“Together we can for every child, every day in every classroom”

Friday August 23rd 2019 Issue No. 26 Principal: Mrs Roma McKinnon Dip.Ed B.Ed MSchLdrshp

www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au | Phone: 9799 1216 | Fax: 9799 3389

Dates to Remember

Monday 12th - Monday 26th August

Foundation and Middle Swimming

Friday 30th August

Grade 1 Stay Late

Grade 2 Sleepover

Footy Colours & Father’s Day

Thursday 19th September

Graduation Photos

Assembly at 2:15pm

Friday 20th September

Last Day of Term 3

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Look what’s happening in the Art Room

Our Foundation students are having lots of fun creating a response to the Little Red

Riding Hood story. The Juniors have enjoyed print making and continuing with their art

work about Noah’s Ark.

Our Middle students have finished their bird’s eye view painting and are now making a

winter flowers artwork and our Senior students have made imaginative vessels from clay

and are now starting their stitching project.

Weekly Maths Problem

You can visit our school website www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au for further information about our school vision and how we showcase our students owning their learning.

Describe the shapes

used to make this

flower. Think of how

many of each shape

are used. Students in

years 3-6 think about

the shapes in

fractions, ratios and

percentages.

What’s happening at School? 2019 School Review

In 2019, we are in a year of review. Our review is scheduled for Term

4 and will look at our data from 2016 to 2019 and where we have

achieved our goals. Furthermore this will assist us to create goals and

benchmarks for student achievement at River Gum for the next 4

years and form part of our Strategic Plan.

Throughout the year, staff and school council have assisted in

preparing River Gum Primary School for our review to ensure that

our priorities and focus on our key areas have the greatest impact on

school improvement. Our self evaluation will be completed by the

end of Term 3 ready for the 3 day review which will take place in

Term 4.

We will continue to engage with School Council, parents and

students so that our self evaluation reflects how we have done the

work in the past and what might we do different or focus on in the

future.

Book Week Celebrations!

State School Spectacular

Special Place

Set aside a time and a place for your child to read - like a comfy chair and a

reading light in quiet place. Remove TV, electronic devices such as iPhones, iPad

and computers

We are proud and excited to have some of our students participating

in the 2019 Victorian State Schools Spectacular: Made of Stars.

Tickets can be purchased online through Ticketek for either of the two

shows at 1pm or 6:30pm on Saturday the 14th of September.

You can visit our school website www.rivergumps.vic.edu.au for further information about our school vision and how we showcase our students owning their learning.

Aphrodite Vantarakis: Intervention & Extension Teacher

Healthy Lunch Competition Bring a healthy lunch box to school and you could

go into a draw to win a piece of sports equipment.

YOU WILL NEED:

1/2 cup shredded cooked chicken 1/4 cup shredded carrots 2 tbsp. barbecue sauce 2 tsp light ranch dressing 1 small whole-wheat sandwich bun 1 leaf romaine lettuce

METHOD:

1. Combine chicken, carrots and barbecue sauce in a bowl

2. Spread the ranch dressing on the bun 3. Top with the chicken mixture and lettuce.

Healthy Fact : Feeling stressed? Read.

Getting lost in a book can lower levels of cortisol, or other un-

healthy stress hormones, by 67 percent

- Principal Roma McKinnon

THIS WEEKS RECIPE : BBQ Chicken Sandwich

Qadria Fuladi - R07 Farid Rezaei - R12 Zoya Eiwaz Ali - R21 Matthew McDonnell - R31

Qadria, you have a passion for

learning. I love watching how

excited you get when learning

new things.

For his excellent support of the

girl’s soccer team.

For showing tremendous

growth on your pattern post-

test. You are a pattern

superstar!

Well done Matthew on

completing an information

report on Velociraptors. What a

great first week at River Gum!

Malani Sioli - R10 Azita Rahmani - R23 Mostafa Dwar - R01 Ashley Capito - R18

For doing great research for her

information report and being a

curious researcher!

Azita reads everyday at home

and asks for help if she wants to

learn how to read a new word.

She also motivates others to

read!

For being a great

mathematician and showing

incredible number sense.

Ashley has approached her

learning with great confidence

this week and has really shown

her passion for learning. Keep it

up!

Izayah Lafaele - R13 Mia Sutton - R20 Kareena Chaudhary - R17 Blayze Illingworth - R02

You have shown a deep

understanding of branching

algorithms in Maths this week.

Keep up the fantastic work!

For working diligently to

improve her writing skills during

literacy and for displaying a

positive attitude towards school.

Well done, Mia!

For improving your attendance

and working hard to improve

your maths knowledge. Well

done!

For your amazing effort

towards our Kindness Chal-

lenge. You are very caring

Blayze!

Diyan Shabanoski - R30 Saifullah Ahmadi - R19 Aaliyah Estall - R04 Jasmine Leas - R03

Diyan has been working

consistently hard this term and

shown interests in all aspects of

his learning. It is great to see

you at school everyday!

For asking for help when you

need it so that you can do your

best work!

For being a kind and caring

classmate who makes her

friends feel better when they

are sad.

Well done on settling back into

River Gum! It is wonderful to

have you back in R03.

Yousif Al-Hussin — R15 Xavier Lembcke — R15

For always asking great

questions during class, often

stumping his own teacher. Stay

curious, Yousif!

For joining in with the class and

doing so much cool learning

this week!