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- From the Principal
- Coming Up
- PBS Focus - Week 6 & 7
- School review 2024
- ChilliFM School of the Year Competition
- Bell Bay Aluminium Tree Planting
- National Simultaneous Storytime
- TPSSA Cross Country
- Merit Certificates - Week 4
- Merit Certificates - Week 6
- Safeguarding Training Information for Parents
- Friday Playgroup
- Community Notices
It has been a fantastic few weeks of learning at South! It has been a privilege to be working with the Ainslie residents with our year 1/2 classes. We have enjoyed having them at school and learning about the past and their incredible lives, and we certainly had a great time visiting them at their residence. We thank the Ainslie residents, their staff and Jayne Watts for organising this amazing collaboration.
Our teachers have been working on developing our students' reading comprehension through writing and oral language. This has been a school wide priority and we are using our professional learning teams to build our knowledge and teaching expertise to enhance the student outcomes. We have also shared our processes at the moderation day with staff from Port Dalrymple and Lilydale District School. Building our teaching practice and student achievement in reading comprehension is a throughline that we will have all year.
To continue to support our reading focus we will again have our “Draw, Talk, Write” packs for early childhood students ready for distribution soon. We will provide the packs with supporting information and a short video explaining how to best engage with your child. This has been a hugely popular initiative that we have used over previous years to support our younger students in learning to write and read and to build enthusiasm for the process in class.
We wish our students who are competing in the ALL Schools Cross Country the best of luck. These students are those who came in the top 10 in the TPSSA cross country and are representing the association. We hope that you have a nice day for the competition at Symmons Plains as the course can be quite gruelling, particularly in inclement weather!
Monday 10 June | Public Holiday - King's birthday |
Friday 14 June | Launching into Learning Playgroup @ the CFLC |
Friday 14 June - Friday 21 June | Fissure Sealant Program - Kinder, Prep & Grade 1,2,6 students |
Tuesday 18 June | All Schools Cross Country - Selected Grade 3-6 Students |
Friday 21 June | Launching into Learning Playgroup @ the CFLC |
Friday 28 June | Round 1 - 5/6 Winter Sport - Rain Day 7 July |
Friday 28 June | Launching into Learning Playgroup @ the CFLC |
Thursday 4 July | Assembly - 3/4 Garwood & Prep Quinn Sharing |
Friday 5 July | Launching into Learning Playgroup @ the CFLC |
Friday 5 July | Last Day of Term 2 |
Monday 22 July | First Day of Term 3 |
Friday 26 July | Round 2 - 5/6 winter sport - Rain Day 2 August |
Thursday 1 August | Country Gold Selections - selected students |
Friday 2 August | Assembly - Prep Grace & 5/6 Timms Sharing |
Thursday 8 August | Whole School Photo Day |
Friday 9 August | Round 3 - 5/6 Winter Sport - Rain Day 16 August |
Friday 23 August | Round 4 - 5/6 Winter Sport - Rain day 30 August |
Thursday 5 September | Assembly - 1/2 Locke & 3/4 Clancy Sharing |
Friday 6 September | Round 5 - 5/6 Winter Sport - Rain Day 13 September |
Friday 27 September | Last Day of Term 3 |
Monday 14 October | First Day of Term 4 |
Thursday 24 October | Assembly - 1/2 Edwards & 5/6 White Sharing |
Friday 1 November | Professional Learning Day - Student Free Day |
Monday 4 November | Public Holiday - Recreation Day |
Thursday 22 November | Assembly - 3/4 Scilini & 3/4 Garwood Sharing |
Thursday 19 December | Students Last Day of School |
As part of our focus on continuous school improvement, we will be involved in an External School Review this year.
The purpose of External School Reviews is to support schools to raise achievement, sustain high performance and provide quality assurance to build public confidence in government schools. All Tasmanian Government Schools will be externally reviewed every four years. The focus of the Review is to evaluate school performance. The Review Team consists of an External School Review Leader and trained Principal Peer Reviewers. The review will occur on Monday 24th June and Tuesday 25th June 2024.
We will find out the effective school practices that have been verified through the Review processes as well as the improvements that we need to make in the future. During the External School Review some students, families, School Association members and staff will be asked to provide information to the Review Team in a number of ways.
These include:
• individual interviews (can include family phone calls)
• group discussions (with students or staff or families)
• meetings (usually School Association, staff meeting)
• visits into classrooms.
We appreciate your support and time in helping us with this External School Review process.If you do not wish for your child to participate please contact the office to complete a withdrawl form.
