Welcome back to Term 4. We hope that you and your families had a relaxing holiday. We entered our holidays on a high after seeing our students participate in our first ever school incursion on the last day of Term 3. We were lucky to welcome three facilitators from Ylead to the school for the day to run leadership activities with our students. Student participation was excellent and it was great to see our kids getting involved and giving it a go. The day was designed for students to find out what leadership strengths they possess plus it was an awesome opportunity for them to work with peers from other classes.

As the end of the year approaches we are excited to start working towards our 2021 goals. Just this week we have closed off the Leadership applications for the 2021 School Captains and House Captains. With an abundance of outstanding applications from our year 8 cohort we are now busy putting together the shortlist which will go out to student and staff vote. Once this information has been collected our Leadership team will finalise the positions and announce them at Awards Night in Week 4.  Good luck to all students that applied.

Next week we are taking several year 8 leaders over to Deebing Heights State School to run some activities as a part of their NAIDOC week celebrations. We will see some of our own NAIDOC celebrations happening here at RVSSC later in the term. We have many other activities coming up this term including partnerships with Ripley Valley State School, our Wet n’ Wild rewards day and Feel Good Friday to promote student well-being – just to name a few. It is another busy term here at RVSSC and as always we are excited to work with our students, staff, parents and community over the coming weeks.

James Dunn
House & Sports Coordinator (Goolman and Perry)

Jessica Starkey
House Coordinator (Blaine and Flinders)