The Turtle Times

Parents and Carers, School has been a very busy place this term and with only one short week to go we should finish the term off with a great Sports Carnival on our school oval on Thursday next week. Teachers will be under-taking professional learning on the new Australian Curriculum on Friday next week with the children finishing the term on Thursday. Our school once again has grown beyond our current class capacity and I will be reworking the classes in the year 1/2 and 2/3 area of our school. At this stage it looks like all classes will have some modification to them as this has been our biggest growth area of the school. There will be two straight year one classes and two straight year 2 classes and a year 2/3 class that will move into the 3/4 area of the school opposite Mr Morrison and Ms Bracegirdle classes. I will provide to all parents with children in the 1/2 area of the school, the class structure and who your child’s class teacher will be for Semester 2 via letter prior to the end of the school term. There will be some staffing changes with the new class being created but it is unknown at this stage the teachers who will be joining us. Mrs Leila Beale is moving on from Rosebery next semester and will be taking up a position at Alawa Primary School for semester 2. The teacher replacing Mrs Beale is Rebecca Garrigan who has most recently finished acting in the Senior Teacher position at Woodroffe Primary School. We are very lucky to have Rebecca joining our school community. Reports will be sent home on Wednesday this coming week. Teachers have been working hard all term to provide the most informative report for your child’s midyear report. Keep in mind that there is still a semester to go and teacher and students will work together to set appropriate targets for the remainder of the year. I look forward to seeing as many parents/carers as possible at our Sports Carnival next Thursday here on our school oval. The day starts in the Assembly area and we then move to the oval. Mrs Ludwig has done a fabulous job of organising this inaugural event and the students are all excited and looking forward to a great finish to the term with a fun sporting event. Sports shirts are available for sale at the front office for anyone who still requires one for the day. At Rosebery Primary School we have 4 major underpinning principles called our ‘Big 4’, Co-teaching, Kagan Co-operative learning, Restorative Practices and Evidence Based Practices. We continue to learn and grow in all four areas and a part of that is professional learning for teachers and staff. We have two of our senior staff members travelling to Florida in the 4 week break to attend a Kagan Summer Academy. As most of you know we have Kagan Collaborative learning strategies embedded across our school to complement our Co-teaching model. Shona Henderson, Assistant Principal and Danielle Banicek, Senior Teacher Upper Primary are both recognised Australian Kagan trainers and are aiming to grow their knowledge and skills to work more in a mentoring role across schools and to be able to officially train other interested teachers within the NT Education system. This is a huge step and we wish them both well and look forward to hearing and seeing their new learning on their return in Semester 2. I wish everyone an enjoyable 4 week break with your children and stay safe ready for children to return to school on Tuesday 24th July.

Gail Smith, Principal

Belyuen Rd Rosebery, NT,0832

PO Box 650 Palmerston, NT, 0831 Phone: 8930 5100 Fax: 8930 5199 Absentee Line: 8930 5140

Email: roseberyps.admin@ntschools.net Website: http://roseberyprimary.nt.edu.au

15th June 2012 Term 2 Week 9

Every Child, Every Day - improving student enrolment, attendance and

participation is everybody’s responsibility and everyone’s business.

All parents and families are welcome to come and cheer on students for Rosebery Primary School’s Inaugural Sports Day. There will be a shaded area for all our spectators. Preschool Group 1 students are welcome to attend sports day but must be accompanied and supervised by a parent/carer.

8.30 - 10.30: Tabloids 10.30 - Recess Canteen Deal 10.45 - 12.50: Running events 12.55: Emu parade and lunch 2.15 - 2.40: Final sport assembly

RPS has a twitter account to keep every-one up to date with results and Sports Day news. Follow us on twitter

@RPSSportsDay for the latest updates.

No late orders will be

accepted due to catering

arrangements.

RECEPTION OPENING HOURS OVER

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

OPEN: 25TH JUNE TO 29TH JUNE

CLOSED: 2ND JULY TO 19TH JULY

Date Event

June

Thur 21st Inaugural Sports Carnival

Thur 21st Last Day of Term 2

Fri 22nd PUPIL FREE DAY

July

Mon 23rd PUPIL FREE DAY

Tues 24th Students Resume Term 3

Liam Hockey, Percey Chloe Driscoll, Kaitlyn Campbell Bradley Williams, Emma Weston,

Kasey Mortimore, Kai Smits Katie Gardiner, Caleb Staynoff Daunte Coggins, Nife Olusoji

Keagan Grundmann, Bailey McBain Ashton Ritchie, Montana Masters

Jaimond Stephens, Isabel Mosedale Taylah Tucker, John Rekia

Izabella Taylor, Kyle Kapitula Ethan Gibbons, Shayne Field

Courtney Richards, Maria Kastellorzios Ashley, Fraser Gum

ROSEBERY PS ATTENDANCE

Week 8, Term 2

Preschool: 96.05% Transition: 91.59% Year 1: 89.30% Year 2: 87.95% Year 3 92.22% Year 4: 87.38% Year 5: 97.39% Year 6: 93.85%

Whole School Attendance: 91.96% Total School Enrolments: 389

ALLERGIES

Rosebery Primary School is dedicated to provid-ing a safe environment for our students.

In order to assist students in our school with severe nut allergies we are asking all of our parents to help us promote a nut free environment.

As a result we ask you not to send to school the

following items:

Sandwiches with peanut butter or other nut butters or pastes.

Nuts in biscuits, sweets or salads

Muesli bars containing nuts

Or any other forms of nuts

Please assist us in keeping

your children safe.

NUT FREE

SPORTS DAY Thursday 21st

Wow only a week to go and school holidays begin, have you, like me, found yourself saying what are we going to do as we aren’t heading away? Not to worry, there are many things to be done in Darwin over this beautiful time of year, check out some of the listed websites to help out: The Top Ender website: http://www.thetopender.com.au/index.html, Darwin Water front web site: www.waterfront.nt.gov.au, Darwin City Council web site: http://www.darwin.nt.gov.au/media-centre/events/2012-06 These are just a few of the many websites that have holiday programmes running.

With partners / mum / dad away at this busy time of year it can sometimes be hard to keep a routine, get kids to school on time or find time for you if so, you might be interested in the DVD that Defence Community Organisation have available. ‘Going Solo – Dealing with Absence in Defence Families’ & ‘Don’t forget it’s Bin Night – Stepping up when Mum or Dad is away’ If you’re interested in a copy of either DVD please let me know and I will have one sent home for you. These can be very useful when there is a period of absence. Enjoy your holidays and I hope that you have fun in whatever adventure you are taking.

Please remember that my door is always open to both students and parents. See you around school ☺

Miss Sam, DSTA

Don’t forget to keep collecting over the

school holidays

Pauls Milk Caps

Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers

Coles Sports Gear Vouchers