We had a great sharing assembly on Monday this week with each class sharing some of the wonderful learning they have been doing. Prep-1 shared some of the artwork they have been doing with Miss Bron, 1-2 shared some NAIDOC Week inspired artwork, 2-3 shared their learning about telling the time, 4-5 shared musical instruments they made as part of Song Room and 5-6 shared their investigation and testing into the possibility or impossibility of elements of the fairy-tale Rapunzel.

Thank you to those families who came to attend.

Congratulations to our many certificate recipients who received recognition for showing our values of Courage, Aspiration, Growth and Respect. It is wonderful to see so many students achieving their goals, helping others, challenging themselves to have a go and growing and learning in the process.

Congratulations also to Alice who was awarded an Aussie of the Month Certificate for the way she cares for others in our school. Well done Alice!

A reminder that our next School Association Meeting is coming up on Wednesday 24th August at 6pm in the staffroom.

Any parent is invited and welcome to attend.

Next week’s special will be Curried Sausages and Rice.

Please order online on the Spriggy Schools app. Cut off time is 10am Wednesday morning. If you have any issues, feel free to contact Laura on 0437 177 507.

The canteen also has snacks for sale at the canteen for recess and lunch. We accept cash only over the counter.

じかん JIKAN     -     Time

Sam Ryan
Japanese Teacher

One of our students recently decided to donate their hair for the purposes of making a wig. These wigs then go to someone who has lost their hair due to cancer treatment.

Belle did some research and discovered that the hair needed to be in plaits at least 20cm long. She also found the address for where to post them.

What a generous and caring gift to give Belle!

As part of our continuous school improvement, Glen Huon Primary School will be involved in an External School Review with a Review Team. The purpose of External School Reviews is to support schools to raise achievement, sustain high performance and provide quality assurance to build public confidence in government schools.

All Tasmanian Government Schools will be externally reviewed every four years. The focus of the Review is to evaluate school performance. The Review Team consists of a Review Chair and trained Review Principals. The review will occur on 19 and 20 September 2022.

We will find out the aspects of the school’s improvement that have been verified through the Review processes as well as the improvements that we need to make in the future.

During the External School Review some students, parents, School Association members and staff will be asked to provide information to the Review Team in a number of ways. These include:

• individual interviews
• group discussions (with students or staff or parents)
• meetings (usually School Association, staff meeting)
• visits into classrooms.

If you would like to participate in the process as a Parent, please let the school know. We appreciate your support and time in helping us with this External School Review process.

If you do not want your child to participate, please contact the office on 62666240.

Recently forms were sent home in regard to the Fissure Sealant and Fluoride Varnish Program to certain Grades.

If your child received one it would be appreciated if the form could be returned to school as soon as possible.

If you do not want your child to participate please tick the NO section and sign the form.

To celebrate the 2022 Children's Book Council of Australia Book Week Libraries Tasmania is running a Book Week Bookmark Competition. Children are being asked to design a bookmark that explores this year’s theme, “Dreaming with eyes open…”  

The competition will open on Monday 25 July and close on Friday 26 August 2022.  It is open to all school age children and young people in Tasmania. There will be five age categories: 

• 4 – 6 years  
• 7 – 9 years  
• 10 – 12 years  
• 13 – 15 years  
• 16 -18 years 

The winner in each of the five age categories will have their design professionally printed and made available at all our libraries.   

Any children wishing to enter the competition can collect an entry form from the school office. Entries can either be returned directly to a State Library or to the school by Friday 26 August 2022.

Each Libraries Tasmania site will select one finalist in each age category. The finalists will be judged, and one winner selected from each age group. 

Full terms and conditions are available at www.libraries.tas.gov.au.  

The winner in each age group will be contacted by Friday 2 September 2022. 

Creating and making musical instruments from scrap materials.

Recently our class spent their Song Room session with Isaac and Miss Munson creating a collection of musical instruments from recycled materials and items you can find around the house.

The students were given a few clues to assist their thinking. To play their musical instrument students could pluck, blow, hit, scape. ………….. Then, the students were given a  chance to choose materials  that they needed to begin construction of their instruments.  In about forty minutes there were many success stories. There were lots of interesting creations and interesting sounds coming from instruments made.

Check out the photos in the gallery to see some of our amazing instruments!

Begins Monday 5^th September

We would like to invite families to our Book Week celebrations. This year’s theme is ‘Dreaming with Eyes Open’.

Book Week Parade – 5^th September

Our dress up parade is on Monday 5th September at 9:00am.

The staff at Glen Huon decided it would be lots of fun to dress up as characters from books written by Australian Authors. Have fun creating a character from your child’s favourite book. You may choose any character from a book of your choice or you may like to join the staff with the Australian Author theme. We can’t wait to see all the wonderful book characters appearing at school ready for the book parade.

If you would like to join us at the parade please RSVP to the office by Friday 2^nd August. Physical distancing must be maintained.

Book Fair – 5^th September to 9^th September

This year we will be holding a book fair for parents to purchase books from Scholastic. The Book Fair will be open after the parade on Monday and then every morning that week from 8:30am to 9:00am. Children will visit the fair with their teacher on Tuesday 30^th August and will write a ‘Wish List’ that will list some of the books that they are keen to buy. If you cannot attend the fair you can purchase books from this Wish List online and bring the payment receipt number back to collect the books. You are under no obligation to buy the books listed on the Wish List, it is just an opportunity for you to purchase books online if you cannot make it into school.