RINGROSE PUBLIC SCHOOL · 19-08-2015  · needs. Many, many students have benefitted from her diligence and care and we know that theyd all like to wish her the very best. Thank you

RINGROSE PUBLIC SCHOOL Ringrose Avenue, Greystanes 2145

Phone: 9631 8637 Fax: 9896 3240 Email : [email protected]

Website: www.ringrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

19 August 2015

Week 6 Term 3

Dear Parents and Carers,

Our busy term continues and we have had some wonderful activities taking place over the last two

weeks.

This week, our NAPLAN (National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy) results have arrived and

with them individual student reports for Years 3 and Years 5 students. The reports provide the school

with a snapshot of student progress and growth in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Grammar and Punctuation

and Numeracy. It also provides the school with extra information in ensuring that we are meeting all

student needs across the school. Students and families will receive their individual reports later this

week.

In addressing one of our Strategic Directions “Excellence in Strong Partnerships” our Promotions Team

have made available a survey to gather feedback about the format and content of our current school

newsletter. I would encourage all families to complete the survey so that we continue to keep our whole

school community well informed. In upcoming weeks, the team will also be coordinating a new name

change for the newsletter. Stay tuned!

Our recent Years 5 and 6 Camp was a huge success and 74 of our

students attended this three day camp. Activities included high and

low ropes courses, a flying fox, busk walk with cook out (Damper

bread), archery, teamwork activities, a climbing wall and nightly

team activities. Thank you to Mr Stroud, Mrs Thorn and Miss Crowe

for attending with our students! Photos from our trip are included in this newsletter.

With the recent win to our National Netball team - The Diamonds at the World

Championship, two of our senior girls were part of the Opening Ceremony as Flag

Bearers for teams. Congratulations Georgia and Caitlin! We are very proud of your

involvement!

Last week, I was very impressed with both of our debating teams who met in the

finals for the Premier’s Debating Challenge. Our Year 5 and 6 debaters were

outstanding and a credit to themselves, their coaches (Mrs Marone and Mr Stroud)

and the school for their performance. Team ‘Erudite’ (Elli, Nikitta, Gaby and Madison)

now represent the school at the Region draw. Good luck girls!

Newsletter

School Website - www.ringrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au All notes and newsletters distributed to students can be found on the School Website.

Over the weekend, our new Playground Equipment was installed in our Quiet Area near the Cricket

Nets. My special thanks to Mr Tom (our G.A.) and the parent helpers (Ms Yuen, Mr Yuen and Mr Lovely)

who spent many hours spreading the soft fall under the equipment on Tuesday. This equipment will

provide students with the opportunity to improve their balancing skills as well as being a lovely area to

spend time playing with friends. It looks fantastic! Thank you also to 5C, who helped with the gardening.

Have you seen our new painted Aboriginal Mural near the Kindergarten rooms? Our visiting artist has

been working on the mural with the assistance of some of our students who spent a day earlier in the

term with her learning about our local indigenous culture. Together, they came up with the designs. Our

artist has also been speaking with all classes who’ve had a chance to watch and ask questions. We’ve

been very interested to see the progress as we pass by. It looks fantastic!

Finally, last week we farewelled Mrs Vucic who has been a School Learning Support Office at our school

for the last ten years. Mrs V has always been a highly dedicated and committed staff member ensuring

that the boys and girls she works with are given extra support and guidance to meet their learning

needs. Many, many students have benefitted from her diligence and care and we know that they’d all

like to wish her the very best. Thank you again Mrs V! Your lovely smile will be missed!

Yours sincerely,

Mr Loughhead

PSSA Draw - Term 3

Round School Ground

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(21/08)

Widemere

NO NETBALL

Ringrose PS - (Newcombe

Ball)

Ted Burge Oval - (Soccer)

7

(28/08) Hilltop All games at Hilltop PS

Upcoming Events

P&C Meeting:

Coming up tonight is our School P&C Meeting at 7pm in the school library. Preceding this at 5:30pm is

the internet safety workshop ‘ThinkUKnow’. All parents are invited to attend both.

Zone Athletics and Field Events Carnivals

Good luck to all of our student competitors at the upcoming Zone Field Events (Thursday 20 August)

and Track (Monday 24 August) Carnivals. We are looking forward to hearing how our team goes.

Father’s Day Stall

Coming up in Week 8, we will be holding our Father’s Day Stall on Tuesday 1 September and Thursday 3

September. An amazing range of gifts can be purchased by students at the stall with a price range of

$1 - $10. More information about the stall and the Father’s Day Breakfast (Friday 4 September) will

come out shortly.

