Harmony Wings
The Cultural Awareness Committee is excited that our spectacular Harmony Week Wings, are now on display on the external wall of Block 2 – ready for Expo Night!
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PP-Year 4 Interhouse Athletics Carnival
On Friday 10 September the PP to Year 4 students participated in their Interhouse Athletics Carnival.
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RCC Goals
What a week of achievements for RCC! – Goals scored by our students in Athletics and Music!
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K-6 Book Week Competition
What is happening in our Classrooms? What worlds have our students visited?
All will be revealed next week as Book Week launches on Monday 23 August at RCC.
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Cooking up a Storm!
Our Year 9 and 10 students recently completed a magnificent meal task, which three guest judges got to savor and eat!
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Winners are Grinners!
On Thursday 5 August the Year 7 Advanced Mixed Netball athletes scooped the pool and won the Grand Final game in their first ever interschool competition.
Yr 6 Science Fair
On Thursday 5 August our Year 6 students, showed off what they have been learning about Science this term.
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Festival of Maths
This fantastic festival which promoted problem solving, fluency and some other great Mathematical activities, culminated in our Maths Speed Challenge on Thursday 29 July.
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Teddy Bears’ Picnic
It was a beary special day on Friday 30 July at RCC, with the College enjoying a Teddy Bears Picnic whilst celebrating International Friendship Day!
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VacSwim 2021
Enrol your child/ren in VacSwim swimming lessons during the October and summer school holidays.
It’s a great school holiday activity, and helps build your child’s confidence and skills in the water. Visit the website and enrol...
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P&C DAY WA
On Friday 23 July RCC celebrated our fantastic and hardworking P & C, by acknowledging the wonderful work our very committed band of volunteers do at the College every day and to say thank you, thank you thank you.
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Book Week Dress Up Parade PP - Year 6
Get your thinking hats on and get your costumes ready for this year’s Parade, which will be held on Wednesday 25th August (Week 6) at 8.45am, during Book Week which kicks off on Monday 23 August.
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RCC Music Video Release
Earlier this year our Year 9 and 10 Digital Media students took part in filming and producing a music video, for award winning Fremantle artist, Lincoln MacKinnon, at a local Roleystone property.
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One Big Voice Tickets ON SALE NOW!
for One Big Voice Concert on Friday 20th August!
Permission notes will be issued soon but before buying the tickets:
1. Please ensure you check the map in the link to find out which seats are the best to view Roleystone Co...
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Giant Pencils Mark Values
Recently RCC took delivery of a number of giant totems, in the shape of very colourful pencils. These are our statement ‘Values Pencils’, which the College will use to promote our values of Respect, Challenge and Contribute, in a very fun, bri...
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New Shelters for Students.
Recently at the College a number of our Year 9 students put their tradie hard hats on and got busy building and helped erect a number of new shelters.
The four new picnic tables and seats, complete with a roof, complement a number of tables a...
Primary Drama- Update
This semester our students have really enjoyed Drama classes and it has been fantastic to watch them engage in lessons, exercise their imaginations and talk with positivity and enthusiasm.
The Years 5 and 6 Drama classes have been studying...
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Aussie of the Month Award
Congratulations to our first worthy recipients, recognised recently.
Layla Jones – Year 4
Sam Crocker – Year 1
This prestigious award has been on offer to school children for over 20 years and...
Read more ...DDSA Winter Carnival
On Friday, 18 June, 82 Year 5 and 6 RCC students took part in this year’s DDSA Winter Carnival, competing in Soccer (2 teams), Hockey (1 team), Netball (2 teams) and AFL (2 teams). Our students had been training really hard over the past term an...
Read more ...Interhouse Cross Country
On Friday 25 June, the sun gods came out and blessed us with a beautiful day for our annual Cross Country Carnival, for students from Year 1 to Year 10.
The hard training put in during Term 2 was evident with exceptional improvement and co...
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RCC Leaders for Change
The College is focussing on sustainability and making the Change we all would like to see – so remember to do your bit for the College and the environment and clean up after yourselves after Lunch 1 and 2. Please put rubbish into the correct bin...
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Festival of Maths
For most of us Maths is a painful learning experience, but here at Roleystone Community College our Teachers decided to break down some mathematical barriers and celebrate everything about Mathematics.
The theme of our Festival is “Maths ta...
