Parents/Carers,

Students and staff have been very busy over the past two weeks with lots of exciting activity taking place across our school. Last Friday

we had our Whole School Assembly where our School and House Captains were announced and awarded their certificate and badges.

We had some very excited and happy students and parents. Please note further in the newsletter their names and photos. I

congratulate all our leaders for 2019 and I look forward for them to show their strength in leadership as it grows through all the great

experiences they have this year.

Student Voice Positive Choice (SVPC) is a great initiative that we as Palmerston Schools have developed over a period of 12 months.

Our school captains and vice captains attended a half day workshop earlier this week with Ms Beynon to hear the history of SVPC and

brainstorm ideas on how we can really promote this across our schools and out into the community.

All our student leaders will be participating in a full day Student Leadership Workshop using the Michael Grose Student Leadership

Program with Ms Beynon next week. This will round off the input around Leadership at the school level and this will support them to

take our message out into the community through the Palmerston Markets, working across schools and promotional videos for our

Facebook page. The House Captains will also have their day in the limelight when they work towards preparing for our School Sports

Carnival which is the end of Term 2.

On Tuesday this week we held our very first ‘Day of Play’ across our school. The teachers set up 2 activities each which allowed

students to select what they wanted to do and when. Then when recess time arrived everyone went back inside to eat and rest then

back outside again when recess was over. This continued until lunchtime when the students went back inside for eating and resting.

Since we had such a great but exhausting day we did not continue right through until 2pm, instead we finished at 1.10pm. I believe it

was well worth it and students were engaged in some amazing problem-solving, construction, games, negotiating and general hands

on fun. This is all leading up to the Global Day of Play in 2020. Check out the Rosebery Primary School official Facebook page for some

excitement from the day.

As many of you would be aware there has been a lot of talk in the media about the hoax Momo video which has allegedly been

popping onto You Tube Kids video streams unexpectedly. This has not proven to be accurate but we all need to be vigilant around this

type of potential threat to children who are accessing online material. As parents this is your responsibility to monitor and manage at

home and we undertake Cyber Safety lessons at school. In the past the school based constables have conducted cyber safety lessons

with our classes. We are still in the planning stages with our school based constables to conduct more of these focused lessons in the

coming months. If we all work together to ensure children are closely monitored when using online resources that will arm our

students with the skills and strategies they need if something untoward does ever present itself.

Our Rosebery Dance Troupe along with a number of staff have headed off on their first Dance camp to Batchelor for 2019. They are all

very excited and we all look forward to seeing the fruits of their labour in coming months. This is a key learning few days for our

students as well as developing a sense of dedication and skill development with loads of wellbeing activities thrown in as well.

Enjoy the weekend with your family.

Mrs Smith

Principal

8th March

Term 1 Week 6 2019

THE TURTLE TIMES

Tran Ayres/Parry Zoe Lymbery, Eva Howieson

Tran Hawthorn/Steward Laila Turaga, Ellie Rogers

1 How 1/2 Thomas Aaliyah Vornam, Mason O’Brien

1 Rich/Nichols Max Sharp, Laurenti Ndihokubwayo

2 McFee/Moir Taboka Dube, Innika Newman

3 Gray, Sinclair, Carroll Brooke Oakley, Evie Hodges, Ryder Slater

4 Organ/French Luke Mortimer, Mckayla Harriss, Azarel

Johnson

4/5 Stevens/Langham Shaylen

5 Carey/Crowden Cooper Hayes, Limi Kupu, Dali Muliada

6 Beynon/Evans Sharma Ah Wing, Ayana Salting

6 Shannon/Ludwig Kosta Mpilias, Mikayla Innes,

Sam Yalinatoba, Ethan McKenzie

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

Alec Sharp

Shafay Shiraz

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

VALUE AWARDS

STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM

School Captains

Nate Guerin and Ceci Misob

Vice School Captains

Shafay Shiraz and Tyleisha Smith

Student Council

Sid Neupane Jordan Parfitt

Zoe Billiris Caitlyn Trevena

Emma Turton Clair Howland

James Willoughby Nate Hite

Cheyenne Campbell

Sport House Captains and Vice Captains

Menida Marnba

Riley Heffernan Jack Miller

Sarah Williams Ayana Salting

Ashton Mortimore Fraser Brown

Jessi Brinkworth Ella Green

Balli Wamba

Annabell Kay Jake Goodwin

Seth Torcetti Shanniqua Muscat

Koby Smith Lachlan Lewis

Jessica McLean Janessa Nixon

DATES TO REMEMBER

Whole School Assembly Friday 15th March 2019

Early Childhood Assembly Wednesday 13th March 2019

Dance Camp Friday 8th March - Sunday 10th March 2019

Bullying No Way Day Friday 15th March 2019

Early Childhood Assembly Wednesday 20th March 2019

Harmony Day Thursday 21st March 2019

At Rosebery Primary School we have two

car parks each consisting of drop off zones.

Parents and Carers are reminded that the

drop off zones are for pick up and drop off

only and vehicles must not be left

unattended in these areas.

Our School Based Constables Erin

Paterson and Tanith Blair will be

conducting regular patrols in our carpark

for the safety of students and to ensure

easy traffic flow.

MORNING TEA

I would like to invite all of our Defence Parents/Carers for morning tea

after assembly on Friday 15th March 2019.

Annick Beyderwellen Education Liaison Officer and Jot Kahlon Family

Liaison Officer, from DCO will be there to chat about all things defence

so come and enjoy a cuppa and a chat.

YEAR 3 SINCLAIR

To start off the year, Grade 3 Sinclair have been

studying living and non-living things. We decided we

would love to watch some chickens hatch out of their

eggs.

As scientists we have; monitored the eggs during the

incubation stage, had the opportunity to view the egg

sack using the candling method and experience live

chickens hatching.

Once the chickens had hatched we continued to

observe and monitor them by measuring their growth

and weight. We have been amazed at how quickly the

chickens have grown with Black Thunder now weighing

110g he has gained 60g in one week.

DAY OF PLAY

Support Rosebery Primary School Council and pre-order you 2019/2020

Entertainment Membership now.

Follow the link to pre-order online and enjoy exclusive pre-order only

bonuses.

https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/915v464

There is still time!

Bring in your 5c coins

and the class with the

most 5c pieces in the

bottle by the 5th April

will win a class reward

in Week 11 Term 1,

RPS FUNDRAISING

Our Preschool has recently been

assessed under the National Quality

Standards and we have received our

Quality Assessment Final Report. I am

delighted to announce that we re-

ceived an overall rating of Exceeding.

Congratulations to our Preschool staff

and families for helping us reach such

a great milestone with our service

delivery, we are all very proud.

CONGRATULATIONS

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