HRCS Happenings

Term 1, Week 9 27 March 2020 17 Melaleuca Drive Metford NSW, 2323 Phone: (02) 4933 5844 Fax: (02) 4933 5557

Principal: Tracey Rapson Assistant Principals: Amanda Worton - John Winters - Natasha Brown/Carly Parish (Rel)

We are Safe - We Learn - We Care

Dates For Diaries Principal’s Message

2020

Thursday 9 April

Last Day for Term 1

Friday 10 April

Good Friday

Monday 27 April

Staff ONLY returns

Tuesday 28 April

Students Return

Tuesday 12 May

School Photos

Thursday 29 October

Halloween Disco

Friday 27 November

Year 12 Formal

Jodi

Carly

Dear Families and Friends

We hope that everyone is staying positive, calm and healthy in these uncertain

times. As a school, we are here to support all of our school community and

students throughout this period of COVID-19 restrictions.

Learning from Home: A significant percentage of our students have

moved to the Learning from Home Model, and are now working through the

learning packs that were sent home. An integral component of this model is

staying in touch and connected, and teachers will be making contact with

families every few days to check in, offer support with any issues that may

have arisen, and determine if further learning packs are required.

Our school Facebook Page, Skoolbag App and Website will also provide ideas

and materials for home learning. It is hoped that from today, short videos of

staff conducting physical education lessons, reading big books and running a

morning chat session will be uploaded for you to use at home.

I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all of the staff who have

not only been continuing with face to face learning, but have been working

extremely hard to develop Learning from home resources from everyone.

See Saw App: Maintaining strong communication links is extremely

important to us. To further assist families and friends to stay in touch, the

school has purchased the See Saw Program. This app provides a platform for

that this program will be operational in the near future, so watch this space!

P&C Easter Raffle & Guessing Competition: Our P&C president has asked me to advise that

the Easter Raffle and Guessing Competition will still be held. Families and friends can make payments

on P.O.P (parent online payment), through our webpage, or drop any sold tickets off at the school. We

will be sending out an SMS, where you can reply with your name and quantity of tickets purchased via

P.O.P. We have had some wonderful prizes donated, and winning one of the Easter hampers would

certainly brighten up anyone’s day! Good luck everyone!! (Please see next page for more details)

Flexible Work Timetable: The Department of Education acknow ledges the outstanding work

that all staff are undertaking in these trying times and have provided Principals with support to offer

all staff a flexible work timetable. Staff will now have the option, on designated days of the week, to

either work from home, or work off class. To facilitate this arrangement, existing classes have been

combined, with staff rotating the teaching and learning supervision. If you have any questions, please

do not hesitate to contact the school.

School Organisation: Keeping everyone as safe as possible has always been our core

business. In these trying times, it is essential that we implement strategies to assist with the social

distancing recommendations. To assist with this, students are only accessing the playground on a

singular class basis, and arrangements have been made to morning and afternoon transport duty. We

strongly recommend that all of our transport personnel and families and carers dropping off and

picking up students, make use of the hand sanitiser that is on the table at the front of the school.

We hope that everyone has a good week, and maintains good hand washing routines!

Kind Regards - Tracey

Holly

Bella

Henry

Mason

Connor

Tama Easter Guessing Competition: You can still take part in

our guessing competition!

.50c per ticket

You can pay for your guesses on line by following the below:

(tickets will be allocated)

Pay on our P.O.P. (go to our school webpage and click on

the make a payment tab)

Put in given name, surname and date of birth

Next section

Contact full name, contact phone number & contact email

address

Next section

Payment type (other), description (Easter Raffle), amount

Next section

Cardholder name, credit card number, expiry date, card

verification number

P&C Easter Raffle: Our P&C Easter Raffle

will go ahead! If you haven’t had a chance to

get your raffle tickets in, don’t despair.

$1 per ticket

You can pay for your tickets on line by

following the below: (tickets will be allocated)

Pay on our P.O.P. (go to our school

webpage and click on the make a

payment tab)

Put in given name, surname and date of

birth

Next section

Contact full name, contact phone number

& contact email address

Next section

Payment type (other), description (Easter

Raffle), amount

Next section

Cardholder name, credit card number,

expiry date, card verification number

Proceed to confirmation

Coronavirus Health Information Line

Call this line if you are seeking information on coronavirus (COVID-19).

The line operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

1800 020 080

Don’t miss out on our great Easter Prizes!

Mattie

Blair

Zachary

‘Principal

Leuca Awards’

PBL Awards

Term 1

Week 9

Home Learning

Name Leanne Woods

Born Helensville New Zealand

Places Lived Currently Newcastle, but home will be Townsville QLD

Favourite Food Italian—Yum

Favourite Colour Green, but it depends on the purpose

Favourite Sport Getting too old, but Tour de France, Australian Open & T20

Cricket

Schools Worked At Special Schools in Townsville, Ipswich, Melbourne, Darwin,

Sydney & here at the at the wonderful Hunter River

Community School

Brief Description of your role for 2020

and what you like about it

I am a Support Teacher Transition for high schools of the

Hunter and Upper Hunter Region. The lovely thing about my

role is helping families begin to start thinking of their

children as potential adults and what their future may look

like. I like to support HRCS parents to think about what they

do every day which works for their child and how that can

continue post school.

Interesting Facts Love camping, a good book and a great wine. Like movies or

live music, but prefer talk back radio to music channels.

Became a Grandma far too early, but love the two we have

dearly. Can spend many hours knitting while watching sport

– that must mean I AM ready to be a Grandma!

Staff Profile

Gazelle Room During Term 1, Room 9 we have been learning about ‘Light’ in Science. We

have learnt to identify ‘light sources’ and categorise them as ‘natural’ or

‘human made’. We carried out on investigation to see if light

travels in a straight line. We also used our class Bee-Bot and

Smartboard to consolidate our learning and thinking skills. We

have learnt to say and sign some important Science vocabulary.