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Welcome to Term 4! This term is always very busy and there is much to do while planning for next year.
Our consultation period for our redevelopment gets underway on the 11th of November. We will have an official launch with the minister and following that we will have sessions with students, staff, and community. We will be advertising these soon through our usual school channels, and newspaper and radio. This is certainly an exciting period where we get to have input in what we would like to have here at South in terms of provision for our learners before the actual design process is undertaken.
Our leadership team were recently invited to participate in the Independent Review of Education in Tasmania. The commissioner and her support staff met with us after we were identified and put forward as one of Tasmania’s most outstanding schools. Her review will include recommendations from schools like ours who are leading cultural and pedagogical change and implementation in the state. She was extremely impressed with the level of teacher and support staff expertise, our culture of improvement, common pedagogical practices and focus on a wholistic education for each child.
Our grade 5/6 students have had an opportunity to do some orientation visits to Port Dalrymple and grade 6 students have their whole day orientation at Port and Star on November the 14th. Our Esk Band members also combined with Port for a whole band practise, as well as our choirs combining at the Seniors Concert. It is fantastic that our schools have a great working relationship and are able to work together for all our students in our community.
We are busily planning our class and staff structure for next year. At this point we will have a very similar structure to this year in terms of classes and teacher make up. We may have a few teachers changing roles and we will update you as this occurs. A lot of time and effort goes into ensuring our classes are the best fit for all and take into account a myriad of different considerations, however, when constructing actual classes, we always ensure that best fit for learning is the priority. If your family will not be attending South George Town Primary in 2025 please advise the school office.
Finally, I look forward to seeing you all for the Colour Run. Good luck to the winner of the competition who gets to slime me!
| Monday 4 November | Public Holiday - Recreation Day |
| Thursday 7 November | Whole School Colour Fun Run |
| Wednesday 13 November | TPSSA Swimming carnival (selected grade 3-6 students) |
| Thursday 14 November | All day orientation for Grade 6 students |
| Thursday 22 November | Assembly - 3/4 Scilini & 3/4 Garwood Sharing |
| Thursday 19 December | Student's Last Day of School |
Mobile phones and smart watches are a distraction from learning, and impact the development of positive personal relationships at school. The Department for Education, Children and Young People have a ‘Use of Mobile Phones by Students at School Policy: ‘Off and away all day’. These are the most important points of the policy and we ask that parents and carers support our teachers in their implementation of this policy:
- Students MUST have their mobile phones switched off and stored during school hours.
- Mobile phones must be stored in a school bag or at the school office during school hours
- Students with ‘smart watches’ or other watches capable of messaging or playing music must be set to ‘aeroplane mode’ or switched off.
- All communication from families with students during school hours MUST be through the school office
Get your Colour on, South George Town Primary School is hosting a Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun! This is for all students from Kinder - Grade 6.
Our Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun will be on Thursday 7th November 2024 from 1:45pm to 2:45pm on the school oval.
Students who have raised over $50 by the morning of the Colour Fun Run will go in the draw to be the lucky person to slime Mr. Hay AND win a Garmin watch valued at approximately at $250.
Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun, students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match! Don’t want the prizes? Donate your donations to one of the five causes – Carbon Neutral (tree planting), Great Barrier Reef Foundation (coral planting or turtle protection), The Smith Family (reading support) or OzHarvest (providing meals).
Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.
Extra Incentives to Fundraise!
- Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
- Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
- $10,000 Budget Booster Bonanza Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student
- Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2024.
- A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!
For more information, please contact the school office on 03 6382 1564
Happy fundraising!
Yesterday our Grade 5-6 students went on their Hobart excursion. A full report will be written in the next newsletter. Check out our social media pages for more photos.
| Prep Quinn | |
| Grace | Always demonstrating wonderful listening skills and being a great role model for others |
| Hunter | Making some fantastic spelling choices in writing this week |
| Prep Grace | |
| Logan | Being a superstar learner and always trying his best |
| Sebastian | Being a reading rockstar. Your love of reading and commitment to reading at home |
| Alaina-May | Being a creative artist and making beautiful artwork full of imagination and detail |
| 1/2 Locke | |
| Brock | Improved attendance. Fantastic job Brock! |
| Enoch | Showing leadership and learning skills. Helping others to participate in learning |
| Ash | Working hard to learn about personal space. He has made wonderful improvements |
| 1/2 Edwards | |
| Charlee-Rae | Noticing speech marks when reading and adjusting her voice to make it sound like talking |
| Abatha | Looking after school property by returning her dishes to breakfast club |
| Axe | Taking much better care of his personal property |
| Victor | Persisting with the challenge of making a paper boat |
| 3/4 Garwood | |
| Lincoln | Working hard to improve his handwriting and layout of written work |
| Max | Not letting himself get distracted and being his best self all the time |
| 3/4 Clancy | |
| Jordan | Sharing his wonderful general knowledge about many different subjects |
| Tao | Working very hard to improve his understanding of number processes |
| Evie | Displaying a mature attitude to her learning |
| 3/4 Scilini | |
| Jack | His excellent start to term 4. Jack has been working hard to complete all learning tasks |
| Rosie | Her hard work and positive attitude in maths |
| 5/6 White | |
| Ebony | Her positive attitude towards ALL aspects of schooling. Ebony also always treats others with respect |
| Amos | Learning to read! Amos is able to use his knowledge of letter sounds to read new books. |
| 5/6 Timms | |
| Lucas | His commitment to improving his outcomes in all subject areas |
| Kobi | Working to extend himself and increase his ability in all subject areas |
You may have heard the exciting news that the 2024-25 Tasmanian State Budget includes $15.1 million to undertake a major redevelopment of our school.
The redevelopment will provide contemporary learning and support spaces and amenities for our students and staff, with the tender for the architectural consultants to be released later this year.
In Term 4, the Department will undertake consultation with our students, staff and the broader community, seeking feedback that will be used to inform the proposed master plan and scope of works.
The consultation will commence on Monday 11 November and conclude on Friday 6 December 2024.
It’s not everyday that we get such a significant amount of funding to undertake works at our school. I strongly encourage everyone to have their say through the upcoming consultation process as your feedback will help shape the future of South George Town Primary School.
More information on the consultation process will be provided in Term 4.