Issue Number 21

August 6th 2018

Term Dates for 2018

3 July 16—September 21

4 October 8—December 21

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.

2018 Curriculum Days Friday 17th August Monday 5th November

Richmond Primary School

85 Brighton Street Richmond 3121

> T: 9428 1909 F: 9428 9085

OSHC T: 0447 330 481

E: richmond.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.richmondps.vic.edu.au

> EFTPOS facilities available

Dates To Remember

7 African Drumming Incursion

8 School Council

10 Great Book Swap & Pizza Day

13 Gr 1/2 Puppet Incursion

17 Pupil Free Day

20-

23

Grade 3/4 Camp

10-

14

Grade 6 Play

14 SRC Dress up

20 Arts Gala 5.30—7.00

August

September

On Friday July 27 the Prep students celebrated 100 days of Prep. They made 100 days of Prep glasses and crowns, and did other fun 100 themed activities. After lunch their Grade Six buddies ran tabloid sports at the oval across the road. Some of the sports we did were Ladder Soccer, Get the Alien Back Home and many more fun activities! We all had a fantastic time doing all the activities with our buddies and sharing this special day with them. By Zac Douglas and Taylor Phelps.

Preps Bring Up a Ton!!!! (100 Days, That Is!)

Student Led Conferences

Congratulations to all of our students who presented their amazing learning last Tuesday and Wednesday. I was particularly impressed with our new students who did a brilliant job with their first try at this approach to sharing learning. I hope all parents learnt something new about your child ‘as a learner’ and were given some ideas about how you may support the future learning for the rest of the year. The teachers will be reviewing how it all went and organise how we may best support your child in achieving their Semester 2 learning goals. I would like to thank everyone involved for coming out on what were two pretty cold nights!

Dean Banova Principal

Gold Coins Needed

This Friday

We have two events on this

Friday August 10.

Students will need to bring

money for our Pizza

afternoon ($2 a slice) and for

our Great Book Swap (a gold

coin for each book) See the

back page for more details!

STUDENT WELL-BEING– Growth Mindset

At Richmond Primary School our well-being program fosters growth

mindset. Research by Dr Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stand-

ford University believes that growth mindset can have a pivotal role in

the school achievement, engagement and happiness.

Dweck’s research has shown that children with a fixed mindset believe

they’re ‘smart’ or ‘dumb’, talented at something, or not. On the other

hand children with a growth mindset appreciate anyone can build them-

selves into anything they want to be.

Parents and teachers can have an impact on children’s mindset by how

they give praise and feedback. Praising the effort, rather than the ability

promotes a child’s desire to face a challenge and persist in the face of

difficulty. Parents and teachers can use the following strategies in conver-

sations with their children/students.

Ways to Promote a Growth Mindset in Children.

1. Help children understand that the brain works like a muscle, that can only grow through hard work, determination, and lots and lots of practice. 2. Don’t tell students they are smart, gifted, or talented, since this implies that they were born with the knowledge, and does not encourage effort and growth. 3. Let children know when they demonstrate a growth mindset. 4. Praise the process. It’s effort, hard work, and practice that allow children to achieve their true potential. 5. Don’t praise the results. Test scores and rigid ways of measuring learning and knowledge limit the growth that would oth-erwise be tapped. 6. Embrace failures and missteps. Children sometimes learn the most when they fail. Let them know that mistakes are a big part of the learning process. There is nothing like the feeling of struggling through a very difficult problem, only to finally break through and solve it! The harder the problem, the more satisfying it is to find the solution. 7. Encourage participation and collaborative group learning. Children learn best when they are immersed in a topic and al-lowed to discuss and advance with their peers. 8. Encourage competency-based learning. Get kids excited about subject matter by explaining why it is important and how it will help them in the future. The goal should never be to get the ‘correct’ answer, but to understand the topic at a fundamen-tal, deep level, and want to learn more. Reference, 8 Ways to Encourage A Growth Mindset in Kids, Sarah McKay.

On Tuesday July 31, the Grade 3/4 students went on an excursion

to Chinatown. We had so much fun and we learned about the Han

dynasty. We went on a tour of the Melbourne Chinese Museum.

We also explored life-like dioramas, explaining what it would be like

for the Chinese people in the Gold Rush era. We did a tour through

the Chinatown area and went on a scavenger hunt exploring differ-

ent iconic places in Chinatown. Learning about conditions and ex-

periences in the lifetime of Chinese immigrants was an interesting

and awesome experience. I’m very glad that I had that experience

to explore so many cultures. All in all, it was a mesmerizing experi-

ence. By Blossom 3/4 J

3/4’s Visit

China

Town

Grade Prep S Jack Benson

For your hard work and determi-nation when writing about Investi-gation Time Jack. It's great to see you having a go and your writing improving. Well-done.

Grade 1/2 L

Michaela Magazzu

For your amazing creations in Investigation Time. You are a natural architect! Keep up the fantastic work Michaela!

