August 15th, 2013. Dear friends, It seems like every time I turn on the TV, I see programs about childhood obesity and its long term impact on the health of our children. Putting the genetics argument, (‘everyone in our family is big’) to one side, we know that the two reasons our kids get fat are; poor diet and lack of exercise. As parents we can promote family fitness by giving our kids a break from television and computer games – and by providing them with active alternatives. Increasing family fitness through physical activity improves cardiovascular fitness, reduces weight, builds healthy bones and boosts self-esteem. Enjoying family activities makes fitness fun for everyone and needn’t be expensive. Spend weekends and holidays being active – go walking, swimming, kite flying, surfing or

cycling. Most residential areas have parks, nature walks and recreational facilities just waiting to be explored.

Make it a family rule to use stairs rather than lifts and escalators wherever you are. Buy pedometers for everyone and give treats for the most steps taken in a week. Take a brisk, no excuses, after-dinner walk every night. Make gardening, lawn mowing and washing the car family activities. Play a sport together – choose one everyone can enjoy, at a time that doesn’t conflict

with other commitments. Choices could include ten pin bowling, football, volleyball, golf and running.

Put on the music, roll back the rugs and enjoy a family dance session. Enjoy a regular family bike ride. Take the dog for a long walk together. Walk to local shops rather than taking the car. When you do take the car, park as far away as possible to make everyone have a walk. Find active games you can play inside. Put up a hoop in the back yard and play ball games. At Rosamond, we’ve made a commitment to using recess and lunch breaks to provide our students with opportunities to develop recreation and leisure options, by providing a range of activities, games and programs. Some teachers and support staff offer quiet games in the library, while others transport interested students to a local reserve for a kick of the footy. The newly formed Rosamond Choir rehearses in the gym and anyone wanting to Jump Rope for Heart can go skipping in the Town Square. It’s still very early days, but all indicators are that this is going to be a great success! Not only are more students engaged in a worthwhile activity during break times, but the whole ‘tone’ of the playground has noticeably lifted. It’s very evident!

Have a lovely weekend! Go Seagulls! Kate.

On Mondays, Renee, Tiana and Natalie P. have piano lessons with Jenni in our beautiful music room. They are lots of fun. We have a great time together. We have also started a Junior and a Senior choir. The Junior choir practises on Tuesdays at lunchtime and the Senior choir practises at lunchtime on Fridays.

J2 go to Living Skills!

On Fridays J2 go to Living Skills. This week we made salad sandwiches. We washed our dishes and played fruit and vegetable bingo. It was fun!

We have settled into the new school environment, enjoying our fantastic surroundings.

There are so many opportunities on offer this term, opportunities that would not have been possible at

the old campus. The playtimes are filled with fantastic programs. Students have enjoyed taking turns to visit the

library at recess and lunch times. Some students have also joined the school choir, practicing each

Tuesday lunch time with Jenni. It is great to be given so many fantastic and enjoyable

experiences.

J3 News

Term 3

Leisure and Playtimes!

Shared Reading Sessions

J3 has joined with J2 on Friday mornings for shared reading sessions. It has been great fun!

Student of the Week 2nd August,

Crystal, for happily joining in with her

new class.

Students of the Week 9th August, Nicholas,

for making and using his ‘Keeping Calm’ book.

Students of the Week 9th August, Frankie,

for making and using his ‘Keeping Calm’ book.

J4 News

This fortnight J4 has started the Adapted Physical Education Multi-

Sport Program run by Victoria University.

Everyone has enjoyed the 2 sessions we have been to so far. They are one

of our weekly highlights.

J4 hosted the Junior School assembly on

the 9th August. Omot was a great host and Nicholas

did a wonderful job leading our singing. Everybody helped to prepare our presentation on animal

classification.

Happy Birthday

Crystal

J7 SWIMMING This term students from J7 have been

swimming at Yarraville. It has been

great fun.

Isabelle A and Levi have had fun paddling

and swimming.

Tony and Isabelle P love swimming with Anna and Carol to

help.

Jack, Alvin and Dylan have all shown how good they are at swimming.

S8 News Our learning intentions this week in Numeracy have been centred around; addition, number stories and adding money. In Literacy we have focused on instructional texts. S8 have learnt how to look up recipes on the internet and in supermarket ‘free magazines’. We have written instructions and drawn steps to make some of our favourite recipes.

