NEWSLETTER 17th May, 2017

ISSUE 14

DET International CRICOS Code - 00861K

From The Principal… Dear Parents/Carers

Our students have made us proud through their participation in a range of extra-curricular events.

On the 5th May, ten year six students represented our school at Monbulk College for the Dance Stars Victoria competition. Congratulations to all students who participated:

Jessica and Stella in the solo; Tarlyia, Teagan, Lucy and Kaitlin in the Duo section; Kellee, Charlize, Lucy, Indigo, Ebony and Stella in the groups section.

All the girls were excellent representatives of Rowville Primary School and performed fabulous routines that were choreographed by themselves in their own time. We were lucky enough to receive three placings in the competition.

Jessica came 3rd in the solo.

Kellee, Charlize and Lucy came 3rd in the group section.

Lucy and Kaitlin came 1st in the duo section and will now progress through to the finals to be held on Friday 2nd June.

The year five Dance Stars competition will be held this Friday night in Monbulk. Good luck to all those students who will be participating.

Our Rowville Primary Girls ‘Go for Gold’ aerobics team headed down to Geelong to compete in the Victorian State Schoolaerobics Preliminary. They performed brilliantly and lit up the stage, coming first out of twenty teams!

They now have their sights set on the State Grand Final on Saturday 3rd June.

A huge congratulation to Alex, Sophie, Tarlyia, Kellee, Ming, Kaitlin, Lucy and Tyler and best of luck at State finals.

Both these success stories demonstrate our school values of responsibility and perseverance. There have been countless hours of practice before and after school, including countless hours of training sessions at home and at school. Participation in these extra-curricular activities is made possible through the dedication of our teachers who support students outside of school hours and at practice sessions.

National Volunteers Week (NVW) was last week. This is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers. With the theme Give Happy, Live Happy, introduced in 2015, we continue in 2017 to celebrate and explore the research that shows volunteers live happier and healthier lives.

We have many volunteers in our school including classroom helpers, excursion, Beyond Boundaries and sport helpers, families that attend project days, FORPS event organisers and their team of helpers, Kids Hope, helpers that cover books, helpers in the kitchen, Canteen, School Council and its Sub-committees, BBQs helpers and many other ways community members get involved. Thank you retrospectively (and looking forward) for all that you do to make our school a great place.

A special thank you to Shelby for organising the Mothers Day stall and to our parent helpers Kate, Lisa B, Sara, Katrina, Lorraine, Rania, Phoenix, Lisa M and Tammie for assisting the students to select their special gifts.

Anne Babich Principal

Year 6 competitors at the Dance Stars Victoria Competition

Rowville Primary Girls ‘Go for Gold’ aerobics team performing

From the Acting Assistant Principal

Dear Parents/Carers

On Tuesday Mrs Yon and I visited Parliament House with the Year 5/6 Parliamentarians. We were greeted at the State Parliament by the Honourable Kim Wells MP who gave us a personal tour of Parliament. The Parliament of Victoria is a bicameral legislature (two Houses) with representatives elected to either the Legislative Council (the Upper House)

or the Legislative Assembly (the Lower House). The Assembly has 88 Members and the Council has 40 Members. In assembly on Monday, the Honourable Alan Tudge MP talked about showing respect for the Australian flag and he went on to share the history of the Australian flag. The Union Jack on the top left corner of the Australian flag denotes Australia’s links with Great Britain. Following the Westminster tradition, the party having the support of the majority of Members in the Lower House has the right to form Government. The Government is then answerable to Parliament. This is called ‘responsible government’ because the Government is responsible to Parliament and must present its policies for parliamentary scrutiny.

