Number 25 August 15th 2019

Principal: Mrs Loren Peavey

Ph: 5429 5099 School Council President:

Mrs Elizabeth McDonell Email:

romsey.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website:

www.romseyps.vic.edu.au Our School Values Are: Respect Integrity Responsibility

COMING EVENTS AUGUST Friday 16th: Meal deal orders close. Monday 19th—Friday 23rd: Book Week Wednesday 21st: Book Week Open Afternoon 3.45-5.45pm Friday 23rd: Dress up day—’Reading is my super power’ Meal Deal Day

Friday 30th: STEAM open afternoon—whole school

SEPTEMBER Saturday 7th: Comedy night Friday 13th: Prep-2 Athletics day Monday 16th: Prep-2 Swimming programme commences for 2 weeks.

Friday 20th: Last day term 3. 2.30 dismissal

OCTOBER Monday 7th: Term 4 commences Prep-2 Swimming programme 2nd week

Romsey Primary School is an inclusive and empowering learning community which fosters confident, creative, caring, curious and collaborative learners who “dare to be excellent”.

Performing at assembly next Monday August 19th: 1/2MK & P/1 AJ

Above: Our netball champions who were undefeated in last week’s regional competition at Swan Hill. They will now go on to compete in the state finals at the Waverley Netball Centre in September.

Mrs Peavey’s Post

Learning News Mad about Science Today we celebrated Science Week with our Mad about Science Incursion. Please see photos. Celebrating Literacy Afternoon Wednesday 21 Aug 3:45pm-5:45pm Next Wednesday is our Literacy open afternoon, please come along and see your children’s literacy work and participate in the treasure hunt. We hope to see you all there. Home learning At Romsey Primary we have home learning guidelines which are attached to the newsletter. This is the second year they have been in place and they have been discussed in the newsletter before. I urge all parents to re-familiarise themselves with these expectations. These guidelines are minimum recommendations, we actually support parents reading every day with their children and involving their children as often as possible in numeracy fact games and practise. SMART spelling has a set routine which has a 5 day cycle. If you are unsure about how to support your child’s home learning please see your classroom teacher.

School Matters Extended date Parent Opinion Survey-WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK! If you have received the parent opinion survey on your email we hope you could make time to participate. We so value your opinion and want to hear from you, feedback makes our school an even better place. The survey date has been extended until Sunday 18

th Aug, due to low return numbers.

Toasty Tuesdays Toasty Tuesdays starts next Tuesday 20

th Aug 8:45am at the canteen. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Basketball Well done to our basketball teams who competed in the district competition at Boardman Stadium on Tuesday. Congratulations to the teams (see photos) for participating with such sportsmanship. A special mention to Mr Milsom who planned and facilitated a very successful day for the network. CCC Thank you to the 8 people who attended the CCC last Thursday and discussed the students’ Attitude to School Data. We also discussed a number of other topics. Please be reminded that if at any time you have a question please do not hesitate to call the office to assist you or to make an appointment for a discussion. I would also like to remind families that your first port of call with most queries is your classroom teacher, followed by the Unit leaders and then leadership. To refresh people’s memories the Unit leaders are; Prep- Erin Moore, 1/2 Sharon Hoctor-Turner, 3/4 Fiona Holland, 5/6 Liam Devlin and the specialists Amy Green. Could I also please remind families that the past newsletters are all stored on the school website if you need to go back to confirm details you may have misplaced. The newsletter is the best source of information for all community members.

3.2M Romsey Regeneration Project Currently we are awaiting the first meeting to be set for the development of the next stages in the Regeneration Project. The school is ready and we are just waiting for the Department and the architects to establish a time for the initial planning meetings. This is an initial meeting, no plans for building will be started. We will keep the community involved at every step. I have had a number of queries around the P-9. Just a reminder that the Community Consultation which took place last year led to the findings that the school would remain as a P-6. This will be reviewed every 3-4 years. For more information please download the community engagement summary report in Word or PDF. Playground We are aware that the community has many questions around the playground project. We are currently revising plans so at present there is a lot of going back and forth between the architect, department and the school. I ask that the community be patient with this process, we are working towards achieving the best outcomes for our school. This money is a bonus for us, as it would have taken us many years to raise $180,000 through fundraising. Keep being involved in your child’s learning.

