Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College
Life Ready program
Year 11 going into year 12 students participated in a range of activities as part of the Mandatory Life Ready Program, aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge surrounding mental and physical wellbeing and life skills.
Keeping our school COVIDSafe
Help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our community by downloading the app.
Social distancing and washing your hands remain the best ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The COVIDSafe app, developed by the Australian Government, helps to reduce the spread by allowing health experts to find close contacts faster and more accurately.
The app does not track your location. It uses your phone’s Bluetooth to record other users you come into contact with, so if they test positive, NSW Health can let you know.
Find out more:
COVIDSafe app – Department of Health
download COVIDSafe for iOS – App Store
download COVIDSafe for Android – Google Play.
Eastside Debating Competition round 1
Rose Bay hosted an exciting round of the Eastside Debating Competition on Friday February 28 against Sydney Grammar.
#MathsTrainsBrains for the future
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
Duration – 1:00
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.