Snapshot Week 4 Term 4

Friday 6 November 2020

Chromebook Secondhand Sale

As many of our students are leaving Rose Park Primary School at the

end of the year, we are hoping to support the school community

with a 'Second-hand Chromebook Sale'. While the school is not

directly involved in the sale/ purchase of the Chromebooks, we can

connect buyers and sellers, by creating a list of families wanting to

sell, and passing on details to those wanting to buy.

If you are considering selling your Chromebook, please complete the following Google

Form:

https://forms.gle/zWv4HTmpdFgoS2bh7

Each device must have a charger, and be undamaged, in good working order.

Scratch

Recently our students have deleted their school Scratch accounts due to concerns raised

regarding online safety and security. As Scratch is an online learning community, it allows

users to share work with other members, along with receive 'comments', 'likes' and 'followers'

for projects shared. While we have not had any issues of concern, it has been decided to

investigate other options to the continued use of Scratch, and we will work with the

Department for Education in devising a Risk Management plan. We are aware that many

students have Scratch accounts using their private email accounts. You may like to discuss

this as a family.

Week 5

Crossing Monitors

AM

Aditya M

Thami N

Riya S

PM

Edward W

Fady S

Sydney A

IBPYP Update - Japanese 日本語

YEAR 5 Unit of Inquiry: How We Express Ourselves - Artistic Expressions influence our lives,

emotions and wellbeing.

Line of Inquiry for Japanese: The arts are used to communicate cultural and individual ideas.

We discovered the wonderful wacky world of Yayoi Kusama and we were inspired to create

our own Yayoi artworks.

Year 6/7 students have practised being instructional resources for one another by sharing

their knowledge of hiragana.

Hikone Exchange - Japanese Lunch

Students who were selected for the 2020 Japan trip enjoyed a bento lunch and tea

ceremony with special guests Mariko and Hikari.

Library Dates for Term 4 2020

Week 6 – borrowing as normal

Week 7 – library open for returns ONLY

Weeks 8 and 9 – library CLOSED for stocktaking

Please help your children to return all their library books by the end of Week 7, Friday 27

November, after this date we will issue invoices for any outstanding books.

Band Workshop & Performance

Combined Rose Park PS – Marryatville HS Junior

Band Workshop/Performance

The Rose Park Primary School Concert Band was

fortunate to host the Marryatville Junior Concert

Band on Wednesday 4th November, for a workshop

and performance to the Rose Park students and

staff. The two bands combined to form a 50+ strong

concert band, and workshopped Pokemon Theme

and Legend of Tizona (The Sword of El Cid).

Most of the Rose Park band students indicated that they had not heard a bassoon played

live before, and were also able to hear the pieces they had been working on during the year

with a much fuller band sound, including tuba and French horn.

The Marryatville band ably assisted the Rose Park PS Band to perform a couple of the harder

charts that they had yet to perform, including Captain Marvel, Pokemon and Wind Dances.

Conducting the Band during the workshop and performance were Marryatville teacher Ryan

Gerlach and Instrumental Music teacher Peter Young. Aaron Lipp, who has been co-

directing the Rose Park Concert Band also assisted, providing valuable support and tenor

saxophone playing. Also in attendance were music teachers Jasmine Fennelly and Kate

Brown from Marryatville HS, and Janet Parkinson (Rose Park music teacher). Janet

commented on the constant smiles on the faces of the students involved during the process.

The Rose Park students got to hear the Marryatville band students perform a more elaborate

arrangement of the Avengers Theme, than the one they have been working on.

Due to Covid restrictions this year, the Rose Park Concert Band missed their usual Winter

Concert, so the workshop/performance provided a great outlet and celebration of the Rose

Park students’ talents and efforts. The concert was well supported by the students, staff and

leaders at Rose Park, and the band was thrilled to be able to play to a ‘full house’ of upper

primary students. Thanks to all involved.

Peter Young & Aaron Lipp

Parents & Friends News

Second Hand Uniform Stall -Due to survey feedback, the P&F will be holding a 2nd Hand

Uniform stall on Friday 27th November at the new time of 8:30am until 10:00am. We will be

under the trees near the Potts building. EFTPOS available! Donations would be wonderful but

if you still need those uniforms for the last few weeks don’t worry as we will be holding

another sale early in Term 1.

Lost Property - P&F will begin to sort and return lost property to students over the next few

weeks. We will also be providing the school community with a lost property table. This will be

on display all day on Friday 27th November. Please note that any (unnamed) uniform

uncollected by the end of the day will be sold as 2nd hand uniform next year.

Can you sew? - After viewing the sale of 2nd Hand Uniform we have some unsellable items of

clothing. We would love to see these made into scrunchies and sold in the 2nd hand uniform

sale. Anyone with sewing skills and the desire to help out please email us at:

pnf@roseparkps.com.au and will get some fabric to you.

IBPYP Update - Year 2

Transdisciplinary Theme: How we express

ourselves

Central Idea: Art forms are experienced and

created by people around the world

Year 2 classes have been exploring Indigenous

art. Tony Straccia and Coral Hayes Pananka

were invited to share their knowledge of the

symbols used by Indigenous artists. We painted

using dots and symbols to represent our own

families.

Transdisciplinary Theme: How we organise

ourselves

Central Idea: Transport Systems connect our

communities and use forces to move

Our Funky Nature Play experience tied in

well with our current Unit of Inquiry. We

experimented and built with branches, rope,

go-kart tyres, tarpaulins, rocks, fossils, barrels,

crates, pallets, mud, tyre tread and nets. We

used these materials to make different

structures, including a jail, jungle gym, go-

kart and houses. We loved being

courageous and experimenting with forces.

Book Week 2021

We enjoyed dressing up for Book Week as

characters from books as well as dressing to

the theme ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’.

It was a wild day!

Coming Up…

Remembrance Day Ceremony -

Wednesday 11 November

Sports Day - Friday 20 November

Pupil Free Day - Monday 27 November