Below are some pictures of students from S8 engaged in learning in our new classroom space.

SCIENCE ELECTIVE

Everyone is enjoying participating in the senior school electives. In Science we are learning about three different states of matter i.e., solids, liquids and gases. Matter is everywhere we see and touch, and in everything we taste and smell. Each week we conduct experiments and Phillip, Thuan and Van have enjoyed making quicksand. Laura, Lachlan, Mo and Khaled worked well together during the dissolving jelly experiment. This week we will be experimenting with fizzing and foaming liquid and then complete a report detailing our observations.

NETBALL

The Netball season has begun with

great enthusiasm. It is a terrific

learning experience for the girls and many stars have

emerged. We have won a few games and we are so proud of the way our

girls support each other.

This term we started a project about Ned Kelly. Esther is planning an excursion to the Old Melbourne Gaol and we are all very excited.

We presented our narratives to Rose’s Class. We have been doing it for a couple of weeks. We told them stories that we have written ourselves.

We started electives in other classes. There was a choice of doing science with Isobel, dancing/art with Dee, photography with Esther or cyber-safety with Rose. Cyber-safety was just for the girls’ class.

Khaled did a science experiment about how to make jelly and Yaser is learning art and dancing.

Hassan and Tristan started going to TAFE. They go every Friday to Kangan in Broadmeadows. They are doing Horticulture. They learn about methods of planting.

We started to talk about things we would like to have at new school. We would like footy goals, soccer goals and lots of sports equipment.

S12 NEWS!

This is Thuan presenting his narrative story to Rose’s class 

In S10 we have started writing narrative stories!

After watching S12 present their narrative stories we have agreed that all of our stories need to have…

• characters (people or animals to be in the story),

• a setting (a place for things to happen),

• a time (past, present or future),

• a problem (something goes wrong) and

• a solution (they fix the problem).

My story is about Sonic the Hedgehog watching a movie

with me.

I write about Di going to the old school by accident.

My story is about Garfield. All the food gets eaten in my story.

Rose visits the zoo and sees the monkeys in my story.

In my story Mario and Luigi get a flat tyre.

WELCOME TO EXITS 9’s NEWS

The students from Exits 9 would like to share what a week looks like for them. Just in case parents of students from Exits 9 have not seen a copy of this term’s timetable, I’m sending one home with this week’s newsletter.

The students are involved in a broad range of opportunities beyond their classroom timetable. Two students at a time take part in G.I.F.T. (goal intensive focused teaching) which sees two students participate in five week blocks. This is a very special time for each student to access individual learning time with their teacher, focussed specifically on working towards goal achievement. Donna and Tess have just finished their five weeks and now it is Faduma and Amina’s turn. All students in Exits 9 have been involved in G.I.F.T. this year.

Specialist subjects rotate every five weeks too. The students have just finished an intensive cooking and Living Skills program (which is continued in the classroom). They are now involved in intensive Health and Physical Education programs.

Exits 9 students are also involved in Recreation and Leisure programs which run at Lunch and Recess times. These include Library, Skipping, Piano and Choir activities. More programs will be implemented as we all get used to working in the fabulous new spaces in our school.

Amina and Faduma took part in Eid celebrations last week. Amina wrote about her celebration.

Last Thursday, we had Eid Mubarak with my family and cousins. We went to the Mosque. After, we went to my Uncle’s house to see all my cousins. We had food and drink. We got money from my cousin.

By Amina

THOUGHTS ON THE NEW LIVING SKILLS ROOM

It has more light, it’s a lot bigger, there is more room and the pantry is bigger. We need blinds. Shae E. The new cooking room would have to be BETTER than the old one at the other school. Some of the things I like about the new cooking room are, it’s bigger, everything is spaced out, there’s more lighting. What I don’t like about the room is where the interactive white board is. The sun light hits the board and makes it a bit hard to see the board and there are no blinds. The laundry also has its own room in the cooking room, I also like that the room is more colourful than the other one. Liam T.

I like the new big Living Skills room. It has more space. I like the bright new colours. Timothy G. It has more light, it’s a lot bigger. The new Living Skills room is way bigger than the old Living Skills room at the old school. The new laundry is away from the kitchen and its way bigger than the old the one. Jye D.

