South George Town Primary School eNewsletter

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.

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.

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.

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.

The TPSSA Cross Country was held on Tuesday 21^st 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.

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

https://youtu.be/-9BG5AlG2Ik

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

https://youtu.be/h4klkJNh1rg

We all have a role to play in keeping children and young people safe.

This year, there is important training that anyone who works with children or young people must complete. This includes all our volunteers and service providers. e.g. parent helpers, volunteers at sports carnivals etc.

The training is compulsory under new laws designed to better safeguard children and young people in Tasmania.

It will help you understand what to do if you believe a child or young person is or may be being harmed, and to make sure you are doing all you can to prevent this from happening. The training will also tell you what you must report under the new laws.

This simple, online training must be done as soon as possible, and you will need to complete it before you work with any children and young people this year.

Once completed, you will receive a certificate, which you can save. You will need to show your certificate to the office.

To complete your training, simply visit

http://www.decyp.tas.gov.au/.../safeguarding-training/

For more information please talk to our Safeguarding Lead, Janine Spicer.

Thank you for leading the way in caring for our children and young people safe so that they can focus on living bright lives with positive futures.

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.