Roebuck Primary School in Broome, Western Australia | Education

Roebuck Primary School

Locality: Broome, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9192 3377

Address: Cnr Spoonbill Ave and Sanderling Drive 6725 Broome, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.roebuckps.wa.edu.au

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25.01.2022 The Roebuck P & C are celebrating all Dads/ Grandfathers/ carers next week! Fathers day stall Please bring some money along to school on your allocated day to purchase a gift. ... All budgets are catered for with gifts ranging from $1.00- $10.00. PP - Yr 3 : Thursday Yr 4 - Yr 6: Friday ************************************ Fathers Day Raffle There are some amazing prizes up for grabs thanks to some of our generous sponsors. Books of tickets will go home with your child on Thursday afternoon, please return tickets and payment to your class teacher on Friday morning. Tickets are $2 each Thanks to the whole school community for your ongoing support.

25.01.2022 R U OK? Day R U OK? Day is this Thursday 10 September. Students are encouraged to get behind this national day of action by wearing yellow to school this Thursday. The Health and Well-being Action Team have organised lunchtime activities in the Ibis Undercover Area, including writing kind notes to friends, calming music and games.

25.01.2022 A T H L E T I C S C A R N I V A L Tomorrow is our school athletics carnival! Students are encouraged to wear their faction colours, ready to run, have fun and cheer for their faction. Students will head to their classrooms as usual, moving to the school oval shortly after 8am. Please pack recess, lunch and a few extra snacks for the day, a water bottle, hat and sunscreen. Dont forget your $1 coin for an icy pole at lunchtime, fundraising for Year 6 camp. ... See you tomorrow See more

24.01.2022 Thank you students and families for celebrating Book Week with us. Our colourful Book Week Parade was a fun celebration of our favourite book characters.

24.01.2022 P & C post- a few reminders for the rest of the week! Fathers day stall tomorrow (PP-yr 3) and Friday (Yr 4-yr6) Fathers day raffle tickets will be going home with your child on Thursday afternoon . Please return them on Friday morning ... your p&C would love to meet some new people at our meeting in the staff room on Thursday at 6pm Any questions or concerns- please comment below or email: [email protected]

24.01.2022 **********RAFFLE REMINDER****** Just a reminder that the raffle is open until 2pm today - please drop tickets into the office today. There are also some tickets available from the office if youve misplaced yours!

24.01.2022 Fundraiser for Year 6 Camp Come on down to BRAC Oval for yummy food and footy from 5.30pm this Friday!

24.01.2022 The P & C are sorting out their storage shed and relocating items to the new food service provision area- if youre available we would love some extra hands to help lighten the load! Next Thursday, 24th September from 4pm near the sheds in the Early Learning Area at school! Kids are welcome!

24.01.2022 Kindergarten Sports Carnival and Fathers Day Picnic is tomorrow! Children arrive at 8am and parents to meet us on the oval at 8:30am.

22.01.2022 What an AWESOME day we had at the 2020 RPS Athletics Carnival! THANK YOU to those who rearranged their day to be there and cheer on the students. We were so proud of them. Mr Kent, thank you for your hard work and organisation. We feel lucky and grateful that our school community could all come together, given what is happening around the world. Have a nice weekend and see you back at school Monday!

22.01.2022 Roebuck Right Start-KindiLink families will be attending a Picnic in the Park tomorrow. Please come along if you have 0-3 aged children and would like to have a fun morning out at Town Beach!

22.01.2022 Your P & C are meeting this Thursday at 6pm in the staff room. We would love to hear your ideas for fundraising and events for the rest of 2020 & into 2021 so please come along. Kids are always welcome.

22.01.2022 We had a fantastic time on Friday at our Athletics Carnival. The Pre-primary students started us off with some amazing running, jumping and egg balancing.

21.01.2022 THE ROEBUCK PRIMARY SCHOOL P&C ARE CALLING ALL PARENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS. Book awards are given to students in all year groups to acknowledge outstanding academic successes and achievements. Your generosity is appreciated and will be acknowledged in our school newsletter. We thank you for your support of this worthy cause.... The P&C will be underwriting the funds for these awards, so please make any donations payable via cheque or EFT to the Roebuck Primary School P&C Association Inc.

