Burnie Primary School eNewsletter

It has been a delight to have our families join us for learning conversations, to be able to spend quality time together reflecting on your child's learning journey. Congratulations to all students for the effort, attitude and growth shown this year. Learning at Burnie Primary School is a team effort and working together best supports our children to reach their learning potential. Thank you to all those families who made a time to meet with us last week.

I would like to send our appreciation to our dedicated teachers who have been EXTRA busy lately. Assessing and reporting is a huge task and one that our teaches take great care with. We certainly appreciate all that our teaching team does for our students.

Principal Role
I have been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to lead Burnie Primary School throughout 2023 and for the first half of this year. I have been informed that Mr Andrew Starick has extended his leave, and the principal position has been advertised for the rest of this year.

As we are almost within sight of our Term 2 break, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of families, students and staff a safe and relaxing holiday break. We look forward to seeing you back for Term 3 on Monday, 22nd July 2024.

In partnership

Susan Barnard
Principal

This fortnight we welcome Lillyana in prep, Kokoda in year 2, Jordan in year 5 and their families to our school.

Congratulations to all students who received a Responsibility Token over the last two weeks. Next term our focus value is Growth.

Today we share with you an updated calendar of our major 2024 events.

5th July	Last Day of Term
22nd July	First Day Term 3
22nd August	Prep, Year 1 & 2A Sponge Bob Performance Prep, Year 1 & 2A Sponge Bob Performance
28th August	2B, Year 3/4 A, B & C Sponge Bob Performance
29th August	3/4D and Year 5/6 Sponge Bob Performance
23rd - 24 September	Year 5/6 Camp
27th September	Final Day Term 3
14th October	First Day Term 4
25th October	Terripin Puppet Show
28th October	Book Fair
7th November	3/4 Excursion Explore Sea Country
2nd December	P-6 End of Year Celebration (Splash)
5th December	Kinder 2025 Information Evening
10th December	Grade 6 Big Day Out
10th December	Grade 6 Dinner
11th December	P-5 End of year Celebration Assembly
11th December	Grade 6 End of year Celebration Assembly

Student_Council.pdf

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Brixhibition was a great success this year with over 69 entries. All students were very creative and we had an amazing display for students and families to view. The category winners were:

Kinder - Prep Pearl B

Grade 1-2 Siyun L

Grade 3-4 Harry S

Grade 5-6 Nikil L

Congratulations to Harry S on his recent success at the Brixhibition. Harry was both age group and overall winner.

Last Thursday, our grade 3-6 students shared their learning with our school community. It was fabulous to see the array of art, singing and poetry. Congratulations to those students who received a Responsibility certificate.

At our Early Childhood morning meeting Wednesday we had the pleasure of being entertained by Stringalong students. Thank you to Helen Hurst for the amazing work you are doing with our students, and to see the talents of our students displayed.

Congratulations to our choir who participated in the Eisteddfod on 26th June 2024. They did an amazing job!

Thank you to Mrs Matthews for all your hard work in preparing our students for the day.

This term, many of our students have been participating in the Burnie City Council Eisteddfod. Students have recently had the opportunity to write their own original poems to submit to a panel of judges. Well done to all students that submitted their poems and Burnie Primary has now received the following results:

Grade 2:
3RD Place medallion to: Keneisha

Grade 3:
1st place medallion to: Kiarah

Highly commended ribbon to: Rema & Billie B.

Grade 4:
Highly commended ribbons to: Isaiah, Mackinley C and Kenzie

Grade 5:
1st place medallion to: Chloe
2nd place medallion to: Willow
3rd place medallion to: Chelsea

Highly commended ribbons to: Kaden and Agniz

Grade 6:
1st place medallion to: Amelia
2nd place medallion to: Eva
3rd place medallions to: James & Maya

Highly commended ribbon to: Heidi

Awards are also presented to the most outstanding poem in each grade. Kiarah wrote her poem titled ‘I am Kiarah’ and won the award for Most Outstanding Poem in Grade 3!

There is also an award for the Most Outstanding Poem across Prep to Grade 6 titled ‘The Richard Flanagan Literacy Award’. Out of the 923 poems submitted from North West schools and Kiarah’s poem has been chosen as the overall winner!

Congratulations Kiarah and to all students that participated!

This term in Prep we have been focusing on fairy tales. We have had a lot of fun reading, responding to and writing about many fairy tales. We also have been learning about materials in Science and measurement in Maths. We have been able to combine these together to do some terrific inquiring, including making houses strong enough that the Big Bad Wolf can’t blow over, bridges that can hold a goat and making some beds out of straws to hold some bears!

Dear Parents and Friends,

We are happy to report that your support with the recent pizza lunch fundraiser helped raise a total of $593.00, which will be used later this year to support the cost of the Terrapin Puppet show visit to the school. Your ongoing support with our fundraisers is greatly appreciated.

Our major fundraiser for the year, the Trivia Night, is locked in to be held on Saturday 10th August at the South Burnie Bowls Club, 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start. You can book teams of 6 or 8 with tickets being $15 per person. There will be a raffle, a lucky door prize and games throughout the evening. More information can be found on the poster below, we hope to see you there.