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 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 !!

24.01.2022 Hello Roebuck Community! What a year 2020 turned out to be. Despite all the curve balls COVID tried to throw our way, the P & C has had an incredible year. Despite limited fundraising opportunities for terms 1 and 2, the year six committee did an amazing job raising funds for school camp with a total of $6,450 raised to decrease the individual cost for year 6 camp.... The P&C also had a great year raising a total of $15,000 towards the food service provision area to which we have committed $45,000 over three years. An epic effort given the COVID constraints. The opening of the food service area occurred early in term 4 with its first major event being the highly successful quiz night. The opening of this area will greatly increase food options at the school and also fundraising opportunities going forward. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our generous sponsors- please check out the list on the school facebook page and try and support them if you can, we wouldn’t be as successful without their support. I would also like to thank you, our school community, for buying our raffle tickets, donating items and coming to our events- hopefully you enjoyed them as much as we enjoyed putting them on for you. Finally, I would like to express my utmost gratitude to our incredible P & C team- Jo, Erin, Sarah, Sarah, Kristy, Yol, Katie, Mel, Nic and Andrea- we may be small, but we sure are mighty!! Special mention and sad goodbyes to the incredible Mel Hall who just ticked over her seventh year with the Roebuck P&C, and Andrea Rowe who both leave us next year- thank you for all that you have done for our community, we will miss you. If you had ever considered joining the P & C 2021 is your year! We would love to grow and who knows what we could achieve and offer our community with more members including the offering of food options for school lunches- something we can only achieve with more help and more members. Please keep an eye out for details of our AGM and other meetings for 2021. I thank you again for your ongoing support, and wish you all a safe and happy end to 2020, and I look forward to seeing you in 2021. Kate Jones P&C President 2020

24.01.2022 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.

24.01.2022 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

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.

24.01.2022 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.

24.01.2022 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.

23.01.2022 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!

23.01.2022 Our Roebuck students and families are invited to the People’s Pop-Up Parliament at Lotteries House this Thursday. A great way for our younger members of the community to see democracy in action!

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!

21.01.2022 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.

20.01.2022 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.

20.01.2022 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

19.01.2022 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!

17.01.2022 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.

17.01.2022 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.

17.01.2022 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

17.01.2022 Fundraiser for Year 6 Camp Come on down to BRAC Oval for yummy food and footy from 5.30pm this Friday!

17.01.2022 N A I D O C W E E K Every day this week, our Kindergarten to Year 6 students have been completing activities for NAIDOC Week based on the 2021 theme ‘Heal Country’. Our NAIDOC Concert starts at 8.10am tomorrow morning in the Undercover Area, hosted by our Cultural Awareness Team. Photos: Our 0-3 KindiLink and Whimbrel 1A students on a nature walk at school. ... Our 0-3 KindiLink families completing activities for NAIDOC Week. See more

16.01.2022 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]

16.01.2022 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...

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.

15.01.2022 Your child will be bringing home P&C Christmas raffle tickets today. Amazing prizes are up for grabs thanks to our awesome sponsors. Please send the completed tickets & money back to school tomorrow (3rd Dec)... The raffle will be drawn at presentation night. Thanks for your continued support Roebuck P&C

15.01.2022 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.

14.01.2022 Nine of our brightest Maths students participated in this mornings Broome Interschool Maths Competition at Broome North PS. The teams, consisting of... Year 4: Xavier S, Bodhi M & Kade S Year 5: Junne K, Finnegan S & Dash G ... Year 6: Cooper T, Toby B & Ben P ... went up against their peers from Cable Beach, Broome and Broome North PS; working together to quickly answer difficult maths problems before their opponents or the buzzer beat them to it. It was very close in all three competitions, particularly in the Year 6 event with Ben, Toby and Cooper coming second to Broome North PS by only 5 points. Thank you to the parents, grandparents and teachers who came to support our Roebuck competitors. We all admired the students perseverance, cool heads under pressure and ability to work together towards a common goal. WELL DONE BOYS

