March 1 - Riana Primary School

Newsletter, March 1, 2016
Dear Parents and Community Members:
Athletic Carnival
Our 2016 Athletic Carnival is on this Friday 4th March. It’s shaping up to be a good
one with a terrific team of sports leaders planned and ready to go. They will be
wearing special bibs this year, so if your child needs support you know who to ask.
The program, which is in this newsletter, is a guide. We may have to adjust it for time
and weather but we’ll do our best.
Please make sure children have:
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Sun safe school hats
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Lots to eat and drink even if they are having a barbecue lunch
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Personal sunscreen if needed
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A warm coat
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Old stockings for the three legged race would be great
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Teddy Bears for Kinder and Prep children for the Teddy Bear race
We focus on participation and being a good sport, so please let children know we
just want them to give it their best shot and have fun. Points are awarded for
participation so children are helping their House every time they join in.
Riana Primary School, Department of Education
Woolworths Earn and Learn Program
Thanks to all parents, carers and extended
families who took part in Woolworths ‘Earn
and Learn’ promotion last year. Our order
has arrived and some items can be seen in
the picture. The books are in sets of six and
will be used for Guided Reading in the
classroom.
Home Reader Area
We now have a new Home Reader area for
students and families to use. All Home
Reader levels are now located in the one
area.
Reading Certificates
As part of our continued focus on Reading
at Riana Primary School, we have a schoolwide Home Reading Certificate system.
Children receive a certificate in assembly
when they reach 25, 50, 75 and 150 nights
of Home Reading.
At 100 nights of Home Reading children
will receive a Medal.
At 200 nights of Home Reading children will receive a Medal.
We hope this encourages participation in the Home Reading Program.
Reading is a skill. The more you practise any skill the better you become.
Regards,
John Hudson, Principal
RIANA PRIMARY SCHOOL
ATHLETIC CARNIVAL PROGRAM, Friday 4 March, 2016
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Events begin at 9:15 am
Lunch at approximately 12:30pm - Barbecue lunch (Sausages &
Hamburgers) Order lunch as you would for our usual canteen day remember, there will be NO CANTEEN this Friday.
Tabloids begin at 1:15pm
Event
Grades
9:15am 800m
5-6
Egg and Spoon Race
K-6
400m
3-6
Three legged race
K-6
200m
1-6
Teddy Bear Race
K-P
Hurdles
K-6
50m
K-2
100m
p -6
Relays
p -3 (50 – 70m); 4-6 (circular)
Parent, Teacher, Grade 6, High School students relay - if time permits
Gumboot throw
Lunch
Tabloid Sports (after lunch. 5 minute changeovers)
K-6
RIANA PRIMARY SCHOOL - STUDENT COUNCIL 2016
Here is the Riana Primary School Student Council for 2016. Congratulations to the
students who are prepared to put themselves out for the good of their school. We
look forward to seeing what this dedicated team can achieve. Thank you to other
students who also applied. We appreciate your commitment to your school. There
will be many opportunities for you to contribute during the year.
President – Grace Donohue
Vice President –Meg Bracken
Treasurer – Bonnie Mawer with support from Jordy
Secretary – Emma Faber with support from Amity
Amity Mason (reserve secretary)
Jordy Fielding (reserve treasurer)
4/5/6 Reps - Chloe Fielding and Grace French
3/4 Reps – Claire French and Jenna Fielding
1/2/3 Reps – Roxy Snell and Harry Carpenter
Prep/1 Reps – Lucy Radcliff and Olivia Faber
SPORTS LEADERS - 2016
Congratulations to the following students:
Amity Mason, Bonnie Mawer, Emma Faber,
Alex Emmerton, Kira Hingston, Matthew
Murphy, Jordy Fielding, Isabella Hills,
Tarnee Ling, Meg Bracken, Grace Donohue,
Gabby McHenry.
The reserves are: Grace French, Chloe
Fielding and Shakayla Groves.
Riana Primary is participating in the
“Bullying – No Way” campaign this
year.
It will be held on Friday March 18.
