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As you may know, our Swimming and Water Safety program is underway. Learning to swim and be safe in and around water is such an important life skill. Thank you to all our parents who are supporting their child to take part in this learning program.
Reporting
On June 22 and 23 we will invite you to come along to our Parent/Teacher evenings. You will have the opportunity to chat with your child's teachers about their learning progress so far this year. At this discussion you will also receive a copy of your child's current learning plan and assessment against the Australian Curriculum. Like all teachers across the country, we assess against the curriculum based on a set of standards. Your child will receive a 'rating' or statement that tells you your child is:
- E - below the expected standard,
- D - approaching the expected standard,
- C - at the expected standard,
- B - above the expected standard or
- A – well above the expected standard
Some families worry when their child receives a D or C rating - these are OK. They are telling you that your child is working within the range that we expect.
We look forward to talking with you about how your child is going at school.
Keep an eye on the newsletter and Facebook page for information on booking appointments.
Is it Bullying?
From time to time people report an incident of bullying. When we talk about their issues we quite often find that it is not bullying, just someone being unkind.
Being unkind is not always bullying.
It is important to help our children build skills of resilience and confidence. As caring adults, we need to help children to respond appropriately to situations. Unfortunately, conflict is a part of life we deal with, no matter what age we are. We all know that children (and some adults) can be mean.
Bullying is defined as "an ongoing misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical and/or social behaviour that causes physical and/or psychological harm. It can involve an individual or a group misusing their power over one or more persons. Bullying can be happen in person or online, and it can be obvious (overt) or hidden (covert). Single incidents and conflict or fights between equals, whether in person or online, are not defined as bullying."
In other words, bullying is a 'misuse of power' and 'a repeated action'. Bullying is serious and we need to support children to report it and then work to stop all bullies. We also need to help children understand the difference between someone being insensitive or mean and bullying behaviour.
Psychologist say that if we call every mean act 'bullying' we are sending the wrong message to our children. We are saying "You are fragile and can't solve problems yourself. You can't handle it if someone is even slightly unkind to you". This may mean, that as children get older, they might not develop the skills to manage independently.
We teach our children to say "NO" if someone is unkind or mean. We ask them to use a strong voice, strong eyes, strong hand and then walk away from the person who is being unkind.
We ask them to say something like - "STOP! That's mean!" or "STOP! I don't like that!" This is a great skill to work on with your children.
If the problem persists, we ask our children to seek help from an adult.
National Simultaneous Storytelling
Glenorchy Primary students were among the 1 million children from around Australia and New Zealand who took part in National Simultaneous Storytelling 2021.
Astronaut, Dr Shannon Walker, who was actually in the International Space Station, read the book 'Give Me Some Space' (by Phillip Bunting) to the the fascinated audience. The students enjoyed the experience, especially the lack of gravity as the astronaut let go of the book at the end. The event aims to promote a love of reading that we hope students will carry into adulthood.
Week one of our school Swimming and Water Safety program has been a great success. From reports coming from our students we know that everyone is having a great time. Mr Pennicott is very happy with the level of enthusiasm our students are showing. All students have a done a great job remembering to bring their bathers and towel. Next week swimming will continue and students will be asked to bring extra clothes to wear over their bathers in the pool for survival swimming - a notice will go home to let you know when.
Students are keen to spend their lunchtimes with Mr Hunter and no, it's not a detention!
The latest lunchtime craze is Gaga Ball - a fast paced ball game with the objective of being the last person standing. Players use their hands to keep the lightweight ball on the move - eliminating players if the ball strikes them on or below the knee.
In 1/2 Brunning we have been making advertising posters for our favourite foods. We used bright colours and different fonts to entice buyers to purchase from us. It happened to be Pyjama Day too!
Our SRC - Student Representative Council - are meeting regularly to discuss issues around the school. They decided that they would like to raise some money to go towards the end of year celebrations for our grade 6 leavers. One of their first events was 'Pyjama Day' - and what a fun day it was!! What a range of interesting 'PJ's' we saw! There was much fun and laughter as we checked out everyone's 'lounge wear'! Many thanks to families who were able to contribute a gold coin.
We are using 'Zones of Regulation' to help our children understand how they are feeling and we use colours to describe their emotions. Each 'colour' describes a different way your child might be feeling.
Oh the attraction of an empty cardboard box!
Our Kinder children had a fun session discovering the joy of creating many wonderful things with boxes. It was fantastic watching the group working collabartively to problem solve. The children decided that the boxes would make a great slide. Working together they got the boxes to the embankment and created their slide and then had loads of fun sliding down and running back for their next turn.
Our very popular Launching into Learning program has four fun-filled sessions each week. Our families come along and join in the great range of activities, gym sessions, reading time in the library and Play and Learn sessions in the classroom. We recently shared a cooking experience and made some yummy pumpkin pikelets - they were pretty popular!!
Levies
Our levies, unchanged since 2014, are $150 for Kindergarten, $200 for Prep-Grade 4 and $220 for Grade 5-6.
Levies are used within the school to cover essential items (stationery, reading and text books, art and music materials, cooking ingredients etc.) for the core curriculum areas. They also cover expenses for excursions and activities.
Levies can be paid at the school office or at Service Tas with cash or credit card, or by BPay.
Levies are now overdue, please pay the overdue amounts as soon as possible. If there are issues for your family, call into the school office to discuss these (payment plans can be arranged), or you may be entitled to benefit from the Student Assistance Scheme. Our friendly office staff can help you with this.
24th May - 4th June |
Swim and Water Safety Program 3-6 |
Tuesday 8th June |
Interschool Cross Country - Clarendon Vale |
Tuesday 8th June |
LiL excursion to Kingston Park Playground |
Wednesday 9th June |
1-2 Brunning and 1-2 Fall/Paul excursion to Bonorong Wildlife Santuary |
Monday 14th June |
Queen's Birthday Public Holiday - no school |
Friday 18th June |
Grade 5-6 Disco 5:30 - 7:00pm |
Tuesday 22nd June |
4/5 Free and 5/6 Connors excursion to Molesworth Environment Centre |
Tuesday 22nd June |
Parent Teacher Meetings 3:00pm - 6:45pm |
Wednesday 23rd June |
Parent Teacher Meetings 3:00pm - 5:15pm |
Wednesday 30th June |
Night In The Library 5:30pm - 6:30pm |