Term 3 - Issue 3
- Principals Report
- Kinder with Miss Matthews
- Prep / One with Miss Williams
- Grade 1/2 with Miss Sarker
- Grade 2/3 with Mr Wood
- Grade 3/4 with Miss Shephard
- Grade 4/5 with Mr Balzer
- Grade 6 with Miss Stokes
- Grade 6 Excursion to Female Factory and Bowling
- Scholastic Books
- East Derwent Little Athletics
- Important Dates to Remember
Principals Report
Looking back at Term 3 I am pleased to say that we have survived all the rain and bouts of the flu, and somehow, we got a lot of learning and other things done across our school.
The main thing that has occurred to this term more than ever is how far our kids, staff and school community has come over the past few years. We have a lot to be proud of and to be grateful for as a school. The big highlights for me for this term include:
- Learning is our core business! This message is coming through loud and clear in all that we do across our school. You can walk into any classroom at any time and see our students focused on their learning and acting in a respectful manner that supports others to focus on their learning.
- Reading data – we are seeing so many students showing some amazing growth in their reading. As a school we do a number of screening tests each term to see what our kids know and where to go next.
- Kinder Reading – I was pleasantly surprised when I visited kinder a few weeks ago and saw that our kinder students are already blending CVC words (cat, bed etc). Our youngest students in the school have shown so much growth this past term in their understanding of sounds, well done to everyone in kinder.
- Premiers Reading Challenge was amazing. The engagement we had across our whole school with reading was amazing. Hearing kids being excited about reading and having positive conversations at home.
- Teacher Practice – Miss Creese has worked with our teachers in coaching throughout the year to constantly reflect upon and improve teaching practice. Our teachers constantly want to improve to ensure they are providing the best instruction and opportunities for our kids. I am very impressed and proud of our teachers for their dedication to our kids.
- Positive Break Times – Any break time at our school you just have to look around to see how positive the play is across all ages. Everyone has something to do, you can see students supporting each other if they can’t find something to do or are hurt (there are a lot of knee grazes). Our students are amazing in the way they respect and care for each other one a daily basis.
- Teacher Assistants, Admin Staff and Education Facility Attendants – All of these people are a multi-skilled bunch. Nothing is ever too much for them to do, even if it is outside their role at the school. They constantly look for ways to support our kids and improve our school.
Kinder 2025
As many of you know now our little school is getting bigger. At this point in time, we are moving ahead with 2 kinder classes in 2025. Miss Matthews will be teaching both classes. By having two smaller classes instead of one large class it means we can continue to provide a high standard of education and care for our students. The plan for Kinder in 2025 is:
Kinder A
- Attend on Mondays and Tuesdays
- Wednesdays – Combined day with the other kinder class
- Tuesday PE with Mr Lewinski
Kinder B
- Wednesdays – Combined day with the other kinder class
- Attend on Thursdays and Friday
- Thursday PE with Mr Lewinski
Class Placements 2025
We are currently in the very beginning stages of our 2025 class placements. If you have any information, thoughts, or friendship advice that you think we might need in relation to placements please email this to: Bagdad.Primary@education.tas.gov.au
The close off date for this information to be sent to us is Wednesday 23rd October 2023 at 3:00pm. Anything after this date will not be considered.
A reminder that teacher requests are not accepted. In addition, we are a small school and the options of which class we put students into is extremely limited.
Enrolments for 2025
As mentioned, we are working on classes and other planning for 2025. Part of this is ensuring we know who is at our school next year as it can have a big effect on our staffing. Please contact the office if you think there is information we might need to know, including:
- You are moving from our school to another for any reason
- You know if someone who might be due to come to kinder in 2025 who might not have enrolled with us yet.
School Garden
This year you would have all noticed that the area around the church has changed significantly. What was once a run down, disused area of the school now is full of garden beds, areas to sit, and other gardens.
Our students and Mr Lewinski have been hard at work up in this area and we have finally started to plant out our 10 garden beds with fruit and vegetables. The work completed by Mr Lewinski and his merry band of helpers includes:
- Installing of 6 gardens beds to give us a total of ten beds
- Installing of irrigation to enable automatic watering of our garden beds
- Netting over garden beds
- Compost bins and worm farm
- New gravel surfaces
- Greenhouse (put together finally!)
- Weeding
- Mulching
We hope to be able to use the produce we grow in our canteen, for cooking in class and put into our community swap stand.
Premier’s Reading Challenge 2024
Congratulations to all of our students for participating in this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. It was fantastic to see the enthusiasm and engagement across our whole school.
