Great Work

This week I would like to congratulate Rex H for greatly improved handwriting. I would also like to congratulate Jai M for his great book report on the story ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. Keep up the great work next term Rex and Jai.

Student Led Conferences

I would like to congratulate all the parents and students who attended the student led confer-

ence on Wednesday for a terrific job. I sat in on quite a few interviews and was very im-

pressed with the quality of work that the students were presenting. Both the students and

their parents should be very pleased with what they have achieved.

Out of school uniform day

A reminder to students that Friday is an out of school uniform day. This day is being or-

ganised by the Student Representative Council and it is a gold coin donation for those stu-

dents who come to school out of uniform. The money raised from this day will go to the Be-

yond Blue Charity.

End of term arrangements

Term two will conclude on Friday 27th June at 2:00pm with a school assembly. Term three

will commence on Tuesday 15th July. There will be no school for students on Mon-

day 14th July as this is a student free day. There will be no teachers at school on this

day.

Could parents please make arrangements to pick up their children at 2:00pm on Friday

27th June.

Curriculum Day

Monday 14th July the first day of term 3 is a curriculum day. On this day the staff will be un-

dertaking training in the teaching of Science. We will be joining with Reservoir PS, Reservoir

West in this Science teacher initiative. There will be no school on this day.

Farewell

Friday 27th June will be Ms G last day at William Ruthven PS. Ms G will be travelling over-

seas with her family during semester 2. We would like to thank Ms G for all her work at Wil-

liam Ruthven and wish her all the best for the future.

Allan Waterson

Principal’s message

Have you visited our website

For all the latest information on our school visit our website: www.williamruthvenps.vic.edu.au

Important Dates

JUNE

27th - End of Term 2

School finishes at 2pm

TERM 3

JULY

14th - Curriculum Day -

Student free day

15th July - First Day

of Term 3 for

Students

AUGUST

1st - F-2 Market Fresh

Incursion

8th - 2014 Prep’s Play

date 2-3pm

29th - 2014 Prep’s Play

Date 2-3pm

60 Merrilands Rd

Reservoir 3073

Ph 9460 1668

Fax 9460 1858

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2014 Term Dates

WILLIAM RUTHVEN PRIMARY SCHOOL 5544 ABN: 84116388399

RESPECT CONFIDENCE COMPASSION

Term 1 29th January– 4th April

Term 2 22nd April—27th June

Term 3 14th July—19th September

Term 4 6th October—19th December

Prep Fairytale Fiasco Incursion

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PATHS

Student of the Week

20th June

Prep A Kayla

1/2 A Fatema

1/2 B Noah L

1/2 C Henry Hannah P

3/4 A Dean

3/4 B Nakyta

4/5 A

5/6 A Sarah H

5/6 B Victor

Art P-6

PE P-2 PE 3-6

Jarrod R

Cultural Studies

Kelly

Library P-6 Maya S

Science P-2

Science 3-6

Assist Principal

Shelby C

Principal Ali C

On Thursday I was a pig. On Thursday I was a dragon. On Thursday afterwards we danced.

Sila

On Thursday I dressed up as a wolf. I was a dwarf. I liked it when Ms Bethke got washed up.

Carlo

On Thursday I was a pig. On Thursday I was able to dance. On Thursday we put everything in

the pot and I had a great time. Mohammad

On Thursday we dressed up as mice. We danced. The world changed. I had fun. Ross

On Thursday I was a wizard. My wand was a banana. I had fun. Zain

On Thursday I was a mouse and then I was a dragon. The cat squeaked and the mouse was

meowing. The world changed. Anhad

On Thursday I was a dragon I had fun. Mahir

On Thursday I was a dwarf. I was a pig. Firdaus

13th June

Prep A Rawad

1/2 A Joshua

1/2 B Linsia

1/2 C Coby

3/4 A

3/4 B Jacob

4/5 A Jeremy

5/6 A Charlie

5/6 B Freda

Art P-6

PE P-2 PE 3-6

Joel C

Cultural Studies

Mirac T

Library P-6 Richard C

Science P-2 Jai M

Science 3-6

Assist Principal

Principal Rex H

A number of students from the 3-6 area submitted entries into the Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award. Congratulations to all the students who submitted their stories. A special congratulations goes to Alana N as she received a prize for her entry. Well Done to all.

