Richmond Primary School

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Issue Number 25

Sep 2, 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 4 Monday November 4

Don’t Forget! The Grade 6 Play

‘It’s Orb-vious’ Sept 11 & 12

Tickets are now available!

Visit https://

www.trybooking.com/

BEZWG to book now!

September

4-6 Grade 3/4 Camp

11-

12

Grade 6 Play ‘It’s Orb-vious!’

18 Division Athletics

20 End of term 2.30 dismissal

House Sports Cup—Well Done, Burgess!

October

7 Term 4 Starts

13 Working Bee

The Mighty Red Machine (which is

Burgess House) has done it again,

winning the 2019 House Sports

Cup!

House Sports Day (held last Friday)

is a chance for each House to

compete together in a range of

fun sports activities. These are all

events designed by our Grade 6

leaders who run each of the

sessions. These include: Soccer Ball Kick; Bean Bag Throw; Hurdle Relay; Poison Ball and much

more! Our students are organised into Prep—6 House teams and score points for how well

they achieve each events goals. Well done on each of our organising Grade 6 team, to the

organising teachers, Russell Sivewright and Lucie Kershaw and to all the Houses for

participating so well.

Our House system is a great way to promote school pride as well as put a focus on our School

Values, Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. We look forward to the 2020 House Cup.

On Thursday the 22nd of August RPS held our annual book day

parade for Book Week. We all dressed up and walked a lap of the basketball court. We saw some amazing costumes! There were lots of Harry Potters and Hermione Grangers and some of the teachers dressed up as Crayons or characters from the Mr Men books. After our outstanding parade we were split up and sent to different classrooms for three book activities based on the CBCA Shortlisted Books. Our activities all had a connection to one of the books and we had to be very creative. In Todd’s room we read ‘The Patchwork Bike’ by Maxine Beneba Clarke, then we made our very own patchwork bike. There were lots of other fun activities and everyone had a great time.

By Kira and Emily

Sacred Heart Mission Food Drive! Next week RPS will be collecting donations of food for the Sacred Heart Mission. If you could please bring in non perishable food such as canned food, long life milk, water, chips etc and leave it in the box in the Office foyer by Friday the 6th of September. The Sacred Heart Mission will then prepare it into meals for the homeless. Let’s work together as a RPS community and help the homeless! Thanks Alana C& Lucy A

Time for Times Tables! Why learn times tables?

Times tables save time! Early maths starts with counting, and the way we organise it almost certainly stems from our first mathematical aid, our fingers. Arithmetic is an extension of counting – learning the most efficient ways of calculating allows us to deal with larger numbers, and eventually with much larger numbers, without the slow process of moving backwards and forwards, one number at a time.

In the longer term, as well as their obvious application to multiplication, we need tables for division, and algebra also uses a great deal of division and multiplication. Many mathematical concepts are much easier to pick up if we don’t have to start at the beginning and count through each item – knowing them automatically frees all our attention so that we can focus on whatever prob-lem we have to solve.

So, multiplication tables save time and free up brain space. There are so many great resources out there to help kids learn their tables. Some suggestions that might be of assistance are in the box to the right Cassie Shaw -- Numeracy Learning Specialist

Options for helping at home with

Times Tables Try Sunset Maths on Essential Assessment

or — timestables.com Go old-school and stick a poster on the back of the toilet door! You can find them at many stationery

stores, KMart, Big W etc.

Practice the Basic Facts ladder Or Joe’s class times tables challenge with parent helper

www.math-drills.com

Richmond Primary Rubbish Collage

Grade 5/6C is extremely passionate about what happens to the envi-ronment. Lately a group of girls have been working very hard on an artwork made of the rubbish we found in our school. We collected the rubbish on the second day of Term 3 - in just 2 days the bins were overflowing with rubbish. We took what we needed and went to work cutting the rubbish, sticking it on a board to make the recycling sign. Every year 30 million tonnes goes to landfill and kills our sea life and land life turtles are almost EXTINCT because we throw plastic in the ocean and they eat it, mistaking it for food. The sign will be located in the library window - come and take a look! by Olivia T and Lucia M

GRADE 5/6 Making Art From Rubbish

BOOK WEEK @ RPS

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Grade 1/2L

Angus Parker

For having such a fantastic Term 3! You

have been working so well with your

peers and giving learning tasks a good

go. Well done Angus!!

Grade 3/4E

Quinn Cassidy

For your fantastic picture graph and

commitment to asking the right

questions about the data. You were

very focused during this task Well done

Quinn

Grade 3/4T

Karolina Janowska

For using her knowledge of emojis to create an

eye-catching picture graph showing the animals

seen at a zoo. Impressive Karolina!

Grade 5/6S Sienna Tome For being an independent, organised inquiry learner. Great effort Sienna, keep it up!

Grade 1/2T

Sebastian Acquilina

For being such an inquisitive learner

and accepting all challenges. You are an

outstanding role model in 1/2 T

Sebastian! Keep being amazing!

