IMPORTANT DATES!
PRINCIPALS’ REPORT
The sun is shining, and all is going well at Golf Links. With a few excursions spattered around our learning this term the students are feeling excited and fun has been an optimal component of the learning thus far this term. Our Year 1 and 2 cohort had a great time at the Werribee Zoo on Monday with all reports back that our students represented Golf Links beautifully. Interschool sports starts this week with all of our Year 6 students very excited to commence.
Staffing
Congratulations to Luke Franklin who has been asked to help out the system and spend the next few weeks at Panton Hill Primary School as the Acting Principal there. At very short notice Luke has made things work and impressively handed over any must action items. Whilst we miss Luke terribly during these little stints, we know that the learning he has on the job will also benefit our kids when he returns.
Students Attitudes to School Survey
We value student voice as a means to improving student engagement, wellbeing and quality instruction and are conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of their school.
The AtoSS is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education to assist schools to gain an understanding of students’ perceptions and experience of school. Students will be asked about their thoughts and feelings in relation to their school, their learning, peer relationships, resilience, bullying, health and wellbeing, physical activity, and life in general.
This year, the AtoSS will be conducted from the 13th to the 31st of May. If your Child is in Year 4, 5 or 6 there has already been an information and consent form sent through Compass. Please have a look to make sure you are fully informed about the tool.
Education Week 2024
This year, Education Week runs from Monday 13 May to Friday 17 May. The theme, Spotlight on STEM, celebrates the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in our everyday lives, in the classroom and beyond.
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School will be celebrating Education Week by running an open morning on Tuesday the 14th of May. Please come in and join us for some STEM activities at 9:00am. We will also run a 2025 prospective Prep open morning from 9:30 on Thursday the 16th.
Note: All Prep classes and 1CA will open their classroom doors at 2:40pm-3:30pm.
To find out more about Education Week 2024, visit www.vic.gov.au/education-week.
A reminder that the Department of Education has in place a mobile phone ban that requires students who bring mobiles phones to school to have them switched off and securely put away during school hours.
The department is requiring all schools to ensure this ban is in place and enforced from the start of the 2024 school year.
The ban applies equally to all government schools right across the state.
This helps ensure that school is a learning environment free from unnecessary distractions and disruptions.
By ensuring mobile phones are kept away at recess and lunch times, students can interact with each other face-to-face, without the distractions and social pressures that mobile phones can cause.
I ask for the support of all our families, staff and students in continuing to support the implementation of this policy in our school.
Further information
Exceptions: For a small number of students with particular health needs, an exception to the policy may be granted. Please contact our leadership team if you would like to discuss this.
Emergencies: In the event of an emergency or if you need to immediately contact your child, I ask that families contact the school office who will pass on a message as required.
School mobile phone policy: A copy of our school’s local mobile phone policy, which implements the government’s mobile policy in line with our local context, is available here: https://www.rosanna-golflinks-ps.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/RGLPS-Student-Mobile-Phone-and-Personal-Mobile-Device-Policy-9.11.23.pdf
Parent support: The Mobile phones in schools webpage provides links to resources for families to help them balance their children’s time using mobile phones.
If you have further questions, please contact the administration office.
A reminder that the Department of Education has in place a mobile phone ban that requires students who bring mobiles phones to school to have them switched off and securely put away during school hours.
The department is requiring all schools to ensure this ban is in place and enforced from the start of the 2024 school year.
The ban applies equally to all government schools right across the state.
This helps ensure that school is a learning environment free from unnecessary distractions and disruptions.
By ensuring mobile phones are kept away at recess and lunch times, students can interact with each other face-to-face, without the distractions and social pressures that mobile phones can cause.
I ask for the support of all our families, staff and students in continuing to support the implementation of this policy in our school.
Further information
Exceptions: For a small number of students with particular health needs, an exception to the policy may be granted. Please contact our leadership team if you would like to discuss this.
Emergencies: In the event of an emergency or if you need to immediately contact your child, I ask that families contact the school office who will pass on a message as required.
