Alternatively, parents/guardians who have not applied for STAS previously (and do not have an existing STAS file) can apply online for STAS 2024 at Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) or simply Google STAS to be taken to the link.

Letters advising of STAS approval (or otherwise) will be posted to all families with existing files in the STAS database in mid-November.

If a parent/guardian has received STAS in 2023 and wishes to add a new/additional student to their STAS record they simply need to email their name, the student’s full name, date of birth, school, and grade in 2024 and we will add them to the existing STAS file.

For queries please contact stas@decyp.tas.gov.au

The Tasmanian Maths Relay is a fun promotion for maths as well as incorporating some athletic aspects.

Your team of four gather outside and go to the reception to find out which table to go to. Then your marker for your team will take a seat in front of your table, not too far from your team. Your runner will then stand next to the marker for your team. You and your team will have 45 minutes to answer 20 questions ranging from money all the way to mass. The question got harder as you went on. The harder the question the more marks you got for each answer. When you have completed or passed a question the runner will bring you the new question and the next runner will stand next to the marker. Once the time is up, the marks will be counted and the team with the most marks will win. If multiple teams win, they will share the victory.

Before the relay started, we all felt a bit nervous but once we were in the room with our teams’ answering questions and having fun, that stress went away nearly entirely. Unfortunately, one of our teammates was unable to attend but we still had a good crack at it. Once the relay is finished, we felt relieved and proud of our efforts even though we didn’t finish all of the questions. We also felt happy for the teams that came first, second and third.

LPS Upper Primary Math Relay

Before setting up, the students who did the state relay had to answer the questions for the school relay and put them in order of easiest to hardest.

Those who went to the State Math Relay and a couple other students helped set up sixteen tables, each with three pencils and four or five pieces of scrap paper for the working out of the questions. All of the teachers were markers along with the people that went to the state relay and a couple chosen students from other grades. The students that were chosen to mark from other grades had to swap with other students when it was their turn to compete. After the grade 3/4 relay, all of the used paper had to be swapped with new unused scrap paper and the used paper was then recycled and the room was set up again, ready for the grade 5/6 math relay. Instead of the usual 45 minutes the school relay was only 20 minutes.

Here are some quotes from the students who participated in the math relay:

The Grade 3/4s Quotes

“It was really fun, you can do it with your teammates and have a good time.”- Charlotte

“You got to make new friends and it was really fun.” - Emily

The Grade 5/6’s Quotes

“I was intimidated at first but once you got used to it, it was fun.”- Xavier

“It was pretty fun but tricky at the same time.” - Riley

Congratulations to all students to participated in the Tasmanian Mathematics Association of Tasmania Relay and our school relay!

By Bill & Curtis

Earlier this term students in Year 5/6 were offered the opportunity to participate in designing and creating a banner as part of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery’s 2023 Children’s Festival. Students were opted into the project were willing to use one of their break times a week to come together to collaboratively create the banner with the theme ‘Twists and Turns’. At the early stages of our project, students were given the opportunity to share ideas about what this theme meant to them and how it could be represented through the visual arts. Common themes of animals and our natural world came out of our sharing and we collectively agreed that this would be something that we could represent. Each student had a chance to work independently on their own animal design, while also collaborating on negotiating colour scheme, space and interacting with other designs on the banner.

Throughout the process, students actively challenged, questioned and extended one another in a respectful way. They also encouraged, complimented, affirmed and celebrated the skills and talents of one another and as someone who tried to provide as much autonomy to students throughout the process to make something completely designed by them, it was these interactions that I love listening to as it reinforces how capable and connected our learners are, especially when engaging in something they are invested in and passionate about. I want to take the time to recognise the involved students and the efforts that they contributed, well done to Ella, Alice, Hannah, Bailee, Maya, Bella, Elsa, Peyton, Zoey and Melody. We also thank Mrs Bloomfield for her time supporting students to complete the project.

Our completed banner was displayed among others created from around Hobart in the Lift Off! Festival over the 4-7 October. The banner will be sent back to us to be proudly displayed in our school grounds, keep your eyes open for where it pops up!

Sophie Sheehan

AST

Congratulations to our LPS students who participated in the Southern Champions Athletics Carnival, well done!

   

Thursday 26 October - Hobart Show Day

Friday 27 October - Student Free Day

Wednesday 1 November - Volunteers Thank you Morning Tea

Friday 3 November - Assembly - 1.50pm GP Hall

Wednesday 8 November - Year 5 Band Rehearsal (Montrose Bay) 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Wednesday 22 November - Year 5 Band Rehearsal (Montrose Bay) 3.30pm - 4.30pm

Friday 24 November - Evening Concert for Combined Schools Choir and Band - My State Arena

Tuesday 28 November - Champions Swimming Carnival

Friday 1 December - Grades 3-6 Triathlon

Thursday 7 December - Music Assembly

Monday 11 December - Swim Fun Day (Clarence Pool)

Friday 15 December - Christmas On Henley 

Tuesday 19 December - Leavers Assembly

Tuesday 19 December - Leavers Dinner  

Wednesday 20 December - Whole School Picnic (Simmons Park)

Wednesday 20 December - Step Up Day 

Thursday 21 December - Last day of Term 4

Welcome all our new LIL families!

