From the 

Assistant Principal

Dear Parents / Carers,

We have had a lot of fun at Rowville Primary School. We have been celebrating Book Week. The week was launched with a lunchtime storytelling session with our resident master storyteller Mr Josh Gunn.

On Tuesday, a selected group of Year 4 and Year 5 students participated in their last Writers in Residence session with expert author Mr Alan J Wright. Several teachers also participated in this session, where they all wrote together side by side and received important tips on writing.   

When I spoke to some of the Year 5 writers about their participation in this program, they shared with me a range of new strategies to grow them as writers including; photographs, research from personal reading, old writer’s notebooks entries, a conversation with an expert, or drawings to clarify and visualize their ideas and concepts. 

Zara shared that our writers learnt a strategy to help us with editing. We read our writing aloud to the wall because it gave us the audience and helped us to develop the fluency of our piece and to identify when something didn’t make sense. 

Luna shared that working with a published author has helped her to identify the purpose of her writing and how to develop it to the next level.

At Rowville Primary School, we like to provide our students with a wide and diverse range of learning experiences. We are all looking forward to what will be a very impressive parade of book characters on Friday.

Book Week provides us with an opportunity to focus on the involvement of parents in their child’s reading development and with Father’s Day approaching in particular the role of fathers and male role models. Generally, when we read about parent involvement in aspects of schooling, and in particular reading, the parent most frequently targeted is the mother. It was fabulous to see fathers and grandfathers sharing stories in our Book Week family reading session this morning.

Just a reminder that there will be no assembly on Friday 1 September due to our special Father’s Day event commencing at 1:45pm in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen.

Kind regards,

Tiffany Bamford

Assistant Principal