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Wednesday 4th November 2020
Term 4, Week 4
From The Principal’s Desk
Violin Donation
Thank you to Maxine Mason for kindly donating a violin to the school last week. Maxine’s kind donation will be added to the
small number of instruments we have at the school. Music will be one of the focus areas we will investigate as part of our
planning for 2021. Thanks again Maxine!
Learn to Swim Program
All students were provided with a permission note and details about our Learn to Swim program for 2020. We have been
able to book the Uralla Pool so that every student can be involved and we have also secured a sporting grant to allow this
to happen free of charge for everyone. Please complete the permission note in yesterday’s information and return this to
the school as soon as possible.
Presentation Day
We have waited as long as possible to organise our Presentation Day for 2020 as we have been hoping to see some
changes to COVID requirements in schools. We will hold our presentation day assembly on Friday 11th December from
1pm. I am unaware of what this will be able to look like at the moment, however I am expecting to see some updated
guidelines soon. Whatever the case, our school will comply with all NSW Department of Education requirements. I have
also written to every organisation and individual, who usually donates a prize for presentation day, informing them that the
school will cover the costs for this for 2020. We are acutely aware of the issues organisations have had in fundraising this
year and feel that it would be inappropriate to ask for contributions when they too have had a much reduced financial intake
this year. Every award that is usually presented, will be presented this year as per normal.
Remembrance Day Wednesday 11th November
Our Year 6 students will attend a Remembrance Day Service next Wednesday commemorating the 102nd Anniversary of
the signing of the Armistice, signifying the end of World War I. As the annual ANZAC Day parade and service was not
possible earlier this year due to COVID restrictions, the Uralla RSL have permission to hold a service at Alma Park from
10.30am. Our Year 6 students will attend and lay a wreath on behalf of Rocky River Public School.
Skoolbag App—URGENT
Every student should have brought home information yesterday regarding a new school app our school will be using from
now, called “Skool Bag”. The information pack contained instructions on how to download the app and set it up for our
school. If you have any questions or would like some help in setting this up on your phone/device, please contact us at the
school. Please consider downloading the new app today as it is important for us to be able to communicate any new
information with you. Thank you for your help.
Brad Hunt—Principal
Principal : Brad Hunt
Teachers: Jess Brien, Emma
Schaeffer, & Georgia Patterson
School Support: Sally Castle
School Administration: Anne Miller
Whole School Activities
Vegetable Garden - Our students had a great time planting out our vegetable garden recently, they planted corn, lettuce,
zucchini, gooseberries, tomatoes and basil, the timing was perfect with the rain we received during the following days.
Sensory Garden
Mr Schaeffer has done a great job planting out our sensory
garden and we extend a very big thank you to Olivia at Cedar
Nursery in Armidale for donating all of the wonderful plants
for us.
There are a mixture of plants to stimulate the senses. These
include herb varieties such as rosemary, lavender, thyme,
oregano and curry plant, pig face varieties, a bay tree, lambs
ear, sunflowers and californian poppies.
‘A sensory garden is a garden environment that is designed to
stimulate the senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and sound.
These gardens have proven to be beneficial to both children
and adults’.
We are very excited to have a sensory garden included in our
grounds at Rocky River School and look forward to watching
it grow.
Best wishes to Cailey for her
Birthday on Monday 26th
October.
Look what’s happening in Lower Division
Harrison C
Charlotte
Lola
Harrison S
As part of our Indigenous Art unit, Lower Division
have been having a wonderful time with Mrs
Schaeffer learning some block printing techniques to
create their very own prints consisting of line, shape
and pattern, just like Aboriginal people used in their
bark paintings. We can't wait to share our results
with you.
Our Kindergarten transition students have been enjoying some creative arts and technology as part of their transition program. The
program this year is based on ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Our Lower Division students have been a wonderful support for them
over the past couple of weeks and we look forward to spending more time together for the remainder of the program.
