Joke of the Week Submissions

Thank you to the students who have taken the time to submit jokes of the week for our electronic display boards. If you have a joke you'd like to see on our board, you can submit it to Kate via the front office!

Book Week 2025

It was great fun to see all our RGLPS students and staff dressed up for our 2025 Book Week Parade and Assembly on Monday. Classes have been enjoyed exploring 2025 Children's Book Council of Australia nominated books in classes all week.

Winning CBCA books for 2025 were as follows:

Picture Book of the Year - "The Truck Cat" by Deborah Frankel and Dannu Snell
Picture Book of the Year (Early Childhood) - "The Wobbly Bike" by Darren McCallum and Craig Smith
Book of the Year (Older Readers) - "I'm Not Really Here" by Gary Lonesborough
Book of the Year (Younger Readers) - " Laughter is the Best Ending' by Maryam Master and Astred Hicks
Eve Pownall Award (Information Books) - "Always Was, Always Will Be" by Aunty Fay Muir and Sue Lawson
The Nan Chauncy Award (Outstanding Contribution to Australian Children's Literature) - Wendy Rapee

ICAS 2025

There is one final ICAS remaining for 2025 - ICAS Mathematics. The ICAS Mathematics is always the most popular test and we have nearly 60 students registered this year. The assessment will be held on Wednesday 27th August with two sittings at 9am and 10:15am.

Cathie Sutton will be supervising this ICAS assessment and will make efforts to run a makeup test later in the week for students who are absent on the assessment day. Please be aware that makeup test sessions are not always possible due to last minute issues, other programs and room or staff limitations.

Tournament of Minds 2025

Best of luck to our 2025 RGLPS Tournament of Minds Team who have been working hard all term on their Long Term Challenge - The Arts Challenge. This challenge involves research before developing a creative interpretation in response to the musical 'Cats'!

The RGLPS Team will perform in the Northern Metro Region, at La Trobe University, tomorrow (Saturday, August 23) @ 1:40pm. We wish them all the best!

Our 2025 RGLPS Team consists of: Penny P (6B), Alexis A (6B), Joy P (6B), Marlo K (5A), Maisie C (5A), Eden C (5B) and Pearl K (5C).

Bye for Now!

On a final note, I am heading off to sunnier climes on Long Service Leave this weekend and will be on leave for the remainder of Term 3. I look forward to keeping the RGLPS community updated and informed about learning programs and events around the school again in Term 4.

Stay safe and I will see you all soon!

Kerron Worsdell

Literacy Learning Specialist

STEM Festival

Our RGLPS STEM Festival takes place later this term. Remember to keep your eye on the newsletter and Compass for updates in the lead up to our STEM Festival in Week 8.

Bottle Top Donations

During our STEM Festival week we will be running many exciting activities. For one of our planned tasks, we require plastic 'pop top' bottle tops. These are often found on Pump bottles, Pop Top bottles, Powerade drinks, etc. If you come across any of these over the coming weeks, we'd love to reuse them. Please wash the bottle tops and hand them into the Grade 6 team.

Sarah McLellan

Mathematics Learning Specialist

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