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Principal’s Report
Dear Parent/Carer
P&C Fundraiser
Congratulations to the P&C for a
fantastic fundraiser on Saturday Night.
The food was wonderful and the
conversations and community mingling
was excellent. A huge thank you to the
community members, particularly those
who no longer have students at the
school, for supporting our school and, in
effect, the community as a whole.
I would like to thank all the P&C
members, led by President Rebecca
Kingston, who ensured a great time was
had by all. I would also like to thank the
staff that helped out in organising and
in attending on the evening. Well done to
all involved, I thank you on behalf of the
students.
Beginning Teachers Program
From 2014, all new teachers to our
profession are entitled to extra
professional development and learning,
with the support of a mentor. Both
Mrs Traci Driscoll and Ms Natalie
Malsem, being new career teachers, will
be on extra release, as of Week 4 this
term and Mrs Jess Higginson will be
their mentor teacher. Ms Hannah Terzi
has been employed to cover these extra
professional development and mentor
hours each Wednesday. If these
arrangements cause any concern, please
see myself or Mrs Higginson.
Sun Safe Awareness
At the start of summer each year, we
try and emphasis the need for sun safe
measures required for all students.
Sunscreen, t-shirt cover, sunglasses and
hats are all identified as ways to reduce
children’s exposure to the UV radiation
that causes skin cancers. Primary and
Infants students are very good with the
sun safe message; however, as students
get older it becomes a little more
difficult.
We would like to encourage all
secondary students to wear appropriate
hats, while they are in the sun and, if
this can be supported at home that
would be wonderful.
Student Welfare Policy
On Tuesday afternoon all teaching staff
worked late on re-shaping our schools
student welfare policy, under the
heading of Student Wellbeing. Our
policy is outdated and does not reflect
the values, attitudes and needs of young
people in today’s society. At the next
two P&C meetings, I will also be asking
for parents/carers input into the policy,
so if you are interested in this
consultation and collaboration process to
help develop this policy, please attend
the meeting tonight and in Week 7.
What do we do well?
Next week there will be an envelope
attached to the newsletter. Inside this
envelope will be a piece of paper. We
would like you to write one thing you and
your family think our school does well.
The reason we are doing this is because
surveys are often time consuming and
not returned. If every few months we
send out an envelope with one piece of
information to collect, we are hoping to
get a more representative view of
opinions, as well as a greater number of
responses from parents and carers to
help improve the school and increase
secondary numbers.
Another big achievement
This week we recognise another big
achievement for our school. On page 3 is
a fantastic story about Holly Durnan and
her pony, Macbeth. This is a huge win
for Holly, as she has fully educated her
pony from a freshly broken in 3 year old
The Rock Central School Phone: 02 6920 2132 Fax: 02 6920 2023 Email: [email protected]
Ford Street (PO Box 58) The Rock NSW 2655 Web: www.therock-c.schools.nsw.edu.au
NEWSLETTER Week 3 Term 4 22nd October 2014
2014 ROSTER
Thu 30th Oct Deb Metcalf
Fri 31st Oct Michelle Greenwell
Volunteer hours: 10am—1pm
P&C MEETING
TONIGHT
7PM
STAFF ROOM
ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND
Grandparent’s Day Friday 24th October 2014 10.30am—11.00am
Come and join us for morning tea
and the opening of our ’Grandparents’ Garden’
WHAT’S NEW
ON THE MENU……
Chicken, lettuce & tomato wrap—
$4.00
Kids salad box—$4.50
Yoghurt & fruit kebab
dippers—$2.00
Yoghurt coated banana—$1.00 (frozen bananas dipped in yoghurt
coated with milo….yummy!!!)
and all her hard work, sweat, tears and joy has finally paid off in such a
wonderful way. You can’t wipe the smile off her face and she deserves it… Well
done Holly!!!
Donna Rockley, Principal
School News (cont.)
SCHOOL HATS
ARE
COMPULSORY
FOR ALL K-6
STUDENTS
‘No hat-play in
the Shade’
applies during
Term 4.
All students
must wear
a school bucket hat.
Hats are available
from the office
for $6.
Joining the Regional
Library
I would like to encourage all students
to become members of the Regional Library. This will allow students to
borrow from the mobile library as well as having access to a variety of on-line resources.
An application form was in last weeks newsletter. Thank you.
Rebecca Meadows
Librarian
LOST PROPERTY Our lost property boxes
are over-flowing. Please
come in and have a look if
you are missing any
clothing.
Items that do not have
names will be donated back
to the P & C clothing pool
if unclaimed.
The containers can be
found on the verandah in H
Block (staff room building)
GRANDPARENT’S DAY 2014
To celebrate Grandparent’s Day this year, we are creating a ‘Grandparent’s Garden’
behind the K/1 classroom. We are looking for donations of plants or cuttings, so all our students can plant them and place a sign
behind the plant with their grandparent’s name on it to celebrate this occasion.
All donations can be left with
Jess Higginson at school.
