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Other Useful Links
Play AFL Footy with the Willoughby Wildcats
The Willoughby Wildcats have teams for boys and girls ranging from the skill development groups in Auskick (5 to 8 year olds) through the competitive age groups from U9 to U16.
Junior Australian Football uses a range of modified rules including non-tackling in the younger age groups and position rotation to encourage player participation and involvement and to ensure all players receive a fair go.
Check our website at www.wildcatsafl.
Roseville Junior Rugby Club
Ages U6 to U16 welcome.
Come along and join us - have a great time, meet new friends and learn how to play.
RPS is "asthma friendly." This means we have adopted 8 strategies for the better management of asthma in our school. This involves the whole school community in providing a more supportive and understanding environment for students with asthma so that they are able to participate fully in daily school activities. We encourage children with asthma to develop management plans in consultation with their doctor. These plans help children understand their asthma and will help prevent attacks by prescribing the correct medication. If your child has asthma please advise Mrs Mason so that staff are aware of your child's needs. Asthma is a serious condition but it responds well to preventative strategies. For further details contact the Asthma Foundation on 1800 645 170 or visit their website at www.asthmansw.au
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Welcome back to Term 4 During the holidays, substantial changes were made to the student toilet facilites and many thanks go to all those that assisted and helped with the refurbishment in so many ways. All the children appreciate your efforts and are grateful for the updated facilities. Thanks go too, to all the parents who contributed to the P & C's voluntary donation this year as the makeover was only made possible by utilising some of this money. Many thanks also to those members of School Watch who keep our school safe over the vacation and weekend periods. Term 3 Highlights Pedlar's Parade Loads of fun was had by all the school community and especially the organisers - Year 6 at their annual fundraiser. It was very obvious indeed that, "someone's trash was indeed another's treasure"!
Kindergarten 2009
Enrolments are now being taken for next year's Kindergarten intake. Please contact our office for an Enrolment Pack with all the necessary details. Athletics Carnival If level of participation and achievement of personal bests are indicators of a successful sports carnival, then our recent Athletics Carnival was an outstanding success! We had the highest number of students entering heats in both the 200m and 100m in all age groups that we have ever had at a school carnival. Records were broken and a huge number of individual students achieved a ‘personal best’.
Further Sports Success Congratulations to our Senior A and Senior B netball teams and their coach, Mrs Wheeler and to the Senior A soccer team and their coaches, Miss Tolman and Mr Wheatley on winning the Ku-ring-gai Zone PSSA competition. Congratulations also to our school sport tennis team who won their competition against Lindfield Public School. Congratulations to all 21 students selected to represent Ku-ring-gai Zone at the regional athletics carnival as this in itself is a huge achievement. Our school performed exceptionally well with five students, Aden, Mackenzie, Beth, Rakura and Charlotte, being selected to go on to represent Sydney North Region at the NSW PSSA Athletics State Carnival in October. Special congratulations also to other finalists, Ben and Jackie. Tournament of Minds Congratulations to our two Tournament of Minds teams who were invited to perform at the exhibition session on Saturday afternoon at the University of Technology. Special congratulations to our Maths and Engineering Team who won their division of the Regional Tournament of Minds Challenge and will now go on to represent the school at the State Challenge. Our thanks to the teams’ coaches for the many hours they have given in a volunteer capacity to provide such a valuable experience for our Tournament of Minds teams. Members of the team are: Justin, William, Abbey, Fiona, Evie, Daniel, Emilyr, Alisonl, Harry, Jack, Beth, Timothy, Grace and Anna.
Public Speaking For many years RPS has had a whole school focus on public speaking throughout Term 3. This is in an effort to raise the profile, importance and power of speaking effectively in the minds of our students and to provide an opportunity for every student to speak "publicly" in front of their class mates. Some may also speak in front of their grade peers or even in front of a much wider audience at a K-2 or 3-6 assembly. This year there are two topics about which students can choose to speak: ‘Someone important to me’ or ‘Someone I admire’. The subject can be someone past or present, famous or not. As a way of launching our public speaking focus I’ve included at the end of this bulletin, a speech made recently by one of our Year 6 students Harry N. Harry, who is also one of our School Captains, delivered this speech at our 3-6 Assembly as well as at the District Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition. Harry was selected, as was another of our students, Year 4’s Will Graham, to represent the District at the State finals. When does a migrant become an Australian?
