Dear Families,

I would like to extend a warm welcome back to all our families and a special welcome to all new students and their families.  

We had a fabulous start to 2022, despite navigating our way around COVID 19 health and safety protocols. We thank our school community for supporting us and adhering to these requirements. Please don’t forget to Stop Drop and Go and not to enter the classrooms.

We are exceptionally proud of the way our students settled into school and their classrooms. Before school commenced teachers worked tirelessly to ensure that classroom learning environments were ready to go and looking fantastic. Our amazing Teacher Assistants and EFA’s were also busy before school started to make sure the school and classrooms looked fantastic and welcoming to all. Thank you to all staff for the efforts that you have put in to making our start to the year smooth and engaging.

It gives me great pleasure to announce our wonderful team for 2022.

Teaching staff:  Mr James Milne (AP/ Quality Teaching Leader/ HPE teacher), Mrs Rachel Kitto (AST/Quality Teaching Leader/Student Support and Wellbeing Leader), Miss Bridget Fasnacht (LiL) Mrs Georgina Field (AST/Early Years/Kinder), Miss Sophie Levett (Prep/1), Miss Chloe Street (1/2), Miss Madeline Rizzolo (1/2), Mrs Roxy Clark and Miss Sian Prior (3/4), Ms Stacey Lovell (4/5) Mrs Sam Balhatchet (5/6), Mrs Louise Hedge (Support Teacher), Ms Amberley Jones (Literacy Intervention/Support),  Mrs Colleen Anning (Sustainability/Art).

Ancillary staff: Ms Tracy Burn (School Business Manager), Mrs Janina Saville (Admin Clerk), Mrs Sue Riley (Teacher Assistant and Kitchen Specialist), Mrs Linda McKenzie (Teacher Assistant/Library), Ms Amanda Griffiths (Teacher Assistant/Speech), Mrs Alana Berry (Teacher Assistant), Ms Jo Percey (Teacher Assistant), Mr Jayden Thornton (Teacher Assistant), Miss Lilly Barwick (Teacher Assistant), Mrs Kelly Clark (Teacher Assistant), Ms Donna Hudson (Teacher Assistant), Miss Jo Wrigley (Education Support – Prep)  Mr Steve Bennett (EFA – Groundsman), Mr Matt Dames (Garden Specialist), Miss Donna Gregson (EFA/Cleaner) and Mr Carl Jones (EFA/Cleaner).

Support Staff: Ms Jacqui Bostock (Social Worker), Mr Alex Jolly (School Psychologist), Miss Em Herring (Speech Pathologist), Miss Emma Davis (School Nurse) and Mr Chris Dand (Home School Liaison Officer). 

The staff and I look forward to working with you this year.

Kind regards

Carolyn Brown, Principal

Welcome to Alex Jolly - School Psychologist

On Tuesday we welcomed a small group of Kindergarten students to their very first day at school.  This week our students are starting Kindergarten in small groups and the whole class will come together next Tuesday.

Kindergarten classes run from 8.40 a.m. - 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday and Friday, with half a day on Wednesday 8.40 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Here are some of our new kinders with their "listening ears" on.

Please return your updated validation forms to the office as soon as possible.

Validation forms were sent home at the end of last year with student reports.  Student permissions must be completed every calendar year to remain valid for the year ahead.

If you have misplaced your form or require a new one, please contact the office.

Thank you.

Registration forms from Oral Health Services Tasmania will be sent home to students in Kindergarten, Prep, Grade 1, 2 and Grade 6.

The program will be held at our school during term 2.  All completed forms should be returned to the office no later than Thursday 7 April.

Here is some information about the program.

By having good hand hygiene people can keep themselves healthy and prevent the spread of illness and disease.  This helps to keep other people healthy too.

HANDWASHING is #1 in the hygiene stakes. Keeping our hands clean with good hand washing is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs (bacteria and viruses) to others.

Some illnesses and diseases that can be spread by poor hand hygiene are colds and flu, gastro (to name a few).

We need to wash our hands:

• after going to the toilet
• after coughing, sneezing and blowing your nose
• after patting and playing with animals
• before eating, preparing or touching food
• after touching food such as raw chicken, meat and fish

It takes soap and water to wash our hands properly (or hand sanitiser if soap and water is not available) and we need to wash our hands for at least 15 – 20 seconds (sing the Alphabet song) to get rid of the germs adequately.