Tectonic Plates in Year 9 Science
This term in Year Nine Science, students have been learning about tectonic plate movement. The students in class 9.2 completed a project that involved researching buildings designed to withstand an earthquake, and testing models constructed in cla...
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Extraordinary Art
As always our Art Specialist Mrs Littlewood has been working her students very hard, with fantastic projects and wonderful art creations emanating out of our art room. Here is just a taste of what our students have been busily creating this semest...
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RCC Hits a High Note
Congratulations to Year 4 student Hannah Debenham for her successful solo audition for the ‘One Big Voice’ music festival.
Hannah will be given a solo part to sing at WA's biggest choral festival held at RAC Arena in August performing ...
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Containers for Change
Do your bit for the College and the environment and remember to clean up after yourselves after Lunch 1 and 2 and pop all rubbish in the bins provided or if you have any bottles or can containers, don’t forget to pop them in our Containers for C...
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Armadale Young Writers' Awards
Entries are now open for this annual writing competition!
All students in Years 3-10 are invited to enter and there are some great prizes to be won. Please click on the link below for further information.
Araluen Bulb Planting
A tradition was started many many years ago when teachers at the now decommissioned and recently demolished Roleystone Primary School, began taking students to the Araluen Botanical Park, to help gardeners plant tulip bulbs, for their Spring Tulip...
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National Reconciliation Week Thursday 27 May to 3 June.
Theme for 2021 - More than a word. Reconciliation takes action - urges the reconciliation movement towards braver and more impactful action.
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Au...
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yLead Excursion
In Week 7 of Term 2, Mr Brookes and Mrs Brophy took a group of Year 9 students, selected by their teachers, to a leadership conference at the Perth Convention Centre. Mr Brookes and Mrs Brophy were both extremely proud of our students and the way ...
Read more ...STEM Classroom Cash Competition
RCC is participating in The West Australian newspaper competition to win a share of $25,000 to boost the STEM budget here at the College and to support further opportunities for our primary and secondary students in STEM education.
We need...
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Director-General Visits RCC
Roleystone Community College hosted a visit from Ms Lisa Rodgers, Director General, Department of Education, and Mr Jim Bell, the Deputy Director on Tuesday 24 May.
COVID-19 restrictions last year and the lock-down in Term 1 this year, delaye...
Genetics in Year 10
The Year Tens have been learning about Genetics in Science this term. During week four, they undertook a DNA extraction, in which they precipitated Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) from strawberries. This activity allowed them to view the important mol...
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Netball Winners Are Grinners!
On Thursday 13 May, the Year 8 Advanced Netball students showed off their brilliant netball skills and claimed First place in their first carnival of the year.
The RCC team played with excellent determination, great physical resilience and...
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Positive Ageing High Tea
On Tuesday 4 May, the Year 10 Duke of Edinburgh Award students and our Head Boy Dylan Barrett and Head Girl Charlie-Jane Church, attended the Positive Ageing High Tea. This event is run by the Intensive Care Foundation and is part of the annual Ci...
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National Simultaneous Story-time
Wednesday 19 May was National Simultaneous Story time! This event is run throughout Australia and is an opportunity for all students to read the same story, on the same day. This year, the chosen book was ‘Give Me Some Space!’ by Philip Buntin...
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Fergus the Story Dog
Fergus the Story Dog is back with his handler Pat! You may have seen him around the school on Tuesday mornings, reading with some lucky Year 2 students. Fergus will be at our school each week. If you see him around, feel free to say hello, but rem...
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Life Education Van - Parent Information Session
The Life Education Van is heading to our College later this term and during its stay here it will be open for all K-6 parents from 2.30pm to ...
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Stellar Celebration for RCC Teacher
We don’t often blow our own trumpet here at the College but one stand-out achievement caught our eye recently.
On Sunday 16 May Year 2 teacher Emily Stott celebrated an incredible milestone – she played her 200th game of Aussie Rules foot...
Indigenous Bush Tucker Garden
Roleystone Community College now has a Noongar Six Seasons Garden, established outside of Block 5. Our students have researched the local Noongar seasons and the associated flora and fauna, and have eagerly tendered the plants and watched them gro...
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RCC PBS News
Our Positive Behaviour in Schools system is proving to be very popular at RCC, with many of our students displaying and implementing positive behaviours and reaping the benefit with literally thousands of “Roley stickers” being awarded and han...
