RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Thank you to Richmond Public School’s P & C for their sponsorship of our school Newsletter

Term 2 – Week 5 Thursday 30 May, 2019

115 Windsor Street RICHMOND NSW 2753 Email: richmond-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Phone: 4578 2027 Fax: 4588 5886

“To Strive for Excellence”

Important Dates

Wednesday, 5 June P&C Mufti Day – ‘Wear Your Team

Colours’

Friday, 7 June Café -2.30pm

Monday, 10 June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Friday, 14 June Touchdown Cut Off date

Monday, 17 June Multicultural Public Speaking Semi-finals

at Grose View PS

District Cross Country Carnival – Congratulations! Congratulations to the 49 students who represented Richmond Public School at the Hawkesbury District Cross Country Carnival on Friday 24 May, 2019. The weather was beautiful and the track held up extremely well. Well done to all of our students who participated on the day. A big congratulations to Mia G, Amberley G, and Zoe B, who will now represent the Hawkesbury at the Regional Cross Country Carnival on Wednesday, 12 June. Thank you to Miss Deal and Miss Bailey who organised for our cross country competitors to attend and compete at the District Cross Country Carnival. It was an exciting and very busy day. All of our students were remarkably well behaved and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship. Well done Richmond Public School!

Mathematics Computation Quizzes

Date Stage Skill

16 May -

30 May

K

+0, +1 and +2 without pictures and numbers

-0 and -1 without pictures

Year 1

+8 and -8 +9 and -9

Year 2

+80 and -80 +90 and -90

Years

3-6

X7 and ÷7 X8 and ÷8

Sydney West PSSA AFL Well Done Richmond Public School boys!

Year 6 boys, Jasper S and Curtis V were selected from more than 200 boys in the Sydney West region to represent Sydney West at the NSWPSSA AFL State Championships 2019 last week. Both boys are committed AFL Hawkesbury Saints club players and were thrilled to represent our region at the State Championships. They won 4 of their 6 games. Congratulations to Curtis for being selected on the New South Wales team for 2019 AFL Nationals. He and his family will be travelling to Perth next term and we wish him all the best of luck.

Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition

Congratulations to our stage finalists, Stage 2-Skye M and Ariana L Stage 3- Lily P and Isabella Wst. They will be moving on to the semi-finals at Grose View Public School on Monday, 17 June, 2019. Their speeches were impressive and they did very well with their impromptu topics too. We wish them the best of luck as they progress to the next level of the competition.

Royal Easter Show

U13s Team Of Four-Flatwork

Congratulations to Rosie M and Maddilyn M who competed in the U13s Team of Four – Flatwork equestrian competition at the 2019 Royal Easter Show. The girls trained for three months for this huge event and Richmond Public School are very proud of their effort. Especially, as the girls are under 10 years of age and competing against 13 year old students. Well done on your Third Place ribbon, Rosie and Maddilyn! What an inspiring achievement.

Welcome Pre Service Teachers to

Richmond Public School

This term, Richmond Public School will again host a number of Pre Service teachers from Australian Catholic University. We would like to welcome Miss Ellen Callaghan on KT, Miss Hayley Leishman on 1/2C, Miss Zoe Brown on 1S, and Ms Melinda Jeffery on 5/6B. I know they will learn a lot from our amazing classroom practitioners about teaching and learning, planning, assessing, feedback, student wellbeing, departmental requirements and professional engagement with colleagues and community.

Welcome Miss Myhill This term we welcome a new teacher to our community, Miss Hayley Myhill. She is temporarily replacing Miss Peta O’Connor as class teacher on 3/4O for the remainder of this term. Miss O’Connor

is taking extended leave during this period of time. I know you will all join me in welcoming Miss Myhill to our lovely school. Miss Myhill will be delivering 3/4O’s Teaching and Learning program, planned by our Stage Two teachers. Ms Superina, Mrs Morris and Mrs Brkich will be working collaboratively with the support of Miss Myhill, to assess and communicate the academic progress of 3/4O for their Semester One Student Reports. These reports are due to go home later this term, on 3 July, 2019.

