Dear Parents & Carers, 

I trust that over the Easter holiday break you were able to enjoy some much needed time to rest and relax after a rather eventful start to the year.  It is great to be back at school and we are looking forward to "getting back to business" in the classroom and hosting our special college events.

This Thursday, our College held our annual ANZAC day service and once again it was pleasing to see so many parents, grandparents and members of the defence community attend.  Commemorative services such as this remind me of the positive difference we can all make in our world and local community. For those who would like to attend a local ANZAC service on Monday the 25th April, a Community ANZAC Dawn service will be held at 5am in ANZAC place.  Further information is available in the newsletter on our website and Facebook.

 

Another upcoming event that all members of the community are invited to attend is our annual Community Open Day which will be held on Saturday 7th May from 9am - 12pm.  This is a great opportunity for you and your extended friends/family to see the new and existing college buildings and facilities.  The P & C Association will have a food stall available and we will also be officially opening Bayliss Park at 10.30am.  This school park is in recognition of the original farm who operated here prior to the college being built.  Further information on the Community Open Day is available via our website, newsletter and Facebook page. 

This term we welcome a number of new staff to our college and say goodbye to one of our foundation staff members, Angela Waugh.  Angela has been a foundation Head of Department (HOD) within the IT, Pathways and partnerships portfolio and has been instrumental in helping establish our college.  Angela has been successful in obtaining a leadership position with a local external organisation and I wish her all the best in this new role.  Mr James Dunn will be acting HOD within this role for Term 2, while we advertise for a replacement.  This term we also welcome Mr Daniel Pym as our new Deputy Principal, Mr Jedd Dawson (Science/Math teacher) , Mrs Sky Wang (Science/HPE) and Georgia Mallet (Teacher Aide) to our team.  As our enrolment numbers continue to grow we will be adding to our team throughout this year and I look forward to introducing all new staff to you as they come on board.

Once again, thank you for partnering with our college and I look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events.  

 Yours Sincerely,     

Brendan Krueger

Foundation Principal

2022 Student Resource Scheme (SRS)

Second payment due Friday 6 May - The second payment is due in two weeks time for those families paying in instalments.

Payment Options

BPOINT – Use the link in the box at the bottom left corner of your invoice, this will take you directly to the payment screen to enter your details.  Paying in instalments? No problem, just enter the instalment amount of $225.00 and then continue.  Instalments will be due 25 February; 6 May and 12 August.

Phone payments using Credit/Debit card – You will need your Customer Reference Number (CRN) and Invoice Number from the bottom left corner of your invoice.  Call 1300 631 073

In person at the office– The payment window will be open for EFTPOS, cash or cheque payments Monday to Friday 8am – 9:30am and 2pm – 3pm (other times by appointment).

Individualised payment plans by Direct Debit - Set and forget.  If you would like to set up a direct debit payment using your bank account or credit card, email bsm@ripleyvalleyssc.eq.edu.au with the $ amount you would like to pay, the date you want the payments to start and how often you would like the payments made eg weekly/fortnightly.  As an example – a payment of $27.00 per week commenced on Friday 25 February will pay the SRS in full before the final due date of 12 August.

Centrepay Deduction - Payment by Centrepay deduction can also be arranged through Administration.

If you would like an update on your account or a statement at any time please email the school office admin@ripleyvalleyssc.eq.edu.au

 

Michelle Mills

Business Manager

Welcome back to Term 2!

Next week is Parent Teacher Interviews and we are delighted to have Jules Csanki from NDIS attending and meeting with families. She can discuss with you:

• NDIS application process
• NDIS review process
• Accessing support to apply for NDIS
• How NDIS can support your child access the workforce
• Programs they offer
• Answer your questions

If this is something that interests you, you can book a 10 minute meeting with Jules by clicking on NDIS Information Sessions. It will say “Rhiannon Kemp” - Rhiannon will be able to see these bookings on Daymap so she can organise them with Jules.

For those of you wishing to book an interview with me, you will need to book under Emily Prenzler. This is because we have Jules Csanki from NDIS using my name to book in with families.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact studentservices@ripleyvalleyssc.eq.edu.au

Intervention programs starting soon:

Reading Club:

Reading Club commencing soon.  Reading Club is a select group of students who will be working on improving their reading skills, supported by the school’s Speech Pathologist and a Teacher Aide.  The group will focus on building the foundation skills needed to develop fluent and accurate reading, as well as practicing using technology to help reduce any barriers that a reading difficulty may present.   

