UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday 5 July

Whole school assembly 9.00am

Last day of Term 2

Monday 22 July

Student Free Day

Tuesday 23 July

First day of Term 3

Thursday 25 July

Growing Up Parent information session

6.30-7.30pm

Monday 29 July

RPSA Meeting 7.30pm (note change of date)

Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August

Growing Up Program

Wednesday 7 August

Arts Celebration 6.00pm

Friday 9 August

North V South LSSSA

Monday 19 August

RPSA Meeting 7.30pm

Wednesday 21 August

Readers’ Picnic

Thursday 12 September

LSSSA NW V N Exchange

City Park Radio

Monday 16 September

RPSA Meeting 7.30pm

Thursday 19 September

Disco \

Thursday 26 September

Singfest

Friday 27 September

Last day of Term 3

RIVERSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL

ISSUE NO 20

4 JULY 2019

10 weeks – where did that time go!

There have been some amazing learning and opportunities happening throughout

the school which highlighted our work in inquiry and our school wide

commitment to building thinkers, collaborators, communicators, researchers and

self managers.

In Kinder they investigated how things change.

In Prep they were making connections to special places involving looking at the

ways to improve the Prep area.

In Grade 1 the big question was around the weather and its impact on daily lives.

Grade 2’s investigated the impact humans have in the environment and explored

ways they could make a difference at a school level.

Grade 3’s focused on our nature space as part of what natural things keep our

planet working.

Grade 4’s went exploring – historically that is.

Grade 5 took an historical stance to determine Australia’s story.

And Grade 6 voted in a new political party as part of developing an understanding

of our democratic process. They also pondered is Australia’s history fair for

them.

A special congratulations to our students for really engaging in a curious and

creative way.

Thank you to parents for your support – it really makes a difference to work

together to achieve the very best for your child.

But a special thank you to all the staff at Riverside Primary who work as a team

and give so much extra.

I would like to acknowledge our school attendants who have maintained a clean

and safe environment whilst some other schools have been impacted by industrial

action.

Jane Bovill

PRINCIPAL

School Resumes Tuesday 23 July

2019 TERM DATES

Term 2

Monday 29 April – Friday 5 July

Term 3

Tuesday 23 July – Friday 27 September

(Student Free Day 22 July)

Term 4

Monday 14 October – Thursday 19 December

(Student Free Day Friday 1 November)

TERM 2 ASSEMBLIES 9.00am

5 July Whole school 6MW

UNIFORM SHOP

Opening hours for the first week of Term 3 are:

Tuesday 23 July 8.45am – 9.45am

Thursday 25 July 2.30pm – 3.30pm

Also, the girls’ grey trousers are now in stock.

FRENCH POETRY COMPETITIONS

Once again, Riverside Primary entered the “Concours” run by

the Alliance Francaise de Hobart. All the Grade 5 and 6 children

learnt a poem entitled “L’Ogre au petits pois” by Monique Hion.

After a few lessons of learning the meaning, rehearsing their

expression and perfecting their accents, those who felt most

confident were filmed. Eight students’ recitals were entered into

the competition and the results were delivered earlier this week.

Poppy Walker, Ahlia Norton-Smith and Quy Tran all received

“une mention honorable”, while Aishwarya Ravichandran went a

step further, taking out second place with excellent expression

and near perfect pronunciation. Parents of Gr5/6 children, why

not conduct a quick experiment. Give your children the first line

“Je suis un Ogre”, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were able

to recite the whole poem to you. Congratulations to all who

were courageous enough to recite their poems in front of their

class.

Congratulations to these sporting stars:

Jordan Bezemer, Tomas Brozek, Eli Grant, Kampbell Jarman who will

represent the U12 NTJSA at the Kanga Cup in Canberra in the school

holidays.

Caleb Brewer and Lucas Wootton are off to WA in early August to

compete with the State U12 Football teams.

NAIDOC Week

We are a week early but our Education team focusing on Aboriginal

and Torres Straight Islanders set up a museum for classes to explore.

The range of activities showing the aboriginal connection with the land

was amazing.

French Flair

Congratulations to our budding French stars who were successful in a

French poetry competition. More details in newsletter.