ChilliFM School of the Year Competition
Have you voted yet in the Chilli FM's School of the Year Competition? Don't worry there is still time, head to CHILLIFMʼs $10,000 School of the Year - Chilli FM. You can vote once per day. Help us show the rest of Tasmania how amazing our little school is.
Bell Bay Aluminium Tree Planting
On Thursday 23rd May our Prep classes were given the opportunity to take part in the Bell Bay Aluminium Tree Planting Day. They had a wonderful time planting and then followed up with a barbeque. Thank you Bell Bay Aluminium for this amazing experience.
National Simultaneous Storytime
On Wednesday 22nd May, Grade 1/2 students went to The Hub for National Simultaneous Storytime. Students listened to Richard Curtis, General Manager of Bell Bay Aluminium read Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker. They then made their own bird. Each student received a hardback copy of the book to keep which was very generously donated by Bell Bay Aluminium. Thank you to the George Town Library for hosting this event.
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The TPSSA Cross Country was held on Tuesday 21st May at Beaconsfield Primary School. It was perfect running conditions with a new course being tried out this year. South George Town students all performed extremely well with some finding they improved quite a bit from previous years.
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Prep Quinn | |
Theo | Doing an amazing job of recognising and writing known sounds during English activities |
Poppie | Doing a wonderful job of sounding out to spell words during guided writing |
Prep Grace | |
Matilda | Always being a kind and caring friend. Thank you Matilda! |
Sebastian | Working hard on his name writing and sounds |
Aarnav | Amazing number knowledge. Aarnav always works hard! |
1/2 Locke | |
Liliahna | Being a positive and happy member of our class |
Hudson | Working hard to add 10, 20 and 50 to any number |
Roman | Showing kindness and patience to everyone at school |
1/2 Edwards | |
Kaylee | Being an outstanding positive role model to others. She is kind, respectful and always gives 100% effort |
Silas | Choosing to be a learner and helpful at clean up time |
Austin | His super duper effort with writing |
3/4 Garwood | |
Lincoln | Working hard to complete his reading to the best it can be |
Winnie | Working hard on her writing to improve her form and sentence structure |
3/4 Clancy | |
Macey | Being a class leader and for having a go |
Ava M | Being a class leader and for having a go |
Evie | Outstanding behaviour, outstanding work ethic, outstanding kindness |
3/4 Scilini | |
Isla | Her positive attitude and willingness to push herself with new learning tasks |
Savannah | Being a kind, caring and helpful member of our class who always demonstrates our school values |
Jack | Settling well into his new class and adjusting to new routines |
5/6 White | |
Clodagh | Her positive approach towards all learning. Clodagh always treats others with care and respect |
Mangaia | For her positive attitude and hard work. Mangaia always treats others with care and respect |
5/6 Timms | |
Hannah | Kindness to others and hard work in the classroom |
Kobi | His positive attitude and engagement in class activities |
Prep Quinn | |
Grace | Working hard to learn her teen numbers |
Hunter | Writing a fantastic rhyming sentence |
Prep Grace | |
Tyanna | Her great sounding out when writing |
Matilda | Working hard on blending sounds and reading |
1/2 Locke | |
Sonny | Always being helpful, responsible and kind |
Kai | For being a great sport and showing resilience when learning |
Evie | Caring about others, showing kindness and always being fair |
Hayden | Showing a positive attitude towards school |
1/2 Edwards | |
Alice | Being a co-operative and fair group member. She follows the rules and is a good sport |
Kye | His steady progress with his reading and writing. He includes his own ideas |
Bill | Being a kind and supportive friend |
3/4 Garwood | |
David | Always modelling sensible learning behaviours and manners |
Max | Always being organised and ready for learning |
3/4 Clancy | |
Tao | Being a hard working member of our class |
Willow | Being a hard working, kind, caring and thoughtful member of our class |
3/4 Scilini | |
Darcie | Wonderful start in 3/4 Scilini. Darcie is a kind, friendly and hard working student |
Italia | Always being a kind and responsible member of our class who goes the extra mile to help out |
5/6 White | |
Archie | His improved attendance. Archie always tries his best in all that he does and consistently treats others respectfully |
Livinia | Her positive approach towards all learning as well as her kindness towards others |
5/6 Timms | |
Samson | Being courteous and making a big effort in his weekly literacy work |
Georgia | Being a responsible and caring school member |
Safeguarding Training Information for Parents
Our Launching into Learning Playgroup is every Friday at the George Town Child and Family Centre. Friday playgroup is a joint program between Port Dalrymple School and South George Town Primary School and is open to everyone in the George Town community with children from birth to Kindergarten! See you on Friday.