BOOK CLUB
DUE FRIDAY
27TH OCTOBER
(all orders and money
to the front office)
The Rock Central School
is now taking enrolments for
Kindergarten 2015
Please ring The Rock Central School
on 6920 2132
or call in to the school to collect an
enrolment form.
Primary Award Winners—Week 2
Kinder Millicent Bahr
Ben Bryon
Noah Higgins
Year 1 Denika Hocking
Bridey Tinnock
Blake Blacklock
Brooklyn Kerin
Year 2 Callie Metcalf
Alice Kingston
Jordan Barnes
Year 3 Lucy Bourne
Kiara Gorman
Callum Gardiner
Community News
DOB IN A DOER — HOLLY DURNAN
Last weekend, I went to the Tumbarumba Public School Equestrian
Interschool Championships with my pony Macbeth (pictured right).
I had a great time and won lots of first places during the day, such
as Year 3/4 rider and best Pair of Riders (I was teamed with a girl
from Forest Hill Public School). I also got a second place in Active
Rider (which is a versatility class). I was placed in the
bareback rider class and handler class. All of these placings led me
to win the overall Year 3/4 Age Rider Championship.
In the afternoon, I competed in the Stockman’s Challenge and got
6th and then I went into a lot of mounted games, including the
apple in the straw, barrel race, western bend, flag race, bending
race and keyhole race. I got first in all of these except for one.
This took me to the lead, which gave me the Year 3/4
Championship.
With all these wins, my points were all put together and I won the
‘Most Successful School of the Day’ for The Rock Central School,
which was a very big deal, as I competed against students in Kinder
to Year 12 who go to schools in Wagga, Tumbarumba, Tumut and St
Pauls, Walla Walla.
As you can see, I won a big
trophy and lots of ribbons. I will
put these with all my other
trophies and ribbons I have got
at home.
by Holly Durnan
OUR EXHIBITION AT
THE ROCK SHOW
I am proud to report that the excursion to Sydney was a huge success and have nothing but praise for the way
our students behaved on the trip. Well done to those students who went out of their way to make the
Lockhart Central School students feel welcome. Many of you may be aware that the weather forecast for
Sydney looked rather gloomy, and yes it was quite wet and cold, however, we were fortunate with the timings
of the rainfall (yes I still have connections with Mother Nature!!) We were still able to do all our sightseeing
and complete all the activities on our itinerary. Thank you 4/5/6 students for such an enjoyable and
pleasurable trip! Amna Khan, Excursion Co-ordinator
Didn’t your mother tell you when you were little Mr
Kotzur, that if you pulled faces and the wind changed,
you would stay like that...
Last week, Year 4/5/6 went on an excursion to Sydney. We went to the Aquarium, walked over the Sydney Harbour Bridge
and went to Pizza Hut for dinner. Our accommodation was at the YHA at The Rocks.
On Tuesday morning we went to the Zoo and saw heaps of incredible animals as well as having educational talks on how
they look after the animals. For dinner that night we had fish and chips at Bondi Beach on the grass. On Wednesday we
went to the Opera House and Mrs Macquarie's Chair and then said ‘goodbye’ to Sydney.
We had a great time and would like to say ‘thank you’ to Miss Khan, Mr Kotzur & Mrs Adams for taking us and Allens
Coaches for driving us everywhere.
by Lucy Bennett & Sophie Bourne
* * * * *
On the first day, we got to school at 5.30am and left at 6am. We travelled with 10 other students from
Lockhart Central School. We stopped at Goulburn for morning tea and then drove on to Sydney. First, we went to the
Aquarium and had a look at some sea creatures, then we went for a walk over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. After that we
had all-you-can-eat pizza and then checked into our motel.
We woke up on day two and had breakfast. We then went on a ferry ride to Manly and we saw the bridge on the way to
Manly. After that, we went to Taronga Zoo – some parts were fun and some parts were boring. Once we finished at the
zoo, we went to Bondi Beach and had some yummy fish, chips and battered savs, then we climbed the Centre Point Tower.
On our last day, we went to the Opera House and then to the Botanical Gardens. When we left, we stopped at Goulburn
Maccas for lunch. We got back to The Rock at 5pm. It was really fun.
by Seth Vennell
Fees are now due.
Enrolment, Yellow & Green notes back to the office asap.
All money & permission notes (except for canteen) must
now be handed in at the front office.
October/November 2014 W
K MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
3
20
Hot Shots tennis
commences
21
Active After School
commences
22
2015 Kinder
Orientation
K-10 Assembly
(Yr 5/6 item)
P & C Meeting
23
Adam Hill
performance
24
Grandparents Day
SRC Sports Arvo
4
27
Primary T20 Cricket
Canberra
28
Primary T20 Cricket
Canberra
29
30 31
Canteen’s
1st
birthday
5
3
4 5
Kinder Orientation
K-6 Assembly
Yr 10 Carwash
6 7
6
10
11 12
ESSA Test (Yr 8)
DISCO
K-10 Assembly
(Yr 3/4 item)
13 14
7
17 18 19
Kinder Orientation
P & C Meeting
20 21
8
24
25 26
K-6 Assembly
27 28