Rous Public School Newsletter

Principal – Krystal Jenkins

Phone: (02) 6629 5294 http://www.rous-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

TERM 2 - WEEK 6 27 May 2021

Cross Country

Congratulations to our team of students for their efforts at the Zone Cross Country held at Corndale last Friday. Thank you to parents for providing transport. The following students are now going to the Regional level to be held in Lismore on Monday, 7 June. Permission notes need to be returned tomorrow!

8/9 yr Girls 5th - Molly MacFarlane

10 yr Boys 2nd - Patrick Fox and

3rd - Angus Fox

11 yr Girls 6th - Rosie Breugem

11 yr Boys 4th - Ethan MacFarlane

We wish our athletes all the very best.

Lantern Making Workshop for Years 4, 5 & 6

On Monday, organisers from the Lantern Parade came out and made lanterns with all of the Year 4, 5 and 6 students. This year I am very happy to walk with our Rous PS families at this year’s parade on Saturday, 19 June. This is not compulsory, only for those families who are interested.

This year's theme is INNOVATION INSPIRATION REGENERATION celebrating the real-world innovation, creativity and resilience of our community and the positive effect we can have on our future and on our environment.

Next Friday, June 4 is the day! We will be having our Colour Fun Run as a whole school after lunch. The students will need a cheap/old white shirt that can be coloured with the powder. The students

will also need a dry change of clothes to change into. Regardless of any money fund-raised all students will be able to join in the fun!

School Photos

Photos will be held on Friday, 11 June. Individual envelopes went home last Thursday with your child.

Any family wanting sibling photos taken will need to fill in a different envelope and these can be obtained from the school office.

Please ensure that students are in full school uniform for school photos. Envelopes with payment may be returned prior to this date but must be in by Friday, 11 June.

Upcoming events

Term 2 Week 7 Term 2 Week 8 Term 2 Week 9

Thursday, 3 June Assembly Item Class K/1 Friday, 4 June • School Funrun ‘Crazy

Colour Day’ • NC Cross Country

Monday, 7 June P&C meeting Wednesday, 9 June Book club orders due Friday, 11 June School Photos

Monday, 14 June Public Holiday Thursday, 17 June Assembly Item Class 3/4 Saturday, 19 June Lantern Parade

Our Award Winners this Week

K/1 Chase – for effort towards his reading Levi – for remembering to use his words to problem solve Finn – for always showing the 5L’s 1/2/3 Aurora – for great effort with home reading and library borrowing Harry – for great effort in geography Isaac – for improved independence and self-regulation 3/4 Kaide – for his effort and application in all tasks Emma – for making valuable contributions to class discussions Aisling – for showing initiative to help other students in the classroom 4/5/6 Charlee – for her attitude and effort to learning Finlay – for application to his learning, in particular his literacy tasks

Certificates

Bronze Certificates were awarded to: Angus, Lydia, Indi Silver Certificates were awarded to: Trixie, Madelyn, Dom

P&C NEWS

The next P&C meeting will be held on Monday, 7 June 7.00pm in the 4/5/6 classroom.

All welcome!

Dear 4/5/6 Parent/Carer

As you are hopefully aware, the cost of this year’s major excursion in August will be $800 per student. The P&C have organised an opportunity for parents/carers to raise funds that would contribute directly to reducing the cost of this excursion for their child.

A Bunnings BBQ will be held from 8:00am-4:00pm on Sunday, 11th July at Bunnings Ballina. Parents/carers of 4/5/6 students who volunteer to help staff the BBQ will have a share of the funds raised allocated to reducing the excursion costs for their child. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity please email the P&C rouspublicschoolpandc@gmail.com or return the attached roster to the office indicating your preferred time slot(s).

Every effort will be made to ensure all families of 4/5/6 students have an opportunity to be involved and raise funds to support their child to attend this year’s excursion

Bunnings BBQ Roster

Time/Names Cook Cook Serve Serve

8.00-10.00am

10.00-12.00pm

12:00-2:00pm

2:00-4:00pm

If there are more than 16 volunteers we can change to hourly time slots.

Total funds would be divided by the number of time slots (16)

If the BBQ raises $1,000, this gives approx. $60 per time slot. If a parent works 3 time slots this is $180 towards their child’s excursion.

Rous P&C

Bonfire News

Craft/Produce Stall

Any knitting grannies out there? Or expert jam makers? Everyone loves handmade items. The produce stall would appreciate donations of jams, pickles, sewing/craft items or farm produce.

Trash ‘n Treasure Stall

Clean, saleable items for the trash ‘n’ treasure stall are gratefully accepted and can be dropped at the office anytime.

Book Stall

Time to clean out your bookshelves!

If you have any unwanted books, please consider donating them for the stall. Donations can be left at the office. Any spare bags that you may have at home would be most welcome too.

Chocolate Toss

Mr Johnson and the 3/4 class will be running the stall. Donations of chocolates would be appreciated and can be left at the office.

Plant Stall

If you have any plants to donate to the stall. Please drop them in closer to the day.

Saturday 24 July

Canteen News

Please note that a lunch order on a Friday is separate to the ice blocks at recess on Friday. Please ensure that students have the right amount for their lunch order then a separate amount for their ice blocks.

We do need three volunteers each canteen so please add your name to the roster if you can help out on any of the days below.

Canteen Roster Term 2 Fridays Week 6 28 May Ash, Maz & Joan

Week 7 4 June Zoe & Mel K

Week 8 11 June ? & ?

Week 9 18 June ? & ?

Week 10 25 June Nat & Maz

Community News

FIREWOOD

$130.00 a load

Matt Smith

0410 246 402

Meerschaum Vale Hall will be holding a Market Day & Sausage Sizzle on Sunday

6th June from 8am till mid-afternoon.

There will be trash & treasure, honey sales, plant sales, children's toys, household appliances and much more.

Come along and find a bargain, and grab a sausage while you're at it.

This is a Covid-safe event and QR sign in will be required.

Friday 28th May ROUS UNPLUGGED welcomes you with song,

entertainment, supper soup and sweets for the soul Performers start at 7.00pm…… $5 entry… see website for line up. Want to join us for dinner?

Doors will open at 6.00pm for a delicious dinner with all proceeds going to Shelterbox Australia to provide much-needed disaster-relief aid to people around the world who have lost

their homes due to natural/ man-made disasters

$15 pp will give you the choice of two homemade tomato soup (Chicken and lentil options) served with a generous slab of home baked sourdough and basil/ fetta accompaniments ….

$5 pp Intermission will offer a variety of home baked cakes (GF options), made from scratch chai-tea (cow or soy), coffee, tea , selection of herbal teas.

Lantern Making

Cross Country