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FROM THE PRINCIPAL CLASS TEAM

Recently the Education Committee of School Council was held in Ash Van Hattum’s classroom where Ash, the ICT leader in the school, demonstrated some of the new technology that we have purchased. This incorporated an LCD television, iPads, and a visualiser. He showed how the school’s interactive Interwrite technology and the iPads can be used with the TV to further enhance the teaching and learning programs. We are currently working on developing a prototype trolley for the TV’s to be attached to before purchasing more of them for classrooms. The visualisers can be used to project written materials and objects on to the TV or through the projectors on to the class screens without having to be scanned first. The iPads are becoming well used within literacy and numeracy sessions and also within specialist areas and it is obvious that they are a popular tool with the children. Last Friday morning the P-2 area of the school held a wonderful multicultural parade that linked with their integrated unit of inquiry for the term. As always the children were simply gorgeous and loved showing off their costumes and explaining where they were from. Enrolments for 2013 If you have a child beginning school for the first time in 2013 we need you to enrol them before the end of term (there are only three weeks left!!). Our School Discovery sessions begin the second week back next term and this program is only open to children whose enrolment forms are in at the office. We would ask that you don’t wait until the first School Discovery session to hand in your forms as the transition team need to know numbers in order to plan for the sessions.

Marg Pickburn - Principal

Newsletter Birdwood Street Box Hill South 3128 Telephone: 9890 2372 Facsimile: 9899 5490 www.robmacps.vic.edu.au

DATES TO REMEMBER

Wednesday, 13th

June

Finance Meeting in Staffroom - 6:00pm

School Council Meeting in Staffroom – 7:00pm

Thursday, 14th

June

Dad’s Night at Box Hill Golf Club – 7:30pm

Friday, 15th

June

School Tour – 9:30am

Tuesday, 19th

June

5/6’s (some students) ICAS Testing – Spelling – 9:00am – 10:30am

Junior School Concert at Crossway

Art Show Meeting in Staffroom – 7:30pm

Wednesday, 20th

June

Craft Group in Community Room 11:30 – 1:30pm

Friday, 22nd

June

JCC Morning Tea, Enrik’s Café, 25-27 Railway Road, Blackburn (after School drop off)

Craft Market – 3:00 – 4:00pm

Reports go home

Monday, 25th

June

PFA Morning Tea & Meeting after Assembly

Wednesday, 27th

June

Junior School Picnic & Games - Walk to Artists’ Park

JCO Afternoon Tea, Chocolate Couture, 1069 Riversdale Road, Box Hill South (2:00pm - before School pick up)

Thursday, 28th

June

Partnership Meetings in Classrooms – 3:40pm – 7:00pm

Last Day of Term 2 – Normal Dismissal Time

Friday, 29th

June

Curriculum Day

Partnership Meetings in Classrooms – 8:30pm – 2:00pm

Saturday, 11th

August

Trivia Night

13th

June 2012

We value:

Creativity

Endeavour

Respect

Trust

Honesty

Friendliness

Notices sent home last week

To: 3/4T Head Lice Letter dated 6th June 2012

JCL Letter re: Jen Lenton teaching JCL full time JCC Head Lice Letter dated 12

th June 2012

5/6’s Excursion Permission Form for District Sports Round Robin Football, Netball, Soccer and Teeball

* Please note – items marked in BOLD require parent response.

** For your convenience, this notice can be printed from the school’s website. Click on Practicalities tab on the Home page, then 2011

Permission Forms and Information Forms.

Curriculum Day PLEASE NOTE – Friday, 29th May is a

Curriculum Day. There will be no school on this day.

PFA

Beanie Kids Fundraiser LAST CHANCE!

Orders must be in– Thursday 14th

is the ABSOLUTE LATEST

If we don’t send in our orders in this week we will not get the orders back in time before the school holidays..so if you still have an order sitting at home please bring in for your LAST CHANCE this Thursday 14th June!

Beanie Kids are a cute, cuddly, and popular 21cm bean-filled plush bear that are fun to collect and make great gifts – just think of any birthdays coming up or even as Christmas gifts for family and friends.

For every bear sold at $11.99, $4.99 will be donated to our school. This is a great fun way of raising money for our classrooms.

There are also some great prizes on offer this year!

