Dear Parents/Guardians

Selected students from Riverside High School last week participated in the NHSSA State Athletics Carnival held at St Leonards. The students participating displayed outstanding sportsmanship and encouragement of team members.  A report from the carnival is attached. Congratulations to the following students who participated.

Grade 7:  Hailee F and James W

Grade 8:  Olivia B, Aurora D, Sophie R, Matilda B, Daisy B, Oryn W & Hamish L

Grade 9:  Poppy W, Lara D, Izzy W, Sophie B, PJ C, Lucas W, Harrison E, Sam R and Sam G

Grade 10:  Rori L, Chelsea B, Jacob W, Lachlan B, Neil M, Millie S, Amelia W, Mackenzie B, Jesse D and Anabelle H

End of Year Reports – Riverside High School

A reminder to families that end of year reports will be sent home on Thursday, 15^th December.

You can learn more about school reports by watching the video accessed through the QR code or view the links below:

• School Reports FAQs
• Understanding the 9-point scale
• Visit the Department of Education’s website at: Reporting - The Department for Education, Children and Young People Tasmania (decyp.tas.gov.au)

School Association 2022

On Monday, 28^th November the final School Association meeting for 2022 was held.  We would like to say thank you to all of the parents/guardians who have committed their time to support Riverside High School on our School Association Board.   The members are Justine Alexander, Carolyn Saunders, Colin Smith, Cynthia Pearce, Joanne Wing, Belinda Jones, Susan Matkovich and Pamela Taylor.

We are always looking for opportunities to engage our parent/guardian community so please reach out to one of our members if you are interested in being a member of the School Association or have questions about the board’s role.

What are the functions of a School Association?

• Fostering cooperation among teachers, students, parents and the school community, as well as fostering the value and benefits of education generally.
• Participating in: ­ the development of school policies, ­ the formulation and implementation of plans for the improvement of the school, establishing and reviewing, from time to time, the school's objectives, priorities, strategic directions and values, the planning of financial arrangements necessary to fund those objectives, priorities, strategic directions and values, ­ evaluating the school's performance in achieving those objectives, priorities, strategic directions and values ­and providing advice on the selection of the person to be the permanent Principal of the school.
• Providing advice and recommendations as required on any matter relating to policy with respect to State schools.

School Associations can also raise funds for the benefit of the school and to determine how those funds will be used.

Grade Celebration Assemblies

On Monday 19^th December, we will be holding our 2022 Grade Celebration Assemblies in the Riverside High School Gymnasium.

The times for each Grade Celebration Assembly are listed below.

At the assemblies, we will be recognising students including those who have achieved Endeavour Awards for their consistent effort and application to studies as evident in the End of Year 2022 Reports.

Parent/guardians are most welcome to attend the assemblies.

Please RSVP using the following QR code.   

https://forms.office.com/r/LkS1a1EKxs

 If you have any questions in regard to the assemblies, please contact the Administration Office on 6327 6333.

Year 7 Block 1 9:00am Assembly

Year 8 Block 2 11:00am Assembly

Year 9 Block 4 2:00pm Assembly

2023 Grade Leadership Teams   

Our Grade Leadership Teams for 2023 are listed below.  The Grade Leadership Teams are an important element regarding the pastoral care of students in the year group, a point of contact for families and management of the learning programs and extracurricular activities offered by the grade.

Students will receive their End of Year Reports in Week 9 along with a notice detailing the elective subjects which they have been allocated for 2023.

Representative Teams

Riverside High School often has students who are successful in making state and national teams and representative teams in the arts, sports and academic pursuits.  We would love to share and celebrate the successes of our currently enrolled students in our fortnightly newsletter.  Please contact our School Administration Office if you are happy to share your child’s achievements.

On Tuesday, 6^th December the West Tamar Youth Mayor Induction was held at the Windsor Precinct.

Riverside High School student Noah Hedger in Year 8 was the successful recipient of this position.

Congratulations Noah and we wish you well in this exciting leadership role. 

Over the past weekend students competed in the Touch Football Tasmania Senior State Cup at Meercroft Park in Devonport.

Riverside students who competed were:

Jordan, Lucas and Campbell – Men’s Open

Jade and Evvie – Mixed Open

The Mixed Open team came away winning their division, the Open Men placed 2^nd. 

Jordan and Jade also had the opportunity to referee

Jordan recently had the opportunity in Melbourne to officiate in the Victorian Touch League, a senior state competition in Victoria. Former student Alice Robinson playing in the tournament also.

Lily Meldrum has been chosen in the Australian women’s team to travel to Morocco in 2023 for the world championships om pool. A wonderful achievement

End of Year Assemblies

The Riverside High School Presentation Evening 2022 will be held on Wednesday, 14^th December from 6:30pm – 8:30pm in the school gymnasium.  Award recipients have received their invitations for family members on Wednesday, 7^th December.  Family members will need to RSVP to the evening.

The final Year 10 Celebration Assembly will be held on Wednesday, 21^st December.  Year 10 and 9 students will attend this special event in Lessons 2 and 3, starting at approximately 10.45am.  The assembly will be live streamed to the Year 7 and 8 students and teachers in their classrooms.  Year 10 students and their families have received an invitation to this special event. The Year 10 assembly will be recorded for parents/guardians who are unable to make it on the day.

Ms Jeanna Bolton

Families will receive their levies invoice from mid to late February 2023. Our composite levy for 2023 for Years 7 to 12 is $700.

Levies may be paid via phone, Bpay, at Service Tasmania or in person at our Riverside High School Admin Office with cash, cheque or card. Our Administration Office will re-open after the Christmas break on Thursday, 19 January 2023 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Families will be sent student validations, permission and consent forms late in January. These forms need to be completed and returned to RHS with your child in the first week of Term 1.