Corrective Maths:

A select group of students will participate in a program called SRA Corrective Mathematics.  The purpose of the program is to provide intensive small-group instruction in order to develop the skills, strategies, automaticity, accuracy, and key understanding of Addition and Subtraction.  

It maximises academic engagement by moving lessons along in a rapid manner with constant interchange between teacher and students. The SRA Corrective Mathematics curriculum provides practice with immediate feedback. Activities focus on addition and subtraction facts, operation of addition and subtraction, reading and writing numbers, column addition and subtraction, addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing and solving story problems with distracters.  

The lessons will be conducted for thirty minutes, two times per week during class time.  

Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapists:

This Term we are delighted to have our external support team visiting and providing advice and assistance to teachers and identified students. Below is some information about their service.

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UPDATE: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) 

We are currently in the data collection phase of the NCCD. Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).  

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes: 

• year of schooling 
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional 

• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive. 

This information assists schools to: 

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools  
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools 
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability. 

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability. 

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy). 

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au). 

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.  

In Support Services you will find:

Head of Department Inclusion	Rhiannon Kemp
Guidance Officer	Janet Ingram
Speech and Language Pathologist	Nicole Anderson
Inclusion Coordinator (Coach)	Jamei Pertzel
Chaplain	Kristian Atkins
Defence School Mentor	Tracy Cooper
Youth Support Worker	Advertised
Support Services Administrator	Rachael Pratt
Industry Liasion Officer	Marnie George

We look forward to supporting you.

Rhiannon Kemp

Head of Inclusion

Welcome back to the start of Term 2! I hope that you and your family had a restful and enjoyable Easter break. Reflecting on Term 1, I want to reiterate how proud we are as a College of all of our students. Term 1 had so many unforeseen interruptions and all of our students took it in their stride and still managed to engage with learning. The majority of Term 1 mathematics results should now be live on Daymap for you to view as teachers have now had time to mark and moderate all assessments. We encourage you to review these results with your child and set some goals for their academic achievements as they head into Term 2.

Term 2 will be a busy one for our students in mathematics as they have two pieces of assessment to complete across the term. I have included a table below with a brief overview of these tasks and the expected due date. We have designed our assessments this way to give them more opportunities to demonstrate their level of understanding ahead of the semester report card and to reduce the amount of content they must demonstrate in each assessment.

Tess Reeves

HoD Mathematics

tsmur0@eq.edu.au 

Welcome back to Term 2 to all students and families.

As we return to the classroom in term 2, it is important for students to review the goals they set in term 1, check their progress and then adjust their goals and strategies accordingly. James Clear in his book Atomic Habits says “we won’t rise to the level or our goal, but rather fall to the level of our system”. It is important that as students review and set new goals that they look at the strategies they put in place to help them achieve these goals. As always, students will be supported by our amazing staff to reach their potential and encourage them with their goals throughout the term.

This term our students will continue to connect the learning that occurs within the science classroom to their lives outside of school and we encourage them to be critical and creative thinkers by utilising the inquiry skills they learn.

Our year 7 students begin to look at Biology and the science of classification when organising living things and develop the skills required for an exam. Year 8 classes build upon their pre-existing knowledge of Chemistry to understand how the physical and chemical properties of materials are linked to their chemical structure. The year 9 students investigate the transfer of energy within Physics and explore how we can utilise our science knowledge when developing a heat shield in order to limit the amount of energy transferred within a system.

The year 10 students continue on their varied pathways with both the Biology/Psychology class and Physics/Chemistry classes continuing on their semester units while the core science class finishes off investigating the role of science in understanding climate change and writing a research report addressing a chosen claim. The foundation class has started their new unit this term and begin to look at chemical reactions and how these are used within our daily lives and how factors such as temperature and surface area can change the speed of these reactions.

We look forward to another exciting term and wish all our students the best as they get back in to the learning routines within all their classes.

