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We have had another busy week around the school with school and house captain speeches, voting and announcement of winners at our first whole school sharing assembly where we meet our new SRC for 2024. Congratulations to those who took the time to nominate, make a poster, write a speech and be brave enough to stand in front of their peers and read their speech. Well done to you all. Please see a write up from our Publicity office later in the newsletter.
This week we have begun our NAPLAN testing, with our Grade 3 and 5 students completing their writing test on Wednesday and reading on Thursday. We will continue with our last 2 tests next week with time for catch-up tests if students are away. Well done to the students who have already put in a huge effort and tried their best.
Last night we held our School Association AGM and first general meeting for 2024. If you would like to come along, we are always looking for more members to join us. If you would like to find out a little more, please contact the school.
Yesterday the principal position was advertised to fill this permanently, our new Chairperson of the School Association Laura Corbett will represent the school and sit on the selection panel, this process may take several months to complete but we will let you know the outcome as soon as we can.
From next week we will be moving to a fortnightly newsletter – we will trial this over the next few months, in this time please let us know if this causes any difficulties and we will reassess if this is working, thank you for your support.
I love hearing about the achievements of our students outside of their school day.
This week Lillie Ikin shared her wonderful achievements at the recent Little Athletics Championships at the Domain in Hobart. This was her 1st year competing and she received multiple ribbons. 4th for the 1100 Race Walk, 7th for the 400m, 7th for Javlin and 5th for Discus. She also received participation awards for the 100m, 200m and 800m races. I would be exhausted if I competed in this many events, well done Lillie. Last night she was awarded the most PB’s at the Little Athletics presentation night. Well done Lillie keep up the great work.
Denise Foggo
Principal
The Huon Valley 2024 Children's Art Show is being held at Geeveston Information Centre from 22 March to 4 April. The opening for this exhibition begins at 4pm on Friday 22 March. Glen Huon School is delighted to exhibit some examples of the artworks created by the students during art lessons. As we have only had five lessons this year, we have included a few artworks created at the end of 2023.
Please note there was an error on the school levies invoices. The statement date says 2023 instead of 2024. This will not impact how payments are processed, it's simply a text error only. Payments can be made on these invoices as usual.
The following is an update from Norah Davis introducing the new SRC.
Last Friday, March 8th, the SRC candidates presented their speeches and the votes were cast for the 2024 Student Representative Council.
Speeches and voting took place in the hall after recess then Mrs Foggo and Mrs Tucker were rapidly counting the votes in their lunchtime, so we could find out the results in that afternoons assembly.
We are now pleased to present to you the 2024 SRC team of Glen Huon Primary School.
School Captains: Hannah Lowe and Scarlett Watson.
Tahune House Captain: Tiarna McNaught.
Tahune Vice House Captain : Noah Van Niewkuyk.
Maneena House Captain: Isabelle Perkins.
Maneena Vice House Captain: Quilla Moss.
Secretary/Treasurer and Publicity Officer: Norah Davis.
We all look forward to working with everyone in our school.
Norah Davis.
We have some wonderful work from art to share. Please see the following artwork from various students.
Prep - One Students created dogs using oil pasters and baby oil. Also they created seals using oil pastels and tempera paint.
One - Two Students focused on the book illustrator, Manuel Marsol, to created these artworks using meixed media techniquest. We used acrylic pain, collage with palette knives and watercolour paint
Two - Three Students Three created these artworks using reverse painting techniques with acrylic paint.
Four - Five Students were focusing on creating movement with these delightful little paintings. We used acrylic paint and watercolour.
Five - Six Students focused on the artist, Helen Oram. We used acrylic paint and created tone by adding white paint at the end using blending techniques.
School photos are coming up on the 26th of June. We will send relevant information closer to the day.
