6 August 2021

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Hi Parents, Families and Community,

Coronavirus

The situation involving coronavirus continues to shift and evolve rapidly. The new Delta variant has impacted most states on the Mainland, and we have also had a case in Launceston appear yesterday. The man from NSW was in quarantine, so there has not been any community transmission identified. However, the reach of this new variant means that we need to remain agile and ready to respond in Tasmania should it enter the state. As a school, we have a Covid Safety Plan, and we’ve reviewed our approach as a staff if we need to manage a Covid event that affects our school.

We can’t stress enough that if your child, or you, have any cold or flu like symptoms, please do not come to school, and get tested.

Susie Kean

As most of you would be aware, our fabulous teacher’s assistant, Susie Kean, and her family, lost their home to fire last week. Our Snug Community has rallied around, and through a Go Fund Me page, is raising money to support them to get back on their feet. We are also running a fundraiser at school – please send in coins as we are trying to snake a coin trail around a large part of the school.

You can find the Go Fund Me link here:

Fundraiser by Lauren Bones: Help the Kean family (gofundme.com)

Winter Feast

Please set aside the evening of Friday, August 27, to join us at Snug Primary for our Winter Feast. Our School Association is working hard to prepare for the evening, where there will be a range of food and drink on sale from 5 to 8pm. We hope you can join us for what is sure to be an amazing event.

Kind Regards,
Blair Curtis
Principal

Kath’s Spot

All of a sudden it appears like I have looked around and everyone seems to have had a growth spurt and they already seem to be preparing to be setting themselves up for the next year level they will enter.

With this, independence really needs to grow and we need to encourage our kids to take on more responsibility. In fact, surprisingly carrying out their responsibilities for them may hinder them rather than help them, so let’s help by encouraging them rather than ‘doing’ for them. We want to give them opportunities to start taking the initiative to perform tasks for themselves and, preparing for, and arriving at, school is a prime example.

These are 5 indicators of a successful learner:

1. They will carry their own backpack to the classroom.
2. They will take the things they need for the day out of their bag - lunchbox, drink bottle, wordlists/reader and folder.
3. They will place their bag in their bag box and their other items in relevant spaces in a timely manner eg. lunchbox in tub 4. They will say “good morning” to a teacher or fellow student, or have some form of communication with someone.
4. They will say goodbye to family/friend doing drop off and find a task to move onto.

A good start is step 1 - always encourage your child to carry their own backpack to class! Please, please! It creates so much independence and I know lots of the early years classes are working really hard at growing independence to set them up for next year. This is the perfect first step! And, you know what… it’s one less thing for you to do -hehe- you’re welcome!

Many Blessings

Kath Dolliver
Chaplain

Class In Focus – 1A

1A has been working on a Science unit focussing on the external features of living things. As part of this we used different mediums to complete this art projects.

1A artwork

PE News

Congratulations to Indie Hunt who has been selected to represent the Huon and Channel Netball team.

Congratulations also to Piper Jones, Sophia Hughes, Sebastian Lie and Kael Forster who have been selected to represent the Huon and Channel Lions Soccer Team at the Winter Carnival later this month.

Final Congratulations to Jordan Wickham, Archie Reynolds, Declan Brett, Fletcher Murray and Charlie Wright who were selected to represent the Huon and Channel Football team.

Well done to all students who attended the trials. We’re very proud of the courage you showed in attending and the effort you put in.

Mr Wishart.

Schools Triathlon Challenge

This is happening on Friday 10 December. Please go to the website below for more information including entry forms -

Winter Feast

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!

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:

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:

Community Notices

Fencing Classes

Lego Exhibition

2021 TERM DATES