Dear Families

We are in week 6 of learning at South Hobart Primary School and it is never a dull moment. NAPLAN is well underway, Mr Nichols has orienteering in for P.E classes in the next couple of weeks, the grade 6’s are busy planning in their leadership roles for Harmony Day and World Down Syndrome Day, SRC representatives will be selected soon, ECE choir has started with Miss day and the grade 5-6 students have started Wednesday afternoon options. 

On Friday 7 March the athletics carnival was so full of energy. It was great to see so many students getting into the house spirit, the domain was a sea of green, yellow and purple.

The students enjoyed a fantastic athletics carnival, including both track and field events. All student participated in events; they were engaged in behaviours that demonstrated great sportsmanship.

Thank you to Mr Nichols, staff and volunteers on making this such a great event.

In week 9, the School Association will hold it’s annual general meeting (AGM), during which new committee members will be formed. There are 4 parent member vacancies on the committee. Nominations to join the committee closed on the 13 March and then the voting will start on the 20 March and close on the 27 March. Julieann Graham is the returning officer for these nominations and will notify candidates on Friday 28 March.

All parents with children enrolled at South Hobart Primary School can join or attend the meeting even if not on the committee.

In week 9 on Thursday 3 April 9am-9:40am we will be having open classrooms. This is an opportunity for parents to come into classes and see what their child has been doing in their classrooms.

A reminder to parents that if you have not already, please sign up to your child’s Seesaw account using the QR code sent home on Thursday 6 March.

Next week is one of the schools’ biggest events organised by our amazing parents - Ride the Rivulet. This is a great opportunity to be involved in a great community event. This year if student would like to bring their bikes to school, we would like to offer a space to park your bikes in a safe environment. The blue court will be made a no go zone for students and bikes can be safely parked here for the day.

Also, just a reminder to parents that during events like Ride the Rivulet, welcome BBQ or other school events after school, that your child or children need to be supervised. They cannot be attending without a supervising adult. If they are found to not be supervised after school a phone call will be made home.

Bec Corney

Acting Principal during Anne Reeves absence.

Please use the link below to view the minutes from the last School Association Meeting.

SHPSA_MINUTES_February_2025_.docx

This is a reminder to all parents that band payments are due by COB Friday 11 April 2025.

Payment to be made via Qkr!

Thank you to all those that have already made this payment.

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn the more places you will go. 

Supporting your child to learn to read is one of the most valuable things you can do for their future. This includes reading aloud to your child. 

All students at South Hobart Primary School will be provided with a reading log to track their reading. 

Your support in ensuring that your child uses their reading log and returns it regularly to their teacher is appreciated. By creating good reading habits at home, you’re helping your child develop an essential skill that will benefit them throughout their life. 

Book Club Issue #2 is coming home today!

A few orders from Issue #1 have arrived and are heading home today, but we’re still waiting on most of the orders to arrive. Trust that we will get them to you as soon as we can!

But in the meantime, have a browse at Issue #2 and see if anything catches your eye! Orders for Issue #2 close on March 26^th.

Did you know that every purchase you make on Book Club earns our school 15% of the order value in Scholastic Rewards? The school library uses these to purchase more books and educational resources for the school. It all helps!

Book Club - Help needed

Scholastics Book Club for the school is run by parent volunteers. There is only one of us left this year after previous families have reached high school. I’m in need of some help! Time required is only about 2-3 hours twice a term, when the book orders arrive at school and need sorting. And if there’s a few of us, the time will be even shorter.

If you’re interested, please contact the office and they’ll put us in touch.

Thanks, Simone

It’s Harmony Week 

To celebrate Harmony Week the Grade 6 Leadership have developed some great activities to promote harmony and getting along .  

There will be a presentation available for teachers to share with their classes during the week explaining the importance of Harmony Day. 

On Tuesday, 18th, we will be having a Cultural Dressup Day. Students can wear their cultural heritage outfit, orange for harmony or Australia’s green and gold. 

On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be 3 legged races on the oval at recess and there will be a cultural game at lunch time. 

During the week there will be a couple of activities for students to complete in their classrooms. 

We want to make a long chain of paper people with each student decorating one. 

We are also interested in the diversity of our cultural background and so are putting up a large world map for everybody to put a dot on the country their family originated from. (Parents, could you please talk to your child about this, so they know where to put their dot.) 

There is NO cost involved for these activities.

Ride the Rivulet

Once again this fabulously fun event is happening on National Ride to School Day – Friday March 21^st. Join more than 350,000 students across the nation who will ride, walk, scoot or skate to school!!!

This is a wonderful and fun school community event for all children (and their parents) of any skill level from kinder- grade 6. The event will run from 3.30-5pm. With support of the School Association there will be a FREE afternoon tea of sushi, fruit and biscuits, fun activities, prizes and a ride/race for each grade should your child wish to participate. Be a part of the action (even if your superpower is cheering on your friends)!!

Drum roll please…....We may have a local riding legend dropping by! Keep an eye out for correspondence coming soon on how to register your child electronically or manually.

Volunteers Make Magic Happen…. 

This event relies on the support of parent volunteers. There are lots of different ways you can help….please SIGN UP HERE TO VOLUNTEER .  

South Hobart Primary School will host competitions on behalf of the Australian Maths Trust: the Computational & Algorithmic Thinking (for Years 5 & 6 only) and the Australian Mathematics Competition (for Years 3 – 6). These are in paper format, participation is voluntary and students may only sit the assessment for their current year level. Information can be found at www.amt.edu.au where you will be able to look at past papers.

