6 December 2023

Principals Report

So often society tends to focus on the deficits or difficulties of disabilities, but there are many aspects we can celebrate. This captured my eye for all of us, students, teachers or families with ADHD, either diagnosed or not, you have many strengths. Let’s celebrate.

Kinder and Classes for 2024 –

We are happy to inform the community that we will be having two Kinder classes in 2024.

Mrs Kerrin McKeown will be on leave for all of 2024. We will miss her but wish her well on her yearlong adventure in Canberra with her family. Mr Eldon Jenkin and Mrs Jayne Foster will be the Kinder teachers for next year.

We will have two new teachers joining us to take on the classes Eldon and Jayne will be moving from.

Classes for next year are still being finalised. Students and families will find out their classes, classmates and teachers for 2024 on Tuesday 19^th December, after lunch. Teachers have spent a great deal of time looking at the make-up of our classes and have considered student and parent requests, student combinations, mix of academic and social skills.

Wellbeing Survey –

Every year the students from Years 4-6 participate in the Student Wellbeing and Engagement Survey. The results can be compared to Tasmania and across the years. Below is some of the data from our school.

Volunteers Thank you –

This morning we held our thank you breakfast for our school volunteers. Our school appreciates all the volunteers who help our school and students. We have people who give of their time to attend School Association meetings, help with fundraisers, the canteen, the garden, excursions, student reading as well as helping your own children with their learning. Every little bit helps our school and the students and staff to be able to do the learning and teaching that is school.

Reporting –

On Friday 15^th December, students will bring home their reports. This includes the ratings for the subjects English, Maths, Science and HASS, Effort and Behaviour ratings for specialist subjects, Evidences of Learning (EoL) for English, Maths and many of the specialist subjects. Your child’s self-reflection will also be in the envelope.

EoLs are a point in time sample of student skills and understanding, the rating may or may not correlate with the overall end of year rating. The EOY rating is an on-balance judgement looking at all the aspects of the subject and taking into account all the learning that has occurred.

Some of the EoLs will be shared through Seesaw.

Gardening Club –

Over the past few weeks, we have welcomed some adult volunteers to our Monday Garden Club. Spring is a busy time in the garden as we weed, harvest and watch all the plants growing. Thank you to our student and adult helpers and Mrs Caroline Corrigan for all you do.

Carols –

The students,  Mr Eddelstone, the Auks and staff have been working hard to get our songs ready to share at our Carols Evening on Thursday 14^th December.

The School Association will be putting on a BBQ the funds from which will help pay for the upgrading of the playground with painted activities for the students to enjoy. Students have already had a chance to choose the type of paintings they would like. We hope to get this underway over the holidays.

Volunteers are needed to help with the BBQ. You don’t have to be there for the whole time, with lots of volunteers the stints will be shorter.

The K-2 sessions starts at 5 and the 3-6 session at 5:30.

Jo Waldon
Principal

Solar Boat Challenge

As part of the science curriculum of grade 4/5W we learnt about solar energy. To help students understand the concept, our teacher, Mr Williams had found this challenge do with making a solar powered boat.  So, when Mr Williams told us about this challenge, everyone was very ecstatic. The challenge was on!

Before we designed our boats, we talked about the different types of boats such as catamarans, trimarans and more. After we found the boat type we wanted to build, we started to draw and design our boat ideas.

 Most people made their boat with polystyrene and corfluet. To cut the polystyrene we use a hot wire cutter but we weren’t allowed to use it so that is where Toby came handy. 

On race day the weather was not very pleasant. It was raining but that didn’t stop us from racing our boat! So, at the start we had the round robins, which means if we lost, we weren’t out of the competition. After we had the round robins, we had the eliminations So if you lost you can go home. Our team came fourth overall, and we came first out of all Tasmanian schools.