‘ This is just one of the questions in the Australian Citizenship Test and I can tell you I don’t know the answer! Legally you shouldn’t have to take the test until you are 18. But just for fun, I took the Citizenship Test practise questions and I got 4 out of ten! Does this make me not a good Australian? Technically, you become an Australian when you have your visa, travel documents, the right health requirements, the right character requirements (that is, no criminal record), signed the Australian Values Statement and passed the Australian Citizenship Test. However, little bits of paper will NOT make anyone truly Australian; once you have arrived in Australia you have to find what makes you Australian yourself. Now we know how we can technically become an Australian, but now let’s talk about the other more important side of being new and how to become an Aussie. Picture Bruce, he’s holding a BBQ with lots of his mates. Bruce gets another slab of beer out of the esky and shares it out with his mates. Bruce loves beer and he loves his BBQ’s. Bruce is wearing ‘King Gee’ shorts and a ‘Bonds’ singlet. While the blokes are cooking the steak on the Barbie, Brenda is sorting out the rest of the food, with a load of washing drying on the Hills Hoist behind her. Many people believe that Bruce and Brenda are true Australians, but really they are not. Many people forget the only true Australians are the Aboriginals. When Captain Cook, so called discovered Australia, the Aboriginals had all ready been here for thousands of years. So, really most of us are migrants. We are new, we are from many different cultures — and that’s what holds us together as a nation. In our country, everyone gets on relatively well compared to some other countries and there aren’t any huge racist problems in Australia. Most of us try to respect everyone and their cultures. The moment you have this attitude towards all Australian’s and its people, is the moment when you truly become an Australian and start contributing to Australia. Australia is made up of many different cultures that have brought new types of clothing, religions, food, styles, architecture, technology, furniture, ideas and skills to this country. Many people believe that migrants need to support our teams, believe our beliefs, speak our language and forget their country of origin. But it’s not all about the team you support, it’s whether you respect everyone and Australia. A few weeks ago my Dad and I watched Australia verses Ireland in the Rugby — Dad is Irish and he was torn between the two teams at times. Dad was lucky he could always barrack for the winning team. To become an Australian you shouldn’t have to forget where you came from, you should still be able to barrack for your home country in sport and other things, people should not be asked to forget their past and religion. In the end, you truly become an Australian when you are open-minded and give everyone you meet a fair go. Harry N, Year 6
Star Students All our students at RPS are STARS but congratullations to the following students for their outstanding effort in various fields of endeavour Congratulations Emily for your award in the recent NSW Primary English Teaching Association Writing Competition. Members of our Stage Band, Junior Band and Concert Band won GOLD at the Yamaha Festival Members of Concert Band who won GOLD at the NSW School Band Festival Star Conductor - Ms Jenni Lewis - ADOBA Award for Excellence in Conducting Harry, Laura and Will were selected to represent RPS at the District Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition. Harry and Will were both placed first in their divisions and will now compete at the regional competition. Beth, Rakura, Emma and Georgina were outstanding at the Zone Cross Country and selected to run in the NSW Cross Country Carnival where Beth won the 11years, individual division. Beth was last year's 10 year old champion and winning again is an exceptional achievement. Beth will now go on to represent NSW at the national carnival to be held next month in Melbourne. Well done to all four girls - only 24 girls from all age groups and across 160 schools were selected for the NSW carnival and 4 of them were RPS students. They are to be commended for their dedication and fantastic effort. Maddie and Emily were selected to represent Ku-ring-gai in PSSA Netball. Mackenzie was chosen for the NSW PSSA Girls' Footbal Team and played in the State Carnival in June. Catriona was awarded by the Roseville Chase Rotary Club for her essay titled "Sir Douglas Mawson" Ryan and Anthony were selected to represent Sydney North at the Boys' Football PSSA State Carnival. Science results
Results from the University of New South Wales’s Science competition this year have placed our school above the state average in every participating grade. This year also sees an even greater number of our students achieving High Distinctions, Distinctions and Credits than in past years with 10 being awarded High Distinctions, 20 with Distinctions and 58 with Credits. The University of New South Wales’s competitions are rigorous competitions in which many schools restrict participation to only those selected by the school. At RPS we have always had participation open to all students interested in participating. Congratulations to the following students on their outstanding achievement in this year’s Science competition.
Year 3: Todd A, Nathan K and Raul S. Year 4: Rachel H, Jordan H and Tasha W. Year 5: Luke B, Alison C and Sinclair S. Year 6: Justin Educational Initiatives at RPS - sponsored by our wonderful P & C
In addition to the many enrichment programs already operating in the school, we have new initiatives running this year.
One is a Mentors-in-Residence program for all students across Kindergarten to Year 6 which focuses on Philosophy, Creative Art and Creative Writing. The other is our Rock and Water program for Year 6 boys.
Philosophy has been running in our school for several years now, however we are most fortunate to be in a position this year where we can run it every term and therefore include children from Kindergarten to Year 6. This is thanks to one of our parents, who has committed to a year of volunteer work with groups of students at lunchtime as well as assisting teachers in the classroom as a discussion facilitator with the Bounce Back resilience program. Thanks Cathy.
