Issue Number 31

5th Nov, 2018

Richmond Primary School

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Term Dates for 2018 & 2019

Your school community is here to help. If

you have any comments, concerns or

praise, please speak to your child’s teacher,

the principal or a School Council member.

Dates To Remember

November

5 Pupil Free Day

6 Cup Day

7 2019 Prep Information Evening

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P—5 Swimming Sessions 1-5

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P—5 Swimming Sessions 6-8

10 Gr 6 Graduation Dinner

13 Jam Factory Visit Gr 3/4

13 Grade 3/4 Electives Day

17 End of Year Celebration Concert

21 Last Day of term 1.30 Dismissal

4 October 8—December 21

1 Jan 31—March 27

December

Yet again the RPS community

has joined together for another

amazing event. Great weather

inspired a spookily dressed record

crowd which helped make the fair

a huge hit with everyone who

came along. Congratulations to

chief organiser, Ellie Hedger and

her team for raising the sizeable

total of about $40,500 – another

record for RPS! This money will

go directly to replacing our play

equipment near the Art room –

thanks again to everyone!!

Writing in Grade 1/2—

Inspirations from Nature

This term, the Grades 1 and 2 have had the writing focus of expanding word choice. Inspired by the 0 plus 5 Traits of Writing, the students have participated in a range of learning activities to help them understand the role of different kinds of words (nouns, verbs, adjective and adverbs) and develop a curiosity about language.

Recently, the students were challenged to describe a magical path. Before writing, they were provided with different photographs to help them visualise and brainstorm appropriate and interesting vocabulary. The students chose their words using their prior knowledge and a thesaurus. The students produced excellent writing!

The Forest

Grace Sidebottom 1/2S

I see people, trees, butterflies, sky and clouds. I smell grass. I hear birds tweeting in the sky.

Lilly has blue eyes and brown hair. Her favourite colours are pink and purple

She got lost in the forest, far away from her house. There are bad monsters in the forest too. Then she finds a lost friend who helps her build a car with using wood, leaves and grass. Then she got in the car and drove home.

The Magic Path

Mai Coutts 1/2S

The beautiful trees looked magical. But I was totally lost. The overgrown track was never ending. I want to follow it so I pack my bags and start my journey. I follow the path until I get to the bottom of a cliff. I stop walking there so I can set up my tent and sleeping bag for the night. In the morning I set off again.

School Review News

We are progressing well with the self evaluation process which is the beginning of our School Review. Heather Hill, one of our

Challenge Partners for the Review has met with the School Improvement Team (the SIT is the group made up of school

leadership staff) and with the whole staff to get their views. In these meetings the groups have reviewed the School’s Mission

statement (shared in a previous RPS News) and recorded thoughts about where the school is placed in relation to the following

questions:

How do we go about teaching and learning at RPS? What successful strategies are we using that help us achieve our purpose?

- Student Achievement – what are students learning at Richmond, and how are teachers teaching it?

- Engagement – How do we foster student engagement?

- Wellbeing- How do we promote student wellbeing?

Heather has also been reviewing responses to the three key surveys that DET conduct of our stakeholders: the Attitudes to

School Survey (a survey conducted with students in Grade 4-6); the Parent Opinion Survey; and the Staff Opinion Survey. She will

be bringing some of the key themes that have consistently been represented from these survey results as discussion points in

further consultations.

Our next key event is the Parent Forum that will be held this Monday at 7.15 in the School Library. Thankyou to those people

who have registered their intention to attend this important event. I ask for those people yet to respond that you please consider

coming and book your place via the Signmee form sent out last week. The School Review page on our website has a range of

resources you may want to have a look at before the evening. Please come along and have your say— we will be serving wine

and cheese after the formal part of the session is done. I look forward to seeing you there. Dean Banova Principal

Grade Prep J Grace Irwin

Grace Irwin for dedication towards her reading, she is read-ing her take home reader morning and night! Go Grace!

Grade 3/4N Ben Tuckwell

For investigating different strategies to solve measurement problems and confidently explaining these strategies and solutions to the grade. Wonderful work Ben!

Grade 1/2 L Livinia Venetis

For your excellent Halloween Acrostic Poem. Not only was it creatively written it was very spoooooky!! Great work Livinia.

Kids Quiz Postponed! Stu is having a break—and so is Kid’s

Quiz!

Look our for a new quiz next week

Grade 1/2 S Grace Sidebottom

Congratulations Grace for working so hard on your maths. You have done a great job learning about multiplication. I love how you can use repeated addi-tion to solve a problem.

Grade 3/4 C

Sophia Koulouris

For your outstanding results on your PROBE

reading. You have blown me away this year

with your commitment to improve your read-

ing. Sophia you have great expression and flu-

ency when you read and I thoroughly enjoy

listening to you read. Perhaps you can start

reading the class novel to us now? Be proud of

yourself, you've had an outstanding year!

Grade Prep A Ethan Tsoumbanos

For working so hard to achieve your personal writing goals, Ethan. Your writing is truly amazing and it is a testament to your focus and eagerness to learn.

Grade 5/6E

Lizzy Butt

For outstanding reading and comprehension

skills! I am so proud of your resilience and

your commitment to improvement in maths

and writing. Well done!

Grade 3/4S

Beth Feehan

For your extremely detailed and well researched

holiday scrapbook- I learnt so many interesting

facts about Mexico from you, thanks Beth!

Grade 3/4 J Rupert Rekaris

For doing such a great job of writing the epic tale "Return of the Chicken Dragon". You've really come a long way with your writing this year - aweome stuff Rupert!

Grade 5/6R

Lucy Murphy

Congratulations on your fantastic work

with your reading this week. You absolute

smashed it and should be super proud!

Your TORCH work was lit!

Grade 1/2J

Henry Rekaris

For the effort you have put into

improving your reading. Your hard

work is really paying off. Keep up

the great work Henry!

Grade 1/2S

Mai Coutts

Congratulations Mai for producing out-standing writing. You description of the magic path was terrific. You should be very proud!

Grade Prep S Ivy St Ledger

For stepping out of your comfort zone at our’ Bush Babies’ inclusion Ivy! Well-done on pat-ting the different Australian Animals and your engagement during the session.

Grade 5/6C Esther Shapiro

For your outstanding book report on The Martian. You really went above and be-yond and showed you're out of this world! Love your work, Esther!

Grade 1/2 J

Leigh Venetis

For the terrific amount of effort you are

putting into getting better at writing. The

hard work is really paying off Leigh. Your

story and Halloween poem were amazing!

Help RPS support the charity FareShare by collecting packets of uncooked rice or short-cut pasta. If you’d like to make a donation then drop off your packets in the box by Nerida’s room in the Office Reception area.

Help FareShare Fill a Tram!

Selling your house? Mention RPS at the time of listing and Biggin & Scott Rich-

mond will donate $1,000.00 to the school. They will also donate $500.00 to the

school for every new management property signed up, where RPS is mentioned.

2nd hand uniform Shop

After a big cleanout in our uniform store we have found that

we are now short in small sizes of short sleeve shirts, shorts

and skorts, dresses etc , Mainly Sizes 4 and 6. If you have any

uniform that you no longer need in thee sizes we would be

happy to receive any that you would like to donate to the

school. This will help our new prep parents and also current

school families. Thanks, Judy

Please support our RPS Fair Sponsors—Look for more in next week’s edition.