Rockingham Beach Primary School Aspire and Achieve Together

Term 3 Issue 4

4th September 2019

30 Bay View Street, Rockingham WA 6168 t: (08) 9591 6700 email rockinghambeach.ps@education.wa.edu.au website www.rockinghambeachprimarycampus.wa.edu.au

For your diary

9 Sep P&C Meeting

13 Sep Assembly Rm 5

17 Sep Yr3-6 Jumps

18 Sep ECE Sport Carnival

20 Sep Faction Athletics Carnival

27 Sep Assembly Rm 5

Last Day Term 3

14 Oct First Day Term 4

25 Oct Assembly Rm 16

28 Oct P&C Meeting

1 Nov Assembly Rm 11

8 Nov Remembrance Day Service

14 Nov I/School Athletics Carnival

Dear Families, Happy Fathers’ Day to all our dads, step-dads, grandads and father figures! We hope you had a wonderful day with your families last Sunday and were treated like kings! Thank you to the P&C for organising a wonderful Fathers’ Day Stall over the last three days. Many thanks to our magnificent staff who hosted a fun and engaging Fathers’ Day Activity Afternoon. Matt Whitfield was a terrific host and got our dads involved in dancing and ten-pin bowling! Our special ‘Stormtrooper’ visitor generously posed for photos in the library! Thanks to Melissa, our chaplain, and Sue Magowan for your organisation!

I had the pleasure of seeing our talented Opti-Minds teams perform on Saturday at the Regional Finals at Curtin University. Two teams competed in the Language & Literature Challenge with the themes: “Demise of Mankind” and “Loss of Childhood”. The other team entered the Social Sciences Challenge and explore the history of masks and told stories of four ‘modern day masks’. They did an awesome job and we are very proud of all of them! Thanks to Miss Cull, Mrs Fitz, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Henning, Mrs Mills-Poilly, and Mr Cuder for your leadership of the teams and giving up time after school and during lunchtimes and recesses to help the children practise.

Thank you to our parents who came along to the 125-year celebration organising committee meeting on Monday afternoon. We will update you soon on what we are planning. It is not too late to get involved in any way that suits. Look out for our new Facebook page where we will keep all notices, photos and events relating to next year’s celebration!

Good luck to our Interschool Cross-Country team who are competing in the carnival next Friday 13th September! We are cheering for you all!

We are going Digital!

We are aiming to be a paper-free school for family notices and communication by the end of 2019! Please help us to reach our goal! All our consent forms for incursions, excursions, sport & choir events will be completed online through Care Monkey. If you have not completed your family profile and listed your children, can you please do so as soon as possible? If you need assistance, please come in to the office to see Emma or Claire and they will be delighted to help you.

Payments for any purpose – events, student item lists, voluntary contributions, photos – can be made by direct credit to our school bank account or by using the Qkr app. Please see Emma if you need help in setting up the app on your phone.

We now use Parent Connect for all school communication instead of Skoolbag. This is provided free by the Department of Education and you should have received an email with your login details. We will place notices, the newsletter, and any important forms or brochures on the Parent Connect site for you to read or download.

Our school also uses Seesaw as a digital portfolio of student work, photos, and notices from teachers. You can download the app and get a QR code from your child’s teacher to connect to their journal. We have a Facebook page also where we share school news.

Support Our Troops

Rockingham Beach Primary School are participating in a Defence initiative to Support our Troops where we send boxes full of goodies to soldiers who are deployed overseas. We are asking our school community to donate something towards these boxes. We will be sending them to NSW Defence by the end of Term Three who will in turn distribute them to soldiers overseas.

“Curious”

I wonder and ask questions

I take responsible risks

I am enthusiastic about new learning

Merit

Certificates

Dakota Paulik

Daisy Wansbrough

Jeremy Newell

Soyombo Uranbayar

Alicia Thompson

Crystal Giggins

Una Sijan

Jasmin Gnject

Darci Jefferee

Jacob O’Brien

Tully-Jean Stronach

Rainer Melton

Emanuel Camas

Mia Roberts

Louevan Baraba

Jace Wheeldon

Koby Meldrum

Seth Ireland

Maddison Cherry

Koby Trousselot

Chase Gorman

Suggestions of what you might like to include:

If you can drop off your contribution at our office between September 16 and September 27 that would be appreciated. This is a fantastic project for our school to be involved in and we would like to thank you in advance for your contributions. We will let you know how many boxes we send to our soldiers.

