Principal's Report 3/08/2021
Terrapin Puppet Show
Today we were lucky enough to have Terrapin Puppets come to visit us and present their play ‘Scaredy Cat’. This performance was initially booked for last year but had to be postponed due to COVID. The entire school from Kindergarten to Grade 6 came together to watch the play and thoroughly enjoyed the antics of Scaredy Cat, his friends the chair, cabinet and tape player as they schemed to get rid of the cheeky mice.
Quotes from the performance:
“I learnt that you can tell a story without using words”. (Pippa in 2/3)
“ I liked the farting and burping sounds, giggle, giggle”. (Esther in 1/2)
"I cried tears of happiness". – (Isabella in Prep)
School Tree Day
Friday July 30 was School Tree Day. The Forest Education Foundation partnered with Sustainable Timber Tasmania to help support Tasmanian schools to participate in this event and Glen Huon Primary School was provided with 100 free native plants. These have been planted around our school with classes teaming up with their buddy class. Whilst the plants are only quite small, we look forward to watching them grow and in some cases encouraging bird and insect life into our school gardens.
Sharing Assembly
A reminder that our first sharing assembly for the term is coming up on Monday 9th August at 2:00pm. Please contact the office if you are wishing to attend so that we can ensure we have enough spaced seating set up. Please also ensure that you sign in at the office and use the Check in Tas App upon arrival.
Huon FM
This coming Monday 9th August, 2 of our Grade 6 students will again be visiting Huon FM to provide a report on some of the great things which have been happening in our school. Tune in to 95.3 Huon FM from 12:00 to listen to our students, or alternatively listen to the podcast afterwards by going to https://huonfm.com/about/podcasts/
Grade 5/6 Band
Every Friday several Grade 5/6 students undertake band practice with Ms Emma Cooper. A few weeks ago she spoke to me very excitedly about the amazing progress they were making and the skill they were showing. I just happened to be walking past the Hall last Friday when the clarinet group were having their lesson and I must whole heartedly agree…they sounded GREAT! I hope to listen to the other instruments this week.
We have the Grade 6 concert band coming to visit our school for a concert on Friday 13th August and then the students who have been undertaking lessons with Ms Cooper will have the opportunity to participate in a 2 day workshop the following week in South Hobart.
