I was so excited to witness a group of our students perform at MONA recently as part of the 24CG Spring Festival. Mr Curley has worked with a group of 45 students to form a large rock band. There were lead singers, guitarists, drummers and many more. Our students did a fantastic job and I'm sure will remember the positive experience for years to come. Our value of COURAGE was in full site for the world to see!

Governor’s Visit

Last Wednesday we had the pleasure of welcoming the Governor of Tasmania to our school, the Honourable Barber Baker. Her visit was a part of the Smith Family Learning Club which happens each Wednesday after school in our Flexible Learning Space. Some of our students had the chance to ask the Governor questions and share their work. It was fantastic to share our school with the Governor.

Electrical Safety Week Competition

I would like to congratulate 5/6 Slater-Gatenby for their efforts entering the above competition run by Tas Networks. The class was selected as the runner up school for 2021, winning $250 worth of online gift vouchers at Teacher Superstore www.teachersuperstore.com.au.

World Teachers Day

Last Friday we celebrated the work of our wonderful teachers by sharing a morning tea. This event was to thank our teachers for their hard work and expertise as part of World Teachers Day. As Principal of AFPS I am very proud of our teachers who will always go above and beyond to support students and our wider community.

Christmas Carols event

We are excited to announce the return of our Christmas Carols event after a year off due to COVID-19. This event will again be a great opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate the school year while showcasing student work and raising money for community and school events. During the event we will have craft and food stalls, sporting activities, classes singing Christmas Carols and much more. Ove the coming weeks we will share more information and details.

Hats in the playground during break times

I would like to remind our community that in Term 4 we require all students and staff to wear hats when outside. This is part of our Sun Safe Policy and links with our Eat Well, Move Well Policy. If students forget to wear a hat outside then they will be directed to a shade area in their learning/play space.

2021 Pre-Kinder

Do you have a child born in 2017?

Pre-Kinder sessions have commenced and will continue each Friday until Friday 3 December 2021 for children eligible to attend Kindergarten in 2022 and reside in our in-take area.

Sessions are held in the Early Learning Centre from 9:00am to 10:00am and are led by our Kindergarten Teachers, Anita Clifton, Ipshita Nair and Riki Duncan.

2022 Kindergarten

Please enrol your child/children today!

Enrolment forms for Kindergarten in 2022 are now available from:

• The school office
• SZapp
• School website
• Launching into Learning sessions

Please return your completed enrolment forms to the school office as soon as possible with the following information:

• Student identity
• Parent/guardian identity
• Student residential address
• Immunisation records

Please contact the school office for enquiries or assistance on 6275 7222

Families who were approved and received STAS in 2021 have been sent correspondence regarding STAS 2022 directly from the Department of Education and do not need to complete another STAS application.

STAS application forms for families who have not applied for, or been in receipt of STAS in 2021 including new enrolments who believe they meet the eligibility criteria are now available from the school office or families can apply on-line: https://stasonlinesubmission.education.tas.gov.au/

The eligibility criteria means that if a parent/carer holds a current concession card as listed below they are eligible to apply for STAS:

• Centrelink Health Care Card
• Pensioner Concession Card or
• Department of Veteran Affairs Concession Card

Please note: parents/carers cannot apply again online if they received STAS in 2021.  If a parent/carer wishes to add a newly enrolling student to their STAS file (ie: a Kindergarten student or sibling) they simply need to email their name and the student’s full name, date of birth, grade and school they will be attending in 2022 to: stas@education.tas.gov.au

Completed hard copy application forms can be returned to the school office or sent directly to the Department of Education by post, fax (6173 0315) or scanned and emailed to stas@education.tas.gov.au Please ensure that forms are signed and dated before submitting. 

It would be greatly appreciated if you would complete new applications prior to the end of the year to avoid invoices being sent in error early in 2022.

For any questions or queries regarding lunch orders via the Qkr! app or paper orders please contact LiL Tuckers via their website or alternatively contact our school office on 6275 7222 and we will transfer your call through to the canteen.

This includes notifying of absent children who have lunch orders needing to be held over to another day, late lunch orders which can be paid via phone and also any orders not delivered.

Please remember to place your canteen lunch orders through Qkr! prior to the 8:30am deadline.

Congratulations!!

The following students have reached the 100 Club.

Kayley Kemp

The following students have reached the 175 Club

Logan Potter

The following students have reached the 225 Club

Ashly Haste     Jesse Horton

The following students have reached the 225 Club

Ashly Haste

In 5/6 Lewinski we have been looking at the power of words and vocabulary.

Blackout poetry refers to any poem in which the author covers a majority of a source text in favour of leaving a handful of words exposed to form a poem. There are many ways to cover the pre-existing text. Poet’s paint, collage, scribble with pen and pencil and crayon over pages of books and newspapers and all kinds of other texts.

We have used photocopied pages from our previous class novels to create our own Blackout poetry.

This term our class have been focusing on electrical energy as part of a unit with Mr Backhouse our student teacher, who has been working with us for 6 weeks. This is his last week with us and we will all miss him very much.

We had a challenge using the following materials to make a balance arm that showed the transfer of energy. Some of the energy types could be: kinetic, potential, mechanical, motion etc.

Currently we are creating a balloon rocket using string, straws, cardboard tubes and a balloon. We are working in groups to design a balloon rocket capable of being launched using our knowledge of transformed energy.