Number 19 June 20th, 2019

Principal: Mrs Loren Peavey

Ph: 5429 5099 School Council President:

Mrs Elizabeth McDonell Email:

romsey.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website:

www.romseyps.vic.edu.au Our School Values Are: Respect Integrity Responsibility

COMING EVENTS JUNE Friday 21st Orders close for Sausage Sizzle Day. Monday 24th: Second hand uniform sale before assembly from approx. 2.30pm Tuesday 25th: Reports available via parent portal Wednesday 26th: PJ Day whole school. $2 donation. All students in PJs

Thursday 27th: Parent, student, teacher conferences 11am—8pm Friday 28th: Sausage sizzle day Last day Term 2, dismissal at 2.30pm

JULY Monday 15th: First day of Term 3 Sunday 21st: Lion King—book via Qkr

Monday 22nd—Wednesday 24th: Year 5/6 Camp YMCA Lake Dewar, Myrniong Wednesday31st: Life Ed Van—whole school

AUGUST Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd Life Ed Van—Whole school Friday 2nd: Year 3-6 Athletics Day 9am-1pm

Romsey Primary School is an inclusive and empowering learning community which fosters confident,

Performing at assembly next Monday June 24th: Prep EM and Prep MS

Our Grade 3/4 students having a ball at Anglesea camp.

Mrs Peavey’s Post

Learning News Positive Behaviour recognition (Positive Behaviour Support Program) At assembly this week we had a large number of students who received recognition for 50 and 100 positive rewards, please see page 6 & 7 for their names and photos. Well done everyone on your outstanding efforts. Individual positives will continue to be recognised at each assembly. Our PBS approach continues to make a positive impact on the learning environment at Romsey Primary. This year we have reduced the number of pink slips by almost 2/3 s, this time last year we had 287 and now we only have 102. TOOT ,TOOT ,TOOT everyone. Let’s keep that downward trend happening. 3 Way Conferences and Reports- You can book your time now. There are no classes on this day. Just a reminder that our 3 Way Conferences are next week, 27th June. It is a pupil free day but we ask that your child attends the conference with you, it is important that the children have a strong voice in their learning. School should not be done to them, they need to know that they have responsibility in their own learning journey alongside their family and school. Our conferences are part of their learning program and we will be marking student attendance at the conferences. The conferences are 15 mins long. If you require a longer appointment with your child’s teacher please contact the teacher prior to the conferences to arrange this. Families who do not make appointments will be contacted by the school. Please go into the portal to book your time asap. https://sentral.romseyps.vic.edu.au/portal/login Reports will be released via the Sentral Parent Portal on Tuesday 25 June. Please contact the office if you require help getting onto the portal or if you cannot remember your password. If families do not have the facilities to print reports please contact the office for support. On the conference day Mrs Nicholls and I will be based in the Library, we ask parents and caregivers to drop in and provide us with feedback on the reports as we are constantly wanting to improve them to meet your needs. We would also like those families who indicated in the survey that they wanted more feedback back during the term on student progress to drop in and talk with us about their needs. We are also available on this day to talk with you about anything else you wish to discuss. Year 3/4 Camp The campers are having a wonderful time at Anglesea. Please see photos on the front page. They are expected to return before the end of the school day. We will inform parents via Updated if the bus is running late. We ask that parents do not call the office but make sure that they are on the Updated App for the latest information. Cybersafety On Tuesday 30th July we will be running a cybersafety session for all parents at 6:30pm in the Library. We encourage

all families to attend this important session it will run by Jason Azzopardi, Youth Resource and Proactive Operative

Officer for the Victorian Police.

School Matters Comedy Night Line Up Announced –Save the date. We are excited to announce that Dave Hughes and Geraldine Hickey will be the comedians at our Comedy Night this

year. Tom Gleeson will again be out host. So please put Saturday 7th September in your calendars .Tickets will go on

sale to the school community on Friday 19th July, tickets will cost $45pp. Tickets will then be opened to the wider

community on Friday 26th July, $50pp. Last year’s event sold out in a matter of days, so lock the date in now.

Thank you to our Stephanie Alexander Garden Committee for their work in launching this event again for us this year. Coffee, Cake and Conversation (CCC) Last week we offered 3 CCC sessions, including the night session we had 6 attendees in all. School have discussed

CCC and we have decided to decrease them to 3 CCC per half year. Please let us know if you have any thoughts on

this change.

Girls night and Family Movie day Our wonderful Parent Committee has arranged a family event at the Reading Cinemas in Sunbury on Sunday 21st July to see the new Lion King. Please see page 14. Unfortunately the Girls Night has been cancelled due to lack of numbers. Thank you to the Parent Committee for arranging this activity for the school.

