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Former RBSC student, Dex (right) was presented with Queen’s Scout award at Government House last Saturday.

The Year 7 social last week was a great success with 120 parents attending and lots of wonderful feedback!

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a point in time assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The tests assess the foundational skills in reading, writing, spelling and numeracy that are essential for every child to progress through school and life.

This year NAPLAN takes place between 14 and 16 May for paper tests and between 14 and 24 May for schools participating in NAPLAN Online.

NAPLAN data is used to help monitor student progress over time against a national measure and to identify areas of strength and improvement. It is used in combination with other school assessments to guide and support student learning.

Watch students ask an expert the tough questions about NAPLAN. 

On May 1, students from the RSBC Mock Trial team went to Kincoppal to defend the fictional Jackie Tilley in an assault case.

The recent year 7 community hero speeches culminated in the Michael Koutsoukis Memorial Public Speaking Competition, held last fortnight.

Friday May 17 was a challenging day for our Junior Aussie Rules Boys who went up against Kingsgrove High School in the Sydney East Knockout.

Last Sunday May 19, Mr Papadakis took the RBSC boys and girls volleyball teams to a NSW competition at Homebush.

The RBSC chess team participated in a tournament at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College North Sydney last week. Eleven students from all years competed, however year 11 played other schools in the secondary division.
 

It’s not too late to become a Game Changer with applications for the Education Week challenge due by 7 June.

The Game Changer Challenge brings 16 teams from public schools across NSW  – eight from primary and eight from secondary – to Sydney during Education Week in August for a three-day, intensive design-thinking workshop.

The Game Changer workshops, which start on Tuesday 6 August, includes teacher training in the use of design thinking as a teaching methodology and its application for school planning.

It also includes a team competition where schools will work under the guidance of experts from industry and academia to develop a solution to this year’s critical question: How might we humanise technology?

Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott has encouraged students and teachers to get behind the event as it highlights the critical thinking students will need to develop to succeed in the future.

“The Game Changer Challenge is an exciting initiative that helps educate and inform our students and teachers on how to integrate the problem-solving methodology of design thinking into the classroom,” Mr Scott says.

“It embraces the 21^st century skills our students will need to thrive in a globalised world such as collaboration, creative thinking and communication.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our students at all levels to be involved in discussing and addressing a real-world issue that will affect their future lives. I encourage every school to get involved.”

The challenge is designed to make strong learning and teaching connections to the NSW syllabus specifically in the area of developing general capabilities such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication and problem-solving.

The challenge also provides teachers with an opportunity to gain exposure to the design thinking process and includes teacher resources to introduce this creative problem-solving methodology into the classroom.

Finalists will be selected based on a 60-second video that showcases your team’s vision around the question of humanising technology.

For more information email edweek@det.nsw.edu.au or visit the Game Changer Challenge page.

Congratulations to the RBSC MEP Jazz Ensemble who performed at the Sydney Eisteddfod and received an amazing 96% and Second Place.