14.01.2022 Dear Parents and Carers In consultation with various agencies, plus checking the all-weather apps and even casting our gaze to the sky, it appears the weather is less than cooperative in the forth-coming days to offer the students and our Roebuck Primary School community the End of Year Presentation under the stars . However, whilst limiting, there is a Window of Hope. In exploring various options, I recognise that each is not perfect but have gone for the one that is most ...favourable and do-able, allowing those students who are receiving an award to have it done so in front of the school community and all students to perform in their class item. I acknowledge that having this event during the working day is not ideal which is why we have made some changes to maximise the opportunity for parents / carers to watch award presentations, items performed and the continuation of other school-based presentations We will be taking as many pictures as possible and posting these, along with a video of the event on our Facebook page. End of Year Presentation Event Day / Date Friday, 11 December Time 8:00am to10:00am Program of events Presentation of Awards Class items, Kindergarten to Year 6 Venue Assembly area NB Students to arrive in their costume I appreciate the flexibilities families have gone to in working with us as we respond and adjust as the weather dictates. Yours sincerely Kelvin Shem PRINCIPAL

14.01.2022 **********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!

14.01.2022 A friendly reminder that Semester 1 School Reports will be sent to families via Connect this afternoon. Thank you A friendly reminder that Semester 1 School Reports will be sent to families via Connect this afternoon. Thank you

13.01.2022 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.

13.01.2022 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

12.01.2022 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!

11.01.2022 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

11.01.2022 P & C QUIZ NIGHT.... PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! More details to follow soon...

10.01.2022 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.

10.01.2022 Public service annoucement!!! If you pre-ordered booklists from office national your P & C will be distributing booklist orders to your childrens classrooms ON MONDAY so the kids may need some help transporting them home after school! Thank you for your continued support

10.01.2022 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.

10.01.2022 R U O K ? D A Y Thursday 10.9.2020

09.01.2022 Good morning Roebuck community P & C Christmas raffle tickets will be coming home with your children on Wednesday this week. They are $10 for a book of 5 tickets (or $2 each) with some amazing prizes, kindly donated by our generous supporters- and all proceeds go directly back into our school.... Please send your child back to school with the correct change and completed tickets on Thursday so your P&C can have them ready to draw at presentation night. Thank you for your support.

09.01.2022 The P&C would like to thank the following families and businesses for their kind contribution towards the 2020 book awards. The Baker Family LHM Fencing (The Hughes Family) ADvantage Carpentry (The Goedecke Family)... The Clark Family The West Family DC Datacomms (The Coombs Family) The Jones Family The Dearing Family The Phillips Family The Brawls Family Lush Designs Jewlery Bank West The Beach Hut (The Roberson Family) BK Signs (The Halliday Family) The Hon. Ken Bastion Mulberry Tree See more

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.

07.01.2022 P & C Raffle winners! Kate will be in touch asap to let you know about collecting your prize; otherwise please comment below if you're a winner! Thanks to everyone for your support and congrats to our winners!... 1st John Galwey 2nd Henry Skewes 3rd Kai Starsevich 4th Lachlan McLeod 5th Hannah Kennelly 6th Hayley Muller

07.01.2022 In true 2020 fashion there was nothing normal about this years end of year celebrations! After having to postpone from our normal evening event and contending with more rain than Noah's Arc encountered during the week......the show had to go on and our gorgeous students never disappointed! :) Our end of year assembly recognised and celebrated all of our amazing students, our school community and highlighted what just what an unprecedented year 2020 has proven to be!

07.01.2022 Thanks for making a difference to the lives of kids around WA!!!

06.01.2022 The P&C have been busy working on something exciting....

06.01.2022 The Roebuck Primary School P & C would like to thank the following businesses for their generous contributions and support in 2020 through our raffles and events fundraising for our school. Please consider supporting them in the future. The Aarli Moontide Distillery, Broome WA... Spinifex Brewing Co LP Airconditioning Installation Kimberley Sports Massage Centre Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm PRD Real Estate Broome JL Automotive And Tuning Avery Airconditioning Pindan Printing M & J's Pizza Base Ginreab Thai Bare Beauty Broome Coles Broome International Airport Palm Trees Thirty Degrees Broome Candle CO. My JC Creations BWS DC Datacomms Rusty Coast Bunnings Warehouse Australia Streeter & Male Mitre 10 Divers Tavern Regent Pearls Crude Food WA Mr Saigon Harvey Norman Broome Appliances & Furniture Recharge Petroleum See more

06.01.2022 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.

