As this week sees the end of another amazing term at Molesworth I would like to wish everyone a relaxing, enjoyable break without having to think about school uniforms and packed lunch boxes. Throughout the term we celebrated learning in so many different ways, from our open day to many varied excursions along with such a mix of incredible learning in all classes. I regularly have students visit to share their learning and are always so proud of what they have achieved. Keep checking in on Seesaw to see all that happens here at Molesworth.

A huge thankyou to all families who were able to book in for a 3 way conversation last week, these opportunities are vital in the support of the best for your children throughout their years of schooling.

This week we thank Mr A for the amazing 2 terms in Grade 5/6 and for the past 6 weeks while Mr Warman has been on long service leave. Next term we welcome Mr Warman back on Mondays and Tuesday for literacy teaching and to Mrs Clark who begins here as our AST. I am sure everyone will make her feel very welcome.

Looking forward to seeing everyone back on Monday 21^st July.

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On Tuesday the Kinder and Prep/1 classes travelled to the New Town Hockey Centre! We had such a fabulous time.

Thank you to Hockey Tasmania Coaches, Nicole and Max. We played some familiar games and new games all on the blue turf at the Hockey Centre. It was such a big space!

Thank you to our lovely parent helpers, Mrs Reymann and Mrs Stock, and to Mrs Maw, Mrs Browning and Liam our Year 12 VET Sport/Rec student who supported our students.

Please find below some comments from our Hockey superstars:

Josephine and Lilliana – I liked to hit the ball with the hockey stick.
Harrison, Lbaara, Hazel and Medina – We liked everything!
Charlie C – I liked passing it to other people.
Balki – I liked when we had to hit it as far as we could!
Austin – I liked having to hit the ball to aim for the cones
Georgie – I enjoyed hockey octopus

Rest assured if you ever get lost at Molesworth Primary our students will be able point you in the right direction!

We have been focusing on Orienteering this term and were visited by Mike from Orienteering Tasmania earlier this week. We discussed and explored what Orienteering is, navigational skills using a map, navigating on a vast range of terrain whilst moving at speed and reaching checkpoints!

We participated in some orienteering races, discussed directions and navigation, orienteering symbols and pictures, used maps to navigate ourselves to get to checkpoints around our school and we also used electronic orienteering equipment!

Yesterday the Grade 3/4 class went to Tolosa Park to complete various orienteering courses! We had to navigate around a new location and use our Orienteering skills to locate checkpoints. Mike was really impressed because each team had perfect runs – not missing any controls. Each team was accompanied by a wonderful parent volunteer and without the following parent volunteers we wouldn’t have been able to go on our excursion – a MASSIVE thank you to, Mrs Farrell, Mr Cross, Ms Johns, Mr Turner, Mrs Watt, Mr Littlejohn and Ms Burns!

We would like to pass on a big thank you to Jane and Mike from Orienteering Tasmania for organising these special events for us.

Hear below from our 3/4 Orienteering stars:

Emily – It was really good, I liked moving around finding the controls.
Ava – it was really fun, especially going down the big hill! We went really fast.
Beatrix – I really liked the fact we didn’t know where we were going and had to use a map. It was a lot more challenging. It was good that my group communicated with others to make a plan of where to go.
Levi – my favourite part was getting exercise in whilst we were orienteering.
Isla – I really liked it. The controls were placed really well. I liked on the maps it told you where the controls were. I liked communicating with my team to find the controls.
Manu – I liked when we used the electronic p-cards to scan each control.

If you are interested, check out the Orienteering Tasmania website (https://www.tasorienteering.asn.au/) for details of future events. The next one is at Waverley Park this Sunday July 6^th at 10:00am, all members of the Molesworth Primary School community are very welcome and your first event is free. Just turn up and Mike will lend you the equipment you need to participate. For any queries please contact Mike (learntoorienteer@tasorienteering.asn.au).

On Thursday 26^th July, our Grade 4/5 class travelled to Moonah sports stadium to participate in wheelchair basketball.

Our students had a lot of fun participating in the warm-up activities and the wheelchair basketball games. In class discussions prior to going on the excursion many of the 4/5 students thought it would be really easy but on the day found manoeuvring around in the games, dribbling the ball, passing and shooting quite challenging!

The session was run in collaboration with Richard from Para Quad Tasmania and we thank him for this amazing opportunity for our students!

To finish the session, Richard spoke to us about disabilities and how we should treat people who live with a disability.

Thank you to Mrs Barber and Mr Jelkic for accompanying our Grade 4/5 class and also competing against them - at the end we had an adult vs student game. You will have to chat with one of our 4/5 students to hear about how it went!

Here are some comments from our students:

Lola – Zooming around in the wheelchair was fun. A message from Richard was to never question someone in a wheelchair.
Grace – I had found in the wheelchair stealing the ball and shooting okay. I learnt that it is not nice to go up to random people in a wheelchair and ask them how they got in their wheelchair. The first thing you should say is, Hi how are you. And don’t judge people in wheelchairs because they are normal people too.
Silas – It was a cool experience to ride in a wheelchair. It was a bit challenging because it wasn’t like basketball at school, it was sitting and shooting not standing and shooting so it was harder to shoot the ball.
Lacie – I had fun learning how to use a wheelchair. It was fun. My Dad also got a go. A message Richard shared was to be careful what you post on the internet.