RSS Newsletter Week 4, Term 3
Principals Report
Parent Teacher Interviews
No one knows your child better than you do. By talking to the school, you can help the school understand your child better so we can give them the help they need.
I have included the below video for tips on how to talk to the school and to find out about the different people available at school to support your child. Remember: it’s okay to talk to the school.
If for some reason you are unable to attend our upcoming Parent Teacher Interviews, I encourage you to make an alternative time with your child’s teachers.
Master Classes – Week 10
In conjunction with our PBL Team, staff are organising our second 2021 Master Class Program. This is part of our 2021 Explicit Improvement Agenda and is purposely designed to increase attendance in the final days of Term, provide a range of interesting and stimulating activities for our students whilst also exposing students to knowledge and skills outside of the classroom.
A program will be released in coming weeks however here are some of the sessions that will be on offer:
- Drumbeat: https://holyoake.org.au/drumbeat/who-we-reach/schools/
- Yoga & Mindfulness
- Plaiting
- Cooking demonstrations
- Coconut broom making
- Coding challenges
Students will have the ability to sign up for sessions of their choice over the 2 days. We look forward to adding many more opportunities to the program. If you, or someone you know has a skill that they would like to share with our students, please contact the school office.
School Camp
Year 5-6 – Paluma
Our Year 5/6 Students have returned from camp with many new stories, a range of new experiences and some new friends from Julia Creek.
A big shout out to Mr Gray, Mrs Pattel and the Julia Creek Staff who supported our students whilst away.
Head of Department- Curriculum
Science week celebrations in Week 6!
August is always a fabulous month in the world of Science and reading as we celebrate both National Science Week and the CBCA Book Week as an entire week is dedicated to both Science and literacy! With only a little over a week until Science Week 2021 officially begins nationwide, plans to celebrate this wonderful event are well underway at Richmond State School.
As usual, our wonderful High School Science Team have lots of activities planned for Science Week that will continue to inspire a love of learning and passion for Science. Every learner will have the opportunity to engage in a variety of interesting and challenging activities held during lunchtimes throughout the week.
The 2021 school theme for National Science Week is ‘Food: Different By Design’. Australia is a leader in food production and science plays a massive role in our national and global food future. Our national scientific research agency, the CSIRO, along with Australian industries and entrepreneurs are already forging bold new ground using science to see into the future, where exciting innovations are waiting to be explored.
CSIRO is further reinventing Australia as a leader in food innovation, including developing uniquely Australian plants that can produce omega-3 fatty acids, usually sourced from the world’s wild fish stocks. It’s a win for the environment, the Australian economy and for global health, with omega-3 oils being a key component for childhood development.
Thanks to science, we are already able to 3D print food, creating new techniques and textures for global consumers to enjoy. It’s not hard to imagine that in the near future, our students may be using 3D printing to design and deliver high-value foods that simply haven’t existed before and exploring the possibilities of this rapidly accelerating technology. Exploring the role of science in food production and sustainable agriculture this National Science Week gives us the opportunity to increase our communities’ understanding and support young people being active in a growing area of science-driven research and innovation.
As Science Week approaches we look forward to the Richmond Community involving themselves in any way possible to display a passion for Everything Science. Unleash the Scientist within.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
PBL provides a model of support for all students, consisting of 3 tiers of intervention. The tiers represent levels of intervention.
'Universal' supports
Tier 1 'differentiated and explicit teaching for all students', or school-wide interventions, are the critical foundation for PBL. Interventions are at the whole-school level and are provided to all students across academic, emotional and behaviour dimensions of learning.
The focus of Tier 1 intervention is on all students and staff across all settings—whole-school, classroom and non-classroom.
Examples of Tier 1 supports include:
- explicit teaching of behavioural expectations and social-emotional competencies
- clear boundaries in place
- high rates of acknowledgement for expected behaviours
- effective instruction
- active supervision.
Around Our School
Students from Grade 3 to 10 will have an opportunity to develop their golf skills this semester. Mr Marshall and Miss Murray will be running after school golf activities from 2:30 – 3:30pm each Tuesday in the following weeks: Term 3 from Week 5 and Term 4 from Week 3. The after-school golf activities will focus on developing key skills necessary to play golf as a sport. These sessions will focus on handling golf clubs, body positioning and using a golf club to hit a golf ball. The school has purchased modified equipment suitable for students in Years 3 to 10. Activity consent forms must be returned to the office by Monday 6th August. This is a free activity for the students of Richmond State School from Years 3-10.
