Snapshot Week 3 Term 4

1 November 2019

Remembrance Day

On Monday 11 November (Week 5), Rose Park Primary School will

hold a Remembrance Day Service from 12:10 – 12:30pm. Mr. Ken

Duthie, Vietnam and Malaysia Veteran and School Military History

Officer will be a special guest speaker for the service. We will be

offering a prayer as part of this service. If you do not wish for your

child to be involved in this whole school event, you’re welcome to

collect them from school prior to our service. Families are welcome to attend.

Staff Information 2020

We are excited to share the news that two members of our Leadership Team, both Rebecca Weber

(Deputy Principal) and Kim Copeland (Assistant Principal) are pregnant and both due to take

Maternity leave towards the end of Term 1, 2020. The positions will be advertised internally this term,

enabling all current staff to apply, therefore utilising the opportunity to build leadership density and

capability across the school. The successful applicants will be assigned roles in Term 1 that will enable

them to have handover from the leader along with mentoring whilst also supporting school wide

objectives. The Deputy Principal nominee will take on the library role, and support all classroom

teachers with their Units of Inquiry along with preparation for our IB school evaluation in July 2020. The

Assistant Principal nominee will take on a Special Education teacher role, also supporting the

development of ‘One Plans’ for students with disabilities.

Congratulations to Michael Porter and Sarah Cole for winning ongoing Permanent Teaching Positions

at Rose Park Primary School commencing January 2020. This is a such a positive for our school

community and we know they will continue to be outstanding educators in their ongoing role

supporting student learning.

Week 4 Crossing

Monitors

AM

Hyeon B

Katie R

Matthew W

PM

Lilah H

Nathan A

Kaiya C

Year 3 Camp—Aldinga

Students in Year 3 classes thoroughly enjoyed their camp at Aldinga Beach last week!

Belle – “When everyone had got sunscreen on, we lined up to

walk to the beach. It was a very long walk and it was

sooooooo hot! When we got there everyone got into their

groups and had a scavenger hunt. After that, the staff let us

put our feet in the water as a special treat. The water was so

cool and nice on a hot day”.

Stephen – “We did a cultural pop up session. This session was

with Uncle Tamaru, he taught us Kaurna art and symbols. Hr

drew a picture with symbols and it told a story, it was quite

interesting”.

Henry – “Uncle Tamaru taught us about the land of the first

nation people in a patient voice and told us about his mother.

He told us how she would never talk to a white person since the

white people took away eight of her children”.

A big thank you to our many parent helpers. The children were

extremely impressed with Sam Wallis-Smith’s secret talent; he

can play the digeridoo!

Second hand Chromebook sale

On Monday, Dec 9 (Week 9), we will be facilitating with a second hand Chromebook sale for

Parents/ Caregivers in Year 7 who wish to sell their Chromebooks. Further details will be sent to

parents in the near future via Edsmart. While the school is not directly involved in the sale, we do

recommend that devices for sale meet the following criteria: charger cord, no missing keys, and an

undamaged screen.

Chess School SA

Congratulations to all chess players who participated in the Interschool Chess State Finals held at

Tyndale Christian School. Rose Park came 6th out of 13 schools - an amazing effort! A special

congratulations to Yutian Yu, in year 6, who came 2nd in the individual standings. We look forward

to continuing to build participation in chess at Rose Park.

Site Improvement Plan Goal: To develop effective writers

What's happening in Year 4?

Year 5 students have been learning about reviews and their purposes. Students have been provided

the opportunity to be reflective inquirers and discuss the various forms of review and the language

associated with each. The pictures below show students engaging in a ‘flat chat’. A ‘flat chat’ is a

written conversation where students discuss, evaluate and critique a text by posing questions,

providing comment and responding to their peers thoughts in a collaborative environment.

Brad Schutz, Belinda Monaghan & Caitlin Petrou

Parents & Friends Fundraiser

The Parents & Friends Committee, in conjuction with Lambrook Wines, are holding a fundraiser.

All money raised will go towards the purchase of Soundfield Systems for the school.

