11 June 2021

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Hi Parents and Caregivers,

While winter has certainly set in, Snug Primary School continues to hum along. We have certainly made use of our wonderful gym in this nasty weather – perfect for our PE and Skills lessons when the rain is falling, and a terrific venue for our Trivia Night on Saturday.

Trivia Night

Thanks to everybody involved in the Trivia Night – to those who attended, and to those who made it happen – our School Association. It was fantastic to see families in our new gym, being used for the purpose for which it was built – as a community hub. Additionally, there was a great sum of money raised too which will support our school moving forward – we look forward to finding out the exact amount from School Association in due course.

Reports and Parent Teacher Interviews

Our teachers are busy writing reports at the moment to inform you of your child’s progress in the first half of the year. Reports go home on Friday 25 June, with parent teacher interviews from Monday 28 June – Friday 2 July.

Please go online to this link to book a time:

You will need to enter your email address and password (click ‘reset password’ if you can’t remember it), click Parent Teacher Interviews (Prep to Year 6) , select your child, select the staff member you’d like to chat with, select the day and time for your booking and click ‘next’ which will save your appointment.

Queen’s Birthday

Don’t forget there is no school on Monday – we can all enjoy a three day Queens Birthday Weekend!

NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for us to join with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to celebrate their history, culture and achievements. Next week we’ll be doing this with various activities across the school including ‘Dancing in the Gym’ with Mrs Jolleys and ‘Cooking at the Creek’ with Dearne, Dave and Richard.

Wellbeing Week

Our fantastic SRC is running a 'Wellbeing Week' in the last week of term, with teacher support. There will be different activities for students to participate in during recess and lunch to support student engagement, enjoyment, and togetherness.

Kind Regards,

Blair Curtis
Principal

Kath’s Spot

Persistence. What does this word mean to you? Is it about pushing on, or keeping on going even when things are a challenge? In the dictionary it says it is ‘the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition’.

There is something about persisting, isn’t there? In order to succeed, sometimes we need to step past the feelings of fear and nervousness, in order to be a risk taker. Taking little steps can sometimes be a strategy to move us past the feelings that are going off in our head. If we are not keen to participate, for example, sometimes participating on a smaller level will be a great first step towards success. Every step forward marks our growth in the task.

Isn’t it true too, that often we can be so focussed on what we are feeling, or what we don’t want to do, that we don’t realise the impact that this has on others. By not participating, are your actions reflecting to others that they too should be scared about participating? Perhaps we may also be robbing others of learning from our wisdom, by not sharing out loud in class?

In fact feeling nervous, or excited, is actually part of our emotions, and they are part of who we are. Too often we can recognise these emotions and then use them as a blocker for not participating, or not contributing in some way. When in fact that is when we need to work hard to push past the hesitation and challenge ourselves, and in turn we truly will succeed.

What do you think you might need to persist with this week? Why not break it into little steps and push through those first few steps.

Many Blessings

Many Blessings

Kath Dolliver
Chaplain

Class In Focus – 3B

This term we have been doing an inquiry on Australian states and territories. As with all good inquiries, this has gone in many different directions led by the students, and there is still much to cover before the end of the term!

As part of this inquiry we read the novel February Dragon by Colin Thiele, set in the late 1960’s in a rural Australian town that is devastated by bushfire.

We painted our own bushfire landscapes and wrote acrostic poems inspired by this fantastic piece of Australian literature.

We are now reading Tom Appleby: Convict Boy by Jackie French, as we discuss how our country came to be the place it is today. Students have been fascinated to learn that child convicts were sent to Australia. They’ve also been imaging what life was like for Indigenous People before the arrival of Europeans. We spent some time in our outdoor learning area last week imagining life pre colonisation. Students were free to explore, play, construct and contemplate, and all agreed how lucky we are to have such an amazing outdoor space at our school to do this.

From 3B

Outside School Hours Care

2021 Information and Enrolment (Including Re-Enrolment)

2021 Enrolment and Re-Enrolment information is now available from the office and OSHC. There is new and important information that families need in these packs, so please be sure to collect one ASAP. Thanks!

Fire Safety

• A firefighter from the Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) is visiting our school this week to present a Home Fire Safety Program to our Prep to Grade 6 students.
• Kindergarten students, whilst not receiving a structured lesson, can expect a visit from the firefighter who will leave some free fun activities for the students to complete.
• The age appropriate program is designed to raise fire awareness in children and includes fun in class activities, videos, activity books, giveaways and a new kid’s website www.tfskids.com.au.
• Parents and other family members are also encouraged to participate by reading the information and assisting your child with the after school activities.
• The TFS aims to deliver appropriate fire safety education to every primary school child in Tasmania and is part of the TFS’s ongoing commitment to create a fire safe Tasmania.
  - Wake up - Install a smoke alarm in every bedroom
  - Plan and practice a home fire escape plan with the whole family
  - In a fire crawl low and go, go, go to the nearest exit
  - In an emergency call triple zero
  - Keep flammable material at least two metres from the heater
  - If your clothes catch fire, stop, drop, rock and roll
  - Keep matches and lighters away from children
  - Cooking - Turn it off before you turn away
  - Cool a burn under cold water for at least 20 minutes
  - Most house fires can be avoided. Make your home fire safe
• More information for parents, carers and teachers www.tfseducation.com.au
• Exciting new website just for kids www.tfskids.com.au
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EARLY CHILDHOOD

TFS receives regular requests from preschools and child care centres asking for firefighters to visit and teach children about home fire safety.

TFS does not deliver structured fire safety programs to children below primary school age. This decision was made based on research carried out by the Mental Health Services of the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in Melbourne. This research indicated that:

• Children under the age of five had low retention of the information they had learned; and
• In some children, the information had actually stimulated their curiosity about fire and they had begun to play with fire.

TFS believes that parents and caregivers are the best people to make sure that very young children are safe from fire. To help with this, TFS has a fire safety website for parents, carers and teachers.

TFS has also developed free giveaways for young children that introduce them to the friendly firefighter characters that they will meet when they receive the School Fire Education Program including a colouring book, a money box shaped like a fire truck, and stickers with home fire safety messages for the whole family. Click here for free giveaways for your preschool or child care centre

SRC News

Uniform News

We now have winter tunics in stock, sizes 4, 6 and 8 (size 10 are on backorder), $50.00 each.

Levies Due

Please note, levies are now overdue. Payment options are:

• BPay (contact your bank or financial institution)
• BPoint ( www.bpoint.com.au/payments/deptofedu , Biller Name: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION – Invoice)
• Service Tasmania (1300 13 55 13 or www.service.tas.gov.au , Product Code 242)
• School office (to pay by cash or card)

Entertainment Membership

Help our school raise funds and enjoy a year’s worth of discounts and savings for you and your family. Click here to sign up today:

Gym Timetable – Term 2

Little Sprouts

School Banking

Tuesday is school banking day. Please remember to write your student number on the deposit slips. Replacement Dollarmite wallets are available from the office.

School Banking Handbook

New Bankers are very welcome – for every new banker, the school receives a $5.00 commission and then 5% of every deposit made thereafter. Just head to any Commonwealth Bank with some ID for yourself and your child (a drivers licence and birth certificate, for example) and ask to open a Youthsaver Account for School Banking. You’ll be given a deposit book and Dollarmites wallet on the spot and will be able to begin banking the next business day - it’s that easy!

Rewards Program: For every deposit your child makes, they will receive a silver Dollarmite token. Once they have received 10 tokens then will then receive a gold Dollarmite token which they can redeem for an exclusive Dollarmite reward item.

Kids Matter eNewsletter

Coming Events

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

2021 TERM DATES