The Forbidden Classroom

“Ha-Ha!” laughed Nicky and Hanna together. Nicky and Hanna were best friends. They’d been friends since kindergarten. They were walking through the corridors of their high school during break. It was so quiet with no noises, no slamming of lockers, no stampedes trying to get to class. They were walking while they were talking when Nicky an adventure-loving risk-taking short girl with green eyes and long brown hair, said “It feels weird in here.” “I totally agree” replied Hanna, a girl of average height with blue eyes and long dark black hair. She was very different to Nicky – quiet, and liked to stay safe and not take risks. Suddenly out of nowhere Nicky said “why don’t we go inside the forbidden classroom and see what is inside? Nobody is around, no one will see. Come on.” She started to run down the hall to the old part of school. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” asked Hanna, a little cautiously. “It will be fine, come on worrywart,” said Nicky, still running ahead. They finally reached the room. The door was locked. “Oh what a shame we can’t get into the forbidden room” said Hanna sarcastically as she started walking off. “Hey. What luck! I have a bobby pin I can pick the lock,” said Nicky ignoring Hanna’s sarcastic comment. With a little bit of a twist and turn the door opened. “Ha we got in!” screeched Nicky excitedly. She was so happy she ran in without thinking and turned on the light. Hanna listened from the hallway to Nicky. “Wow! You have to see this. Come quick Hanna.” Han-na slowly entered the room watching her step. “Cool” said Hanna. “I told you it would be fun to see.” “But why do they call it the forbidden classroom?” asked Hanna. “Nobody knows. Rumour has it there was a ghost but nobody thinks it’s true. Who cares, let’s explore and find some answers.” The girls started to look around. Hanna called out “Nicky I think I’ve found something.” Nicky rushed up and stopped in front of a big hole next to Hanna. It had a giant world globe with a remote floating eerily beside it. “What is it?” asked Han-na. “No idea. Only one way to find out” said Nicky. “You grab the remote.” There were two big buttons, one green and the other red. One said “GO” and another said “BACK.” Hanna pressed go. A voice came. It sound-ed like a robot. “Please choose a country on globe and then touch” so they did. “Where do you want to go?” asked Nicky “I love gelati so let’s go to ITALY!” She touched Italy. Everything went black and they were being sucked into a portal. They were being swirled around like they were in a washing machine. Round and round they went. They landed with a bump, everything with snow around it. “Italy! we’re in Italy!” screeched Hanna, “come on lets go.” “We’re in Milan!” They started walking. “Have a look over there; it’s the Arch of Peace. Isn’t it beauti-ful?” gasped Hanna. “Yes and look at all the traffic and all the cars and people. Isn’t it amazing! I’m hungry, is there anywhere to eat?” asked Nicky. “Nicky, it’s Italy! Of course there are places to eat. Come let’s get pizza and gelati, there is a store right over there.” They had a wonderful lunch. Hanna glanced at her watch, “Oh no we have three minutes to get back to school and get to humanities!” So they ran out of the cafe. Hanna pressed the back button and just like that they were sucked up in two seconds and were back at school. “That was so cool!” said Hanna. “Come on let’s go quickly. After lunch we’ll come back, but don’t tell anyone. Let’s keep it a secret!” Running back to class they arrived just in time to avoid a detention. The girls were so excited they couldn’t stop wriggling and moving about during humanities. They could barely

concentrate. Mrs Baloan was going on about China and the pandas being endangered, and how people were

trying to save them. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the bell rang. It was lunch. Nicky looked at

Hanna and Hanna looked at Nicky then said “wouldn’t the pandas in China be cute?” Then the girls ran out

and headed to the forbidden classroom..

Alana N

Darebin Mayor’s Writing Award

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GTAC

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Grade 5/6B Today, GTAC came to our school

for the second time. We did some

experiments that helped us to find

out about how DNA works.

We put on our lab coats and we

learnt about the consistency of the

mucus of somebody who has Cystic

Fibrosis and the mucus of a person

who is healthy. We got to make

some mucus using Golden Syrup,

salt, gelatine & water. It was very

interesting.

