UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday 21 September

RPSA Meeting 7.30pm

To be discussed – end of year events

Tuesday 22 September

Book week dress up

Reminder: no parent participation

Friday 25 September

Last day of Term 3

Monday 12 October

First day of Term 4

Friday 30 October

Student free day

Monday 2 November

Recreation Day – public holiday

Thursday 17 December

Last day of Term 4

RIVERSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL

ISSUE NO 28

17 SEPTEMBER 2020

Our students are so lucky to have had the LSSSA cross country this year. It looked

like it would not be possible as it was difficult finding a venue that had the capacity

for such an event and restricted community access. It was our school that came

up with a solution that provided an opportunity for all students in Launceston to

represent their school. Thank you to Riverside High for their amazing support.

The cooperation and access of facilities between our schools is wonderful for

public education in our community.

Our students were fantastic – wonderful team spirit, great running. Riverside was

successful in A Division with some super individual efforts and strong team wins

– Grade 3 girls, Grade 3 boys, Grade 4 girls, Grade 5 boys, Grade 6 girls.

Unfortunately, we do feel disappointed with some parent interactions, across a

number of grades, as a result of our involvement in the LSSSA cross country. As

a school we remain committed to the students in our school promoting respect,

sportsmanship, kindness and aspiration. So congratulations to all those students

that shone with those values in representing the school – whether you were place

getters or not. We are proud of you.

A special acknowledgment to Miss Batty and Mr Langmaid for their support with

the carnival organisation and the extra contribution made by the administration

team to support schools arriving on our site to follow the Covid safety

requirements.

*more dates coming

2020 TERM DATES

Term 3

(Monday 20 July Student Free Day)

Tuesday 21 July to Friday 25 September

Term 4

Monday 12 October to Thursday 17 December

(Friday 30 October Student Free Day)

GRADE 5/6 FRIDAY SPORT – 18 SEPTEMBER

*Please note, no parent spectators allowed at Gr 5/6

sport

Sport Opposition Venue Bootcamp Royal Park Kingball 1 River 2 v East L Riverside Kingball 2 River 1 v East L Riverside Netball 1 Trevallyn Trevallyn Netball 2 Summerdale Summerdale Soccer 1 Mowbray Riverside Soccer 2 Summerdale Summerdale Football 1 Punchbowl Riverside Football 2 Trevallyn Trevallyn

ASSEMBLIES

Date Grade Host 18 September 3-6 3FK 25 September Whole School 6MW

REMINDER PARENT SURVEY

Reminder parent survey closes tomorrow, Friday 18 September.

We appreciate your feedback.

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A reminder

Did you know that some schools are not open to parents for pick

up or drop off?

Did you know that some schools didn’t run their cross country?

Did you know that some schools are not having assemblies with

any parents?

Did you know in some schools parents are not allowed in

classrooms?

We are doing our very best to make things as normal as possible

for our students, to engage parents whenever possible but to

follow the guidelines mandated by Public Health.

We are still in this together.

It has not been an easy term but we should be reminded how lucky

we are in Tassie. Let’s end our term showing gratitude for each

other.

Student Opportunities

Tournament of Minds update

Congratulations to our team who achieved Honours in the Arts

section of Tournament of Minds. A wonderful team effort.

Riverside was the only Northern school who figured in any awards

in any sections this year.

Individual Cross Country results

Top 10 placegetters

Grade 3 boys Grade 3 girls

1st Sullivan 1st Layla

2nd Archie 2nd Ruby

4th Charlie 3rd Marli

10th Eryn

Grade 4 boys Grade 4 girls

4th Kaleb 1st Chloe

8th Ben 2nd Nataya

4th Bailey

8th Kennedy

9th Eliza

Grade 5 boys Grade 5 girls

2nd Mitchell 1st Nandali

3rd Ranga 6th Makayla

8th Beau

9th Sebastian

10th Oliver

Grade 6 boys Grade 6 girls

2nd Aiden 1st Sophie

5th Christian 2nd Aurora

7th Oryn 10th Ella

Write a Book in a Day

Congratulations to our two Write a Book in a Day teams. 12

hours to write a book!

