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Principal's Message
Welcome to Roseville Public School's website. We hope you enjoy your visit. We are incredibly proud of our school, our students, our staff and our parent community. Our school has a strong community culture and our goal is to make a positive difference for all students. As you browse through the website you will find countless examples of how the school community works together to provide a caring, rich and happy learning environment for our students .
Click on the pencils above to navigate your way around our site and if you are looking for more information about our school and our values visit the About Us page.
BER update - New buildings are on their way
Temporary Arrangements for construction
Please see the attached document showing a layout of the school whilst construction takes place.
 RPS Temporary Arrangements for Construction
As reported throughout the year in the Parent Bulletin and at our monthly P & C meetings, RPS will receive Commonwealth funding for major building works under the Rudd Government’s Round 3 of BER (Building the Education Revolution). As you would be aware from the media coverage, just about every school in Australia will be receiving funding under Round 1, 2 or 3 of this plan.
RPS however is in the fortunate position of receiving not just Commonwealth funding, but also major building funding from the NSW state government as a result of our successful submission made at the end of last year. We were informed last week that our request for the two government funding sources to be combined to allow for one ‘master plan’ has been approved. This is good news.
Another factor to understand is that all funding is tied to government mandates and timeframes. Construction must be completed by 31st March, 2011. State government funded construction and refurbishment will need to be completed within the 2009-2012 state budget period.
As you can imagine, this has huge implications for all Round 3 schools. At this early stage in the proceedings, few specific details are available. I have tried to summarise in the following dot points past information communicated through the Bulletin and at monthly P & C meetings since the BER was announced in March.
Summary to date of the Commonwealth government funded Building the Education Revolution (BER) and the NSW state government funded Major Capital Works (MCW) as they relate to RPS:
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Both NSP and P21 required submissions for building, upgrade and refurbishment projects up to $200,000 and $3.2 million, respectively, to be submitted by schools within a very tight timeframe. Input and comment regarding RPS proposals were given at our March P & C meeting.
(a) National School Pride (NSP)
· RPS successful in gaining maximum allocation available, ie $200,000 to fund four of the 16 projects submitted. These projects are being managed by the Department of Education and Training’s Asset Management Unit (AMU), the AMU’s contractor (Spotless) and the Department of Commerce.
· Projects could involve only areas not included in submissions for major capital works.
· Scopes of works have been approved for our projects: Major upgrade of the basketball court & rewiring of the cricket nets; minor refurbishment of the school canteen and staffroom kitchen; recarpeting of administration block.
· NSP projects must be completed by 1st February, 2010.
· No commencement dates or details re successful ‘tenders’ have yet been given except for recarpeting, which will occur during the October school vacation period.
(b) Primary Schools for the 21st Century (P21) and State Funded Major Capital Works (MCW)
· P21 + MCW key proposals: multi storey brick construction with 18 classrooms built on the site currently housing K-2, major refurbishment of the existing 3-6 block, removal of all demountable classrooms from the playground.
· Decisions made regarding proposed plans driven by input gained from the school community last year via Survey Gizmo surveys used in the development of our 2009-2011 School Plan which identified more playground space as the number one priority for students, parents and teachers.
· Federal Government mandate for Round 3 BER schools: construction work no longer needs to commence before 1st December, 2009.
· The ‘P21 project’ section of our major capital works projects must be completed by 31st March, 2011.
· All P21 projects, including buildings and classrooms must comply with the Schools Facilities Standards.
· RPS is in a unique situation as we will have major capital (building) works as well as refurbishment and upgrade projects occurring simultaneously on the site, ie NSP + P21 + MCW.
· Next step includes major planning at the school level for managing huge changes in a short time frame, including the relocation of eight classes of students from the single level K-2 building and four classes from the demountable classrooms along Duntroon Avenue and Archbold Road, keeping in mind the NSP projects also have to be managed and accommodations made. The School Leadership Team in consultation with staff will make and manage decisions on matters relating to our students, and Bovis Lend Lease will manage matters relating to buildings, safety, construction as well as organising the ‘temporary’ accommodation of ten classes in demountable classrooms to be sited by them on the Duntroon block of the playground.
