FROM OUR PRINCIPAL MRS LEANNE SMITH

Today Mr Rogers has been busy installing our new outside display boards.  Keep a look out for these to be filled with happenings from around the school.  The School Association information board is also with these boards at the top of the hall space.  It is great to have that space back and plants will be going into the beautiful new garden areas soon. 

As teachers have been busy finalising their reports the amazing learning has continued in all classes.  As I wandered around last week, I noticed the many creative budding young artists we have in the classes.  Check out some of the artwork in the photo gallery below.

This week everyone gets to enjoy a long weekend as Monday is the Queen’s Birthday Holiday.  On Tuesday at 4:30 pm we have our next School Association meeting.  All parents are always welcome to this.  If you would like anything bought up for discussion, please make contact with any of the parent reps.

Apologies for the steps to the office being closed for an extended amount of time, there were issues with the suppliers of the not slip strips and now they have arrived they are waiting for a day dry enough to install them.  Not too far away now.

This term the SRC have been working on a bread bag fundraiser, 5 cent jar fundraiser and selling icy poles on Fridays. The bread bags will be finishing on the 20^th of July so we need to collect more! Don’t forget we are collecting bread tags too and we only have about a third of what we need for both the bread bags and tags.

The 5 cents are going well, so far Prep-1WY are in the lead followed by Kinder and Year 2-3. The 5 cents are going to be going till the end of term. All this money will be going to the school and children’s ward in the Royal Hobart hospital.

This Term, 2-3 students have been exploring natural environments and investigating suitable habitats for a variety of different animals both locally and in other parts of the world. We have noticed that just like humans, animals live in an environment that provides them with all the things that they need to survive such as food, water, protection or shelter and oxygen.

As part of our investigations, we have focused on how people protect animals and their habitats in our Wildlife Park. We continue to deepen our understanding of maps and how to read them as we design our own national parks in our mapping area. We have used a combination of natural and man-made materials to create an environment in the nature area as well as planning, constructing and testing our own design in the construction area using recyclable materials. In our Maths area, students have been using tangrams puzzle to create a range of animals and record facts known and learnt facts related to the animal.

Our curiosity and love for the environment has lead us to the creative station where students have been experimenting with different collage techniques such as tearing, scrunching, cutting and layering paper to demonstrate their understanding of the living and non-living parts that make an environment a habitat.

This week, we have been discussing the meaning of words such as threatened, endangered and extinction. Once an extraordinary and unique species is lost forever it can have a massive impact on nature and people.

On Friday May 28^th our Prep to Year 6 students participated in our School Cross Country! We saw some awesome skipping, jogging, walking and running on the track. We had events ranging from 500m to 2.5km. From our school carnival, 48 students were selected to represent our school at the Division B SPSSA Cross Country carnival at Bayview Secondary College on Tuesday May 8^th. There were 17 other schools in this division with more than 800 competitors! Our Molesworth team did us very proud, trying their best and cheering each other on! A massive congratulations to all our competitors! Well done to Addison Jelkic who came 2^nd overall in the Year 4 girls event and Joseph Papera who came 4^th overall in the Year 4 boys event. We also wish to say a congratulations to our Year 3 girls team who came third overall out of all of the 18 Year 3 girls teams, an amazing achievement for their first experience in the SPSSA Cross Country Carnivals.

This term all students in Prep-Year 6 are participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. The challenge encourages children to make reading a fun part of their day and read at least 10 books in 10 weeks. All students participating in the challenge receive a bookmark and go into a weekly state wide draw to win a school visit from Hawka, the Hawthorne Football Club mascot.  Students who complete the challenge receive a certificate from the Premier and have a chance to win prize for themselves and our school.

Term Dates 2021:

Term 3: Tuesday 20 July 2021 to Friday 24 September 2021

Term 4: Monday 11 October 2021 to Thursday 16 December 2021

Student Free Days 2021:

Student Free Day 3: Friday 22 October 2021