Todd Robson

HoD Science 

trobs20@eq.edu.au 

Design Technology 

Year 7 Design Technology:

Year 7 DAT students will be exploring sustainable design and problem solving how to reduce waste produced in a kitchen.  They will follow the design thinking process to prototype a solution to solve this problem.

9 Design Technology:

Year 9 DAT students will explore computer aided design and manufacturing combined with traditional wood working skills to hand craft a ukulele. They will evaluate their process and find product at the completion of their project.

9 Design Engineering:

Year 9 TES students are looking at aerodynamics and following the engineering process to design a propeller powered car that is fuel efficient. They will understand the basics of aerodynamic principles to help design and justify their concepts.    

Year 10 Design Engineering:

Year 10 TES student are looking into structural engineering using the engineering process to solve and design problem while understanding foundations of engineering.

Year 10 Design Technologies:

Year 10 DAT students are looking at advance manufacturing along with CAD & CAM to design a skate deck art. Students are exploring the history of technologies used to create Skate art in the past while developing their own graphical skills using Adobe. Students will also create a skate deck using the laminating process and vacuum forming. 

Food Technologies:

Year 8 students will focus on teaching students how to eat a balanced diet to ensure that they are getting all the essential and non-essential nutrients that their body needs every day.

Year 9 students explore how food supplies nutrients which allows the body to function and develop from infancy to adulthood. Poor food selection may result in problems that can affect your way of life. Making good food choices can be difficult, as there is an abundance of food available. In this unit, students will examine the factors that contribute to good nutrition and learn to make healthy food selections.

Year 10 students are looks at the role that food plays at special occasions. It investigates the significant and reasons for celebrating ways to prepare foods for small- and large-scale catering occasions; what to consider when planning food for special events and the importance of presentation and display of foods. You will follow a workflow plan and use correct food-handling skills to organise and prepare foods for a variety of fun and interesting events.

Design Technology Parent Permission Form https://ripleyvalleyssc.schoolzineplus.com/form/193

DANCE

All of our Dance classes are currently working on their theory tasks. Students have been responding to dance works across a range of styles such as popular dance, lyrical and hip hop. Our theory units wrap up in Week 3 and students will then move onto choreography tasks where they get to create their own routines.

Dance Squad have been training hard two times a week with Miss Starkey and Miss Doorley to get their jazz and contemporary routines completed for their upcoming performance at the Ipswich Show on Friday 13th May at 9.30am. Please come down and support our students when they perform for the first time this year. Dance Troupe are continuing to work on their technique with Ms Dixon on Tuesday mornings. 

This term we will be auditioning Year 6 students for our Dance Excellence Academy which launches in Year 7, 2023. The program aims to extend students in the performance arena with a focus on technique, strength and flexibility. If you have a student in Year 6 who would like to trial for the Damce Excellence Academy please contact Miss Starkey jxsta12@eq.edu.au

DRAMA

Year 8 Drama students are further developing their knowledge of the Elements of Drama this term. After showcasing their acting skills last term, students will now be sitting in the director’s chair, considering how they apply this knowledge to create dramatic meaning .

Year 9 Drama students are exercising their quick thinking skills as they enter the improvised world of Commedia Dell’Arte. With both practical and theoretical assessment this term, students will explore this heritage style that still underpins many comedic works today.

Year 10 Drama students have started exploring Verbatim Theatre in this term’s unit, “Time to Find the Truth”. Through two assessment tasks, students will become immersed in this unique style that uses interview transcripts to create theatre based on the real words, of real people, about real events.

Music

Year 7 Music are excelling in their practical units to understand how the elements of music informs the performance and creation of popular music. Mr Coles’ classes have begun learning guitar and vocals to perform in Week 4 while Mr Ezzy’s classes have begun writing their own popular songs for submission in Week 3. We are looking forward to hearing their upcoming performances and compositions in the coming weeks.

Students interested in additional support, or simply to learn, are encouraged to attend guitar club which will be running next Thursday 28th April at second break in the music rooms.

Year 10 Music have just finished their first major project – producing their own radio show examining a genre of music and how it is represented across the globe. The students have done an absolutely amazing job writing, recording and producing their first production! The students have now begun their composition unit, examining compositional intent and how the elements of music support direction and inspiration. They will be producing a number of compositions for their radio show including theme song, advertisements, segment introductions and finally their own song. Although challenging, the Year 10's have been rising to this new challenge exploring their own creativity and capability.