Launching into Learning will be run Friday mornings 9-10.30am with our Kinder Blue Teacher Rebecca Kaiser. 

An enrolment form will need to be filled out and returned to the office before your first session. 

If you have any questions please phone the school office on 6243 9232. 

Reader's Club is being inundated with enthusiastic readers.  We would love the help of additional volunteers in providing the opportunity for all students to read aloud.  If you can spare some time, come and join us in the library between 8.30-9.00 on Mondays and Wednesdays.  It is a great way to start the day! All volunteers are required to have a Working with Vulnerable People Card and be Fully Vaccinated.

If you do have any outstanding amounts with us we ask if you please address them ASAP.

As always, myself and my helpful and approachable Admin Team are always here to chat and help if you ever need to.

Thank you

Libby Ashlin

School Business Manager

Will your child be 4 turning 5 in 2024? 

Please ensure that you have completed an enrolment form for Kindergarten at LPS in 2024.  Next year there will be 2 class groups, Kinder White: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Kinder Blue: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 

First and foremost, the classes are put together to ensure equity in size and gender (where possible).  A lot of thought is put into forming both class groups and we encourage you to attend our Pre-Kinder sessions. We will consider the individual learning needs of every individual with the intent to create the best possible learning environment for each child.

We will aim to notify you of your child’s class to at the beginning of Term 4 to allow plenty of time for flow on childcare and family arrangements.

Tickets for the Combined Primary School Annual Concert, to be held on Friday the 24November at MyState Bank Arena, will be available for sale from Monday the 11September.

Book Returns

A friendly reminder that books borrowed from our school library need to be returned to the school and not to the public libraries.

We are finding an increasing number of school library books being returned to public libraries, most recently Hobart & Rosny. When this happens, it requires the school to physically collect the books from these locations.

Overdue Books

We are over half way through the term and still have quite a number of overdue books that need to be returned.

Please have a look at home if your children have overdue books. We know they can get easily hidden on book shelves or amongst other books!

We have two main channels of communication here at LPS, Schoolzine and Seesaw. Schoolzine is where we issue things like this newsletter, important information relating to COVID and other essential communications that need your action or attention.

Seesaw is an important communication tool that all of our teachers use to interact and share learning with families. We encourage parents to interact with staff through this portal and talk with you children about what we have shared. This is monitored during school hours. Please ensure you obtain the QR code from your children’s teacher and sign up to receive regular updates on their learning and photos of them engaging in lots of different activities.

If you have any urgent information that you need to give your children, the teacher or the office please call 6243 9262 as email communication can not be guaranteed with a prompt response.

QKR ONLINE CANTEEN ORDERING

Bambini Bites works in association with CBA Bank/Mastercard and uses their online school canteen ordering system for the convenience of schools, parents and students called QKR which can be downloaded to all Apple phones/IPAD’s and Android devices.

QKR allows parents/staff to log into the app and place lunch order two (2) weeks in advance any time until 9.00pm the night prior the lunch is required.

Unfortunately, if you miss this cut off time, we are unable to assist with late orders. We recommend that you place your order as early as possible QKR sometimes struggles near cut off times due to the high usage of all users Australia wide. This cut off time has been put into place to allow our kitchen staff sufficient time to prepare food for all lunch orders.

WHAT TO DO IF MY CHILD IS SICK AND NOT ATTENDING SCHOOL AND I HAVE PLACED AN ORDER VIA QKR

We understand that little people can become unwell at the drop of a hat, to assist parents and families with this we request a text message to advise. 

1. Parents MUST send text message ONLY to 0400 948 649
2. Copy of order receipt is required which will include the reference number for the order placed
3. We will need confirmation of your child's name, school, class & ordered items.

We will process a credit to your QkR account within 3-5 business days that can be use in the future.. 

This process will take effect from Monday 27th June. 

All order cancellations received after 7:45 AM will not be issued with a credit as after this time we will have prepared these items for lunch service. 

We are happy for orders to be moved to other children or parents to collect from the canteen at lunchtime on the day of order fulfillment instead.

Please note orders for Sushi can not be refunded as these are ordered from a third party supplier and are ordered in advance. 

These orders need to be cancelled via QkR prior to order cut off times (sushi specific) which is a day prior to normal order cut off times.

If you have a child who attends before or after school care and they are sick or away, please remember to contact Clarence City Council on 6217 9610 to let them know your child won’t be attending.  After School Care is a separate service that is not provided by Lindisfarne Primary School.