05.01.2022 Due to unfavourable weather conditions, Presentation Night is cancelled. This wonderful event will be rescheduled to our back-up date of Thursday, 10 December 5.30pm - 7.30pm. Thank you for your understanding.

05.01.2022 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.

05.01.2022 N A I D O C W E E K From Kindergarten to Year Six, Roebuck students will be participating in a range of activities to mark National NAIDOC Week 2020. Keep an eye out for updates, as we will be sharing photos of these fun and informative lessons during the week. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe National NAIDOC

05.01.2022 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!

04.01.2022 Y E A R F O U R M A T H S Learning all the Times Tables (up to x10) has been a goal for our students in Ibis 5 and Ibis 6 since the beginning of the year. Today, students who learned all their tables and/or demonstrated a big effort to learn them were treated to a Sausage Sizzle and Slip and Slide. The light rainfall added to the fun and made the big Slip and Slide extra slippery!! Students who learned all the Times Tables also received a Certificate of Maths Awesomeness and Zoopa Dooper from Mrs Dearing.

04.01.2022 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.

03.01.2022 Don't forget to return your raffle tickets today! But if you do, or you want to purchase some more they will be available from your amazing P&C at presentation night tonight. Look out for the people in the hot pink vests to secure yours! ... Amazing prizes up for grabs, $2 per ticket. See you there.

02.01.2022 And the winner is... IBIS!!!!! And the winner is... IBIS!!!!!

02.01.2022 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

02.01.2022 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.

02.01.2022 ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’ recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65 000 years. We have three jam-packed afternoons of activities, starting today, to celebrate NAIDOC Week. See attached timetable for our Year One to Six students.

01.01.2022 Parents and Caregivers, We are all very much looking forward to our Presentation Assembly on Friday morning in the assembly undercover area. As this program is new to us, we can offer an estimated timeline of events for the morning.... 8am Presentation Assembly where classroom and specialist book awards will be presented. 8:30am Year Level showcase where all year levels will present their end of year items. 9:30am Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 participating students will present their Yoh Fest item and receive their participation certificates. We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

01.01.2022 Expressions of Interest now open for our 2021 Roebuck Right Start 0-3 Program. Please phone 9192 3377 or email [email protected]

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01.01.2022 N A I D O C W E E K Across the school and throughout the week, our students have been participating in fun and purposeful activities to celebrate National NAIDOC Week. These include learning about the six Yawuru seasons, storytelling, listening to guest speakers and learning about the importance of water. Don’t forget, our whole school NAIDOC assembly is tomorrow 1-2pm in the Undercover Area.

01.01.2022 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

01.01.2022 W O R L D K I N D N E S S D A Y At Roebuck we have the Six Kinds of Best - Kind to Ourselves Kind to Others The Learning Kind The Achieving Kind Community Kind Kind to the Environment ... World Kindness Day was yesterday. The aim is to highlight good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness which binds us.

01.01.2022 N A I D O C A S S E M B L Y Our NAIDOC celebrations culminated in a fantastic whole school assembly this afternoon. A very big thank you to our phenomenal key note speaker Jub Clerc. Beginning with a special smoking ceremony, Spoonbill 2 and Ibis 6 danced to Baker Boy’s In Control and we finished off with a whole school photo, holding up our decorated hands. What a good looking mob! #WorkingTogether #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

01.01.2022 For those who may have missed out on paper copies at the end of term, here's the link to register your child's fundraising page for the Colour Run: https://www.schoolfundraising.com.au/ Simply follow the steps for "student sign up" - on the second page you'll select your child's school and class. The Colour Run is organised by the P&C and will be held on August 6 - make sure you put it in the calendar, it's sure to be a fun day for students and parents!!