Loren Peavey

Awards to be presented Monday August 19th

2019 Prep EM Confidence to Nathan L for making a great start at Romsey Primary School. Well done, it is great to have you in our Prep team! Prep MS Confidence to Darcy M for working really hard on his work and choosing great learning spaces.

Prep/1 AJ Organisation for Max I for being organised and ready to learn in the morning. 1/2MK Organisation to Jayce C for trying hard to remember to keep his desk tidy. 1/2SH Persistence Matilda for the time and pride she has put into perfecting her handwriting. 1/2MC Getting Along – Harper G for always being such a kind and friendly person to everyone. 3/4LS Confidence to Grace O for reading the awards out at assembly last week. You did a fantastic job. 3/4AG Organisation to Stephanie D for being organised and prepared for the narrative writing task. Well done on doing your personal best! 3/4FH Resilience Mia P—for working really hard on presenting her characters in her superhero comic. 5/6DM 5/6SD Persistence to Caitlyn W for working hard with her division problem solving. 5/6LD Organisation - Brooke C for her extra efforts to help clean and organise our room. STEAM Organisation- Jackson (3/4LS) for being prepared and organised for STEAM and working hard to create an animated computer program. Visual Arts Physical Education Getting Along – Marcus G 5/6DM for showing leadership and getting along with his team at the Basketball day.

Bendigo Bank: Proud spon-

Happy Birthday to the following students who have birthdays coming up this week: Jett L Ryleigh W Ivy K Alfie K Thomas D

NEWSPAPERS!! We are seeking all unwanted newspapers for our STEAM afternoon on Friday 30th August. If you have any you would like to donate please feel free to leave them with the office staff or in the STEAM room. Thank you

Students leading assembly

WE NEED YOUR HELP As part of the RPS comedy night we will also be holding a raffle (to be drawn on the night) This is to raise much needed funds for our kitchen garden. We are calling out to any of our school families that may have their own businesses -that have goods or services that can be donated to contribute to add to our raffle prizes. If you can help please contact the school office. Deadline for donations is Monday 26th August. We would like to thank the generous school families and local community members that have already donated-

Hannah at Insymmetry/Romsey Wellness Centre

Justine at Outside the Box Training

Ali at Romsey Ranges Farm

G-force Gym Romsey

Amcal Chemist Romsey

Hypoxi Gym Sunbury

Scopri Carlton

Beauty Bar by Bryony Romsey

Nedhair.com

Squishy Minnie Book Club Begins

The Squishy Minnie Book Club members are so excited to have begun reading their first book, The War That Saved My Life by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley.

Members will be meeting for the first time on Monday 2nd September and are looking forward to discussing the book.

Thank you to Squishy Minnie Bookstore Kyneton for inviting RPS to be part of such an exciting opportunity!

STEAM/Maths Afternoon—Friday 30th August Mrs Andrea has asked if all Grade 3/4 students could please bring a 600ml plastic bottle along to the STEAM/Maths afternoon on the 30th August. Thank you

Book Week 2019

WEDNESDAY 21ST- WHOLE SCHOOL BOOK WEEK ACTIVITY FRIDAY 23RD AUGUST – DRESS UP

Dress up as a character from your favourite book, or a reading

superhero that has special powers that help you to read.

Celebrating Book Week 2019 Hi. I’m Juniper, the Literacy Captain and this is a reminder about Book Week next week. The focus of Book Week this year is, “Reading is my Superpower.” We all have some sort of power when reading books. On Wednesday the 21st of August the school will be open from 3:45pm to 5:45pm so families can see all the work we’ve been doing on this year’s Book Week theme. Come along and see the superheroes we

create and all the related work that will be displayed in our atriums. There will also be a superhero treas-ure hunt to be completed with a prize to be won. Then on Friday the 23rd of August we will be having our dress up day so come and be a part of our parade that is starting at 11:15am. You can dress up as any book character and of course a superhero. Can't wait to see you all there!

