Dear Parents, Carers and Community Members

Kind Regards

Mike

On Thursday 6th June, year 3-6 students selected based on their school Cross Country time, attended Deloraine Primary School to compete in the Northern Midlands Primary Schools Cross Country Carnival. We had a fantastic day running on a great course.

Congratulations to the following students who placed in the top ten for their event:

Grade 6 boys – Lucas 9th

Grade 4 boys – Campbell 10th

Grade 4 girls - Stella 8th

Grade 3 boys – Wally 2nd, Archie 5th and Linus 9th

It is a great achievement to be selected to attend events like Northern Midlands Cross Country and represent our school, congratulations to all students who attended.

Ashlee Lowe

HPE Teacher

Our 5-6 students had the opportunity to participate in the illuminate Community Challenge. Students travelled to Longford Monday to Thursday this week and were joined by Evandale Primary, Longford Primary, Cressy District High, Perth Primary and Bracknell Primary Schools. 

Students were pushed to work outside of  their comfort zones to think outside the box and to work as a team.  They were given the task to identify something missing in the Northern Midlands and work as a team to generate a solution.  Their processes included brainstorming ideas, assessing how to market, looking at finances and preparing a pitch to present to the judges.  

Our 5-6 student groups came up with the following solutions:

• Pump track
• Upgrades to the Campbell Town Pool
• Increasing engagement to the Campbell Town Show
• Go kart track

Congratulations to our teams who received awards:

• Best Pressure Cooker submission (pump track)
• The Ideation Award (zoom go karts)
• 2nd overall (Campbell Town Pool)
• 3rd overall (zoom go karts)

Halana Knowles

AST

On a cold, blustery Campbell Town show day our wool handling team looked great in the new wool handling shirts. We had 4 students participate this year, forming 3 teams. Our first team of Izabella & Zoe did a great job of throwing their fleeces, skirting and working as a team. They hadn’t worked together before, and were thrown up first, so well done girls. Zoe immediately was up again, teaming up with Hanna. This team scored a second last year and again showed teamwork and good communication to get the job done. Dane & Izabella were our last team up and for both it was their first year participating. Great to have some Year 7’s stepping up. Their skills will improve in the years to come. They handled the big fleeces well, both landing good throws. Sadly, we didn’t place this year. Oatlands had honed their belly tossing skills with one team gaining an additional 20 points as both members scored the furthest bucket. That made them very hard to beat.

The students had travelled to Myrtlewood the previous week to meet with the AWI wool trainers, Jack Monks & Petrisse Leckie to learn and improve their skills. Thank you to Madeleine Scott for making the facilities available and providing the sheep. Madeleine also leant us a fleece to practice throwing with. Next year we will have our own wool table at school which will be an asset. Thank you to Royce Walters, at Fraser Bros Wool, in Youngtown, who also leant us another larger fleece and bellies to practice our skills.

A very big thank you to Petrisse, Jack, Locky and AWI for making this event happen and supporting our students to learn wool handling skills.

Congratulations to Hanna, Zoe, Dane and Izabella. Their behaviour and participation was outstanding and I look forward to working with them again next year with our aim to win the Schools Wool Handling trophy.

Jill Bennett

Teacher

Earlier this year, the Department for Education, Children and Young People rolled out Safeguarding Training for staff, volunteers, and service providers.

This training was compulsory for everyone as part of our ongoing commitment to safeguard Tasmanian children and young people and prevent them from harm.

The department has recently released additional advanced Safeguarding training modules.
These are optional and are aimed at anyone who volunteers at a DECYP site, external providers, and anyone in the community who wants to learn more about how to keep children and young people safe.

If you’d like to build your knowledge in this space, the modules are available on the department’s Safeguarding page.

Note: If you require additional assistance to access the modules, please take a look at the FAQs about technical support and additional assistance, which are also on the department’s Safeguarding page.