Our school will celebrate with a day
of Random Acts of Kindness, a munch
with a buddy morning tea, and
special activities at lunch time.
Bullying facts
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Approximately one in four Year 4 to Year 9 Australian students (27%)
report being bullied every few weeks or more often (considered to be
frequent) during the last term at school.
Frequent school bullying was highest among Year 5 (32%) and Year 8 (29%)
students.
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83% of students who bully others online, also bully others offline.
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84% of students who were bullied online were also bullied offline.
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Peers are present as onlookers in 87% of bullying interactions, and play a
central role in the bullying process.
Hurtful teasing was the most prevalent of all bullying behaviours
experienced by students, followed by having hurtful lies told about them.
Online bullying appears to be related to age (or access to technology), with
older students more likely to engage in cyber bullying than younger
students.
Dear Parent and Friends of Grade 4/5/6.
Thank you so much for all the offers of help this year.
We are in the process of sorting out a roster for our helpers
and will let you know as soon as possible.
For those of you who are able to help occasionally, thank you
and we’ll be in touch.
If there is anyone who can’t come in to school but would like
to help at home we have some ideas as well.
Thanks for your support
Grade 4/5/6
Dear Families,
As you may have read in our newsletter, our school has become a LiFT
school this year. LiFT stands for Learning in Families Together. This is an
initiative of the State Government which aims for families to become
more involved with their children’s learning at school to improve Literacy
and Numeracy outcomes. We believe that children learn best when
families, schools and communities work together.
As we put this program into practise we hope to share a range of
information, resources and ideas which will help you and your child learn
together. At this stage we are thinking that Facebook would be a great
tool to communicate information, but we realise not everyone has access
to it. To make sure you can access this information we would like to
know the best method of communicating with you.
Can you please tick below which of the following you have access to and
write your preferred communication method please?
Olivia Bracken, LiFT Coordinator
Family Name…………………………………………………………..
Facebook
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SMS
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Email
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Printed material
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Preferred communication method……………………………………
Grade 4/5/6 sketched souvenirs from around the
world as inspiration for writing.
Swinging Bowl
Pipe - Thailand
Kira Hingston
Isabella Hills
Meditation Ball - Indonesia
Meditation Ball - Indonesia
Stephanie Simpson
Amity Mason
Grade 3/4 students used a collection of bones as a jump off
point to create these creatures. They wrote word poems
called “haiku” to describe their creations.
Crrier
Creepy, coward.
Resistant, roaring.
Reacting, raging.
Interesting, incredible.
Evil, explorer.
Roots, reaching.
LAUREN MASEA
Moldagore
Maniac at flying,
Owns a grave yard
Loud when sucking souls
Died one hundred years ago
Awesome at slaughtering people
Goat like creature
Outraged by people
Raging and rubbish at playing golf
Eats people’s souls.
JAKOBI MAWER
Ice Shards
Icy, incredible
Crazy, courageous
Evil, extreme
Smelly, secret
Hateful, hungry
Awful, angry
Rotten, rough
Dangerous, deadly
Strange, smart
BETTY GRIFFITHS
Firebreath
Fierce, flying
Interesting, impressive
Red, roaring
Evil, existing
Big, bad
Rough, rich
Exploring, extreme
Awful, angry
Terrible, talented
Horrible, hungry.
PIPER BRACKEN
Vampire Leg
Vicious, very small
Awful, awkward
Mysterious, mean
Painful, pale yellow
Island living, interesting
Roaring, repeats words
Evil, exciting
Lives on land, lazy
Explores, eats naughty kids
Grinning greedily.
LARA FIELDING
Swampy
Scarey, swampy, slippery, slimey
Wooden leg, wormy
Awful, angry, awesome tenticles
Mad, maniac
Plump, purple
Young, yellow eyes.
JENNA FIELDING
Cyclone
Creepy, cool
Yapping, yelling
Coldblooded, crazy
Lazy, lava blowing
Odd, old
Naughty, nocturnal
Evil, exciting
HANNAH RADCLIFF
Lava Ball
Loopy, large
Awful, anger
Vicious, very big
Angry, awesome
Bad, brown
Amazing, awkward
Lazy, lucky
Lives in the land of lava.
