26 March 2025

Coming Events

Principals Report

Celebrating Learning and Strengthening our School’s Future

Join Us for the World of Learning

We warmly invite all parents and carers to our World of Learning event on Tuesday 8 April. This is a wonderful opportunity to step into your child's classroom and see firsthand the progress they have made so far this year. With great pride, students will share their learning achievements with you, reflecting on their hard work and successes.

We deeply value the chance to connect with families and share how the new school year has begun. Programs will be coming home with students tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you there!

Acknowledging Our School Improvement Leaders

A special thank you to our assistant principals and our instructional coaches in literacy and numeracy and our safeguard and wellbeing leads, who have been working diligently on our School Improvement Plan. This plan will shape the work we do as a school over the next year, with a focus on literacy, numeracy, wellbeing, and attendance - four key areas we aim to strengthen and grow.

Over the years, we have seen improvements in literacy, numeracy and wellbeing data, and our commitment remains the same: to maintain these successes while striving for even greater achievement. As the year progresses, we will share more about the school improvement plan, including our school wide expectations and how it will shape learning in classrooms and beyond.

Looking forward to seeing you all at our school soon.

Kind regards

Ms Arendt

Principal

Merit Certificates

Thie Merit awards were presented for Courage at Assembly on Monday 24 March.

The Family Friendly Recipes project from the Student Parliament

The Student Parliament is adding a column to the newsletter of our favourite recipes. These recipes are easy to cook and cost effective. There will be a meal option or a sweet treat. This week we have a meal option that comes highly recommended and from the RecipeTinEats recipe collection some, recipes will be from traditional family recipes.

The recipes are tried and true and will be released at the end of the year and available for people to buy as a fundraiser and a piece of 2025.

Chicken Shawarma (Middle Eastern) - RecipeTin Eats

Coming soon in the next newsletter are some sweet treats including carrot cake cupcakes!

Happy Cooking and Enjoy!

Annabel G. and Mary

Members of the Student Parliament Executive

Coming soon….Free Dress Day

We will be holding a free dress or Easter Costume Day on Friday 11 April.

We welcome a gold coin donation to support our playground fundraiser.

Thank you.

Felicity, and Annabelle Z.

Members of the Student Parliament Executive

Collecting your child early

If you need to collect your child from the front office during the day, we ask you contact the front office ahead of time so that your child is available and waiting for you at the front office.

If you require your child to be collected during the fortnightly Assembly times (2:05pm-2:40pm), we recommend you plan for your child to be collected by 2:00pm to limit disruptions to the Assembly.

Thank you. 

Administration

Harmony Week 2025

Harmony Week at Rosetta Primary School included discussions, book sharing and projects, research, adding a touch of orange to school uniforms, and drawing and painting ideas.

Harmony Week has focused on inclusiveness, respect, and a sense of belonging for everyone. It has been a time to reflect on the importance of respecting each other and our differences.

The Australian Government identifies Australia’s success as a multicultural nation by our values, our mutual understanding of our rights and responsibilities as citizens and national language and our respect for each other. Our shared Australian values of respect, equality and freedom go beyond our different cultures and are what makes Australia such a great place to live.

The message of respect and belonging can be lived by each of us, every day, not just during Harmony Week.

During Harmony Week and every other day at Rosetta Primary School we work towards inclusiveness and promoting the

message of ‘everyone belongs'.

Thank you to everyone who supported Harmony Week in 2025.

Mrs Lenthall

Assistant Principal 

Harmony Week in 3B

The Grade 3B class read and shared the book I’m Australian Too for Harmony Week.

Students worked on why this is an important book for Aussie kids to read. These are some of the student responses:

This book is telling us to be respect people coming to Australia, and to be kind to them no matter where they’re from or what they look like. We can all be friends no matter what culture and no matter who you are we can all be friends. People come to Australia so they can be safe and not be hurt.

Evie

 Because it tells us to respect others – no matter where they are from you have to make people feel welcome.

Chris

The book tells us that wherever you are, whoever you are, you are welcome to Australia. The book also tells you people lose their houses in war and need a new home.

