Newsletter - 27 June 2024

Principal

Dear Fairview community,

We have just concluded a week of parent teacher interviews and sharing reports against the Australian Curriculum and Individual Learning Plans as well as providing evidence of learning through work samples. The positive discussions that have come out of this process shows the great learning that is happening in classrooms and across the school. Also, this week we have had four of our staff attend professional development around the Department’s new approach to improving reading through explicit teaching of reading skills and systems of support for when students aren’t yet at the expected standard with reading, the work in this space is very exciting. The initial work that we have undertaken around the reading priority at Fairview through our early years literacy support and upper years MacqLIT program has shown some great early indicators of success.

Over the past few weeks, we have had a number of exciting excursions and incursions, with our grade 5/6s attending the ‘Female Factory’ convict site in South Hobart and then having a pizza lunch at Legacy Park at the Domain. We have also been fortunate to see some wonderful music through the Tasmanian Symphony of Orchestra, Derwent Valley Concert Band and next week and excursion for our early years as part of the Festival of Voices.

In the sports domain our grade 5/6 students have been representing the school tremendously through the Winter Sports matches and next term there will be trials to represent the region at the Southern Winter Sports Carnival.

It has also been fantastic to see so many great things happening in the Launch into Learning space with the recent excursion to Bridgewater PCYC being a hit! If you are aware of students that are kinder age for 2025, please get them to contact the school office as we will soon be starting our pre kinder preparation sessions.

Coming up in the next week we will be undertaking a range of NAIDOC week activities (including our assembly) as well as finishing the term with a ‘crazy hair/free dress day’. I certainly look forward to our students continuing to demonstrate our STAR values during this time.

As always it is important to provide a safety reminder around cautious driving within and around our grounds. Students may be distracted when walking to or from school and we have a duty of care to maintain safe speeds as well as patience.

David

Prep Hammer

This week Prep Hammer have been learning about celebrations around the world.

The students have been looking at Chinese New Year.

This period is celebrated with a variety of events, foods, lanterns, fireworks and dragons.

2 Thornton

In 2T we have been focusing on phonics and how we can break apart and sound out words that are unfamiliar to us.

Recently, we have looked at the split vowel digraphs a_e and i_e.

To familiarise ourselves with these split vowel digraphs we created cards with a_e and i_e words and played a game that required students to write and say the word in order to keep the card.

3/4 Rose

In 3/4 R we have been learning how to create questions to collect data.

We went around to other classes to gather information so that we can represent out data on a graph.

A few students have already presented their findings to the class.

5/6 Bradshaw

In 5/6 Bradshaw we have been investigating matter and how temperature changes can affect items as they shift between states through evaporation or condensation. 

We found as the items warmed up, the particles moved around more and giving a lighter colouration. 

In contrast, the colder the items, the slowly they moved and the darker the particles became as they came together.

Art at Fairview

Grade P/1 Judges punched, sorted and arranged their mixed colours to create these trees.

Grade 3/4 Rose recycled their colour mixing pages to collaboratively create this meadow.

Music

It has been quite a busy end to the term for students in music. We have had a great term learning about instruments in grades 3/4 and finding our voices in grade 5/6. Students went to a performance by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra at 9B studios here in New Norfolk. The show highlighted the connection between emotions and sound. It was a wonderful experience for Fairview students to see such a phenomenal show performed by such professional musicians.

The early years and 3/4 students were also visited by the Derwent Valley Concert Band and were once again given a wonderful performance. Grade 3/4 students furthered their knowledge of musical instruments by speaking with band members and tried out various instruments. It was wonderful for our students to connect with their community and share the joy of music. It was a great day for all.

Pre-Kinder 2024

Upcoming Events

10th May - 20th Sept Winter Sports (fortnightly)

5th July NAIDOC Week Event

5th July Last day term 2

22nd July First day of term 3

5th July Crazy Hair Day/Free dress

School Holidays- 6th July to 21st July.

31st July School Association Meeting

12th-22nd August Scholastic Book Fair

21st August Book Character Dress Up Day

Week 6- Father's Day Stall

Growing Up Program Back in 2025

School Lunch Program

Here are the menu items for term 3 lunch program.

Week 1 will be Chicken & pasta bake.

Weeks 2-10 will be the following:

• Tomato Beans with cornbread + yoghurt
• Chow Mein with noodles + banana & blueberry muffin
• Cottage pie with seasonal vegetables
• Sweet & sour chicken with rice + fruit

Student Attendance

Please use the Schoolzine app or phone the school office prior to 9am daily to report student absences (illness, appointments, holidays etc). Please contact the office to inform us if the student is going to be arriving late, or needing to leave early for an appointment. When students leave early or arrive late they must sign in via the kiosk at the office.

It is an expectation that students attend for the whole school day 8:50am - 2:45pm.

Schoolzine

The Schoolzine app is our main communication platform. The majority or our communication will be sent out via email through Schoolzine and the SZapp.

If you have not already subscribed, please join us by subscribing at

https://fairviewps.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe

You can also download the SZapp on the Google Play Store for Android or the Apple Store for iPhone’s and subscribe. 

To access your SZapp, you will be required to enter the following four-digit passcode: 3765

If you need assistance, please do not hesitate to call into the office. 

Health and Sickness

Please let the office know if there are any changes to your child's health.

Students who are away for 5 days or more require a doctor's certificate.

If your child has been diagnosed with Asthma or Anaphylaxis, please see your doctor for an up-to-date Management plan for 2024 and provide a copy to the office.

Asthma and Anaphylaxis can be life threatening. Providing this valuable information can assist us in helping your child.

School Health Nurse

Canteen

Canteen reminder- The QKR App closes off at 9am on canteen days. Any lates orders must be in by 10am.

Canteen will be closed on the last day of term (5th July) for stocktake and cleaning.

If your child is away and has a lunch order for that day, please inform the office by 9:30am to avoid the food being made. If you notify us before 9:30am the lunch order can be held over until another day of your choice.

A new Canteen menu for term 3 will be put out on Schoolzine throughout the school holidays and updated on the QKR app.

Birthday Cakes

Student birthdays- if you are planning in bringing in a cake or treat for your child to share with their class we would appreciate prior notice. We have a number of students with allergies and medical conditions which require planning.

Uniforms

We have lovely warm school beanies for sale at the office: $20 each.

Orders can be put throught the QKR App or purchased directly from the school office.

Please label ALL your students' School Uniform.

Uniform with names can be passed back to the student.

If not named, uniforms are put in lost property (in the office foyer) until the end of term, then are donated to the local op shop.

Cadbury Chocolate Fundraiser

As a school we are fundraising for our Grade 6 Leavers Activities Day.

At the office we have boxes of Cadbury Fundraising Chocolates available for families or businesses to purchase and sell.

Each box is $60 to purchase and contains 60 chocolate bars. You need to purchase the box upfront then sell them for $1 each.

Please pop into the office to purchase a box.

Derwent Valley Concert Band

Term 2 School Holidays