OPAL Cards – Student Purchasing – A Notice for our Recorder Ensemble! OPAL cards are now the primary form of transaction when using any type of public transport, particularly trains and buses. Our students have been provided OPAL cards for their bus travel and are required to have two cards if they have two destinations over the week. Over time, particularly in the Hawkesbury, train stations have omitted train guards and over the counter ticket sales and have replaced them with OPAL Card ‘tap on/tap off‘ machines. This is now making it very difficult for schools that in the past were able to bulk purchase tickets prior to the train trip/excursion. Logistically, it is also difficult for schools to purchase 30 OPAL Cards for an excursion and maintain the process. Therefore, I suggest families purchase a child OPAL Card and have it topped with approximately $20 in credit. In particular, I encourage our Recorder Ensemble students to fulfil this purchase as they are travelling by train on Tuesday, 25 June (Week 9 of this term) to The Salvation Army Hall in the city and then later to the Opera House to perform. This is a very exciting experience for our talented students. For more information on OPAL Cards please go to https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/home#/howToApply

Lisa McGrath Relieving Principal

District Cross Country Results 8/9yrs Girls Ariana L 27th, Hannah S 30th, Lilian P 32nd, Sarah D 46th, Georgia A 84th, Isabelle K 79th 8/9 Boys Max P 64th, Oliver S 14th, Logan S 31st, Jack W 47th, Muhammad K-A 63rd, Lucas P 76th 10yrs Girls Zoe B 4th, Sydney D 33rd, Asha S 52nd, Tess V 36th, Anastazia S 53rd, Cara-Lee F 63rd 10yrs Boys Jaxon C 19th, Jacob A 20th, Lucas M 48th, Mitchell N 47th, Silas M 49th, Licoln C 36th 11yrs Girls Lana K 81st, Emma W 28th, Brie B 44th, Matilda H 74th, Isabella W 55th, Isabella F 64th 11yrs Boys Nate P 19th, Oliver W 54th, Rhys L 52nd, Joshua B 37th, Oliver C 38th 12/13yrs Girls Amberley G 7th, Maddilyn M 22nd, Sinead M 31st, Erika S 35th, Bay-lee K 79th, Sasha B 38th, Mia G 1st (MC) 12/13yrs Boys Riley B 9th, Mason C 15th, Licoln S 39th, Jett S 22nd, Alfred H 45th

AFL Paul Kelly Cup

P&C News

Thank you to the parents who came to our last P&C Meeting. Your attendance and input was greatly appreciated. I would like to welcome the new parents that joined us on that evening, it’s great to see new faces. I encourage all parents to join us at P&C Meetings as it’s a great opportunity to meet new people, have an input to school events and know what is happening around the school firsthand. At our last meeting the P&C donated $4000 to Richmond Public School for extra curricular activities. This will help our dance group, band etc. Goodluck to all the groups for 2019. Wear your Team Colors mufti day, Wednesday 5, June. It’s great seeing the different sports and all the different teams the children and the staff support. Don’t forget it’s a gold coin donation. Continue to collect your Earn and Learn stickers. You can place them in the box outside RICHMOND Woolworths or can be dropped into the box inside the school office. Planning and preparations are underway for term 3 events. If you would like to volunteer at any of the upcoming events, please make sure you have a working with children’s check. This can be accessed by the below link and submitted to the school office. Without volunteers, big events like Mother’s Day stalls and BBQ, Father’s Day stalls and BBQ and carols on the green can’t go ahead. https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-working-children-check The next P&C meeting is

Monday, 24 June. All are invited to attend and join as a member. The lovely staff of Richmond Public School provides babysitting if required. If you would like to discuss something or have a suggestions, please forward it to richmondpspandc@gmail.com and we can address this at an upcoming meeting. Thank you for your continued support. Canteen News Thank you to Joel our Area Health Promotion Officer from the Live Life Well @ School Team who presented us with a Nutri Bullet blender on Monday

20th May. We won this for passing our Healthy Menu Check and sharing the results. Pictured is a wonderful canteen volunteer Dad named Ruben and Joel from Live Life Well. Last Week was National Volunteer Week (May 20-26). All the volunteers have an enormous impact within our wonderful school community. I’d like to thank the parents and carers who volunteer in the canteen. As this is a P&C run canteen, we are operated solely by volunteers who give up their time to help serve our students. Without their assistance we simply could not open. Thank you!

Spotlight on…….Milky / Juice / Custard Pops!

I often get asked “what is a milky pop?” by parents / carers so I thought I would let you all know. These are a 20ml frozen treat that the kids absolutely love! They are one of our biggest sellers. They are simply flavoured milk, juice or custard poured into a 20ml cup and frozen. Each one is a healthy, everyday choice so can be consumed daily.

Rainbow of Food Recipe – Green or red Cinnamon Apple Crisps (www.taste.com)

3 apples (thinly sliced)

3 tsp agave syrup

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1. Heat oven to 100°C (80°C fan-forced) and line

two oven trays with baking paper.

2. Toss apples with agave nectar and dust with

cinnamon.

3. Line trays with a single layer of apples and

bake for 2 hours (a little longer if your slices

are thicker).

4. Remove chips from oven together with the

baking paper and cool on a wire rack (lift

them a little from the paper to make sure

they don’t stick).

Don’t forget to download the Flexischools app and create an account so you can order online and have exclusive access to specials that will be offered from time to time. We have some items that are available until stocks last that are not listed on the printed menu.