Instrumental music is back in full swing preparing for upcoming performances. The difficulty and quantity of pieces are increasing each year and students have been enthusiastically practicing and rehearsing before and after school. Many of our beginners will be entering rehearsals in Week 4 so please keep an eye on emails to see if your child may have some extra commitments. With the increase in repertoire and challenge, all instrumental students will need to begin practicing at home within a regular schedule. Please continuing to support our developing musicians and the outstanding dedication they have been showing all year. 

Growing bands means new equipment! Our brand new bass guitars and rosewood marimba.

VISUAL ART

Year 8 Art students will explore and evaluate erasure through responding to artists who have used erasure in their art across cultures, times and places.   Students identify and analyse how other artists use the visual conventions of line, texture, shape, movement emphasis and balance to create observational drawings of endangered, vulnerable and extinct animals, applying this knowledge in their art making.  Students will communicate messages associated with sustainability and biodiversity through manipulating drawing techniques and processes such as blind contour and contour drawing, stippling, hatching and cross hatching. They will reflect on and explain how an artwork is displayed to enhance its meaning and use this knowledge in planning their own display to further their message about sustainability and biodiversity.

Year 9 Art students will continue to explore memento mori, building knowledge on the use of symbolism and visual conventions in their own work and that of others and the connection between these visual conventions as well as practices and viewpoints that represent their own and other’s ideas on life and death. They will focus on the acquisition of skills and the learning of art making techniques with a focus on 3D construction. Students will manipulate the visual conventions of form, space, texture, contrast and pattern in expressing their understanding of the joy of life in sculpting a ceramic skull. 

Year 10 students will explore the world of Wearable art, also known as "art to wear" which refers to individually designed pieces of handmade clothing and jewellery created as fine or expressive art. You will immerse yourself into the world of Wearable art, inspired by the themes, materials, and the design of garments as expressive forms of art. 

MEDIA ARTS

Year 8 students identify and analyse how representations of social values and points of view are portrayed in a local indigenous legend, and then through media artworks they make, distribute and view. They evaluate how they and other makers and users of media artworks from different cultures, times and places use genre and media conventions and technical and symbolic elements to make meaning within their animations. They identify and analyse the social and ethical responsibility of the makers and users of media artworks through the design of their setting and characters.  

Year 9 students are to assume the role of a radio host and create a segment discussing a topic relating to their target audience.

Lorinda Stiles

HoD Creative Industries
lstil21@eqeduu.au

Welcome back to Term 2 to all our RVSSC community members. We hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing break and time was spent with loved ones. 

Last Term, the students within their HPE classes endured a whole range of new curriculum experiences in both theoretical and practical methods. Students set goals and procedures to achieve these goals at the start of the Term. This Term sees our students reviewing these goals and identifying if they have achieved them, and areas where they could improve. 

Year 7 HPE Students will begin to look at Food & Nutrition during theory and Minor Games in Prac. Throughout the Food & Nutrition unit, students will investigate the importance of good nutrition options in a sustainable school tuckshop. They will begin by exploring what it means to eat healthy. During prac, they will examine the cultural and historical significance of physical activities and examine how connecting to the environment can enhance health and wellbeing.  They will develop an understanding and appreciation of Australian Indigenous culture through participating in traditional Indigenous games.

Year 8 HPE Students will begin to look at Fitness Techniques during theory and Fitness Testing during Prac. Throughout the Fitness Techniques unit, students will investigate fitness strategies that develop health-related fitness components, in order to create and monitor personal fitness plans. They will design and monitor a personal fitness plan. During prac, they will perform physical activities that improve health related components of fitness and analysing how the components are developed through these activities.

Year 9 HPE Students will continue in their 7 week units undergoing Diversity & Inclusion for Theory and Volleyball for Prac. Following Week 4, Year 9 Students will enter a new Theory/Prac rotation seeing them explore decision making processes in Sports Ethics and engaging in the sport of Oz-Tag.

