Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Wow! The end of term one is here already. It has been a busy term with

much achieved across the whole school. Our prep students have all started

settling in and learning important school routines, crucial phonics and early

literacy and numeracy skills. Year 1-3 have been working hard to apply their

mathematical and literacy skills across the curriculum as they investigate

number, fantasy narratives and saving our planet in science. HASS and

Technology continue across the semester and we are looking forward to

seeing the children continue to explore and develop. In the senior class the

students have worked hard to apply a range of literacy and numeracy skills.

They have contributed to a digital discussion board to develop their

comprehension of the fantasy narrative, they have investigated and written

their own chapter of a narrative, exploring character traits and use of

language to engage an audience. In HASS they continue to explore the

changes that have occurred in Australia’s history as well as the development

of our Federation and parliament.

On top of the fantastic learning in the classroom, the students have had the

opportunity to engage in a variety of sports this term with both AFL and

Cricket coming to our school. This has promoted important gross motor skills, team play and exposure to

different types of sports. The whole school worked hard to train for cross-country. The kids did a fantastic

effort showing resilience and GRIT to take on a challenging course.

Cross-Country

A massive thank you to the parents who helped organise our Cross-Country menu and run the canteen for the

day. This takes a huge amount of work and preparation. Special thanks to Sue and Willow for a huge effort on

the day. The lunch was amazing and feedback from all the schools was how good the food was. It was fantastic

to see so many kids, parents and staff from across the cluster here at our lovely school. The feedback has

been positive with some minor changes for next year. If you have any suggestions on how to make the day even

better please let me know.

P&C news

Our dedicated P&C came in on Sunday for a working bee. Thanks to the extra effort from school staff who

dedicated their time for the working bee. It was a big day and our school

looked great. A big thank you to all who helped. The AGM is this afternoon

at 5pm at the Lions Den. Please join us.

Stay safe these holidays and enjoy the Easter break with the family

Max

Date Claimers: School resumes on Monday the 19th April ANZAC day holiday 26th April Leadership camp (year 6) 27th-29th April Labour Day holiday 3rd May

South Cape Cluster

Principal’s Report Wednesday 31 March, 2021

Rossville State School

Term 1 2021

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Dates to Remember:

P& C AGM: Wednesday 31 March 5PM Lions Den

Last Day of Term 1 April

Rossville Landcare Projects Tuesday mornings

info Bella 40603112

TERM 2:

Commences Monday 19 April

Anzac Day Holiday 26 April

Leadership Camp –Year 6 27—29 April

Be Safe

Be Respectful

Be a Learner

Angus Gully Rd

ROSSVILLE 4895

ph: 07 4060 3988

E: admin@rossvilless.eq.edu.au

Facebook/RossvilleSS/

As always if you need to contact Miss Fiona about anything Junior school related please email fconn8@eq.edu.au.

Happy Easter to all our families. For many of us, Easter is all about the traditions we share with family. That makes it a perfect time to involve yourself in family customs and make special memo-ries together these holidays.

Our students are well settled into the school year and I am looking forward to talking with families in the first week back after the holidays. It is a time to discuss your child’s progress in the first semester of the school year.

In Term 2 we will welcome Margie back to the Junior Class. Jane is taking some time off during the second term, and we will also begin a new whole-school approach to literacy. Promoting Literacy De-velopment or PLD has a broad three skill focus, which includes structured synthetic phonics, oral language skills and physical responses. For students to be truly literate they need to be able to speak well, interpret what they are hearing, and transfer all of this information into written lan-guage. Lots more fun and learning ahead.

The Junior students have worked hard during the first term of the school year and have earnt a well-deserved break. I hope each one of you enjoy lots of special moments during the Easter break and I will be super ‘egg-cited’ to hear all your holiday stories when you return for Term 2. Have an ‘egg-stra’ Happy Easter! Hope it brings you smiles by the dozen!

Senior class

In the mornings we have changed our usual schedule so that the first thing we do is Number of

the day. Number of the day is drawn up in a square with a number in the centre, this number

usually varies from fractions, decimals and whole numbers. In the 4 squares are challenging

questions that we must write and answer on our whiteboards. This is usually followed by think

mentals and then a times table sheet that must be completed within 5 minutes (on Wednesdays

we do Blast Offs).

We have started with reading groups and are separated into our reading levels. One group is put

with Miss Green, one with Mike and another with Mr Rivett.

In class we have been working hard on finishing off our assessments before the end of term. All

of the students have finished Language and Maths as well as our Science (HASS is a subject

that goes over 2 terms so we are still working on it)

As most of you will know this week was Cross Country, it was a fun filled day with a lot of work

put into hosting it. The food (as feedback has said) and I quote “the food was incredible.” Thank

you to everyone who came out and participated in the running or helped us beat Bloomfield in the

war cries.

This week in BOOST we were practising tying a clove hitch (which is one of 3 knots that would

be helpful). We learnt how to tie the clove hitch in 2 different ways which as we were told would

come in handy for when we are building our raft next term.

You probably have guessed, but next term the year 6’s will be writing up the Senior Class part in

the newsletter. This week I was the first person to write it up, but we will be more organised

next term with a proper schedule.

Have a fabulous week

Molly