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A very heart felt thank you to all of our families for supporting our staff to attend the Union Stop Work Action yesterday. I can honestly say that I felt deeply touched by this support. So much of what we are campaigning for is about increased support for our precious children; increased support in classrooms, increased support in the form of more social workers, speech and language pathologists and psychologists, increased support in the form of smaller class sizes. A message which came through repeatedly from the speakers at the rally yesterday said was “…because we care.” This, I felt, perfectly summed up the reason why we were gathered on the lawns of Parliament House.
A reminder that our Swimming and Water Safety Program begins next week for Grades 3, 4, 5 and a small number of Grade 6 students. This will run every day for 2 weeks from November 14th – 25th November.
Students in Grades 3 and 4 will swim from 12:15PM - 1:15 PM.
Students in Grade 5 and selected students from Grade 6 will swim from 1:15PM - 2:15 PM.
Students in Year 1 and Year 2 will be swimming from November 21st - 25th. This program will only be running for one week from 1:15PM - 2:15 PM.
Thank you to everyone who attended our Sharing Assembly this week.
These assemblies are such a wonderful way of celebrating learning. It also gives our students a valuable opportunity to develop their confidence at speaking in front of an audience.
Next week there will be burgers on the menu for lunch orders. Please order through the Spriggy Schools app.
There are snack items that can be purchased on Thursdays. We accept cash only at the canteen.
Thank you for your continued support.
Laura Corbett
Congratulations to Donna Watson and Annette Carson, two of our wonderful staff members who have been presented with certificates on completion of their professional learning about Using Questioning when working with students to support learning.
Staff within our school are constantly undertaking professional learning, as we too are Life-Long Learners, just like we are encouraging our students to be.
In Grade 1/2 we have been looking at Poetry.
We are writing acrostic poems about our own names. We started with co-writing an acrostic poem about our lovely TA Kobi.
Here are a few examples and we will share some more of our finished poems with you all in the next assembly.
Liz Armstrong
It’s that time of year again when we put the call out for all our families to sell or buy tickets for our Christmas Raffle.
The next prize we can announce has been kindly donated by Hyperdrive Kart Racing in Kingston.
This amazing company has given us a Hyperdrive Kart Racing Sponsorship pack valued at over $75, including; 1x $60 gift card (entitled for use by one person, in one visit, on races only), 1x Hyperdive tote bag, 1x sticker, 1x balaclava, 1x wristband, 1x chocolate and 1x lollipop.
Stay tuned for more prize announcements to come!
Laura Corbett
Performance dates for 'THE PIED PIPER" (musical) are 14th, 15th & 16th December.
Entry fee $3 per ticket. Great family entertainment and great value.
Please direct enquiries to me
Cheryle Page
0417660232
Saturday November 19th. Doors and Palais Bar 6 30pm & Music from 7pm. Entry: $15 Adult $10 Concession & Kids free, paid at door.
Please bring a plate of nibbles to share during intermission.
Come along and immerse yourself in a lively evening of Tasmanian Folk music and collective effervescence at The Franklin Palais Theatre. Celebrate with us our last gathering of 2022!
“November at The Franklin Folk Club is always special. Our community music groups all gather at the The Franklin Palais Theatre to display their chosen performance pieces of the year” – Steve Gadd
Performing on the evening: SongFirth | Noah Rosenbloom Trio | The Huon Heritage Ensemble | The Hobart Old Time String Band | Geeveston & Glen Huon Primary School Choirs | Michael Crump | Fiddle and Squeeze.
“SongFirth are singer songwriters Esther Cooke and Hugh McGarry, who met at Franklin Folk Club 3 years ago and have been collaborating ever since. Their songs tell stories from life and dive deep into the human condition. Passionate and powerful vocals, interwoven with harmonies that you’ll be humming on the way home” – Esther Cooke
SongFirth have recently released their album “Wishbone” CDs will be available on the evening from the bands singer Esther Cooke. Or have a listen via Spotify.
While folk music can, in a simplified and abstracted form, be written and taught with standard pedagogy it is best learnt through immersion…only this way is the abstract notation brought to life and only this way is the heart of the tradition passed on – Steve Gadd.
It’s the music of the people for the people, shared and collaborated and celebrated. It’s a celebration of humanness – Tiffany Eckhardt
