As we head to the end of week 6 I hope everyone has an enjoyable extra long weekend with a student free day on Friday and the King’s birthday holiday on Monday.  This week saw our first wet day and the colder mornings are definitely upon us.  Please continue to check in lost property for misplaced jumpers and jackets.

On Friday we have all the Derwent Valley Primary and Kinder teachers attending Molesworth to moderate student work samples in reading. This supports teachers to assess in a fair and consistent way across a number of schools.  This information will become part of the students reports for their rating for mid year. 

Thanks to all the families who have already booked a time for a 3-way conversation (your child is welcome to attend with you) in week 8.  Check in and make sure you have booked at time with your child’s teacher/s to receive their mid year report and discuss your child’s learning.  If you have any issues with making a booking please contact the School Office and they are very happy to help.

These past 3 weeks we have been focusing on the value of Courage and I was most impressed with the courage shown when the students gave their very best to complete the cross country course and today with the 34 representing our school at the interschool cross country event.

Yesterday we had a visit from two Hockey coaches, Martina and Belen from Hockey Tasmania. Despite the cold weather, we had an awesome day! Martina and Belen are Hockey players from Argentina who are currently playing with a local Hockey Club this year here in Tasmania. It was so fantastic to have this experience for our students. Martina is also a PE teacher from Argentina.

Martina and Belen brought along hockey sticks, balls and shin pads for us to use. We discussed the safety precautions you need to think about when playing hockey. We further developed our hockey skills and played some new activities and games. Next week we will have another visit from Hockey Tasmania and we will learn some new hockey activities that we are all looking forward too! Thank you Martina and Belen.

Our School Cross Country Carnival was held last Tuesday 28^th May and what a day of amazing participation we had from our students! Leading up to the carnival each class discussed created goals for our carnival and discussed what individual goals might look like. Some students shared their goal of wanting to complete the track, for these students their race included mainly walking, jogging and a little bit of running. Other students shared their goal of wanting to make our school team, for these students their race included some walking but mainly jogging and running. A fantastic effort from all our students on the day, most achieving their set goal.

It was great to see our families and school community come out in the cold to cheer on our students!

My Dad always tells me the hardest part of a job is the preparation. To make our school carnivals a success there is a lot of background preparation from many different people. Thank you to Mr Rogers for assisting me in organising our school equipment to the hall the day prior to our carnival. Thank you to Trish for her amazing help in setting up the gazebos and tarps in the rain with 15 sheep grazing around us on the Molesworth Recreation Ground. Thank you to Mrs Dillon and Mrs Baker for organising things in the office. And to our staff for their support of our carnival. Our sport leaders also assisted in setting up on the day and were an incredible help with our P/1 and 1/2 students, even helping out during our PE lessons.

From our school carnival we were able to put together a team of over 35 students to represent Molesworth at the Division B Cross Country Carnival. This interschool carnival was actually held today! The students showed great resilience today; coming to the grounds of Bayview Secondary College, competing against 18 other Southern Primary School teams, running on some boggy muddy terrain and still trying their hardest for the team. Congratulations to each and every one of these students, demonstrating a great level of resilience. It was fantastic to see our school community make the commute all the way to the Eastern Shore to support our kids!

I would also like to congratulate our Year 6 girl team, Haley, Charlotte, Ashley, Freya and Oaklahn. From 19 schools they placed 4th place overall. A fantastic achievement. These students each received a ribbon plus the school receives a pennant. I will put this up in our hall with our other cross country pennants. The last pennant we received was in 2021, for Year 3 girls, which are our current Year 6 girls!

Thank you to Mr Jelkic for volunteering as our school official. In a long event, it is always great to have a supportive cheer from a familiar face, thanks Mr Jelkic. And to Mrs Binning, Mrs Rime and Mrs Watson for assisting our team!

The invitations to book a 3 Way Conversation with your child's teacher have been sent out via Schoolzine.  This year we encourage you to select a time to have a conversation and receive your child's mid year report.  Your child is also welcome to attend with you.  If you are unsure or having any issues please call the office and Anita and Telisa are very happy to help you out.

All teachers look forward to these times to talk about your child and share their learning as well as talk about any information you have to share.

Please find attached a link to school holiday “winter film fest” at the New Norfolk library.

Monday 8^th July – 10am – Fast and Furriest

Tuesday 16^th July – Miffy the Movie

Please share with your friends, families and  communities. This is a great soft entry to the library….

It would be amazing to have the community to support this, so we get more!! 

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