Students are supervised between 8:30am and 2:50pm each day, Monday - Friday.

Dear Families,

Book Week – Come celebrate reading with us!

We are excited to be counting down to Monday and the start of our Book Week activities.  Classes will have activities in their library sessions across next week.  There will also be special activities planned by our Library Tech, Nicole.  We can’t wait to see what our library will look like on Monday!

Our Book Week Parades will be held next Wednesday, 20^th August in our School Gym.  Book Week Parades always provide a fun focus on reading.  Students are invited to dress up in a costume to celebrate their favourite book or book character.    Students have already enjoyed sharing what they will come along to school as on Wednesday and we are looking forward to having a few Captain Americas, a Thing 1 and Thing 2, a Harry Potter and a Super Bear amongst many other characters in our parade.

Parade times are:

LiL- Year 2 Parade, please be seated for a start at 9.15am

Year 3-6 Parade, please be seated for a start at 10am

We ask that families leave school after the Parade by using the pathway next to our Out of School Hours Care building and Kitchen Garden.

Student Leader Update

Thanks to Brighton High for inviting our School Captains and Community Captains to visit to meet recipients of the 2025 Tasmanian Australian of the Year awards.  Our Student Leaders were excited to meet Ariarne Titmus (2025 Tas Young Australian of the Year), Sam Elsom (2025 Tas Australian of the Year) and Keren Franks (2025 Tas Local Hero).  Thanks to Bridgewater PCYC for supporting us to travel by bus. 

School Fire Education Program

We are excited to have Firefighter Todd from the Tasmanian Fire Service visiting our school. He is providing our students with age-appropriate lessons focused on key fire safety messages.  Students have been learning how to get help in an emergency, the importance of having a fire safety plan and how to stay safe if there is a fire.  Fire Education lessons will continue over the next two weeks.

School Association Meeting

We didn’t have enough Committee members able to attend this week’s meeting so we have postponed and will meet again on Monday 25^th August at 4pm.  The meeting will be held in the School Office block.  Come along and hear what is happening with school chaplaincy, our school learning priorities and what our Safeguarding Lead does as well as finding out about upcoming fundraising and events.    We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.

Sonya Plunkett-Smith

Principal                                                                

                                Kitchen Garden News – Grade 3/4 

You may have walked past our school garden recently expecting to see a  bare winter garden but in fact you have probably been surprised to see so much growing and maybe wondered what it all is.  In the garden we currently have a long list of veggies, herbs and flowers. You may not have seen or tried some of these : beetroot, cabbage, spinach, onions, carrots, broad beans, cauliflower, broccoli, snow peas, mizuna and tatsoi (Asian greens), globe artichokes, spring onions, kale, rhubarb, coriander, chives, garlic, white kunzea (a herbal bush tucker), ginger, thyme, rosemary, cat mint (lemon), pansies, lavender, calendula (flower) and feijoa (Brazilian fruit).  

Thanks to the wonderful gardening skills of Evyn Taylor, our Garden Specialist, we have kept producing enough veggies and herbs through these cold months to give Kristie in the kitchen lots of recipe options for her cooking groups to enjoy. This has also been an ideal time for Evyn to teach students the skill of propagating seeds.  

You may have also noticed that Wednesday and Thursday are very popular school days especially if it is your child’s turn for their kitchen/garden session. Every Wednesday and Thursday when Evyn and Kristie walk through the school to pick up their next group they are greeted with enthusiastic students bursting with excitement to be going to the kitchen garden. This is also indicative of Kristie and Evyn’s genuine care for the students and their enthusiasm for developing students’ love of learning around growing, preparing and eating healthy and delicious food. There is always something exciting and new to discover in the Kitchen Garden. At the moment students are having a competition to guess the weight of the enormous pumpkin that was grown in the garden of our Garden Specialist, Evyn. The winner gets the pumpkin, so be prepared !! 

In the kitchen, students have been cooking apple crumble, pumpkin soup with garlic flatbread, fried rice, pasta (from scratch) with a tomato salsa, bushtucker (the favourites being kale chips and damper) and this week, spring rolls. It is great seeing the students bravely trying new things and they often amaze themselves when they discover they actually like something they thought they wouldn’t. Thank you Evyn and Kristie for your gentle encouragement and your enthusiastic and engaging lessons with our students.  

Dorothy Raymond  

Assistant Principal 

This term Prep SG have been busy collecting data by answering questions and recording our findings. We have completed lots of whole class yes/no graphs, investigating familiar topics. Students have also enjoyed thinking of their own questions for their classmates to answer on yes/no graphs. Here are some photos of our learning: 

This term, Grade 2G have been diving into the world of arrays, multiplication, and repeated addition! We've been exploring how numbers can be grouped to make counting easier and more fun.

Using counters, blocks, and whiteboards, students have built arrays to show multiplication facts. We've focused on the 2 and 5 times tables, discovering patterns and practising quick recall through hands-on activities.

Ask your child to show you how 2 rows of 5 equals 10—they’ll be proud to explain it using multiplication, repeated addition or an array!

Keep up the great work, 2G!

 Buddies with Kinder Bailey and 4/5 Lack 

This Term, 4/5 Lack are joining with Kinder Bailey to start their buddies journey together. During our fist meeting we read a book together and then spent some time getting to know each other. Students in 4/5 Lack also brainstormed some ideas of activities we can do together in the future. We look forward to a wonderful Term of learning and growing together.  

The Grade 3 /4 Assembly on the 6th August provided so many wonderful examples of students learning and achieving and demonstrating our school values of Caring, Growth, Connection, Responsibility and Respect.  

The Assembly started with a great performance by the choir who sang two songs ‘Welcome to all people’ and ‘Home among the gum trees’. It was beautiful to watch the large group of students so engaged and obviously enjoying singing. Their performance was joyful and polished. A big thanks to our Music teacher Mr Hasty who led the choir on his guitar.  

The two sharing classes both had their learning focus on multiplication. Miss Hedington’s class managed to demonstrate how to solve multiplication problems using Human Arrays. For example, 3 groups of 4 = 12. Students had to move themselves into rows to show how this looked and to be able to count the number of students altogether in the array. Miss Mika used a music clip to the tune of “We will, we will, rock you” for the class to sing their times tables.  It was a good example of how our teachers are creating fun and engaging ways to teach, in this instance using movement and music.   

Congratulations to the 10 students who received a Values certificate in this Assembly. You should be very proud of the effort, determination, kindness and respect you are demonstrating. Congratulations to:

• Ella for Respect and Cassie for Growth – 3/4 I 

• Ivy for Courage and Lilly for Growth – 3/4 M 

• Bonnie for Connection and Aleeta for Courage – 3/4 B 

• Rhylan for Respect and Addison for Respect – 3/4 C 

• Navaya for Growth and Richard for Growth – 3/4 H 

Finally the lucky Golden Tickets were drawn out of the barrel and 3 lucky students received a voucher. These students can now choose a new book from the Literacy Resource Room. Congratulations to Hayden (3/4 B), Saxon (3/4 H) and Richard (3/4 H) for demonstrating our school values.  

A big thank you to all parents/carers and family members who braved the cold and joined us for our Assembly. The students are always so happy to have people in the audience they know, and it’s great to have an appreciative audience for students to share their learning with.  

Dorothy Raymond  

Assistant Principal  

3/4 Sector Head

As Winter bites please see attached link with some helpful information reguarding Influenza syptoms and treatments.

About flu | Tasmanian Department of Health

Please keep children home if unwell. If symptoms persist seek medical attention. 

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