The Living Skills room in the new school is amazing because it is much longer. Way more space to move around in. The bench is longer and there’s a fair bit of space to work on. There is air conditioning and heating in the new Living Skills room which we didn’t have in the old school. The laundry in the new school has great space to go into to do laundry. The windows are good because you see through them to see the lawn and trees. We can see out into the distance. Gheorghe B. There’s a lot of room to do cooking. The laundry is a separate room and has lots of room. Dean Z. The Living Skills room has more space to work in than the old school. Kenny L.

I love the light. We don’t need the fluorescent lights on. The separate laundry is great. Having the fridges and freezer together is good.

We can see all the students at the same time. There is plenty of bench space for students to prepare their ingredients.

Mr Wayne Green

We are all looking forward to all the new and exciting programs that will be operating in the Living Skills room!!

P.E. NEWS Hi everybody! My name is Anna and I 

am the new P.E Teacher.  

Many exci ng things have been  

happening in P.E. and I look forward to 

sharing photos with you soon.  

J7 have been swimming on Wednesday 

a ernoons and have done very well.  

We have played netball for inter‐school 

sports and our girls have improved so 

much in just a few short weeks. They 

have even started winning games!  

I am enjoying my  me as a new teacher 

at Rosamond School. 

  news Hello  and  welcome  to  the  regular  ‘eSmart’  newsletter  page.  

‘eSmart’  has  been  developed  by  the  Alannah  and  Madeline  Foundation  to  assist  schools  to  deal  with  all  issues  around  cyber-­‐safety  and  the  smart  use  of  today’s  technology,  including  social  media.  

Rosamond  has  taken  eSmart  on  board  to  ensure  our  students  are  ‘cyber  smart’  and  ‘cyber  safe’.  

The  following  quote  has  been  taken  directly  from  the  eSmart  charter.  It  explains  the  risks  and  why  we  need,  both  as  educators  and  parents,  to  be  proactive.  “One of the most common forms of aggression

experienced by children comes in the form of schoolyard bullying. In recent years we have witnessed peer-to-peer bullying shift to cyberspace - with mobile phones and the Internet

becoming major tools in vicious 24/7 bullying campaigns. Addressing bullying is a fundamental step to improving young people's safety in cyberspace.”  

If  you  have  a  cyber-­‐safety  concern  about  your  child  and  you  wish  to  report  it  to  school,  you  can  talk  to  your  child’s  teacher  or  there  is  a  box  in  the  foyer  for  you  to  use-­‐  there  are  forms  next  to  the  box  and  envelopes  

to  place  your  report  into.  All  reports  will  be  treated  with  the  utmost  confidentiality.  

Students  also  have  a  Rosamond  ‘Facebook’  page  to  use  as  a  place  where  they  can  report  any  incidents  of  cyber  bullying  or  inappropriate  use  of  technology,  including  social  media.  So  guys,  please  add  us  on  

Facebook,  our  name  is  ‘Rosamond  eSmart’-­‐  “Got  any  problems,  come  to  us,  feel  free  to  talk  through  inbox”.  

We  have  a  very  active  committee  that  meets  weekly.  This  consists  of  a  parent,  three  students,  a  representative  from  the  Leadership  Team  and  a  teacher.  Marie  Parany  represents  the  parents,  Shae,  Liam  and  Noah  are  the  student  reps.,  Linda  Blaschka  is  the  rep.  for  the  Leadership  team  and  Jenni  Morlang  is  the  teacher  rep.  The  committee  has  been  working  hard  to  create  a  cyber  safe  community  at  Rosamond.  We  

have  implemented  a  range  of  strategies  to  support  and  educate  our  school  community  to  be  aware  of  and  resolve  potential  issues.  The  student  body  of  the  committee  provides  a  student  voice  and  assists  in  planning  and  writing  the  newsletter  as  well  as  keeping  everyone  up  to  date  with  the  latest  technologies  and  risks  of  those  technologies.  Parents  are  providing  invaluable  feedback  and  commitment  to  making  a  difference.  

Please  let  us  know  if  you  have  any  questions  or  information  to  help  keep  our  children  safe.  

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks,  Marie,  Jenny,  Linda,  Elisa,  Shae,  Liam,  Noah.