Almands Avenue, Roxburgh Park, Victoria, 3064

Telephone: 03 9303 9335 Facsimile: 03 9303 9338

Email: roxburgh.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.roxburghparkps.vic.edu.au

ROXBURGH PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL No 5485

“Achieving Excellence Together”

Newsletter Our school values: Honesty • Empathy • Co-operation • Trust • Respect

27th July, 2017

GRADE

STUDENT

Prep A – Ms Temos

Ari

Prep B - Ms Richardson

Anthony

Prep C - Ms Marino

Hoane

1A - Ms Moon

Angie

1B - Ms Buc & Ms Asta

Jamie

1C - Ms Thompson

Jesse

2A - Ms Finnigan Eric

Dear Parents and Guardians,

WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents at each school. It is designed to assist our school in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate, student engagement and relationships with our parent community. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies. The survey will be conducted online by ORIMA Research Pty Ltd and only takes 15 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed via desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile at any convenient time within the fieldwork period from Monday 7th August to Sunday 27th August. Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. The survey results will be reported back to our school at the end of September.

The online survey is available in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (Hakha) and Hindi.

Survey language guides will be provided in a range of languages including Albanian, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Dari, Filipino, Greek, Gujarati, Indonesian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish or Urdu.

The survey results will be communicated to parents through annual reporting.

For further information, please visit: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/management/improvement/Pages/performsurveyparent.aspx

Curriculum Day

11th August

No students to attend on this day.

The focus of the Curriculum day will be on Math teaching and learning.

Attitudes to School Data

The students in grades 4, 5 and 6 recently completed an ‘Attitudes to School Survey.

The results will be shared with staff, students and the school community.

I have highlighted some of the above data:

94% of our students believe their teacher has high expectations for their learning success

93% have positive attitudes towards attendance

91% of our students believe they are motivated and interested in learning

89% believe their teacher provides them with differentiated learning challenges

88% of our students believe that there is effective teaching occurring

OSHC

For Outside School Hours

Care please contact Camp

Australia on 1300 105 343

DATES TO REMEMBER

- 2nd August Grade 3

Excursion – Yarrabee Yesterday’s World

- 8th – 14th August Book

Fair

- 11th August Curriculum Day

- 21st August – School Council

The earn & learn program has started at Woolworths. Collect stickers for every $10 spent. Fill your sheet with stickers and return them to the school. Your support is greatly appreciated.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

GRADE

STUDENT

Prep A – Ms Free

Jeriko Costa

Prep B - Ms Richardson

Banham Karlis

Prep C - Ms Marino

Aitulagi Raage

1A - Ms Hunter

Arshia Melennie

1B - Ms Asta

Yousef Lucas

1C - Ms Thompson

Luca Alina

2A - Ms Finnigan

Tiffany Jesse

2B - Ms Butler

Leo Melisa

2C - Ms Mandaliti

Youssef Yara

3A - Ms Rosella

Makaq Hussain

3B - Ms Baido

Kane Ayden

3C – Ms Buc/Ms Brereton

Tarek Yasmin

4A – Ms Monsone & Ms Ciantar

Mahdi Zainab

4B – Mr Moat

Lakshyan Akiara

4C – Ms Leditschke

Omar Hamza

5A – Mr Penhall

Lennox Omer

5B - Ms Garita

Kathy Samantha

5C - Ms Jankievski & Ms Fry

Manar Chloe

6A – Mr Urbancic

Noor Abdul

6B – Ms Oram-Parkinson

Donna Maddison

6C – Mr Wright

Rob Cengiz

6D – Ms Davenport

Naba Vina

Performing Arts - Ms Verde

Finest 5B, Angelika 5B and Daud 5C

Visual Art Award - Ms Borg/Ms Fitzpatrick

Jnr: Lorelai 2B Snr: Meryem 5C

Junior – Heba PC Senior – Maddison 6B

Getting Along Award Chaddy, Omer 5A Florence, Hafsa, Anjie, Samah, Areeba 6C

Mattias 6B, Alexander 6D, Jamie 2C, Jameson,Marlize, Malevia,Natalie, Charlene,Lebron,Elissa, Eloise and Ehab all from 4B

Community Hub is now up and

running in the After School Care

Building.

