Our School and Community connections have been identified as one of our ‘School Improvement Drivers’ on our  2022 – 2024 Burnie Primary School Strategic Plan. We provide various ways of interacting with our school and wider community and another such avenue has recently been released. Our ‘Official’ Burnie Primary School Facebook page has been released and can be accessed at Burnie Primary School | Facebook . Please ensure you follow and like our ‘official’ page to keep up to date with the latest news from our School Community. This Facebook page will be used for general announcements, information and upcoming events. We also use 2 other on-line platforms to enhance communication here at Burnie Primary.

The SeeSaw app has proved very successful over the past 3 years in providing an avenue to share student learning and to provide a line of communication directly with your child’s teacher. It also provides us with a platform to share evidences of your child’s learning that is aligned with the Australian Curriculum, and is an important component in the new Department of Education’s ‘Reporting learning progress to Families’ document. 

The Schoolzine app provides you with a tool to communicate with the school on operational matters such as delivering specific messages and for you to contact the school for aspects such as reporting student attendance. Please continue to contact the school about absences either via the Schoolzine app, email burnie.primary@education.tas.gov.au or by phoning 64333 655. If your child is absent for more than 2 days, we require a medical certificate or Statutory Declaration that can be obtained from the front office.

Burnie Primary School is in the unique position to be able to offer our students from  Kinder to Grade 6 the opportunity to engage in our Swimming and Water Awareness programs. The Kinder to Grade 2 program will be held in the last 2 weeks of this term, indoors, at the Burnie Aquatic Centre. Can you please ensure that the permission forms are returned to school ASAP so that we can start to organise groupings around ability levels to ensure that the learning is tailored to your child’s ability in the water?

To help with planning for school improvement, the DoE is about to release the ‘School Satisfaction Surveys'. Students, staff and parents will be asked to complete a survey about Burnie Primary School to help inform our planning for school improvement. We encourage all parents and carers to complete the survey to help inform our practice at https://ncv.microsoft.com/y5tPT4Mg2r to help inform our practice. We are always learning about new ways to enhance the quality teaching and learning here at Burnie Primary School!

Andrew Starick
Principal

Following the 5/6 Sports Expo earlier this term, students were selected to try out for the Darwin Team across multiple sports including Netball, Soccer, Hockey and Football. The try outs took place at different venues on multiple days. The students who represented our school did an amazing job and they should be proud of their efforts. Of the students who went to the try outs 20 of them were selected for Darwin teams across different sports. On Friday 2^nd September the selected 20 Burnie Primary Students participated in the Devon vs Darwin Day at venues across the north-west. The Darwin Teams were made up of students from schools between Penguin and Table Cape, and Devon Teams were made up of students from different schools between Latrobe and Ulverstone.

The following students represented Darwin in Netball, Soccer, Football and Hockey:

Keira Wheatley – Netball
Ellie Rayner – Netball
Alicia Ross – Netball
Pippa Beaumont – Netball
Lily Harris – Netball
Ruby Cunningham – Netball
Isabella Luck – Netball
Zoey Keygan – Netball
Erin Mcllfatrick – Netball
Blake Bracken – Soccer
Max Redman – Soccer
Sam Pease – Soccer
Flynn Pease – Soccer
Blair Bentley – Soccer
Hudson Bain – Football
Jem Stretton – Football
Harry Hardstaff – Football
Nash Hammond – Football
Charlotte Murphy – Hockey

The following students have also been selected from this Devon vs Darwin Day to play in the North-West team at the Launceston Exchange later this year against teams from the North and South:

Keira Wheatley – Netball
Ellie Rayner – Netball
Pippa Beaumont – Netball
Ruby Cunningham – Netball
Isabella Luck – Netball
Zoey Keygan – Netball
Blake Bracken – Soccer
Max Redman – Soccer
Sam Pease – Soccer
Flynn Pease – Soccer
Blair Bentley – Soccer

Congratulations to all students involved!

Going to school not only promotes academic success, but also helps build important social skills, relationships and confidence. Every COVID-safe measure is being taken, so that every student can learn in class safely.

HOWEVER, if you child is feeling unwell (tummy upsets, cold and/or flu symptoms etc) we ask you to keep your child home.

It is important that your child feels connected to the school and their class whilst they are convalescing.  If a student has been away for two consecutive days the teacher will touch base with the family on the third day.  This is a way to support your child to stay connected. This may be a phone call, or via seesaw message. If you would like support before then, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teacher or the office.

If your child is away for more than two consecutive days we ask that you provide the school with a medical certificate or statutory declaration. A statutory declaration form is attached or can be made available from the front office.

• There are several options available to parents to explain children’s absences:
  contact the school by phone – 6433 3655
• If your child is absent from school for any unknown reason, an SMS will be sent to your mobile. A response to this text is another option to explain the absence.
• Burnie Primary SZapp 'Absentee'

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