Thank you to all involved in running our school disco last Thursday night! It was a fantastic night for the kids and a huge school community builder for Burnie Primary School! We had over 300 students, and around 100 parents and carers, enjoying the night made possible by your Parents & Friends group, our Student Representative Council and school teachers and staff. This initiative saw our HPE program supporting a P&F and SRCs wish to have a disco and showcase the dances learnt in PE. Games were supported by our student leaders, and support and social interaction from parents, carers and friends of the school created so many positives for our school community. So many students and parents commented on how great it was to see so many staff members involved, and it certainly generated even more respect for how we go over and above to ensure we care for the whole child in educating students here at Burnie Primary School. Special thanks to Mrs Amanda Hyland and Mr Stephen Dome for bringing the event together and helping the P&F and SRC to pull of this huge event!

Another example of how Burnie Primary School goes over and above to educate our students is our school camps program. The Grade 6s are currently in Hobart building on the learning done in class and experiencing the personal and social development that camp brings. Thanks to our Grade 6 teachers Ms Corina Van Essen and Mrs Sue Smith, and Mr Andrew Woodard for your contribution into an event that students remember well into their adult years.

Next week Burnie Primary School will be recognised as leaders in our State, and Australia wide, when a team of film makers from the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) will be working with Burnie Primary School students and staff to produce a short film. ACARA developed the National Curriculum and Burnie Primary has been identified as the primary school in Tasmania  that is undertaking to meet our General Capabilities component of the Australian Curriculum, especially the ‘critical and creative thinking’ component through our STEAM program and its alignment to our Burnie Primary School Improvement Plan 2017 – 2020.

At Burnie Primary School, we continue to achieve our vision of a collaborative, creative and innovative learning community. When we work together we achieve great things!  We build, encourage and enhance these skills and attributes in our students, and we also model this with our staff. Teachers have been working together in teams to contribute to our School Improvement Plan 2017 – 2020. All teachers are members of our Professional Learning Teams that come together as our Professional Learning Community. Our professional learning teams have been established to reflect our school priorities of Literacy, Numeracy, Inquiry (critical and creative thinking) and Respectful Schools (personal and social capability). These teams also observe and moderate student work, use data to inform their practice and to use this information to target  teaching to ensure individual student success.

Next week Burnie Primary School will acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal communities and their elders past and present, as we recognise National Reconciliation Week. This is another example of a national collaboration and celebration of one of the oldest living cultures in the world. As a school, throughout the year we celebrate this.  We also acknowledge this by taking all students from Grade 3 to 6 ‘on country’ to experience with Aboriginal community members their connection with country and what we can learn and celebrate. I encourage you to visit a these websites below which provide great interactive tools to be able to enlighten us as Australians and to generate discussion.

The Orb    https://www.theorb.tas.gov.au/

Share our Pride  http://shareourpride.reconciliation.org.au/

Winter is one of the four seasons in the temperate part of the world. The weather gets cold and people wearwarm clothes. People wear jackets and long sleeve t-shirts. People eat warm food like chicken, soup and rice. Some of the activities are playing in the snow, making a snowman and having a snowball fight. The winter months are June, July and August.

Winter by Romilly

Winter is one of the seasons in the temperate zone. It is after Autumn and before Spring. In Winter it is cold and windy. In some parts of the world it snows in winter. Because winter is colder people wear warmer clothes like coates, beanies, scarves and boots. In Winter people eat warm food, some popular ones are pizza, pasta and toast. Some winter drinks are milo, tea and coffee.

Burnie Primary School Cross Country

This year our K-6 BPS Cross Country will be held on Wednesday the 29^th of May.

The  Kinder – Grade 2 students will be running inside the school grounds starting and finishing on the oval.  Students from grades 3-6 will be starting on the school oval, running around the school then out of school grounds completing a loop of the Dog Park and back into school to finish on the oval.

Students are encouraged to bring their house colours to change into at lunch time for their race.  It may also be beneficial to bring a spare pair of socks and shoes as parts of the course may be muddy.

To accommodate the cross country students will be eating before lunch play to enable them to be ready to start at 1.10.

