A warm welcome back to everyone for term 3. Our students have settled back into their routines and learning wonderfully. We once again see our students living our school values. It is fantastic to see so many children attending school and engaging in all the amazing things that South has to offer.

Unfortunately we have seen a surge in COVID-19 numbers across the school, particularly in our younger grades. I would implore you to keep your children home if they are unwell, as we are finding it increasingly difficult to replace staff when they fall ill themselves. There are a number of non-COVID illnesses also circulating that do make students unwell and it is best that they stay home.

Our teachers are working very hard in building our understanding and improving our teaching in regard to writing. From Kinder to year 6 we are all collectively undertaking professional learning and working collaboratively to improve our teaching and our students' learning. We are also excited to be introducing an initiative to build our students' love of writing through a draw, talk, write “package” that we will be giving to our K-2 students very shortly- watch this space for more details!

We also have some exciting opportunities for our students coming up with Country Gold trials and carnival later in the term, Esk Band continuing player workshop,  a Terrapin puppet performance and a Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra performance. Alongside this we continue to engage our students with an exciting and varied curriculum delivered by an outstanding and dedicated team of teachers and support staff.