RAINBOW RAMBLER RAINBOW STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL

90 RAINBOW STREET RANDWICK NSW 2031

PH: 9398 1986 FAX: 9399 8287 EMAIL: rainbowst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

WEBSITE: www.rainbowst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

TERM 3 WEEK 6

2018

CALENDAR

Week 7 SASS Recognition Week Monday 3 September – 6pm P & C Meeting in the Library Wednesday 5 September – 2:30pm Progress Booth Thursday 6 September – External Validation panel; Big Band Bash Friday 7 September – Round 12 PSSA; 2pm K-2 Assembly (1/2M) Week 8 Monday 10 September – 1pm Australian Girls Choir visiting the RSPS choir Wednesday 12 September – Maths Olympiad 5 Friday 14 September – 11:30am 3-6 Assembly (5/6R); Round 13 PSSA Week 9 Tuesday 18 September – K-2 Athletics Carnival Thursday 20 September – Public Speaking Network Final at Coogee PS Friday 21 September – Round 14 PSSA; 2pm K-2 Assembly (1W); Second hand uniform sale Week 10 Thursday 27 September – Year 6 Fun Day Friday 28 September – 11:30am 3-6 Assembly (5Z); Last day of Term 3

What’s Happening At Rainbow Street? What a week of fabulous arts experiences for our students! Twenty-nine students performed in Showcase at The Juniors, 19 students performed in the Cantabile Concert at the Opera House and 11 students attended an art extension camp. Coming up next week is the Big Band Bash at Daceyville Public School where both our Junior and Senior bands will perform. Parents are most welcome to attend. On Monday, the school External Validation team met with our Director, Educational Leadership who affirmed our submission. The next step is our panel

meeting with a Principal School Leadership and a peer principal to discuss our submission. Father’s Day Happy Father’s Day to all of our dads, grandads and other special men. We hope you enjoy some extra special time with the family. Thank you to the P & C who have been running a Father’s Day stall over the last two days. SASS Recognition Week Next week is SASS Recognition Week, a time when we acknowledge the work of our wonderful administrative support staff. This group includes the ladies in the Office, the School Learning and Support Officers who work in classrooms and our General Assistant. Please take the time next week so say a special thank you for all that they do to support our students and the school. Visible Learning Earlier this week, Rainbow Street PS hosted the leadership teams and impact coaches from Coogee PS and Woollahra PS who, along with our leadership team and coaches, participated in two days of professional learning.

The first day, Evidence Into Action 1, involved sessions about: Leaders as Evaluators, The Visible Leaner, Know Thy Impact, Inspired and Passionate

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Teachers, Effective Feedback and Aligned Systems and Processes. Day 2, Impact Coach 1, included sessions about: Introduction to the Impact Coach Role, The Research Around Effective Coaching, Know Thy Self, Getting Started as an Impact Coach, Open to Learning Conversations and Next Steps. Following these two days we are now working on an action plan for the first year of our Visible Learning journey. If you would like to know more about Visible Learning, a brochure is available in the front Office or send the school an email and a copy can be emailed to you. Staff from the other two schools were very impressed and also extremely jealous of our new learning spaces in A Block! Thanks Forgot to say last week… a massive thank you to Craig (Ethan’s dad) and Morgan (Saskia’s dad) for being such good sports and parading their Book Week costumes. Thank you also to our wonderful staff who willingly give up their time to support student participation in events such as Showcase, choir, recorder, chess, debating, art camps etc. Without their willingness our students wouldn’t have the opportunity to be involved in these extracurricular programs. Building Update

A Block – work continues on the external ramps and entries.

B Block and C Block – work continues on the internal fit out, façade cladding, windows and doors.

Library – work continues on the wall framing, façade cladding, windows and doors. The forming of the spiral stairs and concrete pour are scheduled for the coming week.

COLA – this week work has been on in ground and concrete works with the structural steel installation scheduled for next week.

The next progress booth is on Wednesday, 5 September 2018, at 2:30pm.