The topic that we were learning

about was called “The Genetic Lot-

tery”. We learnt about DNA sam-

ples, molecules, mucus, genes

(dominant and recessive) and we

Kinder Visits

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Merrilands Kinder: Yasmin and I went to the kinder and hung out with nearly everyone. The part that I most enjoyed was going outside and playing tag with the little kids. My favourite kid to play with was Emron. Enver All of the kids at the kinder were very active. My favourite part was when we were in the little kitchen playing with the plastic food. I loved playing with Tiana, she was so cute! Yasmin

Gellibrand: The kids are really smart. The part I most enjoyed was reading books to them. I loved playing with Maggie because she loved me reading to her. Taylah They are really good at sharing. The part I most enjoyed was helping them build their train tracks. I liked to play with

Zach the most because he is really smart. Riley

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Writing Piece from 1/2B

Jai

Dear Parents/Guardians, The Victorian School of Languages (VSL) is a state-wide service of the Department of Educa-tion and Early Childhood Development, which has a proud record in teaching Languages since 1935. The VSL is a complimentary provider for all Victorian government, Catholic and independ-ent schools. Students who are unable to study their language of choice in their day school or who wish to ex-tend their language study may enrol at the VSL. Currently the VSL offers 46 languages in 42 locations throughout Victoria, and 11 languages via Distance Education, catering for the needs of more than 15,000 students. The VSL is the big-gest language provider in the State. It has an outstanding record and produces excellent VCE results. The VSL operates at the following centres on Saturday mornings, from 9am to 12.20pm. There are 30 teaching sessions for the year. John Fawkner Secondary College, Jukes Road, Fawkner 3060

- Arabic: Year 1 - Year 12 - Italian: Year 1 - Year 10 - Syriac: Year 1 - Year 10 - Vietnamese: Year 1 - Year 12

Brunswick Secondary College, Dawson Street, Brunswick 3056 - Italian: Year 1 - Year 12 - Greek: Year 1 - Year 10 - Indonesian Second Language: Year 7 - Year 12 - Albanian: Year 1 - Year 10 - Turkish: Year 1 - Year 12

University High School, Story Street, Parkville, 3052

- Chinese (Mandarin) Second Language: Year 1 - Year 12 - Chinese (Mandarin) Second Language Advanced: Year 12 - Chinese (Mandarin) First Language: Year 11 - Year 12 - German: Year 1 - Year 12 - French: Year 7 - Year 12 - Japanese Second Language: Year 7 - Year 12 - Spanish: Year 7 - Year 12 - Polish: Year 1 - Year 12

Cost for 2014 is: $70 for Years 1-10 students $85 for Years 11-12 students Enrolment for Semester 2 is now available online at http://www.vsl.vic.edu.au/. The VSL can offer additional languages if there is a demand in the community.

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It started as a usual Friday in winter……

The Grade 3-6 teachers madly tried to keep students focussed on their work, as all students watched the clock, willing for 12pm to come fast-

er….Angelica sat chewing on her pen, wondering how may times Alana would fall over in the netball game that day...Trinity comforted Abbey, who was

worried again about the size of her opponent.. Jack daydreamed, wondering if today would be the day when he would get moved out of the Wing Attack

and have a shot on goal… Sherine gave the Sarahs a prep talk about how to stop themselves from screaming unnecessarily on the netball court during

games… Miss D tried to get the knots out of her stomach from the dream she’d had the night before where the team had been losing, so she’d put her-

self on the court at 3/4 time and promptly had the whole team disqualified… Shay and Sophie looked at their feet with concern hoping that they would

remember not to step...Sumi asked Miss D for the millionth time if she could still play...with a broken arm.

ALL students thought anxiously - will the A team be able to maintain their winning streak and beat the undefeated Kingsbury?

