system requires all classroom visitors to enter their Working With Children Check number upon arrival. Please remember to bring your WWCC card if you are helping in the classroom.

If you currently volunteer in the classroom, please see the office for further details.

School Gates At the end of the school day gates are opened at 3:00pm. As these are opened by teachers; at times there may be things which arise or prevent them from getting to the gate at precisely 3:00pm. Please be mindful of this when collecting your child. Someone will attend to the gate as soon as possible.

Please, also notify the Office 9799 1216 if the gates are still closed after 3:00pm. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding of this.

No Hat, No Play

They will be available everyday, starting Monday. They cost 50 cents. If you would like one you need to give the money to your teacher first thing in the morning and you’ll receive a Zooper Dooper at lunch time.

World Teachers’ Day is celebrated each year on the 5th October.

Happy World Teachers’ Day to all our wonderful teachers we have at River Gum!

Salaina Taunuu - R17 Linda Sadlier - R07 Ersan Ziberoski - R05 Andrej Mitrovic - R21

Salaina, your mature attitude

at the State School

Spectacular rehearsals blew

me away. You are a dedicated

student who takes her respon-

sibilities very seriously. Well

done!

Linda, you are a Maths Super

Star! You have been working

hard on all your fractions tasks

this term during Maths 5! Keep

it up.

For consistently achieving

perfect results in your weekly

spelling test.

For outstanding improvement

on your whole number post

test. Amazing!

Noa Dinek - R22 Elaha Mohebbi - R15 Prashant Mangal - R13 Sana Yousufi - R08

For outstanding reading effort

and enthusiasm.

For completing a fantastic and

insightful inquiry project. Well

done!

For working so hard during

classroom sessions to ensure

that you produced a well

researched and effective

project. Well done, Prashant!

For constantly being a

kind-hearted and happy

student. You always make

everyone feel so included.

Awesome work!

Hazel Miles - R20 Nyuon Nyuon - Sci Tech Jazmin De Kretser - R22 Andy Tran - R04

Hazel has made a great

improvement in her reading

recently, and is becoming

more independent and

confident. Well done, Hazel!

Nyuon, you used high level

vocabulary when you explained

your ideas to your classmates.

For enthusiastically teaching

her family members about the

structure of a range of different

text types and sharing her

expertise. Congratulations

Jazzi!

For being a maths superstar

and explaining your thinking

when completing addition and

subtraction tasks.

Merita To’o - R05 Kini Sadlier - R01

Merita demonstrates a

positive attitude towards

completing her work in

Mandarin. Merita’s work is

completed with pride and

attention to detail.

For using letter sounds and

blending when reading unknown

words.