Issue Number 15 June 4th 2018

Dates To Remember

Term Dates for 2018

2 April 16—June 29

3 July 16—September 21

4 October 8—December 21

Your school community is here to help. If you have any comments, concerns or praise, please speak to your child’s teacher, the principal or a School Council member.

2018 Curriculum Days Friday 17th August Monday 5th November

June

Richmond Primary School 85 Brighton Street Richmond 3121 > T: 9428 1909 F: 9428 9085 OSHC T: 0447 330 481 E: richmond.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.richmondps.vic.edu.au > EFTPOS facilities available

11 Queen’s Birthday Holiday

13 School Council

15 RPS Disco

26 Reports go home

27 Gr 5/6 Expo Afternoon

29 Term Ends—2.30 Dismissal

THE RPS DISCO IS COMING!!

Keep Friday June 15 free for the Great RPS Disco—more information

in this issue!

LITTLE BLOSSOMS IN THE BOTANICAL GARDENS The Grade Preps Excursion—May 15

On the 15th of May the Preps went on an excursion to the Royal Botanic Gardens. The rain didn’t stop us having a great time. We put on our gumboots and rain-coats and off we went! The day involved lots of fun, hands-on activities including potting Everlasting Daisies, harvesting the Children’s Garden for Echinacea seeds and fresh herbs and of course, holding worms!! The children learnt about composting and sustainability. They also learnt about some of the plants and animals that live in the gardens and what they need to survive. We’re looking forward to our next excursion to Ripponlea House in June.

11 Queen’s Birthday Holiday

13 School Council

15 RPS Disco

26 Reports go home

27 Gr 5/6 Expo Afternoon

29 Term Ends—2.30 Dismissal

Prioritising mental health, happiness and stress, is important for our school community and the health of our students. Resilience refers to a child’s ability to overcome or bounce back from anything that students’ find challenging, including events that seem relatively minor to others. At Richmond Primary all teachers put in place strategies to build student’s resilience. One strategy is mindfulness. In a busy day of learning it is important for our students to have time to be present in the moment. Mindfulness is a strategy that when practiced regularly helps toward improving mental health. It is, The ability to be completely present in the moment To remain focused on one task To be completely engaged in a topic, task or conversation To raise self-awareness To increase appreciation of surroundings and of others To become more connected Ways to be mindful at school and home

Smiling Mind App Origami Photos - write down as many things as you can see Spot the difference Body Awareness 5 minutes - write down everything you can hear Look up, down, left, right. Observe and appreciate Mindfulness walk / sketch Colouring Nerida Burns Assistant Principal

Student Well Being

Lunchtime Clubs —Helping Relieve ‘Playground Stress’! One of the important goals for our school , with our limited space and high student numbers is the relief of ‘Playground Stress.’ Our teachers have committed to a number of initiatives in this area in an effort to provide alternative activities to promote use of under utilised playground space. This sees an extra yard duty teacher available at the Alan Bain Reserve to supervise lunchtime play there, as well as a range of clubs run by teachers during their lunch break. This includes: Aimee running Board Games Club; Sam and Sarah M running Lego Club; Ellen running Dance Club; Cassie running Chill & Homework Club; Nerida running Cosmic Kids Yoga Club; and Josh running Coding Club. We also have a number of teachers who are giving extra time to open the Library at lunchtime for book borrowing. We hope students are taking advantage of their teachers’ generosity and coming along (and also helping make our playground less crowded!)

Parent Survey Results

Thank you to all those parents who responded to our survey regarding our building options designed to help manage our growing numbers. This survey is now closed and our Education and Building & Grounds Committees of School Council will be looking at the results. I will report back to you all about what we learned. School Council will be using this information at our next meeting on June 13 to assist with the decision making process as to which option we commit to.

Dean Banova Principal

On The Left—Some shots from Lunchtime Clubs including: Library Time (top); Board Games Club (middle): and Lego Club (bottom.)

Grade Prep S Caitlin Shaw For the excellent detail you have been adding to your writing Caitlin. I love the way you have been challenging yourself. Well done!

Prep J Thomas Rossiter For learning all his letters and sounds. A lot of growth over a short period of time! Well done Thomas.

Prep A Sebastian Acquilina For writing such fabulous Investigation Time recounts. You are doing a great job with your WOW words and your linking words. Keep it up!

Grade 1/2 L Owen Boxer For your fantastic work in Mathe-matics Owen! Your speedy recall skills are impressive, keep it up!

Grade 5/6 Yana Nguyen

For your outstanding persuasive text on why Australia should become a republic. Your arguments were strong and your case was very clear. The Queen had better watch the throne!

Grade 5/6 S Aylin Guler

For your improved focus and attention during all class activities. You are a super smart and sunshiney role model for 5/6S!

Grade 5/6 E Isabella Nielsen

For your impressive improvement in organisation and unbelievable creative thinking in literacy. The class loves hearing your written material! Well done and keep up the good work Bella!

Grade 1/2 S Rose Lowe Congratulation Rose for working so hard on your mathematics. You are on FIRE!

Grade 5/6R Will Rahilly

For your interesting and engaging persuasive writing piece. You took a differing point of view on the cricket ball tampering scandal and managed to argue it very well. I wonder if you used some sandpaper to smooth out your arguments?

Grade 3/4 J Ben Major

For being a responsible member of our class. Well done for always trying your best!

Grade 3/4 N Lydia Forster

For your much improved focus and the outstanding quality of your Read Around The World homework. Lydia, it has been so great to see you reaching your full potential. You are a star!

Grade 1/2 P Julian Tregambe For his problem solving skills when he is working with numbers into the thousands. Excellent work!

Grade 3/4 S Zoe Stojanovic For the focus and hard work you have shown throughout this Term; I have been very impressed with the way you make sure everything is completed, from your Lit Circle work to your excellent home-work pieces. Well done!

Grade 3/4 C Max Kerr For the poster you created on 2D & 3D shapes in maths. Your drawings were carefully drawn and you clearly showed your understanding of the properties of each shape by labelling the faces, edges and vertices. It’s great to see the pride you have been taking in your work Max, keep it up!

Grade 1/2 T Jess Thompson

For confidently explaining her working out when solving addition problems. You will be teaching me soon Jess, great work!

Grade 1/2J Karolina Janowska For being such a friendly and caring classmate, giving 100% to your learning tasks and being a great role model in the classroom. Excellent work Karolina!

This week’s clue: This Grade 6 student’s name con-tains the name of a German car.

No Winner for this week so last week’s Quiz question still running. Go on HAVE A GO

LOCAL SCHOOL NEWS—Third campus for the Fitzroy High School and Collingwood College Senior Secondary Partnership We are pleased to announce that the 2018-19 State Budget has allocated funds to plan for a new senior secondary campus to be shared by Collingwood College and Fitzroy High School on the Fitzroy Gasworks site. The campus will build on the successful Senior Secondary Partnership that has been running for nearly a decade between our dynamic inner city state schools. Collingwood College and Fitzroy High School have been working together delivering a wide choice of senior secondary programs while maintaining a strong identity and attachment to each of the respective schools by students and teachers. This site offers a key opportunity to enhance well integrated secondary education provision in the City of Yarra. We will continue to report any further developments as they occur.

Selling your house? Mention RPS at the time of listing and Biggin & Scott Richmond will donate $1,000.00 to the school. They will also donate $500.00 to the school for every new management property signed up, where RPS is mentioned.

Chinese Whispers Preps have started to learn writing in Chinese charac-ters, it is amazing to see how neat their writing is.