Dear Parents and Guardians,

We have made it to the half way point of what has been an extremely busy term! I hope you have had some time to walk through our 5-6 corridor to see the wonderful student work on display as part of this year's Book Week celebrations.  It is always such a delight to see the posters developed by each class depicting one of the nominated books. Along with this, you will see silhouettes of super hero’s wearing capes, to signify the super powers of reading that our teachers are embedding in their classroom practice. These include decoding and comprehension strategies such as predicting, sounding out, creating mental images, visualising and chunking words.

Book Week

What a great day it was on Wednesday when our favourite super heroes and book characters came to life.  We saw our staff really getting into the spirit of Book Week dressing up as flamingos, super teachers and a few super heroes! Our Reader’s Picnic was also a very well supported event with many parents, family members and friends coming to share the love of reading in our school! The students enjoyed this day and our parents go to so much effort, thank you for supporting and encouraging the reading of books in our school community.

Trivia Night – coming up 30th August

This year's Trivia Night is on Friday, 30th August, this is always a fabulous fun night! If you haven’t booked a table please contact the office and they will refer on your details.  The event is held in our school hall and begins at 7pm. This is an adult’s only fundraiser and a great way to meet other parents and friends within our school community. The Trivia night organising committee would be grateful of any donations that could be used for their silent auction.  If you have any connections with local businesses that could be approached for a donation, we would really appreciate it.

Reminder – Nut aware

Please remember that we are a nut aware school.  We have a number of students with severe reactions to nuts and nut products which are life threatening.  Please try to avoid packing items such as muesli bars with nuts, peanut butter sandwiches and Nutella products. We appreciate your support with this.

National Science Week

There was a real buzz around our school last week as classes embarked on activities related to Science Week. We saw rockets launched by our ECE classes, Nano Rovers designed and trialled by our Primary classes, an excursion to QVMAG by our 4-5 class, as well as a wonderful open afternoon in our P-1 classes which saw lots of parents engaged with their children in meaningful, messy and fun science experiments.  This week we also had an inspiring visit from the Young Tassie Scientists. 

Science Week at QHS – Periodic Tales

To celebrate 150 years of the periodic table, students from schools within the Queechy Alliance had a unique opportunity to create art inspired by science. Year 5 and 6 students from Norwood, Ravenswood Heights, St Leonards, East Launceston, Punchbowl and Waverley Primary Schools were mentored by Queechy High School students to create a giant periodic table. Along with students putting their own spin on each element’s story, students were immersed in demonstrations that showed the power and beauty of the elements that make up all known matter in our universe.

It was a truly wonderful day that allowed us to come together as a community to celebrate National Science Week.

Scholastic Book Fair

A very big thank you to the parents who helped support our Scholastic Book Fair held last week. The children were all very excited about viewing and purchasing some the books. Without the support of the School Association and parent volunteers this event would not be possible. As a school we are also very thankful of the money raised which has enabled us to receive some exciting new books for our school library.

Fire Education

Last week saw our bi-annual Fire Education program run from Kinder through to Grade 6. The program has been specifically designed to educate children about fire safety in and around their home. A particular focus for the older grades is also around the dangers of fire and risk taking behaviour. Our Kinder classes even got into the spirit trying on miniature fire fighter costumes and even playing in their own painted cardboard fire station. 

Father’s Day Stall

Once again, our School Association is running a Father’s Day stall this coming Monday, 26^th August. A huge thanks to Frith Mabin who puts in many hours to prepare gifts for this stall. As a school we are so lucky to have parents that are prepared to put their hand up to organise these types of opportunities for our students.

In conclusion, I would really like to thank our parent community for engaging in our children’s education. To see the number of parents visiting classrooms for Science Week activities and then again for our Reader’s Picnic was fantastic. Our teachers put a lot of effort into preparing events such as these and for so many parents and family members to turn up in support is great. The look on our children’s faces when their parents come into class to share something special is very rewarding. A special thank you also to those parents who also listened or watched their children’s friends and classmates. We appreciate for some parents that coming to these events isn’t possible but to see our school community supporting all our students is very gratifying.

Hot Food Wednesdays - Term 3 

Hot Food order slips will be sent home with every Prep to Grade 6 student each Tuesday and are to be returned to their class teacher by 9.00am on the Friday of the same week.

To make it easier for orders to be tallied into each class group, please place each child's order in it's own individual envelope or zip lock bag with the correct money inside. Please do not sticky tape money to order form.

No late orders will be accepted after 9.30am each Friday and no refunds will be given if your child is absent on the day.

Father's Day Stall

See the COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD situated in the walkway outside P-1A Millen classroom for all upcoming community events

Piano lessons

Piano lessons available on Monday from 4.00pm-6.30pm and weekend from 10.00am-4.00pm. $30/30 min with the first trial free lesson.

I teach students of all ages starting from 4 years old. I also have an upright Piano at my house specifically for teaching. I have been teaching Piano for 17 years in studios, International schools and privately. Students will be able to learn performance skills, theory and aural training at the same time.

All lessons are designed to be fun and motivating for students to instil a love of music which can lead them to success. Please do not hesitate to contact me for the first trial lesson free.

Please contact 0477 665 951