Archive for February, 2007

Work Experience

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Work Experience gives Year 10 students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the world of work. Not only does it offer “experience” it also gives students confidence as they face life beyond school.
The Rock Central School’s students are fortunate that they have such a low student - teacher ratio. We offer one on one […]

Country Schools Chess Competition

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

The Rock Central School has several students who have shown keen interest in playing chess. With this in mind, I have entered a team in the Country Schools Secondary Teams Competition this year. This competition is run by the NSW Junior Chess League. Being a Central School, we are able to include senior primary students […]

SCHOOL FEES

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Primary / Infants Fees Primary / Infants General Fee……..$20 for the year Primary / Infants Workbook Fee …$25 for the year All Secondary Fees Secondary General Fee……$25 for the year (Calculators are available for $20) Year 7/8 Design and Technology….$25 for the year Year 9/10 Subject Fees. Elective subjects in Years 9 and 10 carry […]

School Captain

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Congratulations to B. Stuart who is our new School Co-captain. Blake fills the position left vacant by S. Davidson who unfortunately is no longer at our school.

Swimming

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Twelve of our Secondary Students are today taking part in the Zone Swimming carnival at Lockhart. We wish them every success. On Friday our Primary Swimming Team will be participating at the Southern Riverina Zone Carnival at Henty and we look forward to some great results.

Sausage Sizzle

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Our fortnightly sausage sizzles will commence tomorrow with the prices remaining the same as last year. A sausage in a piece of bread will cost $1.00 and a can of drink will cost $1.50. The sausage sizzles were a great success last year and eased the cost of several excursions across the whole school.

Road Safety

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

I have had several phone calls from concerned community members re the way in which the children are riding their bikes to and from school. Please instil in your children the need to ride in single file on the left hand side of the road. While on this topic please remind your children that if […]

Vandalism

Monday, February 19th, 2007

This weekend we had some very unwelcome visitors to our school who decided that they needed to graffiti the walls and destroy the heads on the sprinkler system. They also uprooted plants and pulled out the irrigation system. As you can imagine this has amounted to a large sum of money, money that we should […]

Swimming Carnival

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

  Our Annual Swimming Carnival will be held at the local pool on Thursday.  All students who are turning 8 or older this year will be involved in the Carnival. The Infants children will be having their own water celebrations back at school after they have marched down to the pool in their house groups. 

Welcome Back

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

  Welcome back to all our students and families for the year 2007.  I would also like to take this opportunity to extend a sincere welcome to all our new students and new families. This year we have at the moment 128 students enrolled in the Primary/Infants and we have 40 students enrolled in our […]