Indonesian In Term 3 the Indonesian program will not be operating due to Abu taking some leave. At this stage the program will resume in Term 4. RPS Student Development Fund – Semester 2 applications are now open Yr 3-6 Students at Romsey Primary School have the opportunity to apply for a grant to support their development in the areas of leadership, sport, music or academia or to purchase resources to support the afore mentioned areas. To date we have not received any applications. They are due by Friday 28 June 2019. Students must come to the office to collect an application form. LSL Mrs Leanne Stewart will be on LSL for Term 3. Mrs Natasha Biddick will replace her during this time. We wish Mrs Stewart a wonderful and restful break. Model a growth mindset,

Loren Peavey

Michele Hutchison , the Smart Spelling guru visited us at Romsey Primary School today. We were all very excited.

Visit the following link for more information::- https://www.smartspelling.com.au/

School Council Report School Council updated and ratified the following policies at school council. These will be updated on our website. Child Safe Policy – child safe policies were resolved by chain email over the past 1 month. Mandatory Reporting Policy & Procedures - child safe policies were resolved by chain email

over the past 1 month. Duty of Care Policy & Procedures Anaphylaxis Management Policy & Procedures Distributions of Medications Policy & Procedures The following events were ratified: 31st Jul – 2nd Aug Life Education Van – whole school. $10 per child, the school will subsidise

half. 13th Sep P – 2 Athletics 17th Oct Gr ¾ Hands on Science incursion Boys development night, date TBA in Term 3 School council discussed the school devised survey. 29 responses were received (not our highest participation rate) that is 13% of our families. The survey will be modified when it is sent out in Term 4 as we gather data for the school review in early 2020. Addressing Parent Survey topics raised: Playground: We are aware that the Playground has taken a while to get underway but this is not due to the school but to the compliance processes that have to be followed when undertaking a large project. We were very lucky to have received this money after we submitted an extensive application to the Inclusive School’s Fund. This grant has saved us fundraising the whole amount of $180,000. At our current fundraising rate we would have taken a few more years to raise enough money. We raised $15,000 in the first year. We believe the playground works will start in Term 4 and will hopefully, weather permitting be ready at the start of 2020. We hope this provides further clarity on this matter. Over the coming weeks I will address other topics raised via the survey. Please feel free to come and

discuss any of these matters at any time with me.

Bendigo Bank: Proud sponsors of our You Can Do It! Program

Chromebooks Any parents having issues with their Chromebooks or laptops purchased from JB Hifi can use the following link for warranty support www.jbeducation.com.au/warranty

Parent Portal Access We would like to remind parents to ensure that you have set up your parent portal access to be able to receive your child’s semester 1 report. Printed reports are no longer sent home so it is vital that you set this up prior to report day which is Tuesday June 25th. Please use the following link: https://sentral.romseyps.vic.edu.au/portal/login

Sausage Sizzle Day—Friday June 28th. Orders close Friday June 21st—no late orders accepted. Also no other lunch orders on this day.

Awards to be presented Monday June 24th Prep EM Confidence - Daxton A for making responsible learning choices. Well done, keep it up! Prep MS – Confidence- Meleigh H for working really hard on perfecting her reading and writing. Prep/1 AJ Persistence – Abbey B for learning more letter sounds. 1/2MK Organisation-Hazel A for always being ready to learn. 1/2 MK Organisation-Jessica N for working towards 5 star quality work on her science poster 1/2SH Organisation- Rosie G for adding detail to her writing during the revising stage of the writing process. 1/2MC Persistence – Anastasia H for trying her best to complete her Scientific Method poster. 3/4LS Organisation – Mikayla M for her great work with ‘lift a line’ and analysing the interesting vocabulary. 3/4AG- Organisation award to Lucy. H for being prepared for learning every day, and making the most of learning time. 3/4FH – Organisation award to Marcus P for organising his information into interesting paragraphs using topic sentences. 5/6DM Confidence award to Emma P. for having the confidence to use new vocabulary she has learnt in her writing and speaking. Keep up the great work! 5/6SD - Organisation award for Caitlin R for displaying excellent organisation skills when researching her Zoo Math investigation. 5/6LD – Organisation award to Aron M for working cooperatively and responsible when building his model of the 5/6 Atrium. STEAM Persistence award for Dakota (PMS) working hard and staying focussed when making her snowflake design. Visual Arts – Alice B for sharing her ideas with others to assist them in completing their work. Physical Education - Zara F (PEM) for showing resilience and joining in Physical Education class.

Congratulations on reaching an individual rewards milestone

100 Positives – Bronze Certificate Prep EM – Ella & Indianna 3/4 AG – Logan

25 positives Sticker from Principal and Assistant Principal

50 positives Acknowledgment at Assembly and photo for newsletter.

100 positives (Bronze) Certificate at Assembly and photo for newsletter.

