A Letter to the Community

“Thought for the Week”

SCHOOL NEWS

No.25 14th August 2020

Report Cards

Semester 1 Report Cards

were sent home yesterday.

It was great to see the in-

tense interest our students

Rathdowney State Primary School

143-155 Mount Lindesay Highway, Rathdowney 4287

Phone: (07) 5540 4333 E:admin@rathdowneyss.eq.edu.au

Principal: Tina van Bennekom www.rathdowneyss.eq.edu.au

had in their academic out-

comes. Teachers are avail-

able for parent interviews

and report card inquiries.

Appointments can be

made through the office or

by contacting the various

teachers.

P&C

P&C Meeting 18 August

6pm in Staffroom

Block C Refurbish-ments

Construction work has fi-

nally ceased, safety barrier

fences have been re-

moved, rooms been

cleaned and we now await

a review of the works by

the Regional Facilities

Team on Tuesday. Teach-

ers are moving resources

into rooms in preparation

for a return to their lovely

newly refurbished class-

rooms.

In the Year 3-6 class stu-

dents finally got to spend

their hard earned reward

“cash” for excellent behav-

iour and effort from term

2. This reward system will

continue in term 4. Stu-

dents have been spending

some of their breaks using

the Sphero robots which

we hope to do more of. In

History Year 3-4s have

learned how Lt. James

Cook and his crew saved

the Endeavour from sink-

ing off Cooktown by throw-

ing 48 tonnes of fixtures in-

cluding cannons overboard

to float off the reef. Cook

had his crew wrap a sail

coated in grease around

the hull to slow the leaks

until they we able to land

at what is now Cooktown

for repairs. The Year 5-6s

have learned about the Fa-

ther of Federation Sir

Henry Parkes. His vision

delivered at the Tenterfield

Oration convinced the

other colonies to work

hard to realise the Com-

monwealth of Australia.

Max brought in a $5 note

and $1 coin with Sir

Henry’s face on it from his

money and coin collection.

In Mathematics all year

levels studied the value of

a range of fractions in

many combinations with

upper grades also including

equivalent percentages

and decimals.

In English Year 3-4s dis-

cussed characters in the

novel “Matty Forever”.

This character analysis

work will lead to writing an

imaginative narrative they

will start with Ms O next

week.

In Year 5-6 students cre-

ated characters with super

hero alter egos which will

feature in their digital slide

shows with voiced speech

bubbles. Students will also

include an ethical dilemma

that their characters will

resolve.

In Years 3-6 Art with Miss

Lane the students self-por-

traits were completed and

then the back ground

beautifully enhanced with

small multi coloured mo-

saic squares in random pat-

terns.

Science with Mr

Kroll

This week in science the Year 5-6 were investigating irreversible changes. In to-day’s lesson the student in-

vestigated how different environmental conditions can cause iron to rust. The

students also looked at how cooking is an irreversi-

ble change by making, cooking and burning pan-

cakes.

The Year 3-4 students in-vestigated the properties of plastic, how it’s made

and the environmental is-sues related with plastic.

The P-2 class continued to

investigate materials. In to-day’s lesson the students explored different houses

from around the world. They then constructed

their own houses inspired by the three little pigs.

Sports with Mr Kroll

In Health and Physical Edu-

cation this week our stu-dents learnt some T-Ball skills and played some T-

Ball games since the Soccer unit from last week was

complete.

Next week an AFL coach is coming out Rathdowney to coach sessions in Aussie Rules for the next five weeks to the end of term.

Junior News

This week we started our storyboard for our c2c unit.

We read ‘The Very Blue Thingamajig’ and made a storyboard of the events that happened during the story. We haven’t yet fin-

ished our storyboards. When they are finished I will include some in our

newsletters. On Wednes-day we started learning

how to use the PowerPoint software. We will publish

our storyboards on Power-Point. Our spelling sound

this week was ‘ar’. We learnt that we could spell the ‘ar’ sound with an ‘a’

as well. The Preps word family focus this week was ‘ag’. We did various activi-ties around this word fam-

ily.

In Maths, the Preps have been working on number facts that make 10 as well as revising the concepts

that we have learnt so far. The Year 1s have been learning about turna-rounds and exploring

measurements. While the Year 2s have been working

with multiplication and shape.

In HASS, we have contin-ued to explore family ob-

jects of significance as well as toys that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders used for enjoyment and enter-

tainment.

More from us next week, Kasey and Cathy

Headlice Alert

Please check your children and treat as required

Thank you

Super Spellers P-2 – Harrison, Noah P, Ryan, Colin, Amelia, Laurence

Sight Word Smarties- Dustin, Austin, Billie, Liam, Jaxon, Noah T

Dates to Remember-August-September 2020

Monday Tues-day

Wednesday Thursday Friday

W K 6

17 FREE

Chaplaincy

Breakfast

18 19 Tuckshop

Amanda Lahrs Cakes: Cathy

Wieland

20 21 Dance Fever

Heathy Friday

Lunches W K 7

24 FREE

Chaplaincy Breakfast

25 26 Tuckshop

Sorelle Jobson Cakes:

Kasey Grahl

27 28 Dance Fever

Heathy Friday

Lunches W K 8

31 FREE

Chaplaincy

Breakfast

Dance

Fever

1 2 Tuckshop

Danielle Bass Cakes: Rachel

Hardgrave

3 4

Student Free Day

W K 9

7 FREE

Chaplaincy

Breakfast

8 9 Tuckshop

Sally Finlay Cakes:

Kirsty Parnell

10 11 Dance Fever

Heathy Friday

Lunches

W K 10

14 FREE

Chaplaincy

Breakfast

15 16

Tuckshop & Cakes:

Janine Reilly

17 18

End of Term 3

Rathdowney Swim Club Meeting

AGM Rathdowney Swimming Club Inc

Sunday, 30 August. 4pm start.

Brick Building near the tennis courts

The AGM will be followed by a general meeting to organise

the up and coming swim season.

All welcome

Carol Taylor

President

0457 474888