• Every participant will receive a cool Beanie Kids environmental bag! • Buy 3 Beanie Kids – receive a FREE Beanie Kids Bag Tag! • Buy 6 Beanie Kids – receive a FREE VIP Beanie Master Bear!

PLUS…For each Beanie Kid purchased receive one entry into a raffle to win a 40cm VIP Beanie Master Cuddly Kid!!

Sue Truscott is doing a wonderful job organising this event and if you have any queries please contact Sue on 0402 276 209.

Trivia Night – 11th August at the Box Hill Town Hall Dana BP and her team have our fabulous and famous Trivia Night booked in for the 11

th of August at the Box Hill

Town Hall. Your invitation will be on its way home in your children’s school bag between the 18th and 22

nd of June.

Start thinking about your tables - 10 people per table maximum.

Start gathering up your gold coins for the games and start reading up on Trivia.

For all our new parents to the school…we will give you a heads up…when the Roberts McCubbin Trivia Night has a theme, don’t get caught out - everybody dresses up in some way - from a small accessory to a full blown costume. You can be creative, interpretative, simplistic or clever – it’s all part of the fun of the night.

OK…ok…ok…you will find out the theme soon…we cannot give out hints with this one – it will just give the whole thing away…don’t worry, you will have time to get your costumes/outfits ready.

Can you help with our Raffle and Games Prizes? Trivia Night is predominantly social event but we do have a fundraising element with our Raffle and Fundraising Games such as four corners, coin toss, true and false etc. Do you have a business, product/service that you would like to advertise to our school community, or know someone who does? The Roberts McCubbin Trivia Night has approximately over 200 parents and friends attending. We are gathering raffle and games prizes and are asking the school community if you are able to help with a discount or donations of services or products or perhaps sponsor the winning prize for a Fundraising Game.

Please let Dana 0408 424 842 or myself at matoularomeo@yahoo.com.au know if you can help with our fundraising raffle and games. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Next Trivia Night Meeting: Monday 18th

June at 7.30pm in the school staffroom (next to the office). We would appreciate your involvement and support. It is a lot of fun getting the theme happening and help to get things organised is always appreciated. So, if you can come along Dana and the PFA would love to have you as part of our trivia team of helpers!

Presidents: Matoula Romeo Vice President: Rachel Fleetwood Treasurers: Inga Young Secretary: Cathy Jones

Forest Hill Chase School Rewards

Does your family do all their shopping at Forest Hill Chase? If so that’s great if not maybe now is the time to start!

Every time you, your friends, or family shop at Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, you simply place your receipts in the Roberts McCubbin boxes located near the Body Shop and Best and Less stores. If you need your receipts, you can take them to the Customer Service Desk at Forest Hill Chase and they will record the “kilometres” and stamp the receipt so that it has been counted so you can keep your receipt.

Each dollar spent in the centre helps our school earn “kilometres”. The more you spend the closer our school gets to winning a share of the prizes, including weekly encouragement prizes. Visit www.runaroundaustralia.com.au for more details.

PLUS there are double kilometre stores; AMF Bowling, Hoyts, Kearney Shoes, Jamaica Blue Coffee, JB HiFi, Escape Travel, Kay and Cole, Nandos, Rebel Sports and OPSM.

Also if you register at the service desk or online as a Forest Hill Chase VIP Member the school earns 200 kilometres.

So tell your friends, family, and neighbours to place their Forest Hill Chase receipts in the Roberts McCubbin boxes at Forest Hill all receipts count and some count for double points! Also, don’t forget there is a box (the small green one) in the school office foyer for your receipts.

The Forest Hill School Rewards program ends on the 22nd

June so keep on grabbing those receipts and placing them in the Roberts McCubbin Boxes.

Woolworths Earn and Learn We can earn some valuable learning resources from Modern Teaching Aids in the areas of mathematics, english resources, science equipment, or arts and craft materials etc thanks to Woolworths Earn and Learn program.

When you shop at Woolworths, you can collect stickers from the checkout operator and stick them on the Woolworths Earn and Learn Sticker Cards. There will be one sticker for every $10 spent (excludes liquor, tobacco, and gift cards). These stickers earn us the points towards purchasing some of the learning resources from MTA.

Place your completed Earn and Learn Sticker Card in the big Woolworths Box in the School Office foyer. There are extra sticker cards available in the office foyer and at Woolworths and don’t forget to ask the for your stickers at the cash register when you pay for your shopping! For more information visit www.woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn.com.au .

