ISSUE 28 Aug 2017

SCHOOL HOURS

8:45am – 11:00am

11:00am – 11:20am - Recess

11:20am – 1:00pm

1:00pm – 1:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm – 2:50pm

Early Close - Thursday

2:30pm

Next Assembly IS

on Friday 8th

Sept @ 2:00pm

PH: 9277 1642

Rivervale.ps@education.wa.edu.au

We were entertained a few weeks ago by the Year 3s as they presented a great version of ‘Flat Stanley’. Since

then, they have produced their own ‘Flat’ stories. The idea being that they had to change the main character.

The photo shows Mr Keirnan and the children standing proudly in front of their terrific display. Mr Keirnan has

been amazed with the writing skills and efforts shown by his class. They have fully embraced the T4W (Talk for

Writing) program and are seeing the amazing results. This whole school literacy program is helping to bring

about some awesome results in writing, spelling and reading.

Sports Day

The tabloid sports day is almost here. This will be your last chance to go into the draw for the best seat at the

carnival. Don’t forget we have faction Polo’s in stock in the office. We have included a program in this newsletter

so that you can get an idea of when your child will be participating. During the morning tabloid session, all of the

children are involved. Parents are allowed to follow their children around the Tabloid stations. In the afternoon

we hold our individual races.

Naplan 2017

Even though the NAPLAN is only “one test on one day” it is nice to see improvements across our school. Year 3’s

and 5’s would have recently taken their test results home. What we saw on a school level was;

Year 5 Improvements in:

Writing

Spelling

Grammar and Punctuation

Numeracy

Year 3 Improvements in :

Writing

Spelling

Reading

Numeracy

If you wish to speak to your child’s teacher about the NAPLAN please come in and seem them. A big

congratulations to all the staff at Rivervale for working hard to bring about improvement. Our journey has just

began.

BEFORE/AFTER SCHOOL CARE

We are exploring the possibility of entering into a partnership with a OSH (out of school hours ) care group.

Feedback from parents tells us that this is something that a lot of you would appreciate. If you have not yet done

so, could you please complete and return the survey to the office. We have surveys at the front office if you have

misplaced the original one.

TLC 3 Jenny Lu, Francisco Orozco, Rudrayan Sheoran

Room 9 Mohhamed Khan

Room 7 Asher McCombe, Isabelle Molles

Room 5 Linton Ninyette, Alexander Pascoe, Alysia Wheelock

Room 6 Kayleigh Edmondson, Amber Lafu

Room 2 Carrie Holloway, Tyson McGuire

Room 1 Hamish Pianta, Marika Stokes

RIVERVALE TABLOID

SPORTS DAY Win a place at the best

tables for the

Sports Carnival

& Coffee and

muffins.

Thursday 14th

September

9:30—2:00pm

WIN!

How to win:

Fill out your name below

Place your entry in the entry

box in admin

Winners will be notified at

the Assembly on Friday 8th

Sept.

Ph: ……………………...

Name: ……………………………

No of seats: ……………………

Maximum of 5

BOOK WEEK

What a wonderful Book Week we had last week, with the highlight being our Book Week Parade. It was great to

see so many students, staff and even parents in their favourite book character costume. As a school we would like

to thank our exceptional library officer Mrs Terri Dufty. Not only does she always have our library looking

wonderful she also makes the library a place of fun and learning.

Mrs Dufty helped to organise a great Book Week and parade.

Tabloid Sports Day 14th September

9:15 Meet in undercover area

Faction March to Bays

9:30 Tabloid Sports

Recess: 10:40 – 11:00

11: 00 Team Events

PP – Yr 1 Sack Relay Race

Yr 2—3 Flag Relay Race

Yr 4—6 Leader Ball

11:15 PP – Yr 1 Flag Relay Race

Yr 2—3 Tunnel Ball

Yr 4 – 6 Sack Relay Race

11:30 PP – Yr 1 Tunnel Ball

Yr 2—3 Circular Bean Bag

Yr 4 – 6 Flag Relay Race

11:45 PP – Yr 1 Circular Bean Bag

Yr 2—3 Sack Relay Race

Yr 4 – 6 Tunnel Ball

LUNCH 12: 15—12:45

12:45pm Ages Races—Pre Primary to Year 6

Jnr Championship 100m boys & girls

Snr Championship 100m boys & girls

Shuttle Relay boys & girls

Staff/Student Parent Leader ball

2:00pm Presentations

PLEASE NOTE THAT LUNCH IS

EARLIER THAN NORMAL—IF YOU

ARE BRINGING YOUR CHILD’S

LUNCH TO SCHOOL, IT WILL

NEED TO BE HERE BY 12:15

If the weather If the weather

is an issue we is an issue we

will move the carnival to will move the carnival to

Thursday 21st September.Thursday 21st September.