We were thrilled with your collaboration, enthusiasm and

creativity. As Hollie said “my body is in the intensiveness of stress”.

Thank you to Mrs Blanchard and Mr Kroon for their assistance to

their teams.

Team A Title ‘Wedding Wars’

Leah, Gregor, Imogen, Alexis, Kacey, Sienna, Ava, Callum,

Loshini, Ben

Team B Title ‘The Golden Secret’

Olivia, Jaime, Alana, Addie, Megan, Jaelyn, Hollie, Christian,

Sarah, Thorin

Jane Bovill

PRINCIPAL

BOOK WEEK TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

(Please note change of date)

Book Week at Riverside Primary School is in week 10 of term 3 this year. On Tuesday 22nd of September, children are welcome

to dress up as a book character if they wish and bring a picnic lunch. Unfortunately parents are unable to attend this year due to the

current restrictions but we are so pleased to be able to foster a love of literature through our Book Week celebrations.

Bring along a picnic lunch.

21-25 September 2020

*Unfortunately, due to current restrictions, parents and grandparents

are not able to come to the picnic this year

You are welcome to dress as a character from a book you enjoy — perhaps a curious creature or someone with a wild mind!

Together we raised $2331.68

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone in our school community who helped to make our Father’s

Day stall a success. We were so excited that we could go ahead with the stall and provide the opportunity for

the students to shop for their Dads. We really hope that all the Dads and Pops enjoyed their gifts and had a

wonderful day celebrating Father’s Day.

In a season that made us reluctant to ask for donations we were very blessed to still receive enough donations

from our school community as well as local business to enable the stall to continue as a fundraiser. So we want to

say a huge thank you to everyone who donated and are truly grateful to the following businesses for their amazing

donations:

Exeter Capital Chemist

Pearts Variety Store

Woolworths Riverside

The Celtic Barber

BWS Riverside

Riverside Hair and Beauty Salon

We would also like to say a massive thank you to the amazing volunteers who helped out on the stall and to

those who helped with wrapping and organizing donations. You were all such a pleasure to work with and

made the stall a wonderful experience for all involved.

Congratulations to Seb, George and Toby for winning raffle prizes. We hope your families enjoy your prize.

THANK YOU

ICT UPDATE

At the moment in our Grade 1-6 classes, we are trialling a new distribution model for our ICT devices around

our school. These classes now have small laptop devices that allow for more flexible and portable learning

spaces around their rooms.

Previously classes have been able to book and borrow three computer trolleys to enhance their computer

numbers in their rooms. In response to teacher feedback, we have now directly increased the allocation of

devices to each grade team. Some grades have selected to distribute these evenly amongst classrooms and

some grades have chosen to keep the extra devices in one pod to use amongst their classes. In theory, this

now means that any two Grade 4, 5 or 6 classes will have a class set of devices to share between them. The

Grade 2 and 3 classes have decided to put their extra devices into shared pods. These devices are being used

every day by more students for a whole range of learning possibilities. The use of ICT around our school

is becoming more embedded and creative. Chat with your child to get more of an idea about what they are

using ICT for this year.

Ros Lippis

ICT Support Teacher

We are creative and talented writers in 1MD

Using the wordless picture book Flotsam by David

Wiesner as their seed, 1MD writers imagined they

found this underwater camera. They “developed” an

extraordinary image and wrote an accompanying de-

scription, including onomatopoeia and adjectives.

Shelf dioramas in our class-

room display our writers

produced ideas.

Our inquiry into perspective has helped teach us about the history of the English establishing Penal Colonies in Australia.

There is more than 1 side to every story!

Was it a good idea to establish a penal colony in Australia?