CLAIRE FRENCH
PARENT ASSOCIATION - NEWS
Hi All,
Thank you to everyone who helped at the clearing sale last week, whether it
was cooking or helping on the day, it is very much appreciated.
This Friday March 4th is our Athletic Carnival. We will again hold a BBQ lunch.
Hamburgers and Sausages will be on sale as well as the usual cold drinks on the
canteen menu. Your child needs to fill out an order form as they normally
would for canteen and place it in their class basket. We will have extra for
parents as well. Hamburgers will be $3 and Sausages $2. COLD DRINKS WILL BE
THE ONLY THING AVAILABLE FROM THE USUAL CANTEEN MENU.
Our first meeting for the year will be held in the staffroom this coming Monday
night 7th March at 7:00pm. Everyone is very welcome to attend so we can plan
our year of fundraising for our fabulous school. This is going to be followed by a
School Association meeting at 7:4pm also in the staffroom.
Look forward to seeing everybody there!
Until next time
Lyndal Luck 64376257
CANTEEN INFORMATION
Thank you to Melanie and Alannah for your help with the
canteen last week.
There will be no canteen this FRIDAY, due to the Athletic
Carnival. However the Parent Association are providing a
barbecue lunch at the Carnival. Hamburgers $3.00; Sausages
$2. Cold drinks will be available (as per canteen menu).
Nicole Burns, Canteen Co-ordinator
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Maddington’s After
School Care
Phone 64313545
CALENDAR 2016
March
NEWSLETTER
MUSIC
RIANA EARLY
LEARNING CENTRE
open from 8:30am 3:00pm(3-5 years)
Maddington’s After
School Care
Phone 64313545
Fri 4
Mon 7
Mon 14
Wed 16
Fri 18
Tues 22
Fri 25 -
STUDENT BANKING
RIANA EARLY
LEARNING CENTRE
open from 8:30am 3:00pm(3-5 years)
Maddington’s After
School Care,
Phone 64313545
Maddington’s After
School Care Phone
64313545
PLAYGROUP
10-12noon in the
Kinder room.
VISUAL ART &
Phys. ED
RIANA EARLY
LEARNING CENTRE
Maddington’s After
School Care
CANTEEN
SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE:
PHONE THE ULVERSTONE CLINIC
ON 64298450
Athletic Carnival
Parent Assn meeting 7:00pm
School Assn meeting 7:45pm
Public Holiday
NWPSSA Athletic Carnival
“Bullying - No Way”
Assembly 1:30pm
Tues 29 March Easter Break
April
Fri 8
Moderation Day
(Student Free Day)
Mon 11 - Fri 22 School Holidays
Mon 25
ANZAC Day holiday
Please return:
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Student Information Validation
forms.
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LiFT information form
If you would like to pre-order a calendar, the cost is $20.00 - if
you wish it to be posted add $5.00
Contact Suzan Russell on 0409 389 408.
Donna Harris has more information if parents are interested
in supporting their children to participate in Futsal.
Cradle Coast Farmers’ market invites you !
At the Wharf, Ulverstone every Sunday from 8:30am - 12:30pm
Apples come from the supermarket don’t they”
It’s amazing how many children still don't know where their food
comes from. Here at the Cradle Coast Farmers’ Market we’d love
to invite you and your family to come and see what our amazing
region produces and talk to the farmers and makers. You’ll find the
freshest locally gown vegies, home-made produce and much more
for those healthy school lunches.
There’s something for everyone - live music, occasional cooking
demonstrations from local chefs, and toys for the little ones to play
with.
If you have any excess produce from your school gardens you’d like
to sell, we’d be very happy to help you set up a stall.
For further details, come along and talk us on Sunday or contact:
Clare de Haan on 0418534653; dehaan.clare@gmail.com
Or Caroline Smith on 0438090464; smith.caroline81@gmail.com
Or visit our Facebook page. Looking forward to welcoming you to
the market!
The Committee, Cradle Coast Farmers’ Market