28 August 2024

Student Parliament Report

Student Parliament

Hello Families and Friends of Rosetta Primary

Since our last Student Parliament Update …

We have entered the 7HOFM $10,000 dollars competition for schools. We made a video of our school grounds – and were hoping to win some funding for new equipment, especially in the Grade 5-6 playground.

However, we were unsuccessful participants but wish the winning school well.

We packed up five boxes of food, toys and clothing and blankets for the Dogs Home.

Ms Cleaves, our School Business Manager delivered these for us.  The staff were very happy to receive our donations.

We have started the filming of a lockdown video for Ms Arendt to share with the school.

We have also made a Mace for our Student Parliament and will have that available for our meetings in coming weeks.

Mr Dobransky has agreed to start work on the Mural in Term 4 Week 2 and we are very excited about that.

Maika and Mateo
Student Parliament

Coming Events

Merit Certificates

The following Merit awards were presented for Respect at Assembly on Monday 12 August

Premiers Reading Challenge

Premiers Reading Challenge

Congratulations to the students in Kinder A, Prep A, Prep-1, 1A, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3-4, 4A, 4-5, 5-6A, 5-6B, 5-6C & 5-6D who have all fully completed their reading challenges and submitted their Log Sheets for this year.

Coming soon in Term 4 will be the certificate for each student from the Premier of Tasmania.

A special congratulations to Sienna in 2A who continued her reading goal and read 100 books in 10 weeks. An outstanding effort Sienna! Congratulations also to Emmy in 5-6 C who recorded additional books read on her reading challenge Log Sheets.

Happy Reading everyone!  … and we look forward to everyone joining us on the Premiers Reading challenge journey with books in 2025.

Mrs Lenthall
Assistant Principal

Book Week 2024

Thank you to all the families who supported us during Book Week which helped to ensure that we celebrated well and enjoyed the fun of sharing our favourite books and characters.

Thanks to all the staff who participated and supported the students during the celebration day on Friday. Their Little Miss and Mr Men costume theme was extremely popular.

A special thank you to Mrs Tyson and the Hall Set Up/Pack Up Crew who ensured the room was ready to use. Also, Mr Clark – thank you for assisting with the bi-fold doors and other matters.  As always thank you to our Office staff who supported our celebration and prepared our certificates.

To our student judges and Jon – thank you for ensuring we looked at every costume and had the pleasure of talking books and characters all day! The photos and videos you recorded were a great record of the parade and costumes.

It was a pleasure this year to have Mrs Young (Teacher of the Deaf) signing at our Assembly to ensure that some of our hearing-impaired students could fully engage with the celebration assembly.

Our student judges for 2024 were:

Mateo (5-6D student) …Kinder A & B judging on Thursday 22 August.
Zaiden (5-6B student) … UNIT A judging on Friday 23 August.
Mary, Esther, Lincoln, Emily & Annabel (5-6 A students) … Prep- 6 Judging on Friday 23 August.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again at book Week 2025.

Mrs Lenthall
Assistant Principal

Book Week Boss

Recently the ABC radio ran a competition to find the Book Week Boss for 2024.

We nominated our own Book Week organiser and expert, Mrs Nola Lenthall.

We let them know about all the wonderful ways in which Mrs Lenthall encourages our school to participate in Book Week each and every year and how much she supports every student to participate in the PRC.

We definitely think Mrs Lenthall is an amazing Book Week Boss.

Mrs Lenthall was one if the runners up and her nomination was read out on the Ryk Goddard program last Friday morning.

Congratulations and thank you Mrs Lenthall. 

Mrs Devereux
AST

Special Persons’ Day Stall

This Thursday 29 August, the School Association will be holding their Special Persons’ Day Stall to coincide with Father’s Day.  Students will have the opportunity to attend the stall with their class and can purchase up to two items.

We have a lovely selection of gifts suitable for Dad, Pop or any of the other special males who they want to thank.

Gifts range from $2-$10 and we suggest bringing a small bag along with their money (cash only) in a named zip lock bag.

All funds raised will go towards our fundraising goals which include upgrading of the Grade 5/6 playground.

Thank you for your support,

Kim Jones
Stall co-ordinator

Science Week 2024

Last Monday, we were treated to a visit and very informative talk from local neuroscientist Dr Lila Landowski. Dr Lila told us about the importance of the brain – that all activity in the body is controlled by the brain. She then explained that when serious injuries occur it can result in an inability to receive messages from the brain. Several students helped her to demonstrate how difficult this becomes.

She also talked to students about how important it is use your breathing to help regulate your thinking….a couple of deep breaths in and then a slow breath out a few times in a row can help to calm your emotions.

We would like to express our thanks to Dr Lila for fitting us into her busy schedule.

