Dear Longford Primary School Community

Welcome BBQ

Thank you to those families who attended our welcome BBQ. It was lovely to see so many families touring classrooms and enjoying the BBQ together. We really value your support and attendance at our school events and look forward to seeing you at our future whole school events.

Athletics Carnival

Last week we held our annual athletics carnival. Students’ participation rate, athletic skills, behaviour and sportsmanship were outstanding. Our House Captains also did an excellent job supporting their fellow students. Thank you to all families who attended, we loved having you there as part of the event.  Thank you to Mr Ellis for his coordination of a successful carnival.

NAPLAN

As mentioned in our prior newsletter, this week students in Years 3 & 5 have begun NAPLAN testing. So far students have shown resilience and a positive attitude towards their assessments. Assessment information will be sent home to families later in the year.

Staffing Update

Mr Ellis is currently on leave from his position at Longford Primary School. During this term students will still continue to access Physical Education as usual. We will update you around staffing for PE in Term 2.

In partnership
Candice Burnett

Congratulations to students for receiving a
Connection Certificate of Merit

Chloe, Olivia-Paige, Wyatt, Mason, Kytarna, Charlie, Avery, Effie, Leonidas, Ruby and Tobias

Our School Association would like to welcome new and returning families to our school community.

As a parent/guardian you are automatically a member of the School Association. The Association has a Committee of parents and staff that meet twice a Term. The School Associaiton AGM is on Thursday 3rd April. If you are interested in being on the School Association Committee as a parent representative, a nomination form is available from the school office.

Please see the article in this newsletter with information re afternoon tea in the garden on Thursday 20th March. A reminder that ice creams after school are on the same day.

School photo day is Thursday 27th March. Information will be sent home soon with details on how to order. All ordering will be online, no cash. Ordering will stay open until Thursday 3rd April.

All students will have an individual photo taken on photo day regardless if they are ordering or not.

A text message will be sent to parents/guardians when the family/sibling envelopes can be collected from the school office. Family photos will be taken before school on the 27th March from 8:30-9:00am.

Congratulations to our Term 1 Fowl Friends

Thank you Annastasia, Carma, Indiana, Kobey, Mason and Traii for caring for our poultry.

Two new non fiction books about birds and dinosaurs
Two new First Nation picture books - Country and Too Many Tigers

P-2 Lego

P-2 classes were busy in the last fortnight, enhancing their skills or building a creation for our Brixhibition competition.

5/6 Science

As part of our Earth and Space Science learning, 56C recently conducted an experiment to remove the heat from milk to turn our liquid mixture into a solid - creating ice cream.

Brixhibition

Congratulations to everyone who created a Lego entry to participate in our Brixhibition Kids Comp.

Thank to you everyone for voting and being respectful of people’s creations.

Congratulations to the overall winner Wyatt, who will now have the opportunity to compete in the Brixhibition Northern Schools Challenge at Launceston in April.

Below are the category winners and runners up, with % of votes within the category.

Participants will receive a certificate.

Our school canteen lunch ordering have some gluten free items added:

Please note that there will be no lunch ordering available on Friday 4th April.

Families enjoying our Welcome Back BBQ.

Our buddy classes have a great time interacting with each other.

Classroom pics.

Leadership Staff

Support Staff