December - WHAT!!?? If you are anything like me, you get to this end of the year and wonder where the last 12 months have gone! We are currently finalising End of Year reports, and it always amazes me how much we can pack into a year of learning. You and your extended families are to be congratulated for raising such curious, resilient and respectful children. I am so incredibly proud of all our Lindisfarne Learners. Every single one of our students has demonstrated growth, not only in their learning, but their social and emotional wellbeing, too. The data we routinely collect in both academic and in the health and wellbeing of our students shows a wonderful upwards trend of continuous improvement, and I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all of your support and partnership during 2021.  

The next two weeks are going to be busy ones! These are the final weeks for our Grade 6 students and we can’t wait to celebrate with their families at our Grade 6 Celebration Assembly and Dinner next Tuesday 14th December. Next Wednesday we will be holding our annual whole school picnic at Simmons Park from 9am-12:30pm. We encourage any parents and families to join us there (adhering to current COVID restrictions). Our fingers are crossed for some more wonderful weather! A full list of end of year events is further down this newsletter.  

At this time of year, we must regrettably farewell some of our staff. Ms Danielle Bath, Ms Michelle Isaac and Ms Beth Osborne are all leaving our school at the end of 2021.

Ms Bath has been teaching at LPS for 19 years, and has contributed to hundreds of Lindisfarne Learners’ journeys throughout primary school. Mrs Bath has taught Prep through to Grade 3 and will be heading to Lansdowne Crescent in 2022.

Ms Isaac has been teaching here for 11 years and has also had two daughters attend our school. Ms Isaac has spent many hours in upper primary, supporting the senior students and has taught from Grade 3 up to Grade 6. Ms Isaac is heading to Campbell Street Primary School in 2022.

All 3 of these wonderful people will be sorely missed by staff, students and the community. We hope that your time here has been memorable and we look forward to seeing you back at future school events!

Speaking of school events, we held our annual Christmas on Henley concert on Friday night. Thank you to all of our staff and students who made sure the huge crowd of parents and families were thoroughly entertained! Videos of performances will be added to Seesaw throughout the week. 

I hope that you all have a wonderful and relaxing summer break, and I urge you all to stay safe and look after each other.

Have a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year!

Kind regards,

Kel Innis

Principal

This Thursday 9th December will be the final School Banking day. As advertised in previous newsletters, the School Banking program will not continue in 2022. 

We'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our student bankers for supporting the program and in turn, fundraising for the school. 

Enormous thanks go to all of the volunteers who have donated their time to process deposits and keep the program running, especially to Megan, our current School Banking Co-Ordinator who has made sure the wrap up of the reward program has been a smooth process. 

A friendly reminder to please pay any outstanding invoices you have owing (levies/leavers activities/band).

If you need extra time to pay, please don't hesitate to get in contact with our School Business Manager, Libby, via phone 6243 9232 or email libby.ashlin@education.tas.gov.au

Thank you in advance for settling these outstanding amounts, and thank you to all who have paid so far.

The 2021 Schools Triathlon Challenge is on this Friday 10th December. 

All registrations are finalised and information for the day is below:

Triathlon information

Event timetable

COVID safety plan - please read

If you have any questions about the event, please email vincent.kamano@education.tas.gov.au or call the office on 6243 9232.

Good luck to all students competing!

Grade 6 Camp!

The morning of the Grade 6 camp was filled with an exited tension, as the eager Grade 6s were awaiting to arrive at camp.

The 3 days were packed with interesting twists and turns with many new and unique challenges we had never tried before. There were 3 main challenges that everyone had to face, even those who were nervous. The first of the 3 challenges were ziplining. It was a long and high zipline course stretching across the large lake landscape! The height scared some but others took it in their stride. Luckily, we were strapped in by 2 harnesses and a helmet so… we were safe.

The next challenge was absailing, which some of us had never even heard of before! If you didn’t know, absailing is when you are strapped to a harness and a rope (luckily) which is bolted to the top of a cliff, then you proceed to walk down the cliff face on an almost vertical angle.

