7 September 2018

Newsletter Articles

PRINCIPALS REPORT

Dear Families,

School Fair

Last Friday I attended my first Risdon Vale Primary School Fair and I was so impressed with the level of organisation, the diversity of what was on offer and the huge attendance. It was lovely to see all the families having so much fun together and catching up with one another - it was a true community event! Thank you to the hardworking team who spent months planning and organising the event as well as all those who stepped up to help on the day. Thank you also to those in our wider community who gave up their time to raise money for our school and our students.

Learn to Swim and Water Orientation

At the end of this term, majority of our students will be participating in Learn to Swim and Water Orientation at Oceana. Our P-2 students will be attending thirty minute sessions each morning for a week and participating in activities to build their confidence in the water. The grades 3-5 (and selected grade 6s) will be participating in the regular Learn to Swim program which works toward students gaining water survival skills and a basic level of swimming competence. They will be attending each morning for two weeks. Permission forms need to be returned to the office as soon as possible.

Social Skills

Our current social skills topic is ‘Talk terrific, not horrific’ and is a focus on using respectful language toward other children and adults. By ‘talking terrific’, we are demonstrating our school value of ‘care’.

Principal
Rachael Wells

Home Reading

Congratulations to these students who will receive Home Reading Certificates at assembly next week.

Cyber Smart

Grade 3/4 classes have been actively involved in becoming Cyber Smart Citizens in ICT. They have completed a number of Budd:e cybersecurity modules involving the following:

Securing a home computer

Public and private information online

Creating a safe online identity

Making and using strong passwords

Scanning for viruses and malware

Thinking before clicking any link

Checking who owns content

Looking for cyber security clues

Cyber safety and security for home

Congratulations to these Students who received their certificates in assembly:

Casey V, Paige H, Amy C, Logan S, Lucas H, Jackson H, Savanna O, Jackson K, Jaylen P, Adam

Austin S, Montana R, Eliza T, Charlette K, Bonnie H, Hunter B, Keira B, Imogen B, Kaleb B

Our grade 6 students are currently working on obtaining their Digital Licence.

BOOK FAIR

Thank you to all the parents and students who supported our Book Fair. Because of your generosity we were able to keep $500 worth of books for our Library.

END OF TERM REWARD AFTERNOON

In the last week of term Risdon Vale Primary School students are being invited to a rewards afternoon in the GP room to celebrate their outstanding behaviour. All students who have either not been issued with a behaviour slip this term, or one at the most, will be invited to attend. Behaviour slips are issued to students when their conduct goes against our school values of safety, fairness and caring.

Students will watch a movie together, and share some popcorn and a drink. So far 93% of our students will be attending. Congratulations to those students, who so far have earned their reward.

LIFT NEWS

SAFE FAIR CARE CERTIFICATES THAT WILL BE PRESENTED AT ASSEMBLY ON THE 10th SEPTEMBER, 2018

PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST

Thank you to the amazing Henkel Family for supplying an amazing pancake breakfast on Thursday for our students.

SCHOOL FAIR

Raffle Winners 2018

UPCOMING EVENTS

Clarence Holiday Program

School Health News

Clarence Little Athletics

What’s on at the Rosny Library

Naplan Online