We encourage families to pre-order uniforms if possible. Our Uniform Shop is open each Tuesday and Thursday from 8.30 am until 11.00 am during school terms. Uniform orders can be placed via the Qkr App with collection from 19 January from our Admin Office. Bookings will be available from
19 January for trying on garments and one-on-one assistance with uniform fittings. https://www.trybooking.com/CDRRE  We will communicate the booking information on our social media pages in January.

Please note our Admin Office will be closed on Thursday, 26 and Friday 27 January, re-opening on Monday 30 January at 8:00 am.

If you have any questions, please contact our Administration Office on 6327 6333.

Cynthia Pearce

School Business Manager

Digital Technologies: Computing, has introduced students to new exciting and invigorating projects for interactive, engaging and authentic learning. It has allowed students to express themselves, as well as achieve their personal goals in developing essential skills needed for the digital age.

Grade 7 students have been fully utilising the new one-to-one iPad implementation to progress their learning in digital technologies. Students have explored and created 3D models in augmented reality (AR) space. Thoroughly enjoying learning the basics of binary and programming, using Sphero robots and the online Scratch application. Students were set various challenges, which included programming a robot to race around a self-made track and to move through obstacles via the inbuilt compass and gyroscope. They created fully working models of the water cycle in Minecraft, learned data entry, data collecting and varying forms of data presentation via tools and applications with wireless digital thermometers, live data feeds and Excel input.

Grade 8 students have been learning the processes of computational thinking, testing this knowledge in the Bebras Challenge. Students delved in the world of web development, learning HTML and CSS. This work has increased student’s understanding of the web and the complexities behind websites. Small computers called BBC Microbits help students program and understand the hardware requirements necessary to interact with peripheral devices. They then learnt block coding on a more advanced scale, developing their own mod in Minecraft Education. Finally, they learned how to avoid cyber-attacks, phishing, viruses and how to protect themselves from future data strikes. 

Grade 9 and 10 students have disassembled, labelled, and reassembled, decommissioned desktop computers. They were introduced to the foundations of programming, electronics, and mechanics through a series of playful experiments. Using Arduino computer kits, students have delved into coding to program a computer to perform pre-set tasks and interactive experiences. Students have been learning the components of a digital computer system - developing their knowledge and understanding of computer hardware by creating their own gaming PC and pitching their creation to the class. Finally, they have been using, Python and Scratch to develop their critical thinking skills, knowledge in algorithms and developed a working video game.

The High School Cricket Championships were held at the Windsor Park Precinct on the first day of summer and fittingly, the sun was shining brightly.

Two weeks earlier, Riverside High School had a record 7 teams play in the qualifying rounds. Five of the teams were female, with one female and one male team qualifying for the finals.

The girls who represented Riverside in the final were all Year 9 students. They had a lot of fun and represented themselves and the school in an outstanding manner, displaying excellent sportsmanship and support of one another and their opponents. The team finished fourth and can be proud of their achievements over the two days.

The boy’s team that played in the finals were also all Year 9 students. The team won their semi-final against Kings Meadows quite convincingly to make it through to the Grand Final where they met a strong Queechy team. Riverside batted first and made a highly competitive 2 – 103, with Lachlan B top scoring with 19 runs off 15 balls and Lucas B making 18 off 15.

The Grand Final went down to the wire with Queechy needing 10 runs off the last over to be bowled by Liam B. Liam held his nerve with only 8 runs coming off his last over, to give Riverside victory by 2 runs.

Riverside were crowned the High School Cricket Champions. Congratulation’s boys! More importantly, the manner in which the players conducted themselves over the two days of the competition was very impressive. All students played hard but fair and had a great time.

A big thank you to Miss Hall for all the time and effort she invested in organising the seven teams from Riverside. It was appreciated by all involved.

Mr Musovic

Our Grade 10 students have been working very hard this term, to prepare for their end of year exhibition. Each Grade 10 Art student exhibited one piece of work with twelve Grade 10 students choosing to present a “body of work”.

There was an eclectic array of art works on display and as always, of a high quality.

Well done Grade 10.

Miss Saunders

On Friday 2^nd December Riverside High School sent a large group of students to the NHSSA State Athletics Carnival. This event was held at St Leonards Athletics Track and is a competition between the North, South and North-West State High Schools.

Riverside High had representatives from all grades in both Track and Field events. The student’s behaviour and performances were outstanding on the day, representing themselves and the school with pride.

Riverside were also asked to send along some helpers on the day and we had a strong cohort of students who volunteered their time. What is just as impressive is that on the day some students who were competing in events put their hand up to help as well.

We are very proud of the students and would like to acknowledge their efforts by creating certificates for them to keep as it is a great achievement to make this team. We would also like to publicly acknowledge Poppy W for stepping up on the day and running in the Grade 10 400m and Jesse D who came along as a helper and ended up running in the Grade 10 800m and 1500m.

There were some records broken on the day and we would like to congratulate the following students on their wonderful results:

For the second year in a row the North proved the successful team.

HPE Team

State Growth has made some changes to school bus services in Launceston to take effect at the start of the 2023 school year. See details below. Metro will also be providing correspondence around these changes.

Riverside High School

• Currently, two route 845 services operate between Trevallyn and Riverside High School in the morning. The second of these services was introduced as a trial in 2020 to provide additional capacity. From Term 1 2023, we will cease the operation of the second route 845 and instead provide a new permanent Route 152S service from the City to Riverside High via Trevallyn.

• The Route 152S will depart the City at 7:38am on school days, and travel via the Delungra Rd, New World Ave loops, and Pomona Rd to arrive at Riverside High at approximately 8:10am

We would like to thank all the grade 10 students who have returned their RSVP's for the 2022 Granduands Dinner. We have been impressed with the creativity of a number of responses.