Read more ...Team RCC
RCC has some very dedicated teachers who are working hard to help our College reduce our carbon footprint wherever possible, as well as lift our cultural awareness through activities and teaching programmes.
Sustainability Team
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JohniePee in Da RCC House!
This term, the Year 9 and 10 Music Elective students participated in a hip hop song writing workshop with Australian performer and song writer, JohniePee (JP).
Students were introduced to the elements of song writing and taught ho...
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Exciting Music News
This year the wonderful ‘One Big Voice’ Choral Festival is expected to go ahead on Friday 20 August at the RAC Arena with an opportunity for our students in Years 4 - 6!
The festival aims 'to have as many yo...
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ANZAC Service 2021
RCC was extremely fortunate this year to be able to hold its ANZAC service on Friday 23 April, in the first week of Term 2, as all services in WA were subsequently cancelled due to the COVID three-day lockdown.
Here at the college, we were bl...
New Space for Secondary Students
Last year RCC set aside an area for our Secondary students where they can enjoy recess and lunch, away from other students.
Recently we received tables and chairs, along with picnic shelters so students can sit and eat in comfort.
Thanks...
Bush Ranger Cadets News
In Term 1 our students worked hard on dieback injecting which is to help with our school environment. Our Cadets have done a fantastic job with this activity and will continue to positively support our community throughout the year. Well done to a...
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2021 DDSA Summer Carnival
In the last week of Term 1, our Year 5 and 6 students competed in their first DDSA carnival for the new year. The day was a scorcher but it didn’t stop our students from showing great perseverance and determination on the day. Our students, acco...
Read more ...RCC Shines at International Film Festival
Our Digital Media Film Specialist Program has once again attracted international attention with a short film created by our Year 10 students, as a part of the program last year, to be selected for the San Bernadino Valley College International Fil...
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Easter 2021
This year with Covid restrictions being relaxed, our EGGcellent Easter Hat Parade made a very welcome return. Our Years 1- 6 students proudly displayed their beautiful Easter hats on Tuesday 30 March while our gorgeous little people in Kind...
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Harmony Week at RCC
There was a wonderful buzz around the College for Harmony Week this year, with every Primary class celebrating in their own way and learning through a range of activities about cultural awareness and differences.
One of the activities was ...
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Year 7 Camp 2021
In Week 7, a very excited group of happy campers took off for 3 days of fun and adventure at the Ern Halliday Recreation Camp in Hillary’s.
Led by teacher Mr Coetzer, the group had a great time, having a go at a number of activites, whic...
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Story Dog 2021
He's back!!
RCC is very excited to welcome Fergus, our Story Dog back to the College for 2021! Fergus, and his handler Pat, will be visiting on Tuesdays to work with some very lucky Year 2 students. Fergus loves reading and he is keen to s...
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PBS Update - Student Champions
Congratulations to the following students who are our first students to complete a whole sticker sheet. Well done!
Ronnie Poole (Y4)
Abi Miles (Y4)
Astrid Kerenyi (Y4)
Swimming Carnival 2021
A fantastic day was had by all who attended our Swimming Carnival this year, postponed due to inclement weather, but when it finally got underway, was a great success.
The weather wasn’t perfect, the second time around, but that didn’t...
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Harmony Week 2021 - Everyone Belongs!
Watch This Space for more news and pictures of Harmony Week celebrations at RCC, during the week of 15 – 19 March.
This year a range of activities have been planned across the whole school curriculum, to help childre...
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Yr 7 Camp 2021
Their bags were packed, they were ready to go - our Year 7 campers were all set for this year’s adventure to the Ern Halliday Recreation Camp in Hillary’s, and this morning everyone was all smiles as they took off.
For the next three d...
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Selamat pagi!
What an exciting year 2021 will be for our Year 1 and 2 students as they start to learn Indonesian Language and Culture this year.
They will learn greetings, numbers and the history of Chinese New Year in Indonesian.
This year, it...
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WA Electoral Commission Incursion
At a very opportune time during Term 1, Year 5 students from Rooms 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 participated in an incursion from the WA Electoral Commission. They learnt about the three levels of government in Australia and how the preferential voting system...
Read more ...Battery Recycling at RCC
Our involvement in the City of Armadale’s Battery Recycling, Schools Collection Program, over the past couple of years has been recognised as outstanding, as the College community has managed to divert more than 75kg of batteries from landfill i...