Kasai

Mrs Lenthall

Assistant Principal

Harmony Day competition Winners

Prep-1 Harmony Day Art

Harmony day hearts and some thoughts from the students about what "everybody belongs" means to them. 

Grades 5-6 Harmony Day Art

Grade 3-4 Update

In Grade 3-4A, students have dived into the essential math concept of place value, which helps them understand how numbers are structured and how each digit in a number has a specific value depending on its place. By building a strong foundation in place value, students gain a deeper understanding of addition, subtraction, and more complex operations. Students have been involved in numerous place value games including small group and whole class, Mathletics and Prodigy as well as applying their knowledge of place value to problem solving.

Students have also explored symbols and emblems in HASS, investigating Australian flags and how emblems have been used to convey meaning.

Mrs Karas and Mrs Spruce

3-4 Class teachers

Jump Rope for Heart

Rosetta Primary is skipping through the term!

Jump Rope for Heart is well underway and it’s great to see so many children out in the playground skipping with smiles on their faces. Rosetta has already raised over $1,500 for the heart foundation.

It’s not long until our Jump Off Day on Friday, 4 April, so keep on practicing those tricks! And don’t forget to share your online fundraising page with friends and family to raise money for a great cause!

Still need to sign up online. It’s easy just follow this link and enter your details.

www.jumprope.org.au/parents

Mr Johnstone

HPE Teacher 

Jump Rope for Heart Kinder A and B information

Today all Kinder students have received a skipping rope, compliments of Rosetta Primary to share with their families. Kinder B students will be onsite for the Jump Off afternoon 2.00pm-2.45pm and Kinder A students are welcome to join us under the supervision of a family member to see the demonstration and then use their skipping ropes during the afternoon.

Happy Skipping!

Mr Johnstone                Mrs Lenthall                             Ms Cleaves

HPE Teacher                   Assistant Principal                   SBM

Relay For Life

We have students who are participating in the relay challenge to support Mental Health. For those interested in being part of the challenge or to make a donation you can go to https://www.relayforlife.org.au

Launching into Learning excursion

On Wednesday 9 April our Launching into Learning group will be visiting The Chigwell Community Garden in Karambi Street, Chigwell.

We will meet there ready for a 9.15am start. Transport to the venue is not being provided for this excursion.

Children will learn about what grows in a vegetable garden and we will all go on a “Veggie Hunt”. Children will also see compost worms in action and learn about their importance in the garden. To finish the session children will make a garden inspired craft item to take home.

The program will run for one hour. After this we invite families back to Rosetta Primary for a picnic in the Kinder courtyard.

Please RSVP for this excursion by Tuesday 8 April.

We look forward to seeing you there.  Don’t forget to wear your gumboots!

Mrs Douglas

LiL's Co Ordinator 

Growing Up program

This week Family Planning are delivering The Growing Up Program to students in Kinder to Grade 4 and next week to Grades 5 and 6.

There will be a Parent Session on Monday 31 March at 8.30am in the LOTE room if any parents of Grade 5 and 6 students have questions, they wish to discuss.

Mrs Devereux 

AST

E Team

The E Team are holding a Litter Free Lunch Day on Thursday 10 April.

All students who bring a lunch with minimum wrapping/ packaging will receive a raffle ticket to go into the running for a small prize.

We are looking forward to seeing how creative our families can be. 

Mrs Devereux

E Team/AST

ThinkUKnow



Recently we hosted a ThinkUKnow information afternoon. This was a great opportunity for people attending to hear about the importance of children and young people receiving education directly from influencers in their lives, including parents, carers, teachers, and police.

The discussion included the encouragement of critical thinking and learnings to prevent harm, to identify safe or unsafe situations and know when and how to seek help.

Our in-school presentation was delivered by Melanie from the Australian Federal Police with a focus on building positive engagement between children, young people, and police, while equipping students with the knowledge and skills to be able to take actionable steps to maintain their safety at all times.

Please see the attached sheets for further details: Where to get help and support and How and what to report.

Anyone interested in further information should contact Mrs Lenthall or Mr Johnstone.

Mrs Lenthall and Mr Johnstone

Safeguarding Leads

Community Noticeboard

Underwater Hockey