This term has been off to an exciting start with our Student Leaders receiving their badges at last week’s Student Investiture.  We were honoured to welcome:

• Honourable Shayne Neumann, Federal Member for Blair
• Honourable Lance McCallum-Member for Bundamba
• Ipswich City Councillor Sheila Ireland
• Ipswich City Councillor Jacob Madsen

Our invited guests presented the House Captains & Access Leaders with their badges. The leaders placed their pledge to the school and will wear their badges with pride.

Leadership can be found within every person and at Ripley Valley we will be offering opportunities for every student to find and develop their Leadership skills. This term we have invited guests from Ylead into our school to run a Leadership program with all of our students on the last day of term 3. Ylead offers unique learning experiences that empower young people to be their best and make a positive difference whilst harnessing their leadership skills. More information about this incursion will be sent home in the coming weeks.

As the school year rolls on we will start looking forward to our 2021 leaders. More information including the application process and key dates will be released in the next newsletter.

The SRC is working hard on the Time Capsule which is the key project for our founding Student Council. A competition for the design of the outside of the capsule is currently being run by the SRC and members will vote on the winning design next term.

Our House Captains are currently working on an inter-house touch football tournament that will be running in week 8.

House Spirit is at an all-time high after announcing the 2020 winners of the Cross Country and Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Flinders who won the Inter-house Cross Country on 344 points and Blaine who won the Athletics carnival on a massive 647 points!

As part of our Positive Behaviour for Learning culture (PBL) students are awarded with stamps for displaying positive behaviours. Students can spend these stamps at the Rewards Vault and collect items such as pens, lollipops, handballs, earphones and Bluetooth speakers. Students have been enjoying the rewards vault which has been out in Foundation Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Remember that any stamps that are awarded to individuals in class time also contribute to the total house points which will result in a house winner being announced at the end of the year.

This week on assembly James and I introduced a new weekly award that goes out to the student with the most amount of stamps from the previous week. We also acknowledged the students with the highest amount of stamps from each Access Class. Congratulations to the following:

8B – Charlotte Coates (Blaine) 82 stamps

8A – Imogen Ralston (Goolman) 124 stamps

7C – Cherie Young (Perry) 179 stamps

7A – Emaan Ismail (Flinders) 199 stamps

7B – Lily Goulding (Goolman) 250 stamps

And a huge congratulations to 7D – Llyle Vorster (Perry) 285 stamps who has won himself a tuckshop voucher.

As always we look forward to continuing to work with our students and school to foster a positive learning environment and house culture.

James Dunn
House & Sports Coordinator (Goolman and Perry)

Jessica Starkey
House Coordinator (Blaine and Flinders)