Junior School

Junior School News

Term 3 has been super busy in the Junior School.

We were so proud to congratulate our Junior School award recipients for Semester 1 during the ceremony in week 3. The students celebrated their efforts in the classroom with their families and each other and it was a great way to reward a dedicated start to the year.

Transition has commenced for our Year 7s of 2020 with the students attending the Edutest session on Saturday 31st of August. A big thanks to Leah Pritchard for her organisation around the event and to those who assisted on the day in James Barut, Eleni Stathatos, Voula Margellis, Narelle Meek and our therapy dog Europa. It was an enormous task organising almost 300 students and welcoming them as a cohort for the first time into the Junior School Building. We are looking forward to working with them during their transition and beyond here at Ringwood.

During week 9 the year 8s took part in Literacy focused workshops at Realm Library at Eastland. This was a great opportunity for them to get to know their local library as well as enhance reading skills, research skills and connect to reading in general. Students learnt in a scavenger hunt that they can borrow up to 20 items from the library, that there are over 60,000 online resources including their English texts on audio files and also that they can borrow video games or stay and play them at the library!

Some of our students also booked the collaboration spaces to work on an upcoming history project. It was a great way to show the students what is available to them and connect them with their local community. It was a great addition to the year 8 program this year and we look forward to seeing the year 8 students utilise their new knowledge and skills now and into the future to support their learning. We thank the staff at Realm Library for allowing our year 8s to visit and sharing their knowledge and also the Year 8 teaching staff who helped out by attending the excursion.

Lunch time activities are ever growing at Ringwood SC and to add to the list, we thank Ms Watson and her year 9 interGREAT class volunteers for commencing “Craftanoon”. This will be taking place on Tuesdays (not every week) at lunch time in the junior school. Places are limited so students are encouraged to keep an eye on their emails for news of the date of upcoming sessions and reserve their spot via return email to Ms Watson. The first session was candle making. We thank year 9 students Emma Watson and Taylor Viney for giving up their lunch time to provide a fun activity for our Junior Students.

The year 7s will celebrate the end of the term with the annual Downball Championship house competition. Will Frazer have to hand over the trophy they earned last year or will it remain in 2019??? We are really looking forward to celebrating another term of year 7 in a fun way where students will be able to express positive emotion and once again build connections within house groups.

During week 8 we said farewell to one of the members of the Junior School Team- Mrs Faith Tucker who is commencing her Maternity Leave. We would like to thank her for her dedication and work with students, families and programs within the Junior School over the past 5 years! We wish her all the best for this next chapter of her life. As Faith departs, we would also welcome a new member to the Junior School Team, Mr. Josh Mitchell. He comes to us with a wealth of knowledge and experience as a student manager and we look forward to working with Josh in the Junior School. Parents of students in Jackman house should now contact Josh Mitchell for any academic and wellbeing matters.

Lastly, some house keeping for the remainder of term 3; We would like to remind families and students to continue to wear the winter uniform for the remainder of term 3 and prepare for the change to summer uniform in term 4. The dress code can be found on the college website so you can ensure your child is prepped and ready to go in summer uniform in term 4.

If you know your child will be exiting Ringwood Secondary College and commencing at a new school in 2020, please inform Karen Carden in the general office asap. This will assist as we commence with planning for 2020.

Anna Urbano

Junior Sub School Leader