All Schools Cross Country

Omission from last week’s newsletter. Chloe Harper was 10th in 9

year old girls and Mitchell Mundy placed 10th in 10 year old boys. Also

Aurora De Boer was 5th, not 6th as mentioned last week.

Staff Changes

Unfortunately we farewell our Chaplain, Victoria Small, who has had

to resign due to personal reasons. Victoria had a positive impact at

Riverside in a short time.

Mrs Robyn Lake will be on leave in the first 3 weeks of Term 3.

Happy holidaying.

Stay safe.

Jane Bovill

PRINCIPAL

GROWING UP PROGRAM

The Growing Up Program, will be run by Family Planning

Tasmania for Grades 1-6, starting Monday 29 July. This program

aims to provide your child with knowledge, skills and attitudes to

help them make choices for positive emotional, physical and social

health.

The program is age-appropriate and topics covered may include:

• Our bodies and how they work including private body

parts

• How my body has grown and changed – birth to present

• Rules about touch

• Conception, pregnancy and birth

• Feelings and emotions

• Healthy and safe relationships – face to face and online

• Decision making and communication skills

• Puberty changes

• Valuing diversity

You are invited to a parent information session on

Thursday 25 July 6:30-7:30pm in the student kitchen to

be facilitated by Family Planning educators.

For information about talking to your child about relationships,

sexuality and puberty visit

http://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/publichealth/healthy_communities/tal

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WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

FRIDAY 5 JULY 9.00AM (tomorrow)

All welcome

SWIMMING AND WATER SAFETY

READERS’ CUP

Last week on the 26th of June Riverside’s winning, Readers’

Cup team, the Bookie Babies, participated in the inter-

school competition at Summerdale Primary School. In a

group of six the girls, Angel Murray, Aishwarya

Ravichandran, Demi Giarrusso, Danika Finearty, Kate

Carter and Matilda Reilly, completed a series of tasks

including a quiz, an extra book challenge and their creative

presentation.

We ended up finishing 4th by half a point out of 14 schools.

We received full marks in our creative presentation along

with a 9 out of 10 for the extra book challenge, in our quiz

we scored 34 of 54. It was an amazing experience and we

all felt we gained a lot out of it. We all had to work equally

in our team and had a lot of fun working together. Some of

the books we read were part of a series and we all wanted

to read the next book in the series. It was so much fun

working together and although it could be stressful

everything was such an amazing opportunity and we

recommend that everyone give it a go.

Bookie Babies (Angel Murray, Aishwarya Ravichandran,

Demi Giarrusso, Danika Finearty, Kate Carter and Matilda

Reilly)

From 24 June to 5 July Grade 3-5 participated in the Swimming and

Water Safety Program at the Launceston Aquatic Centre. This two-

week intensive program is aimed at teaching students ways of being

safe in an aquatic environment as well as supporting them with the

stroke technique and confidence in the water.

For those students who were confident in the water, the program was

about educating students on the difference between survival strokes

and competitive strokes, whilst looking at stroke correction. These

students worked hard on mastering these strokes with swimming

instructors doing multiple drills to eliminate error in stroke technique.

As part of the program, students spent time discussing the importance

of boat safety before participating in a practical experience. Students

learnt how to be safe if there ever was an emergency whilst boating

or in an aquatic environment. This experience opened students minds

into why it is so important to have safety checks complete before

heading out for a day on the water.

At the start of the swimming block there were many students who

had very little prior experience in water and found this experience

quite daunting. However, I was extremely impressed with their

strength and resilience to give it their best shot. Swimmers became a

lot more confident and were able to perform survival skills in the

water such as floating and sculling.

As a student from the University of Tasmania I was lucky enough to

be chosen to gain practical experience at Riverside Primary School

working with Anita Batty. Having two weeks in the school followed

by two weeks in the aquatic environment helped me understand how

students react in different environments where their senses are often

heightened. I was so impressed with all the students and how hard

they work to achieve their goals. Riverside is such an active school

which made my time in the Physical Education department a very

rewarding experience.

Ellen Turner-Smith

UTAS Bachelor of Education

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