School mobile phone policy: A copy of our school’s local mobile phone policy, which implements the government’s mobile policy in line with our local context, is available here: https://www.rosanna-golflinks-ps.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/RGLPS-Student-Mobile-Phone-and-Personal-Mobile-Device-Policy-9.11.23.pdf
Parent support: The Mobile phones in schools webpage provides links to resources for families to help them balance their children’s time using mobile phones.
If you have further questions, please contact the administration office.
Mother’s and Special Person Day Celebrations
Don’t forget, we will have a coffee cart at school on Friday the 10th of May with coffee and hot drinks available to purchase before school. We also have a new event on Friday the 10th, Mum’s and other special people are invited to a celebratory morning tea. There are QR codes around the school for registration. Don’t forget to register as we would love to see you there.
Flu Season
As flu season is upon us, we have had a number of illnesses reported in the last few weeks. We will keep reminding our students to take the appropriate hygiene actions as we all know that washing our hands is one of the best ways to reduce the spread of viruses.
Take care everyone,
Kirrily Lamers
Principal
STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Project Rockit - Inspirational Talk by Lucy Thomas
On Monday 6th May, Year 5/6 students will have the opportunity to listen to Lucy Thomas, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Project Rockit.
As a keynote speaker and facilitator, Lucy has personally worked with hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world, from Wangaratta to Texas, Wollongong to Auckland, Atherton to Perth. Lucy’s work has been honoured by UNICEF, The University of Melbourne, The Foundation of Young Australians, the global Family Online Safety Institute and they are a recipient of an Order of Australia Medal for service to youth and the issue of bullying.
Her talk presents a balance of storytelling and practical take-aways – students will walk away with safe and socially credible strategies to support each other around bullying and wellbeing, create positive relationships and school environments where kindness and respect thrive, and a toolkit of youth-driven ideas for tackling (cyber)bullying.
Parents are welcome to attend.
Cystic Fibrosis - Free Dress Day
Friday 24th May
Every May, the cystic fibrosis community comes together for CF Awareness Month. The theme of this year’s CF Awareness Month is, “Resilient.”
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease in which the body makes very thick, sticky mucus. The mucus causes problems in the lungs, pancreas, and other organs. People with cystic fibrosis get lung infections often. Over time, they have more trouble breathing.
Friday 24th May will be a free dress day. We aim to raise awareness about cystic fibrosis and ask students to bring along a gold coin to donate to the Royal Children’s Hospital.
Walk to school with Kirrily, Cathie and Denisse!
Walk Safely to School Day asks that we all consider our transport habits and try to incorporate more walking as part of a healthy, active way to get around. And although walking all the way to school isn’t realistic for many of us, it’s quite easy to figure out how you can build a walk into your family’s daily routine.
You can teach your child the healthy habit of walking more by:
- – Walking with them the whole way to school
- – If they get the bus or train, walk past your usual stop and get on at the next stop
- – If you have to drive, park the car a few blocks away from the school and walk the rest of the way.
Regular exercise like walking with your child not only helps them (and you!) beat chronic problems like obesity, heart disease, behavioural and mental health issues and diabetes. It also gives you a great opportunity to teach your child safe ways to behave around roads and traffic.
Remember, Active Kids are Healthy Kids! Join us to walk to school on Friday 10 MAY 2024!
You will find us at the meeting points below. Parents/carers please note that you will still be required to supervise your children and walk along with us.
Corner of Erskine Road and Braid Hill Road
Corner of Stanton Crescent and Thompson Drive
Corner of Bachli Court and Finlayson Street
Luke Franklin, Denisse Lobos & Cathie Sutton
Assistant Princpial
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Term 2 Team Newsletters
Term 2 Team Newsletters were released to parents earlier this week. Newsletters can be viewed via the recent Compass notification or through Compass School Documentation. See Compass Community icon -> School Documentation -> Year Level Newsletters -> 2024 -> Term 2.
2024 Premier's Reading Challange
The Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge is now open! The Challenge encourages children to read a set number of books over the year and record their efforts online. Since the Challenge first began in 2005, more than 4.3 million students have read over 60 million books. If you are interested in your child participating in the 2024 Challenge at home, please follow the steps below:
Registering school students as home-based readers
- Go to the Challenge application and select Home based readers ‘Register for the Challenge’.
- Enter your name in the ‘Parent/guardian name’ field.
