The Rock Central School Phone: 02 6920 2132 Fax: 02 6920 2023 Email: therock-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ford Street (PO Box 58) The Rock NSW 2655 Web: www.therock-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER Week 9 Term 2 17th June 2015

Principal’s Report

Dear Parent/Carer

Reports & Parent/Teacher Interviews

Reports for all students K-10 will be

issued on Monday 22nd June. Primary

Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held

on Wednesday 24th June from 3-6pm.

Please see your child’s classroom

teacher to book an appointment, if you

haven’t already done so. Secondary

parents please contact the school if you

require an interview.

Riverina Cross Country

Last Thursday and Friday, several

primary and secondary students

participated in the Riverina Cross

Country Carnival at Gundagai. Both

carnivals were very successful for all

students from TRCS. Many students

achieved personal best times at this

high level. Congratulations to Noah

Vennell (2nd) and Cameron Terlich (3rd)

who will represent our school at the

State Cross Country Carnival at Eastern

Creek in Term 3.

P&C Cake Stall

TRCS P&C are holding a cake stall this

Friday 19th June out the front of the

local Friendly Grocer (IGA) from 8am.

Please support our school by cooking a

cake, slice or biscuits. All items can be

dropped directly to the stall on Friday

morning or delivered to school Friday

morning. “Many hands make light work”.

P&C Raffle

Our P&C are seeking donations to use

for a fundraiser raffle in Term 3. If you

have any brand new items, which you

could donate or know any businesses

that you could approach to donate items,

this would be greatly appreciated.

Disco Thank You

It was great to see so many students

enjoying themselves at the SRC disco

last Wednesday night. A huge thank you

to the SRC and Mrs Fletcher who

organised this event for our students.

A special thank you to Keith and Danni

Fraser who kindly donated their time,

music equipment, lights and special

effects. This was even extra special, as

it was Keith’s birthday (HAPPY

BIRTHDAY KEITH).

Year 4/5/6 Excursion to Canberra

Early Term 4 students in Years 4/5/6

have the opportunity to travel to

Canberra and experience many

wonderful educational opportunities. A

$100 deposit is due by the end of Week

2 next term to secure their position.

Please call the school office on

69202132 if you require another

Expression of Interest form.

New Equipment

You may have noticed our bright new

exercise stations on our school oval. The

students have been busily utilising the

new equipment during our PEP program

and lunchtime play. I would like to thank

Mick Mazzocchi for donating his time

and expertise to install this equipment

for our students to use. Hopefully in the

near future you will see some more

stations added around our oval.

Jessica Higginson

Relieving Principal

School News

With the demand for tissues being very

high at this time of year, can you please

supply your child/ren’s class with a box

of tissues.

Thank you for your co-operation.

THIS WEEK

Pumpkin Soup

$3 or $3.50 with roll

(available Thurs, & Fri)

Freshly squeezed

Orange Juice (using school grown oranges)

.50c cup

(available Thurs & Fri)

Canteen News 2015 ROSTER

Day & Date Name

Thurs 25th June Nicky Buchanan

Fri 26th June Volunteer required

__________________________

MUFTI DAY

THURSDAY 25TH JUNE

GOLD COIN DONATION

Raising money for Kids With Cancer

When sending permission notes

and money into the front office for

excursions, etc., can you please

put them in an envelope and

write your child’s name, class and

what it is for on the front.

Thank you for your assistance.

from the

office

School News (cont.)

Walking up the garden path

I hear a spooky noise

I stop to look

And standing there

Is a tiny pumpkin toy

I don’t know where it came from

I don’t know what to do

All I do is stand beside

And wack it with my shoe

Art Excursion On Monday Year 5 had the opportunity to visit Strayleaves Art Studio owned by Mrs Raeleen Pfeiffer. This visit

enabled the students to complete a mono-print artwork under the guidance of Mrs Pfeiffer, who is a renowned local artist.

The students learnt about inking techniques and had the chance to use her equipment to make their print. The students

also did still-life drawings, using numerous artefacts.

As you can see from the pictures below, all the students enjoyed this hands-on experience immensely and we look

forward to more visual art tutorials by Mrs Pfeiffer. Thank you to Mrs Pfeiffer for sharing her knowledge and time with

us.

Traci Driscoll

Class Teacher

(top left) Blayne carefully laying paper to print; (top

right) Mrs Pfeiffer guiding Chloe; (bottom) working hard

in the studio.

(left) Year 7/8 Poetry writing by Mikaela Cuthbert-

Fischer

Community News

Assembly Awards—Week 8

Kinder Baydon Kerin Year 4 Calin Greenwell Year 8 Paul Corrigan

Paige Hopkins Seth Tutt Nick Gorman-Cervini

Jesse Blacklock

Ally Mazzocchi Year 5 Rowan Cuthbert-Fischer Year 9 Bradley Turner

Jack Lee Molly-Lee Hardman

Holly Durnan Year 10 Mackenzie Moult-Cutler

Year 1 Grace Julian Sophie Bruckner Jayden Kirby

Shaylee Tilden Blayne Julian Lachlan Hutley

Year 2 Bridey Tinnock Year 6 Ned Campton

Jude Vennell Blayne Percy

Year 3 Jazmin Ross

Lissette Baverstock

If you are interested, please register online at

www.aussiehoops.com.au

NAME THE ‘NO-NAME’ SKELETON

I am running a competition to name our skeleton. He is very sad that he is

currently called ‘No Name’. Can you help? Please write your best

ideas for a name for our skeleton and go into the competition to win a

canteen voucher.

Write your name, class and your idea for a name on a note and drop it in

the box in my classroom by Thursday 25th June.

Mrs Tinney

Wk

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

9

15

Art excursion

(Yr 5)

16

Sec Zone Athletics

17

Tree Planting

excursion (Yr 1/2)

18 19

Tony Lockett Shield

10

22

Reports home

23

Mortimer Shield final

24 Spelling Bee

K-6 Assembly

Parent/Teacher

interviews (Primary)

25

Peer Support

Mufti Day

26

Peer Support

LAST DAY OF

TERM 2

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

T3

1

13

STAFF

DEVELOPMENT

DAY

14

Students return

15 16 17

Paper plane challenge

2

20 21 22 23 24

3

27 28 29

OPEN DAY

30 31

Riv Secondary

Athletics Carnival

4

3

Life Education

4

Life Education

5 6 7

5

10 11 12 13 14

June/July/August 2015

School fees are NOW DUE.

Book Club due Wed 17th June

Some tea towels still available at the front office—$2 each

EDUCATION WEEK

These dates can change without

notice. We do apologise for any

inconvenience this may cause.