Event Order:

Kinder, Prep, Gr 2, Gr 1, Gr 4, Gr 3, Gr 5, Gr 6

Please note that we are aiming to start the first event at 1:10 however it is very difficult to give starting times for the other events

Parent Help Wanted – any parent/carer who would be available to help either in giving out stickers or as a Marshall around the course could you contact Stephen Dome 6433 36 55 please.

Seven students represented Burnie Primary School, and the North West, in the State Primary School Athletic Championships on Friday the 10^th of May.  This carnival brought together the best runners in the North, South and North West of the state. 

The students who represented the North West team were;

Taya Munday 1^st Shot-put

Lottee Rolls 3^rd 100m heat and 1^st in the 4 by 100m relay

Joshua Butcher 4^th 100m heat, 11^th 800m final, 1^st in the 4 by 100m relay

Blake Bracken 4^th 100m heat, 3^rd in the 200m final and 4^th in the 4 by 100m relay

Ellie Rayner 3^rd 100m heat and 1^st in the 4 by 100m relay

Bryce Dunham 5^th 100m heat, 4^th 200m final, 4^th in the 4 by 100m relay and 5^th in the long jump

Oliver Rattray 4^th in the 200m, 2^nd in the 100m heat and 4^th in the final of the 100m.

Well done to our Burnie Primary athletes it is an amazing achievement to be selected in this team.

Also a special mention to Taya Munday who also competed in the State Athletic Championships on Saturday the 11^th of May.  Taya won both the Shot Put and Discus throwing personal best in both events. Taya will now be representing Tasmania at the National Championships in Darwin later in the year. Outstanding effort Taya.

The Best Day EVER! 

Saturday morning at 5:00 me and my mum got in the car and we went to get breakfast at McDonalds. We got about 30mins in me and mum went to a shop to get snacks and more petrol. When mum came back she had a lot of things like chips and chocolate. We got about half way there and I was almost asleep but I saw the most beautiful thing in the world it was the sun rise and it was the prettiest of colours.  

When we got in Hobart we went straight to the tennis courts and warmed up with my friend Britta and we had a hit until we were ready and then we started playing and warming up. When we got ready to start we had to get into groups with our team I was in the North West team and we had to play against the South and North. 

 When we did our warm up we had to do soccer,  girls vs boys, and the boys won just by 2 points then we rotated around clock wise, then we had to do some shots and get all of them in or you got eliminated and I got all of them in and keep my motor running. We also had to play kick ball and I got a really good score I got 1st place for the girls and last but not least we had to play a game of hocky. 

After training we had to play a Match against the other teams. I had to play a game of doubles against girls called Asher and Zoler and they won 4-3 4-2 4-3 it was a very good game. After the doubles I played a singles against Asher and she won 6-2 6-0 6-1. At the end of the day we went rock climbing at a very big place, I went through the hardest little tunnel and it was called number 8. After we went up to the rock climbing and I went up it like 8 times because I was not tired. On our way back to tennis camp I got a little card and it was the movement award. Mum and I were going out for tea with my best friend Britta and we had Hogs Breath for tea. I had calamari for tea with a nice sours. We got in the car to go home but Britta’s dad said we could go to the Wharf for ice cream. 

When I finished my ice cream we went back to the hotel and had a really big sleep because I had to get up at 7:00 in the morning to have breakfast. The next day at tennis it was the last day and I played two doubles then one mixed doubles I lost most of the games, but that did not matter to me because I just kept on trying and trying.  

It was time to see who won and who got the two special trophies. The south won just and we came 2nd. And now it was down to the two people that got the special trophies, he called out “this person has improved so much since the last time I saw her, Lily Marshall please come out” I was so happy I could not stop smiling it was amazing and I went nuts!!!    

Produce and Soup kitchen 

The sustainability and SRC groups have formed an idea of growing a vegetable and herb garden. The reasoning behind this idea is, we recently had Holly Cock and Nadene Smith come to our meeting and talk to us about the St Vinnie’s soup kitchen van that they are currently helping with of a Thursday afternoon. The sustainability group and SRC are growing the produce to give to the soup kitchen van. If you have any donations of vegetables or bread you can add for the soup kitchen - please bring these to the school office.