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Rathdowney State Primary School
143-155 Mount Lindesay Highway, Rathdowney 4287
Phone: (07) 5540 4333 E:admin@rathdowneyss.eq.edu.au
Principal: Tina van Bennekom www.rathdowneyss.eq.edu.au
SCHOOL NEWS
A Letter to the No.7 12th March 2021
Community
“Thought for the Week”
School Leaders In-
duction -30 March
Our school leaders for
2021 are Captains - Harlow
and Max and our Vice-Cap-
tain is Will.
We still have to elect the
Student Council Executive
which we will do this Fri-
day.
All school leaders will be cross-country events will
inducted on the afternoon start at 4pm. If you can’t
of the 30 March. We hope make the cross-country but
to have a special guest you want for your children
speaker at the event. Par- to have the opportunity,
ents are invited to attend please let the school know
afternoon tea in the staf- by Monday so that we can
froom after a special pa- arrange transport for you
rade to induct the school’s with a teacher.
leaders. The parade will be
held at 2 pm. Everyone turning 9 this
year, or older, is eligible to
enter the cross-country.
The students have been
practising for this race.
Christmas Creek
Cross-Country – 16
March
This year’s cross-country
will be held at Darlington
State School on Tuesday, “Student Code of
16 March. Parents are ex-
pected to have their chil-
Conduct”
dren there at 3:45pm to
walk the course. Then the
The new “Student Code of Our Student Council is
Conduct 2020-2023” was made up of students in
presented at the recent Years 3-6. They spend
P&C meeting for approval. much of their time fund-
It has been endorsed by raising and gardening. The
the P&C. The document fundraising they do is pri-
will replace the previously marily to subsidise our an-
entitled “Responsible Be- nual camps and to support
haviour Plan for Students – the Queensland Cancer
2018-2021” currently on Council and the chaplaincy
our website. A copy of the program. The Student
signed document will also Council pays the entries to
be sent home to each all the venues we visit
Family. when on our camps. They
also donate $300 to the
Cancer Council and $300 to
Chaplaincy each year.
The Student Council’s first
fundraiser for this year, is
selling ice-blocks on Fri-
days at lunchtimes in first
and fourth terms when the
weather is hot.
Student Council Our second fundraiser is
Fundraising our annual Easter choco-
late drive. For those fami-
lies who are new, we ask
each family to sell a box of The P&C met last week for
56 chocolates for a return its Annual General Meeting
of $56. The boxes of choc- and elected office bearers
olates have been given to for this year.
your children this week. If
you can’t sell any, or you President for 2021 is Emma
can’t sell them all, we just Williams
ask that you return them
to the school so that other Secretary for 2021 is So-
families can sell them. If relle Jobson
you can sell more than
your allocated box, we Treasurer for 2021 is an
have plenty more boxes to open position, as yet un-
sell. We just ask that you filled.
return the money ($56 in
the envelope, that is sup- Mr Wes Kroll, after being
plied inside the box with treasurer for a few years,
the chocolates) before tak- did not accept the nomina-
ing the second box. tion to run for Treasurer
again this year. So the P&C
is looking for someone else
to fill the Treasurer posi-
tion for 2021. Mr Kroll has
offered to help train some-
one in the job and be there
P&C News as a backup support if you
need it.
Vice – President is an open meeting so that we can
position, as yet unfilled. elect people to fill the
open positions in the P&C.
Tuckshop convenor for At our next meeting, there
2021 is also an open posi- will also be an asbestos
tion, as yet unfilled. presentation.
Uniform convenor for 2021 If you have small children,
remains Kay Todd. don’t let that stop you
from attending the meet-
Book Club convenor re- ing. The meetings are gen-
mains Janine Reilly. erally short and over by
7:30pm. A movie will be
The P&C hope to have supplied in the adjacent
more parents at their next music room for any little
meeting which has been ones who come along.
postponed until a week
later than originally sched-
uled. The P&C meeting
will now be held on 23
March at 6pm in the
school’s staffroom. This is
because some teachers
and parents will be at the
Christmas Creek Cross- Auditor Visit
Country at Darlington State
School on 16 March. We When you read this our
want as many people as audit will be over. The
possible at our next P&C school has had a 3-day
Auditor’s visit starting on tising especially with re-
Monday and finishing on gards to cereal boxes and
Friday this week. This is the Year 5 / 6’s are looking
our regular auditor visit. at travel brochures, and
Our last audit was in 2016. other advertising regarding
This visit has required our travel.
