3 November 2017

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

At Snug Primary we pride ourselves as being a community that Works Together. Clear communication is a critical part of collaboration and I am so pleased that parents and community members contact me regularly about issues, thoughts, suggestions and celebrations. Our teachers are also more than happy to speak with families about any questions, big or small. Keep coming in to the school, phoning or emailing. We are all committed to working together with you.

What a privilege it was to work with Dr Brian Cambourne on Friday 27th October as we learnt more about the aspects of effective writers and his theories of conditions for learning. For over 50 years Dr Cambourne has observed and interviewed students about the ways they learn literacy skills. We have benefitted from hearing about the indicators for effective users of writing and what learning tasks we can design to support our students.

We are all learners at Snug Primary School and I am pleased to announce that Assistant Principal Ange Burbury and I have been selected as Hardie Fellowship recipients for 2018. Our fellowship enables us to travel to the USA for 6 weeks to study at universities in New York, Boston and Denver. We will be look at the elements of successful principal pathway programs so we can bring our research recommendations back to the Department of Education in Tasmania. This is an exciting and humbling opportunity to learn from other systems.

Our thanks go to Mr Max Watson for his organisation for our Athletics Carnival on Thursday and our grounds team for preparing the oval for the events. It was wonderful to see many more parents and family members there this year. The rain held off just enough to get through the events. There were wonderful personal student achievements and efforts. The Snug CARES value of community and excellence were evident.

An extraordinary General Meeting will precede the final School Association Meeting for this year at 6:30pm on Tuesday 21st November . At this meeting we will be voting to adopt the new School Association Model constitution after changed through the new Education Act.

Following this we will have a regular meeting followed by a shared meal to celebrate our achievements together this year. All welcome.

Bonnie Jeffrey
Principal

Kath’s Spot

What a wonderful sight it was to be able to look around on Wednesday at our Athletics Carnival and see everyone excited and enjoying all the action.

There was so much take in around me, including the effort and enthusiasm, the persistence and the courage on the track. I saw house leaders with huddles of little kids from their house surrounding them while they gave instructions for relays, and I saw others students propping up friends who were about to fall over. I saw older students helping young ones, and I saw young ones yelling out words of encouragement to older students. What an image in my mind. My cup feels overflowing with gratefulness for such a warm, inspiring community for my children to grow up in.

Just like an athletic carnival, we as parents and carers, need others around us to prop us up when we need it most. When we are about to fall, we might need a support structure, or when we need some wisdom we might need an older parent or mentor to be able to fire some questions to, or ask for some suggestions. We might even need some words of encouragement to help us get over the line.

Along with this, we may also need to huddle a few of our friends together and provide wisdom in some next steps, or even some instructions of the process of 'how to play soccer' or 'how to make a weeks’ worth of meals in a day'.

All of this helps us and others be better people, and be able to play our role in this world, while making a significant positive impact on those around us. If you think you might need a bit of a prop up, or some extra support around you, please come and touch base, we want everyone to 'WIN' at this parenting gig.

Many Blessings
Kath Dolliver
Chaplain

Assembly Awards

Class in Focus – Year 6B

Athletics Carnival

Drama

Grade 6 photos from “Journey to Antarctica” are now available the office for ordering.

The Grade 4 play is on Wednesday 29th November – information coming soon.

‘Little Sprouts’ and ‘Branching Out’

Your Time to Blossom

Term 4 plans:

The Combined Primary Schools Annual Concert

Bushfire Season

We have been told we are at high risk for bushfires this season. Please see below for information and a ‘parent release’ form. These forms were sent home with your child/children this week, please return them ASAP.

State Individual All School Championships

Matilda ran at the state individual all school championships on the weekend and represented Snug Primary in the 1500m bringing home the silver medal. Matilda has been selected in the Primary Track and Field State Team to compete at the 2017 Pacific School Games in Adelaide in December.

Kinder 2018

We have finalised our Kinder classes for 2018 and have only a few enrolment spaces left. If you know a family who have a Kinder-aged child and have not completed their enrolment, please ask them to contact the office on 6267 9230.

Pre Kinder

Our Pre Kinder sessions are continuing this term and letters have been sent to those that have enrolled. Don’t miss out – enrol now!

Summer Dresses

Kids Matter eNewsletter

Facebook

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Coming Events

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

Term Dates for 2017

Term Dates for 2018