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Welcome back for Term 4! Once again we have a jam packed schedule in front of us with lots of fantastic learning and celebratory opportunities over the next 8 weeks. Certainly our planning for next year is well underway in terms of staffing and the development of classes and programs. At this point in time, (but things can change quickly), we will have minimal staff movement. It is likely we will have some adjustments to our class structures and I will keep you informed of that as we move forward.
Our students have certainly hit the ground running and are back into great learning routines and demonstrating our values throughout the school. This was certainly evident in regard to the large amount of merit certificates and Reach for the Stars awards that were given out this week, and we were excited to award our second only Gold Reach for the Stars award. We are heading into the assessment and summary phase of our learning cycle at school and early indications are that the majority of our children have made fantastic improvement. Our NAPLAN performance has also improved and I’ll detail more about this in our next newsletter.
Our school will be having a student free day next Friday and our teachers will be hard at work moderating student learning samples, analysing this year's data sets and developing curriculum and programming to continue our school improvement journey. We can certainly be proud of our school’s commitment to improvement and the significant gains we have achieved in teaching and learning, and student achievement.
Finally, I’d like to wish those students luck who are competing in the State Athletics carnival next week. I know you will represent yourselves, the school, your family and community with pride.
| Wednesday 2 November | State Athletics Carnival (selected students) |
| Thursday 3 November | Grade 5/6 Hobart Excursion |
| Friday 4 November | Professional Learning Day (Student Free Day) |
| Monday 7 November | Recreation Day (Public Holiday) |
| Thursday 10 November | Whole School Colour Run |
| Thursday 17 November | Visit 3 - Grade 6 Transition |
| Thursday 1 December | Visit 4 - All Day Orientation for Grade 6 Students |
| Thursday 15 December | Presentation Assembly |
| Wednesday 21 December | Students' Last Day of School for 2022 |
Here are our Aussies of the Month for September. These students were selected because they uphold the Aussie traditions of mateship and a fair go for all, as well as our school values of 'learning', 'respect', 'responsibility' and 'relationships'.
A very big thank you to the Steer and Medlock families for their donations of high quality toys for our early learning programs.
Here are our latest 'Reach for the Stars' recipients. These students have demonstrated our school values over several years. Congratulations on this very special award!
| Prep Quinn | |
| Nate | His ability to work co-operatively and respectfully with all of his classmates. Great job Nate! |
| Arthur | His fantastic effort in mathematics. Arthur always works hard, tries his best and is a great problem solver |
| Ellee | Always trying her best. Ellee is a quiet, independent learner who co-operates beautifully with others. Well done Ellee! |
| 1/2 Locke | |
| Tarliah | Working really hard in reading, making fantastic progress |
| Elsie | Always working to the best of her ability |
| Ava | Being a kind and thoughtful friend who always includes others |
| 1/2 Edwards | |
| Josh | His outstanding effort at designing a unique creature - Grandli Rex. Josh explained its features in great detail |
| Sarah | Her improving application to learning. Sarah is engaging with a positive attitude and a smile |
| Archie | Enthusiastically engaging with vocabulary tasks and applying his new knowledge in conversations and writing activities |
| Hendrix | Independently writing a correct sentence using 'because' to explain a reason. Fantastic! |
| 1/2 Greene | |
| Logan | Always being a thoughtful member of our class, who is always happy to help |
| Isla | Consistently showing energy for learning, resulting in wonderful gains in both her reading and writing. |
| 3/4 Garwood | |
| Emily | Working hard during our writing unit to produce her best piece of writing! Well done! |
| Ella | Working hard during our writing unit to produce her best quality piece of writing. Well done! |
| Amos | Helping his friends during daily PE. Well done! |
| 3/4 Clancy | |
| Sophie | Working hard during all class activities |
| Aurora | For improving the quality of her presentation |
| Lockie | Working hard to improve his understanding of numbers |
| 5/6 White | |
| Leilani | Her positive work ethic and also her empathy, kindness and care towards others |
| Shaeisha | Her focussed approach towards all learning and for always trying her hardest |
| 5/6 Timms | |
| Felicity | Outstanding contributions during her work in reading groups |
| Oliver | Maintaining his excellent results despite recent absences. Great work ethic |
| 5/6 Daire | |
| Koha | Ensuring each sentence is correctly punctuated and complete |
| Ryley | Being a master of his learning |
Orders for Book Club Issue 7 must be returned to the office by Monday 31st October, with online orders closing at 9am.
Last Thursday our Beginning and Continuing Esk Bands performed for over 100 people at the George Town Memorial Hall. There was a mixture of both excitement and nerves, which is perfectly normal and expected for such a performance. Both bands played brilliantly and received fantastic applause from the audience. Our Esk Band students should be very proud of their achievement. They are already working on new music for upcoming performances and look forward to sharing their amazing progress!
Save the Date! On Thursday 10th November we will be holding our Kinder - Grade 6 Colour Fun Run on the school oval from 2pm. Parents are welcome to join us! Students would have bought a sponsorship booklet home last week, there are spares at the office if needed. Money and booklets are due back to the school office by Monday 7th November.
