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NEWSLETTER Issue 24 Thursday 16th August
Principal’s Report from Mr Coffey
Rainbow P-12 College 17 Albert Street
PO Box 223 Rainbow Vic 3424
P: 03 5395 1063 F: 03 5395 1192
Rainbow P-12 College is a Child Safe School
Together We Achieve I would like to extend a very special thank you to everyone who worked together to achieve some excellent opportunities for our students, school and community. It was certainly a busy week with the school production ’Little Stars” being held on Monday and Tuesday evenings, Wednesday saw some of our students represent the college in the German Poetry Competition, Thursday saw the sporting event of the calendar with the Auskick Grand Final and Friday was school photo day. But it didn’t end there! Many of the students, staff and parents were on duty over the week end to assist in a variety of roles with the Enduro event. It would be impossible to name everyone who helped and it was an amazing team effort. Thank you!
School Council Update Congratulations to Mr. Jon Fuller on being the newest member of our school council. Jon kindly responded to our invitation for ‘Expressions of Interest’ and will be a valuable addition to the talents and expertise within our dedicated team. Also we had our first meeting with new student representatives, Jessica Staples and Bridie O’Halloran, who were both comfortable and confident in contributing their views and the perspective of the students throughout our discussions. I came away from the meeting feeling proud of the high quality leaders within our student body.
2018 Parent Opinion Survey Since last week we have only had 1 additional survey completed! This gives us only a 28% response rate. With only 11 days left to go before the survey closes I am worried we may not even achieve last year’s result of 85%. The survey closes on Sunday the 26th of August. Please remember If 100% of all of the selected families complete the survey we will raffle five $10.00 canteen vouchers for those families. Please contact me at the school if you would like more information or if you need another copy of the survey link and password.
School Council/ Parents and Friends Due to Monday the 10th of September being the next Pupil Free Day we are rescheduling the next school council meeting a week later to Monday the 17th of September. Parents and Friends will meet again on Monday the 3rd of September at 7:30pm in MPB.
Calendar Term 3 August Wed 22 Big Breakfast Fri 24 VCE study day Fri 31 SM Cluster Aths (Jnr school) September Mon 3rd Parents & Friends at 7.30pm Thu-Fri 5-7 3/4 Roses Gap camp Mon 10 Student free day Tue 11-Wed 19 Somers Camp Wed 12 Big Breakfast Tue 18 Golf clinic (Jnr)
Thu 20 School Fete Fri 21 End of term Term 4 October Tues 9 Parents & Friends at 10am Tue 16 Rainbow Show Wed 31 VET induction day Nov Mon 5 Parents & friends at 7.30pm Wed 7 SM Cluster Meeting Fri 9 Health & Wellbeing day Wed 21-Fri 23 5/6 Camp Dec Mon 3 Parents and Friends at 10am Mon 3-Fri 5 Surf Camp
BOOK WEEK The theme for Book Week 2018 was "Find Your Treasure". Our students completed lots of activities with shortlisted books including: book reviews involving a very noisy baby, a treasure hunt searching for lots of book titles and characters, comprehension tasks, drama scripts and the lovely company of Mrs Greig and Miss Newton.
Students of the week
No junior school students of the week As we attended the cultural day in Hopetoun
Senior school- Max, Ayla &
Haylee
German Poetry Competition On Wednesday the 8th of August, Heidi Smith, Nekeisha Bastin, Cooper Stasinowski, Lilly Williams, Shekinah Hurlstone, Sally Smith, Caleb Tregenza, Kayden Stonehouse, Gracie Hurlstone, Haylee Tumeth, Sarah Bennett, Tessa Leach, Monique Tumeth, and Mitch Ey went to the German Poetry Competition at Horsham. We all had an enjoyable time even though we didn’t get a place. For lunch we had Chicken schnitzels and potato salad, and for desert we had a delicious apple strudel. We would like to thank Mrs Leach for organising this event and Mr Fuller for taking a car. We all had a great day and enjoyed the experience of competing against other schools.