Year 10 Sport and Rec Students will be engaged in learning experiences to develop their understanding and skills in coaching principles. They will be required to demonstrate and refine these coaching skills in a range of physical activity contexts through the planning of a coaching session of a skill to Year 7 HPE students.

Year 10 Health Students will focus on researching statistics of smoking in youths in our local area and within the states and territories of Australia. The year 10 Health classes will be forming groups for their assessment to design a 'display' in which they will create a poster, some kind of info-graphic or brochure and will also plan a small activity to promote awareness of the risks associated with smoking and promote healthier choice.

We look forward to another exciting and busy Term and wish all of our students every success in reaching their goals.

HOD - Pathways & Partnerships 

jdunn232@eq.edu.au 

Welcome back sports fans,

Term one was a crazy time for sport with a number of our competitions being cancelled due to weather events and COVID. Hopefully this term we are able to get back into the swing of things and continue representing our college in sporting events.

Cross Country

On the last day of Term 1 we held our annual cross-country event. It was really great to see the number of students who participated in this event and our total points were the highest they’ve been. Congratulations to Blaine house for winning the tournament.

4th Place: Flinders 359 Points ​

3rd Place: Perry 419 Points​

2nd Place: Goolman 441 Points ​

1st Place: Blaine 507 Points

A further congratulations to the following students who become our age champions by placing in the top three of their races:

12 Years Girls​

1st Place: Jordyn Reid ​

2nd Place: Timara Bowman​

3rd Place: Tayla Landry​

12 Years Boys ​

1st Place: Max Backwell​

2nd Place: Cooper Kemp​

3rd Place: Blake Smith

13 Years Girls​

1st Place: Hiyab Admasu​

2nd Place: Lucie Goulding​

3rd Place: Calista Stoddart​

13 Years Boys ​

1st Place: Caileb Thorpe​

2nd Place: Chris Jaicemon​

3rd Place: Blake O'Hare

14 Years Girls​

1st Place: Amelie Graham​

2nd Place: Miley Lake​

3rd Place: Olivia Tucker​

14 Years Boys ​

1st Place: Jackson Keightley-Jones​

2nd Place: Connor Shearer-Sparks​

3rd Place: Arjun Reji

15 Years Girls​

1st Place: Lily Goulding​

2nd Place: Hailey Rumble​

3rd Place: Mikayla Stiles​

15 Years Boys ​

1st Place: Isaac Green​

2nd Place: Cooper Bradley​

3rd Place: Luke Wardle

16 Years Girls​

1st Place: Charlotte Coates​

2nd Place: Montanah Collins​

3rd Place: Sky Harkins​

16 Years Boys ​

1st Place: Harrison Coates​

2nd Place: Kaylan Harris​

3rd Place: Khush Virk

District Sport

Congratulations to the following students who were successful in making the Central District Comets team for their sports:

• Damian Hill – 12-14 Years Boys Baseball
• Olivia Tucker – 13-15 Years Girls Football
• Cooper Upton – 13 – 15 Years Boys AFL
• Jack Sawyers – 10 -12 Years Boys Rugby League
• Timara Bowman – 10 – 12 Years Girls Touch Football

If a student made the Central Comets team and is not on the list above, please send Mr Clifford an email on: jclif117@eq.edu.au.

There are a number of district trials taking place throughout Term 2 including:

• 10-12 Boys & Girls Football – 26th April
• 13 – 15 Boys & Girls Basketball – 27th April
• 10-19 Cross Country – 28^th April
• 11-12 Rugby Union – 4^th May
• 14-15 Rugby Union – 5^th May
• 10-12 Tennis – 6^th May
• 10-12 Softball – 19^th May
• 11 -12 Girls Rugby League – 30^th May

If you haven’t signed up for any of these sports yet and would like to, please go to the following link: https://ripleyvalleyssc.schoolzineplus.com/form/86

Extra-curricular Sport

As we grow as a school, our sports program will continue to develop as well. This year we are entering two new competitions in Term: 2

• Vicki Wilson Cup is a netball tournament taking place on Wednesday the 1^st of June. Students are currently trialling for a position on this team with Mr Coles and Ms Stiles. Training takes place Tuesday mornings from 7am – 8am.
• Street-smart Tournament is an AFL tournament being held on Tuesday 7^th of June. Students are currently training for this event with Ms Nugent and Miss McKendry on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 3pm - 4.30pm. We are still seeking players for this event so please come along to training. If we do not get enough players by Week 2 the team will be cancelled.

