Richmond Primary School

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Issue Number 22

Aug 12, 2019

Dates To Remember

Term Dates for 2019

3 July 15—September 20

4 October 7—December 20

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.

Pupil Free days for 2019

Term 3 Friday August 16

Term 4 Monday November 4

RPS Trivia Night Thurs August 15

August

13 Performance—The Tortoise

and the Hare

15 Trivia Night—Precinct Hotel

16 Pupil Free day

Coming Soon—The Grade 6 Play

Check Signmee for bookings!

Sept 10-12

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CONGRATULATIONS PREPS!!!!!

CELEBRATING 100 FANTASTIC DAYS!

On Friday the 2nd of August, the Preps celebrated their 100th day of school. It has been a jam-packed 100 days full of exploration, discovery and growth. To celebrate the milestone, the Preps dressed up to the theme ‘100’ and each brought in a plate of food to share at lunchtime. During the day, they made portraits of what they might look like when they are 100 years old. They also played games based on the number 100, including ‘Snakes and Ladders,’ ‘Race to 100’ and ‘Bingo.’ At the end of the day they burnt off all the sugar by playing games at the oval organised by the wonderful Grade 5/6s. It was a fantastic celebration of the beginning of their journey at RPS. Thank you to the parents who put so much time and effort into the amazing food and costumes.

22 Book Parade 9.15am

THE RICHMOND SPUDS!

And that’s a goal!

On Tuesday August 6th the Year 6 footy team went to Regionals for their spectacular inter school sports! They carpooled to Jacana at 9:30 and played

their first game of footy for the day at 10:50 am. Unfortunately, the other team just beat them by a slim two pointe. They had a short 15 minute break in between their two, thirty minute games, meaning the started their second game at 11:35 am. The 2nd team was an overall very skilled team making it merely impossible for the per-sistent R.P.S Spuds team to win. Although the R.P.S team were getting smashed by the other team with a whopping score of 15 goals - 0 goals we finally pulled through and scored a very celebratory goal! Leaving our last game with a score of 90-6. Huge thanks to Russell Sivewright for being an amazing assistant coach and also for organising the whole event, Craig Lake for being the best coach our R.P.S team could ask for and all the selfless parents for helping out and cheering us along in the freezing cold. By Amelia J and Ella K

Division Netball

On the August 1, the RPS girls netball team competed in the Division Gala Day and got through to Regionals! We played three matches, all the teams we played against tried as hard as they could, but we pulled out the victory winning all three games. We played against Fitzroy North, St. Fidelis and St.Corpus Christi. The next round is, Northern Metropolitan Region finals at Mill Park Stadium on the 13th of August, so wish us luck! Thanks to all the parents who came to support us and a special thanks to Nerida for coaching our team.

By Neve.F, Neve.W and Sophie.E

GRADE 5/6R

Spreading the Sustainability

Message Across Richmond!

Over the weekend 5/6R had a stall at the Gleadell St mar-ket to raise awareness about sustainability and the envi-ronment. There were multiple groups in the class that each had their own projects such as:

Petitions Dioramas Plants in plastic bottles And a donation jar

We had three petitions one was for getting rid of plastic straws in the Yarra community. Another was to get compost bins in Richmond and fi-nally a petition for bigger fines for people who litter. Overall we got ap-proximately 839 petition signings and also raised $291.05 with all the money going to PlasticOceans.org. We even had a visit from Adam Bandt who kindly dropped in to check out our work!

Overall it was a fantastic day and all of 5/6R took away so much from the experience. Thank you so much to Russell for giving up his Saturday to set this whole thing up!

By Lucy A and Miles

OSHClub had an exciting week last week of cooking, dress ups, jewellery making and footy. This Friday is a Pupil Free Day at school and OSHClub will be running from 7.15am-6pm. We will be running a Masterchef day, footy skills workshop, craft club and construction competition. Please book your child/ren in as early as possible to secure a spot. Looking forward to seeing you all!

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Grade 1/2L

Denzel New

For being so focused during writing. Your

work is always neat and beautifully

presented and I especially love your

creative drawings. Keep up the fantastic

work Denzel!

