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A Letter to the Community
“Thought for the Week”
SCHOOL NEWS
No.9 15th May 2020
Covid-19 and
Rathdowney SS
Last week, the Queensland government decided that
schools would re-open this week to children of essen-tial workers and vulnerable children as well as all Prep and Year 1 children in pri-mary school (and years 11 and 12 at high school). If
all goes well and only a few new Covid cases are rec-orded in the state in the next two weeks, all state
schools should reopen for
Rathdowney State Primary School
143-155 Mount Lindesay Highway, Rathdowney 4287
Phone: (07) 5540 4333
Principal: Tina van Bennekom www.rathdowneyss.eq.edu.au
all students on 25 May. All students in Years 2 to 6 (and Years 7-10 at high school) will continue on
with learning at home until then. This means that
home learning packs will be available as usual, for
pick-up for children in Year 2 and above on Mondays, from 8-9am and drop off
for marking from 8-9am on Fridays.
Please phone the school if you are worried or unsure of the work the children
are supposed to do.
Back at School
At school, we are doing the
same work that students
who are learning from home have been given to do. You might notice sub-tle changes in the planning for each week. This is to
maintain the school curric-ulum as much as we can and to help with student well-being while they are
away from school.
This week we have had more children coming to
school as more of our par-ents return to work. This week we have had 17 stu-
dents at school. In Ms Lane’s class we have 10
students currently attend-ing. There will be even
more students at school the week after next week with all state school stu-
dents anticipated to return to school from Monday, 25
May.
Year 3-6 Class
At school in Ms v B’s class, we have again been bea-vering away happily. With Will, Linden, Harlow, Sissy, Hooti, Max and Montana
at school, the classroom is filling up and lots of work is being done. The students are missing their friends
though, as would the stu-dents learning from home,
I imagine.
Ms Sugi, our Japanese teacher, and Mr Kroll, our Science, HPE and technol-ogy teacher have now re-
turned to their original cir-cuits, working at our school
on Wednesdays and Fri-days, and Wednesdays and
Thursdays respectively. Mrs Brown, our guidance officer was back also last week. Ms B, our music
teacher, has been attend-ing our school as usual on Wednesdays throughout the Learning from Home
period.
The students all play hap-pily at break times and find
different activities to do each day. Yesterday they
took great interest in watching the builders pour the concrete for the new
base for the rainwater tanks at the back of the
tuckshop.
Block C Refurbish-ments
The builders have been
busy in the classrooms up-stairs and excavators have been busy with the plumb-
ing and drainage work downstairs. Last weekend
the tall tank stand and tank near the toilet block was removed. It has not been
used in many years and be-cause construction work
needed to be done in this area it was removed. The
old tank stand and tank near the staff room will also be removed in the
next week or so.
This week the footings and reinforcing steel had been laid ready for concreting,
which was done yesterday. Today and tomorrow the wall sheeting is going up.
The windows are being in-stalled on Monday. Yes-
terday, we were visited by the project manager, the
architects and the Depart-ment of Education’s, Barb Kropp and Glenn Zimmerle to see how the work was
progressing. We have been told that the work should all be completed
ahead of time, in the next
3 weeks! We were in-formed yesterday that any, and all, remaining asbestos in Block C has now been re-
moved.
As a bonus, we were told that the toilet block would also be painted to match
the rest of the school.
Our school should look fan-tastic after the next few
weeks!
Bouquet for
Rathdowney SS
Every year for the past few years, our school has par-ticipated in an RSL project
to send Christmas cards to Australian servicemen and women serving overseas. This week we received a
letter from a defence force serviceman who had re-
ceived some of our Christ-mas cards last Christmas
and wanted to thank us for them. Please read his let-ter attached to the news-
letter.
Staff on Leave
Ms v B will be taking long service leave for the last 3 weeks on this term. Kasey will be acting principal in her absence and Ms v B’s
class will be taught by Mrs O.
Junior News
This week we have wel-comed back a few more students. All of students were very excited to be
back at school, playing with their friends and continu-ing on with their learning.
We have been so busy with all of our school work. We have even started our test-ing for the end of the term.
In English, we have contin-ued on with our c2c per-
suasive unit. This week we explored advertisements and how they are used to persuade us to buy some-thing or go somewhere. We looked at some ads
and sang some of the jin-gles and identified why
they are used in ads. We soon realised that some ads are more effective
than others.
In Maths, the Preps have been learning the number 12 and the different ways
we can represent that number. They have also
been doing simple subtrac-tion and exploring halves.
The Year 1s have been looking at odd and even
numbers and number pat-terns. The Year 2s have
been adding and subtract-ing using number lines and
linking addition and sub-traction.
In Geography, the Preps have finished their unit for the semester so they have
begun their testing. The Year 1s and 2s have been
learning about connections to people and places that
are far away. We have also explored ‘country’ and
‘place’ and the importance of it to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander
people.
More from us next week. Kasey, Cathy, Denise
Tuckshop
No Tuckshop for this Term Update on this will be in
week 5
Message from the Office!
Reminder - All SRS monies are now overdue please
contact the office regarding payments Thank you to all the Early bird payments
Our Student Council Choc-olate Fundraising has gone
Great! monies and/or
Chocolates are to be paid/returned to the
school, Thankyou
Dates to Remember-May-June 2020
Monday Tuesday Wednes-day
Thursday Friday
W K 5
18 School is open for
Prep & Yr 1 Plus
Care of stu-dents
If required
19 School is open for
Prep & Yr 1 Plus
Care of stu-dents
If required
20 School is open for
Prep & Yr 1 Plus
Care of stu-dents
If required
21 School is open for
Prep & Yr 1 Plus
Care of stu-dents
If required
22 School is open for
Prep & Yr 1 Plus
Care of stu-dents
If required
W K 6
25
School is open for Return of
all Students
26
School is open for Return of
all Students
27
School is open for
Return of all Students
28
School is open for
Return of all Students
29
School is open for Return of
all Students
W K 7
1
School is open for Return of
all Students
2
School is open for Return of
all Students
3
School is open for
Return of all Students
4
School is open for
Return of all Students
5
School is open for Return of
all Students
W K 8
8
School is open for Return of
all Students
9
School is open for Return of
all Students
10
School is open for
Return of all Students
11
School is open for
Return of all Students
12
School is open for Return of
all Students
Super Spellers 3-6- Montana, Erin, Harlow, William
Super Spellers P-2- Colin, Ryan, Amelia, Harrison,
Laurence Sight Word Smarties- Austin, Dustin,
Noah T, Liam
Building Renovations 2020