Mrs Devereux
AST

Science Comes to LIL

The children loved looking at all the colours through the kaleidoscopes, putting on the coloured glasses, blowing some amazing bubbles, checking out the skeleton with their magnifying glasses and programming the Beebots to go where they chose. What better way to engage your brain than starting with the questions “How does?” or “Why does?”

Mrs Devereux
AST

The Student Wellbeing and Engagement Survey

The Student Wellbeing & Engagement Survey for 2024

For Grade 4-6 students

This began on Monday 26 August and closes on 20 September. Students will be supported through the process at all times. All students’ details stay confidential.  

Parents from Grade 4-6 will already have received the relevant information about the survey with the last newsletter. We encourage families to read this information and discuss the importance of taking part with their child/ren.

This is a valuable way for the school to obtain Wellbeing data. It helps us to evaluate programs and actions and to guide planning for positive outcomes for all students in our school.

For further details or information please contact the front Office on 62081200 or talk with Mrs Lenthall.

Mrs Lenthall
Wellbeing Program
Assistant Principal

The 2024 School Satisfaction Survey is open!

Every year the Department for Education, Children and Young People conducts a School Satisfaction Survey to find out what your child(ren)'s school does well and where it may improve. Your feedback is very important to help us inform our school improvement planning and decision-making.

If you have not had the opportunity to complete the survey about Rosetta Primary School yet, it is open until Friday 20 September 2024 and should take about 5 minutes of your time. Each family should nominate one person to fill in this survey for their child(ren).

Take the online survey by clicking this Link, or pasting it in your browser: 

The survey is carried out on a secure website and all responses are anonymous and confidential. All families in this school received the same survey link and no identifying information is collected. A summary of the survey results will be provided to schools. Responses from individuals or small groups will NOT be disclosed to any Department for Education, Children and Young People staff.

Please contact your school if you require any assistance.

Thank you for taking the time to fill in this survey.

Jodi Cleaves
School Business Manager

Brixhibition Lego Competition

Rosetta Primary School will be again offering the Brixhibition Lego Competition to all students K – 6.

Students are invited to enter under the following conditions…

• Each Lego display to be no larger than 52cm x 52cm x 52cm, or no larger than four 32x32 lug Lego baseplates. 
• Each Lego display must be an original or freelance design, and not made from a Lego kit or 

instructions. 

• Some Adult help is allowed, but the Lego design should mainly be a child’s own design. 
• Each Lego entry to be completed and displayed at your school, in house or virtually, before Monday 9 September 2024. 

For more information, please see Mrs Devereux.

Mrs Devereux
AST

Excursion

Dear Parents, Grandparents and Carers,

On Wednesday 11 September Launch into Learning will be visiting the Sorell School Farm. Pre-Kinder will be visiting the Sorell School Farm on Friday 13 September. At the farm children will have the opportunity to learn about the animals as well as have the chance to feed and handle some of the smaller animals. We will leave at 9.15am and return to school at approximately 11.30am. Please bring a snack and drink. If your child has gumboots, it would be a good idea to wear them. Please RSVP to the LiL/pre-Kinder classroom or school office. We hope you can join us on this fun excursion.

 Danielle Davis and Christine Douglas
 LiL and pre-Kinder.

Winter Sports Carnival

On Tuesday 20 August the SPSSA held its annual winter sports carnival which includes AFL, AFLW, Soccer, Hockey, Netball and Tennis.

Rosetta had 15 Grade 5&6 students participate in the sports day. Congratulations to the following students for being selected to represent our school in the following sports.

AFL – Joel 5/6C, Wil 5/6D, Mason W 5/6C, Leo 5/6B, Gabe 5/6D
AFLW – Kenzi 5/6B, Evie 5/6D
Soccer – Rory M 5/6A, Toby 5/6A, Thomas 5/6C, Oliver 5/6D
Netball – Mackenzie 5/6B, Blu 5/6A, Emmy 5/6C, Aliyah 5/6B

Mr Johnstone
HPE Teacher

E Team

The E Team would like to announce the winners of the Name the Bush Garden competition.

The garden has been named by Kasai and Jilili  and will be called ‘KIPLI GARDEN’

Kipli is a palawa kani word meaning food, and we have been given permission to use it as the name for the garden.
Congratulations to the Kadisha family and thank you to all the students who entered.

Mrs Devereux
E Team

Community Notice Board

School Contact Details

32 Riverview Parade
Rosetta 7010
Phone 6208 1200
Email: rosetta.primary@decyp.tas.gov.au
Web: http://rosettaprimary.tas.edu/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/rosettaps/

Late Arrivals/Early Departures

A reminder to families if your child is arriving late/leaving early they must be signed in/out on the office kiosk. If you wish to pick your child up early on Assembly days, please do so before 2:00pm.

Administration Team