P&C Sports Carnival Sausage Sizzle

Our Sports Carnival is coming up soon on Friday 20th September! The P&C will be running a sausage sizzle for students and families to purchase their lunch. A hot dog and drink is $4 and payment is due by Friday 13th September. You can place orders in the quadrangle all next week – Monday 9th to Friday 13th – before school.

The next P&C meeting is on Monday 9th September and will be held in the ESC Meeting Room adjacent to the Art & Music rooms and between ESC rooms 22 and 23. We hope to see lots of our fabulous parents there! The meeting starts at 8:35am and is finished by 9:35am generally. Thanks for your support.

Save the Date: Rocky Beach Dads Movie Night Next Friday, 13th September, our champion dads are organising a movie night for the undercover area. This is a great opportunity for dads to come along and share some quality time with their kids, and meet other dads in our school community. More information to follow.

Kind regards,

Jacqui O’Donnell Principal

Toiletries Deodorant (non-aerosol) Shaving cream (non-aerosol) Small bottle of talcum powder Disposable razors Shower Gel Lip Balm

Perfume samples (non-glass)

Food

Instant Noodles Biscuits Lollies Small tinned consumables Non-perishable foods

Other ideas Magazines – from Vogue to Men’s Health

Puzzle books DVDs Socks

SUPPORT THE TROOPS

Rockingham Beach Primary School are participating in a Defence initiative - Support the Troops - where we send boxes full of goodies to soldiers who are deployed overseas.

We are asking our school community to donate something towards these boxes. We will be sending them to NSW Defence by the end of Term Three, who will in turn distribute them to soldiers overseas.

Suggestions of what you might like to include:

Toiletries o Deodorant (non aerosol) o Shaving cream (non aerosol) o Small bottle of talcum powder o Disposable razors o Shower Gel o Lip Balm o Perfume samples (non glass) socks

Food o Instant Noodles o Biscuits o Lollies o Small tinned consumables o Non-perishable foods

Other ideas o Magazines – from Vogue to Men’s Health o Puzzle books o DVDs o Socks

We would like to ask that you drop off your contribution at our office between 16 September to 27 September 2019.

This is a fantastic project for our school to be involved in and we would like to thank you in advance for your contributions. We will let you know how many boxes we send to our soldiers.

Thank you,

Gill Lofthouse

Defence School Mentor

Rockingham Beach Primary School

Rockingham Beach PS Kindy and Pre-Primary

Sports Day

Dear Families, Please join us for our Sports Day, which will be held on the school oval on:

Wednesday, 18th September 2019

Commencing at 8.45am and concluding at approximately 11am.

Please bring a rug and/or a folding chair and find a spot behind the cones on the big oval to watch the classes march out.

Each class will rotate through team events and then have their running races. Games and races are participation events only so we do not have winning places.

Bring along your running shoes and have-a-go at the parents running race! There will also be a toddler race.

We will conclude our Sports Day with a picnic lunch in the Early Childhood playground. Please either pack your child’s lunch in their school bag or bring along a picnic lunch to share with them.

Children need a HAT, WATER BOTTLE, CRUNCH AND SIP and SNEAKERS. Faction shirts are optional as children are participating in class groups (not factions).

If Wednesday the 18th of September isn’t your child’s Kindy day (Kangaroos and Possums) they are still invited to attend. However these children must be picked up from school at 11.00, or they can stay with their parents to enjoy the picnic lunch.

Regards,

Kindy and Pre-Primary staff

We are introducing QKR! Qkr is a secure and easy way to make payments to the school from your phone. You will still be able to pay the school via our usual methods however, Qkr is now our preferred payment method and we encourage you to embrace this option as we attempt to minimise the amount of cash being handled by your children and the school.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any queries.

School SMS Number

0419 963 145

Please assist us by sending an SMS to the number above

if your child is absent from school for any reason. You do not need to wait to receive notification they are absent.

Canteen Number

0403 852 407

EFTPOS available for transactions over $5.00

Thank you to all our Sponsors for supporting our school