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

07th September, 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,

July 100% Attendance

PA Retal, Tiya, Leya, Tasi,

Ishan, Jasmine, Moses,

Tanush, Nabil, Divya, Jeriko,

Ryan PB Ishaaq, Ashton, Alexis,

Karlis, Taha, Alesandra,

Hasan, Ali, Martine, Zainab,

Jirah, Seray PC Layla, Fattau, Zainab,

Hanan, Havan, Razan, Miraz,

Dany, Vanila’Rose, Erdem,

Rose, Raage

1A Aya, Zaid, Rita, Amelia,

Gryphon, Mahmoud, Gia

linh, Tasha, Ari, Memhet,

Leny 1B Sophia, Heidi, Yashica,

Lucas, Monica Rose 1C Amira, Loveleen, Mason,

Maather, Ayhem, Lujayen,

Kina, John, Muhamad, Penny,

Grace, Fatma, Sash, Hasan,

Anthony, Alina

2A Rim, Saranur, Mikail,

Tiffany, Fatu, Fatima, Wanda,

Tracey 2B Youssef, Amran, Lailah,

Noor, Gracie, Sirin, Sophia,

Sophie, Yunus, Lakshan,

Jasmine, Rihanna 2C Youssef, William, Burak,

Jamal, Andirya, Maral,

Maryam, Jason

3A Laith, Saif, Leandro, Megan,

Tyrell, Conor, Harper, Mj,

Sarah, Abdulfawaz, Salman,

Varish, Yara 3B Abdirahman, Ayden,

Melissa, Annie, Porchinne,

Jacky, Hana, Millennial, Jaafar,

Kane, Salma 3C Chris, Mohammad, Zaynb,

Ismail, Lucia, Tarek, Oshana,

Esha, Hadi, Zackiah, Idrees,

Rami, Ozan

4A Zahra, Zahraa, Ibrahim,

Dylan, Ananiaz, Belal, Piva, Jad,

Berra, Matthew 4B Marlize, Rania, Natalie,

Eloise, Jameson, Lakshyan,

Badr, Malevia, Juzair, Hassan,

Bashir, Mustafa, Abraham,

Cristiano, Charlene 4C Mussab, Younis, Simeon,

Aloisi, Ugur, Omar, Mahmoud,

Gurleen, Gisele, Ehab,

Fowsiya,

5A Toni, Aaron, Lennox, Zain,

Omer, Talia, Kaylin, Nawal,

Rita, Khalid,Fares, Jaiveer,

Aiyana 5B Adam, Angelika, Ahmad,

Sellilna, Alex, James, Malishka,

Finest, Benjamin, Yousif,

Elizabeth, Naomi, Kristjan,

Serene, Lamar, Zarnab 5C Tomi, Manr, Stephanie,

Ekin, Samir, Ramia, Muhammad, Kathy, Beyza

6A Karlos, Mohamad, Sarah,

Molly Kade, Parinitta, Zaid,

Alexis, Pahan, Finity, Filifili,

Carlos, Aaiza, Noor, Juleat 6B Rumaysa, Bora, Cihan,

Christina, Mahmoud,

Farouk, Mattias, Huda, Zena,

Chantell, Fadi, Maddison 6C Daniel, Yasir, Jadidah,

Maab, Rhiley, Kristian,

Callum, Hamid, Bilal, Anjie,

Areeba, Mitchell 6D Naba, Aysu, Latrell,

Hannah, Christie, Rashad,

Sevda, Tiana, Aleasha,

Jamal, Bradley, Yusuf,

Karley, Vina, Younes,

Zeinab

OSHC

For Outside School Hours

Care please contact Camp

Australia on 1300 105 343

DATES TO REMEMBER

- 13-14 Sept - Aussie Rox

Concert

- 15th Sept – Grade 2 Excursion Edendale Farm

- 18th Sept – School Council

- 22nd Sept - Last day of Term 3 2:30pm finish

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

GRADE

STUDENT

Prep A – Ms Free

Jasmine Costa

Prep B - Ms Richardson

Minal Karlis

Prep C - Ms Marino

Yusuf Raage

1A - Ms Hunter

Melennie

1B - Ms Asta

Sophia Lucas

1C - Ms Thompson

Alina Alina

2A - Ms Finnigan

Victoria Jesse

2B - Ms Butler

Sophie Melisa

2C - Ms Mandaliti

2C Yara

3A - Ms Rosella

Fawaz Hussain

3B - Ms Baido

Baran Ayden

3C – Ms Buc/Ms Brereton

Ismail Yasmin

4A – Ms Monsone & Ms Ciantar

Dylan Zainab

4B – Mr Moat

Hazan Akiara

4C – Ms Leditschke

Ugur Hamza

5A – Mr Penhall

Mark Omer

5B - Ms Garita

Ahmad Samantha

5C - Ms Jankievski & Ms Fry

Sedra Chloe

6A – Mr Urbancic

Alexis Abdul

6B – Ms Oram-Parkinson

Mattias Maddison

6C – Mr Wright

Daniel Cengiz

6D – Ms Davenport

Alexander Vina

Performing Arts - Ms Verde

Mahmoud 1A Finest 5B, Angelika 5B and Daud 5C

Visual Art Award - Ms Borg/Ms Fitzpatrick

Jnr: Tanush PA Snr: Jameson 4B

Junior – Heba PC Senior – Maddison 6B

Getting Along Award Burak, Batol, Jamie (2C) Haider & Ayah (3B)

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

PRINCIPALS AWARD

Annabella and Heidi Lay are making

excellent progress.

Congratulations to the Mathletics classes of the week

Gold - 1A Silver – 5B Bronze- 6A

Week ending 01st September 2017

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 WINNER

He failed his test despite having studied the night before.

