The Turtle Times Hello Rosebery PS families, I’d like to begin today’s newsletter with a huge THANK YOU. I am incredibly proud of our school community and all that we have achieved together in our first 6 months. The staff are to be commended on their amazing hard work – it’s indeed a very difficult job to start all aspects of a school from scratch. But they have shown determination and professionalism of the highest level to ensure that our students are learning and collaborating at a new level. Our parents have also been wonderfully supportive – it takes patience and understanding when the physical elements of the school are still being installed and when we are simultaneously building our culture and learning programs. You have been more than a support, but a critical component of our ongoing success. And our students – they have also thrilled me. We have a delightful body of students who smile and do their best each and every day. We have come to be very proud of them all. So, THANK YOU, again. Students will resume at school after the holidays on Tuesday 26 th July . There will be a Pupil Free Day on Monday 25 th July where our staff will be participating in a full day of learning on Restorative Practices. Restorative Practices are the underpinning feature of our work in behaviour management and wellbeing. On this topic, thanks so much to the parents who attended our parent information session on Tuesday night. It was a great night of conversation and learning – we’ll provide more of these opportunities in the future. We were hoping to have an oval by now, but as this isn’t the case, we decided to have an impromptu Sports Day today. It was plenty of fun and our thanks go to Mr.Morrison and his Health & PE Team for pulling it together. Next year’s Sports Day will be a much bigger event with focus on our houses – Menida (Green – Crocodile), Mamba (Blue – Dolphin), Balli (Red – Mudcrab) and Wamba (Black – Shark). We thank you for your patience this week as we had some disruptions to classes to allow our teachers some valuable Collaborative Planning opportunities. In a Co-Teaching partnership, it’s important to provide the teachers with real time to plan together so that next Term’s programs are exciting, engaging and chocked full of learning. The teachers did some fantastic work and I know you’ll be excited by the programs they roll out for students in Semester 2. The Front Office will be open in the final week of the holidays – July 18 th to 22 nd for anybody wishing to buy some uniforms, make some voluntary contributions, etc. I’d like to wish you all a fantastic holiday period. I hope you get some enjoying and relaxing time with family and friends. Holidays are a great time to get to know the kids again and I would encourage you all to look for opportunities to read with your child/ren at this time. This will keep them cued in to learning and it also builds an enjoyment of text that is invaluable in primary aged students. But most of all, have a safe break and I look forward to seeing you all again in the new semester. Kind regards, Adam Voigt Principal Pupil Free Day Sports Day Collaborative Planning for our Teachers School Hours in the holiday break Have a great holiday!! Belyuen Rd Rosebery, NT,0832 P O Box 650 Palmerston, NT, 0831 Phone: 8930 5100 Fax: 8930 5199 Absentee Line: 8930 5140 Email: [email protected] 24th June 2011 Term 2 Week 11 Every Child, Every Day - improving student enrolment, attendance and participation is everybody’s responsibility and everyone’s business.