Payments for the AMT competitions will be through the school’s Qkr! app. The office is unable to accept cash payments. Only enrolment forms that have a Qkr! payment in full will be registered for the competition(s). Payment & enrolment forms are due to the office by 3pm on Friday, 4^th April.

Please take special note of the deadline as it cannot be extended due to AMT timelines and our school holidays, nor will the office be able to send reminders if you send in a form but haven’t made a payment. All competitions will be undertaken at school between 9:10am and 11:00am.

 Computational & Algorithmic Thinking      $9.00           Held on Tuesday 20^th May

                                                                                                                   Australian Mathematics Competition         $9.00           Held on Tuesday 5^th August

         Bundle price for CAT & AMC papers (Yrs 5 & 6 only) $14.00

IMPORTANT NOTE – these are separate competitions to those we host on behalf of ICAS Assessments. Information about these will be provided early next Term.

Please contact me if you have any queries via email helen.rothwell@decyp.tas.gov.au

AMT COMPETITIONS – please return this slip by 3pm Friday, 4^th April

Student’s Name:                                                                                   

Class:                                                            Grade:                             

Parent/Guardian Name:                                                                          

This year our Primary Athletics Carnival returned to the Domain Athletics Centre. We conducted our carnival on the Friday the 7^th of March.

We had some amazing running, throwing and jumping on the day and we had a huge turnout for the last event which was the 1600m.

This year the winning house was Wattle with 1054 points. Go Yellow!

Banksia was second with 1011 points and Myrtle was third with 982 points.

Thanks to all of parents, grandparents and careers who volunteered on the day to help our carnival run smoothly.

The Interschool Carnival is on Wednesday 2^nd April at the Domain. The team will be announced next week after we run the 200m races at school..

Winners: Wattle!!

Some strong finishers in the 400metre race.

We even had time for a toddlers race!  Some older students supported the young ones to run the 100 metres.

Grace checking her winning time in the 1600 metre!

Wattle supporters were busy encouraging all the competitors throughout the day.

Down Syndrome Awareness Day

Friday the 21st of March is Downs Syndrome Awareness Day.

Downs Syndrome Awareness Day is all about raising public awareness, promote inclusivity and support the wellbeing of those living with Downs Syndrome

To help celebrate the differences amongst us and to understand and support people with Downs Syndrome, students are encouraged to wear odd socks as the 3 strands of Chromosome 21 just happen to look like socks.  

Please note this is an awareness day and NOT a fundraiser.

Dear soccer family,

We are super excited to reach out and let you know about the soccer Fun-day taking place on Sunday, 23 March 11 - 3pm at the school.

This will be an amazing day to celebrate the start of the 2025 Soccer Season. We will have lots of games for the children, lots of food, prizes, face painting, kit swap, and kit purchase.  We will also have a special guest who will join us to show the skills that have made them number 1 in Australia and number 9 across the world. 

In preparation for the day we need to get a rough idea for numbers.  If you would like to join your community for an amazing day, please indicate via this form: https://forms.gle/rksy31xZBG2wriBc8 

Update on soccer planning 

We are still taking expressions of interest to join South Hobart Primary School Soccer.  Expressions of Interest will close on the 30 March. We will be in touch nearer that time to let you know what the team situations look like.  If you have yet to complete the expression of interest form ?, follow the link here: https://forms.gle/2GpDmktisXGNTeFC8 

Football Australia Registration.

For the little one(s) to play with us, they will need to have a registered account through Football Australia, and that is where you pay the money for registration fee.  We will be in touch soon, to provide you with the information and links to register with Football Australia. 

Ticket To play

For those that might need a little more financial support, don't worry, cost will never be a barrier to play with our school Association. The state Government has a scheme called Ticket to Play, once you are registered with Ticket to Play, you can apply for two tickets to cover the cost, per child. Apply here: https://tickettoplay.tas.gov.au/ once you have the 'ticket' number, let us know and we will help you through the registration process. If you have any questions, concerns; please reach out, we will do everything we can to support children playing the beautiful game. 

Key Dates:

• Fun-day: 23 March.
• Expression of interests close: 30 March.
• Games begin: 3 May.
• SHPS Quiz night: 26 July. 
• Hobart Cup: 29 - 31 Aug, 5 - 7 Sep. 
• End of season Fun-day, 14 Sep.

We can't wait for the season to start and we can't wait to spend our time with you once again. 

In solidarity

South Hobart Primary School (SHPS)

Soccer Committee

Soccer gear donation request 

We’ll be having a soccer gear giveaway at the soccer fun day on Sunday 23rd March, participation by donation. Please bring any donations of both SHPS and Morton’s soccer clothing, boots or gloves to the fun day within an hour of the starting time, or you can leave donations at the office. Please spread the word! This is a fantastic way to fit your kids with the next size boots etc., but it relies on everyone remembering to donate their soccer gear first! 

Stranger Danger - Reminder

Just a reminder for our school community to work together to emphasise the importance of self-protective behaviour and personal safety messages, including avoiding approaches by strangers. We ask that families speak to their children and remind them to always be aware and alert and feel confident that they can report any issues whenever they feel unsafe. 

https://www.decyp.tas.gov.au/learning/term-dates/