Welcome to Week 6!

COVID UPDATE

As you are aware additional COVID safe measures were announced yesterday and were implemented from 6pm across the Greater Melbourne area last tonight. These measures include:

Face Masks to be compulsory indoors, however teachers and ES staff in the act of teaching are exempt
All visitors to the school must wear a mask while indoors (including signing your child in and out of school)
All visitors to the school who stay for longer than 15 minutes must sign in at the office
School camps and excursions can continue as long as face mask requirements are followed
No more than 30 people at public gatherings

Working Bee planned for Sunday is currently on hold. We are waiting for further updates from DET and to see how the COVID situation develops over the next 48 hours.

Again, a huge thanks to all families for your support during these unprecedented times.

Celebrating Education Week at RMPS

Although we had to cancel our Open Evening and Sausage Sizzle last night, Peter and I joined classes in the afternoon to see fabulous learning and problem solving happening in classrooms.

The Foundation children have been learning about: ‘how do living things thrive and survive? They all made some fabulous habitats, with an array of different creatures and environments. I have shared a video of F2S and their habitats!

The 3/4s are scientists this week and have been experimenting with- solids, liquids and gases. Please find our budding scientists, Gemma experimenting with bath bombs and Lachie and Faith making balloon hover aircrafts.

Education Committee

Please come along to our friendly Education Committee and have a voice in the development of the Robbie Mac Safe & Happy Book for parents.

Book Fair has been a great success!

Thank you to all families who visited the library during the Book Fair. This is such a beneficial event for students, focusing on books and nurturing a love of reading, and at the same time raising $1671 to spend on new books for the library. A HUGE thank you must go to Lisa and her team of helpers who enabled our Book Fair to run so successfully!

PFA Bunnings BBQ

The PFA continue to work very hard behind the scenes. On Saturday they ran an all day BBQ at Bunnings. Thank you to ALL parents who assisted, especially Nicola Scanlon for organising the day and those who came along to purchase a snag or two!!

Working Bee

If…. it can go ahead:

Sunday 30th May 9.30-11.30am

All families are invited to attend!

We are hoping for many hands on deck to assist with various jobs around the school. These include:

Preparing our old veggie garden for our Eco captains project: removing weeds, digging and raking
Raking the sandpit
Placing tan bark on playgrounds
Sweeping stones off the asphalt
Clean up of PFA supplies
Picking up rubbish and general sweeping

We will be asking families to bring some equipment from home, such as rakes and wheel burrows to assist with the clean-up!

Amanda Wigg

Perfect Partners