Eliza & Ruby pictured during Book Week
SRC At the Desert Enduro over the weekend the SRC gave everyone a sugar high by selling jam donuts. It was fantastic to see all the SRC members working well together to cook and serve their donuts to the eager public at 8:30 in the morning! While we only expected to sell about 400 we ended up selling 1000 hot gooey treats and were absolutely blown away by that effort. A huge thank you to all of our members who helped out and the staff who were there to make sure it was flowing smoothly.
Rainbow P-12 participate at the Enduro
Dreamchasers On Friday 10th August the Dreamchasers of 2018 gathered everything for their drink stall they ran at the Rainbow Desert Enduro. We collected tables, chairs, deep fryers for the SRC as well as our posters and new banners to promote the school. Next stop was the IGA where we picked up our drinks. We then went to the Enduro site on Bow Hill and set up our stall in the marquee. On Saturday we set out our stall goods ready for a big day of sales to the spectators, drivers, oit crew, officials and the public. We sold a substantial amount of drinks & chocolates and were also entristed to sell can holders and raffle tickets for the Enduro committee. We were kindly asked by the Year 3/4 kids to have their drought fundraiser tins on our stall. Thank you to everyone who offered to help us get through the weekend . Another big thankyou to Mr Glover for his guidance throughout this experience. Thank you to everyone who purchased drinks & chocolates to go towards our fundraising journey,
Parent information for Junior School Sports 31st August, 2018 Starting Time
For the day parents need to have their children at the Rainbow recreation reserve (footy oval) at 9.15am sharp, or earlier if parents are helping with morning events/jobs. Bus travellers will be dropped off at the oval. Uniform Our red, blue and white school shirt and black or dark coloured shorts or skirt. If it is cold we encourage the students to wear their school track suit over the top. All students will also need their school hat and suitable running shoes. Please note that all students must have their shoes on at all times. Food Students will need a drinker of water, play lunch and lunch if not purchasing from the parent & friends BBQ.
Cancellation If the sports have to be cancelled a message will be put over the radio on the Horsham 3WM station around 7.30 am on the morning of the sports. If the sports are cancelled students are to come to school as normal. Collecting students at the end of the day Could parents please send a note by Wednesday 29th August if they are going to take their child directly from the oval after the completion of the day. All other students will be returning to school and will be dismissed from there. Programs Programs will be available at the administration table for $2. Reminder for Photos/Videos at the Athletics Please take care when taking photos/videos and remember that no photos /videos should be taken of children, whether in the foreground or background, deliberately or accidentally, without their parents’ or guardian permission.
Food & Drinks available Parent Club BBQ Dream Chasers Chicken steaks $ 3.50 Slices/cakes $ 1.00 Hamburgers $ 2.50 Drinks – soft drink and water $ 2.50 Sausages $ 2.00 Chocolates $1.00 Soup $ 2.50 Tea/ coffee/ Milo $ 2.00
Junior Athletics Sports to be held on Friday 31st August, 2018
Helpers are needed to assist with the marking of the oval (prior to the 31st) and/or helping out on the
sports day. Please return the slip below to Mrs Gregory is you are able to assist. (Tick relevant box)
Name ________________________________________ Help on day
Signature:_________________________________
Mark oval
Junior Cluster Day On Monday 13th August the Rainbow P-12 Junior School ventured over to see an impressive production of the fractured fairy tale combo entitled “Little Red Riding Robyn Hood.” It was an action packed show with lots of jokes, dancing and singing. The horses and archery competition were a definite standout. After recess the all Cluster students were divided into groups and took part in a series of short & sharp activities. These included an obstacle course/circuit, designing a magical creature, creating a comic strip and movie poster and fairy tales in a minute. Students then all enjoyed lunch and a play together before meeting in the stadium to be involved in the group bridge building competition. It was great to see all the students from the different schools mixing and socialising so well together. A big thank you goes out to the good folks at Jeparit PS for booking the production and to at Hopetoun P-12 (especially Mrs Trudi Hallam) for hosting and organising the activities for the day.