Additional Building Project Information And Updates Go to the Department of Education site for details of the project: https://schoolinfrastructure.nsw.gov.au/schools/rainbow-street-public-school/project-overview Want to know more about learning for the future? Go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-for-the-future Connect Time A reminder that representatives from Health Infrastructure and Lendlease will attend the P & C Meeting on Monday night. During Connect Time, from 7pm, they will be speaking about the Prince Of Wales hospital redevelopment. Following that, during the second half of Connect Time, Mrs Counsel will be presenting information about how we teach social and emotional learning at RSPS. Hope to see you there. Strings Afternoon Delights Concert Directions in Music is pleased to invite all family and friends to come along to watch Rainbow Street PS String students showcase their talents and share the great progress they have made this term! Date: Tuesday 25 September (Week 10) Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm (students to arrive from 4:00pm - 4:15pm to tune) Location of performance: Directions in Music Randwick Hub (Level 2, 164 Belmore Rd, Randwick) Parking is available in the underground Coles carpark, access from Clara St, with FREE parking for 1.5 hours if you purchase $10 or more worth of items from Coles and show the receipt to the attendant on exit.

Sport News ESPSSA Zone Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to the following students who will be representing Eastern Suburbs at the upcoming Sydney East Regional Athletics Carnival:

Mariel 8 year girls 100m Audrey 9 year girls 100m

Junior girls long jump Junior girls 200m Junior girls high jump

Ronin 11 year boys 100m

11 year boys 200m

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Aidan M 11 year boys discus Thuriya 11 year boys long jump Audrey Pelagia Illeanna Allegra Sara E

Junior girls 4x100m relay

Ethics Classes For Non-Scripture Students Did you know that Ethics classes are available for non-Scripture students? There is information about these classes on the Primary Ethics website (https://primaryethics.com.au/). Please contact the RSPS Ethics Coordinator, Griselda Buckland (griselda.buckland@gmail.com), if you have any queries and/or if you are interested in volunteering to be an Ethics teacher. We currently need two more teachers to provide Ethics classes to students in Year 1 onwards in 2019. Big Band Bash Next Thursday, 6 September 2018, the Junior and Senior bands will perform at the annual Big Band Bash at Daceyville Public School. It is sure to be a fantastic day with students having the opportunity to listen to many different school bands and a performance by the Royal Australian Navy Band. Rainbow Street bands will be performing at 10:30am. Students are reminded to wear full school uniform and bring their musical instruments and folders. Parents are most welcome to come along. Miss McNab Band Coordinator Cantabile Music Festival On Thursday 30 August 2018 the Rainbow Street choir ensemble performed at the Sydney Opera House. They sang eight songs from a wide variety of musical styles. It was a fantastic opportunity for students to perform in the Sydney Opera House. I would like to congratulate these students on their excellent behaviour and hard work preparing for the concert. Miss McNab Choir Coordinator

Debating at Rainbow Street Public School Our Stage 3 debating teams have successfully completed all of their round robin competitions. Our Year 5 and 6 debaters have represented our school with pride and have engaged in the skills of argument and rebuttal with tenacity and skill. There has been some tricky topics and opportunities to argue the negative and affirmative sides during their debates. Topics included ‘That primary school aged children should only be allowed to watch television and movies on the weekend’ and that ‘Creative arts and science should be removed from the curriculum in favour of more sport’. Congratulations to our Year 5 debating team who successfully qualified for the quarter finals in the Sydney Primary Schools Debating Competition. They were narrowly defeated by Coogee PS in a tight and well-argued debate from both sides. Congratulations to our Year 6 debating team who have won three out of four debates in the Premier’s Debating Challenge. We await final results for our zone. Rainbow Street Public School are extremely proud of our talented debaters.