We arrived at the school with a lot of nervous energy to burn, and sized up our opponents. The challenges: Abbey’s opponent was the same size as Mr

P, Sarah H’s opponent had arms as long as Mr T’s, their centre had an angry look on her face that could rival Mr S’s greatest rage. These girls were

going to be difficult to match. The first quarter did not start well. Our girls seemed nervous, really nervous. Lots of rushed passes and fumbles of the

ball meant that Kingsbury were winning at the end of the first quarter 5 goals to 1. Miss D made some quick changes to our line-up for the second quar-

ter. In the second quarter the team was much more settled. Alana and Sarah H were able to score 6 goals between them, and at half time we were

winning by 1 goal.

Abbey’s continuous defence against a player at least 20cm taller than her was inspirational, as she consistently stopped the ball from getting down into

Kingsbury’s goals. Shay’s work in centre to run up and down the court and intercept numerous passes from the opposition was also keeping the game

in our favour. In the third quarter the game was tight and low scoring. Kingsbury outscored us 3 to 1, so the scores at 3/4 time were even. Everyone

was very nervous for the start of the final quarter– probably Miss D the most. The B team got to their feet and were supporting the A team proudly. After

another tight quarter, the whistle blew and the game was over. The final score: William Ruthven 11 goals, Kingsbury 9 goals.

The A team has remained undefeated for the entire season, so have won the premiership. The B team should also be proud of themselves and take

credit for this result, as they provided the support and competition during all training sessions to help all netballers reach their full potential.

Miss D would like to express how proud she is of all the netballers this season, not just for winning the games, but for putting in the effort each week to

come to training, and for supporting each other both on and off the court with a positive attitude. The highlight for the season was when we played Res-

ervoir East and all of their players were very inexperienced and barley knew the rules. Our players supported their opponents beautifully. Teaching

them the rules as they went, purposely staying away from their opposition players and pointing out when players were free and where to throw the ball,

cheering for the other team when they scored goals. Winning the competition is a nice feeling, but there is nothing better than seeing students unselfish-

ly display the school values of Confidence, Compassion and Respect when at another school.

Sport

Sports Results 13th June

WRPS Reservoir Football 106 14

Soccer 2 7

T-Ball 14 34

Netball A 25 4

Netball B 16 0

Sports Results 20th June

Kingsbury WRPS Football 2 78

Soccer 1 3

T-Ball 37 29

Netball A 9 11

Netball B 12 4

Netball A Ladder

William Ruthven

28

Kingsbury 24 Thomastown 20

St Joseph’s 16

Reservoir Views

12

Our Lady Of The Way

8

Reservoir 8

Reservoir East

0

Netball B Ladder

Thomastown 24

St Joseph’s 20

William Ruthven

12

Our Lady Of The Way

12

Kingsbury 12

Reservoir Views

4

Reservoir 0

Football Ladder

Thomastown 24

William Ruth-ven

20

Reservoir East

16

St Joseph’s 12

Reservoir 8

Reservoir Views

4

Kingsbury 0

Soccer Ladder

Thomastown 21

St Joseph’s 15

Reservoir Views

14

Reservoir 12

Kingsbury 7

William Ruthven

7

Our Lady of The Way

6

Reservoir East

0

TeeBall Ladder

Reservoir Views

28

Reservoir 24

Kingsbury 20

William Ruthven

16

Reservoir East

12

Thomastown 8

Our Lady of The Way

4

St Joseph’s 0

Community News

William Ruthven Primary School Is now taking enrolments for 2015

Academic Excellence Personalised learning Innovative curriculum

A strong focus on Literacy and Numeracy Committed and dedicated teaching staff

Strong partnership between school and family

A specialist Science School

William Ruthven Primary School 60 Merrilands Rd Reservoir

Tel: 9460 1668 Fax: 946 1858

Email: william.ruthven.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Last Day for Term 2 Friday 27th June

Students will be dismissed at 2:00pm (Please make the necessary arrangements to have

your children collected at this time)

First Day for Term 3

Monday 14th July - Student Free Day Tuesday 15th July - First day of Term 3 for students

Gellibrand Crescent Kindergarten 26 Gellibrand Crescent

Reservoir, 3073 Phone : 9460 5862

Gellibrand Crescent Kindergarten are now accepting

enrolments for 2015

4 Year old - 3 days x 5 hours sessions per week 3 Year old -1 day x 2.5 hours session per week