Year 12 students completed RSA training at school today. This photo is some of the students ‘role playing’ a situation where they refuse a drink to a patron who is inebriated. A great day and students learnt lots about workplace safety.
Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College
New Synthetic Grass
Last week new synthetic grass was installed in the undercover plaza seating area. Students can now enjoy this space year-round.
Goodbye and Good Luck
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Update
On the 27th of May, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander group attended the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commemoration Ceremony.
Meet the teacher
This week we held our annual meet the teacher for parents of Year 7.
Despite the squally weather, a large contingent of committed parents assembled in the newly renovated classrooms in A block to hear teachers outline the content and learning expectations of their specific subjects. Additional information was given about key dates and events for Year 7 over 2019.
Mr Benn Newton, our P&C President welcomed all parents and organised refreshments for each classroom. This provided space for parents to meet each other and mingle.
A special commendation is reserved for our SRC representatives who greeted and guided our parents and assisted the P&C in preparing refreshments. The presentations from this evening will be uploaded to our website for the benefit of those parents unable to attend.
Greener spaces
Students in all years have been enjoying the recently installed artificial turf, in what was, up until recently, a very underutilised section of the school. This has brought students together at both Break times, providing them with more ‘green’ space to enjoy socialising with their friends. It also provides another outdoor learning area for students in the IEF to plant and cultivate a sensory garden, that they will use for both Project Based Learning (PBL) activities, as well as contributing their skills in helping to beautify the school environment, for everyone’s use’. We would like to acknowledge the very generous contribution that the P&C made to this project.
Silver for our Surf Life Savers
Congratulations to Daniel and Patrick, both in year 9, who won a silver medal in the U14s board rescue event at the Sydney Surf Life Saving Branch Carnival. This event involves one team member swimming out to a buoy and signalling for help. The other team member paddles out to “rescue” them on a board. Both team members then return to the shore on the one board.
They are now qualified to compete in this event for their club, Coogee SLSC, at the State Junior Life Saving Carnival to be held at Swansea/Belmont on the first weekend in March!
Congratulations also go to Maya in year 8 who won silver in the 2km soft sand event for North Bondi SLSC.
Well done to all.
Merit Selection Training
We are always looking for parents to assist us as parent representatives on merit selection panels for staff at our school.
The panel selection online training can be done online at your own pace. The link:
https://www.teach.nsw.edu.au/jobsnsw/selectionpaneltraining/
Please follow the prompts for the teacher training –
· Online Training – click on GET STARTED
· Introduction – click on NEXT
· Welcome to the Overview – click on PANEL MEMBERS
The online training will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete the modules. There are 6 Topics/modules and a quick quiz at the end of each module to complete before you can progress to the next module.
Please read both Introduction pages carefully.
At the conclusion of the course please print the certificate and e-mail it to
Rosebay-h.School@det.nsw.edu.au – Attention: Principal
Inner Sydney High School – Catchment
The new Inner Sydney High School is scheduled to open Day 1, Term 1 2020 for Year 7 students.
The Principal, Ms Robyn Matthews (previously the Principal of South Sydney High School) has recently been appointed and the project is now ready to announce the catchment area for the new school. You can view the catchment here.
If you have a child in Year 6 in 2019, he/she may be eligible to enrol into the Inner Sydney High School for Year 7 in 2020. A student is able to enrol into the Inner Sydney High School as an in-area student if their permanent and principal place of residence is located in the school’s designated catchment area. Enrolments will be undertaken in accordance with the NSW Department of Education’s guidelines and procedures.
Primary schools will receive enrolment information for Year 6 students in March 2019 as part of the normal high school enrolment process.
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Follow your heart, not the herd
We spoke with a group of Kindergarten students to find out what they had to say about going against the herd. They had some wise words for us on how we can care, respect and support each other in our schools.
Let’s start the year off right and prevent student bullying happening in our playgrounds, classrooms and online. If a group of 5-year-olds know the difference between right and wrong, shouldn’t everyone?
Video – Wise at 5
Duration – 1:08