The View

Around the Primary Classes

Year 1

This year has been a year of tremendous growth and change. Here are some of our highlights from 2024, written in the words of Year 1s.

  • I have loved learning new letters and new sounds. I can see so many of them in hard words when I am reading and writing. Eilis Morice

  • Learning about Habitats during Integrated Units was my favourite thing. I loved learning facts about different animals. Olivia Chung-Fernandez

  • Mrs Murphy’s special box was so cool. It was a mystery, we didn’t know what was in it, and then we got a surprise when we got to choose something from it. I also loved picked up a hermit crab at the Marine Discovery Centre and listening to the snapping shrimp in the water below us through the headphones. Sylvia Tiefhoz Bar-Ness

  • My favourite memory was looking through the microscope at the Marine Discovery Centre. I couldn’t believe what i could see under there that I couldn't see with my eyes. Florence Jakimowicz

  • I loved writing a postcard pretending to be a crayon from ‘The Day the Crayons Quit.’ I was the pink crayon and I went to China. Arshis Pradhananga

  • The Marine Discovery Centre was amazing! We got to pick up the animals in the touch tank and make a diorama. I also liked building the coral gardens for the Arts Festival. Zephie Nally

  • Making our Arts Evening chalk drawings ‘Patterns of Australia’ was great. I loved smudging the chalk to make different colours and shades.

  • Adelaide Salter. 

  • We made angler fish at the Marine Discovery Centre when we were learning about the midnight zone of the ocean. We used special pens and then looked at our octires in the dark with ultraviolet torches, and our fish glowed! Sheily Semage

  • Did you know we got to feed fish, a shark, a flounder and some salmon! We had a stick with a peg on the end and a little fish that we used to feed to fish. The salmon got so excited they splashed us! Chelsea Wyper

  • Pyjama Day was one of my favourite days because we got to dress up all cosy and warm in our pyjamas. Melanie Hoang

  • I liked playing in the water at Nature Play. I was so fun playing games there and having our Year 5 buddies come along as well. Grace Lynch

  • I also love Nature Play! I get to be in nature, gid and climb and explore, and splash my friends! Camilla Darcey

  • I was new in Term 3 and I loved meeting all my new friends. I also loved all the activities at the Marine Discovery Centre. Arya Pronillos

  • Art is one of my favourite subjects. I love using watercolor pencils and our ‘Roll a Picasso’ portraits. They turned out so well. Eva Madden

  • Maths is my favourite subject. I love doing our Daily Reviews and doing fast facts. Maths is fun! Jennifer Hu

  • I loved having two teachers this year. Miss Smith and Mrs Murphy as both good at different things. I love them both! Isla Harris

  • Exploring the park at Nature Play was so much fun. I went into the creek, we built a dam and even played with clay! Harriet Kennedy

Year 2

Year 2 had a wonderful time at the Nativity this week and on our recent excursion to the Sustainability Learning Centre. We have been working very hard all term and loved the opportunity to consolidate our learning and celebrate together. 

What a fabulous time in Year 5 in 2024! 

Term 1 was very busy with the College Swimming Carnival, NAPLAN testing and our overnight camp at Port Arthur which saw us tour the Isle of Dead and make our own convict bricks. The camp also allowed us to establish new friendships with the many new students who to our year group.

Term 2 was a little bit quieter with Field Day being the major event of the calendar but along the way we managed an excursion or two.

Things really ramped up in Term 3 with the Arts Festival being our main priority with the Year 5 students performing a superb dance routine on the night. Many afternoons were dedicated to fine tuning our art pieces for showcasing and they all looked wonderful. Again, excursions were high on the agenda for us with visits to the Antarctica display at TMAG which ended in a delicious ice cream at Mures. We channeled our inner scientists when visiting The Festival of Bright Ideas and welcomed scientists from UTAS who spoke to us on a variety of topics.

Term 4 came along and went by so quickly. We had Learn-to-Swim for a week and both classes worked together in groups making and presenting a News Program plus playing our "Bounce Back" board games that were made as part of the Health Unit. Our last excursion for the year was a visit to the Botanical Gardens to watch Alice in Wonderland which was tremendous and even had one of our girls be a small part of the show.

It has been a wonderful year with 39 very special students who have supported each other, who have grown academically and personally and Mrs Himson, Miss Magill and Mr Lowe could not be prouder of them, and we know that in 2025 they will be wonderful leaders of the primary school.

From everyone in Year 5 we wish the College community a wonderful Christmas and a well-deserved break.