IMPORTANT DATES!
OCTOBER 2019
NOVEMBER 2019
DECEMBER 2019
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
RGLPS has been a busy place this week with many of our 3-6 students participating in numerous sporting activities such as Division Basketball, Region Athletics and Division Softball. Our JSC ran another successful popcorn stall for our prep students and we ran our first JSC meeting for the term. Thank you to the parents on our School Council Sub-committees for your time in attending our meetings this week. Your time and contributions are always very much valued. This week teachers started our program review process by evaluating what’s worked well and identifying our next best learning moves as well budgeting around our Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) priorities.
Before and After School Supervision
A reminder that staff are on duty from 8:45am each day until 3.45pm. Whilst these are the minimum times, student supervision cannot be guaranteed outside of these hours. Accordingly, if you need to drop students off earlier, or collect later, they should be booked into Out Of School Hours Care program.
Families Moving Schools in 2020
Families who are moving schools in 2020 for whatever reason should advise the office, or myself personally, as soon as possible. This will ensure that your children are not included in grade placements for 2020, and it gives us a greater degree of certainty when planning grade structures, determining whether or not we need to select new teachers and a range of other organisational matters.
Professional Practice Days
All staff are currently in the process of organising their term four Professional Practice Day. The majority of staff will use this day to assess students individually, collect data for analysis and analyse student progress in preparation for end of year student reports.
Whole School Mathematics Day
As a way of celebrating mathematics in our school our Numeracy Strategic Team have organised a whole school maths day on Friday 6th December. The theme for this day will be Charlie and the Number Factory and will focus on engaging students in maths activities and applying mathematics and problems solving skills. The activities organised will model open ended tasks with multiple approaches and pathways to maths. Student will be grouped in year level teams and rotate through activities which will run until lunch time. Students who participated in Maths Olympiad enrichment program will be invited to take on a leadership role as facilitators for the day.
Region Athletics 2019
Congratulations to all who competed for RGLPS at the Northern Metro Region Athletics Carnival. To have made it to the Region Athletics is an amazing achievement as the students have progressed through the school, district and division stage of competition.
On the day, the RGLPS Regional Athletics team competed to the best of their ability and represented the school through determination, courage and sportsmanship. All students showed the RGLPS values of Confidence, Respect and Responsibility throughout the day.
With the competition at a high level, RGLPS had some brilliant individual performances. Congratulations to Sophie, Sathika, Ismail, Lutz, Ruaa, Nida, and Bowen who made it through to State level. What an incredible achievement– we’ll be cheering you on later this month!
Denisse Lobos
Acting Principal
STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
SCIENCE NEWS
DEAF FACILITY NEWS
Hearing Australia Visits
Hearing Australia will be visiting Rosanna Golf Links on:
Wednesday, November 6th
Thursday, December 5th
Student Support Group (SSG) Meetings
Reminder that SSG meeting booking times are on Compass. Please ensure you book through Compass if you would like to have a meeting. If the times allocated don’t work due to other commitments, please contact Thom Jackson to reschedule these meetings.
Parent Information Session
The Deaf Facility will be hosting a Parent Information Session for all Deaf Facility families. The information session will have a panel of deaf and hard of hearing adults with lived experiences living with hearing loss. We have a panel of six or seven adults with varied experiences. This is a good opportunity to hear what adults with hearing loss have experienced, tips and tricks to further support your child, and ask questions from adults with lived experience. Please mark Thursday, November 14th, 6:30pm at school in your diaries. We would like this event to be adults only, as we are hoping this should be a safe place for our families to ask questions.
SPORT NEWS
Regional Athletics
BAT TENNIS
We made it. Both bat tennis teams getting into the finals, boys undefeated- clear favourites for the flag, girls having only lost one match all season to Viewbank looking great also. Our day started with the girls team beating St Martins, and the boys unfortunately losing to Banyule. The grand final came around before we knew it and the girls were playing with enthusiasm and motivation against the only team to have beaten them all season. There were jumps for joy when the game had finished and the girls realised they had won. This is the first blue flag Bat Tennis has won for Golf Links, what an achievement!
I am very proud of all students involved in the bat tennis teams this season, there was clearly lots of passion towards the sport. Both teams should be equally as proud of themselves for the effort they’ve put in each recess and lunch, but girls… it’s off to Region we go!!
