Dear Families

Welcome back for the 2025 school year! I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday and are feeling refreshed and ready for another year.

This year we welcome back Mrs Paige Cunningham after maternity leave in 2024. We welcome new to our school; Mrs Clare Eddington (4A - Thursday and Friday), Mrs Leslie Van Loggerenberg (Prep B – Tuesday – Friday) and Mrs Hana Kramer (1B – Monday, 3B – Wednesday). We also welcome Mrs Bec Jubb in the role of assistant principal. In other leadership roles Mrs Bec Corney will continue as acting assistant principal and Mrs Caitlin Rice as acting AST on Thursdays.

We also welcome several new students to our school who have commenced today. We wish our new staff and students all the best for a successful year at South Hobart Primary.

Today students are bringing home a pack containing forms that need either completing or checking. A vital form is the validation of enrolment form. This contains the information that has been provided on enrolment forms. It is important that is checked carefully and details such as residential addresses, email addresses and phone numbers are correct. Please ensure that the ‘receives communication’ is ticked for contacts.

Any changes to medical or health conditions should also be advised to admin immediately.

DECYP is providing a three-year license for schools for See Saw. This paid version will provide more features to improve communication and facilitate the sharing of Evidences of Learning with families.

More information will be forthcoming regarding this, but only parents on the contact list who have checked the ‘receive communications’ box will be able to be added to See Saw. Please keep checking school communications each Thursday to keep up to date with developments in See Saw.

Regards

Anne Reeves

Parent teacher meetings will be offered in week 4 of this term (Monday 24 - Friday 28 February). The purpose is for teachers to let families know how students have settled into the new school year. A further purpose is for families to provide teachers with information about their child that will enable them to receive the most effective support for success at school. Students do not attend these meetings. 

I strongly encourage all families to take this opportunity to develop a positive relationship with your child's teacher.

In order to receive effective communication for your child(ren) could families please subscribe to your child's class (eg. 1A) and their year level (eg. year 1) on SZapp. You will need to do this for each of your children. Please do this as soon as possible so that communication can be made in a timely manner.

Please also ensure that your email addresses are correct on the validation forms sent home today. Thank you. 

Friday sushi needs your help!

Can you help out for 1.5 hours per school term? We need volunteers to keep our sushi program running in 2025. Please email sohoparents@gmail.com with your name and contact details.

Sushi Friday is the biggest fundraiser we have, and the kids LOVE it!

Please note that sushi recommences NEXT week, Friday 14 February.

Thank you.

The Department of State Growth have just notified of minor changes to some Metro and Wisby’s school bus services between Taroona High School and South Hobart, and Taroona High School and Kingston. The changes are to increase capacity on service travelling from Taroona High School to South Hobart. These changes will be in effect from Thursday, 6 February 2025.

The schools affected by these changes are Taroona High School, Waimea Heights Primary School, and South Hobart Primary School.

The following school services will be affected.

Metro School Bus services:

• 288 from Taroona High school
• 256 from Taroona High school
• 258 from Taroona High school

Wisby’s service:

• 2884

 Please find attached a targeted brief for your school, and a route map of the services from Taroona High School to South Hobart effective from Thursday, 6 February 2025.

Brief_South_Hobart_Primary_School.docx

South Hobart Primary Levies and Charges for 2025

• Our school levies for the 2025 school year are:
  • Kindergarten                           $270          (General)                      
  • Prep – Grade 2                        $330          (General)
  • Grades 3 & 4 & 5                     $360          (General + Swimming & Water Safety Program)
  • Grade 6                                  $360          (General + Leavers Activities)

• Additional charges are applied for some internal subjects and external programs it would be inequitable, unfair or unreasonable to require all parents/students to contribute towards a subject or activity with a particularly high cost in proportion to overall levies.

The participation in these activities is optional.

• Our school charges for 2025 are:
  • Band Program               $110             
  • Hire of instrument           $50
  • Grade 6 Leavers Top        $40
  • Grade 6 Camp               $270
  • Chess                             $20 (per competition)          
  • Triathlon                         TBC
  • Lost library books            $10 - $30 (depending on replacement cost)

All levies will be invoiced in March, 2025.

The link below is for the School levies and charges policy:

School_Levies_and_Charges_Policy_South_Hobart_Primary_School_2025.pdf

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