Mid west Atheltics
PBL
Principal Awards
Athletics Australia
Year 5/6 Camp Paluma 2021
Dance North
5/6 Paluma Camp Recounts
Monday morning, we had to get up early to arrive at school to get on the bus to Paluma. It took seven hours to get to the top of the hill and a bit more to the camp. The camp owners explained what was going to happen. Then we got our bags and ports and got introduced to our dorms and dorm rooms and unpacked our ports. Then we set up our beds and got ready for a shower, then had dinner. We then did a night walk. The next day we had breakfast, then went on a rainforest walk while watching the birds. Then we had dinner. It’s Wednesday morning, we started the day of with breakfast then went to the dam in three buses we did raft building and kayaking, then high rope with a movie at the end of the day. Its Thursday the day we go home most people were happy to go home. Some were a little sick on the trip down the windy range but we got home. Kody Kuhl
Julia Creek State School and Richmond State School arrived at Paluma Environmental Centre in the afternoon on Monday the 26th of July. That afternoon we unpacked our bags had showers, then went over to have dinner. After dinner we had an amazing night walk through the rainforest. As we were walking through the rainforest we saw a couple of little creeks, and near the end of the walk we turned all of our torches off and saw little bits of blue glowing fungi on the ground. On Tuesday, we went for an early bird watch. We saw and heard a Macleys honeyeater, a Lewens honeyeater and a White Cheeked honeyeater. After the bird watching we went for a walk to the end of the Earth (which just was a 2 hour walk to the top of a mountain), and admired the beautiful view of the other mountains arounds us and the land below us. We got back from the walk, had lunch then we went out on the lawn and did some shelter building. Our shelters had to be strong and water proof for category 5 Barry Cyclone. On Wednesday we went to the Paluma Dam with the Outer Limits crew and we did raft building and Kayaking, then went back and did the high ropes course. Then we packed up and left on Thursday. Ally Robinson
When my class, Mrs Pattel and Mr Gray went to camp at Paluma, north of Townsville, it was the most magical experience. On the first day we got there we unpacked our bags and went to our dorms after that it was dark and we went on a night walk. We found this leaf that glows in the dark when you turn your torches off. The next day, we played a game called the amazing race and you had to find to letters before you can do one of the activity. After the amazing race we had lunch and then went on a walk that was 2 km and it was worth the walk because we saw an amazing view. The next day on Wednesday in the morning we built a shelter building, then we had morning tea and went to Paluma Dam. Travis Hughes
The trip to Paluma camp. It was seven long hours. The amazing race was a teambuilding activity
My highlights were Paluma high ropes. Paluma camp was so much fun and the food is great Samuel Casey
When we arrived at Paluma we unpacked, made our bed, had showers and free time. At 6:00 we had to do a fire drill just in case a fire happened. For dinner we had lasagne and garlic bread. After dinner we went for a night walk and we tried to find glowing fungi. Only a couple people found it. On day 2 we had cereal and bacon and eggs. After breakfast we did the amazing race and we had to complete all of the challenges our hardest challenge was the skies. For lunch we had hot dogs.
The highlights of camp were the amazing race, where we all got to work together and complete all the challenges. Bird watching was also fun because we got to see native birds to Paluma that you can’t see anywhere else. Also seeing the great grandfather strangler fig tree and to walk through the roots of the button of the tree
The lowlights of camp were the toilets because they were compost toilets with no flush, just drop into a hole. Mr Smith said that he has had people drop stuff in such as phones, stuffed bears, car keys, hats and hat badges. Also having to drive 1 hour and 30 minuities up the big hill and down a lot of people got sick going down including me. Torah Hintz
Off we go to camp, waving goodbye we left Richmond, it was a bumpy ride between Richmond and Hughenden, but the rest of the way was fine and smooth. Then we got to the mountain we had to go up. Up the mountain it was very steep and a bit windy for a bus and some people felt a little sick and then we arrived at camp the first day we settled in first then we took a bath at the end of that day, we had free time and that happened every other afternoon, then we had dinner and it was delicious. We had dessert, after that we went for a night walk into the rainforest, when we got back it was nearly 11:00 at night, then we went to bed. The next day we had breakfast then we did the amazing race where we had to finish challenges and find clues after you finished the challenges.
Highlights of Paluma camp: The highlights of camp were when we did the raft building at Paluma dam and the swing at the high ropes course when I went really high in the air.
Why I would go back: I would go back because it was fun waking up at 6.00 in the morning and going to bed at 9.00 or 10.00 at night and the food was delicious because they had the best cooks I have ever seen in my life. Mitchell Wharton
Last week our class 5/6 and 9 kids from Julia Creek went to camp at Paluma for 3 days. The Highlights of camp were completing the shelter and raft building with our friends. During the shelter building activity Mr Smith was acting as a category 5 cyclone came in to destroy our shelter. On Tuesday we did an amazing race and we had to do challenges that were so hard to complete like the A frame and golf ball which we completed in about 5 tries.
On Monday we arrived at camp then straight away we had to do the night walk in the forest which was beautiful when seeing the trees and the wildlife. On Wednesday we walked to the end of the earth to see the amazing view of Paluma and on the way, we saw a great grandfather tree which was colossal.
The high ropes were awesome with the leap of faith which Mrs Pattel did and she successfully touched the red ball. My favourite was the huge swing that people had to pull on for it to go HIGH! The Lowlights of camp were the travel sickness and the windy roads, waking up early and being scared of ticks and leeches on my body. Also, when I went kayaking I felt very dizzy which was really bad.
I would go back to Paluma because of all the fun and experiences we had with the night walk in the rainforest and the great challenges the staff set up for us. What we could probably do better next time is me not moving on the bandicoot bench. The thing that surprised myself with was probably going on the night walk through the rainforest because I thought ticks and leeches was going to go all over me and a snake was going to come out, but I still did it which was great so I could experience all of the big and beautiful trees. Over all Paluma was great and I loved all of the fun and the experience we had. Georgia Wharton