Look what’s happening in Upper Division
Hi all! In Upper Division, we have been busy little bees writing our response to a "Finding Our Heart" task. Students have
drafted, written and published their stories and these will be going straight into our work sample folders. Additionally, we
have read the books "Fair Skin, Black Fella" by Renee Fogarty and "Ernie Dances to The Didgeridoo" by Alison Lester.
Upper Division have also been researching different aspects to Australia's Indigenous culture that we come across as we
read these books, such as Arnhem Land, totem animals and differing seasons in Indigenous cultures.
We are learning and laughing a lot together on Anaiwan country as we move into NAIDOC Week next week. Very exciting
things to come!
Miss Patterson
School News
New School App
The school has purchased an agreement with SkoolBag
to replace our current Skool Loop app.
We have done this as a result of feedback from parents
and the way we currently use the app.
Kindergarten 2021 Enrolments Skoolbag enables many more features such as uploading
our own newsletter, add dates and permission notes so
We are currently taking Kindergarten enrolments for they can be printed at home (in case they have been mis-
placed) and it also connects well with the NSW
next year. Please contact the office for an enrolment Department of Education. This is important for updated
package and details of our Kindergarten COVID restrictions.
Transition Program. Instructions on how to install the app were sent home with
students yesterday. Please come and see us at the
school if you need some help.
The current Skool Loop app will not be used from today,
so please consider downloading the new SkoolBag app
as soon as possible.
We trust our communication with families will improve with
this new system.
2021 SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAYS
Important Changes for next Year
The annual Stewart House Drive that is usually held
The Department of Education has advised schools that
in May was postponed this year due to uncertainty
there will be two staff development days at the start of
relating to COVID-19.
each school year commencing next year.
The drive has now recommenced so if you still have
This will mean that staff will return to school on 27th and
envelopes at home you are invited to donate to this
28th January and students will commence school on Friday
very worthy cause and go into the draw. The prize
29th January 2021.
was previously a $4000 family holiday but due to
travel restrictions currently in place this will be As students have started school a day later at the start of
replaced by a $4000 gift voucher. the year, they will finish a day later at the end of the year
on Thursday 16th December.
If you would like to donate and have misplaced the
envelope there are still some available at the school Please adjust your calendars to reflect the new dates.
office. These adjustments are for all public, central and high
Thank you to those people who have already schools in NSW.
donated, these will be processed along with any new Please contact us at the school if you require any further
donations received. information.
Donations with the envelopes must be received to
the school by Friday 13th November to ensure your
entry into the draw.
School News
School Calendar - TERM 4 Community News
19th Oct- 16th Nov: Kindergarten Transition program
Carols in the Park Cancelled - Uralla Carols in the Park
5th November: UNE Discovery visit have been cancelled for this year by the organising
committee due to the uncertainty surrounding
8th - 15th November: NAIDOC week
COVID-19 and NSW Government restrictions. The
18th November: School Banking organising committee deeply regrets having to make this
decision but believe it is in the best interests of our
20th November: School Zoom Assembly 12.30 pm
community during these times.
23rd Nov - 4th Dec: Swim School
Rev Brian Kirk, St John’s Anglican Church Uralla
11th Dec: Presentation Day
The 2020 Thunderbolts Festival has also
been cancelled due to the uncertainty
surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic. We
look forward to a time when we can
CANTEEN
enjoy these great community events once again.
Price List:
Macaroni & Cheese……$3
Pizza Singles….………. $3
Chicken Nuggets (4)…...$2
Beef Lasagne………….. $3
Potato Bake …………… $3
Fried Rice………………..$3
Sausage Roll…………….$3
Pie ….……..................... $3
Ice Cream ……………….$1.50
Popper …………………...$1.50
Milk (with flavoured straw)…….$1.50
Fruit Icy Pole……………..$1
Our canteen operators are aware of the COVID
19 regulations for food handling and will adhere
to them at all times.
Please note price increase for some items. This
is due to our costs going up with products and
needing to purchase individual sauces. Prices
now include a sachet of either Tomato or BBQ
sauce as we are no longer able to provide the
bottles of sauce and need to have sealed
sachets.
Please send lunch orders in a clearly
marked bag with the correct money if
possible as change is not given out.
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