23 July 2021

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Hi Parents, Families and Community,

I hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday (if you managed too) and enjoyed time with family. It was certainly icy in the first week, but lovely to enjoy some winter blue sky days.

Coronavirus

As you are all aware, there is an ongoing spike in the coronavirus on the mainland, affecting interstate travel, and involving quarantine of travellers from some states back in Tasmania. We are regularly posting any updates about the changing situation on Facebook, so please keep checking the school pages regularly during this time. It’s also important that we continue to be mindful of social distancing, and how we interact with each other when on the school grounds.

Covid check in

All visitors to the school WHO ENTER a building (office, classroom) are required to check in using the Tas check in app. If you do not have a phone, please come in to the office and check in manually.

Winter Feast Date Amendment

Our School association will be running a Winter Feast on Friday, August 27, from 5pm to 8pm at the school (the date was originally August 6). This is a chance to grab some delicious hot food, mulled wine, hot drinks and share in a fun community event. We will be looking for volunteers to help out too.

Kind Regards,

Blair Curtis
Principal

Kath’s Spot

Welcome Back to Term 3!! It seems hard to believe that already half a year is gone and before too long we will be saying goodbye to winter and bringing on daylight savings again.

I know that the start of term, can also mean some students find it hard to get back into the routine of going to school; their anxiety might be rising and often we see and hear of a lot more ‘sore tummies’ at the moment. Please rest assured this is normal, but we also want to encourage you all to push through the hard times and yell out if you need any support. Giving them the day off, actually generally only increases the anxiety for future experiences.

In the Cool Kids program that the University offers, they help to teach the young people how to be a ‘Detective Thinker’. This helps the young people to break down questions about their anxiety like, “how many times may that really have ever happened?” When you think about it, giving children the day off school because they are feeling anxious, actually reinforces to the child that ‘yes, we agree - there is something there that you should be anxious about’. We know how hard it is for parents to see your child, who is feeling anxious, walk away at school with them feeling sad, but please rest assured that we are all looking out for them! We will be looking after your precious children till you see them again and will be encouraging them to push through one step at a time, challenging themselves to go one step further than they thought they were capable of. Sometimes it can be easier just to give them a hug or the like and then head off allowing a teacher, teacher’s aide, senior staff or myself to care for your child from there. Lingering can often cause more anxiety and increase the levels of stress for them when you go to leave.

Your children are amazing little people and we are here to help them along their journey. Please let us know if we can help them or you in any way especially as they settle back into this new term with new routines and timetables.

Many Blessings

Kath Dolliver
Chaplain

Class In Focus – 2A

2A are enjoying Outdoor Learning

In 2A, many of our recent learning experiences have taken place outdoors. We have used our own bush classroom and river area for exploration and inspiration for writing, as well as for NAIDOC activities. As part of our Science enquiry, we have left our school grounds and followed the course of the Snug River until it meets Snug Bay. We have also been looking at transpiration as part of the water cycle, conducting our experiments in the trees around our school.

Outdoor learning offers many benefits for children. These include:

• greater understanding of the natural world
• the development of independence, resilience, teamwork and leadership
• managing personal risks
• learning the value of outdoor recreation for health, enjoyment and well-being
• experiencing safety in nature
• the development of an adventurous spirit

Bernadette Brinkhoff - 2A class teacher

Outdoor Learning in 2A

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!

SRC News

Uniform News

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

Book Club

Book Club orders are submitted and paid for online via the Book Clubs Loop. Please go to this link below:

The Loop for the current book issue will be closed off on Wednesday 4 August so ensure you have your orders in by then. Books will arrive to school and be distributed to students a few weeks later.

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.

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

Kingston Library - What’s On

Coming Events

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

2021 TERM DATES