Mr James Roche Debating Coordinator

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ICAS Writing Congratulations to the following students for their excellent results in the ICAS Writing:

Certificate of

Distinction

Leyla, Thea, Charlie, Parham, Seeya, Clairesa, Matilda, Sara E and Joshua

Certificate of Credit

Adriel, Danica, Marissa, Unnati, Oliver S, Lucia, Sara R, Gemma, Phoebe, Marley, Aidan, Oliver C, Tiffany, Luca, Oliver S and William

Congratulations to all of the students who participated. Mrs Counsel Coordinator

Group Photos All group photos (e.g. sporting teams, music and leadership groups etc.) will be

available for viewing from Friday 31 August 2018 in the window of the Collaboration room. The cost of each photo is $16, or 2 for $30, 3 for $42, 4 for $52 or 5 for $60. Any additional photos are $10 each. This discount is only available per family order. If you would like to purchase a photo, please collect an envelope from the Office. All orders must be returned to school by Friday 14 September 2018. Margaret Nalovski Assistant Principal

3-6 Student of the Week Week 5

Class Student Awarded for.....

2/3C Aidan Working hard with his creative writing

3T Hayden Outstanding results in the Beep Test

4G Zane Listening to teacher feedback to improve his writing

4S Matilda Writing an intriguing and alluring book blurb for 'Meet Captain Cook' - a publisher should hire you Matilda!!

5Z Laelia Singing with fantastic tone and pitch in music

5/6R Ethan C Insightful and succinct responses when investigating intertextuality

6R Sebastian Improved self-editing

6S Sophie Always being a kind and caring classmate

Class Student Awarded for.....

SC Armando Being kind and a good friend and making good choices by himself

Week 6

Class Student Awarded for.....

2/3C Maidar Excellent creative writing

3T Ryan Fantastic multiplication knowledge

4G Emily Showing remarkable improvement in all learning areas

4S Caleb Working hard on his skip counting, grouping and multiplication facts - nice work Caleb!

5Z Finlay Working independently and improved effort to complete set tasks

5/6R Pelagia Outstanding work when calculating triangular numbers

6R Thuriya Exceptional improvement in the 6R beep test

6S Helen Excellent effort identifying missing angles

SB Matthew Improvements in handwriting and bookwork presentation

SC Fayaaz Increased confidence and participation in class

Rainbow Awards Year Student

3 Aaliyah

4 Audrey, Eva and Oliver S

6 Chloe, Thuriya, Leyla and Rajan

Father’s Day Stall Linh and some of the other regulars are helping in this morning’s and afternoon’s Father’s Day stall. If you

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missed out yesterday (Thursday), today’s your last chance to spoil Dad. Let’s hope Dad is really spoiled and appreciated this weekend ;-) Next Meeting Monday evening, being the first Monday of the month (3 September 2018). 6:00pm in the Library. For childcare (children aged three plus), contact Tanya @TRAC today: bookings@tracrandwick.com.au After the meeting proper, Health and Infrastructure (who are involved with the Hospital Campus development) will be addressing us at 7:00pm. Developments Just to put things in context, there are three developments in and around our school:

1) The school extension that we see around us, and that our Principal updates us on regularly;

2) Development behind the school straddling Young Street — Newmarket (the former Inglis Stables);

3) Development in the Prince Of Wales Hospital Campus, which extends from the northern side of Barker Street to High Street and beyond. Each of these three has different contractors.

Our school’s site not only has to adhere to industry best practices, but also Department of Education regulations, obviously for the safety of our children, their teachers and us. Added to that are Randwick Council workers performing intermittent tasks in the streets around the school, Sydney Water staff repairing broken water-mains, power company contractors maintaining power lines etc. These essential tasks have been part of everyday life since before the rest of the constructions began, though now they might seem to add to the confusion, especially done across the road! Not to mention the Light Rail ;-) Social Functions In The School Hall Even though the Hall itself is used for assemblies, it is not ready for us adults to use after hours, essentially due to the surrounding area being unsuitable for after hours access and no external lighting. Because of this, we can’t factor the Hall in for functions such as Trivia Nights, Halloween dances etc. Anyone who’s been involved in any construction project will tell you, planned completion times can’t be guaranteed. That’s no one’s fault, just the reality of Project Management. Our P & C is hiring the Randwick Girls’ High School hall

for our Trivia Night, the evening of 24 November 2018. See you at school. Greg Gregory Dodwell, President Rainbow St Public School P&C info@rainbowstpandc.org.au

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