19.01.2022 G U E S S W H O ? (a child of the 70s and the principal of our school!) and... a friendly reminder School Photos start tomorrow. These classes will be getting their photo taken on Tuesday: Whimbrel 1A, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 Ibis 1, 2 & 6... Spoonbill 2, 3, 4 Year 6 Graduation photo, Faction Captains and Student Councillors Please remember school uniform and photo envelopes. More information can be found in last Fridays Connect email and on our Facebook page.

19.01.2022 Did you see this in the newsletter? This maths word problem stumped all four Year 6 teams at the Interschool Maths Competition held at Broome North PS last month. Parents, have a go! The correct answer is in the comments.

18.01.2022 Its the faction carnival on Friday and what a better way to cool off than with a refreshing icy pole, especially when all proceeds go to the year 6 camp fundraising! Dont forget your $1 !!

18.01.2022 And the winner is... IBIS!!!!! And the winner is... IBIS!!!!!

16.01.2022 The 0-3 Picnic in the Park was a great success! Stay tuned for the next KindiLink event. Thank you to all the families and services that attended today.

16.01.2022 A S S E M B L Y Our first in a looong time was back on again this morning in our Undercover Area. We feel very fortunate to be able to come together as a community when, in other parts of Australia and the world, children and families remain in lockdown at home. A big CONGRATULATIONS to our Roebuck Ripple recipients

16.01.2022 B O O K W E E K - I N F O Tomorrow Roebuck PS is celebrating National Book Week. Kindergarten to Year 6 students are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character. Classes are meeting in the Undercover Area at 8.30am to parade their costumes. Prizes for best dressed individual and class! This year we are unable to hold our annual Books and Breaky event for Kindy and Pre-Primary students and families. Parents are invited to stay and read with their child in the ECE Outdoor Area between 7.50-8.10am.

15.01.2022 P & C QUIZ NIGHT.... PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! More details to follow soon...

13.01.2022 N A T I O N A L S C I E N C E W E E K This week marks National Science Week. Our Year 1-6 classes have been completing some awesome investigations with our specialist Science teacher Ms Blackley. These photos a little taster of what our Roebuck students have been getting up to in Science: Year 2 - investigating the movement of water Year 3 - investigating shadows ... Year 5 - investigating the viscosity of a volcanos lava See more

13.01.2022 A friendly reminder that R U OK? Day is tomorrow. Students are encouraged to dress in yellow. More information can be found on yesterdays post.

12.01.2022 R U O K ? D A Y Thursday 10.9.2020

12.01.2022 We hope everyone, especially our Dads, had a lovely Fathers Day on Sunday. Our Kindy students in Whimbrel 1A and Whimbrel 1B held a Kindy Sports Day and Fathers Day celebration last Wednesday on the oval. So many beautiful photos of our Roebuck Kindy families - thank you for attending.

11.01.2022 T H I S J U S T H A P P E N E D... and it was awesome! A very big TERIMA KASIH from Bu Conliffe. So many fantastic bikes and scooters decorated for our Indonesian bike parade. Thank you Bu for organising this wonderful, feel good event. More photos to come...

10.01.2022 Expressions of Interest now open for our 2021 Roebuck Right Start 0-3 Program. Please phone 9192 3377 or email [email protected]

08.01.2022 Hi Roebuck Commuity, Your P & C is hosting the Auskick/ junior footy canteen next Saturday 22nd August at the BRAC oval canteen. We would absolutely LOVE some donations of the items listed below to sell at our stall please if you are able to please grab something a little extra in your next shop ... Please deliver the items to the front office at school or to LP air conditioning (on Gwendoline Crossing) by Friday 21st at 2pm. Zooper Doopers Chocolate Bars kit kats/ crunchies/ snickers/ mars/timeouts etc Large packets of lollies Party Mix/ Bananas/ snakes/ jelly beans etc Cool drinks- Cokes, Solo, Water bottles, Fanta etc Frozen Sausage rolls & frozen beef pies (please keep these to drop off next Friday!) Thanks so much for your ongoing support and have a great weekend

08.01.2022 Your P&C will be hosting the Auskick canteen on Saturday 22 August from 7.30am - 12.00 noon They are seeking donations from the Roebuck Primary School community so this canteen can be a successful fundraiser. Sausages... Sausage rolls Beef pies White bread Lollies eg. jelly beans, bananas, snakes, party mixes (to make lolly bags) Kit Kats Crunchie Bars Snicker Bars Time Outs Please contact Melissa Hall at [email protected] and/or drop your goods to the school Administration office if you are able to make a donation. This is the first whole school fundraiser for the P&C this year so we really need all our families to get behind your hard working P&C. Your help is greatly appreciated.