Creative Art was another focus of lunchtime groups In Term 2 with local artist Stephanie Ryan. Stephanie did a fantastic job. judging from the number of students in attendance each week and her influence and inspiration was also much appreciated by the teaching staff. Stephanie was ‘in residence’ on Tuesdays for students in Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 and Wednesdays for students in Kindergarten, Years 1 & 2. The lunchtime groups operated on a ‘drop in’ basis, with children choosing for themselves if, when and for how long to participate in the program. We wanted to provide the opportunity and space where children could see an artwork in progress modelled to them by an artist. Students came to just observe and ask questions, or they worked towards a creation of their own work or they brought an artwork from the classroom or home to discuss with Stephanie. She was also available to discuss aspects of Visual Arts with our teachers to help them further develop their skills and understandings.
The response to this programme was well beyond our expectations and we were indeed lucky to have someone of such passion, patience, artistic talent and empathy working in the school.
Our Term 3 focus and Mentor-in-Residence will be author Alison Peters. Alison will be running lunchtime workshops for any students in Years 2-6 who are interested in creative writing.
Our School Counsellor, Mr Just is running the Rock & Water Program.. This program is very contemporary and was designed for boys who, generally, are less verbal and more action inclined than girls. At its core, it is a physical course based on aspects of Tai Chi, but importantly including verbal sharing and group work which makes it a personal-growth and social skills course, too. The aim of the course is to enhance social skills and personal skills such as self-control, self-confidence and self-reflection, and also to promote group development through solidarity with the group, acknowledging and listening to others in an interested and non-judgemental way. Working Bees Our grounds are enjoyed not only by the school community but also the local community. Children are often seen playing on the basketball court or riding their bikes in the quadrangle and walkers often skirt the circumference of the site during their daily routine. The mainenance of the grounds is assisted periodically by members of the school family and so far this year they managed to plant a new tree, complete the hedging along Addison Avenue and weed and mulch the garden beds. Thanks to all concerned for a great job. Watch this space for next term's date - if you can spare a few hours on that occasion it would be most appreciated.
Water Tanks Four water tanks have been installed. These have been funded through the Australian Government’s Community Water Grants given to RPS as a result of a successful application made by our School Council member, Terese Smith. Our thanks to Watershed West, the company responsible for supplying and installing the tanks, as they made it so easy for us as a school. We particularly appreciated their understanding, flexibility, patience and willingness to help however they could. Now all we need is another good downpour of rain!
. Band News
RPS has one of the largest band programs for primary students on Sydney's North Shore. This year, nearly 200 students are participating in either the Junior, Intermediate, Senior, Concert or Contemporary Wind and Stage Bands. Recently all students attended a weekend camp to hone their musical skills. The concluding concert on the Sunday evening was a great success and not only testimony to our great musical talent but also capped off a great weekend of good fun and good music.
And even more recently, Stage Band has bee entertaining the crowds at the Castlecove Jazz Festival.
Further information regarding our school bands including programme information, committee and co-ordinator details for 2008 are now posted on the Band Page behind Password.
Year Group Newsletters
General information regarding homework, curriculum content, excursions will be communicated early this term via the grade newsletters and website. Please remember that Year Group Newsletters are posted on the Password Page - see links to each Year on the menu. Teachers post the information rather than sending notes home so please check there first for any details about what is happening in your child's class this term.
Uniforms
The school has a strict uniform policy and there is an expectation that all children will wear uniform items only. We are very proud of our uniform at Roseville Public and request that parents support us by ensuring that children are correctly attired at all times and please remember that hats are mandatory all year long.
If you can not make it to the school shop the garments can be pre-ordered and delivered to class. For more information about uniform requirements please follow this link to the About Us page. Students graduating from Roseville Public School have access to excellent neighboring high schools. Students from RPS often attend Killara High School, Chatswood High School, Willoughby Girls High School or Killarney Heights High School. Students may sit the Selective High School entrance examination to gain enrty into one of the local selective high schools. In recent years, our school has developed strong links with Killara High School, one of the top performing HSC schools in the state and also with Chatswood High as a result of our band and music connections. Click on the pictures below for more details. Check out Chatswood High
This site has details of 2007 dates and other NSW school information
For information on the Key Learning Areas, Gifted and Talented Policy, Count Me in Too, ICT, Aboriginal Studies, etc follow this link to our disrict website - www.ryded.det.nsw.edu.au/
The Board of Studies site has a wealth of information, resourves and links for all curriculum areas and stages, as well as HSC details and papers -
As part of it s commitment to quality communication, teaching and leaning a new initiative of the NSW Department of Education and Training is a website for teachers and parents entitled TaLE - Teaching and Learning Exchange. Please bookmark this site for further use and follow the link to view the parent pages which have excellent information relating to the NSW system from Kindergarten to Year 12 along with a "jargon buster" to help explain the educational terminonlogy .
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