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Hop, Slither and Jump into Physical Literacy
You may have noticed some very colourful and fantastic new line markings dotted around the school. The installation and painting of “Snakes and Ladders”, “Hopscotch”, targets and alphabet and number snakes, along with a sensory walk for yo...
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RCC Leaders for 2021
Congratulations to our Year 6 Student Councillors, presented with their badges and jackets by Principal Mr Brookes at the first Assembly for the year.
Caitlyn Sheridan, Marshall Prince, Chanelle Eckford, Jessica Kilburn, Melody Brennan and De...
PBS News
‘Roley’ Mascot
Congratulations to Year 7 student Emma Rendell and Year 6 student Eliza Restieaux for winning the competition to come up with a mascot design for our Protective Behaviours in Schools last year.
Kaya Noonakoort. Wadjuk Noongar Boodja.
Hello everyone. Welcome to Noongar Country.
At Roleystone Community College we are committed to culturally respectful and continuous cultural learning, with our students developing understandings of connectedness to Countr...
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Roleystone Community College’s - The Announcement
Congratulations to the Roleystone Academy of Digital Media for having their film ‘The Announcement’ selected for the 2021 FlickerUp competition at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival in January!
Flickerfest is an...
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Positive Behaviours in Schools (PBS) Launch
On Friday 10 February, Roleystone Community College launched its WAPBS program. It has been three years in the making, and we are very excited to get the students involved.
Throughout the day the school was introduced to our new p...
Read more ...Immunisation News Update
The School Based Immunisation Program for Term 1 2021 has been ‘paused’ for the purposes of utilising the teams in delivering the COVID-19 vaccine.
Hopefully the school based program will return to norm...
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Head Boy and Girl 2021
Congratulations to our Year 10 students Dylan Barrett and Charli-Jane Church as they begin their new duties at RCC as Head Boy and Girl.
We all wish them every success as they continue their journey here at the College, and we know they wi...
Read more ...Music News
Late last year Music Specialist Teacher, Jane Slater, and local musician Chris Horgan, were part of the Torchlight Youth Mentoring project, a community initiative sponsored and funded by the City of Armadale and the Roleystone Community College P ...
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Week 1 Finally- 2021 style!
It was possibly one of the strangest beginnings to a school year in February in WA this year, a week later than usual, with wintery weather conditions and students and teachers wearing mandatory Covid-19 masks.
But here at RCC, our student...
Read more ...2020 Awards and Presentations
2020 Secondary Awards Night
On Wednesday 9 December RCC celebrated our Senior student’s achievements and successes in 2020, with the now traditional Award night and Valedictory ceremony.
It was lovely to see parents, f...
Christmas with Fergus
Our gorgeous story dog, Fergus and his handler Pat came for their last visit for 2020, with some exciting news about 2021!
It’s been a pleasure to welcome our Story Dog Team to RCC and we can’t wait to maybe see more of Fergus and Pat aro...
Principal’s Honours
In 2017, Principal Mark Brookes introduced the Principal’s Honour Club, with the aim to increase the number of students achieving at a very high standard at RCC. The students are required to achieve an A- average or better in English an...
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Gauntlet 2020
One of the most wonderful ideas that Principal Mark Brookes initiated when he arrived at RCC, five years ago, is the annual running of ‘The Gauntlet’, where our whole school community comes out to farewell our Year 10 cohort.
Our students...
Student Leadership Team Excursion to Parliament House
On Thursday 3 Dec Principal Mark Brookes and Associate Principal Karen West travelled with our Student Leadership Team to Parliament House in West Perth. The invitation for the excursion was made by Darling Range MLA Alyssa Hayden, after a recent ...
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Student Leadership Breakfast
Recently Principal Mark Brookes and Associate Principal Karen West gathered up RCC’s student leaders and House Captains and took them for a celebratory breakfast at Avocados Restaurant in Kelmscott.
The special morning was an opportunity...
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DDSA Athletics Carnival 2020
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the DDSA Athletics Carnivals this year. The final event was held on Friday 20 November at RCC and all the students from the represented schools did a fantastic job, especially in the heat! Ou...
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Music in the Air
Recently RCC Music Specialist Teacher, Jane Slater, and local musician Chris Horgan, have been hosting the Torchlight Youth Mentoring project.
This is a community initiative sponsored and funded by the City of Armadale and the Roleystone Comm...