It is really important that students are attending all training sessions sent out to them by their coaches. Before school training takes place generally between 7am and 8am and afternoon training sessions take place from 3pm – 4:30pm. If a student is unable to make a training session they are expected to email their coach or Mr Clifford 12 hours prior to the training session.

Ripley Athlete Development Program (RAD)

RAD is continuing this term on the oval. Students will be beginning to use the newly created gym from Week 2 and will have a focus on athletics training. Personalised training will continue if students aren’t interested in athletics.

This week, RVSSC commemorated ANZAC Day with an all school ANZAC Commemoration assembly.  Our service was attended by students, staff and parents; also in attendance was Australian Army Chaplain Padre Stephen Thomas, Flying Officer Ray Brown, Piper Adam Regnart and representatives from Federal, State and Local government and Defence Families.

RVSSC Students (Defence and Civilian), Army/Air Force/Navy Cadets, and School Captains also participated in our service, laying wreaths, delivering the Ode, raising the flag, singing the National Anthems of New Zealand and Australia, and playing the Last Post. The pride and dignity that all of our students displayed during the service was very obvious and it is clear that the Legacy of our ANZACs is in safe hands with the next generation.

Notable mention must be given to the speech delivered by Flying Officer Ray Brown, who spoke of the resilience and mateship of the Anzac's and how their legacy of that spirit should inspire all of us to become more resilient to the troubles we will encounter in life, and to also value and support those who are important to each of us. 

Tracey Cooper

Defence School Mentor

Ripley Valley State Secondary College

Welcome back to another term. I trust you had an enjoyable Easter break. As a Chaplain I am here to support your child throughout the ups and downs of life. One of the ways I provide support is with one-on-one pastoral care conversations. If you would like me to provide support for your child or if you have any questions or concerns yourself, please email me at katki121@eq.edu.au. 

Over the next term I will be in planning for a range of different programs and initiatives. These will include Love Bites (along with the YSC) mentoring program, Rock & Water, Transition Videos. More information will be given out as the term progresses so keep an eye out for them.

Easter Glow Sticks

At the end of last term the P&C held an Easter movie night here on the school grounds. I want to thank those who allowed their child to come and help out on the night.

Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club, one of the extra-curricular programs of the school is starting up next Tuesday. Breakfast Club will operate on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8:15-8:45 am. This is an excellent way for the students to engage with one another over food or milo and doesn't cost them anything. If you want to volunteer for this, please feel free to email me.

Mentoring Program

A program that the Chaplaincy Service is looking to start up this year is the mentoring program. The mentoring program will include community people who will spend 1 hour a week, 1 on 1 with a student within our community in an open space on the college grounds. The mentor is a life mentor and will undergo child safety training by the College as well as SU. The mentor must be over 21 years of age and have a blue card to participate. 

This is a great way for the wider Ripley Community to be involved with the college and to help support students. If you want to be a mentor or if your child is someone who you think would benefit from this program, please contact me.

Chaplaincy Committee

The Local Chaplaincy Committee is the supporting and guiding body behind the Chaplaincy Service helping shape it to meet the wellbeing of the school community here at RVSSC. If you would like to attend and be a part of the committee, we have our next meeting on Thursday the 19th of May at 4 pm at the Ripley Valley State School.

I am looking forward to an exciting term ahead.

Take care

REMINDER - THE CANTEEN IS CASHLESS TERM 2!!!

Online Ordering System for the Canteen 

Just a reminder that the canteen is now cashless.  Ordering can be done online.  You can order from the menu on the MSA ordering system or top up your students card so they purchase at the canteen directly, using their barcode in their diary.  Please see link below to access the MSA ordering system.

Plastic food containers donations please

The canteen is looking for donations of plastic food containers and microwave safe bowls with lids.  Tupperware, Deco, Sistema - all shapes and sizes are welcome along with big storage containers.  These can be put in the box in Student Reception.  We appreciate your support.

Uniform Shop - Normal Trading Hours

Monday  8.00am to 10.30am

Thursday 2.30pm to 5.00pm