25 September 2019

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From the Principal…..

Last week I attended the ‘Together We Inspire’ Conference with many leaders in Tasmanian education. I heard from inspiring speakers Jane Caro and Tracey Izard about directions in public education in Australia as well as several of the Ambassadors of 150 years of public education in Tasmania. It was a most rewarding, inspiring and exhilarating few days to be thinking further about our work at PPS. Considering what we have achieved so far and thinking about our next level of work to ensure students at our school continue to progress with their learning is an essential next step for us at Perth Primary School.

Guest Speaker at Assembly – Taylah Purton

This week we welcomed Taylah Purton to our assembly. Taylah is a cricketer, student and business owner who has recently been selected to play in the elite women’s North Hobart team in the Premier League. Taylah talked about the GRIT needed to set personal goals and work towards personal dreams. She shared her own story about her cricket batting position to connect with many students which helped them understand how working hard to reach a milestone gives enormous personal satisfaction.

Footy Colours Day

On Friday this week the Student Cabinet and Parliament will be hosting a Footy Colours Day as a fundraiser for Beyond Blue. This charity was chosen as wellbeing is one of our school priorities and students are becoming much more aware of social and emotional wellbeing and its connection to mental health for everyone. All members of our school community are invited to wear the colours of their favourite football or other sports team and to bring a gold coin donation in support of Beyond Blue. Student Leaders will collect donations on Friday morning.

Review of National Funding Arangements for Kindergartens – survey for parents.

An independent review (the Review) is being conducted into the national funding arrangements that support access by all children in Australia to 600 hours per year of quality early childhood education in the year before full-time school.

For Tasmania this is our Kindergarten year. Since 2008, the Australian Government’s UANP funding has supported an increase to 15 hours per week of Kindergarten in Tasmania, however the future of national funding is uncertain beyond 2020.

Tasmania has a long and proud history of providing free access to quality early learning and the Tasmanian Government has made substantial investments to support and expand this provision.

It is important that the success of Kindergarten in Tasmania is clearly understood in this national process and we encourage the Tasmanian education community, including parents, teachers, and leaders to participate in the review.

How you have your say:

1. Complete the survey – online survey
2. Write a public submission which closes at 11.59pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) 6 October 2019. You can email your submission to UANPReview@NousGroup.com.au

Cup of Tea for Free

We are already planning for the Student-free day in week 3 of next term, when we will spend time planning and talking about what we’ve been doing well, what we can improve, and what we need to start doing to improve student learning at PPS. To help us with this work, we’d like to hear from a number of parents to talk to us about your child’s learning experiences. I’ll be asking for a number of parents to join me or another member of staff for a ‘cuppa’ and a chat! I hope you’ll have time to join us! We will also be talking with all members of staff and representative students as well. This will provide useful information to guide our Annual Review and School Improvement Plan.

Organisation for 2020

We have begun our planning for 2020 and are underway with organisation for next year. It is important that our information is accurate, so please contact the office if your enrolment status will change for next year. We would appreciate you letting neighbours and other friends know that now is the time to contact our office for enrolment details. Thank you in advance. We take our placement of students into class groups very seriously. Teachers know their students well and think about what is best for children’s deep and connected learning, happy playing, and getting along well with others. Please contact me in writing if you have information of an educational basis which is not known by the school if this might impact upon your child’s class placement. Requests for particular teachers cannot be considered.

Profile on Perth - Casey

Casey is a senior leader and a model student at PPS. She always shows the character qualities to which we aspire at school as well as our values of respect, courage, aspiration, growth and creativity. Casey is a committed learner, friend and talented sports person who played an important role as goal shooter in the recent Country Gold carnival last week. Casey is humble and shows humility in all interactions at school. Recently Casey donated lengths of her hair to the Variety Charity which donated it to someone who doesn’t have hair of their own. Casey had not ever cut her hair, only had it trimmed. She had the idea of raising money and donating her hair for charity several years ago and had to keep growing it to get to the required length of 35.5 cm in length. “I had so much hair and I didn’t really need it. It felt very good to me that I was giving a part of myself to someone else to benefit from . . . .”

Welcomes and Farewells

Welcome to Letisha, who joined us this week from Deloraine Primary School. Letisha joins 5/6 LJ

Lee Craw
Principal

Assembly Awards

Country Gold

Congratulations to the Country Gold Students who were selected to compete in the Country Gold Carnival last week. The results for the NM East teams:

Football – 3rd placing

Netball Division 1 – 4th placing
Netball Division 2 – 4th placing

Hockey Burras – unknown placing
Hockey Roos – 2nd placing

Soccer Boys – 3rd placing
Soccer Girls – 3rd Placing (Congratulations to Lucy, Jenna and Meleyah who were selected into the All Stars team. Meleyah was also named as Goalkeeper of the Tournament)

Snakes and Ladders Invasion at Perth Primary School

Mr Muir has designed and painted a Snakes and Ladders Game outside Ms Bolch's classroom for students to experience the up and downs of this ultimate game of chance.

The game has now launched and is ready for players to risk all to win the prize of escaping the snakes of doom.

Hats

Students are required to wear hats at the commencement of Term 4. School hats are $5.00 and may be purchased from the Office.

Kinder 2020 Enrolments

Please return Kinder enrolment forms to the office.

Student Pick up

A reminder to parents the school day finishes at 2.40pm for Kinder and 2.50pm for Prep - 6.

Before School Care Hours

A reminder to parents BSC opens at 7.45am.

Please be patient with staff as they prepare to welcome your child.

Launch into Learning

Hagley Farm Excursion - Kinder

Kinder children had a fabulous day at Hagley Farm School last week.

Happy Birthday

Celebrating birthdays this newsletter and including the holiday break are:

Eloise, Zander, Adeline, Riley, Archer, Phoebe, Bodie, Tarnia, Carson, Nicholas, Lucy, Ebony, Scarlet, Zack, Kaleb,

Congratulations

Archie and Joe have been chosen to represent Tasmania in the SSA track and field state primary team being held in Darwin. We wish them the best of luck.

Canteen News…..

Zucchini Brownie (Week 10)

School Banking

School Banking Day will commence again on Thursday, 17th October.

Uniform Shop Hours

Operations Christmas Children Boxes

Boxes need to be returned to the School Office no later than Friday, 27th September 2019

Outside School Care Hours (OSHC)

Early Birds and After School Care

Early Birds 7:45am - 8:30am Monday - Friday
please contact the school office 6398 2302 ($3 per child)

Please Note: Payments and bookings can be made via cash or the Qkr app

(our preferred payment method).

Please Note: Parents are required to personally drop off children to BSC.

After School Care – Midlands Kids Club (Northern Midlands Council)
please contact Kate Lee – 0438 911 303

Community News……

Term Dates

2019 PPS Support Staff

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