Rathdowney State School

28/08/2026

🚤💨 TECH CHALLENGE – WIND-POWERED BOATS! 💨🚤

Over the past few weeks, our Prep–2 students have been busy designing, creating and building a wind-powered boat that could safely carry a LEGO man across a body of water. Today was finally TEST DAY! 🎉

We took our boats down to the pool to see just how effective our designs were. And what can we say… we have some incredible little engineers in our Prep–2 class! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔧

Students used a variety of materials, tested their ideas and showed fantastic creativity, problem-solving and perseverance throughout the challenge. 🚤🌊

And most importantly… our LEGO men were nice and dry (for the most part)! 😁😂

Well done, students! You should all be very proud of your amazing engineering skills! 👏⭐

27/08/2026

24/08/2026

📚✨ BOOK WEEK 2026 – What a wonderful day! ✨📚

Another successful Book Week is done and dusted! 🎉 What a fantastic day we had, with so many wonderful costumes on display. It was absolutely wonderful to see so many of our students getting involved and celebrating their favourite books and characters. 📖💫

The creativity on display was incredible to see (well done, parents) 👏 You certainly went above and beyond with some of the amazing costumes!

🏆 Congratulations to all of our Best Dressed and Most Creative Costume winners! 🏆 It was extremely difficult to choose with so many fantastic costumes on display. You should all be very proud of your amazing efforts! 🌟

A huge thank you to all of the parents who came along to our Book Week Parade to witness, encourage and support our students. It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces cheering them on. ❤️

Thank you to everyone who helped make Book Week 2026 such a memorable and fun-filled day! 🌟📚

We can’t wait to see what next year brings! 🎉

23/08/2026

Book week starts tomorrow at school. We look forward to seeing everyone dressed up as their favourite characters in the morning.

16/08/2026

🌟 Congratulations to our Award Recipients! 🌟

A huge congratulations to all of our wonderful students who have received awards over the past few weeks! 👏🎉

We have been celebrating students who have demonstrated outstanding effort and achievement across a range of areas, including:

🏆 Attendance Awards
🌟 Citizenship Awards
📚 Student of the Week
🤟 Auslan Awards
⚽ PE Awards
🎨 The Arts Awards

It has been fantastic to see so many of our students being recognised for their hard work, positive attitudes, participation and commitment to learning.

We are incredibly proud of each and every one of you. Keep up the wonderful effort! ⭐️👏