· School timetables will need to be planned differently so that from the beginning of 2010 there will be separate play times for K-2 and Years 3-6. The current school commencement and finish times will remain the same.
· It is planned that students in Years 3-6 will be accommodated in the new building upon its completion as class sizes and students’ physical sizes are larger.
In conclusion, this is a huge challenge that brings with it an amazing and unique opportunity for Roseville Public School. As a result of the Commonwealth Government’s Economic Stimulus Package coinciding with NSW State Government funding, our students will have more playground space and improved classrooms and facilities. Also as a result of this, we have no control over timeframes or the sheer magnitude of the task that is currently facing us. We therefore need to stay focused on the positive and continue to work together as a school community for the benefit of our students now and in the future.
Bulletins
If you have the desire to be environmentally greener, want to access the information from work or anywhere, store it permanently in your own file documents, send it to friends or grandparents overseas, you can access, the Bulletin online. Please consider downloading the electronic coloured version as the costs saved could probably pay for another teacher's aide to help in our busy classrooms.
Click on the Newsletter button below to try it out if you haven't already. Should you decide to consistently take the electronic option, please let our office staff know so that they can reduce the number of Bulletins photocopied each week and take your child's name off the list requiring a hard copy.
For anyone new to the school, please ask the office for password details.
Catchment Area
Please check with our office staff for specific details of the boundaries for our catchment area. If you are moving into the area please be aware that we have not been able to accommodate any out-of-area students for the past few years. We are currently only taking enrolments for those living within the catchment.
Enrolment
To enrol your student, please download and complete the following documents. These documents and the required additional documents need to then be presented at the school office.
If you have a student eligible for Kindergarten 2010, please complete the forms and drop in to the school office.
Application to Enrol in a NSW Government School
RPS Additional Enrolment Forms
Student Representative Council
Parent Information
2010 Dates
Please stay tuned...
Parent Helpers
Parents are always welcome at RPS and their help is readily sought. If you are new to our school please see the office for ways in which you can help the P & C Committes with regards to our Reading Programmes, Canteen, Clothing Pool, Band Programme, Sporting Progrmames, grounds and garden maintenance,Community News, fund raising, Bulletin and Library.
Safety Issues
School zone program
School zones operate between 8:00am — 9:30am and 2:30pm — 4:00pm on gazetted school days.
Motorists are required to drive at no more than 40 km/h through school zones.
In the interest of student safety, parents are asked to adhere strictly to all road, traffic and parking rules at all times. We all know the power of role modelling and we all know how powerful a parent’s actions can be in teaching their children how to act. As teachers we teach children about bike safety, pedestrian safety and passenger safety hoping that these valuable lessons stay with them into adulthood when they become responsible and considerate drivers themselves. Whether your children walk, take a bus or are driven to school in a car here are some safety tips to help ensure they arrive safely.
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School age children should always travel in the rear of your vehicle. Each child must be firmly buckled in to a seat belt.
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Children should always exit and enter a vehicle through the kerbside door.
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Always drop your children on the school side of the road.
· Meet your children on the school side of the road, preferably at the school gate. This is particularly important in wet weather.
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NEVER call to your children from across the road. Teach them to wait until you come to them. Talk to them about what they should do if you are not there on time.
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Children up to ten years old should be closely supervised by an adult in the traffic environment and should hold an adult’s hand when crossing the road.
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ALWAYS cross at the school crossings.
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Talk to your children about the “STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK!’ routine every time you cross the road together.
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Always slow to 40km/h when travelling in a school zone.
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Always obey parking signs around your child’s school. These signs help save children’s lives.
To those that do take care when driving around our school perimeter - thank you but for those that don't, please be reminded that heavy fines are in place for those that offend .
Holiday Dates
For details of term and vacation dates for the 2010 year and beyond, please follow these links to the Departmental calendar
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