This week we have been lucky enough to have a wonderful artist- Leanne Tobin, and her son Shay helping create a wonderful mural reflecting the local indigenous culture of our area. Leanne, who is a local Dharug woman, helped get our week off to a great start by performing a Welcome to Country and a smoking ceremony to symbolise the fresh start with the journey we are taking with our new mural. She has been working closely with our indigenous students to create the mural as well as sharing with all classes across the school about the local indigenous history, the meaning of the mural and also about her work illustrating books- for which she has been nominated for 3 prestigious awards! It has been a terrific experience for all our students and will leave a stunning masterpiece for us to see everyday here at Ringrose. A big thanks to Leanne and Shay for their amazing artwork!

- Miss Sayers (Organising Teacher)

Ringrose Public School

Aboriginal Mural & Smoking Ceremony

School News

School Banking

School banking has begun at Ringrose! Starting from Thursday 27th August,

2015, students will be able to bring their deposits and banking books to school.

Deposits will be taken in the AV Room, opposite the Uniform Shop, from

8:30am to 9:30am every Thursday. There is no minimum deposit amount, so

let’s get saving! Please ensure your child has their banking book to make their

deposits, as each deposit is counted towards winning exciting prizes. Thank you

to Mr Sharp and the P&C for organising our School Banking Initiative. For more

information, please see Mr Sharp at the Banking Table on Thursday mornings,

beginning on the 27th of August. Just look for Pat the Dog!

Woolworths Earn and Learn Program 2015

This year, we have again enrolled our school to be part of the Woolworths Earn and

Learn Initiative. Students can return sticker sheets in the Woolworths box set up in our

office area. We also have a box set up at Woolworths Greystanes and Pemulwuy. I would

encourage everyone to help the school as valuable resources will be purchased for the

school at the end of this initiative. Sticker sheets can be collected from the School Office,

your local Woolworths or can be printed online.

Promotions Committee- Online Survey

This term Ringrose Public School has formed a Promotions Committee with the aim of improving

communication and engagement with the school community. The team members include Miss Smajlagic,

Miss Sayers, Mrs Thorn and Miss Couper as well as a P&C representative, Mrs Rich, and a parent

representative, Mrs Whittaker. We are starting by looking at the school newsletter. We would love to get

your thoughts on the current newsletter and have put together a short survey online to get your feedback. If

you go to the link below you will be asked a few short questions about the newsletter. Your identity will

remain anonymous. We value the feedback from our community and would like to thank you in advance for

your feedback and support! If you have any questions about this project please feel free to come and talk to

our members involved.

-The Promotions Committee Website Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MNBJHCQ

2015 Australian ICAS Digital Technologies Competition

This year, a number of students in Years 3 - 6 participated in the 2015

Australian ICAS Digital Technologies Competition. Congratulations to all

students, you have achieved outstanding results! Here are the Distinction,

Credit, Merit and Participation results:

Distinction Credit Merit Participation Heidi 3/4R

Anthony 6M Kai 5/6T Keagan 5/6T Eleanor 5/6T Nabil 3/4R

EJ 3/4R Charlotte 3/4A Ruya 5C Avaneet 3/4R

Bailey 3/4R Tia 3/4A Zachary 3/4R Penelope 3/4R

Jade 3/4R Lillian 3/4A

School Swimming Scheme 2015

The 10-day Learn To Swim Program will run in Term 4, from Monday 19 October to Friday 30 October, 2015.

This scheme is available for any child who cannot swim 50 metres competently. We have been allocated

only 60 places, which will be given to students on a first in, best dressed basis. The cost of this scheme is

approximately $85.00 which must be paid in advance and is made up of bus travel and pool entry for the

ten day period of the scheme.

If you wish your child to attend the scheme, complete the “Intention to Attend” form return

it to the money box with a $20.00 deposit no later than Friday 10th September. Once the

60 places have been filled, students will be placed on a waiting list and will be notified if a

place is made available.

Chocolate Drive 2015

Congratulations to the very lucky winners of the chocolate draw!

Ciano of KW - who won the giant 5kg box of Favourites

and

Henry of 3/4A - who won the enormous 5kg Toblerone

Both of these boys, along with many other students, were entered into the draw because of their prompt

return of the fundraising chocolate money!

Whilst the majority of funds have been returned to school, there is still a large amount owing. Ringrose

P&C stand to raise nearly $6000 from this chocolate drive, and all these monies are retuned directly to the

children’s classrooms by way of resources for enhanced learning. So please, could all outstanding money

be returned to the school office as soon as possible.

Once again, well done to the boys on their great effort and their wonderful luck by winning the chocolate

raffle, and thank you to all the support shown by the families of Ringrose Public School.

Finally, a very big thank you to Mr & Mrs Fitzpatrick for their time and effort in making the fundraiser a

huge success.