Please pop in and have a chat and a

cuppa with me.

The hub is open in the mornings 9-

9.30am then in the afternoon from 2-

3pm. If you would like to join the Roxburgh

Park Community Hub Facebook page,

please like it, it’s a great way to keep

up to date with the hub activities

being offered.

I am currently working on a timetable

which will be sent home once

complete. This will let you know what

events are happening in the hub on

certain days.

Hoping to see you there soon.

Regards Gwen Pringle.

COMMUNITY

HUB!!

Only 2 weeks of the Challenge to go!!! The Challenge finishes on August 11th. Don’t forget the library is open before school for students to borrow and access the website. Please make sure that your books

are all added onto the website if you haven’t already done so. Your log sheets will need to be handed in before the completion date. The library is open at recess on Wednesday & Friday for anyone who needs to use the school computer to type their books onto the website. Thank you. Chris Quayle VPRC co-ordinator

Book Fair Colouring Competition.

We are holding a Colouring Competition to promote the Book Fair. The Competition ends on Monday 31st July and the winners announced on Wednesday Aug 2nd. One student from each year level will receive a $10 voucher to spend at the fair. If you did not receive a colouring sheet and please see me in the library.

Happy Colouring! Chris Quayle

Upcoming Payments All excursion money sent to school MUST be in an envelope or a zip-lock bag

with the Child’s name, grade and amount written clearly. Too many times we are receiving money with no accompanying details of which child to credit.

Event Date of Event

Cost of Event

Payment Due

Grade 3 Yarrabee Yesterday’s World

2nd Aug $30.00 28th July

Swimming Term 3 $90.00 DUE NOW

Help RPPS by Collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers starting July 26th

We are excited again to be taking part in the Woolworths Earn & Learn

program. You can help our school by collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn

stickers when you shop at Woolworths between Wednesday 26th July and

Tuesday 19th September 2017. We will redeem these stickers for awesome

educational resources for our school.

So ask grandparents, friends, neighbours & work colleagues to help us to

collect stickers and fill as many sticker sheets as possible. Sticker sheets are

now available from the library or the office. A box for the completed sheets is

in the foyer near the library door.

We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program.

Thankyou

Chris Quayle.

BIG WRITE - The Beach

The beach is so fun, it makes me feel fresh. The water is so fresh to me

when it touches my skin. The weather is so hot and my face turns bright

red when the sun comes out. I build sand castles. All the waves push the

water up and my sandcastle gets wet and breaks. The wet sand sticks to

my skin and I need water to feel fresh again.

By Asmaa 3A

In the next three weeks, students will be focusing on “I Can Do It” thinking, which is simply thinking

positively prior to approaching their work tasks.

The theory is that what we think influences the feelings we have, which in turn influences our ability to

act.

When we begin a task with negative thoughts such as “I don’t want to do this” or “This is going to be

hard”, our body responds with negative feelings such as resentment, anger, tiredness or

distress. These feelings in turn can lead to us to:

- only putting in a half effort

- taking longer to complete a task than necessary

- giving up half way

- not beginning the task at all.

It’s important that we encourage our students to think positively about the success they can have with

their tasks. Examples of this include:

- I can do this!

- I’ve been successful with challenges before

- I’m going to do my best

- I have people to support me with challenging tasks.

Such thinking is also very relevant at the moment with the students engaging in a large amount of

assessment/testing. A positive attitude and the feelings they create will free students up to perform as

close to their full potential as possible. So I encourage everyone in the school community to work with

our students on the power of positive thinking and the potential success it can bring. We all can do it!

Cool Connective of the

week

Term 3, 2017

Super cool connective sentences need to be in the WOW

word box by Friday lunchtime

Add them to your homework. VCOP or challenge board.

LAST WEEKS WINNERS

Yesterday I went to the shops to get something for inner

but when I got there the shops were closed due to the

horrid weather

Tiana 6D

Suddenly, I saw the humongous Mount Everest. Blue, rocky

with snow as white as paper sprinkled on top. Houses

surrounded it but no people lived in them. Maybe it’s

because the mountain was slowly eddging towards them each

day.

Karly 6D

Next weeks word: because