- Enter your email address.
- Confirm your email address.
- Enter the postal address you would like Challenge certificates to be mailed to.
- Enter the given name, family name and year level of the child you’re registering.
- Enter your email address.
- Use the +Add more button to register additional children.
A message will display confirming that you have successfully submitted your registration.
You’ll get an email confirming your registration and your children’s login details in two – five business days.
Students can read more books than the number set for the Challenge and keep adding these to their reading list.
2024 Challenge Requirements:
Prep – Year 2 students
Number of books: 30
Number of books from the Challenge book list: 20 or more
Year 3 – Year 9 students
Number of books: 15
Number of books from the Challenge book list: 10 or more
For further information, follow the website:
https://www.vic.gov.au/school-student-and-parents-taking-part-premiers-reading-challenge
2024 RGLPS Arts and Writer's Festival
As mentioned previously, the ’RGLPS Arts and Writers Festival’ will held during the week Monday 9th September 2024. All students will contribute a writing piece and an original artwork based on our 2024 theme. We have once again organised Author Talks and Workshops for all RGLPS classes during the Festival week.
Here is a peek into one of our visiting authors during the 2024 Festival:
Nova Weetman
Nova Weetman is the author we have booked to work with our Year 6 classes. Nova has written many young adult fiction novels including ‘Outlaw Girls’ and ‘The Jammer’. She lives in the Victorian High Country with her family and is a former TV writer on shows including ‘Neighbours’ and the young adult mermaid series ‘H2O’.
You can read more about Nova and her work at her website: https://www.novaweetman.com.au/
Keep an eye on the school newsletter again next week for information about another of our visiting authors for this year’s Arts and Writing Festival.
Kerron Worsdell
Learning Specialist and Literacy Leader
APPLY NOW TO ENROL YOUR CHILD IN PREP FOR 2025
If you have a child starting primary school in 2025, it’s time to enrol. Make sure to submit the 3-page enrolment application by Friday 26 July 2024. If you are enrolling the sibling of a student at our school for Foundation in 2025, and both children will be attending our school at the same time, your child is prioritised for a place at our school as per the department’s Placement Policy.
It is important to follow the statewide timeline to enrol your child in prep. This allows us to plan our classrooms, staffing and transition activities and ensures your child has the best start to school. You will receive email confirmation of your enrolment on Monday 29th July, as well as a more detailed enrolment form to complete and return by Friday 23rd August to accept your prep place.
Prep enrolment forms are available in the foyer at the school office. If you have any questions, please contact Kerilyn in the office.
MUSIC NEWS
Dear parents this week students enjoyed a music concert from macleod college Jazz band.
The band played a range of different styles and showed off some special instruments.
The RGLPS students loved the band and clapped along with enthusiasm, and in time too !!!
Michael Rochford
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
SPORT NEWS
Girls AFL and Boys Netball
Well done to the amazing year 6 students who represented RGL on Monday to try and score a spot at the Division Competition.
The Boys Netball team managed the runners up position with Owen scoring over 20 goals for the team.
The Girls footy team came out firing and managed to stop any school scoring against them. They will be progressing to the Divison finals In July.
Inter School Sports
We had an amazing first round of Interschool Sport. Please find the results below:
AFL (boys/mixed)
RGL def. St Martins
Netball A
RGL def. St Martins
Netball B
RGL def. St Martins
T-Ball (Girls)
RGL def. St Martins
T-Ball (Boys)
St Martins def. RGL
Well done year 6 students (and a couple of year 5s)!
Thank you,
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Amber Vincent
PE Teacher
GLCG NEWS
CANTEEN
Canteen Special
Welcome back to canteen for Term 2.
Falafel Wrap with Hommus $5.00
Extras: Lettuce, tomoato, carrot, cucumber $0.50 each
Cheese $0.80
Quiche ( Lorraine or spinach) – $6.50
Help Needed
We still need some help over all tim slots and days. If you are able to help out please ring or text me on 0438 585 323 or email margaret.graves@education.vic.gov.au.
The roster will be out soon, in the meantime, I am texting canteen volunteers.
Thanks you
Margaret Groves
COMMUNITY NOTICES
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