'A soundfield System amplifies the teacher's voice to a comfortable level above any

background noise to ensure all children in the class can hear well. Background noise has also

been shown to reduce in classrooms where a soundfield system is used.'

Lambrook Wines, Capital Brewing Co. beers, and Antipodes spirits will be available for

purchase directly from the supplier, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the

school.

Please download the order form here Lambrook Wines Fundraiser. All order forms can be

submitted to the school office, or to Lambrook Wines, and payment must be made directly to

Lambrook Wines (payment details on order form).

The Parents and Friends committee thanks you for your ongoing support.

Science News

The Year 6/7’s have been busy in their Science lessons, not only

putting their engineering caps on creating models of power

plants using equipment from the classroom, but also selling

different energy sources in

presentations to their classmates.

Putting their best persuasive skills on

display, groups worked hard to

pitch their product to their class in

order to win the vote on the

question “What form of electricity

should Australia invest in over the

next 50 years? Students have

showed their fantastic creativity and debating skills to sway

students to pick their product.

The Year 1’s also practised their

engineering skills recently; creating

spaghetti towers

with marshmallows.

They investigated

the differences

between cooked

and uncooked

spaghett i and

looked at what properties they had. They had to

work in groups to problem solve and find a way

to get their towers freestanding and as tall as

possible.

Musical - Ali Baba & the Forty Bongo Bandits

The Year 4/5 Musical – Ali Baba and the Forty Bongo

Bandits was a huge success. The production was

excellent, with the characters dazzling us with their

costumes, wit and sensational acting. Well done to all

of our students involved. Special thanks to our Year

4/5 teachers, Janet Parkinson and Hayley Collier for

making this possible and providing the students with

the opportunity to perform on the big stage.

Janet Parkinson & Hayley Collier

Year 6/7 Digital Technology Rotations

Within the theme, How We Organise Ourselves,

and looking into "How Digital Technologies are

Shaping Our Future", our Year 6 and 7 students have

had the opportunity to develop their coding skills and

using formulas/ graphs in a spreadsheet. Classes

have rotated between teachers over the last 2

weeks, having gained experience with the

following: Mr Cubbin - Spheros: Mr Hutchinson -

Google Sheets/ MS Excel: Mrs Lygo - Ozobots: Mr

Michell - Scratch: Mr Porter - Micro:Bit. Shown are

images of students creating a personalised

pedometer (Micro:Bit), investigating implications of

autonomous vehicles (Ozobots) and exploring the use

formulas and graphing in Google Sheets and MS

Acler

Adelaide Central Markets

Adelaide Kids Yoga

Andrew & Missy Welch

Arkaba Hotel

ASSA ABLOY

Athletes Foot Burnside Village

Be Clean Services

Betrothed Bridal

Big 4 Port Willunga Holiday

Park

Brad Shutz

Cinquante Jewellery

Coccobello

Commissary

Corner Store Cafe

Creative Collective Interior

Design

Dan Murphy’s

Dulwich Bakery

Dulwich Butchery

EFM Vic Park

Fine & Fettle

Frewville Foodland

Guthrie Wines

Helen Moyes

Hentley Farm

Hume Taylor and Co

Ivy Room

Janakie Hopkins

Janet Parkinson

Justin Phillips Consulting

Karsan Hutchinson

Kim Copeland

KX Pilates

Lambrook

Life Personal Trainers

Little Sparrow

Michael Porter

Moka European

Palient designs

Patisserie

Morgan Knight

Morrison Lygo

Ms Burrell

MYND Tribe Fitness Studio

Norwood Swim School

Orso/Willmotts

Parklands Dental

Parkside Hotel

Plant Twerp

Realm Vintage

Robbies Chop Shop

Silk Laser

Stones throw

TennisEd

The Sorted Home

Vickery Wines

WD Wines Pty Ltd

White Picket

Zach Curnow

Zara Lygo

Thank you to everyone who supported Bogan Bingo, we raised just over $9,000 which

will be used to purchase sound field systems for the classrooms. A big thanks to the

following people and businesses who generously donated products and services for

the silent auction, raffle and wine grab.