The Rock Central School Phone: 02 6920 2132 Fax: 02 6920 2023 Email: therock-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ford Street (PO Box 58) The Rock NSW 2655 Web: www.therock-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER Week 2 Term 3 26th July 2017

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – ENROLMENT IN KINDERGARTEN 2018

I wish to send my child to The Rock Central School in 2018: YES NO

Child’s name: _____________________________________ Date of Birth: ___ / ___/ ____ Male / Female

Parent (s)/Carer (s) name: _______________________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________________________________

Phone: Home: _________________________________ Mobile: _________________________________

Dear Parents/Carers,

Reach Your Potential

Caring- Concern for the wellbeing of yourself and others, demonstrating empathy and acting with compassion Collaboration- learners are ready, willing and able to learn alone or share in learning with others Reading Reading Reading This term I am going to focus on reading, why it is important and how to get your children reading. To start with, have a look at the table below, it shows the relationship between the time spent reading at home and your child’s potential academic success.

P&C Trivia Night This Friday night, at The Rock Bowling Club, the P&C are holding a trivia night. By all accounts from previous trivia nights, (so I have been told) these are great fun with many laughs and some surprising trivia professionals are uncovered. Please come along and support your school, it is for a great cause. This is a great opportunity to bring our school and community together. If nothing else come and have a laugh at the staff and teachers, we think we know everything.

Education Week Next week is Education Week and on Wednesday, we will be celebrating with open classrooms, a BBQ lunch and our

Education Week Assembly. Students will also be participating in a “Where’s Wally” Day on Thursday, which Ms Terzi is

organising and this should be a great learning experience for the students.

Student A Reads Student B Reads Student C Reads

20 minutes each day 5 min each day 1 minute each day

3,600 minutes per school year 900 minutes per school year 180 minutes per school year

1,800,000 words per year 282,000 words per year 8,000 words per year

Scores in the top in assessments/ grades/NAPLAN

Scores in the middle in assessments/ grades/NAPLAN

Scores in the bottom in assessments/grades/NAPLAN

Donna Rockley Principal

Please do not deposit any money into the school’s bank account. The school bank account is NOW CLOSED.

Information about the new parent online payment system (POP) will be sent home next week.

Miss Mullins’ Year 2/3 students recounts about our recent NAIDOC visit.

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday we had NAIDOC day. On the first rotation we went into the library and did the kangaroo dance. On the second rotation we went and looked at |Aboriginal Artefacts and the man said that there was 860 different languages. On the third rotation we played an Aboriginal rolling game, over under, knock the pin and bean bag throwing. On the forth rotation we went and tasted bush tucker I had a witchetty grub and some ice cream. On the fifth rotation we did Aboriginal Art like a kangaroo and a lizard. By Max Calverley

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC day. Our first rotation was story telling in the library. Then Michael told us a story about a 12 year old boy going hunting with his dad in the desert. We tasted bush tucker such as emu egg, kangaroo, witchetty grub, Johnny cakes and ice cream. Then we painted kangaroos, turtles and koalas in the art room. By Baydon Kerin

NADOC DAY

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC day. First we went to the library there was a man with a didgeridoo. Next we went to another man, he showed us Aboriginal weapons. Then we played aboriginal games with Mr Holloway. Then we went to this very nice lady and she cooked some food. I tasted some ice cream. Then we did art work and it was fun. By Katherine Conway

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC day. First we went to the library and the man told a story. Next we went to year 5/6 and we look at some aboriginal things and a man told us how the sun and moon was made. Third we played games with Mr Holloway. Next we went to taste some ice cream and tasted emu eggs . Fifth we did art and we used the back of a brush. I had fun. By Alana

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC day. Our first rotation was story telling and Michael told us stories. Secondly we went to Mr Holloway’s room. We learnt about Aboriginal weapons and how to kill and catch animals with them. Third we tasted Aboriginal food there was witchetty grub, emu egg, Johnny cake, ice cream and kangaroo meat. Forth we played Aboriginal games there was bowling, hoopla and over under. Fifth we had art. I painted two lizards and one kangaroo. It was the best day of my life. By Jack Lee

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC Day. Our first activity was Michael playing the didgeridoo. Daisy told stories. Our second activity was Aboriginal Artefacts. The man also sang us a song he wrote. My third activity was games. We got to play bowling. My fourth rotation was tasting bush tucker we had ice cream and kangaroo meat witchetty grubs and Johnny cakes. Our fifth rotation was art we painted and coloured Australian animals. By Madeline McDonald

