Assistant Principal's Reports

Growing plants growing minds 

RPPS students, working alongside with Hume City Council and our very own horticultural expert Chris, have been planting native Wildflowers to increase the biodiversity at Roxburgh Park Primary School.

Students were learning about natural habitats, conditions for growth and lifecycles. It was great to see students planting their very own Wildflowers including Murnong and Native Flax next to their classroom 

Within the first 5 minutes of planting the very first Monarch butterfly landed on one of the flowers   

After the last flower was watered in, our prep students enthusiastically completed a writing activity from this experience, creating posters for the plant: days to water and how to care for their plant. The Grade fives took a more digital approach, building soil moisture readers and comparing the soils to see where the water was needed and how much. 

A big thanks to Melissa at Hume City Council for her work in the community.

STUDENT ACTION TEAM FUNDRAISER

The student action team organised their first fundraiser for 2020 after students requested a bike rack for the school. We held weekly meeting to discuss ideas which fundraising idea would be best and worked together to organise a marketing team, a preparation team and a selling team. 

The team did an amazing job of working together, sharing the roles and organising their first event . Once enough funds have been raised, the team would love to host a Ride-to-School day. 

Students moving their mind and their bodies

Students at Roxburgh Park Primary School are making strong connections between the classroom and the gym.

With maths teachers and Mr Schultz planning and collaborating, deliberate connections between maths and physical activity are made and students have authentic multiple exposures.

Students are not only learning about math's, they're applying the skills and concepts into fun and engaging activities throughout the week indoors and outside. These learning activities allow students not only to see the numbers, they own the numbers.

This term saw the students in grade four create scores zones in cricket and record their scores throughout their game. This data was then used to create, compare and analyse different graph types in the classroom.

This simple connection between two subjects has increased knowledge around field placement in cricket and choice of graphs for different data sets. Hoping to hit our learning in maths for a SIX!

School Wide Positive Behaviour Chart

At RPPS we have been using a 5 step behaviour chart system based on our SWPB system to manage and redirect behaviours that don’t follow our school values. Our aim was to change the system that also recognises the positive behaviours of students. The school wanted to create a behaviour chart system that reflected students demonstrating our school values and are ready to learn. 

We gave the year 3-6 students the opportunity to create and submit designs that best reflected our design brief. We had so many creative and fun ideas and thank all students who put the effort and thought into designing a behaviour chart system we can use in our classrooms. But we could not choose just one winner. We selected three winning designs that will be merged and creatively developed by a graphic designer and reproduced to be used throughout the school. 

Congratulations to Ayden 6A, Nethmi 5B, and Ameena 4A for your designs. We look forward to seeing how your designs develop.