Grade 5/6 C Riley Burke

For improving your focus in class and making smart choices in our group discussions - we love learning about what you know! Keep it up!

Grade 5/6S Zac Douglas

For demonstrating greater focus and making positive contributions to class discussions. Keep it up Zac!

Grade 5/6 E Edmond Lu

For settling into Richmond Primary School with ease and confidence since moving from China! You have done such a great job at making new friends and using the English language. Well done!

Grade 1/2 S Hugh Davidson

Well done Hugh for working so hard on your writing. Your handwriting has improved and you are using the lines so much better.

Grade 5/6R Kosei Inoue

For your hard work and persistence in maths. Keep it up and as Hall & Oates sing you'll get "everything your heart desires!"

Grade 3/4 J

Ayla Guler

For making such a great start to the term. You have done so much better at completing your weekly homework tasks and your effort in class has been great. Well done Ayla!

Grade 1/2 P Stirling Walker

For writing an excellent and detailed recount about Pinocchio. Great Work!

Grade 3/4 S Evie Sloggett

For your absolutely superstar attitude to school and putting in extra effort in all lessons; you really go the extra mile Evie!

Grade 3/4 C Jazzmyn Holt

For your RATW country presentation on Kazakhstan. It has been so nice to see your confidence grow when speak-ing in front of the class. You should be so proud of yourself Jazz!

Grade 1/2J Arabella McInnes

For the awesome effort you put into your adventure narrative “The Adventure”. Terrific writing and illustrating Arabella. Thanks also for being so helpful and responsible in looking after the classroom.

Grade Prep A

Grace Mascarenhas

For your excellent attitude to school and your enthusiasm for everything you do. You are always excited to learn and to help out with classroom jobs wherever possible.

Grade 1/2 T

Audrey Douglas

For “Starting Term 3 with a bang! Audrey I have been so impressed with the effort you have been putting into all of your work, keep it up!”

Grade 5/6R

Erin Mitchell

Well done on your fractions and deci-mals work this term Erin. You have added a breathe of fresh Erin to our maths classroom. Keep it up!

Grade 3/4 N

Felix Bissett

For your outstanding behaviour and

attentive participation during our

Mandarin excursion. Well done on

being a positive role model to others

Felix!

SORRY – THE WRONG CLUE

WENT INTO THE NEWSLETTER LAST WEEK … here’s the right

one!

Change the first letter of this Grade 2 student’s name, and you’ll have the name of two American states … North and

South (but pronounced differently.)

We have started a busy Term 3 at OSHClub! We are excited this term to be

able to cook up healthy treats, learn about other countries and cultures and

get crafty and creative. Parents, please see the front door of the OSHClub

room for the weekly menu which will be displayed every week and our weekly

planner which is located under the sign in area. Any meal suggestions are

welcomed! We are always looking for new ideas for recipes, so please see our

staff if you have any ideas or any requests from students. Have a great week!

From Trish and The OSHClub Team

Oshclub News

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.

Entertainment Book

For only $70 you can order either your digital version or hard copy book. 20% of all book sales will be do-nated to Richmond Primary School.

The book pays for itself with just a few visits to local restaurants, cafes & attractions. There is a display book outside the school office - with all enquiries to fiona_tome@hotmail.com

To order the digital version or hard copy book, click here www.entbook.com.au/1885w17. For the hard copy book, select ‘pick up $0’ and the book will be delivered to RPS

Some parents have offered to forward this email to their family members, friends and work colleagues. If you can do this to help raise more funds for RPS, that would be great. Thank you.

The Great Book Swap

Thank you to the families who have already donated books to The Great Book Swap. We are still seeking donations, please drop them into the office before Thursday August 9th. The Swap will be held on Friday August 10th in support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

Fair Craft Stall We are looking for handmade donations to sell at our craft stall at the Halloween Fair this year (Term 4). If you, or any family member or friend, is a talented crafter/knitter/sewer/artist of any kind please start thinking what you might be able to make to help us

make this the best craft stall ever. If you can help please contact Krysia on kry-

Tech Tip Of The Week

1. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.

2. Tap on General.

3. Tap on Restrictions.

4. Tap on Enable Restrictions.

5. Type in a passcode. (Choose one you’ll remember when you want to turn off Restrictions again.)

There are lots of things you can do to support your child’s use of

their iPads. One way is to restrict your child’s access to their

iPad’s device tools which we can help take away the worry that

they'll see or hear anything inappropriate, change anything they

shouldn't be changing, or buy anything they shouldn't be buying

— including in-app purchases!

The Restrictions settings can allow you to set up a password so

that you can ensure things can be ’locked down’ without the

worry that they are changed without you knowing. To do this:

To find out more visit:

https://www.imore.com/how-to-use-

parental-controls-iphone-ipad

mailto:fiona_tome@hotmail.comhttp://www.entbook.com.au/1885w17mailto:krysia_m@yahoo.com.au