Thanks to Patrick, Tanay, Abel and Shrish

                                      by Tanay

Dates To Remember

Monday 11 December – Year 6 Leavers’ afternoon 1.30pm to 3pm
Thursday 14 December – Albuera Carols and BBQ
Friday 15 December – Taroona High School Orientation Day
Tuesday 19 December – Whole School Event – In house Fun Day
Thursday 21 December – Last Day of School; Year Six Fun Day

Nut Allergy – Reminder

We have a number of students in our school who are allergic to nuts and nut products. Exposure to nuts can trigger an allergic reaction and be life-threatening for these students, so please avoid sending nuts or nut based products to school. We aim to keep our school as nut-free as possible to keep our students safe.

School Association News

Funds raised from the BBQ will go towards the painting of play activities in the playground.

New online information hub for families

Some exciting news! The Department for Education, Children and Young People has recently launched a new online information hub for families with school-aged children in Tasmania. Our new website has information to help you navigate your child's education, from birth all the way up to 18 years of age.

Visit our new webpage at Welcome to your child's Tasmanian education - The Department for Education, Children and Young People Tasmania (decyp.tas.gov.au) 

Some of the things you’ll find include

• tips on how to support your child’s learning at home
• information to help you keep your child safe and well
• a guide to explore courses for the career they want
• school holiday and term dates.

We hope this website will be a valuable tool for you as you help your child navigate their education journey. We would love to know what you think of our new information hub for families. You can tell us by completing a quick survey on the webpage.

Launching into Learning

LiL will be on Thursday afternoon this year at 1.45 pm to 2.45.

Pre- Kinder starting next Thursday 2^nd Nov, Lils will be off site flyer in link below.

Kindergarten 2024

Out-of-area expressions of interest for Kindergarten 2024 are now being accepted. Forms are available on the - Forms and Documents – on side panel with this newsletter.

Canteen

Canteen Specials

8^th  Dec

15^th  Dec

This will be the last canteen for 2023. Let’s have a party.

Thankyou

A big thankyou to all the people who have made this year a success: the parent volunteers, the school, and of course all the children who have ordered. It has been great fun. Once again, a special thankyou to Jane Chen for her amazing contribution to the canteen. I cannot have operated without her.

I look forward to seeing you all next year.

Caron Summers
Canteen Manager
Albuera St Primary School

Canteen Helper

Please remember to choose the correct order date on the Qkr! App.

Student Voice

Grade 56DJ

As part of their poetry unit, 5/6DJ have composed poems based on a certain colour. We have explored how the colour interacts with our senses and emotions.

The students are producing some thoughtful and well-constructed poems using rich vocabulary, as they continue to learn how to express themselves in a new medium.

Enjoy!

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Merit Certificates

Prep/1 Jenkin (Wombats)

Terrence for great focus and effort in his learning.
Claude for sharing his thinking about characters.
Hemangi for being a kind and caring friend.

Prep/1 Corrigan-Foster (Devils)

Harry for reading improvement.
Juliette for effort and growth in reading and writing.
Konrad for creative writing.

Gr 1/2 Parker (Puggles)

Harry for great self-management in choosing places to sit where he can work well.
Aaron for amazing progress in all aspects of learning.
Claude for fantastic improvement in spelling.
Thomas for great word choice when writing to make writing more interesting.

Gr 2 Baird/Adderton (Bilbies)

Stella for always showing her strength of teamwork and love of learning in class.
Tobias for his valuable contributions to class discussions.
Claire for always being a safe, fair, and respectful learner.

3/4 Burnett

Samir for gaining confidence and sharing his great example of a procedural text.
Dominic for always working consistently hard and quietly and showing support for others.
Jamphel for fantastic progress in all areas of his learning.

3/4 Watkins

Graciela for neat, detailed, and well-structured procedures.
Kayleb for his focus and considered effort in writing.
Mia B for her excellent and interesting creative writing. 
Temoor for excellent listening and his effort to improve.

