Dear Parent and Caregivers

The National Parent Opinion Survey has now closed. Survey information will be summarised and provided to the School Council in Term 3 before sharing with the school community through the newsletter, and via the Annual Report which is written late 2019/early 2020.

Mrs Tricia Stedman, Artist in Residence, has been working

with all students to create art works depicting the six

Aboriginal seasons of the year. It is anticipated that the art

works will be complete on Monday of next week and then

they will be proudly displayed around the central area of

the school grounds.

The P&C held a general meeting after the Year 3/4 Honour Award Assembly on Wednesday of this week. I am thrilled to share that we now have all committee positions filled and have confirmed an executive sub-committee.

A welcome on board is extended to: Rachel Livingston, President, Shona Kershaw, Vice president, Tamara Kuiper, Secretary and Denise Wolfenden, Treasurer. Voluntary Contributions and Charges Draw I would like to thank parents who have submitted their Voluntary Contributions and Charges for 2019. Congratulations to Irina Bawden who has won a winter jacket.

Kindergarten and Year 7 enrolments are now being called for. Parents are encouraged to contact the school office to complete relevant paperwork before the end of July. Records of immunisation are essential when enrolling your child.

During Semester 2 2018, David Robinson (D&T teacher) worked with select secondary students to create a signpost which was inspired by the annual Ravensthorpe Community Spring Festival. At long last and after much red tape we now have the signpost standing proudly in the centre of the school. A garden will be planted around the base of the sign with plants local to the region.

On our return to school in Term 3, all classes will take part in planting trees/shrubs around the school grounds as part of National Tree Day (Planet Ark) which is an annual event across Australia. I would like to extend an invitation to any parents/grandparents who might like to join us and share a ‘cuppa’.

Don Bell our school gardener will coordinate the event which will take place between 11:20 – 12:40.

On behalf of all staff we wish all families a safe

and enjoyable term break.

In good faith

Fiona Philson

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Ravensthorpe District High School Newsletter

Principal: Fiona Philson TEL: 9852 3000

Deputy Principal: Ben Ratz

School Website: www.ravensthorpedhs.wa.edu.au Term 2 Week 9 Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/RavensthorpeDHS

Fiona.Philson@education.wa.edu.au

DATE REMINDERS

Thursday 27th June Dance Performance

Newsletter

Monday 1st July Reports Home

Tuesday 2nd July Paul Pratt 9/10 Pathways

Parent interviews as requested

Friday 5th July Good Standing Reward

Last Day of Term 2

SCHOOL VISION

Our vision at Ravensthorpe

District High School is to

empower students to

achieve their full potential

through a positive,

supportive and engaging

environment that is

connected to life

experiences and challenges.

Positive Behaviour

Expectations:

CAR

Care

Ambition

Respect

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2019 TERM 2 PLANNER Page 2 of 6

Wednesday 26th June

K/P Levi Dadliffe Year 7/8 Jayden Diederiks

Stella Major Chao Rattanachai

Jarvis Smallman

Year 1/2 Jacob Paterson Jade Campbell

Lucas Bridger Jhett Gordon

Toby Francis

Year 3/4 Tate Turner

Megan Challinger Year 9/10 Shannon Hira

Kaleb Ebsary

Year 5/6 Taylah Wisewould

Kya Green

Eilidh Kershaw

Matilda Norrish

HONOUR CERTIFICATE RECIPIENTS Page 3 of 6

On Friday the 21st of June, 28

students headed to Kojonup

Farm to participate in the 2019

Interschool Cross Country. At the

start of the day, the goal was set

for all students to come in the

top 20 in their individual race.

By the end of the day, everyone

had achieved that goal, with 21

top 10 finishes, six top 5 finishes

and three firsts.

We also won the

handicap shield,

beating out six other

schools and made

Mrs Clarke very

happy. We all came

home very tired and

very proud.

We would like to say

thank you to Mrs

Wendy Price for

driving us safely to

and from Kojonup

and cheering us on from her checkpoint. We would like to give a huge thank you to Mrs Clarke for

giving us the chance to go and helping us train but also all of the motivation that helped us through,

especially at the finish line.

By Stevie Smart

KOJONUP INTERSCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Page 4 of 6

P&C and COMMUNITY NEWS

and EVENTS Page 5 of 6

Hi everyone As you may have heard we now have all the positions filled for the P&C!! Thanks to those that have stepped up into a role!! We will be having a meeting on Thursday 4th of July at 1.30pm in the assembly hall at the school. Please come along, this invitation is open to EVERYONE. We are wanting to put together a wish list for us to spend money on so that our kids can all have the best experiences at school!

If you have any ideas, please put them forward 😀 I have taken on secretary, a position very foreign to me as office work and myself just don’t go together!! But I am willing to give it a go!! Please don’t be too hard on me if things are not run as they should in the beginning as I too work and being the end of the financial year am very busy as most of us are!!

Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday 😀 Thanks Tam

We would like to thank

Esperance Freight Lines for

donating $250.00 to

Ravensthorpe DHS P&C

from sale of batteries

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Ravensthorpe District High School

would like to take this opportunity

to thank everyone that collected

“Woolworths” Earn and Learn

stickers for our school. They have

not yet been counted, but Mrs

Denise Wolfenden and Mrs Brenda

Kalalo have had plenty of “therapy”

sticking rolls of stickers onto sticker

sheets.