Earn DOUBLE Stickers! From Monday this week until Tuesday 19th June, if you buy specially marked products you

will be eligible for double stickers on your total shop. As long as you spend more than $10 and include a product from one of the following eight big brands Continental, Dove Beauty, Lipton, Proactive, Magnum, Omo, Rexona, Tresseme and Flora, you will earn twice as many stickers for our school!

More great news: the program has been extended to the 12th August 2012.

Thank you for your support with these programs, the children and our school have a chance to benefit greatly.

Biggest Morning Tea If you would like to contribute over the next few weeks to the Cancer Councils fundraising efforts, you still can – the Biggest Morning Tea collection box is on the counter at the school office. Pop in and place a donation if you wish or if you are having a class morning tea catch up perhaps a collection can be made? It is a worthwhile cause and thank you so much for your support.

Monday Morning Tea after Assembly

Next Morning Tea: Monday 25th June On the last Monday of each month, the PFA will have morning tea available for all parents/carers in the hall. Our next Monday Morning Tea is on 25

th June after assembly. It’s a wonderful opportunity to catch with up with friends and

meet other parents/carers in the school community. All parents/carers, grandparents and toddlers are invited and welcome to come along - we even have toys available to keep the little ones occupied. We hope you can join us for a cuppa and a friendly chat.

Remaining Morning Teas are scheduled for: 23

rd July, 27

th August, 24

th September, 29

th October, 26

th November and

17th December.

PFA Committee Meetings Roberts McCubbin parents are invited and welcome to attend our monthly meetings. At these meetings, we discuss our recent events and any new business/ideas/thoughts and feedback. If you would like to be a part of these discussions or want to be involved but not sure how, we would love you to come along! P.S. Joining us at our meetings does not mean you will be allocated a task.

Our next immediate meetings are

Tuesday night - 26th

June 8pm at Inga’s (PFA Treasurer) House

Monday morning - 6th

August 9.30am in the School Hall after assembly

Tuesday night - 4th

September 8pm at Inga’s (PFA Treasurer) House

Up Coming PFA Events

Trivia Night - 11th August

Father’s Day Stall and Breakfast - August (just before Father's Day weekend). Rolfs Pie Drive – September

Walkathon - September/October Gourmet Goodies for the Fair – November

Mango Drive – October/November School Disco - December

Other fundraisers we would like to investigate are: Woolworths Sausage Sizzle, Local Businesses Loyalty Programs.

Your feedback is important to us Every year the PFA (not necessarily the same team of people) organises events for social and or fundraising purposes. Often the event is reviewed and we ask ourselves if it was a success. Could it have been done differently? Your thoughts and suggestions are always welcome and appreciated, so please just let us know via email matoularomeo@yahoo.com.au or drop off a note into our pigeon hole via the office. Thank you.

Thought for the Week “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” - Richard Buckminster Fuller. Matoula Romeo PFA President

Reminder: Junior School families, your ticket orders for the Junior School "Little Devils Circus" Performance at Crossways are due

back this Thursday 14th June - don't miss out!

Entertainment Book Fundraiser

This is the last call for return of Entertainment Books, for those of you that have not returned the books. Would you please return your OVERDUE book immediately. As the books returned to date have already been collected by the Entertainment Book Company, payment for outstanding books will be followed up by them. Suzie Markopoulos - Business Manager

Curriculum Day

PLEASE NOTE – Friday, 29th May is a Curriculum

Day. There will be no school on this day.

SPECIALISTs’ Spot

Winter Warmers Chicken Noodle Soup & Dinner Roll $2.50 Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows Large $2.00

Small $1.00 Pizza Subs $0.50 cents Meal Deals available MONDAY & WEDNESDAY PLEASE remember to write your child’s name and class on the bag and include correct money please (if possible) Lunch orders to be in the Canteen by 9:30am

Judi – Canteen Manager

JCO Afternoon

Tea Parents and carers from JCO

are warmly invited to afternoon tea

On: Wednesday, 27th June at 2:00pm (before school pick up)

At: Chocolate Couture,

1069 Riversdale Road, Box Hill South

No need to RSVP, just come along Siblings are most welcome

Hope to see you there

JCO class reps: Lucy R and Tamsin B

Canteen News PLEASE NOTE: The Canteen will no longer be selling

ZING’s icy-poles.

