Welcome back to Term 3 to all in the Burnie Primary School Community, to what promises to be another term jam packed with learning. The beginning of this term brings a chance to reflect on our Burnie Primary School Commitment :

“Working together we inspire and engage all learners to learn more every day”

This term also brings some staffing changes. Mr Stephen Dome has made the difficult decision to relinquish his AST position and have a rest from teaching to look after his health. He didn’t want a big announcement but it would be remiss of me not to thank him for his work and contribution to learning here at Burnie Primary. Miss Holly Geard has joined our school community to take PE on our normal PE days. Miss Apryl Radford will be working on the Grade 1 class on Mondays and Tuesdays this term with Miss Christina Cohen. Ann Elliott has decided to reduce her hours in the office to one day a week. We welcome Anita Groenwege to our admin team starting this term full time as our clerk. I would like to thank Ann for her contribution to BPS and look forward to continue to see her presence in the office. We welcome Miss T back this term and wish Miss Jana Kalweit all the best for her period of leave for the next two terms. Miss Meaghan Hosking will join the Grade 4 team for the rest of the year.

            

Monday’s student free professional learning day gave us the opportunity to work alongside Somerset, Cooee and Natone Primary Schools and Burnie High School staff for our exciting Numeracy project called ‘Burnie Counts’. Grades 3 – 6 teachers had the opportunity to work with the highly acclaimed  Di Siemon on the ‘Big Ideas in Number’, while Kinder – Grade 2 teachers previewed the updated Australian Curriculum V9 which will come into effect in 2023. They also worked with the other Burnie High feeder Primary schools to work with our Department of Education Maths Senior Project Officer Toni Popowski, exploring quality numeracy tasks and the role of quality picture books in the teaching of Maths. We look forward to working more with these other schools into this year and next, especially as some covid restrictions have been eased to allow for face to face meetings across schools.

Andrew Starick

Principal