Newsletter - 7 August 2025

Principal Report

Dear Fairview Community,

It has been a positive start to term 3 with a huge amount of positive learning occurring across the school. Today we begin our Winter Sports roster for grade 5/6 students and I always enjoy seeing the teamwork and positive opportunities that come out of this.

A big reminder about Book Week coming up in week 5 (18 – 22 August), our yearly costume parade is on Wednesday  August 20 at 9am in our school hall.

One reminder that I wanted to raise with our community is around the usage of IT and social media by students outside of school. Every school that I have worked in has faced challenges that come out of inappropriate use of social media outside of school. The Federal government has recognised this and is currently changing laws around age of access to these sites, however, I remind parents to please keep a close eye on IT use of your children.

With the weather improving we also have a lot of classes with excursions coming up, please keep an eye out for information around these.

Looking forward to a great term ahead,

David

Attendance Matters

Every school day matters for your child’s education. Absences are only authorised for reasons such as being unwell, or experiencing a significant event which impacts on your child’s ability to attend school.

It is important to communicate to your child’s school about the length and reason for any absences. Your child’s school may request further evidence or information in some circumstances.

Please see the link below on DECYP information on school attendance and absences.

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

Levies

School Levies are now overdue.
Levies are used to support student learning in the classroom.

Kindergarten - $150
Prep - Grade 2 - $200
Grade 3- Grade 6 - $230

If you require assistance in paying, please contact Tina, the School Business Manager on 6261 7999.

Uniform Sale

Here at Fairview Primary, we have wonderful affordable School Uniform.

We encourage all students to take pride and wear their school uniform everyday.

We are holding a Uniform Sale on school dresses and rugby jumpers - starting Friday 27 June 2025  -  while stocks last.

Dress $50 - SALE PRICE $30

Rugby Jumper $65 - SALE PRICE $45

Book Week 2025

School Lunch Program

1/2 Grierson

1/2 Grierson did a HUGE project of work based on Australian Animals.

We started by thinking about questions that we wanted to know the answers to. 

We researched using fact sheets, books and the internet. We were very lucky that Hamish's mum, Vanessa, is involved with rescuing and caring for animals. She came to visit us to share her knowledge and taxidermy examples, thank you also to Amanda for letting us see these precious examples.

Our learning was linked through Science - labelling the different parts of the animals; Art - drawing different Australian animals and beautifully colouring mindful drawings too; Literacy - recount writing about our trip. We could also further explore this topic through NAIDOC week as Mrs Clark was amazing at finding so many indigenous stories about animals for us to enjoy.

We really enjoyed all our learning and the end celebration of the Bonorong Trip where we could share and learn even more!

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3/4 C Karsznia

This term we have been looking into social and emotional learning. We have considered different ways in which to help ourselves and each other both emotionally and in our learning. One method is by working together to solve problems. We have done this through resuming our efforts at creating amazing and strong bridges. We can't wait to see how they will end up.

5/6 A Judges

5/6 A Judges has added some special areas to their classroom this term. They now have a Photo Gallery, a Wall of Fame, Goals and a Gym Corner. The areas were inspired by our Term 2 excursion to Kollab (gym) and align with our STAR Expectations.

We use Safety, Together and Respect when using the Gym Corner. We celebrate our Achievements in Home Reading and collecting STAR cards on our Wall of Fame. The students set goals in other areas and are working hard to add them to their long list of Achievements. Our Photo Gallery shows our many Achievements as well as how we work and play Together.

Art

Grade 3/4 students created Birch forests in Art with paint, paper and markers.  

School Association Bake Sale Thanks

*Huge Thank You to Our Amazing Bake Sale Supporters!*

Fairview Primary School association would like to extend a massive thank you to everyone who supported our recent bake sale! We are absolutely thrilled to announce that we raised an incredible $694.87 for our school, thanks to the generosity of our wonderful community.

A special thank you to our fantastic donors: Samantha, Rosanne, Darian, Joel, Michelle, Wendy, Breanna, Debra and Jane. Your contributions helped make our bake sale a huge success!

We also want to express our gratitude to everyone who purchased treats or donated to our cause. Your support means the world to us and will go a long way in supporting our school community.

Thank you again to all our supporters for making our bake sale such a sweet success! 🎉🍰 We look forward to sharing more exciting events soon. 

BINGO NIGHT

The School Association will be hosting a BINGO Night on Saturday September 20.

More information on details and how to pre-book a seat will be sent out soon.

We kindly invite businesses interested in contributing prizes to contact the school office. All donations, regardless of size, are greatly appreciated. Businesses and/or individuals will be thanked through our newsletter.

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Ptunarra - August 2025

Model Train Show

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Chess Club- New Norfolk Library