Sentral Parent Portal Access If you have not been able to set up your parent portal access to Sentral please let the office staff know. Mrs Perryman will be happy to organise a session for you to come along and help you get set up.

Pat Yourselves on the Back, Parents! It is fantastic to see that most parents are now remembering to notify us when their children are absent from school. This lightens the workload of our office staff enormously and saves a lot of time following up on unexplained absences. Thank you! You assistance with this is much appreciated.

Meal Deal Orders—Last Call! Please remember that Meal Deal orders close tomorrow and that late orders will not be accepted. Meal Deal Day is next Friday August 23rd. There will be no other canteen lunch orders available on this day.

During 1/2 MC reading sessions, we have been focusing on inferencing. We look at pictures or text and find clues to help us understand more about a text. Our author study this term is Aaron Blabey who writes the Pig the Pug series. We were given a picture from his newest book Pig the Tourist and inferred what we thought the picture was about.

From 1/2MC

Basketball On Tuesday 13th August the COBAW district Basketball day was held at Boardman Stadium and we had a 5/6 boys and a 5/6 girls team represent the school. Both teams did a tremendous job in competing with some of the bigger schools and can be very proud of the way they conducted themselves. The boys team finished in 4th place and the girls team finished in 6th. Both teams were only a couple of win away from being in the final. The boys team: Marcus Green, Riley Matthews, Ayden Smith, Brodie Dowell, Jerome Ristevski, Klem Evans, Luke Winwood and Daniel Tucker

The girls team: Matilda Goodwin-Dorning, Alice Bromley, Taylor Pace, Josie Lepore, Meisha Archibald, Edie Langman and Emily Bonnici A special thankyou to Mrs Sally Davies and Mrs Bec Dowell for managing the teams and to Amanda and Jarod Lepore who coached the teams. Their help makes running these days a lot smoother and to have their experience of Basketball helps to develop your sons and daughter’s skills. It was also great to have parents drop in during the day and support the teams. This support is always great for the kids to have.

Athletics Next Thursday 22nd of August, the COBAW district Athletics are being held in Bendigo. Students who have progressed to this date will have their permission form and the bus will leave at 8.30am sharp. We anticipate to be back by 3.30pm. At this point I have one parent helper coming along but if you are interested please let me know as all help is greatly appreciated.

Jarrod Milsom Sport Co-ordinator

Romsey Primary School Home Learning Guides Year Prep to Year 6

Year level Literacy Mathematics

FoundationYear ½ 10-15 mins per day

Reading Share take home books – 10 minutes reading each day. Read 5 times per week at home. Students to practice their reading goals deter-mined in reading conferences. Parents: Ask your child questions about the text they are reading and how their reading goal is progressing. Read to your child – share a favourite picture story book or a novel together, daily or as often as possible. Word Study Michelle Hutchinson’s 100 most common words. Learn to read and then spell the 100 words. Play card games with flashcards with words on them. Use homework grid for more activities. Students have 2-3 individual spelling words relating to the word of the week to learn each week.

A range of maths games are available to access from the school website. These games will assist your child in practising number facts to 10 and 20 in a fun and engaging manner. Playing maths games 2 or 3 times a week will sup-port and reinforce the mathematical learning tak-ing place at school.

Year 3/4 20- 30 mins per day

Reading Independent reading at least 5 times a week. Listen to your child read as often as you can in a week as this does make difference. Students to practise their reading goals deter-mined in reading conferences Students to record their independent reading in reading logs Parents: Ask your child questions about the text they are reading and how their reading goal is progressing. Read to your child – share a novel together, daily or as often as possible. Word Study Students have individual spelling words to learn each week related to the focus being studied and words related to their writing. Use the homework grid for activities and test words using the grid that is glued into books at the start of each focus.

On a weekly basis, students are encouraged to choose from the following activities: Practice times tables, focusing on the ones they don’t know Look for patterns in times tables Practice addition and subtraction number facts. Access Mathletics website to practise concepts learnt at school A range of maths games are available to access from the school website. These games will assist your child in practising number facts and problem solving in a fun and engaging manner. Playing maths games 2 or 3 times a week will support the mathematical learn-ing taking place at school.

