Primary School
Book Week Assembly
Monday 18 August
Our Primary School Book Week Assembly will take place in The Farrall Centre on Monday 18 August at 2.15pm. We welcome members of our community to attend. Please see below for more information about Book Week. Note that due to privacy concerns and to respect the photo permission choices of other families we ask you to refrain from taking photos and videos during assemblies.
Grandparents and Older Friends Day - Save the Date
Grandparents and Older Friends Day is scheduled for Wednesday 22 October.
More information about the event will be shared shortly.
Primary School Soiree - TONIGHT
Thursday 14 August - The Farrall Centre
The Soiree is an opportunity for students taking instrumental lessons to gain performance experience in a small, low key setting. Several of our young musicians will be performing solos, many for the first time, at this early evening event. This year we have decided to have two soirees with different start times to allow for a greater number of students to perform. Soiree 1 begins at 5.00pm and Soiree 2 begins at 5.30pm and concludes by 6:15pm.
All are welcome and entry is free.
Prep - Year 6 Disco
Friday 15 August - 11.00 - 11.30am
Tomorrow morning during first break there will be a disco for Prep to Year 6 students in The Farrall Centre. Students are welcome to wear a pair of crazy socks to wear to school for this event, e.g. long, short, colourful, sporting, stripes, etc.
Year 5 Physical Education Excursion to Swisherr Hoops
Monday 18 August
Year 5 students will be travelling to Swisherr Hoops in Melville Street for a basketball session on Monday 18 August. We will depart school at 11.45am and return at 1.30pm.
If you have any enquiries please contact Lisa DiVenuto.
Book Week 2025
Monday 18 - Friday 22 August
Next week, Monday 18 - Friday 22 August, is Book Week! Please come along and join our week-long celebration of the joy of reading and the power of books to bring us together.
- Stay for Story Time each morning (daily 8.50am - 9.00am)
- Come to Monday’s assembly & vertical groups (2.10am - 3.10pm)
- Donate good-quality, sellable books for the Book Fair
- Come to Tuesday’s Book Fair and afternoon tea (3.15pm - 6.00pm)
- Get a last minute Book Fair bargain Wednesday before school (7.45am - 9.00am)
- Host a session about your job or field of interest (daily 11.00am - 11.30am) **
- Read a story to our students (daily 1.50am - 2.10pm) **
** Please contact library staff (Sharon Ryan, Catherine Duffett or Leesa Blair) to schedule.
Book Week Creative Challenges: These optional creative challenges are open for students to do at home. Please bring them in before Friday 22 August so we can display them for others to enjoy!
- Challenge 1: Create an item inspired by this year's theme, "Book an Adventure" or a book you have enjoyed. It could be a diorama, show-bag, poster, sculpture, model, artwork, hat, jewellery or a technology product! It could also be a performance - a song, dance or play that you film. It's up to you - so get creative!!
- Challenge 2: Create a story based on the theme “Book an adventure"!
- Challenge 3: Create a response of your choice to celebrate the adventures to be experienced through books!
Year 5 Camp
Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 August
Year 5 Camp will take place from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 August 2025 at Spring Beach Youth Camp, near Orford. All Year 5 classes will be attending camp together. We will leave school at 9.15am on Wednesday and will return to school at 2.30pm on Friday. Students need to be outside the Friends’ Early Learning side of The Farrall Centre by 8.45am on Wednesday ready to have their gear checked before we leave.
The purpose of this camp is for students to continue to build community and connection to country, build their awareness of the importance of challenge and resilience, develop their gratitude, empathy and mindfulness and prepare for camps in future years. All class teachers will be attending the camp, as well as outdoor education teacher Sam Jarvis and several other supporting staff members.
To enable your child to attend Year 5 Camp please complete the Operoo consent form sent to you by Monday 18 August. This includes adding any relevant information about medications and dietary requirements. Please note that all medications should be provided together with this completed Medication Authority Form, either in a pharmacy supplied Webster Pack (preferred), or in its original packaging inside a ziplock bag that is clearly named.
Kindergarten Earthcare Excursion Days - Lenah Valley Linear Park
The Kindergarten children will continue visiting a site near the Lenah Valley Linear Park for their Earthcare Days in Term 3. We will be going out each week, on Thursdays, from Weeks 2-9. We will travel to and from the site by bus. We will leave at 11.50am and will return by 2.45pm. Collection time for all children will be at 3.00pm from the Kindergarten area, at the end of the Kindergarten day as per usual.
These excursions are an important aspect of our Sharing the planet unit of inquiry. Through these weekly trips we are aiming to develop independence, responsibility, curiosity, resilience and earthcare in a nature play environment. Please ensure that your child has a rubbish free packed lunch at Kindergarten, especially on Thursdays. This will help develop the children’s understanding about the concept and practices of earthcare and raise both the children’s and the community’s awareness about the impacts of soft plastic on our natural environment.
On our Earthcare days, the children need to wear their sports uniform, to ensure they are ready for active, hands-on, nature play learning. Your child will need warm clothing, appropriate for the forecasted weather, and spare clothing packed for the excursions, as we will be playing outdoors, even if it is raining. The school has special wet weather jackets and overpants that the children will wear, as necessary, depending on the forecasted weather. We have also asked all families to bring a pair of gumboots to school for puddle play at school, and on our excursions. These will also double as a spare pair of shoes if needed.
To help prepare the children, we ask that you continue to support your child by encouraging them to carry their own bags to and from school - they will be doing this independently on our Earthcare Days too. We are looking forward to seeing how their natural curiosity and wonder is expressed while we are there and what we can learn about the land we live on, as we come to know a place slowly across these weekly visits. Please contact the Kindergarten team if you have any questions
Absentees
If your child will be absent from school for the day please advise the Primary School Office (phone: 6210 2228, or email: primaryschooloffice@friends.tas.edu.au ) and the classroom teacher before 8.45am. We appreciate your support in this process.
Important Dates
Term 3 Tuesday 22 July to Friday 26 September
Wednesday 27 - Friday 29 August - Year 5 Camp
Friday 12 September – Wellbeing Day, as part of Wellbeing Weekend (no K-12 classes)
Monday 22 to Thursday 25 September - Year 6 Exhibition
Wednesday 22 October - Grandparents Day