Ringrose Debating 2015 - “Erudite”

It has been an outstanding year so far for our debating teams! Our first entry into the NSW Premiers

Debating Challenge has been successful all round. Our Year 5 team competed against many Year 6 teams

and continued to improve with each debate. Even though the competition may be over for them for the

year, they continue to train, taking on more debating homework and improving their debating skills to be

ready for the competition next year. Our Year 6 team remains undefeated. They won our Zone

competition and are progressing through to the Western Sydney Regional Finals. Their next debate will be

against Newbridge Heights Public School next week.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Wednesday 19 August ThinkUKnow Presentation - 5:30pm in School Library

Wednesday 19 August P&C Meeting - 7:00pm in the School Staffroom

Thursday 20 August Zone Field Events Carnival - Barton Park @ 10:00am

Friday 21 August Whole School Assembly - 11:30am in the School Hall

Monday 24 August K-2 Gymnastics

Monday 24 August Zone Track Events Carnival - Sydney International Athletics Centre @ 9:00am

Wednesday 26 August Kindergarten 2016 Parent Information Session - 6:00pm in the School Library

Monday 31 August K-2 Gymnastics

Tuesday 1 September Father’s Day Stall

Wednesday 2 September Donut Day

Thursday 3 September Father’s Day Stall

Friday 4 September Father’s Day Breakfast

Friday September 11 School Disco

Monday 14 September Our Spectacular Performance - Sydney Opera House

Certificate Awardees 2015

Gold

Olivier 2M

Arnya 2M

Silver

Joel KA

Isaiah KC

Harbir KC

Ayedan KC

Lachlan KC

Lara KC

David KC

Emir K/1S

Sebastian K/1S

Azaan 1/O

Khanye 1/O

Ahmad 1/O

Umid 1/O

John Paul 1/O

Gabriella 1/O

Brooklyn 1/O

Kharliah 1/O

Alanah 1/O

John Paul 1R

Julia 1R

Ege 1R

Michael 1R

Ricky 1R

Izaak 2M

Amelia 2M

Austin 2M

Ashley 2/3S

Justin 2/3S

Zoe 2/3S

Brayden 2/3S

Isabella 2/3S

Fayez 2/3S

Lily 2/3S

Alper 2/3S

Talon 2/3S

Nathan 2/3S

Jade 3/4A

Rory 3/4A

EJ 3/4A

Esha 3/4A

Khoda 3/4A

Kindergarten Enrolment 2016

Enrolment forms for next year’s Kindergarten students can be collected from the School Office any

time. Please complete the form and return it with your child’s original birth certificate, immunisation

certificate (or blue book) and proof of address, which will be copied and returned to the parent.

A Parent Information Session will be held on Wednesday 26 August 2015, at 6:00pm in the School

Library. Information regarding Kindergarten Orientation will be posted to families.

CANTEEN INFORMATION

Donut Day will be held this term on Wednesday 2 September, 2015. Notes will be

distributed this week. Please ensure your order form and payment are returned to the

Canteen Box on or before Monday 31 August, 2015

The Canteen has introduced a delicious new product! Banana Bread

will be sold in the School Canteen for $2.50, at Recess and Lunch. If

you would like Banana Bread for lunch, it must be ordered.

The Canteen Lunch Order Box can be found on the Staffroom steps

from 8:30am every morning. Lunch orders are to be placed in the box

or brought to the Canteen and pushed under the doors. During wet weather, the Lunch

Order Box will be moved to the School Office.

If your child is leaving school early and has placed a recess or lunch order, please notify the

Canteen staff before 10.30am so they do not prepare the food.

The Canteen number is 0411 143 609.

We are still in urgent need of helpers. If you are able to volunteer your time in the School

Canteen, please contact me via mobile.

-Ann Brett (Canteen Manager)

The helpers for Weeks 7 & 8 of Term 3, 2015 are:

Week 7 - Monday 24 August Chris Fitzpatrick

Tuesday 25 August Susan Porrello - AM

Katherine Cox - PM

Wednesday 26 August Martina Hulbert

Thursday 27 August Mary-Rose Grima

Friday 28 August Amanda Caine

Week 8 - Monday 31 August Chris Fitzpatrick

Tuesday 1 September Tracey Murphy - AM

Katherine Cox - PM

Wednesday 2 September Karen Huang - AM

Thursday 3 September Cheryl Ryan

Friday 4 September Toni Clements

LOST PROPERTY

Lost property can be found in a

plastic tub outside the Library

With last week's school photos, there were a lot of shirts, jumpers and jackets that were mixed up and taken by the wrong owners. Can you please check carefully your child's school uniform to make sure they have the correct ones for school. Any unknown or mixed up ones can be handed in at the office and we will connect them to their owner. The Uniform Shop staff have also been working hard to return labelled lost property to students. However, there are still many items in lost property without names or classes. Please ensure all uniform items are clearly labelled with your child’s full name and class.

Stage 3 Camp 2015

Tuesday August 4 - Thursday August 6

Hold on

Miss Crowe!

More photos can

be found on the

School Website:

www.ringrose-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Stage 3 Camp 2015

Tuesday August 4 - Thursday August 6

Yum! Dinner is served Ringrose Masterchefs!