JCC Morning Tea (parents/carers & guardians welcome)

When: Friday 22nd June

Where: Enrik’s Cafe 25-27 Railway Rd Blackburn Time: 9:15am (after drop off)

Mr F is going to New York Congratulations to our P.E. teacher Tim Fearn-wannan for being accepted to compete in the New York Marathon. Tim competes in a lot of marathons here and this is a wonderful opportunity for him. Tim now needs to raise money for World Vision and has already made a great start. If you would like to support Tim you can make a donation through the following website: http://www.teamworldvision.com.au/tim_fearnwannan

Marg Pickburn – Principal

Uniform Shop

Shop Open Times

Tuesday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Thursday

8:30am - 9:30am

See you in the shop

Kathryn Anderson and Sue Truscott

ROBERTS McCUBBIN

TRADING POST

TRY OUR TRADING POST IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SELL, SWAP, WANTING TO BUY OR ADVERTISE AT

ONLY $1.00 PER AD (Maximum of three, brief items per $1.00),

IT’S A BARGAIN! OUR NEWSLETTER IS

DISPLAYED ON THE SCHOOL’S WEBSITE

Garage Sale 2 Prince Street, Box Hill South

this Saturday, 16th June from 10:00am

The 2012 International

Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) for 56 students:

Spelling: Tuesday, 19th June

English: Tuesday, 31

st July

Mathematics: Tuesday, 14

th August

FOR SALE ROBERTS McCUBBIN UNIFORM

We are sadly leaving the school at the end of the term and have uniform for sale. Some items were only just purchased at the end of last term and are in excellent condition. Prices are negotiable and we will sell at very reasonable rates. Items available:

1 Polar fleece jacket size 10 (almost new)

1 Polar fleece jacket size 14 (almost new)

1 Bomber jacket size 12 (excellent condition)

2 Short sleeve polo shirts navy size 12 (as new)

1 Short sleeve polo shirt navy size 10 (as new)

2 Short sleeve polo shirt navy, size 10 (good condition, slightly faded from washing)

1 Short sleeve polo shirt green, size 10 (good condition, logo a little worn)

1 Long sleeve polo shirt green size 8 (VGC)

1 Long sleeve polo shirt navy size 8 (VGC)

1 Bootleg long pants navy size 10 (as new)

1 Netball skirt size 8 (VGC)

2 Shorts navy size 10 (VGC)

2 Summer dresses size 8

2 School bags (good condition, mesh drink holders split and need stitching)

For enquiries, please contact Kate on 0424 065 374.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Mr F’s Trip to New York Fun colour make over for a great cause

Have you been feeling jaded or getting comments that you look tired?

Then get together for a fun 2 hours with 3 of your girlfriends and see yourself transformed into the best looking versions of yourselves. Find out which colours bring out your best. Get tips on foundation, blush, lipstick, clothing and hair colour. Look healthy and natural with minimal or no make-up.

Cost: Tax deductible donations of $60 per person (maximum of 4 people per workshop) with all the proceeds going to Tim Fearn-Wannan’s Team World Vision New York Marathon charity run.

Visit my website www.stylebyamalia.com.au and check it out.

Speak to Jen Pittendrigh or Tim Fearn-Wannan for available dates and bookings.

Netball Skills Clinic - June 2012 Our very successful skills clinic for players and participants up to 13 years old will be run on Sunday 24 June. Come and join some of our coaches plus our 15 and under first team for a morning of fun and games and get to meet other players from your Association.

Cost: $15 per participant (includes drink and fruit)

Venue: Waverley District Netball Association,

cnr Cassinia Ave and Farmer St, Ashwood.

Registration: From 9am

Time: 9.30am to 12noon

Participants should wear appropriate shoes and clothing and bring a drink bottle. Parents are welcome to stay and watch; tea & coffee will be available. If you require and information, please email repteams_wdna@hotmail.com or call Stephanie Norton on 0413 725 655 (AH)

Registration via the WDNA website (www.wdna.com.au) or via Trybooking http://www.trybooking.com/BONU Regards Angela (President)

WDNA

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THE 29th of JUNE IS...

Curriculum Day at Roberts McCubbin OSHClub

Come dressed in red and be ready for some

clowning around including:

clown class, acrobatics, juggling and more!!

7am to 6pm

Cost is $40 for the whole day

Please enrol online at www.oshclub.com.au by

Tuesday 26th June