The third and last challenge was the initiative tasks. The initiative tasks consisted of many obstacles and challenges you can only complete with a team. This needed everyone to co-operate and work together. Many bonds grew over these harsh team challenges. The challenge that was the trickiest and required the most teamwork was ‘The Tyre and Pole Challenge’, more specifically we had to attempt to remove the large and heavy tyre off a large 5 metre pole. This means we had to either create a human pyramid or for some of the shorter and lighter peers to climb on the taller peers’ shoulders to reach and lift the tire off the pole some teams successfully completed this gruelling challenge.

Each day we met up to feast on 6 meals: breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and desserts. You’re probably thinking this is a lot of food. Well yes, it is … for most people! Some people still said they were hungry after being fed as much as they wanted (Lachlan!). Each night before bed we played an intense game of Spotlight. We played this game as late at 9:30pm when it was almost pitch black. We also played another less well-known and more unique games (this is a nice way to put it) these games are called Banana Tunnel Ball, Wallaby Spotlight and News Paper Fashion Parade’! Banana Tunnel Ball is like normal tunnel ball, except you lie on your back and place the banana into the feet of the person behind you. Most teams struggled and broke the banana, turning it into a banana split. The next game is Wallaby Spotlight. This worked like a game of Mr Wizard except you bounce like a wallaby and when the spotlight shone on you must stop and freeze as if you were a wallaby in a car's spotlight. The sole aim was to amuse the teachers, although they said it was to get to the end.

The last and final game, maybe the most unique was News Paper Fashion Parade. Each team of 3 students get 5 minutes to design, create and fit their newspaper outfit suitable for camp onto their model. The teammate wearing the outfit the walked the catwalk, while the other members advertised and sold their unique outfit to the judges (teachers).

In conclusion, we had a once in a lifetime experience at the 2021 Grade 6 camp. We made bonds and friendships with new peers and learnt to face our fears. We tried many new things and learnt lifelong skills (like cooking, cleaning and using cutlery). This is a great end of primary school memory!

By Hayley and Sophie

Memories from Grade 6...

Grade 6 is coming to an end these are some memories from some of our Leavers:

Becoming Vice Captain for Gordon and having a major leadership role -Riley

Running for SRC as a class representative -Elke

Making new friends with peers -Olive

Going on a fun excursion to Putters Mini Golf -Finlay

Going on camp! -Charlotte

 Playing soccer at lunchtimes -Lachlan

On Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th November, a team of ten of our Grade 3/4 boys partipated in the Basketball Tasmania Primary School Championships.

The boys put together their own team and co-ordinated 4 training sessions at Swisherr (the basketball complex). The team played 3 games over the 2 day event, needing to win all of them to get into the semi finals. They not only got in to the finals, but took out first place in the Div 3 competition!  

Game 1 vs St Cuthberts = 39 - 5

Game 2 vs St Johns = 20 - 4 

Game 3 vs Bellerive = 38 - 7 

Semi Final vs Rosetta = 23 - 19

Grand Final vs Austins Ferry = 26 - 19

Congratulations to Max H, Jordan C, Baxter C, Toby B, Angus B, Michael H, Xander H, Tom O, Kaveh H, Cameron O. The team had such a great time, and are already planning their entry for next year!

On the 23^rd of November a small number of Lindisfarne students from grades 3-6 travelled to the Hobart Aquatic Centre to participate in the 2021 Southern Primary Schools Sports Association Champions Swimming Carnival. Students from our school participated in a variety of different races and tried their very best. All students were motivated, excited, and showed great sportsmanship.

We send our gratitude to all those who assisted in the organisation of the carnival as well as the parents and others that came along on the day to support their schools. We also want to say a big thank you to Mr Kamano who co-ordinated our race times and participation. It was an all-round great day and we are sure that the students who attended the carnival enjoyed themselves.

 By Lachlan S and Charlotte W

If your child has medication at school, please make a plan to collect it from the office  next Thursday 15th December. 

Please also start to plan for 2022. If your child requires asthma or allergy medicine, or requires an action plan, please organise a GP visit to get these updated before school starts in Feb 2022.