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- School Intake Areas for 2021
- Happy Birthday
- Stars of the Newsletter
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- Leadership and Support Staff
Dear Parents, Carers and Students,
It is wonderful to see our attendance rates starting to rise again and less colds and sniffles now the sun is starting to shine. Please remember to call the office if your child is unwell, so we can record absences accurately. A sincere thank you to all families and visitors to our school for completing the Covid Safety Screening forms on arrival. We appreciate all that you continue to do to help keep our school and community healthy and safe.
The average daily attendance rate year to date is currently at:
Welcome
A warm welcome to two new staff members at Longford Primary School, Mr Alex Payne and Miss Sarah Elliott. Mr Payne is teaching 5/6 and Miss Elliott is teaching a range of lessons across all classes. Please take a minute to say hi to them if you see them in your child’s classroom or around our school over the coming weeks.
Swimming
Congratulations to Grade 3-5 students who have now started their second week of Swimming and Water Safety. Students have shown great resilience, courage and growth; working hard to learn new skills and develop more confidence in the water.
Country Gold
Wishing our Country Gold selected students all the best for their challenge matches this week and two day carnival next week. Thanks to our School Association for supporting each student with $20 toward their fees.
Hockey: Imogen Q and Alice
Netball:Amelia, Imogen B and Carly
Soccer: Charlotte, Bella, Ahlia, Fran, Lochie, Billy and Zohen
5/6 Sport
Congratulations to all 5/6 student on your participation in Friday 5/6 Sport. I saw bravery and courage displayed by many of you. Well done for showing up with a great attitude and giving it your best effort each and every week – congratulations!
STEM
Our Prep-Grade 3 classes have enjoyed some fantastic STEM lessons with Mrs Viney this term. Grade 4-6 students are looking forward to engaging in this program in Term 4.
MND Fundraising
Thank you to all families for supporting our MND fundraising initiative. Our first fundraising event ‘CRAZY COLOURs for SPRING’ raised $457. We sincerely thank Longford Rotary for their $110 donation. We are well on our way to our $1500 goal for the year. Our second MND fundraising event will be held on the last day of term – Friday the 25th of September. On this day, all students, K-6 are invited to dress in their footy or favourite sporting teams colours and bring a gold coin.
Father’s Day Raffle
Thank you to our School Association members for running a very successful Father’s Day raffle. The Association raffle raised $858. Thank you to all families who contributed prizes to the raffle and bought tickets. Monies raised will go towards our End of Year Grade 6 Celebration Events. We sincerely hope all Dads had a wonderful day on Sunday!
Congratulations to the winners:
1st Prize – Bob Bishop, 2nd Prize – Shirley Adams.
Uniform Reminder
Congratulations to all students arriving at school on time and wearing our school uniform proudly. Please remember that our winter and summer uniform includes …
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Unisex |
Boys |
Girls |
Summer |
Bottle green shorts Gold polo top Bottle green polar fleece jacket Bottle green windcheater Bottle green rugby jumper with gold collar Bottle green zip school jacket (gold stripes) White or grey socks Bottle green hat |
Grey shorts
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Summer dress
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Winter |
Bottle green track pants (gold stripes) Gold polo top Bottle green polar fleece jacket Bottle green windcheater Bottle green rugby jumper with gold collar Bottle green zip school jacket (gold stripes) White or grey socks Black puffer jacket |
Grey trousers/pants |
Winter tunic |
The footwear to accompany the Everyday Uniform must be black enclosed shoes.
School hats will be required in Term 4. These can be purchased from the school office: slouch $10, bucket $8 and legionaire $8.
Students are discouraged from wearing black track pants/black leggings and black socks as these items are not part of our school uniform. The school is very happy to help sort additional or temporary uniform items if required – please do not hesitate to ask for assistance if required.
Carolyn Sutton
Principal
Congratulations and well done to students who received Awards over the past fortnight.
Aspiration Awards
Prep/1 Crawford/Viney | Phoebe / Nash |
Prep/1 Kearns | Billy / Kiara / Dylan / Lucas |
Prep/1 Roberts | Lilly / Amaliah / Hunter / Ruby Q |
1/2 Brady | Jessica/ Quinn |
2 Morrison/Doran | Jake / Chloe |
3 Owen | Zayliah / Zeke |
4/5 Farran/Duncan | Ryan / Brady |
5/6 Payne | Alice / Bailey |
5/6 Spangaro | Izabella / Mason |
Aussie of the Month
Lily is unfailingly kind. She is caring to others when they are hurt and kind to others when they need a hand with their work. Lily is helpful and has a growth mindset.
Quinn is caring and helps those who are hurt. She listens, is an aspirational learner and always does the right thing.
Meetings
Please note that there is a 15 minute School Association meeting to respond to a Reporting Survey this FRIDAY from 9:00-9:15am in the Boardroom. All Association members are invited to attend. Our next scheduled meeting will be held on Tuesday the 27th of October at 9:15am. All members of our community are very welcome to attend.
