HRCS Happenings

Term 2, Week 2 8 May 2020 17 Melaleuca Drive Metford NSW, 2323 Phone: (02) 4933 5844 Fax: (02) 4933 5557

Principal: Tracey Rapson Assistant Principals: Amanda Worton - John Winters - Natasha Brown/Carly Parish (Rel)

We are Safe - We Learn - We Care

Dates For Diaries Principal’s Message

2020

Thursday 29 October

Halloween Disco

Friday 27 November

Year 12 Formal

Jodi

Carly

Dear Families and Friends

We hope everyone has had a fabulous week. It has been a great week of

planning at HRCS.

Welcome: This week we warmly welcomed three new friends to HRCS.

Levi is in Year 7 and has joined the Cheetah Class. Levi loves drumming, and

this week he has enjoyed “jamming” with staff. We hope that Levi and his

family enjoy their time at HRCS. We are excited to have them join our school

community.

Thank you to Brendan for

drawing our raffle

Tyler is in Year 4 and has joined us from interstate. In a few short days Tyler, who has moved into

Hyena Room, has shown us that he is a whiz at spelling and loves to read. We look forward to

supporting Tyler on his HRCS journey and hope that he and his family enjoy their time with us.

I would like to introduce our new friend Hurley. Hurley joins us from Lochinvar School and is in

Kindergarten. Hurley loves to read, find numbers and one of his favourite things is bubbles! Hurley

has also joined the Hyena Room and we look forward to watching him shine. We would like to warmly

welcome Hurley’s family to our school community and hope that they enjoy their HRCS experience.

Welcome friends!

Class Movement: This week there has been some minor class movement w ithin Primary

School. The wonderful Gazelle Room has moved to the other side of the quadrangle and will now

operate from Room 4. They will still be the Gazelle Class, with the same staff, students and resources.

Carly and the Hyena Room have moved into the Room 9 space, where both Hyena and Mandrill

classes will be working together in an open classroom learning environment for some part of each

day. Thank you to all of the staff for their flexibility and assistance to complete the move in record

time! Happy learning everyone.

PBL Assembly: Our weekly PBL assemblies are a highly valued time of each week, where

we love to recognise and acknowledge the wonderful achievements of our students. This week we

made the decision to live stream the assembly to provide an opportunity for our friends learning

remotely to follow along. We received some very positive feedback, and have decided to continue to

provide coverage of our assembly. From 10:00am each Monday, you will be able to follow our

proceedings via the school Facebook Page. We hope you can join us!

Mother’s Day Stall: We have received amazing donations for our annual Mother ’s Day stall!

This week students who were learning from site, “shopped” at the stall for a gift for the special

woman in their lives. Next week, students who are attending on designated

days will be able to make their purchase for a gold coin donation.

We would like to sincerely thank everyone for their generosity, and hope that

everybody’s special someone enjoys their gift and day.

Mother’s Day flowers: Students and staff from our Green thumb

Enterprises have done a wonderful job caring for all of our lovely

chrysanthemums. We would like to sincerely thank everyone for their support

in purchasing bunches of flowers, we were able to fill 30 orders today! Thank

you to the Cheetah Room for their floristry skills in preparing bunches for our

families and friends! Great work everyone!

Phase 1 Return to School: From Monday, students who have been learning from home, w ill

be provided with the opportunity to return to school for one day of face to face learning. The

timetable for the transition back to school is attached.

Those students who have been attending 5 days per week will still be able to do so, and we would

warmly welcome any student who needs to return to school.

All of the staff are very excited to see our students next week, and are looking forward to

re-establishing the face to face connection. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to

contact the school. See you all soon!

Thank You: Today was a bittersweet day as we said thank you and farewell to our friend

Ineke. Ineke, who has been working as classroom teacher of Warthog Room, has been offered the

opportunity to work within the Itinerant Hearing Support Team in the Maitland area. We would like to

sincerely thank Ineke for all her hard work, compassion, professionalism and commitment, and it has

been a pleasure to have her as a member of our team. We are very sorry to see her move on, but

know that her expertise is going to be highly valuable for the young people on her

caseload. Thank you and good luck!

Martin Grey, one of our valued casual teachers, will be working alongside Louise in

Warthog Room for the immediate future. This week Marty and Ineke have had the

opportunity to work together and have had an explicit handover of plans and

information. Welcome Marty! (you can learn a little bit more about Marty from his

class profile in today’s newsletter)

We hope that everyone enjoys their weekend and are able to celebrate the

wonderful women in their lives on Sunday! King Regards - Tracey

Levi

Hurley

Welcome

Thank You

Thank you to little Jack and his wonderful mum, Kellie for their generous

donations of succulents.

We can’t wait to start our succulent enterprise.

May

Birthdays

Kody

1 May

Shaan

4 May

Koby A

13 May

Joshua

18 May

Mitchell F

26 May

Liam

27 May

Lily

27 May

Tyler

28 May

Get well soon Blake!

Tyler

Name Marty

Born Newcastle

Places Lived NSW, SA, Canada, Scotland

Favourite Food Dark chocolate, curries, Thai, Italian

Favourite Colour Early colours

Schools Worked At HRCS

Brief Description of your role for 2020

and what you like about it

Casual teacher and volunteer video guy

Interesting Facts Home & Away guest appearance in 2009. Enjoys singing,

guitar & piano. Have spent over 5 years abroad in 50 plus

countries. I would like to learn Russian & Spanish. I am

terrible at baking but love cooking!

Staff Profile

Mother’s Day Shopping

Thank you to all of our friends who have donated items for our

Mother’s Day Stall. A special thank you to Tanya Longbottom for her

large & very generous donations Mother’s Day Stall. Everyone’s

kindness & support is greatly appreciated and our kids love the

shopping experience.

Special thank you to Tash & Shelly for their coordination of the stall.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the significant women in our students

lives.

Learning From Home

Breanne

Charlotte

Levi

Alivia

‘Principal

Leuca Awards’ PBL Awards

Term 1

Week 11

Ostrich Room

Ostrich Room are very excited to have Blair join them in

Room 2. Blair has moved from Hyena Room from Term

2. Welcome Blair. We can’t wait for you to join in all

the fun!