Parliament House Visit
Recently Associate Principal Steve Wolfenden had the pleasure to take six of our Year 10 students to Parliament House, for a special visit to meet our local MLC for the East Metropolitan Region, Mr Matthew Swinburne.
The students chosen to re...
Salvation Army Christmas Appeal
Once again RCC is supporting the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal, in partnership with the Bendigo Bank, which is a great supporter of the College. Every year RCC is blown away with how generous our community is and so far this year is...
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NAIDOC Week 2020
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This year’s theme of NAIDOC Week 'Always Was, Always Will Be', recognises that ...
DDSA Athletics Carnival 2020
On Friday 6 November RCC’s Year 3 - 6 DDSA athletes participated in jumps, throws and 400 metre races. After a busy two weeks of swimming the students persevered and produced some excellent results.
Congratulations to all our students who p...
Spelling Bee Grand Final
Friday the 13th turned out to be very lucky for one of our students this month, winning the great 2020 spell-off and crowned RCC’s Spelling Bee Champion.
12 competitors from Years 1-6 competed for the ultimate title, and after many ro...
Remembrance Day 2020
At 11am on 11 Nov 1918 the guns on the western front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In N...
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STEM Lego Super Heroes Challenge
On Tuesday 26 October, at the Ray Owen Centre in Lesmurdie, Roleystone Community College’s Warrior Woman Team pitted their STEM Robotics skills against 7 other school teams in the STEM Super Heroes Vs Super Villains’ Challenge of the Century.<...
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Winners are Grinners
On Monday 9 November, the winners of our ‘Curious Creature’ Book Week writing competition were treated to a pizza lunch! They had great fun eating pizza, reading each other’s stories and playing some fun games. Congratulations again to our w...
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NAIDOC Week 2020
Happy World Teachers' Day
RCC would like to acknowledge our fantastic and hardworking teachers and thank them profusely for the outstanding work they do every day here at the College.
Our teaching staff are a brilliant bunch of people who are always working hard to...
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Interhouse Athletics Carnival
Term 3 finished on a high for our students in Yrs 5 -10, with the annual Athletics carnival on Thursday 24 September.
The weather was perfect and it was wonderful to see all the Houses competing with such great sporting spirit, enthusiasm and...
Music News
Instrumental Tuition for years 3-7
If you are interested in supporting your child in learning a musical instrument please contact Mrs Slater for further information.
Read more ...RCC News
Wow - Term 4 is off and running at RCC, with lots of activities in the first two weeks and more interesting and fun things still to come.
Book Week kicked the term off. The theme this year is ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’, and our stude...
Fergus The RCC Story Dog
A new staff member has joined Roleystone Community College. Fergus, the fluffy and beautiful Story Dog, had his first official day on Tuesday 20 October. Fergus and his handler Pat visited a number of classrooms and some very lucky Year 2 students...
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Constable Care Incursion
Our Yr 1 and 2 students and Ms Parsons Year 3’s welcomed Constable Care and his helpers to RCC in the first week back at school.
The aim of the incursion was as an introduction to the topic of Protective Behaviours, which is helping teach o...
Book Week at RCC
Term 4 kicked off with a Book Week incursion held on the first day of term, Wednesday 14 October.
The theme for Book Week in 2020 is ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’, and ‘Perform Educational Musicals’ presented ‘The Greatest Discove...
EduDance 2020
A highlight of Term 3 at Roleystone Community College, was the return of the fantastic and much loved EduDance. Over nine weeks, our students in Pre-Primary to Year 6 diligently learnt, practiced and rehearsed their groovy dance moves, as pa...
Read more ...Book Week 2020
This year, because of Covid-19, Book Week is being presented a little differently at RCC.
Unfortunately, we cannot go ahead with our annual Book Week parade, and our Book Fair has also been cancelled, but there are still some very exciting...
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Year 7 Camp
Due to COVID-19, the Year 7 Transition Camp had to be postponed until Term 3. In Week 9, our happy campers finally set off to the Manjedal Activities Centre in Karrakup – away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and further into the bush tha...
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RCC Rocks Music Video
Recently our Digital Media students, in Year 9 and 10, took part in filming and producing a music video, for award winning Fremantle artist, Lincoln MacKinnon.
Our students, along with Specialist Teacher, Daniel Holliday, and a large cast and...