Dear Families

With this being our last newsletter for the year, I would like to take the opportunity to thank our parents, community partners and helpers, for their continued support and contribution to our school. 

It was wonderful to see our Grade 6 families at our Grade 6 Presentation Assembly. Congratulations to the following students who received awards:

Sophie, Zoi, Ayesha, Brett, Lilly, Ruby, Brooke, Jazhara, Molly-Rose, Bailey M, Blake, Dustyn, Evelyn and Shyne.

This term we say farewell to some of our wonderful staff.  Sadly, we will be saying goodbye to Mrs McShane who will be taking up an appointment at Princes Street Primary School and to Mr Vandermey who will be transferring to Huonville Primary School. Congratulations goes to Mrs Norton who has won and will be taking up an appointment as Early Career Teacher, Strategy Leader supporting and overseeing Intern teachers. We also say goodbye to Miss Meissner who will not be with us next year. On behalf of staff, students and parents I would like to wish them every success in their new schools and positions, and thank them for their contribution and commitment to Herdsmans Cove Primary. 

At this stage I can confirm the following staffing and staff placements for 2022.

Class placements will be sent home with reports on Monday 13 December. We will be also be running transition sessions on Monday so that students have the opportunity to meet their teacher and visit their new classroom.

Carolyn Brown, Principal

2021 has been a rewarding and productive year for our school and community, as we have continued to work together to build relationships and overcome challenges to achieve common goals.

None of these goals can be achieved without the support of our community partners and we greatly appreciate the wonderful assistance we have received from Mona, Red Cross, Parkside, PCYC, The Smith Family, The Salvation Army, The Federal Group, TechnoBeat, Gagebrook Community Centre, A Sporting Chance, BGH Breakers, UTAS - Children's University and our volunteers.  We couldn't do such amazing things on a day-to-day basis without our amazing champions of the community.  We are so lucky! Let's show our appreciation.

We have continued to foster opportunities to build learning partnerships with our families through such programs as LiL and LIFT under the wonderful guidance of Ms Field. We thank our wonderful families for working alongside us. What could be more powerful than parents, children and teachers learning together?

Our Kitchen Garden program this year has continued to have a strong focus on Science, Sustainability health and wellbeing. During the year our taste buds have been tantalized by delicious meals our students have prepared with produce from our Kitchen Garden Program.  Our cooking programs have also provided an opportunity to foster leadership and entrepreneurial skills as students take on the responsibility of preparing menus, collating orders and serving meals.

This year we have continued to foster opportunities to enhance our students learning and have seen significant gain in student writing and reading. This has resulted in us building fantastic story tellers and writers and expressive readers. We have utilised such programs as Talk for Writing, Fountas and Pinnell intervention and Reading Doctor to engage all our students and ensure that we have an inspired and innovative learning community.

Aim high, dream big.  Our students have been supported with opportunities to participate in a range of sporting programs. Through the fantastic generosity of volunteers and organisations, students have participated in Futsal, the After School Sporting Chance program and Netball through the support of BGH Breakers.

At Herdsmans Cove we have a growth mindset. This means we develop resilient learners who will try anything, take risks with their learning, not be afraid of mistakes and are inspired to take on learning challenges!

Our achievements have resulted from quality teaching and learning, strong relationships and attention to our values as a community.  A continuation of these practices will enable Herdsmans Cove to further develop its status as an excellent school.

I would like to wish all students, staff and parents a safe and happy Christmas and a successful New Year.

Carolyn Brown, Principal

On Wednesday the whole school celebrated Christmas lunch together in their classrooms.  Thank you to Mrs Riley for busily preparing lunch to feed all our students and staff and to her group of merry helpers in distributing the lunches to classrooms.  It is a lovely way for everyone to experience the joy of sharing a Christmas meal together.

Yesterday we said farewell to our Kindergarten students and celebrated together with a Christmas party and performance that our parents attended.

Thank you to Ms Jo from TechnoBeat for choreographing two dances with the class who have been practising for many weeks, and to Mrs McShane for being a wonderful Kindergarten teacher.

It was lovely to sing and dance along to the Hokey Pokey and Jingle Bells.

We would like to congratulate our Parkside clients and staff that have been awarded the 2021 School Food Service Volunteer Award.  This is a wonderful achievement!

This award reflects the great work that our Canteen team do to provide healthy, tasty food options for our students at Herdsmans Cove Primary School.

We have a special relationship with our Parkside clients and staff and value their dedication and joy they bring to our school each week.

JUST A REMINDER THAT THERE WILL BE NO CANTEEN ORDERS NEXT WEEK.

We look forward to seeing our team back in the new year.

A reminder that all Christmas Raffle books will need to be returned to school by the close of business on Tuesday 14 December.  The raffle will be drawn promptly at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday.

The 2022 calendars will be ready for families that ordered to collect on Wednesday 15 December.

Thank you Mrs Riley for your support of our P&F school association.

Justin from Macq01 approached Herdsmans Cove Primary School to provide some Christmas decorations to be placed on the tree in the Henry Jones Art Hotel in Hobart.  Our classes jumped at the chance to decorate Christmas trees and angels to be proudly displayed.  Justin visited our school on Tuesday to collect the decorations and to thank students for their beautiful decorations.

We wish our whole school community a wonderful Christmas and New Year.  Stay safe in the holidays and we look forward to seeing students return to school next year on the 9 February.

Term Dates as follows:

1st Term - 9/2/2022 to 13/4/2022

2nd Term - 2/5/2022 to 8/7/2022

3rd Term - 26 July, 2022 to 30/9/2022

4th Term - 17/10/2022 to 21/12/2022

Students starting in Kindergarten next year will receive letters in the mail during the school holidays with their start date.

Days for Kindergarten next year are Tuesday and Friday 8.40 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. and Wednesday's half a day from 8.40 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.