Welcome back to what promises to be a Term packed with quality learning opportunities!

Transition is a focus for us this term. We know that this helps start learning on a positive pathway. Our pre-kinder sessions start next Wednesday and provide parents and children starting Kinder next year, with a taste of what to expect in their Kindergarten year. This builds on the quality ‘Launching into Learning’ early learning sessions we still provide on Thursday and Friday mornings. Our Grade 6 students start their transition to Burnie High School throughout November in the lead up to their Orientation Day in December. We are planning for transitioning students here as well into next year. To help us with this planning process, one consideration we make when we undertake this complex process of constructing classes, is parent requests. If you have any information that may help us in this process, please put it down in writing or email burnie.primary@education.tas.gov.au , addressed to the Principal, by November 1,  so that we can consider your requests when constructing 2023 classes. Teaching staff will not be finalised until later in the year so information about preferred teachers cannot be accepted.

At Burnie Primary School we are always exploring opportunities to extend student learning. Another example is the Grade 5 Camp next Thursday and Friday at Fulton Park in Forth. The huge amount of planning and preparation that goes into these events and the overnight experience is testament to the teachers Ms Page and Mrs Meldrum, and like our Grade 6 teachers, thanks them for going over and above to provide these memorable experiences for our students.   

Obviously our car parking area is a busy place, especially at the beginning and end of the school day where students are being picked up and dropped off. A reminder to parents, grandparents and carers that it is a drop off and pick up area only and if students are not there then we ask you to either park or drive around to keep the flow of traffic moving. We are always looking at student safety when in and around vehicles and one way we have identified that may assist in this is by reverse parking in all school car parks. Please keep this in mind when accessing our school car parks for the safety of all.  The School Association are working with the Burnie City Council to undertake a traffic study to look at possible adjustments that can be made to improve the traffic flow in and around Van Diemen’s Crescent especially during the beginning and end of our school day. We look forward to exploring possibilities with them to improve this situation.

Andrew Starick
Principal