4/5 Williams

Vivienne for a year’s worth of solid learning and the rich rewards that come with it!
Coco for persistence in bettering her writing skills and showing some great writing skills.
Ellie for her love of learning and sensible class contributions.

5/6 Smithurst

Lily for using her learner asset of being a self-manager to do her leadership roles efficiently and without being reminded.
Tatenda for having a positive and focused approach to his learning.
Isabel for offering to help whenever she can and doing it with a smile.

5/6 Dilger/Jeffrey

Euan for an all-round improvement in all aspects of his schooling during the year.
Oliver for his leadership in trying to improve school playtimes.
Clementine for being a great self-manager when working in groups.

Uniform Times

This year as we are setting times available for the purchase of uniforms.

Tuesdays:  2.30pm to 3.00pm
Thursdays: 8.30 am to 9.15am

Orders can be made and paid for over the phone and be ready to pick up at an arranged time if the above times do not suit you.

School Levies 2024

LEVIES REMINDER

Thank you to parents who have paid levies and to those who are making regular payments. Levies are now overdue, if you are experiencing difficulties with making payments, please contact Annette and discuss a payment plan.  Payments can be made weekly, fortnightly or monthly.

Payment Options

• BPay, Service Tasmania, Eftpos
• Credit Card over the phone (6223 2268)
• Cheque payable to Albuera Street Primary School
• Levy Instalment Plan (Please contact reggett@education.tas.gov.au or 6223 2268)

Student Medications

It is a Department of Education requirement that all medications to be taken by students during the school day are to be passed into the office or teacher in charge of an excursion or camp. The medications require a signed doctor/pharmacist as well as parent permission form (these forms are available in the Forms and Documents panel in the newsletter or at the office). The medication is also to be in the original packaging so that staff know what they are administering. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Medical Action Plans

Every child at Albuera Street Primary with a medical condition needs to supply an updated medical plan to the school each year, especially those with Anaphylaxis and Asthma. Staff from Albuera have been trained in Anaphylaxis using EpiPens and also in Ventolin administration for Asthma. If you are new to the school and your child has a medical condition please come into the office and collect an appropriate action plan form, or if you just have questions please don’t hesitate to phone the school.

Vulnerable People Card Reminder

Sign In Requirements and Checks

New requirements for record keeping have been in effect from August 2018 which specifies that all sites are required to keep visitor sign in registers. All volunteers, external providers, contractors and visitors (where appropriate) must sign in using the visitor register.

A DoE site must request the RWVP card and perform a status check via the DoJ website each time someone presents at or attends a site in their respective capacity. The status check will return current information and indicate any conditions applying to a registration.

If a search fails to return information, this indicates a change in registration has occurred. DoE staff at the worksite must sign off on the visitor register to confirm that RWVP verification has occurred.

The Department requirement is that you must present your RWVP card EVERY time you sign in.

Information for those who need to apply for WWVP card

To volunteer at this school, you will be required to hold a “Registration to Work with Vulnerable People”. It is extremely important that parent helpers and volunteers are registered and Albuera Street Primary School is recorded in your application.

How to apply for a WWVP Card

Complete the online application form.  This is available from the website at:

Chose Department of Education from the organisation drop-down box and also select Albuera Street Primary School from the location drop-down box. Please remember each time to volunteer at the school you need to bring your card each time.

Sickness

Parents/carers are reminded to advise the school office if their child is unable to attend school due to illness or any other reason.

• By phone (62232268) leave a message anytime on the answering machine.
• Email street.primary@education.tas.gov.au
• Schoolzine – click on the absentee tab

A medical certificate is required if a child is absent due to illness for 5 days or more

After School Care

ASC is provided on site by Lady Gowrie Child Care Services (Ph: 6230 6806).

ASC is available from 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm each school day and 1.00pm – 3.00pm Thursday for Kinder.

Term Dates for 2024

Summer Holiday Program 2024

Community Notices