BSM and Principal to be
ready to field any ques- In Maths, the Year 3 / 4s
tions she had about our are up to their revision test
operations. for the term. They have
been learning about num-
bers, length and time in
measurement, and frac-
tions and the four opera-
tions. The Year 5 / 6s have
been working on numbers
up to one million, decimal
fractions and common
fractions as well as money
Year 3-6 Class problem solving and all the
four operations.
News
In Art, they have been
In English, we are doing working on clay modelling
persuasive texts with a for the last 3 weeks. The
special focus on advertis- students have created
ing. The Year 3 / 4s are some wonderful art works.
looking at product adver If you can, take a walk to
the classroom and have a
look at their art work. It’s We have a new Japanese
really something special! teacher that started at our
This afternoon the stu- school last week. His name
dents all worked on paint- is Christopher (Chris)
ing and glitter glueing their Lynagh. He has spent
robots. They have also many years living and
started on their very im- working in Japan. He
pressive Easter bonnets. brings first hand
We are so fortunate to knowledge of the language
have such a talented art and the modern way of life
teacher as Mrs Kelly work- in Japan. We are very for-
ing at our school while tunate to have him work-
Miss Lane is on a Gradu- ing with our students.
ated Return to Duty under
Work Cover.
In Geography the students
in Year 3 / 4s are studying Until next time,
maps with a special focus
on Australia and its nearest From Tina, Kay and Denise.
neighbours. The 5 / 6s are
also studying maps and
their focus is North Amer-
ica and Europe.
In Maths, the Preps have
been working on the num-
ber ‘6’. They have also
been working on concepts
learnt so far. The Year 1s
Junior News have been working on
time, subtraction and
This week the Preps have months of the year. The
been learning the letters ‘r’ Year 2s have been working
and ‘m’ and the sounds on time on both analogue
they make. They have been and digital clocks, calen-
practising how to write dars and graphing.
these letters with the cor-
rect formation. We did In Art, the students have
marble painting on a moon been working on various
and foil art on a robot. To- Easter activities. They are
day we made some milo currently working on their
milkshakes for the ‘m’ Easter cards and Easter
sound. It was absolutely bonnets. They are looking
delicious! The Year 1s and wonderful!
2s have been learning the
‘i’ sound for spelling.
Dates to Remember-March-April 2021
Monday Tuesday Wednes- Thursday Friday
day
W 15 16 17 18 19
K Breakfast Tuckshop Student
Swimming Club- Ally Hundy
8 Council
Chappy Cake: Ice Cream
Phil Emma Fundraising
X Country Williams
Darlington Swimming Swimming
W 22 23 24 25 26
K Breakfast Tuckshop Student
Swimming Club- Kay Lane
9 Council
Chappy Cakes: Ice Cream
Phil Rachel Fundraising
P&C Hardgrave
Meeting Swimming Swimming
W 29 30 31 1 2
K Breakfast Swimming
Swimming Club-
10 NO Carnival End of
Chappy
Tuckshop plus Term 1
Phil
Lunches
Easter Holidays
2nd April – 16-April
W 19 20 21 22 23
K Breakfast Tuckshop
Club- Janine Reilly
1 Start of Healthy
Chappy Cakes:
Term 2 Lunches
Phil Kirsty
Parnell
Rathdowney Soccer Club
Training:- Wednesday night 3.30pm
at the Memorial Grounds.
Anyone is welcome to come along
and train adults and children.
All players welcome from 5 years
and above.
Registration Day TBA
More information please contact:
Emma Williams
0423 637 202HEADLICE
Please check your child/children and
treat as required.
We have had reports of Headlice
around the school
Super Spellers
3-6- Nikita, Noah, William, Harlow, Montana
P-2- Austin, Kiara, Liam, Dustin, Billie,
Jaxon, Amelia, Colin
Sight Word Smarties- Noah, JackP-3 Painting
P-3 Painting
P-3 Milo Making
P-3 Milo Making
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