7 June 2024

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents, Teachers, and Community,

Parent Teacher Meetings

I would like to take this time to encourage you all to come along to our parent teacher interviews which take place in week 9, from Monday 24 June – Friday 28 June. Bookings will be open online for parents from 6.00am on Monday 10 June and will close at 12.00pm on Saturday 22 June. This is the link: 

Parent teacher interviews are a really important part of our year. Our Snug Primary School mission is explicit in this – “To inspire and empower a COMMUNITY of learners”. Community is central, and these interviews allow our staff, and you, to come together to discuss your child(ren), and to work together to provide the best learning experience we can collectively to support their development.

There are a raft of benefits from parent teacher meetings. Regular parent-teacher interactions foster open lines of communication, ensuring you are well-informed about your child’s progress and any challenges they may face.

They allow for us to develop shared goals. By aligning educational goals and expectations, parents and teachers can work together more effectively to support the student’s learning journey. This might be providing clarity around our home reading program, and how you could support this, for example. Additionally, through conversations, teachers and parents can develop personalized action plans tailored to each student's needs, ensuring that support is effective and targeted. This is particularly important for our students with learning plans.

And while Snug Primary School reports provide grades against a nine (and five) point scales, they are no longer written with comments. Being able to talk to a Snug teacher about your child’s learning will enable you to build a broader and deeper understanding of their learning against the Australian Curriculum standards and capabilities.

Parent teacher interviews are also a chance for you to get a deeper understanding of our teachers, and the amount of expertise they have. We are incredibly lucky to have a high-performing group of teachers, and chatting with them allows you to see just how much time, thought and practical experience goes in to supporting your child’s learning every day.

And parent teacher is about celebrating success – identifying what your child(ren) is doing well.  Snug Primary School has fantastic learning culture, and our young people deserve to be proud of their achievements.

Snug Primary School is a community school, so please take up the opportunity to meet with your teachers so we can continue to strengthen the bonds between us, and you, to support our students to be the very best versions of themselves. We appreciate you taking time out of your b lives to meet with us!

If you are unable to make any of the allocated times, please contact your child’s teacher directly, and they will work with you to find a time that will work.

Kind regards

Kath’s Spot

What does it mean for you when you are told to accept others?  Can you think of moments when you have gone out of your way to include others, perhaps by inviting individuals into your friendship circle instead of them being excluded.

Our students are currently learning about the habit of the mind of ‘acceptance’, that they know that everyone is different, and we accept them for who they are.

In fact we are created all individually, with unique gifts and, despite our differences, we can work together, and accept each other.  For our students, this may be including someone in a game, or inviting them to sit with them at lunch, or perhaps even acknowledging and appreciating others’ gifts, that might be different to their own.

For me, I have noticed that in the past, it has been moments when I have created conversation, or included someone in my grouping, to which I found some of my most treasured friends.  Although we might have had different likes, or dislikes, or look completely different, we have been able to appreciate our uniqueness, and build a new foundation.

Why not reach out a hand to someone, and role model for your children what accepting others can look like in a day to day setting.  They more they see it happen, the more it’ll become like second nature for them to do as well.

Class in Focus – Prep MacLean/Proud

Earlier this term, the Prep’s embarked on their first excursion to Woodbridge School Marine Discovery Centre. We enjoyed exploring the foreshore where we found crabs and the very special live-bearing seastar.  We also explored the aquarium gallery and touch tank room, where we made a mini aquarium. The highlight was feeding the skates and the draughtboard sharks.

Story Dog ‘Monty’ starts at Snug!

Reports and Parent Teacher Interviews

Reports will be coming home with students on Friday 21 June. Parent Teacher Interviews will be happening the week of Monday 24 June until Friday 28 June. Bookings will be open from 6am on Monday 10 June and close midnight Saturday 22 June, please go here to book:  

Little Sprouts - Movers and Explorers

Qkr at Snug!

The Qkr online payment option is an option at Snug for Prep to Year 6 weekly lunch provisions.

Cash will continue to be accepted and paper order forms will still be sent home on Tuesday afternoons with students to be returned with cash (if this is your preference) by the end of the day on Thursday.

Kitchen-Garden News

Kitchen

Lunch Provision options for next Tuesday 11 June:

Garden

Volunteers always welcome, classes start at 2.00pm.

REGISTRATION TO WORK WITH VULNERABLE PEOPLE (RWVP)

A reminder that volunteers will need a Registration to Work with Vulnerable People (RWVP). Details are here if you need to apply:

Book Club

Book Club orders are submitted and paid for online via the Book Clubs Loop. Please go to this link. It’s a very straightforward process to sign up and then super quick and easy to place orders. The Loop for the current book issue will be closed off on Friday 14th June need to add so ensure you have your orders in by then. Books will arrive to school and be distributed to students a few weeks later.

EdSmart Communication System

Our School will be receiving a new messaging platform for communicating with you. This will ‘go live’ for Snug Primary School during April/May. 

The new platform, called EdSmart is an Australian platform which is designed to improve communication in school communities by allowing electronic messaging i.e. SMS and emails. For now, it will be used to manage absences messages i.e. you will receive a SMS or email alert if your child is absent from school requesting a response.  It will also allow us to send a communication message to all parent/guardians.

The platform will, over time, be rolled out across all Tasmanian Government Schools and new features will be added. 

Further information is available on the Department’s website

Communicating with your child's school - Department for Education, Children and Young People (decyp.tas.gov.au)

Snug Primary School Website

If you haven’t already, please take the time to check out our website:

You will find many helpful links including:

“Our School Calendar” 

“How to Report an Absence”

“Newsletter Archive”

Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) information and enrolment forms, Early Learning (Little Sprouts Movers and Little Sprouts Explorers) term plans and contact forms, Health information and various enrolment forms and documents (Travel, Medical and Asthma forms, Uniform policy etc) and lots more!

Outside School Hours Care

2024 Information and Enrolment (Including Re-Enrolment)

Be You

Kingston Library

Coming Events 2024

For more information please see our school calendar by clicking the link below: 

Community Notices

Photo Competition

Indoor Cricket