Zahra Aldielmi 4A

Next weeks word: so

YCDI - Working Tough Our You Can Do It focus over the next few weeks shifts to Working Tough, which comes under the banner of

Persistence. Working Tough is defined by the program as the students thinking that to be successful,

sometimes I have to do things that are not easy or fun.

We know as adults that not everything that has to be done at our workplaces or in our lives is a joyous

experience. For instance, taking a child to the doctors to receive an immunisation injection is often a

traumatic experience for both the child and parent involved, but we do it anyway because we know how

important this task is.

Similarly, even those of us who get to do our dream jobs often have to start off at the “ground floor” and are

tasked with jobs that were not quite what we had in mind when we first envisioned the profession. However,

we know that if we don’t do these things, not only will we not get paid but often someone else’s job will

become harder as a result of the tasks not being done.

It is through our focus on Working Tough that we aim to instil such values within our students. While

teachers try to make the content of their lessons as interesting as possible, not everything that has to be

taught will be the favourite topic of every student. Therefore, there are times when students will simply

have to put their heads down and make the effort in order to achieve the success that we are all after.

It’s also worth looking at the price of not Working Tough. When successful people have to perform a task

they don’t like, they start it straight away and get it out of the way as quickly as possible. However, those

people who choose to complain or avoid the work waste a lot of mental energy before the task is even

started. Then even more time needs to be spent completing the task itself afterwards. This means that by

not Working Tough, we are only increasing the amount of time that an unpleasant task will take and making

our lives more miserable!

Please feel free to discuss these matters with your children at home and encourage them to Work Tough

with their schooling. Together, we can do it.

The way you order from Book Club is changing in 2018 selecting and paying for books

will be online for you r convenience. You will need to register on line. We will have

both ways of ordering available for the remainder of this year. Follow the se

instructions to activate LOOP

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

2017 School fees $170 OVERDUE PLEASE PAY Grade 2 Edendale Farm 15th

September $25.00 10th September

Help RPPS by Collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers

Thank you to everyone helping our school in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. We

have quite a few finished sticker sheets already. Please don’t forget to hand any sheets in

to the library or post them into the drop box in the foyer. If you don’t have a sticker sheet

feel free to drop the stickers into the drop box too.

We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program which will allow

us to obtain many new resources for our school.

Thankyou

Chris Quayle

Holiday Reading Club We are going to trial a holiday reading club at the end of term 3. If you would be

interested in this for your child/children, or want further information about what

would be involved, please contact Chris in the library as soon as possible to

register your interest.

Thankyou - Chris Quayle

Chris Quayle

Our Program! The Outside School Hours Care program at Roxburgh Park Primary School combines active

games with planned and unplanned play, quiet time, homework time and a healthy snack.

While in before and after school care, the children enjoy participating in arts and craft, cooking

activities, indoor/outdoor games and free play. Recently, some of the fun things the children have

made are animal tube crafts, craft characters and handprints.