Grade 3/4C Lenny Donaldson For showing commitment and determination to improve your spelling this term. Lenny you have been focused and you’re absolutely nailing it. It shows that putting in the hard work does pays off!

Prep J Alex Campbell-Smith For writing a word list using her letter sound knowledge! Well done Alex!

Prep S

Audrey Dyson

For your insightful observations,

responses and questions at our

excursion to Werribee Mansion

Audrey! Well-done on being so

engaged and taking in new

information.

Events

News

Grade 1/2E

Ellie Rapsey

For improved fluency in reading!

Well done on achieving your

reading goal and for working so

hard to improve!

Grade 5/6C

Eva Goudie

For showing great persistence, resilience and

leadership - not only in your independent

inquiry, but in everything you do. Love your

work, Eva!

Prep A Maeve Smart For your engagement in our excursion to Werribee Mansion. You listened so attentively and asked insightful questions. Well done Maeve!

Grade 1/2S

Aarya Agarwal

For producing an outstanding

information report about Holi. It

was an outstanding piece of

learning. Well done!

Grade 5/6R

Georgia Crommelin

For you impressive work ethic and leadership

on Pizza Day. You kept a cool head and worked

hard all day, helping ensure the team wasn't

Crommelin around you! Keep it up Georgia!

Grade 5/6J

Orla Edwards

For having a determined attitude towards

learning new concepts and being a responsible

leader of our class.

Grade 3/4J

Scarlett Malloy

For taking pride in her work and always

ensuring her work is presented neatly

and to the best of her ability. Well done

Scarlett

Grade 1/2F Amber Percival For the excellent research work you have been doing during Investigation time. I was really intrigued to learn all about different foods from India and was impressed to see your persistence. Well done Amber!

Grade 5/6C Frankie Van Vliet For the infectious enthusiasm you bring to everything you do, from cheering our school on at Athletics, to being a great student and friend to our class. Love your work, Frankie!

Open Classes

We have seen week in and week out, the children in our great lunchtime program

growing in confidence and developing their performance skills. Based on popular request, we would like to invite you to a ‘ term 3 open class’ so the students can demonstrate what happens in a Drama Time class.

OPEN SESSON INVITATION

Richmond Primary Junior Group Thursday 12th September 1:05-1:50pm

Richmond Primary Senior Group Monday 1:05-1:50pm 9th September

In term 4, the students work very hard with a script and develop a play and perform it for you. This is very exciting for the students. Please stay tuned for more information about this in October. We hope to see your there.

Two recent Fund Raising events saw an opportunity for families

to give back to the school. Well done to our Trivia Night team,

led by Kristy Fuller and our Father’s Day stall team, led by Dayna

Maplestone. The Trivia Night raised about $19,000+ and the

Father’s Day stall about $2,300 - congratulations!

This sees our total Fund Raising for the year at about $90,000

which is above our target of $82,000. School Council are aiming

to use this money toward refurbishing our toilet blocks—we will

keep you informed on progress of this work in future

newsletters

We rely on a small team of volunteers to run these events but

our numbers are dwindling. We ask for families who haven’t

had a chance yet to contribute some time to the Events team to

sign up to help our final Event the Arts Gala in October.

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:

Change the last letter of this Grade 1 student’s name, and you’ll have the

company that makes ‘Barbie!’

Last week’s clue: Change the spelling, and this Grade 2 student’s name means “Belonging to me.”

Answer: MAI Coutts 2L (If it belongs to me, it’s ‘my’ thing.)

Winner! : Leo Aquilina Prep A … in ‘my’ opinion, Leo, you’re

a worthy winner!

Young Authors Award 2019 Winners

**KIDSQUIZ**

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is finishing on this FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2019 All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier. For more information visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

Please contact me directly for any log in or registering details at granger.lauren.l@edumail.vic.gov.au

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the Young Authors Award writing competition judged by Sally Rippin. Sally presented the winners with their certificates and prizes at Friday’s assembly. Well-done to all students who entered the competition and those students who were shortlisted. This year’s winners are: Prep: Zac Papalia An imaginative and beautifully illustrated story about a sock monster and his friend. Year One: Sebastian Aquilina A clever story about a pigeon whose change of colour and changes his personality, too! Year Two: Bridget Van-Vleet A twisted fairy tale with a clever moral ending about what happens when you eat too much sugar!

Year Three: Anouk Smart Beautifully presented, great characters and an adventurous story about Mr Lunch and his underwater friends. Year Four: Isla Went Wonderful imagination and detailed fantasy setting make this a captivating story of Willow defeating the Darkness. Year Five: Blossom O’Dowd Well written and heart-breaking story of a teenager’s last 24 hours on earth. Year Six: Lucia Matyear Beautiful language and unique point of view of a brave dog saving his new master from a terrifying avalanche.

Thanks you to Sally Rippin and well done to our fantastic Writers!