Thank you to Miss Creese for her organisation of the challenge this year. There were a number of prizes and celebrations for our students, the highlight being the morning tea at Café Creese for students who read the most books throughout the challenge.
Community Swap Stand
A few weeks ago we put up a post requesting photos of any old cabinets etc that people would be willing to donate for us to use as a community swap stand. We still don’t have a cabinet of any sort.
We really are keen to get something in early term 4 for our kids to paint etc. and then get the community swap stand going ready for the summer period. If you have any furniture that might be suitable, please send us a photo.
Farewell Stacey
As many of you have heard by now our very own Stacey Jenkins has been the successful applicant for the School Business Manager Role at Brighton Primary School. Stacey will be beginning at Brighton Primary School in term 4.
On behalf of the Bagdad Primary School Community, I would like to say a big thank you to Stacey for her dedication, kindness, professionalism and never-ending energy that she has given over the years at Bagdad Primary School. I know you will all agree with me and say that we are going to be sad to see you leave us, however we all wish you the best for your new adventure.
Kind Regards
Phil Novak
Principal
Kinder with Miss Matthews
We have had an amazing third term in Kinder.
We have shown so much growth in our learning and social skills.
Some highlights from this term include celebrating Book Week, reading with our buddies on Wednesdays and Bush Kinder.
Prep / One with Miss Williams
We have had a very busy term in Prep/One.
We went on excursion to the Marine Discovery Centre, Molesworth Environment Centre, celebrated Book Week and had a visit from the Antarctic Mobile Classroom.
Grade 1/2 with Miss Sarker
We turned our classroom into an IT lab!
1-2s started typing their narrative writing into a word document. Some went on an iPad to explore different geographical locations of their interests.
Grade 2/3 with Mr Wood
2/3 Wood had an awesome time at our incursion on Monday.
We had some Antarctic scientists visit the school and teach us all about the scientists and animals of Antarctica.
We even got to dress up in the warm clothes that the workers wear in the cold environment.
Grade 3/4 with Miss Shephard
On Friday morning's we have been learning the skills of orienteering. This includes finding north and other directions and reading a map.
Students were able to choose orienteering courses set up around the playground ranging from simple to highly complex.
Grade 4/5 with Mr Balzer
We have had a great term in our class.
We created some beautiful artwork for Naidoc Week, we enjoyed dressing up for Book Week.
With held our own Mini Olympics and had a great time with Prep One playing games and winning medals.
We went on an excursion to Molesworth, and experienced building huts with timber.
Last week we enjoyed an incursion with Antarctic Mobile Classroom.
Grade 6 with Miss Stokes
Grade 6 have had a great term 3!
We have been doing exciting information reports on a chosen animal for science. We have been planning and writing a historical narrative from the perspective of a convict or guard in the 1800s and looking at the history of convicts from the Female Cascade Factory ready for our excursion next week!
We completed the Gumnuts to buttons program and learnt the history of Tasmanian Aboriginals and their perspective.
Grade 6 Excursion to Female Factory and Bowling
Scholastic Books
Thank you to all parents, and children who supported our book fair. We have received a total of $526.00 in free books for our school library. A huge thank you to Mrs Oakley for setting up and running the fair.
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East Derwent Little Athletics
We are excited for the 2024/ 2025 Little Athletics season and we want to see you! We have a flourishing Tiny Tots program for younger athletes (3 and 4 year olds). Our season calendar can be found on our Facebook page and we welcome any enquiries via the email address on our flyer. New athletes (never been registered in Little Athletics before) can attend 2 free sessions before registering. We also have a Come and Try Day at the Domain on the 21st September between 10am and 12 noon. Registrations for the Come and Try day can be done through the Little Athletics Tasmania website.
Important Dates to Remember
All details, times and more information are available on our school calendar:
27th September - Last Day for Term 3
30th September - 11th October - School Holidays
14th October - First day of Term 4
21st October - School Assocation Meeting
22nd October - Swimming Carnival
23rd October - Colour Run
25th October - Show Day - Public Holiday
26th October - Student Free Day - No School
28th October to 1st November - Swimming and Water Awareness - Prep to Grade 2
6th November - Terrapin Puppet Show - whole school incursion
18th November - School Assocation Meeting
10th December - End of Year Assembly
12th December - End of Year Reports and Evidence of Learning coming home today
13th December - Christmas Carols @ Bagdad Primary
16th December - Big Day Out - Grade 6
17th December - Leavers Dinner for Grade 6
19th December - Oatlands Pool and Park for last day of 2024
20th December - Staff last day for 2024