NAIDOC Day

Yesterday at school we had NAIDOC Day. Our first rotation was story telling in the library. The man’s name was Michael. He played the didgeridoo. The audience played the clapping sticks and did the kangaroo dance. Then we went to the cooking. We tasted food, it was bush tucker. Our last rotation was art. We did two pieces of art it was colouring and painting. It was good. By Tillie

Year 2/3 Watermelon Art

Secondary Studies

As part of Gold Geography, students are focusing on ‘Water in the World’. As an introduction to the

unit, students investigated the water cycle. We conducted an experiment where water is evaporated and

cooled, forming condensation. This then turns to precipitation dripping back down into the container.

Scott Bromley

Earth Observation Sciences

This is the first photo of the hut

we are building for our Earth

Observation Sciences study.

Students will study survival and

how to create constructions

using natural resources, as part

of a Friday afternoon interest

program. Students utilise

primitive technology and

techniques that were used by

ancient civilizations to create a

showerproof hut.

Scott Bromley

SRC are raising funds for Jeans for Genes 4th August 2017 Wear your Jeans Bring a gold coin donation to participate

Scholastic Book Club Orders due by

Monday 7th August 2017

GOLD AWARDS Savannah Swift Leighton Marsh

SILVER AWARDS

Blake Blacklock Noah Higgins Tajah Louttit Charlotte Kay Alex Symes Caiden Debono Katie Li

BRONZE AWARDS

Tajah Louttit Victoria Li Anneliese Klimpsch Leighton Marsh Luke Rushby Byron Scott Ella Chaplin James Merrills Jack Jarick Harry Hopkins

Mathletics

T-Rock Lunch Box Specials

Day & Date Name

Thurs 27th July Volunteer needed

Fri 28th July Volunteer needed

1st Break Chicken Chow Mein -$5 Bacon & egg muffin - $3

Chicken noodle soup - $2/cup

2nd Break Chicken noodle soup - $2/cup

Yoghurt & fruit parfait -$1 Jelly custard -$1 Raisin toast - $1

Jelly & yoghurt cups -$1 Apple & cinnamon muffins -$1

Cheesies - $1 Apple crumble -$1

Secondary Excursion to Mogo Gold

Rush Colony

Could all secondary students that will be attending the Term 4 Excursion to Mogo ensure they have returned their notes and paid the deposit to the office by Friday, 21st July 2017. If this is an issue please contact Mrs Loes. If we do not have an increased level of interest the excursion will be cancelled due to lack of numbers.

When: Term 4 Cost: Approximately $250 per student depending on the number of students going. I am interested in my child/children …………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. attending the Secondary Excursion to Mogo Gold Rush Colony in Term 4 at the cost of approximately $250. I have enclosed a deposit of $100. Parent/Carer Name …………………………………………………………………….

Library News

Exciting new titles!

Kipling Flinn Leah-Rose Leaver Brooklyn Kerin Alex Syme Emity Baverstock Millicent Bahr Lucas Ackerman Baydon Kerin Savannah Swift Charlotte Kay Cindy Furner

July 2017

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

2

24/7 25/7 26/7 Primary Assembly

Debating at TRCS at 10.30

27/7 28/7

P & C Trivia Night at the Bowling Club

3

31/7 1/8 Police visit 10am

2/8 P & C Meeting

7pm in Staff Room

Open Classrooms Whole School

Assembly

3/8 Where’s Wally Day

4/8

Jeans for Genes

4

7/8 8/8 9/8 10/8 11/8

5

14/8 15/8 16/8 Primary Assembly

17/8 18/8 CWA International

Luncheon at The Bowling Club

11am (NEPAL)

6

21/8 22/8 23/8 Whole School

Assembly

24/8 Life Education Van

25/8 Life Education Van

Hot Shots Tennis

7

28/8 29/8 30/8 P & C Meeting

7pm in Staff Room

31/8 1/9 Fathers Day Stall

Hot Shots Tennis

8

4/9 Preschool Visit

11.40am-12.40pm

5/9 Preschool Visit

11.40am-12.40pm

6/9 Whole School

Assembly

7/9

8/9

9

11/9 12/9 13/9 Primary Assembly

14/9 15/9

These dates can change without notice.

We do apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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