Father's Day Raffle
Thank you to the families who supported our Father's Day raffle, we raised a total of $858. Congratulations to the prize winners - Bob Bishop and Shirley Adams. Also thank you to Longford Newsagency for allowing us to sell tickets outside their premises and to the ticket sellers; Leith, Marg, Erin and Kaylie.
Community Care Collection for Helping Hand
Thank you to everyone for your wonderful donations. Please make sure that all donations are to school by Thursday 17th September. It has been amazing to see so many people collecting for members of our community.
On the 7th of September all of the grade 6’s went to Kings Meadows High School for Challenge Day. We went to multiple different classes to do numerous things that would help us if we chose those classes in high school, if we go to Kings Meadows. The classes we went to were Tech, Inquiry and Drama. We were competing against Perth Primary School and Evandale Primary School. The teachers that were teaching us at the time had to pick a number depending on what our behaviour was like. If we weren’t listening and being disrespectful, we could have gotten a 1, the largest number was five. Evandale got 49 and had beat us by 2 points, other than that we learnt a lot. We also got to see some students that went to Longford Primary last year! We think everyone enjoyed the day at Kings Meadows High School.
By Imogen B and Imogen Q
Raise money for MND and cut Mrs Duncan's hair
On Monday 21st September several lucky students will get to chop a plait from Mrs Duncan’s hair.
Who gets to CHOP?
Buy a ticket for $1 or 3 for $2 from the SRC outside the office every day before school and if your name is drawn you will get to cut Mrs Duncan’s hair.
Why?
All money goes to our MND fundraising and Mrs Duncan is donating her hair for wigs for people with cancer.
Thanks to Emma Reader (ex Longford Primary student, hairdresser extraordinaire and Mrs Readers daughter) for giving up her time to help with the cut.
Friday 25th September will be Footy Colours Day to raise money for MND. Please bring along a gold coin donation and wear the colours of your favourite footy or sporting team. Mr Tantari will run a goal kick competition at lunch time on this day. Help raise money for this great cause!
Unfortunately parents will be unable to attend the parade this year but we will share all of our celebration events through photos on our Facebook page throughout the week.
Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) changes
The Tasmanian Government has announced the expansion of the Student Assistance Scheme (STAS), which waives the cost of Tasmanian Government levies for eligible students, for the 2021 school year onwards. The eligibility for STAS will move to using the Health Care Card or equivalent as the assessment mechanism, replacing previous income thresholds that applied. A set of Frequently Asked Questions has been developed to assist with any questions you may have. Further questions about STAS or Levies and Charges in general can be sent to the Department of Education’s Financial Services Unit at stas@education.tas.gov.au or by calling 1800 827 055
The Department of Education (DoE) has released updated government primary and combined (district) school intake areas, to apply from Term 1, 2021. These updated intake areas will only apply to families who enrol a child in a government primary or combined (district) school for the first time from Term 1, 2021.
This means that for parents with children already enrolled in our school, the updated intake areas do not apply to your family. If your child has a brother or sister who hasn’t started school yet, they can still enrol at our school.
Why do we have intake areas?
Intake areas ensure that every Tasmanian child can enrol at a high quality government school close to where they live. Attending a school close to home helps children feel part of their local community. Intake areas also help ensure schools have the facilities and staff to best support their students’ learning.
Where to get more information?
If you would like more information about our school’s intake area, or help finding out whether a particular address is within our intake area boundary, please contact us directly.
Alternatively you can contact Learning Services Northern Region: phone 6777 2440 or email Learning.Services.NR@education.tas.gov.au)
3 Owen
In Mathematics, grade 3 have had a focus on the multiplication and its relationship with division. We learn through arrays, card games that promote subitisation (being able to recognise how many in a group at a glance), and turn around facts. We also learn to recall single digit multiplication facts and apply multiplication strategies to larger numbers.
2020
Term 3 |
Monday 20th July to Friday 25th September Monday 20th July Professional Learning/Student Free Day |
Term 4 |
Monday 12th October to Thursday 17th December Friday 30th October Professional Learning/Student Free Day |
Information is available from the school office for Hockey Tasmania clinics and Just Swim learn to swim program for the school holidays.
Leadership Staff
Principal | Mrs Carolyn Sutton |
AST | Miss Jacinta Doran |
AST | Mrs Jen Copeland |
AST | Mrs Mel Biffin |
Support Staff
Chaplain | Mrs Bec Cameron | Tuesday, Friday |
Psychologist | Mrs Allison Maloney | Tuesday |
School Nurse | Miss Chanelle McCormack | Alternate Wednesday/Friday |
Social Worker | Mrs Shelley Lawes | Thursday |
Speech Pathologist | Miss Carla Dinale | Monday, Tuesday |