The children have also been enjoying playing with the parachute as a group and taking turns

running underneath and swapping with each other. The children have lots of fun and have had

many laughs!

OSHC Session times:

Before Care: 6:30AM- 8:45AM

After Care: 3:10PM- 6:15PM You can register your children into the program and manage your bookings at

www.campaustralia.com.au or call our friendly Customer Service Team from

Monday to Friday on 1300 105 343. If you have any questions feel free to come

and visit us in the OSHC room.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Prison Escape

Two stealthy boys went to MacDonald’s take all of the food and money.

“Give us all of the food and the money now!!” shouted Robert and

Callum. Everyone screamed in fear. “Everyone on the ground and don’t

get up or else” said Robert. “YEAH!” shouted Callum. “Flip, the cops are

here!” shouted Robert.

The police called Robert and Callum out and demanded they put their

guns on the ground. “Never!” screamed Callum. “Come out now or we

will use force!” shouted a cop. “What now dude?” asked Callum. “I don’t

know man” said Robert. Then someone knocked out Robert and Callum.

The police took them to prison while they were knocked out.

Robert and Callum woke up in a cell confused where they were. “Dude

where are we?” asked Callum. “I don’t know man…I think we are in

prison!” replied Robert. “Oh no man, I can’t be in prison. I hate it, prison

sucks,” cried Callum. “Dude, you think I care?” said Robert. “All we

need to do is break out. It’s easy. Then we will be fine” said Robert.

“Ok” said Callum.

Callum agreed with the break out plan and a few days later Robert got

TNT. “The plan is set and the TNT is set too” said Robert. “YAY!” joyfully

screamed Callum. “Ok, now let’s get lots of prisoners to come with us,”

said Robert. “Why?” asked Callum. “Cause I said so Callum” snapped

Robert. “Fine” sighed Callum.

Callum and Robert gathered up many prisoners to escape with them.

Robert blew a hole in the floor “ok let’s leave guys” said Robert.

Everyone screamed in joy. All the prisoners left prison to go back to

shop lifting places.

Robert Camilleri - 6C

Why the blue tongue lizard has a blue

tongue.

Long, long ago back in the time of dreaming, a lizard was crawling

through a cold, adventurous rainforest.

Eventually the lizard asked his lizard friend for water, so the lizard went

off to the river to fetch some water for the first lizard.

Meanwhile the lizard finally arrived back from carrying the heavy water

in a bucket. The lizard drank as quickly as a pig.

A little later the lizard was hungry so the lizard said, “Get me some

leaves to eat!” The lizard’s friend was a bit angry, but the lizard went off

to collect some leaves for her friend.

Suddenly she arrived back to the lizard. He munched the leaves so

quickly he did not even say thank you.

A bit later, the lizard said, “Polish my skin.” However, this time the

lizard’s friend said “No way! You’re just lazy and selfish.” So the lizard’s

friend gave the lizard a blue tongue. It was as blue as the shiny ocean.

Lastly, a spirit woman came along spreading sparkling Dreamtime dust

everywhere. “Why are you so sad?” asked the spirit woman. The lizard

replied, “I made my friend do all the work for me.” The spirit woman

said, “Okay, I will send you back – only if you promise to never do that

again.”

“I won’t.” So the lizard went back home.

Jayla Bains - 4C

Camp Information Evening

for 2018 Year 7 students and parents

to be held on

Wednesday 13th September at 6:30pm

in the

College’s Landale Building

Telephone: 8338 3600 Web Page: www.mountridleycollege.vic.edu.au

‘Preparing today’s students for tomorrow’s opportunities’

COMMUNITY HUB!!

OPEN EVERYDAY 9-9:30am & 2-3pm Please pop in and have a chat and a cuppa.

FREE ACTIVITIES

- BREAKFAST CLUB – Monday to Friday 8:35am –

8:50am.

- PLAY GROUP - Tuesday & Friday 9am - 11:30am.

- ENGLISH CLASSES – Friday 11:30am - 1pm.

- WALKING GROUP – Monday 2pm – 3pm and

Wednesday 9am – 10am.

- CRAFT GROUP – Wednesday 11am – 1pm.

- PARENTING SOLUTIONS (Arabic Speaking) – 6

week course starting Thursday 10th August 10am –

12pm everyday for 6 weeks.