The Parliamentarians were extremely respectful throughout the tour and even had the

opportunity to debate in the Legislative Assembly Chamber. There was time to debate two

very important issues, the first topic for debate was ‘Being left at home at 10 years of age is

too young’ and ‘Plastic bags should be banned in Australia’. Both topics led to very interesting

debates between the Government led by Oscar and the Opposition led by Ashna. Luckily Arwa

was on hand as the Speaker to ensure that there was order in the house and even had to give the

Honourable Kim Wells MP a warning during proceedings! Thank you to the parent helpers that

volunteered to support on the day.

Last week I set the challenge to students to bring in package free lunches for the week. I was

impressed with a number of students who decided to do their bit for the environment and make a

small change that can have a huge impact. Well done to Mahkayla and Kiara in year 4 for respecting

our school environment and bringing their package free lunch to my office.

Next week will be Education Week and to celebrate at Rowville Primary School we will be hosting our

annual Twilight School Day. It is always an exciting event at Rowville Primary School and we enjoy

having many visitors through our doors to observe the outstanding teaching and learning that takes

place. A reminder that dinner orders and care arrangement forms for Twilight School will need to be

handed in to the office by Friday 19th May.

Have a wonderful week ahead.

Liam Jury

Acting Assistant Principal

Twilight School enables all members of the community to witness a school day in

progress. The Twilight School is an official 'Variation to School Hours Day'. The

school day officially begins at 1.00pm and ends at 7.30pm.

School Hours for Twilight School: 1.00pm – 7.30 pm

1:00pm – 3:00pm Session 1 and 2

3:00pm – 3:30pm RECESS

3:30pm – 4:30pm Session 3

4:30pm – 5.15pm RECESS

5.15pm – 5:30pm Dinner in the classroom

5:30pm – 7:30pm Session 4 and 5

Students are to be collected by a parent from their classroom at 7.30pm.

It is expected that students who cannot be supervised at home until 1.00pm be sent to school as usual. Letters have been sent home to all parents to ascertain each students supervision arrangements for the morning. Please note that Afterschool Care with Camp Australia will not operate in the afternoon on this day.

Twilight School - Thursday 25th May

Congratulations to the following students who earned Mathletics Certificates last week.

Silver Certificates

Bronze Certificates

Gold Certificates

Mathletics Awards

David S Dylan L Lauren K Zac B

Aadhi S

Aanya P

Ada Y

Aiden C

Akil B

Bailey M

Benjamin W

Bethany H

Bradley S

Disha A

Elizabeth H

Ella R

Emily S

Ethan V

Evelyn H

Ganjan C

George S

Hailey S

Jad E

Jahzara T

Jenna C

Josephine F

Kirsten F

Lachlan A

Leon M

Lorenzo F

Mahit R

Mahkayla C

Prachee A

Pradnya V

Sebastien L

Sienna H

Sophia H

Sophie K

Steven B

Tayla K

Temperance L

Tilly M

Tyler P

Wyatt S

Zac M

Zarah M

Ziad B

Alex S

Chloe K

Farah O

Giuseppe R

Grace C

Hudson R

Jayda-Lee S

Mariam I

Petelo F

Siobhan L

Titus W

Congratulations to the following students who were presented with an award at our Monday morning assembly. These awards were given to students who have demonstrated significant academic excellence.

Foundation A Eshal N Carefully stretching out her words and recording each of the sounds that she hears in her writing. Well done Eshal!

Foundation B Fenice O Creating opinions about a subject so that she can use them as a seed for writing.

Foundation C Curtis O Working hard to decode unknown words by getting his mouth ready to sound out the word. Well done Curtis!

1A Jake S Being skilled at asking questions during reading time and sharing his thinking with his classmates.

1B Joshua B Creating interesting leads to make his beginning in his personal narrative more engaging.

1C Alyssia B Creating captivating leads to make her writing pieces interesting.

2A Scarlett E Thinking critically about how to best create a raft, using her knowledge of our previous investigation on selecting materials that are waterproof and will float.

2B Cooper J Producing good quality writing during our non-fiction unit.

2C Ella F Brainstorming creative ideas and writing an engaging beginning to her fictional story.