Miss Wilson x
Where: Viewbank Tennis Courts, 96 Rutherford Road Viewbank
When: 10.45am Thursday 24th of October
Kendall Wilson
5/6W Classroom Teacher
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School
GREEN NEWS
TEACHING AND LEARNING
2019 International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) Results
2019 ICAS results for Digital Technologies, Science and the Spelling Bee were announced at Assembly on Monday 14th October and have now been distributed to students. The results for the English and Mathematics ICAS have just been released to the school but we are still awaiting the results of the Writing ICAS to be made available through the ICAS school portal. Results for this remaining ICAS will be released in a future newsletter.
Students who achieved a High Distinction, Distinction, Credit or Merit certificate for ICAS English or Mathematics will be announced at School Assembly on Monday 21st October. Participation certificates will be distributed by classroom teachers.
UNSW awards ICAS certificates based on the following criteria:
HD = High Distinction: In the top 1% of participants
D = Distinction: In the next 10% of participants
C = Credit: In the next 25% of participants
M = Merit: In the next 10% of participants
P = Participation: For all remaining students.
Here is an overview of R.G.L.P.S student performance and achievement for 2019 in English and Mathematics:
English
48 students participated in the English ICAS in 2019. R.G.L.P.S. students achieved the following results:
Certificate Awarded | Students | Number |
High Distinction | Year 3 – Eamonn Narkiewicz Year 6 – Ben Wilson | 2 |
Distinction | Year 2 – Emily Sara Eldo, Willie Pham, Amelie Wright, Maxine Stevens, Lucas Bunt, Bianca Khoo, Livia Salim Year 4 – Gabriel Bunt, Emmy Bell Year 5- Lachlan Draper | 10 |
Credit | Year 2 – Suraj Gupta, Alexander Knell Year 3 –Ainsley Holmes, Luke Every, Molly Mehan, Miata Chea Year 4 – Erin Starmans, Lutz Stevens Year 5 – Jeonga Choi Year 6 – Mackenzie Hawkins, Zoe Merory | 11 |
Merit | Year 2 – Sohum Baral, Year 4 – Grace Romanovski Year 5 – Olivia Darcy, Grace Darcy, Lian Shaweesh Year 6 –Sophie Becker, Emily Adams | 7 |
Participation | Year 2 – Allie Gleeson, Aseel Shawesh, Ava Malinas Year 3 – Finn Gross, Alva Eldridge, Thenura Karunathalika, Milla Niall, May Xu, Josephine Lohoar, Jade Dawson Year 4 – James Moy, Daniel Every, Miranda Knell, Lola Winter Year 5 – Emma White, Jeongyeon Choi Year 6 – Katherine Dyall, Lucas Starmans | 18 |
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School achieved the following results in each year level:
| OUR SCHOOL AVERAGE SCORE | AUSTRALIA AVERAGE SCORE |
YEAR 2 | 24.1 | 19.2 |
YEAR 3 | 24 | 24.9 |
YEAR 4 | 28.4 | 27.3 |
YEAR 5 | 29.6 | 28.8 |
YEAR 6 | 34.9 | 31.1 |
Mathematics
59 students participated in the Mathematics ICAS in 2019. R.G.L.P.S. students achieved the following results:
Certificate Awarded | Students | Number |
High Distinction | Year 2 – Amelie Wright | 1 |
Distinction | Year 2 – Sohum Baral, Emily Sara Eldo, Alexander Knell, Damon McCrae, Bianca Khoo, Livia Salim Year 3 – Ainsley Holmes, Madeleine O’Rourke Year 4 – Lutz Stevens, Bowen Yan Year 5 – Finn Ellul, Patrick Mehan, Jeonga Choi | 13 |
Credit | Year 2 – Suraj Gupta, Aseel Shaweesh Year 3 – Molly Mehan, Jade Dawson Year 4 – Adele Ryan, Erin Starmans Year 5 – Grace Darcy Year 6 – Zoe Merory | 8 |
Merit | Year 2 – Isabella Moy Year 3 – Samuel Wilson Year 4 – Pranav Ramakrishnan, James Moy Year 5 – Olivia Darcy, Lachlan Draper, Jack Gleeson Year 6 – Emma Sherwill | 8 |
Participation | Year 2 – Willie Pham, Payton Martin, Maxine Stevens, Lucas Bunt, Ava Malinas Year 3 – Finn Gross, Owen White, Thenura Karunathilaka, Luke Every, Milla Niall, May Xu, Josephine Lohoar, Miata Chea Year 4 – Isabel Joyner, Leben Rowe, Daniel Every, Sathilka Ethiligoda Gamage, Miranda Knell, Amelia Harrison, Lola Winter Year 5 – Emily Foale, Benjamin Sherwill, Freya Wilson, Jensen Martin, Jeongyeon Choi, Lian Shaweesh Year 6 – Sophie Becker, Katherine Dyall, Lucas Starmans | 29 |
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School achieved the following results in each year level:
| OUR SCHOOL AVERAGE SCORE | AUSTRALIA AVERAGE SCORE |
YEAR 2 | 18.5 | 15.4 |
YEAR 3 | 19.1 | 19.1 |
YEAR 4 | 20.1 | 21.2 |
YEAR 5 | 22.4 | 22.9 |
YEAR 6 | 18.6 | 20.4 |
Congratulations to all R.G.L.P.S. students who participated in the ICAS this year on their excellent results.