CLUSTER DAY PERFORMANCE by Addison Fisher On Monday 13th of August, we went to Hopetoun for a performance and other activities. When we got to Hopetoun, we got off the bus and then watched an amazing performance called “Little Red Riding Robyn Hood”. The main character was King George Paul Ringo. After the play we did other activities like art, drama, PE and English. Then it was lunch time. After lunch we had to make a bridge in teams using newspaper and 2 metres of masking tape. I was in the blue group. Mrs Hallam tested the bridges to see which one would hold the most weight. I had a fantastic day because I saw other students that I remembered from the other cluster schools.
CLUSTER DAY AT HOPETOUN by Jacob Boyle On Monday we went to the Cluster Day at Hopetoun P-12 College and did some interesting activities. First we saw the play “Little Red Riding Robyn Hood”. I liked it when the king kept changing his wigs. He was funny. Next we had play time outside. It was great to play on some different play equipment. After play we rotated around activities like scarecrow tiggy, tag and target throw. I caught Declyn five times but he caught me back in another game. The last activity was building a bridge with 2 metres of tape and newspaper. It was the best day ever because we got to do lots of fun things.
Grade 3/4 Thoughts on Cluster Day
I liked making the paper bridges in small groups as it was challenging. Sally, Gr 4 I enjoyed the part where Little Red Riding Robyn scared off the tax collectors by shooting arrows.
Oscar, Gr 3. A highlight of the performance was when Little Red Riding Robyn defeated the King in an archery
competition. Will, Gr4. The Round-a-bout song was funny. The 2 knights were riding their horses named Selina Gomez and John
Cena. Ryder, Gr 3. The drama activity was interesting as we had to act a fairy tale with a twist. Dustin, Gr 4.
Edison very proud of his work
P-2 Huff DigiTech hard at work! (fantastic at cleaning up too)
Felicity showing us her team's computer Riley explaining his printer
Ruby, Amaya & Morgan's computer
A week in the life of Rainbow P-12 College A visual summary of the last week through the lens of Mrs P’s camera!
Seth showing his great writing skills
Giaan & Pippa explaining their computer
Just horsing around at Red Riding Robyn Hood @ our cluster day
Canteen Roster 2018 Term 3 August Fri 17 B. Eckermann Mon 20 S. Perkins Wed 22 C. Cocks Fri 24 A. Riordan Mon 27 K. McKenzie Wed 29 A. Gebert Fri 31 S. Clark/ S. Smith September Mon 3 T. Bigham/ A. Roberts Wed 5 C. Roll/ T. Gould Fri 7 M. Ismay Mon 10 Student free day Wed 12 J. Keller Fri 14 K.Weir/ C. Fisher Mon 17 K. Preston Wed 19 C. Petschel Fri 21 J. James
Canteen Emergency List
Debbie Lowe 0488 115 973
Rebeckah Richards 53226190
Please note Cheryl Welch is no longer available as a Canteen emergency worker
If you wish to be placed on the emergency
list please call the office on 53951063.
Canteen 2018 The canteen operating days for lunch orders and
counter sales are Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Senior students have access to the canteen eating area, microwave & sandwich toasters
5 days a week
Shake Rattle
and READ Term 3 Dates
Tuesday August 21st
September 4th No session on 18th
Special session at Playgroup Friday 21st
DON’T FORGET YOUR READING BAGS
If you are missing any lunch containers or items of
school uniform please drop into the office to check if
they are yours.
A friendly reminder to name all clothing and
containers so they can be given to students if they
happen to be left at school.
Defying the Drift Is a program designed to empower young people to
identify and explore agriculture and agribusiness career opportunities, build communication skills and
develop career networks. It is for students in Years 10 & 11 and if you are interested in technology, science or agriculture
you are invited to apply. This year it is at Longerenong College from
Monday 24th to Wednesday 26h September.
The Rotary Club of Nhill would be happy to pay for the student/s either the whole or part of the fee,
depending on the number of applicants. If students are interested in attending please see Ms Clarke