3A Amelie P Using interesting sentence leads and including a satisfying ending to complete her entertaining narrative.

3B Jordan F Using interesting sentence leads and including a satisfying ending to complete his entertaining narrative.

3C Bridgette N Using interesting sentence leads and including a satisfying ending to complete her entertaining narrative.

4A Emily S Applying her knowledge of multiplication facts to solve a range of increasingly complex problems.

4B Ashley M Effectively using the split strategy to solve multiplication problems.

4C Ayden B Using a range of mental strategies to solve complex multiplication problems.

5A Jessica B Demonstrating thorough research and giving detailed responses to how the Earth's surface has changed over time.

5B Jemma W Displaying initiative to ensure that there were relevant texts within her classroom library.

5C Sharisa R Taking responsibility to continue her inquiry learning at home and report her findings back to her peers.

6A Kellee H Consistently using strategies to make her reading more engaging. Well done.

6B Stella Y Considering the trait of 'voice' when writing scientific lab reports, by implementing scientific language to create to a formal tone.

6C Arwa S Applying her scientific knowledge to explain what is happening in an experiment, as well as her remarkable ability to analyse her gathered data to draw conclusions.

Weekly Achievement Awards

National Volunteers Week

Last week was National Volunteers Week (8th – 14th May, 2017). It is the largest celebration of volunteers in Australia and was established in 1989. In 2015 the theme of Give Happy, Live Happy was introduced. The research shows that volunteers live happier and healthier lives. I’d like to thank all the volunteers that help in the library throughout the year and especially Emily and Kate who have regularly been in to help with shelving and other library tasks. Your contribution to our school is very much appreciated thank you.

Thank You

I’d like to extend a big thank you to Ros Bartlett for her recent large donation of resources to the school library. Our students are going to enjoy the resources very much .

Jackie Hicks – Library Technician

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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge update

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is up and running at Rowville Primary School. Students and teachers are enjoying their reading.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by the closing date of 8 September 2017. Children from Foundation to Year 2 are reading 30 books with their classroom teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 6 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. It is important to note that parental consent forms are no longer required for children to participate in the Challenge; however we do need parental consent for the names of successful students to be published on the online Premiers’ Reading Challenge Honour Roll.

We have decided that for 2017 all students in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 who are already reading 30 books with their classroom teachers will be enrolled to participate. Parents who have not returned the consent form will be marked as “NO” and their child’s name will not be published on the online honour roll.

To read the Premiers’ letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit www.education.vic.gov.au/prc. If anyone has any concerns or would like further clarification please contact us.

Grace Searl and Jackie Hicks Reading Challenge Co-ordinators

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If you would like your child’s name to appear on the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge online Honour Roll, please sign this form and return it to the school library.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Definitions: Department refers to the Victorian Department of Education and Training, Person refers to the child/adult listed below in the consent declaration.

Privacy Protection

The Department takes its privacy obligations seriously and any personal information collected or used by the Department will be handled in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic). This law sets out what we must do when the Department collects, uses, handles and destroys personal information. Personal information includes personal details such as an individual’s name and school that could be used to identify an individual.

Collection, use, disclosure and storage of personal information

If you provide your consent your school will collect and disclose your child’s first and last name, and the name of the school to the Department. The Department will then:

Publish your child’s name on its online Honour Roll located at: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc at the completion of the Challenge with no other identifying factors such as early childhood setting name.

Accuracy, access to information and withdrawal of consent

The Department will endeavour to ensure that any personal information held about your child is up to date and accurate. You can access, correct and withdraw personal information held by the Department by written request in accordance with the Department’s Information Privacy Policy located at:

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/privacypolicy.aspx

Consent may be withdrawn at any time by writing to the Department’s Privacy Unit on: privacy.enquiries@edumail.vic.gov.au .

If you have any questions about this form, or if you need more information, please contact the PRC Challenge Coordinator at the Department readingchallenge@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9637 3624.