Whole School Maths Day – ‘Charlie and the Number Factory’
Year 5/6 Maths Olympiad students have been invited to assist with planning for the Whole School Maths Day on Friday 6th December. This is an ‘opt in’ opportunity for members of our 2019 Maths Olympiad Team.
Involvement will help students develop leadership and mathematics skills by planning and facilitating engaging activities for Prep-Year 4 classes on the event day. It is envisaged that students may need to participate in 2-3 hour long sessions to plan and prepare for this event over the coming weeks.
Maths Olympiad parents, please contact me on 9457 4178 if you have any questions about this opportunity.
Kerron Worsdell
Teaching and Learning Coach
RGLPS Play Group
FUNDRAISING
Run4Fun Colour Explosion!
Our Fun4Fun Colour Explosion is coming up next week, Friday October 25th. This is a whole school event with an alternate timetabled day. The timetable for the day will be:
Session 1: 9:00 – 10:00
Session 2: 10:00 – 11:00
Recess: 11:00 – 11L30
Session 3: 11:30 – 12:30
Early lunch: 12:30 – 1:30
Session 4: 1:30 (pack bags and make way to the oval for the Fun Run)
Session 5: 2:00 – 3:30 (Fun Run on the oval)
Each year level/s will have an allocated time of 15 minutes to run around the oval as part of the Fun Run. There will be five sets of obstacles set up for students to participate in. While students participate in the obstacles, the coloured powder will be dispensed on the children. The students can do as many or little laps of the oval and obstacles within the 15 minutes allocated as they want. Students will run during the following times:
Preps: 2:00 – 2:15
Grade 1/2: 2:15 – 2:30
Grade 3/4: 2:30 – 2:45
Grade 5/6: 2:45 – 3:00
We will require parent volunteers on the day. If you would like to:
- Help collect paper forms and input data
- Throw colour during the fun run
Please click the link and sign up! The more the merrier! https://signup.com/go/nPwHTon
Reminder that the event is an out of uniform day. Ideally children wear a white top, as this will show the colour from the run the most, however any out of uniform is Ok. If children are attending OSHC after school, please bring a change of clothes in your child’s bag to change into before attending OSHC.
Good luck with your last week of fundraising!
Mango Drive
Order forms are available by clicking on the below file: –
or available in the school office.
OSHC
INVOICES
Dear OSHC parents
Account can be payable by cash, cheque, EFT facility and direct deposit is available.
Payments can be made in OSHC during OSHC hours or at the School Office, during school hours (if you make a payment at the office (please have your invoice with you).
The Direct Deposit details are:
BSB: 063 233
Account number: 1005 3825
Please note that you must include that this is an OSHC payment and your family name when processing a payment this way. This is to ensure the payment is forwarded to the program from the office.
If you have any question please feel free to contact OSHC via email, mobile or in person
0429923572
From the OSHC team
CANTEEN
CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS
Dear Parents,
You as volunteers help to keep the canteen running. It is also a good chance to see your child at school and meet other parents. Your kids are usually, happy to have you there!
We need help on:
Monday: 10.30-12.30 or 12.00-2.05
Wednesday: 12.00-2.05
Friday: 10.30-2.05 or 10.30-12.30 or 12.00-2.05
If you are able to help out once a term or once a month ot any time at all, please contact me on 03 04045763.
Mobile: 0438585323 or through the office at school.
All help is appreciated.
SUMMER MENU
Please note: from this Friday we will be using the Summer Menu for Canteen Orders.
CANTEEN ROSTER
Thank you to all our canteen volunteers.
If you require a change to the roster please contact Margaret in the canteen.
Thank you.
Margaret Groves
RGLPS LUNCHTIME CLUBS
COMMUNITY NEWS
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