The Term break signifies the half way mark in our school year and provides a perfect time to reflect on the learning we have achieved so far this year as a collaborative, creative and innovative learning community. The achievements we have made in learning, under duress at times, especially during the beginning of this term have demonstrated our resilience and courage as a learning community, and the break will give us all the opportunity to rest and recharge the batteries ready for a big second half of the school year.

Next term, we will continue with the same arrangements for pick up and drop off of students, with parents and carers remaining outside the building. We will also keep up our increased cleaning in and around the school, and our strict handwashing routines. Please ensure when you are picking up and dropping off students that you keep the 1.5m distance to abide by public health guidelines. We will see some relaxation of our restrictions here at school with our ‘Launching into Learning’ program resuming next term. There will be a booking system in place and 1.5m distancing rules apply. For any adult who needs to enter our building (which includes contractors and other DoE staff), they are required to fill out a ‘Visitor Health Screening Form’ and all our Launching into Learning adults will be required to fill out this form as well. We will continue to monitor the easing of restrictions throughout Term 3.  

We held our AGM for our School Association last week and congratulations to; Stacey Wilson - Chairperson, Emma Baker - Deputy Chairperson, Brendon Hyland - Treasurer, and Rachel Johnson - Secretary. The P & F are a sub-committee of our School Association and our parent representatives will be co-ordinating opportunities for P & F to meet in Term 3.

Mrs Larissa Best will be returning to Newcastle to relocate and reunite with her boys in the coming days. We thank Larissa for her dedication to the BPS community over a number of years and wish her well in her new (and previous) home state. As a result of this change, the following staffing changes have been made. The leadership roles revert to Term 1 status with Mrs Liz Fidler taking on the role of Literacy Coach and co-teaching on Grade 3 with Miss Stephanie Hanson. Mrs Bronwyn McDougall will take on Flying Start in Grade 2, and Mrs Olivia Meldrum will begin her first contract at Burnie Primary School, taking on the Grade 4 J co-teaching with Mr Ben Johnstone for 2 days and with 5H on a Friday.

I would like to wish everyone in our school community a happy and safe term break. A reminder that Monday 20^th July is a Student Free Professional Learning Day, and we welcome all students back to school on Tuesday 21^st  July.