Richmond Primary School

Brighton Street Richmond 3121 > Tel: 9428 1909 Fax: 9428 9085 OSHClub Tel: 0447 330 481 E: richmond.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.richmondps.vic.edu.au

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Number 5

6 March 2017

March

7 Parent/Teacher Interviews

8• Division Swimming Carnival• Parent/Teacher Interviews

9 Second Hand Uniform Shop- Opens 3.15 PM

13 LABOUR DAY HOLIDAY- Public Holiday

14 Whole School Mandarin Incursion

15 Regional Swimming Carnival

20• Grades 5 & 6 Parliament Incursion• City of Yarra visit to Preps

24 Pizza Day

29 Grades 5 & 6 Summer Gala

31 End of Term 1, dismissal at 2.30 pm

TERM 1 AT RPS FOR GRADES 1 & 2

Your school community is here to help. If you have any comments, concerns or praise, please speak to your child’s teacher, the principal or a School Council member.

The Grade 1/2’s have made a fantastic start to the year and should feel very proud of their efforts. The Grade 1’s have settled into school life in Area 3 with ease, and it has been great to see so many of the Grade 2’s taking on a leadership role in their classrooms. Each class recently elected their SRC and vice SRC reps. The Grade 2 reps are excited to take their classes’ ideas about upcoming school events to their weekly meetings.

Our Investigation Time program kicked off last week on Monday and Tuesday morning. Students have been exploring a range of activities in different learning centres, with the Construction Area being a particular hit. We also have a Post Office. Students have been enjoying writing letters and delivering mail.

To support our Inquiry unit this Term, Places and Spaces, the Grade 1/2’s have been for a local walk around Richmond. During the walk, students identified different businesses along Church and Swan Street’s and thought about the services they provide. Thank you to all those parent helpers who gave up their time to help us out.

We also had a visit from two constables who are from the Transit Division. We found out about the different ways that police officers can help us in the community and enjoyed asking them questions about their job.

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We have a busy learning program for the rest of the Term. Some key learning goals in Literacy and Numeracy include:

• To use addition and subtraction strategies when solving problems e.g. count on, count back, doubles, tens facts, turn arounds, split strategy

• To sequence events from read texts and retell in order

• To correctly use capital letters and punctuation marks

• To identify and use Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

• To write a factual or imaginative recount, and include

time connectives

• To write a simple procedure

Thank you to all parents for helping to make your child’s start to the year such a success. Please encourage your child to take responsibility for their belongings, remembering to pack their reader bag each day. Notes and other important items will be sent home in your child’s reader bag. To help keep our library books in good condition we also ask that your child brings a library bag to school on their library day. Because we are heading into the runny nose season, any tissue donations would be greatly appreciated!

The Grade 1 & 2 Teachers

fun in the sun! Our

Wonderful Working

Bee!

Thank-you so much to all the parents and students who attended the working bee last Sunday. It was perfect weather and a very productive morning. It was also great to have Nick back!

Student of the week

Prep JJess Thompson For making a fantastic start to Prep. You come in every day with a big smile and are always ready to learn. It is a pleasure to have you in Prep J jellyfish, Jess!

Prep RTommy Sime For your amazing focus, fabulous thinking and being kind to others in our Prep R learning community. What a champion you are Tommy.

Prep SLeigh Venetis For being

persistent at learning to write your letters and numbers. Congratulations on a great start to prep Leigh!

1/2 COliver Robinson-Howe For the can-do attitude you bring to school every day. You brighten up our classroom Oliver!

1/2 KJMax Brass For being a great student with all the right skills – listening, thinking, trying hard and accepting challenges – you make our classroom a better place, Max!

Quinn Cassidy For your great effort at settling into your new school, and meeting all its challenges bravely. We are so happy to have you in our grade, Quinn!

1/2 N

Jack Hobson For the dedication you showed in locating all country cards on our world map. The most impressive part Jack, was that you never gave up, even when searching for a ‘little known’ country. Well done!

1/2 PArchie Cobb For being a fantastic word detective when searching for words with the short ‘I’ sound.

3/4 AAlbie McInnes For being such a helpful member of 3/4A. You have had such a positive start to Grade 4 and your attitude towards learning is fantastic!

3/4 CLuca Spinaze For his dedication to all class activities. You are always focused and ready to learn

Luca, keep it up!Samantha Venetis For being a resourceful learner and using her initiative to complete tasks independently!

3/4 JHenry Lake For being a kind and considerate member of 3/4J. You have been a great help assisting your classmates with how to use their iPads.

3/4 SLucia Matyear For being a 3/4S superstar – your hard work and positive attitude make our class a happier place. Well done!

5/6 LRosa Termonen For being so positive and helpful each and every day. You keep our classroom running smoothly and are always willing to help those around you. Excellent work Rosa!

Last week’s clue: Take an ‘h’ from this Grade 5 student’s name, and you’ll have something we like to get from our parents.

Answer: HUGH Hamilton 5/6L (We all like getting a ‘hug’.)

Winner: Zahli Nadj 5/6L … make sure you get one for winning this, Zahli!

Every week, we pose a quiz question based on the name of one of our wonderful students.

Write your answer on a piece of paper, along with your name and grade, and put it in the cream letter box in the office. The first correct entry drawn will win a Student Pass for one hour.The winning entry will be drawn on Wednesday at 3.30 pm.

NOTE:> You may place only one entry per week in the box.> Each player must put in their own entry (no joint

entries)> If you win, you are win-binned (disqualified) for one

week, to give others a go.

**KIDS QUIZ**

This week’s clue: This Grade 4 student has the same name as something red and valuable.

CAMPS, SWIMMING, EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF)This is a Victorian Government Fund to help families who hold Centrelink Health Care Card, Pension Card or Veterans Gold Card valid by the first day of Term 1, 2017.

Application forms are now available from the school office. These should be filled out, together with a copy of the eligible card, and handed back to the school office by 28th March, 2017.

The CSEF payment amount is $125.00 per year, per student – payable to the school. Parents/guardians may allocate which fee this amount is to cover – Camp, Swimming or Excursion.

Any queries that you may have, should be made to the office staff.

Selling your house? Mention RPS at the time of listing and Biggin & Scott Richmond will donate $1,000.00 to the school. They will also donate $500.00 to the school for every new management property signed up, where RPS is mentioned.

http://au.kumonglobal.com

KUMON RICHMOND EDUCATION CENTRE Instructor: Gloria Chan

tel: 0402 025 365

Kumon Maths and English develop

• calculation ability and reading ability • concentration • a daily study and reading habit • the confidence to learn independently.

Contact your local Kumon Centre to book a free assessment and hear how we can support your child’s learning.

FairShare Rice AppealFairShare, a not-for-profit organization based in Richmond, support a range of charities by making 5000 meals a day. These are sent onto those in need of a hot meal in a range of support centres around Melbourne.

They are desperately in need of rice. You may help by donating unopened bags of rice, inside their ‘Use by’ date and placing them in the crate in the office foyer. Please help this worthy cause.