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‘News from the Hill’ Rooty Hill Public School Quality Education in a vibrant, caring school

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Westminster St, Rooty Hill Phone: 9625 8807 Fax: 9832 1561

Term 2 Week 4 21st May 2019

NAPLAN Continues

Years 3 and 5 -Wed 22nd May-Thurs 23rd May________________

Maths Olympiad -Wed 22nd May________________

Sorry Day -Fri 24th May________________

School Council Meeting -Mon 27th May________________

Year 3 Excursion -Tues 28th May________________

PULSE Rehearsal -Tues 28th May________________

Dance Cake Stall -Thurs 30th May________________

Synergy Rehearsal -Thurs 6th June________________

PUBLIC HOLIDAY -Mon 10th June________________

Synergy Evening Performance -Tues 11th JuneMatineePerfornance-Thurs 13th June

Focus of the Fortnight

# Eat a healthy recess and lunch

# Invite others to join your activities

From the Principal Planning to enrol?

If you will be enrolling a child in Kindergarten for next year, or you have friends or neighbours planning to enrol students at our school, we will be trialling a newly developed Online Enrolment System (OES) for the Department of Education from Monday, 20 May 2019.

The Online Enrolment System is designed to provide flexibility for parents to submit an Application to Enrol in a NSW Government School online at a time best suitable to you. The application can be accessed on all browsers and mobile devices including IOS and Android.

The online application process is currently restricted to: enrolments into local schools only children who are Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or permanent residents children who live in NSW.

We offer our support and encourage you to use the Online Enrolment System. If however, you do not feel comfortable completing an application online, a paper copy will be available for collection from the front office or can be downloaded from the Department’s going to a public school site.

Year 1 Penrith Lakes Excursion On Thursday 16th May, eighty-two excited students and four teachers visited the Penrith Lakes Environmental Education Centre. Student learned about how the man-made lakes were made, excavating river rock, layers of the earth and the insects and animals who live around these amazing man-made lakes. Some lucky students were able to get up close and personal with some of the wildlife that came to visit. All students enjoyed participating in the dip-netting down by the ponds and collecting information about the insects in the trees that they could see down by thelearning centre.Karen Epps

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2019 Zone Cross Country Congratulations to all the students who competed at the Zone Cross Country Carnival. Rooty Hill Public School had a fantastic day placed 2nd overall. Every student should feel really proud of this outstanding achievement as they all contributed to our school’s point tally.

Ebony Dunwell, Jamaica Poilley, Simaa Boram, Aaliyah Acosta, Erika Mercardo, Olivia Khov, Gabrielle Morales, Olympia Ross, Amarli Ofiu, Lykah Halili, Ritia Teariki, Angel Pita, Ysabella Annecchini, Vivian Fishlock , Ava Fishlock , Jaedus Peterson, Khalia Evagelia, Sabaa Boram, Nabaa Boram, Dakota Christian , Anagha Martin, Imogen Saunders, Maddison Bryant, Zachariah McVernon, Marcus Schneider, Rudra Godowale, Bryson Cardona, Elijah Lee, Ethan Thomas, Zac Dunwell, Christopher Norton, Ryan Hogan, Nate Micallef, Akshaj Gavva, Aarush Gavva, Kye Klumper, Jasais Ah Kee, Trey Hodson, Hayden Hull, Alex Perry, Johannan Ah Kee, Cooper Micallef, Rohan Prakash, Cooper Brady, Dylan Loughton, Crus Lese, Henry Hill, Sharjeel Syed, Melvan Coombes.

From me personally, I would like to say a big thanks to all the parents, grandparents and relatives who volunteered their time to help transport our students to and from the event. Everyone lent a hand to put up our school gazebos, help students stretch and prepare for the races and with their after race recovery. A neighbouring school commented on what a great sense of teamwork and community our students and adults displayed on the day.

A second round of congratulation goes to the following students who finished in the top 8 and have qualified to represent the Mt Druitt Zone at the Sydney West Carnival. Jaedus Peterson, Vivian Fishlock, Sabaa Boram, Zac Dunwell, Jasais Ah Kee, Trey Hodson, Hayden Hull and Cooper Brady. Mrs Sandra Russell Cross Country Co-Ordinator.

Zone PSSA Students Over the past 10 weeks, students from Rooty Hill Public School have been attending sporting trials with over 80 students from all over the Mt Druitt Zone. We have some very talented sportspeople here at RHPS. Three boys made the Zone soccer team, Zachary Dunwell, Mounir Girma and Hayden Hull. Unfortunately Mounir broke his arm prior to the carnival and was unable to play.

The boys attended a GALA day last term where they represented the Mt Druitt Zone and played four hard games of soccer. Johannan Ah Kee, Jasias Ah Kee, and Cruz Iese made the Zone Touch Football Team and were very successful on the day.

We also had 3 students who made the Zone Rugby League team in either the under 11’s or open teams. Zachariah Matara, Johannan Ah Kee, and Jasais Ah Kee played in a full day carnival, the under 11’s were runners up and the opens team won. Congratulations boys! Zachariah Matara and Johannan Ah Kee attended trials for the Western Zone Rugby Union Team with students from Penrith, Blue Mountains, Mt Druitt and St Mary’s. There is still another trial to take place next week. I would like to wish them luck with these trials.

