‘News from the Hill’ Rooty Hill Public School Quality Education in a vibrant, caring school Web: http//www.rootyhill-p.schools.edu Email: rootyhill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Westminster St, Rooty Hill

Phone: 9625 8807

Term 1 Week 6 3rd March 2020

From the Principal

Principal Induction Conference

Evidence around the world shows that investing in leadership at all phases of a school leader’s career will make a substantial difference to the quality of teaching and therefore the quality of student learning in our school. From the 19-21 February I had the pleasure of attending the Principal Induction Conference in Sydney delivered by the Department of Education School Leadership Institute. This conference provided

engaging, relevant and significant professional learning. This included leading high quality teaching and learning across the school, enhancing student wellbeing strategies, and ensuring that in our school community every child is known, valued and cared for. I was reminded of the importance of modelling lifelong learning to my staff and students. Conferences of this nature enable me to focus on quality teaching and leadership practices that have the greatest impact on teacher learning and therefore the outcomes of our students.

Assembly Address Last week I had the pleasure of speaking to our Rooty Hill PS students at the Year 1 - 6

assembly. During my speech I spoke about the time that teachers have been taking over

the past week to collaboratively develop learning goals for every student in every class.

Individual learning goals are determined by identifying where a student is at in their

learning and where they are going to next. Teachers also discuss how they will know when

a student has been successful in achieving their goal.

Talking with our students in the playground I heard about all of the many people whom

they look up to. Not only did

they include famous sporting

stars and superheroes, they also included mums, dads,

sisters, brothers, cousins,

aunties, uncles and

grandparents. In our

discussions we highlighted the

fact that each of these people

tried their very best to reach

their dreams. I am very much

looking forward to celebrating

Rooty Hill Public School

students achieving their goals

throughout the year.

Calendar

Kindy Cake Stall

-Wed 4 Mar

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Minchinbury Public

School Leadership

Day -Years 5 & 6 SRC

-Thurs 5th Mar

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Selective High School

Test

-Thurs 12th Mar

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Welcome Evening

-Thurs 12th Mar

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Induction Assembly

-Mon 16th Mar

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Harmony Day

-Thurs 19th Mar

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Sydney West Primary

Swimming

-Thurs 19th Mar

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School Photos

-Thurs 26th Mar

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Winter PSSA Tryouts

-Fri 27th Mar

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Cross Country

-Thurs 2nd Apr

Focus of the Fortnight

# Line up correctly in

two straight lines

# Always say please

and thank you

Our School Rules Care For Your

School Care For Others

Care For Yourself

Focus of the Fortnight

# Line up correctly in

two straight lines

# Always say please

and thank you

Parent Survey and Newsletter Update

Thank you to all of our parents who completed our survey. We had over 130 responses.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and opinions. It is greatly

appreciated and will be used to assist us in decision making throughout the year. A

snapshot of the results showed that:

97% of respondents have a smartphone

99% of respondents have access to the internet

82% of respondents have our Skoolbag App

62% of respondents view the newsletter through the Skoolbag App

25% of respondents would like a translation option for the newsletter

Did you know that our online newsletter has a translation option available? Access our online newsletter through the schoolbag app, scroll down to the bottom of the newsletter and click on the translate button to translate our newsletter. We hope you love this feature as much as we do.

Parent Communication

To receive the most effective and timely response to a query, parents are asked to use the following steps when directing their communication within the school. The steps only progress to the next step if the issue or concern is not satisfactorily resolved. For administrative questions or concerns please see our administrative team in the school office. For academic, social/emotional or behavioural questions or concerns about your child please see: 1. Classroom Teacher. 2. Assistant Principal (Grade Coordinator) - Learning Support Team - School Counsellor. 3. Deputy Principal. 4. Principal. We strongly value a positive home/school partnership and look forward to working in collaboration with you throughout the year.