Yes, I consent to my child’s name appearing on the online Honour roll for the 2017 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge .

Name of child………………………………………………………………………………….. Grade………………………………………..

Parent Signature………………………………………………………………………………

Library News

Bronwyn Richards & Cindy Gardiner

Canteen Team

Rowville Kids Café News Thank you to our helpers for Term 2

Monday 22nd May K. Nelson

Tuesday 23rd May L. McConnochie

Wednesday 24th May V. Stevenson

Thursday 25th May Twilight School

Friday 26th May S. Schmidt &

HELP NEEDED

A copy of the full café menu is available on the website: rowville.ps.vic.edu.au

Specials Menu POPCORN MONDAY Freshly Popped Popcorn $1.00

Wacky WEDNESDAY Lunch order only

Chicken Chippies (bag of 6) $3.00 a bag

Sushi unavailable until further notice due to the supplier renovating

their premises.

Entertainment Books Rowville Primary School is once again selling the Entertainment Books/Digital Memberships as part of our fundraising efforts. The Book/Membership is $70 and an order form is enclosed in this newsletter. Alternatively you can purchase online at; https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/187w714

Spare Clothes

From time to time, students may require a change of clothing, particularly as we enter into Winter. Could we please ask that a spare set of uniform and under garments are placed in your child’s school bag in case they are required. This may save parents needing to come up to school during the day.

First Aid News

Volunteers are needed to help in the canteen at lunchtime

1.00pm to 2.00pm on Thursdays.

If you can help, please see Bronwyn or Cindy in the canteen.

FORPS News

ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL UNIFORM PRICE LIST AS AT 1/9/2015

KLAD SPORT PTY LTD ABN 92 191 499 563

FACTORY 8 MACRO COURT, ROWVILLE VIC 3178 TELEPHONE: 9763 0266

Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 8.30am-5.00pm, Friday 8.30am-4.30pm & Saturday 10.00am-1.00pm

GARMENT COLOUR PRICE

Windcheater

Navy with Sky Blue embroidered logo $28.00

Short Sleeve Polo Shirt

Sky Blue with Navy embroidered logo $25.00

Long Sleeve Polo Shirt

Sky Blue with Navy embroidered logo $26.00

Waterproof Jacket

Navy/ Sky blue piping embroidered logo $53.00

Skorts

Navy $29.00

Summer Dress

Sky Blue/Navy/White check $42.00

Shorts- Gaberdine

Navy with zip pocket $24.00

Bomber Jacket

Sky Blue/Navy with embroidered logo $45.00

Trousers

Navy $29.00

Tracksuit Pants

Navy $24.00

Girls Bootleg Pants

Navy with zip pocket $28.00

Pinafore Navy/Sky/White check $55.00

Tights

Navy $13.00

Slouch Hat

Navy with logo $16.00

School Bag Spartan

Navy with logo and warranty $53.00

ALL PRICES ARE GST INCLUSIVE Prices as at 1/9/2015

NEITHER ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL NOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ENDORSES THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OF ANY PRIVATE ADVERTISER. NO RESPONSIBILITY IS ACCEPTED BY ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL OR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ADVERTISEMENTS OR CLAIMS MADE BY THEM.

MSA Expo and Parent Information Evening

Rowville Secondary College offers an exciting specialist program known as the Maths and Science Academy (MSA). This program provides students with the opportunity to investigate Maths and Science curriculum in greater depth and to engage with other motivated and enthusiastic learners.

A parent information session will be held in the Senior Study Centre at Rowville Secondary College, West Campus, Paratea Drive Rowville.

Date: Wednesday, May 24th

Time: 7pm

Parents are also invited to attend the MSA Expo which showcases students at work on various projects. This will begin at 5.30pm (Wednesday, May 24th) in the Science wing.

For further inquiries, please contact Sue Williams on 9755-4555

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