OUR PRIORITIES: High Quality Teaching | Success for ALL Students | Effective Leadership | Health and Wellbeing

E -BULLETIN News Friday 12 February 2021 Rockingham SHS Education Support Centre 15 Read Street ROCKINGHAM T: 9523 7600 E: Rockingham.ESC@education.wa.edu.au

Semester One 2021

TERM 1 Monday, 1 February – Thursday, 1 April

BREAK Friday, 2 April – Sunday, 18 April

TERM 2

Monday, 19 April

PD Day - no school for students

Tuesday, 20 April – Friday, 2 July

BREAK Saturday, 3 July – Sunday, 18 July

Term Dates 2021

Welcome to the new school year. It is wonderful to

have the students back this week after the disruption

caused by the extension of holidays due to COVID- 19.

It has been an adjustment for us all to wear masks at

school and your children have coped very well with

either wearing a mask or with their friends and

teachers wearing them. I am very proud of them.

I trust you had pleasant summer and had some good

times with your family. The students have settled into

their new classes extremely well and seem to enjoy

being back at school with their friends. I have had

some students visit me in the office with their fabulous

work which is a highlight for me.

This year we welcome back several staff members;

Rachel Nixon and Kylie Melling. It is lovely to have

them with us again. We have said goodbye to Alannah

Harding and wish her well with her future endeavours.

We also wish Caroline Mason all the best with her

move to another school for twelve months. I would like

to thank Nat Crerar for her work as student services

Associate Principal over the last 12 months as she

moves into the Year 10a classroom teacher position.

We welcome back Di Atkinson into the position of

Associate Principal, Student Services and thank her for

her work as Principal for the past two years.

Semester Two 2021

TERM 3

Monday, 19 July

PD Day - no school for students

Tuesday, 20 July - Friday, 24 September

BREAK Saturday, 25 September - Sunday, 10 October

TERM 4

Monday, 11 October & Friday 17 December

PD Days—no school for students

Tuesday 12 October—Thursday16 December

From The Principal Mrs Margaret Keen

SCHOOL BOARD NOMINATIONS

2X PARENT REPRESENTATIVE

[PERIOD OF THREE YEARS]

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE COMPLETE THE

NOMINATION FORM SENT HOME THIS WEEK.

[please phone the office if you would like another form]

RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE SCHOOL BY 2.30PM

FRIDAY 19 February 2021

House Faction Tokens

OUR PRIORITIES: High Quality Teaching | Success for ALL Students | Effective Leadership | Health and Wellbeing

Year 11’s took part in a state wide webinar “Fake news, real harms” on Tuesday for Safer Internet Day. We learnt about “Fake News” and what sorts of questions to ask in order to work out what you can believe on the internet and not be tricked into a scam. We found out that false news stories often have catchy headlines with exclamation points, that you should check if the story is written by a source that you trust and that you should look for other reports on the topic in question, (If no other news source is reporting the same story, it may indicate that the story is false). We also need to think about who is sponsoring the news report and getting something from it. The final question to ask is whether the story is supposed to be a joke and therefore doesn’t need to be taken seriously.

The most important message of the webinar? Think critically about the stories you read and only share news that you know to be credible (or deliberately funny!).

Fake News, Real Harms

Year 7a Safer Internet Day

Election Time for Students

The race has begun to see what house faction will win the Good Standing token competition this term. Year 10a have begun the competition, keep up the great work!

It’s that time of year once again! Elections for School Captains and House Captains from either year 11 and/or 12 will be conducted next week. Our Student Councillors from year 7-10 will also be announced shortly. We are looking forward to announcing our new student leadership team for 2021.

Year 7a have had an amazing start to high school this week. We met up with our friends from primary school and made new friends too, learning where everything is in our new school has been a focus this week (where our classes are including Options and Bush Rangers) and we had to learn all the teacher’s names. We shared information about ourselves including our favourite colour, food and of course pets. We are looking forward to using our iPads and learning lots of new things. Mrs Evans took our photos during Maths this week. We were working on our number skills. Some students were playing ‘Snap’ to 10 (we had to add and subtract our cards to make 10 before saying SNAP!) and other students were playing ‘Shake and Spill’ to 10. Ms Baldwin, Ms Vernal, Ms Brookes and Ms Brockman are excited for this year and so are we!

Year 7a

Year 7b students are very excited to be in High School. This week they got to know each other and all got along very well. They visited the mainstream library to borrow a book so they can do their silent reading for 10 minutes after their break times. They also enjoyed meeting the Principal - Mrs Keen in her office before visiting the Life Skills room where students were introduced to the Cooking Program. They familiarised themselves with the equipment, while learning how to cook in a safe and hygienic manner. After completing all their work, students were happy to engage in some games of UNO, Chess and Connect 4 as a reward. Students together with their parents and the staff in room 4 are looking forward to an enjoyable and exciting year ahead.

OUR PRIORITIES: High Quality Teaching | Success for ALL Students | Effective Leadership | Health and Wellbeing

Community Events

Click on the links to see all the great events happening, in and around our Community.

https://whatson.kwinana.wa.gov.au/

http://rockingham.wa.gov.au/Community

https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/Events

https://www.facebook.com/RockinghamshsESC

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School Canteen Menu Secondary Assistance

Applications Close 1 April

The Secondary Assistance Scheme is available to parents/

guardians who hold a current Health Care Card, Pension

Card or Veterans Affairs Pension Concession Card. Eligible

parents/carers will receive a $350.00 rebate. Come in to

school and apply today to ensure you don’t miss out.

Applications can be lodged at the school administration

office between 8.00am and 4.00pm.

PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE—if you would like to

take up the offer of a manageable payment plan, please

contact Mrs Lesley Bell, Manager Corporate Services.