A Letter to the Community
“Thought for the Week”
SCHOOL NEWS No.8 19th March 2021
School Leaders’
In-duction - 31 March
Our school leaders for 2021 are Captains - Harlow and Max and our
Vice-Cap-tain is Will.
The Student Council Execu-tive were elected last Fri-day. The president of the Student Council for 2021 is Rathdowney State Primary School
Laxon, the secretary is Har-low and the treasurer is
Linden.
All school leaders will be inducted on the Wednes-day afternoon, 31 March. We hope to have a special guest speaker at the event.
Parents are invited to at-tend afternoon tea in the
staffroom after a special parade to induct the school’s leaders. The pa-rade will be held at 2 pm.
Christmas Creek
Cross-Country – 16
March
This year’s cross-country was held at Darlington State School on Tuesday,
16 March.
Everyone turning 9 this year, or older, was eligible to enter the cross-country.
The students had been practising for this race. All that practice meant that
out of 6 students who at-tended, William received
1st place, Montana and Noah were placed 2nd and Harlow was 4th in her race.
Congratulations go to all our students for
participat-ing and finishparticipat-ing their re-spective races.
The new “Student Code of Conduct 2020-2023” was
presented at the recent P&C meeting for approval.
It has been endorsed by the P&C. The document will replace the previously
entitled “Responsible Be-haviour Plan for Students –
2018-2021” currently on our website. A copy of the
signed document will also be sent home to each
family.
Student Council
Fundraising
Our Student Council is made up of students in
Years 3-6. They spend much of their time fund-raising and gardening. The
fundraising they do is pri-marily to subsidise our an-nual camps and to support
the Queensland Cancer Council and the chaplaincy
program. The Student Council pays the entries to
all the venues we visit when on our camps. They
also donate $300 to the Cancer Council and $300 to
Chaplaincy each year. The Student Council’s first
fundraiser for this year, is selling ice-blocks on Fri-days at lunchtimes in first and fourth terms when the
weather is hot. Our second fundraiser is our annual Easter choco-late drive. For those
56 chocolates for a return of $56. The boxes of
choc-olates have been given to your children this week. If
you can’t sell any, or you can’t sell them all, we just
ask that you return them to the school so that other
families can sell them. If you can sell more than your allocated box, we have plenty more boxes to
sell. We just ask that you return the money ($56 in the envelope, that is
sup-plied inside the box with the chocolates) before
tak-ing the second box. With help from the P&C, the Student Council will re-ceive all raffle money from
the Easter Raffle held at the Rathdowney Hotel. We want to sincerely thank the
managers of the Rathdowney Hotel for hosting raffles in the Pub
to help the school with fundraising.
Next term the Student Council will again serve healthy lunches on Fridays.
At the meeting this week they decided on menu op-tions for term 2. We’ve decided on an assortment of soups, curried sausages,
fried rice, pasta bolo-gnaise, tacos and toasties.
P&C News
The P&C met the week be-fore last week for its An-nual General Meeting and
elected office bearers for this year.
Secretary for 2021 is So-relle Jobson
Treasurer for 2021 is an open position, as yet
un-filled.
Mr Wes Kroll, after being treasurer for a few years, did not accept the nomina-tion to run for Treasurer again this year. So the P&C is looking for someone else
to fill the Treasurer posi-tion for 2021. Mr Kroll has offered to help train some-one in the job and be there
as a backup support if you need it.
Vice – President is an open position, as yet unfilled.
Tuckshop convenor for 2021 is also an open
posi-tion, as yet unfilled. Uniform convenor for 2021
remains Kay Todd.
Book Club convenor re-mains Janine Reilly. The P&C hope to have more parents at their next
meeting which has been postponed until a week later than originally
sched-uled. The P&C meeting
will now be held on 23 March at 6pm in the school’s staffroom. This is
because some teachers and parents will be at the
Christmas Creek Cross-Country at Darlington State
School on 16 March. We want as many people as possible at our next P&C meeting so that we can
elect people to fill the open positions in the P&C. At our next meeting, there
will also be an asbestos presentation.
meet-ing. The meetings are gen-erally short and over by 7:30pm. A movie will be
supplied in the adjacent music room for any little
ones who come along.
“Thank You” to
The Reilly Family
Two weekends ago, the whole Reilly family showed
up at school to give the place a clean up. We had had a storm that week and there were branches down
and green waste every-where. When the Reilly’s
were finished, order was restored and the play-ground looked like a park!
Thank you, Max, Mia, Joce-lyn and your parents, Tom and Janine for a job well
done!
Junior News
This week the Preps have been learning the letters ‘d’ and ‘g’ and the sound they make. They have also
been practising how to write them with the cor-rect formation. We ate some yummy donuts and made some grape kebabs using our fine motor skills and hand eye coordination.
I have attached some pho-tos below. The Year 1s and
sound and the various ways we represent it (f, ff, ph). They all did really well
with their spelling this week.
In Maths, the Preps have been working on the num-ber 7. They have also been
exploring 2D shapes. The Year 1s and 2s have been working with subtraction stories as well as mass. We
have also started our end of term Maths testing. For our English c2c unit, our students have started planning and drafting their
information reports on their chosen animal. We have been highlighting key
words from our reliable sources (information sheet,
websites, books) to put into our information report planner. From our planner,
we will construct sen-tences and paragraphs
us-ing adjectives and noun
groups under 4 headings (description, diet, habitat, interesting facts). The
stu-dents are really enjoying this unit.
Dates to Remember-March-April 2021 Monday Tuesday
Wednes-day Thursday Friday
Rathdowney Soccer Club
Training:- Wednesday night 3.30pm
at the Memorial Grounds.
Anyone is welcome to come along
and train adults and children.
All players welcome from 5 years and
above.
Registration Day TBA
More information please contact:
Emma Williams
0423 637 202
Pilates in Rathdowney
As part of the Council’s “Be Healthy & Active” pro-gram, a 6 week Pilates course is being run in Rathdowney, starting in
the first week after the school holidays.
A qualified instructor will ensure the exercises are suited to all ages and levels of ability. To keep things happening in Rathdowney, we need
people to support the activities, so please come along.
When: Tuesdays (Starting 20th April)
Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm Where: Rathdowney Hall
Cost: $5
Bring: Water bottle and yoga mat
(there are spare mats if you don’t have one)
Super Spellers
3-6- Nikita, William, Max
P-2- Austin, Kiara, Dustin, Billie,
Amelia, Colin, William, Laurence, Harrison
Sight Word Smarties- Pearl, Jack,
