Thank You!
A big thank you to our parents, carers, and school community for attending our recent whole school assembly and open classrooms. Our students love sharing their learning with you, and your support is greatly appreciated.

SRC Careers Day
The newly elected SRC has been busy planning a Careers Day, where students can come dressed as what they want to be when they grow up. This will be held on Thursday, 3rd of April. We are also hoping to host a range of guest speakers in the afternoon to inspire students and spark their curiosity about different career pathways. Our school community is our greatest resource—if you have insights or experiences to share, please get in touch!

NAPLAN Testing
Students are currently undertaking NAPLAN testing and have shown great resilience and determination. NAPLAN provides a snapshot of student understanding on one day, but our teachers use multiple sources of evidence to assess learning and target their teaching to support student growth.

Seesaw Update
Seesaw is now back up and running after some technical issues at the start of the year. It’s a great way to stay connected to your child’s class and keep up to date with their learning. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to connect and be part of the journey!

North West Athletics Carnival Success

Congratulations to all the students who represented our school at the North West Athletics Carnival last week. Your hard work, determination, and sportsmanship were outstanding, and we are incredibly proud of your efforts. A special mention to those who placed in the finals and went on to compete at the Twilight Carnival last night—an incredible achievement! Well done to all involved, and thank you for representing our school with such pride.

Grade 6 Camp

Our Grade 6 students are heading off on their camp on Monday, 24th March! This is an exciting opportunity filled with an action-packed itinerary, including activities in both Hobart and Launceston. For many students, this will be the longest time they have spent away from their families, but they are sure to have a fantastic experience with their peers and teachers. This is a special milestone and something every student in our school can look forward to in the future! We can't wait to hear all about their adventures when they return!

Our students have been working hard on their dioramas and artworks for the Wynyard Show. This year’s theme for the sculpture category is "Farm Scene," while the theme for 2D artwork is "The Four Seasons." Both themes have allowed our students to showcase their creativity, artistic skills, and understanding of the local environment.

With thoughtful planning and creative imagination, students designed beautiful farm-inspired scenes that highlight different aspects of rural life. They depicted a variety of farms, including chicken farms, dairy farms, beef farms, and wheat farms. Some even added a playful touch, showing humorous scenes about where chickens eventually end up! Each piece tells a unique story about farm life, celebrating the connection between people, animals, and nature.

To bring their creations to life, students experimented with a range of artistic techniques and materials. They watched videos on animal origami, learning how to fold paper into intricate shapes. Some mastered simple designs like chickens, pigs, and lambs, while others took on the challenge of creating more complex animals, such as a fox. Their patience and determination were truly inspiring!

We are incredibly proud of what our students have accomplished, and we can't wait to showcase their work at the Wynyard Show this Saturday. We invite everyone to visit the exhibition and celebrate the talent and hard work of our young artists. Whether you love farm life, enjoy creative displays, or simply want to support our students, this is a wonderful opportunity to see their artistic achievements up close.

We hope to see you there!

In 1/2SE we have had a great start to Term 1. We have been getting used to classroom routines and have had a great start to our Maths and English programs. In the first few weeks we spent time getting to know each other as a class. An activity we enjoyed was writing positive describing words about each other. We each had our name on a piece of paper and we moved around to each person’s name and wrote something we loved about them. This helped us to feel a sense of connection as part of our class and we loved reading the things people had written about us.

All Things English

3/4MD have delved straight into all things reading and writing. We have been reading Matilda as a class, and have been using ideas from the novel to practice writing simple, compound and complex sentences. We have been investigating figurative language such as onomatopoeia and similes to make our writing stronger in preparation for writing our own short stories.

During our weekly whole class reading, we read an article about Clean Up Australia Day which was held on Sunday March 2^nd. As a response to our reading, we created some eye-catching posters to encourage people to participate in a clean up event and to help our environment by doing their part.

In English this year we have settled into our Reading Groups. During Reading Groups each of the students are required to complete several tasks throughout the week. These tasks include, reading and comprehension tasks, writing and research activities. Our research activity has been based on bears and the students needed to summarise information from a text and complete a two page project.

During HASS the class has investigated the history of Tasmania and the early discovery of Australia by European explorers. Each student has also completed a map of Tasmania and researched several other Australian states. As part of their assessment, students placed many of the important dates on a timeline.

Biggest congratulations to our 3/4/5/6 representatives who competed at the NWPSSA carnival on Wednesday and Thursday last week at Penguin. It was so fantastic to see all the encouragement everyone gave to each other and to see some of our athletes achieving some outstanding results. Tarik, Jack, Macy, Stephanie, Zoe and Sam made it through to the Twilight Carnival which was held on Thursday the 13th. We look forward to recognising all our runners at our Monday meeting. Thanks to everyone who helped over the two days including our wonderful parent helpers!