Grade 3/4E

Sam Carter-Curtis

For trying your best with your narrative

writing. You have been adding excellent

detail for the reader. Keep up the great

work, Sam!

Grade 1/2T

Nick Karakostas

For always been such an

enthusiastic learner in maths and

also being such a supportive learn-

ing partner and coach to other

classmates in all maths activities.

Grade 3/4T

Arielle Hopkinson

For showing off her impressive skills when

drawing times on an analogue clock. It was

also amazing, Arielle, how you wrote the

same times on a digital clock, with no

hands.

Grade 5/6S

Archie Forster

For making sensible and intelligent

contributions during contributions during

Reading groups. Fantastic work!

Grade 1/2F

Stephanie Atzarakis

For your insightful questions and terrific

behaviour all day at our excursion. You

were a great representation of our school,

well done Stephanie!

Grade 3/4C

Meni Pistevos

For your amazing job conducting your

three-way conference. Meni you had

prepared great work to show and you set

some really great learning goals for this

term. Looking forward to seeing you

master these goals!

Prep J Arthur O’Callaghan For his ongoing persistence towards his writing! Keep up the good work Arthur!

Prep S

Tommy Constantaridis

For your fantastic weekend

recount about going to the pool

for your swimming lesson! Well-

done on achieving your writing

goal of writing more than one

sentence Tom!

Grade 1/2E

Cahaya Fuller

For AMAZING writing skills! We

can't believe how far you have

come! Well done Cahaya!

Grade 5/6C

Sophie Edwardes

For the thoughtful way you show leadership

in our class. Your attention to detail,

creativity and inclusiveness really set the

tone. Love your work, Sophie!

Prep A George Fisher For your amazing writing and artwork about what you will do when you are 100 years old. I can imagine you drinking tea and eating cookies in your dressing gown.

Grade 1/2S

Amelie Jenkins

Congratulations Amelie for being such a

brilliant role model during Writing. I love

how you use adjectives and different time

connectives. Keep up the awesome work!

Grade 5/6R

Nat Magazzu

For your engaging and entertaining narrative

on Freddie Mercury. Keep working hard on it

- Don't let me stop you now!

Grade 5/6J

Msackenzie Gilchrist

For putting so much effort into learning

new concepts in maths. Great effort

Mackenzie!

Grade 3/4J

Leo Spinks

For outstanding descriptive writing in his

narrative. I love the way you have

experimented with new strategies to start

your writing. It really hooks in the reader.

Well done Leo!

BOOK WEEK 2019 August 19-24

On Thursday the 22nd of August, we will be celebrating Book Week. Book Week is a wonderful chance to cele-brate Australia’s amazing children literature. At RPS, we will celebrate by dressing up as our favourite book characters and holding a book parade. The students will participate in mixed-aged workshops to celebrate incredible children’s literature. The book parade will take place at 9:15 am. Everyone is welcome to join in fun!

Simon Purdie Literacy Learning Specialist

Playground Update

Exciting news with confirmation that members of

Richmond Rotary will be dismantling our old

playground equipment for shipping off to Timor

L’Este to be re-installed in a community space

there. This will be happening during the Pupil

Free day on Friday so we ask you to keep away

while the work is completed. Our new equipment will be installed

the following Monday. Check next week for updates!

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.

This week’s clue:

This Grade 3 student’s name is also the name of a moon in the solar system.

Last week’s clue: Say this Grade 4 student’s name backwards, and you’ll have another name for a precious stone.

Answer: : MEG McInnes 4C (A precious stone is a ‘gem’.)

Winner: Meg McInnes 4C … shining like a mirror, Meg!

The Great Book Swap

The Great Book Swap is coming up on Monday 19th August. We appreciate all the great quality children’s books that have already been donated into the box in the office. Please keep them coming! Especially books for older children. Students will be able to ‘swap’ a gold coin for a new book in support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

Young Authors Award 2019 —Entries Closing Today!

Just a reminder to our aspiring authors that you need to get your entries in for this great competi-tion to your classroom teacher by Monday the 12th of August

**KIDSQUIZ**