5 September 2024

Principal Report

Dear Families, 

Teachers will soon begin the process of planning classes for 2025. If your child will be moving schools for 2025, kindly inform us in writing by the end of this term. My email address is kristy.hay@decyp.tas.gov.au . 

If you have any educational considerations or information regarding your child’s learning needs that you would like to be taken into consideration during the class placement process, please contact me directly. This may then be followed by a discussion with senior staff. 

Written requests must be submitted by Friday, 29th September to be considered. Due to the complexity of class placements, requests cannot be accepted after this date. 

Please note that even if you have discussed your child’s placement with their current teacher, it is essential to submit a written request to me to ensure it is properly considered. 

Please understand, that while we will do our best to accommodate your requests, there is no guarantee of specific student placements, as many factors contribute to these decisions and every child is considered carefully. 

In 2025, as previously announced we will be facilitating two, three-day a week Kinder classes. I can now confirm the days as follows: 

Kinder 1 -  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Kinder 2 – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. 

If you have a child enrolled in Kindergarten at IPS for 2025 you will receive a letter in Term 4 detailing the days your child will be invited to attend Kinder in 2025.  

Please note, all class teachers and class lists, will not be finalised until the end of Term 4. 

Kind regards,   

Kristy Hay 

Principal   

Illawarra Primary School 

Calendar of Events

Value Awards

Congratulations to all of our Value Award winners. These awards will be given out at our next Grade 3 - 6 Assembly on Monday 9 September 2:00pm start, parents welcome. 

Daniel W - For showing the value of Responsibility. Dan showed great initiative, exceptional maturity and care when looking after a prep student in need.  

Charlie G – For showing the value of Growth.  Charlie has been working incredibly hard in literacy recently producing some excellent pieces of writing.

Layla F - For showing the value of Responsibility.  Layla tries her best in all subjects; asks when she needs help and listens carefully to advice to improve her work. 

Flynn M - For showing the value of Connection.  Flynn is an excellent friend and takes time to assist others with their maths in a respectful way.

Pippa R - For showing the value of Growth.  Pippa worked incredibly hard to produce an excellent tourist brochure on Nepal. 

Brooke B - For showing the value of Growth by learning and implementing a new skill on the computer to help improve her writing.

Alex N - For showing the values of Respect and Connection by helping a new student settle in and feel comfortable in our playground.

Tom H - For showing the value of Growth by applying what he’s learnt about persuasive language to improve his writing.

Harlie C - For showing the value of Growth by taking on feedback to improve his persuasive writing skills.  

Zuhaa B - For showing the value of Connection by being a supportive and understanding friend to her peers.  

Patrick W - Courage and Connection - For his positive contribution to our class and ability to reengage with class activities quickly and easily.

Harry B - Growth - For his excellent contributions to class discussions, particularly in spelling and maths.

Hazel R – Connection and Growth - Hazel is a keen, interested student, who is a kind and caring person with beautiful manners.

Sami C – Connection and Growth - For Sami’s respectful manners towards others and her steady approach and quiet persistence with her work.

Jack B - For the value of Growth through increased effort and engagement in his learning.

Kayleb S - For the value of Respect for the polite and considerate approach that he uses around others.

Willow B - For the value of Courage by not letting challenges discourage her when she is striving to learn.

Isla A – For the value of Courage by sharing more and more of her ideas and opinions during and discussions.

Tess B - For the value of Responsibility by consistently being willing to help around the classroom without complaint or hesitation.

Ethan L – For the value of Growth by giving his best effort to all of his learning and showing improvements as a result.

Neve S - For the value of Respect by consistently showing a high level of respect for the adults and peers she works with at school.

Holly S - Holly shows Courage and a Growth mindset in all aspects of her learning. She quietly focuses on her work and is an excellent example of how a great student should approach their learning! Fantastic work Holly!

Finn I - For the value of Growth - Finn has been showing a wonderful "can do" attitude in all of his learning. He is taking every opportunity to improve his work and give his very best. Keep this up Finn!

Dan W - For the value of Growth - Dan has recently stepped up and shown a mature and responsible attitude towards his work in class. This has been noticeable in the high standard of his recent work - well done Dan!

Andre F – For showing the value of Responsibility by showing an outstanding effort and thorough research for your information report.

Daisy C – For showing the values of Respect and Connection by being an inclusive, helpful and enthusiastic member of our classroom community.

Evelyn C – For showing the value of Courage by persevering with difficult tasks to give her best during spelling lessons.

Layla C – For showing the value of Growth by persisting with researching and editing her information report.

Mila M – For showing the value of Growth by displaying a determined effort in the editing and proofreading process to ensure her information report was clear and polished.

Parker J - For showing the value of Responsibility by showing an excellent effort during the researching process of your information report.

Canteen Manager Wanted

The Illawarra School Association is seeking expressions of interest for a canteen manager on a casual basis beginning in term 4.  This is a paid position for 6 hours a week. 

The position involves coordinating canteen volunteers (both adult and student volunteers), budgeting, record keeping, purchasing, managing orders and counter sales on the day.  

The day that the canteen operates is flexible depending on the successful applicant's availability. 