125 positives (Silver) Certificate at Assembly, lunch with your choice of teacher and photo for newsletter

150 positives (Gold) Certificate at Assembly, helping out in the school (Leo, office, library, canteen etc) and photo for newsletter.

200 positives (Platinum) Certificate at assembly, lunch with your choice of teacher – school pays!

Our school wide individual positive awards are:-

The win-

50 Positives Prep EM - Luke & Tyrian Prep MS – Jamin, Austin, Jackson, Ruby, Sophie, Brody, Meleigh, Hunter M, Darcy, Da-kota, Indianna 3/4 LS – Matilda, Tony, Grace, Mikayla, Sienna, Jake R, Cain, Jake W 3/4 AG – Tamati & Nick 3/4 FH – Mason G, Danyal, Milika, Lilli 5/6 DM – Brodie, Emma-Lee, William, Luna, Zara, Taj, Imogen 5/6 SD – Matilda, Emily B

A donation of $2 per child would be very much appreciated. The money raised will go to our sponsor child in Africa.

The winners of the netball at last Friday’s Winter Sport Day. Well done Romsey!

Second-hand Uniform Sale Please note that there will be a sale of second-hand uniforms in the foyer of the gym before assembly on Monday afternoon next week.

From 5/6DM In 5/6 DM we are learning how to research historical events and create our own historical narrative writing pieces. This week we are moving on from our introductions and are focusing on the body of our stories. Here are some work samples:

My Diary Sunday the 15 of April

I have been running away from this giant t-rex for about 1 hour

and I could feel myself dozing off, I had to hide, I was so terrified

as I know a T-rex is a carnivore and by the looks of that t-rex’s

face, it was ravenous. So, I went to hide behind a volcano and I

slowly fell asleep without the T-rex harming me.

Diary Recount

1st of September 1939 I am a 13 year old girl, I am short, and tanned I have a friend named Anna. She has short brown hair and loves horses. My dad died in World War 1 when I was 3 along with Anna whose parents died from a bomb. My mama is very nice, but gets scared easily, and lastly my baby brother Max, he is red haired and has blue eyes, and pale skin.

Tuesday 11th April 1896

Today is the last day on the ship. Tomorrow I will be home and see my family and friends. I feel very sick from the ship rocking side to side all the time with a lot of waves. It was hard to sleep at night because of constant thunder strikes in the night sky.

5/6 WINTER SPORT Netball Congratulations to our Mixed Netball team who won their competition held here on our home courts at school. This team now moves onto the Division stage of the competition. Thank you to Hope Evans for coaching the team and to Miss Murphy for organising the team. Mrs Davies also was of great assistance with the team on the day. The girls netball team tried hard all day and managed a couple of wins. Mixed team: Jerome R, Noah H, Tom S, Klem E, Ava H, Josie L, Edie L, Felicity M, Emily P. Girls team: Meisha A, Emily B, Alice C, Brooke C, Matilda G-D, Zoe M, Luna R, Jordyn T

T-Ball Coached by Mr Devlin and his PST Maria both the boys and girls played well and enjoyed the day. The girls had one major win against the eventual winners Tylden who have not been beaten for some time so that is a big achievement for the girls. Players: Sam B, Alice B, Kaden B, Aaron C, Benjamin C, Layla D, Juniper D, Evan H, Izzy K, Charli-Jean L, Ryan M, Aron M, Zak M, Alexander M, Taylor P, Emma Ps, Charlotte R, Caitlin R, Ayden S, Nathan W, Emily W

Football The football team started the day very strongly with two wins against Woodend and Lancefield. In game 3, we came up against the eventual champion team in Our Lady who were very strong. Game 4 was a close game with St Mary’s were we lost by one point, we kicked 1.6 for the game so we had our chances!!! Game 5 we lost by a goal to Kyneton in a great match to watch and our last game against St Ambrose was a bit one sided against us. Players of the day: Daniel T, Hudson F, Zane M and Brodie D. The team: Declan D, Zac D, Brodie D, Aiden D, Dylan F, Hudson F, Marcus G, Jack G, Sebastian I, Oscar K-A, Jett L, Zane M, Riley M, Cooper M, Zac S, Billy S, Daniel T, Tyson U, Taj S.

What has been happening in 3/4AG?

In Reading, 3/4AG have been learning the strategy ‘Lift a line’ to investigate and explore interesting and unknown vocabulary. As a class we unpacked a few lines from the text ‘Fox’

written by Margaret Wild. The children used mental strategies like ‘Read ahead and use context clues’ and used resources such as a thesaurus and dictionary to figure out the meaning of words.

They also used the vocabulary to make connections, develop questions and visualise to gain deeper comprehension of the text.

By Scarlett J By Tamati G

By Bella N By Lucy B