Mar 5, 2024
At Ruskin we have a real belief in the power of Growth Mindset and its benefits; not only in academic outcomes but to a child’s social and emotional wellbeing and sense of self. You will hear it everywhere across the school about us not being able to do something…yet!
On Friday at Assembly, I had four volunteers begin to learn to juggle, which is a skill that they can’t do… yet. Mr Moore, Miss Kelly, Ryder, and Ashley came up in front of the other students and teachers and began to learn how to juggle, being explicitly taught how to do so. Now, juggling isn’t the easiest skill to learn but over the next couple of months, with a lot of practice, we are going to look to see our improvement from this practice and I know that all will have a growth mindset while doing so! One of the student’s families is learning together so that they all learn a new skill. How fantastic is that!
The support and cheering from the other students and teachers was tremendous and many commented on how well everyone did and that they are looking forward to seeing the results next term.
Feb 6, 2024
On Tuesday 30th we welcomed the newest members of our school, the 2024 Foundation students who have settled in like they have been here for months! They have participated in all Specialist classes, spent time with their buddies and have been introduced to the academic side of being a Foundation student at Ruskin Park. We are extremely impressed with how they have adapted to school life and would like to give a major shout out to all parents as they have worked beautifully with us through the transition.
Mar 10, 2023
A year after the basketball area was closed off for the preparation of our new building, there was great excitement at lunch time today with the fences finally down and students having their first lunch time on the new courts. As you can see from the photo there were so many students taking the opportunity to play on the courts or even socialise with their friends along the side. With the sun shining and faces beaming, it was wonderful to see and well worth the wait.
It won’t be long now until the finalisation of the whole building. We are almost there!
Jul 29, 2022
Whilst many eyes today would have been on our Foundation students celebrating their first 100 days at school, our Junior Choir gave their first performance to the school at Assembly. Their renditions of Yellow Submarine and Oh Mr Sun brought huge smiles to the audience and the students certainly did themselves and Miss Lim proud.
Well done Junior Choir. We are looking forward to many more performances!
Jul 25, 2022
One of the fantastic elements of our students’ first year at school is the Foundation VIP of the week. Over the second half of the year each child has a week which is all about them. One of the big focuses is students developing their speaking and listening skills where they teach their peers about them. They have different tasks for the week ahead where they present and are asked questions by their peers.
The week moves as follows:
Monday: Timeline of their life so far through a story board
Tuesday: A show bag of up to 5 of their favourite things
Wednesday: Their autobiography
Thursday: Teach the class a new skill or show a special talent
Friday: Decorate the title page for your VIP letters and write about the experience of being the VIP.
At the end of the week classmates write a letter to the VIP. All of the students’ letters are bound into a book for the VIP to take home and keep forever. Watching them present and seeing the glowing smiles on their faces and the interactions between them and their class mates really does warm your heart!
Here are three of our four first VIP’s for 2022.
May 2, 2022
We have had a wonderful beginning to Term 2 so far. Our Foundation and Year 5/6 students have come together for Buddies and PMP has also begun for our Foundation students.
We have a large number of events happening this term which we can’t wait for including our first ever whole school athletics day this Friday, excursions to the Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary, Superspeak and Family Life.
As well, we have Subway and Sushi lunches, district cross country and ICAS.
On Wednesday we are holding our 2023 Foundation Information Night for prospective Foundation parents in the Foundation area at 7pm.
Also, we are almost ready for the slab for our new double story building to be laid. We can’t wait for it to be ready for 2023.
What a term!
