It has been a busy couple of weeks here at Burnie Primary School, with our special person breakfast, P-6 cross country, sharing assembly (P-2), National Simultaneous Storytime and more to come! Remember to keep your eye on Seesaw, Schoolzine and/or Facebook for our upcoming announcements and events. The next few weeks are also jam-packed and with our Maths Expo, Years 3-6 Assembly, North West Primary School School Association Cross Country, Think U Know program (3-6), Brixhibition at BPS, and Pizza lunch day just to name a few! We are looking forward to continuing to connect with our families and community.

Welcome to BPS
This fortnight we welcome Kumu and his family to Burnie Primary School.

2024 Mid-year Communicating Learning Progress with Families - Kindergarten – Year 6
Over the next few weeks our teachers will be busy assessing and reporting in readiness for our mid-year reporting phase.  This year, we encourage learning conversations between families, students and teachers.  Opportunities to partner and work together to support your child's learning progress is our core business.  We see 3-way conferences as a great way to identify the progress your child is making and a way of supporting further development in their learning.  Parent-Teacher (Kinder-Grade 6) will occur between Monday, 24th June, through to Thursday, 27th  June, with our late-night session scheduled on Wednesday the 26th of June.  We would like to strongly encourage students in Grades 2-6 to attend with their parent / guardian and teacher.  Students in Kinder, Prep or Grade 1 can attend these conversations in the classrooms if families feel this would be beneficial.  Members of the leadership team and specialist teachers are also available via appointments during this week.  More information on our online booking system will be sent out to families when it goes live. 

Kindergarten learning conversations will involve sharing of information regarding students progress against the Kindergarten Development Check markers. 

Student Agency and Voice at Burnie Primary School 
We have 2 key ‘all year’ elected Leadership opportunities for Grade 6 students: Student Council and Sports Leader positions.  Our student leaders prepared for leadership nominations and the election process in 2023 by choosing to nominate for one of the positions.  Students prepared a speech to present to the 3 - 6 student group and accompanying staff.  Students were elected by the combined voting results of their peers and all school staff.  Our Year 6 leaders work closely with Miss Smith, Mrs Rawlings and Ms Crabtree to develop their personal leadership capacity. 

I would like to personally congratulate our 2024 Student Leaders for their courage and aspiration in stepping forward this year.  

Our 'Student Council Leaders’ main responsibilities include:  

• To Lead the Student Council  
• To represent Burnie Primary School at special assemblies, school and community events (ANZAC day)  
• To assist school staff in carrying out a number of school related tasks 
• To prepare running sheets and lead school Assemblies  
• To be a positive role model for all students 

Our 'Sports Leaders’ main responsibilities include:  

• Leading/assisting classes  for Daily PE Programs  
• Assist with lunch time and other organised sport/recreation activities  
• Leading/assisting with ‘House’ events – Athletics carnival, sports events, etc 
• Assisting with care of sports equipment and sports store  
• To be a positive role model for all students 

Our 'Library Leaders’ were selected by writing a letter to Ms Crabtree. Their main responsibilities include:  

• Providing special help with borrowing/returns  
• Assisting with daily lunch library tasks/duties as timetabled  
• Maintaining a section of our school library collection  
• Assisting with lunch time and other organised activities in the library  
• Book Week activities and assisting with the Premier’s Reading Challenge  
• To be a positive role model for all students 

Burnie Youth Council Representatives 

This year we have 5 Makerspace Monitors. They are Charlotte, Diesel, Aiden, Eva and Cooper. This group of students were selected to be the monitors through showing a strong interest in visual arts and/or coding and robotics. The Makerspace Monitors have a variety of roles including:

• Running lunchtime clubs 4 days a week.
• Maintaining the equipment and materials in the Makerspace.
• Supporting events such as Science Week and Brixhibition.
• Mentoring students when visiting from the North West Support School.

The Makerspace is a very popular and busy area and the students always have a task that needs completing. Thanks to Charlotte, Eva, Aiden, Diesel and Cooper for the work you have done so far.

In Partnership
Susan Barnard
Principal

At BPS we are a community of responsible learners, and this term then DECYP Value of Responsibility is the focus for our Morning Meetings.  

Students have been learning that 'Rights' are things every child should have or be able to do, and that all children have rights. With rights comes responsibility and students are learning that as they grow, they have more responsibility to make choices and exercise their rights. It is everyone's responsibility to make sure these rights are respected. 

Each fortnight classes are focussing on one of the rights from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Below are some of the ideas and work our students have presented during the meetings this term. 

Winter has (almost) arrived; it is cold outside, don't forget to bring your school jacket. We have amazing school pride – please wear your uniform, every day! We do have spare uniform pieces, ask if you would like some help. Remember you can purchase a school beanie from our office for $12.50.

STAS is Student Assistance Scheme which provides assistance for low income families towards the cost of levies.

STAS is provided through school and college resourcing rather than payment direct to families. To apply please fill in the form below and lodge the completed form at a school attended by one of your children, mail to G.P.O Box 169, Hobart, 7001 or email the completed form (and attachments) to stas@decyp.tas.gov.au.

Our Prep to Year 6 students have been registered to participate in this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. Reading is a vital part of our learning and we are excited to be taking part in the challenge again this year.   The Premier’s Reading Challenge is a personal challenge – not a competition. What’s your best reading tally? Can you beat it?  

If you figure out what you love to read, reading will be easier – so try reading different things – fiction, non-fiction – blogs, comics, poetry, lyrics, essays, magazines, newspapers… it all counts in the PRC!  

This is a challenge for all Tasmanian students. It doesn’t matter what your reading level is, everyone can take part.    

Reading is a skill we need for life.  All the reading you do in this challenge will help you at school and at home.  

Dear Parents and Friends,

Our recent Mother’s Day raffle was a huge success, and we can’t thank you enough for the support we received. The total amount made was $903.00, a huge effort! These funds raised will help support the Grade 5 and 6 camps later this year. Congratulations to all the winners, the full list has been posted below along with photos of some of the lucky winners.

Our Term Two meeting had to be postponed until Tuesday, 28^th May. It will be held in the school staffroom at 6.00 pm. We welcome existing and new members, including those who are just curious to see what goes on. We hope to see you there.

Later this term you will receive information about our Pizza Lunch fundraiser, a favourite with the students and some information about a major fundraising event being held in Term Three, the Trivia Night, Saturday, August 10^th. Please look out for more information surrounding these events on our Facebook page and will be sent home soon.

Stay up to date with the P&F through our Facebook page by scanning the QR code below. We look forward to welcoming you soon,

Your P&F.

In 5/6C we have been learning about adaptations in Science. We drew chameleons because they adapt to their environment by changing their colour.

In English we have been learning how to engage readers with our writing. We learnt how to use adverbs and adjectives to make our writing more interesting. We also learnt that you only have a few seconds to attract the reader’s attention and encourage them to keep writing so we have been making the beginning of our writing better to hook the reader in.

Today, we celebrated the achievements of our Prep to Grade 2 students. Our students shared some beautiful poetry, rhymes and sang us a lovely song about growing up. Congratulations to all who received a Responsibility certificate.