Please email Rachael Lewis (secretary of IPSA) at ipschoolassociation@gmail.com.

Kinder Fathers Day Celebration

On Tuesday 27 August the Kinder students invited their Dads into kinder for a special Father's Day celebration afternoon. 

The day involved building a birdhouse, fingernail painting, making biscuits and more! 

The Dads were also treated to a coffee van that the kinder teachers organised. 

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1 B/H News

In 1 B/H, we have been learning about patterns in maths. We are learning how to identify, create, label and continue patterns using shapes, colours and numbers.

We also had fun during our recent craft activity making “Dad Rock’s” for Father’s Day.

1R News

In Science we have been learning about push and pull forces. We made car launchers. This is what we used: shoe boxes, rubber bands, paper clips, matchbox cars, textas. We figured out the further we pull it back, the further it goes. We measured how far they went with our hand spans.

By Jess

Today we made some car launchers and when we lunched them, they went far. We launched them a couple of times and we made lists of how far they went and they went very far!

By Harry

In Science we have been measuring push and pull and we made some car launchers. We needed a shoe box, rubber bands, 2 paper clips and a match box car. We put 1, 2, 3 on the car launchers and the matchbox car went really far if we pulled it back to 3. We were measuring it with hand spans.

By Stella

In Science we made a car launcher. It can shoot cars to the moon! It is made out of cardboard, toy cars and rubber bands. If we put the car launcher to level one, it will make a weak force. If we put it to level two, it would go pretty far. If we put it to level three, it would go to the moon!

By Andrew

2B News

In 2B, we enjoy teaming up with our neighbours in 3A for some creative literacy activities. This week, we have been working on some magical story writing together. We have also enjoyed activities like shared reading, guided drawing and board games together.

2H News

In Science, 2H have been investigating materials. We used the recent weather (and resulting puddles!) to experiment with boats made from some of these different materials. Foil, clingwrap, paper towel, baking paper and writing paper boats were all tested… and our predictions were confirmed!

Grade 6 Come & Try Day

Last week our Grade 6’s had the opportunity to participate in a number of activities as part of the Huon Channel School Sports Association annual Come and Try Day.  The aim of the day is to expose students from a range of schools in our region to a number of activities which they may not have the opportunity to do as part of their regular school program.  Students had a go at Pickleball, Badminton, Orienteering, Judo, Bike Riding, Table Tennis Indoor Cricket and Badminton as well as some opting to participate the Huon Channel Volleyball Tournament.

Despite the really difficult outdoor conditions which unfortunately caused a few sessions to have to be cancelled due to the winds really picking up, students had a great day and activity providers all commented on the positive attitudes of our students.  Thanks to Mr Bloor and Miss Catterall who supervised our two groups as well as Pete & Liesl for providing assistance all day.

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We had 5 teams in the Volleyball which was great to see. After a morning of 4 matches, teams were regraded for another 4 matches across 4 courts, with each court then having a champion team.  One of our teams was successful going unbeaten!!  Well done Dan W, Ollie B, Ollie C, Koa D & Charlie G.

Spare Clothes

Can everyone please ensure that there young person has a spare change of clothes in there school bag.

Unfortunately, with all the wet weather, we have had a lot of students needing spare clothes. 

Our spare uniform only stretches so far. 

Thanks 

Open Learning Afternoon

Sausage in bread $3.00ea (limited gluten free bread available)

All drinks $2.00ea - Juice box or can of soft drink 

Icy Poles $2.50ea

BBQ will be running from 4pm - 4:45pm (serving/cleaning up till 5:30pm) 

Kingborough Helping Hands

Library News

Book Club Issue 6

Scholastic Book Club Issue 6 has arrived with a fantastic selection of interesting and exciting books for our eager children to peruse and choose!

Every order over $15 earns a $5 promotional code for Issue 7.  Orders are due back by Friday 13th September, either through the LOOP online ordering system or in paper format to the Illawarra Office.

All orders also count towards earning new books for the school library - so your new books at home help provide new choices at the library as well!

Kingston High Parent Information Night

Kinder Enrolments 2025

Spaces are still available for Kindergarten 2025.

Please returned the enrolment paperwork  to the office as soon as able.

Seedling Sales

Sports Day Fundraiser

Our IPS Athletic Days are coming up on the 16 and 17 October and IPSA (Illawarra Primary School Association) has teamed up with 'Sports Day Essentials' to provide you with some very cool options to kit yourself out head to toe in your house colours.

Place your order between 9^th and 20^th September for delivery to the school the week before our Athletics Days. Order details and the code are on flyer.

15% of all sales goes to our School Association to help towards our goal of resurfacing the courts.

School Health Nurse News

School Triathlon

Although November 29^ is a long way away it’s time to get organised for the Schools Triathlon 2024!!  This is an awesome event encouraging great participation and teamwork where students can compete as an individual or in a team…. or BOTH!!  We are having a meeting at school today for students to find out more and to take home an information sheet and registration form.  Theses can be returned to the School Office BUT the entry fee must accompany the form.  This can be paid by EFT when the form is dropped off.

If you want to have a look the details around the day, check out the website below which has heaps of extra information

Community Events