Parents and carers can now explore the importance of mathematical skills with the new Everyday Maths experience, featuring activities, resources and explainers targeted to year groups.
The digital launch is part of the NSW Mathematics Strategy 2025, which aims to strengthen mathematics teaching in NSW public schools, promote understanding of the usefulness of mathematics and build positive perceptions of mathematics.
Tune into Education LIVE to find out how high profile Australians like media guru Kellie Hush, former Olympian Steve Solomon and former Masterchef Alice Zaslavsky use maths in their everyday lives.
Video – #MathsTrainsBrains
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Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College
Students begin return to classrooms
From Monday 11 May (Week 3) students will begin a phased return to school.
The phased return will maintain distancing in the classroom while supporting students’ education and wellbeing.
Most students will continue learning from home and will only attend school 1 day each week.
Our school will continue to provide detailed information about the return to the classroom throughout the rest of Term 2.
Measures to keep schools clean and safe for all students and staff include:
25% more cleaning time focused on high-touch areas
priority deliveries of hygiene supplies including soap and hand sanitiser
local school changes to pick up, drop off, lunch and recess times and processes.
Read more about the department’s plan for a phased return.
Changes to parent teacher night
The Rose Bay Secondary College Parent Teacher Nights aim to connect teachers, students and parents/caregivers in order to improve student learning outcomes. It is an opportunity to engage parents/caregivers with their students’ learning and success.
Religion and ethics lessons continue at home
Students learning from home can continue to access Special religious education (SRE) and Special education in ethics (SEE) classes.
Face-to-face SRE, SEE and Voluntary student activities of a religious nature in schools (VSA) will not be available until schools resume normal operations.
In response to requests from school communities, SRE and SEE approved providers are delivering their authorised curriculum with modifications to allow students to learn from home from the start of Term 2.
The lesson content and the mode of delivery has been reviewed and modified for easy access by students. The approved providers recognise that learning at home will not replicate face-to-face learning at school.
The learning from home SRE and SEE programs are now available:
all faiths (Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Bahai and Hindu) SRE
Anglican SRE
Catholic SRE
Christian based faith SRE
Primary Ethics SEE.
Student short film competition
Make Every Day Count is a film competition open to all students from Kindergarten to Year 12. Entries close 28 May, 2021.
Make Every Day Count
The NSW Department of Education is holding a state-wide film competition for all students from Kindergarten to Year 12.
Schools can participate in the festival as a class entry or submit films created by individual students or groups of students. Schools can submit multiple films.
All films submitted must have the approval of the school principal.
The theme is “make every day count”. Schools and students should explore all the possible reasons why attendance is important and what reasons may cause poor attendance.
Why school attendance?
The overall picture of school attendance in Australia is generally good. Year 1-10 students attend, on average, 92% of ‘available school days’ in Australia.
However, there are areas of concerns, where 25% of Australian school students attend less than 90% of school days. This adds up
Tournament of Minds 2020
This year was a year of change for this competition. The 10 minute live play became a 5 minute video to be submitted, with some slightly relaxed rules.
Tune in at 8.45am to NSW Education LIVE
To welcome our students back for Term 2, join us at 8.45am from Wednesday 29 April to Friday 8 May for a special live stream.
Musician Guy Sebastian, TV foodies Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and Manu Feildel, Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis, Sydney Swans player Ollie Florent, and our very own Eddie Woo, have donated their time to kick start learning from home each morning from 29 April – 8 May.
Tune in each day at 8:45am. We can’t wait to see you!
Video – NSW Education LIVE sneak peek
Duration – 0:30
Check out this special sneak peek of NSW Education LIVE – 8:45am weekdays from 29 April.
Game Changer Challenge 2021 – registrations are closing soon
Registrations for the Game Changer Challenge close on Friday, 23 April.
The Game Changer Challenge is back and reinvented for 2021.
Open to all NSW public schools, the Game Changer Challenge is a student-led, dual-stream design thinking challenge that asks students to tackle real-world problems and explore innovative solutions.
The Game Changer Challenge is a valuable learning opportunity for schools and their students.
This year students will choose to become either a Game Changer or Social Changemaker. They can expect to develop future-focused skills, learn important design thinking processes, engage with their community and have fun with their team along the way.
Schools can participate by signing up their teams online by Friday 23 April.
Find out more about the challenge, design thinking and how schools can participate on our website.
New outdoor learning space
The IEF students were delighted to discover that the new outdoor learning space was open to all RBSC students on Wednesday.
NSW students to transition back to the classroom in Term 2
NSW school students will gradually transition back to the classroom during Term 2 as the Government continues to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning Sarah Mitchell outlined the plan for students attending NSW public schools to progressively return to face-to-face learning in week three of Term 2.
Ms Berejiklian said health advice continues to be that schools remain open, and parents, teachers and students can be confident that school is safe place.
“We are grateful to all families who kept their children home from school at the end of Term 1 and to teachers who worked tirelessly to deliver education online,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“This allowed us critical time to prepare our schools to develop better online learning options and for considering additional hygiene measures to allow schools to return.
“We know that nothing is more important than a child’s education, and we must begin