Year 5/6 30- 45 mins per day

Reading: Independent reading at least 5 times a week. Listen to your child read as often as you can in a week as this does make difference. Students to record their independent reading in student diaries. Students to practise their reading goals deter-mined in reading conferences Parents: Ask your child questions about the text they are reading and how their reading goal is progressing. Read to your child – share a novel together, daily or as often as possible. Word Study: Students have individual spelling words to learn each week related to the focus being studied and words related to their writing. Use the homework grid for activities and test words using the grid that is glued into books at the start of each focus.

Students are encouraged to choose from the fol-lowing activities on a weekly basis: Practise times tables, focusing on the ones they do not know Look for patterns in times tables Practise addition and subtraction number facts. Access Mathletics website to practise concepts learnt at school A range of maths games are available to access from the school website (put in link). These games will assist your child in practising number facts and problem solving in a fun and engaging man-ner. Playing maths games 2 or 3 times a week will support the mathematical learning taking place at school.

Romsey Primary School Home Learning Guides Year Prep to Year 6

Year 5/6

30- 45 mins per day

Reading: Independent reading at least 5 times a week. Listen to your child read as often as you can in a week as this does make differ-ence. Students to record their independent reading in student diaries. Students to practise their reading goals determined in reading conferences

Parents: Ask your child questions about the text they are reading and how their reading goal is progressing. Read to your child – share a novel to-gether, daily or as often as possible. Word Study: Students have individual spelling words to learn each week related to the focus being studied and words related to their writing. Use the homework grid for activities and test words using the grid that is glued in-to books at the start of each focus.

Students are encouraged to choose from the following activities on a weekly basis: Practise times tables, focusing on the ones they do not know

Look for patterns in times tables

Practise addition and subtraction num-ber facts. Access Mathletics website to practise concepts learnt at school A range of maths games are available to access from the school website (put in link). These games will assist your child in practising number facts and problem solving in a fun and engaging manner. Playing maths games 2 or 3 times a week will support the mathe-matical learning taking place at school.

Websites to access for further home learning

Literacy Websites

http://reading.ecb.org/

https://www.spellingcity.com/

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.ictgames.com/blending_dragon.html

http://www.roythezebra.com/

Maths Websites

http://au.mathletics.com/

http://www.coolmath-games.com/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/

http://www.abcya.com/

http://resources.oswego.org/games/StopTheClock/sthec2.html

Both

http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/home

http://www.funbrain.com/

Enrolments for 2020 If you are intending to enrol your child for the 2020 school year please bring your enrolment forms to school as soon as possible, along with a copy of the child’s birth certificate and immunisation statement. Planning for the new school year is already under way, and an early indication of enrolment numbers makes this process a lot more efficient. Don’t have an enrolment pack? Come to the office and we will be happy to provide you with one. Please also let any of your friends or neighbours who might be new to the area that we are now accepting enrolments. All enquiries about enrolments can be directed to the school office, on 5429 5099.

Changes of parent / Emergency Details Just a reminder that it is very important that we know if you have changed any of your contact details (phone numbers, work contacts, email address, residential address) or if you have made any changes to your emergency contacts. Also we need to know if there are any significant changes to your child’s health or any new diagnoses that may impact on their school life.

Romsey Primary School Home Learning Guides Year Prep to Year 6

STEAM/Mathematics

Afternoon

A personal invitation to all Parents/Guardians, Please come and join us for some fun STEAM/Mathematics activities which we can solve together. We welcome parents, grandparents, relatives and friends.

Where: Romsey Primary School- all classrooms When: Friday, 30th August, 2019. Time: 2.00-3.25pm Please RSVP by Friday, 16th August by returning the form below to your child’s class teacher. Children will be working in their classroom and PLC areas. We look forward to seeing you, From the Students and Staff --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

STEAM/Mathematics Afternoon- RSVP I/We are able to attend the STEAM/Mathematics afternoon on Friday, 30th August, 2019 from 2.00 - 3.25pm. Name _________________________ Grade ______ Number of people attending ______