08.01.2022 N E W S L E T T E R 10 was sent out on Connect yesterday, with lots of information for our school community, student achievements to celebrate and events to look forward to!

07.01.2022 L O O K W H O ‘ S I N T H E W E S T Ten students from our Environment Action Team were featured in last Tuesday’s and today’s ED Supplement inside The West Australian newspaper. The students answered two questions: How can we reduce our ecological footprint? What are the greatest environmental threats in 2020?... A big WELL DONE to Tex, Indi, Gemma, Casey, Farron, Georgie, Tristan, Lani, Lee and Milla, who constructed thoughtful answers with guidance from Mrs Dearing. Thank you to Kim Morris for sourcing the newspapers for us using her Perth contacts, as there was no delivery to Broome last Tuesday.

07.01.2022 The P & C would like to congratulate the following Fathers Day raffle winners: 1st Lucy Fitzmaurice 2nd The Bell Family 3rd Ryan Kent... 4th Andrew Gatt 5th Joshua Martin 6th Nate Andrews We would also like to thank our very generous sponsors (listed below) and the Roebuck PS community for your support in purchasing tickets. We raised an amazing $1800!! Cygnet Bay Pearls Regent Pearls Divers Tavern Harvey Norman Broome Appliances & Furniture Bunnings Broome

05.01.2022 Friday was a fantastic day for our Athletics Carnival. All teams ran hard and played hard to earn points for their factions while having fun at the same time. Greenshank took out the Bainbridge Family Sportsmanship Award for the way they consistently cheered their peers on throughout the day and showed great sportsmanship in all activities. The end of the day saw a battle between Ibis and Whimbrel for first place with the relays being the deciding factor. Well done to Ibis fo...r taking out the shield as well as all teams for a fantastic day. A big thanks to the teachers who came early and stayed late to set up and pack up. An even bigger thanks to Mr Kent for organising such a fantastic day. See more

05.01.2022 We have some pretty amazing individuals in our school community and we wanted to share two such people with you today. Our P&C President and School Board member Kate, and her husband Matthew, were featured in the QANTAS magazine recently for the fantastic work they do for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Living in the country many of us have, or know someone who has, needed this vital service. On R U Okay? Day it seems fitting we acknowledge two lovely parents who look after Broome folk when were not okay. Photo credit: Abby Murray Photography

03.01.2022 Kindy Sports Carnival & Fathers Day Celebration On Wednesday 2 September, Miss Sherrie and Miss Marleys Kindy classes will be having a combined sports fun day and Fathers Day celebration. The morning will involve children participating in events such as: Sack race Little Hurdles ... Egg and spoon relay Running race A parent race will follow the Kindy events. Parents are invited to meet us on the oval at 8.30am to watch their child. Children can dress up in their favourite sports clothes. Please wear running shoes on the day.

03.01.2022 On Monday, the two pre-primary classes celebrated 100 Days of School by dressing up as 100 year olds! Miss Josephine, Mrs ONeill, Miss Kirsty and Miss Ange joined in the fun too! The students completed activities around the number 100. We think they looked FANTASTIC!

02.01.2022 Do you know how many Tim Tams are in a packet? ELEVEN. And, according to the Year Twos in Ibis 1, that quantity is simply not okay!! In fact, they felt so strongly about it they penned a letter to Arnott’s. Here it is, with Arnott’s reply in the comments.

01.01.2022 W I R L B U R U The weather is warming up! With this in mind, remember to slap on some sunscreen in the morning, wear a hat at recess and lunch time, and have a drink bottle with you in class to sip on throughout the day.

01.01.2022 Selamat Pagi! Indonesian Independence Day was on Monday. To celebrate the occasion, Bu Conliffe would love the students to decorate their SEPEDA (bike) or SKUTER (scooter) ready to parade this Friday morning in the Undercover Area. Go crazy, have fun and be creative! For inspiration google Indonesian bike parade. We cant wait to see them!