Junior School

Welcome to 2019!

Hello and welcome to the start of what we know will be an exciting year for our Junior School students, staff and parents.

Last week we happily greeted over 290 brand new Year 7 students embarking on their high school journey. On their first day, the Year 7s had full run of the school, as our Year 12s were offsite and our Year 8-11 students enjoyed an extra day of holidays.

This enabled them to focus on meeting new friends, finding their way around the school and getting to know their teachers and classmates. The students participated in a variety of activities, including ‘Getting to Know You’ games, a timetable tour, locker distribution and lock practice and creating their own converse shoe design.

After a late start on their second day, Year 7s undertook a music aptitude test, completed some iPad training, enjoyed a House Trivia completion and ended the week with a whole year level House Games competition on the oval. As you can see from the photos they made a great start to 2019.

We also welcomed back our Year 8 students returning for their second year at RSC. It was so lovely to see how much they had grown over the Summer and we look forward to another productive year with this amazing cohort.

Your child has been allocated to one of our four Houses;

Frazer, Freeman, Jackman or Mabo.

Should you need to talk to someone urgently about your child’s academic progress or wellbeing concerns, please email your child’s House Coordinator:

Frazer:

Marissa Lee mlee@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au

Freeman:

Jessica Friend jfriend@ringwoodsc.vic.vic.edu

Jackman:

Faith Tucker: ftucker@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au

Mabo:

Kim Watson kwatson@ringwoodsc.vic.edu.au

Please note that there will be an opportunity to speak with your child’s classroom teachers at the upcoming Parent Teacher Interviews which will be held on Thursday 4th April.

Uniform

As it is the beginning of a new year it is worth reminding parents and students of the expectations surrounding uniform for RSC students.

In Term 1, students should be wearing either the College dress or tailored charcoal shorts/pants and a white shirt with College logo. All students must be wearing white ankle socks and black, leather lace-up or buckled shoes that can be polished. Please be mindful that if a student would like to wear a t-shirt under their shirt, it must be plain white (with no logos) and must not be visible at the hemline.

We have noticed a tendency for students to wear socks with branding, such as the Nike tick or Globe written on them. The uniform policy clearly states ‘plain white socks’ so these branded socks are not considered uniform. We ask that parents please provide only plain white socks for their child.

Facial piercings are not allowed and students will be asked to remove these. The only exception is a discrete, transparent, plastic nose retainer. We encourage students to wear the school uniform hat when outdoors which can be purchased through PSW.

Thanks, in advance to parents and students for their support of our uniform policy.