Celebration of Learning

This fortnight I have had the pleasure of hearing from 6R students who shared their persuasive writing about junk food and I must say that their writing was very convincing! I have enjoyed visiting many classrooms seeing great teaching and learning taking place - a highlight was a visit to 2C where I was invited to join in their drama activity on Friday afternoon. I have also had the pleasure of seeing some great graffiti name art in Year 5. Finally, I was blown away by the writing of Elijah and Bryson who have collaboratively written their own chapter book about the mystery of the golden boot. Elijah and Bryson have given me permission to share their work in our online newsletter. I hope you enjoy the read as much as I did, particularly their use of descriptive language in the opening paragraphs. Impressive writing boys!

Be

Sun

Safe….

Remember to

bring your school

hat everyday

Keep us up

to date!

Please

remember

to update

your

records at

the office

Our School Rules Care For Your

School Care For Others

Care For Yourself

Rooty Hill Train Station Opening

On Thursday 20 February our student leaders represented Rooty Hill Public School at the Official Opening of the Rooty Hill Railway Station Upgrade. The student leaders and Mr Yates were excited to see the pavers that had been engraved with designs from our 2019 SRC students. Thank you to our student leaders and Mr Yates for representing our school at this official event. Please access our online newsletter to read more about the Rooty Hill Station Upgrade Official Opening Event. Larissa Maraga R/Principal

2020 Zone Swimming Carnival

On Wednesday 26th February, I took 16 students to Mt Druitt Pools to compete in the Mt

Druitt Zone Carnival. Yonalee P, Thivain P, Ava F, Vivian F, Ebony D, Zachary D, Holly S,

Aiden M, Charlea M, Tamzyn L, Patrick B, Avarni K, Keira P, Emily C, Ryan H and Kaixi Y.

Each and every student displayed terrific sportsmanship by cheering on and supporting

their fellow students. The students all swam to the best of their abilities and they

achieved some amazing times in the pool. Most students improved on their times from

our school carnival. Rooty Hill Public School came 3rd overall in points for the carnival. We

are now waiting on the official results to see which students have now made it through to

the Sydney West Carnival which will be held at Homebush Aquatic Centre. The teacher

from Whalan Public School who was in charge of running the carnival came to find me on

the day to commend our students on their sportsmanship and show of support for not

only our school students but students from

other schools as well.

Well done to all students who attended the

carnival.

Noele Steward PSSA /Sports Co ordinator

Focus of the Fortnight

# Line up correctly in

two straight lines

# Always say please

and thank you

Goshin Kan Karate & Self Defence

Rooty Hill Public

School Monday & Wednesday

6.30pm Children 7.30pm Adults

Learn to protect yourself. Develop Confidence,

Human values, Disciplines and Self

Control.

Mobile – 0405 000 366 Head teacher

Kancho Deena Naidu 6th Graduate of the

Japan Karate College in the world.

The Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will be

open from 8:30 to 9:30

Mondays, Wednesdays and

Fridays and only accepts

cash

Our School Rules Care For Your

School Care For Others

Care For Yourself

School Photo Day – Reminder

A reminder that our School Photo day is Thursday 26th March. Students are able to pay for their photos by returning their envelope and money to their class teacher no later than Wednesday morning. Prefects need to be at school at 8:15am for their photo. All students need to wear their full school uniform for school photo day. Please read the important information below regarding the ordering process:

If you would like to place an order you need to enclose the correct money as no change is given by the school or the photography company.

Payment methods include – cash, money order or online credit card payment. Please see the photo envelope for details. Cheques cannot be accepted.

If you wish to pay online you do not need to return the photo envelope. The photographer will have a list of all orders completed online. Each ordering student must have their own completed envelope. If payment is in

another student’s envelope, please mark X in the check box and record the name and class of the paying student.

School photo envelopes are to be returned to your child’s class teacher before photo day.

Sibling Photos

There will be the opportunity for sibling photographs on school photo day. Sibling photographs are only available for students who currently attend our school. Sibling photograph envelopes are available for collection from the front office. Sibling photograph money must be placed into a separate completed sibling envelope. Please return sibling photo envelopes to your child’s class teacher.

Focus of the Fortnight

# Line up correctly in

two straight lines

# Always say please

and thank you

Important

Notice

So there is minimal

disruption to your child’s

learning, please try to

make any appointments

outside of school hours