FROM OUR PRINCIPAL MRS LEANNE SMITH

As we head to the end of the last day of Term 1 for students I would like to wish everyone a very safe and relaxing holiday.

While the sun has continued to shine many classes have taken advantage of using the beautiful outdoor spaces and fresh air to learn outside the classroom.  Most days I see groups of students working together out on the steps, the seats out the front or on the comfy artificial turf between the buildings.  My Hay has even taken music classes around the trees in the playground.  This is yet another example of the supportive learning environment all our teachers offer to your children.

If you have not yet heard of it, it’s a craze that has taken over the world.  It is a quick once a day game to work out a 5 letter word – I love that it brings out the wonder of words with so many.  Well now we have a Molesworth Wordle craze.  The Prep/1's have been trying out the 3 letter wordle game and the older classes the 4 and 5 letter games.  This morning when I visited the Prep/1 class to say good morning there were children everywhere with iPads trying to solve the 3 letter puzzle, including students that had popped in from other classes. 

A huge thank you to all families for their support of this years’ Easter raffle, for the donations and the selling of tickets – another great success with 14 very happy people taking home prizes, including Deb from our bus who took out first prize.  All money raised will be used to purchase ribbons for our carnivals so we can continue to offer our place getters the beautiful Molesworth PS printed ribbons. 

It has been another very big term for all at Molesworth, I thank each and everyone one of you for your contribution, support and positive attitude with the constant change of living with COVID.  We are such a great team, which gives the very best schooling to each and every student.  Enjoy family time (remember tomorrow is Moderation Day which is a student free day) and we will see everyone back on the 2^nd May ready for another exciting Term of learning here at Molesworth.

Hello everyone,

Well, we’ve made it to the end of Term 1 and what a busy term it has turned out to be.  With all the challenges we’ve faced along the way it has been pleasing to see everyone in the class continuing to give their best to their learning across the term. 

This term we have: written stories, solved problems, ran, drawn, read books, painted, jumped, played, sang, drummed, danced, listened, typed, used Seesaw, investigated the Winter Olympics, worked on our spelling,  shared our work and participated in many discussions about everything we  need to do to do our best at school. 

Also, along the way we’ve had a Running Carnival (and an interschool carnival for many), two dance workshops, an excursion to the Hockey Centre, visits from sports coaches, watched a show from visiting performers and more. All this on top of all the learning in the classroom.  No wonder we’ve all been busy and are looking forward to the holiday break. Wow! What a busy term.

Enjoy the holiday everyone, and we’ll see you all back for Term 2

Mr Hay and Mrs Button

Over the last couple of weeks, we have had our early childhood classes visit the Hobart Gymnastics Academy out at Bridgewater.

We practised many fundamental movement skills and movement sequences! We practised our safe landing positions and shapes on the big blue floor. We climbed ladders, over ramps, under beams, over beams, under mats. We jumped and hopped along, trampolines, hoops, mushrooms and mats. We hung off bars and ropes. We finished each excursion with the massive rainbow parachute! There was a lot of fun to be had at the Hobart Gymnastics Academy!

What is a banana’s favourite gymnastics move? a split! Here are some of our favourite gymnastics moves and activities:

• Vinnie – I liked the tunnels
• Zander – I liked going on the slide
• Deegan – I liked the trampoline!
• Kit – I liked kicking the big rolly ball
• Sid – I loved everything!
• Theo – I liked everything!
• Darcie – I enjoyed the high beam.
• Nova – I liked the jumping on the trampolines
• Anderson – I liked the triangle mats to jump on
• Louis – I liked going through the tunnels
• Bobbee – I liked doing some tricks!
• Nick - I enjoyed going on the trampoline and jumping into the foam pit.
• Silas - Before doing flips, you need to learn how to roll. 
• Grace - I enjoyed doing a front roll on the bar and landing into the foam pit.
• Divinia – I liked going to gymnastics because we tried so many different things. My favourite was going in the foam pit.
• Ella – I liked choosing how to jump on the trampoline and I went high!
• Sonny F – Somersaulting into the pit was terrific because I’ve never done it before.

Thank you to coach Leanne, coach Hannah, coach B and coach Kara for helping us through many different activities and for demonstrating how to move in a safe way. Thank you to the parent and carer helpers who volunteered to assist in these excursions!

We have received notification that the SPSSA Champions Athletics Carnival will take place on Friday May 27^th. We also received information regarding the amazing athletes who have made our Champions Athletics school team for 2022.

To the following students:

Darci, Myler, Kyeshia, Addison, Nate, Jack S, Braiden, Sonny F and Darcy.

More details to follow in Term 2.

On Monday 4^th April, we had a visit from Isabelle Stone, the artistic director of DRILL Dance Youth Company, one of Australia’s leading youth dance companies for a try at contemporary style of dance! Their mission is to create meaningful contemporary dance experiences, which unite it and strengthen young Tasmanians in our community.

Each class had a session with Isabelle and had a go at the contemporary dance style. There was a lot of laughter, sweaty faces and by the end of each lesson each class had completed a contemporary routine to music!

We would like to thank Isabelle for coming and visiting us at Molesworth! This was her first time out here and she was really impressed by our students.

If you would like more information about DRILL here is a link to their website: https://drillperformance.com/get-involved

On Tuesday 29^th of March our Year 2/3 and 3/4 classes visited the Tasmanian Hockey Centre in New Town and yesterday it was our 4/5 and 5/6 classes turn!

For some of our students it was their first time out at the centre. Some students were surprised at how big it actually is standing on the field compared to when you drive past it and see it from the highway. 

We tested out our hockey skills, using hockey sticks out on the turf and had the opportunity to be coached by some Tasmanian accredited coaches. We would like to thank Tania and the coaches for organising such fun and new experiences for our students. Thank you to our parent helpers who assisted us!

This term a focus of our numeracy program has been the measurement of length.

We have been ordering and comparing the length of objects, we’ve been measuring with metre rulers, string, our feet, our handspans, blocks and other classroom items.

All the students are encouraged to make an estimation before measuring and think about the reasonableness of their estimation. We are getting very accurate in this!

We have been practising recording our measurements and making sure we indicate what we used to measure with.

Next term we will investigate the measurement of weight.

On April Fool’s Day all of our Prep and Year 1 students went to the New Norfolk Golf Course and this was no joke!

We caught the bus and travelled into our local community to the New Norfolk Golf Course! And what a tee-rific time we had.

Our first activity was on the green. We put our putting skills to the test, and it was very tricky. We then made our way into the building to check out what was inside. On the dance floor, we showed everyone our favourite dance moves. We went outside along the deck to see if we could spot where we were going to next! We could see orange flags in the distance so off we went to the practise green. We practised our golf grips, shoulder to shoulder swings, aiming and stance.

There was some fantastic aiming and swinging. I am sure we have some future Adam Scott’s, Hannah Green’s, Su-Hyun Oh’s and Jason Day’s among our Prep and Year 1 students!

Thank you very much to Glenn from the New Norfolk Golf Club for allowing us to use their clubs, putters, golf balls and facilities.