Reading Priority – Growth and Courage

This week we welcomed our new Instructional Literacy Specialist, Stephanie Brown to Team Glenorchy. Steph shares our vision to ensure every child at Glenorchy Primary learns to read.

Our 2025 School Improvement Plan sets out clear actions on how we can achieve this vision. Steph is a member of our leadership team and will be working with us to coach our teachers and staff and provide technical advice on the programs we are implementing.

Our target is to reduce the number of students at Glenorchy Primary at risk of not achieving their reading benchmarks.

Our staff are committed to this goal, excited and hopeful that the learning they are doing is going to have a lifelong positive impact for our children.

We need your help too!

We teach reading every day and if a child misses a day of learning, that is one day that they haven’t don't have the chance to practice their letter sounds and reading.

More information will come home in Term 2 about how you can help with practicing the heart words and sounds at home.

Harmony Week- Connection and Respect

Our value of Connection at Glenorchy Primary School is how we create a sense of belonging and build positive relationships. We know that if children and families feel a sense of belonging to our school then we will have great learning and engagement at school.

We have the most beautifully diverse community which gives us so many opportunities to learn about our world and the cultures of our families.

At Glenorchy Primary we have 270 students.

Did you know that 50 of our students speak a language other than English at home?

Did you know that 57 of our students are First Nations Australians?

This week we celebrated that everyone belongs at Glenorchy Primary with dance, language and clothing. We also invited our students and their families to talk about a word or phase in a language that you would like to add to our Harmony Week Wall.

Wearing orange on Wednesday and having our dance party to different dances from around the world is best described by the Afrikaans word that Chloe-Ann placed on our Harmony Day wall- Samesyn! 'Togetherness'

Athletics Carnivals – Connection and Responsibility

Thank you to Mr Gordon, Susan, Gary, Alex, Ali, Lorraine, Luke, staff and Fitness Leaders from Montrose Bay High and Glenorchy Primary for running joyous and fun filled Athletics Carnivals. Everyone stepped up to make these days a huge success.

We saw courage, participation, teamwork and a wonderful huge attendance by our families cheering on our children. Stay tuned in our next newsletter for updates from Mr Gordon about the Interschool Athletics Carnival held yesterday at the Domain Athletics Carnival.