Whilst playing his games, Jasias Ah Kee was identified as having outstanding sporting ability and was then chosen by the Sydney West Selectors to join the Sydney West Teams for both Touch Football and Rugby League. This is an amazing achievement. Jasais will be travelling to the Central Coast for a 3 day carnival for each sport later in the term. We would like to congratulate Jasais on this massive achievement and a huge Good Luck from all of the students and staff at Rooty Hill Public School. Noele Steward PDHPE Coordinator

Camp Payment

Due Dates

Year 3

16th May

13th June

27th June

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Year 4

16th May

13th June

27th June

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Year 5

17th May

7th June

28th June

26th July

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Year 6

17th May

7th June

28th June

26th July

Remember tobring your school hat everyday.



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Parent Workshop – Reading On Monday 6th May we hosted our first Parent Workshop of

the year. The aim of the workshop was to enable parents to

better support their child’s reading at home and encourage

and foster a love of reading. We had a fantastic turn out with

over fifteen parents attending. They were guided through the

importance of reading at home, how we teach reading at school and a variety of

strategies they could implement at home to help their child become more confident

readers.

We will be hosting another workshop later this term with a focus on how parents can

support their child in Numeracy.

Alisia McWhirter & Linda Dollin

Hair and Beauty Course RootyHill Public School in partnership with Mt Druitt TAFE NSW has run a 10 week

Beauty Basic Course run by Hayley Palermo.

Within this course the ladies learned, basic hair styling, basic makeup techniques, skin

types, face products and facials.

Throughout the course the ladies had an awesome time and also made new friends.

Gerard Azie

Community Liaison Officer

PaTCH Our PaTCH (Parents as Classroom Helpers) program started late last term. Each fortnight

our parents learn about supporting students in our classrooms with an aspect of Literacy or

Numeracy. This week our PaTCH parents had their first visit into classrooms. They really

enjoyed their first experience, reading and

discussing stories they chose with groups of

students. Not only did the PaTCH parents enjoy

this experience, but so did students and

teachers.

Julie Lewis PaTCH Trainer

Goshin Kan Karate& Self Defence

Rooty Hill Public School

Monday & Wednesday 6.30pm Children7.30pm Adults

Learn to protect yourself.Develop Confidence,

Human values, Disciplines and Self

Control.

Mobile – 0405 000 366Head teacher

Kancho Deena Naidu6th Graduate of the

Japan Karate College in the world.

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to date!

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P & C News Mother’s Day Stall Our Mother’s Day Stall was held on Tuesday 7th May. A big thank you to all the students who bought a gift for their mum or grandma at the stall. We hope they enjoyed receiving the present you carefully selected, and they had a wonderful Mother’s Day! Thank you so much to the students who donated generous gifts for the stall. The winner of the Penrith Panthers Voucher was Micholai from 5J. Also, a huge thank you to the ladies who wrapped gifts and helped at the stall; Tammy, Donabel, Tracey, Gloria, Amie, Schannaey, Sandy, Sandie, Alice & Karen! Your assistance was greatly appreciated.

Together we raised $1200.00 for the school.

THE SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT BOOK As a fundraiser for Rooty Hill Public School, the P & C Association are selling “The Entertain-ment Book”! The Sydney Entertainment Book Membership contains over $20,000 worth of valuable offers that can be used from now until 1st of June 2020. This book is full of vouchers/offers with discounts for restaurants, cafes, takeaways, movies, attractions, theme parks, accommodation, airline tickets, magazine subscriptions, shopping offers & E-gift cards (for example, 10% off vouchers for: Supercheap Auto, Priceline Pharma-cy, Rebel Sports, & BCF eGift cards & 5% off JB HiFi & Woolworths wish cards) plus much more! For $70, you only need to use the book a couple of times and it has paid for itself! And you can share the vouchers with family members!

Please take a look at the sample book on display in the office or you can visit the website: www.entertainmentbook.com.au for more information.

To purchase a book, you can order safely on line with your credit card at: https://www.entbook.com.au/2902s40 (This links directly to Rooty Hill Public School fund-raising, select pick up to collect from the school so you don’t pay postage.) or for more in-formation please contact Sandra McAndrew on 0416 253 220. If you prefer the convenience of having the value of the book on your smartphone, you can select the digital membership.

As well as being a great investment for yourself, or as an ideal gift, this is a fundraising op-portunity for our school. Please consider purchasing one, or let your friends and family know our school is selling this fantastic book. Thank you P & C

Year 1 Excursion: Riverside Theatre On Tuesday 7th May many students in Year 1 travelled by bus to the Riverside Theatre at

Parramatta to watch a live performance of the production “Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Cir-

cus”. Students watched a man known as Mozart tumble and twirl as musical mayhem and

movement fused in this remarkable performance with a twist of circus. Students were highly

entertained and amused as they watched the performers act and move to the classical

music. At the conclusion of the show the performers came back on stage where they gave

students the opportunity to ask them questions about the show or performing in general.

The following day students were able to write about their experience at Riverside Theatre

and their favourite part of the performance.

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News from the Hill Rooty Hill Public School · From me personally, I would like to say a big thanks to all the parents, grandparents and relatives who volunteered their time to help