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Hello and welcome back for Term 2. It has been lovely to welcome everyone back for another term.
Our Student Representative Council members as well as a few other students attended the Huonville ANZAC Day service on Tuesday 25 April. Before the end of last term, each student in the school was given the opportunity to make a paper poppy. These were then arranged into a wreath, which our School Captains then placed on the Cenotaph. Making a poppy gave each child an opportunity to learn about what ANZAC Day is about and also to reflect on why it is an important national day of commemoration.
Thank you to the parents and families who supported their children to attend.
Our school Cross Country Carnival is coming up on Thursday 11th May
More information will come home to families soon. For people wishing to make arrangements to attend the timetable is below:
11:40-11:55 – Grade 6
11:55-12:10 – Grade 5
12:10-12:25 – Grade 4
12:25- 12:40 – Grade 3
12:40-12:50 – Grade 2
1:00-1:50 – Lunch Break
2:00-2:10 – Grade 1
2:10-2:20 - Kinder
2:20-2:30 – Prep
Book Club # 3 catalogues will be coming home today, (please check your childs bag).
Orders are due on Monday 15th May and are made via the LOOP, we do not take cash orders at school.
Leesa
Library Aide
Thank you for all your support for the canteen.
Did you know that the canteen is 100% run by parents and caregivers volunteering their time? This is everything from menu planning and ordering through to cooking and serving at lunch and recess. The canteen would not be able to operate without our volunteers.
We would like to say a big thank you to all our parents that give their time to help run the canteen.
The canteen will again be open from Thursday 4th May. Next week the special will be spaghetti bolognaise.
Please order your child's lunch using the Spriggy App.
Laura Corbett
Co-ordinator
In Prep we have been noticing the changes in the seasons and thinking about calendars.
We’re sure you’ve heard of the four English seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn, but did you know that First Nations People have been following their own calendars for over 65 thousand years?
First Nations calendars are based on the changes in the plants, animals and weather of the local environment, and the changes in seasons help each community know when it’s the best time to go hunting for different animals, collect fruits, gather shellfish, when to meet with other mobs and when to harvest materials for weaving and building.
We learned about the people from Nauiyu/daly river in the Northern Territory. There are 13 seasons on the Ngangi seasonal calendar.
The Ngan’gi people know that when the wurrmuy or spear grass is flowering, that’s the season of wudupuntyurrutu, a good time for gathering bush fruits.
When the wurrmuy seeds are ripe, and the Ayiwisi, the dragon flies, begin to hatch, it’s nearly the dry season and it’s a good time to hunt for fish like Barramundi.
We decided to look around our school and see what is happening right now in our local environment on Melukerdee land. We are going to check every fortnight and make a calendar from our observations all year.
Here are some of the things we noticed in March and April:
We found acorns - Malia
Some leaves are falling off the trees - Milus
We can see grasshoppers - Fox
The leaves are a little bit different colours - Benny
The blackberries are nearly all gone here, but not at my house - Ged
Acorns are turning brown - Dev
The trigger plants have pink flowers - Violet
Purple berries - Monnie
The dandelions got flowers and seeds - Ellie
I wonder what changes you might see around our school if you start to look?
Jess Black and Emma Constantine
