October 2024

Welcome to our Newsletter

Principal's Report

The wild weather we have been experiencing this term has provided many opportunities to rally and demonstrate our school values of Courage and Growth. There is so much to celebrate!

Leading the Way: Our School Values Olympics

SEL Lead Teacher Janelle Manshanden's School Values Olympics initiative was an outstanding success and a wonderful way of celebrating “living our values”. The Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) shared our School Values Olympics initiative statewide and was actioned across many schools.

Through this work Janelle has been recognised for her leadership and has been nominated for a DECYP Bright Futures Award.

Congratulations to all children who received a Values token for their house, and to the members of the winning house CASEY who won a very special Reward Activity Day.

Photo of our Olympic Values Opening Ceremony Flag procession, each class proudly displayed their “Values Flag” and shared how they symbolised our School Values on their Flag.

2024 Young Archies Awards

Congratulations to Indie (Prep Platypus) who won the Kindy – Prep Category, this is a significant and prestigious award. Indie’s Artwork titled “Mum and Dad” features her much loved female rabbits. Indi is planning to use her prize money to purchase a male rabbit, so they can love even more bunnies!

Indie is photographed with Secretary Tim Bullard at the 2024 Young Archies Award Presentations (Hobart Exhibition).  

Book Week 2024: Reading is magic!

WOW, WOW, WOW and WOW!

One of the most celebrated events on our school calendar is Book Week! The Literacy Team led by Kate Longey channelled this year’s theme, “Reading is Magic” successfully casting a spell to ensure the weather was kind throughout our Book Week Community Walk!

There were so many highlights, celebrating our shared love for reading.  

• Book Week Walk, Parade and Competition
• Celebrating the Children’s Book Council of Australia Winning Books
• Launch of the 2024 Margate Book in a Day
• Magical Door Class Competition
• WOOF Day (Celebrating and Supporting our school Story Dogs)
  

Margate has got so much talent!

Congratulations to all children (85 in total!) who participated in our 2024 Margate’s Got Talent heats.

The following children were selected to participate in the MGT finals on 20^th September: Harry, Julene, Heidi, Ms Bec, Noah, Isla, Matilda, Alexis, Stella, Riko, Ethan, Vaughn, Griffin, Eadie, Leo, Connie, Poppy, Isla S, Freddy and Simon.

Big thank you to Mrs Finlayson for running the event (giving up all of her recess and lunchtimes for the heats) and Mrs Jarman/ Ms Bell for co-ordinating on the day. Judges Mr Bowden, Ms Grego and Ms Harrland could not believe the diversity of acts and talent!

Congratulations to:

1^st: Harry (3B) Piano and Magic card tricks

2^nd: Eadie (3B) Kalimba and singing Here comes the Sun.

3^rd : Riko, Vaughn, Ethan and Griffin (Grade 4/5) Soccer Skills to music.

WRITE A BOOK IN A DAY The Kids’ Cancer Project

Congratulations to Grade 6 students Owen, Ruby, Sebastian, Noah, Bonnie, Hunter, Myie, Shani, Ari and Liam who participated in the “Book in a Day Challenge” as part of our Extension Literacy Program.

Students worked together all day and into the night to produce their very own book “The Broken Brothers”.  The book will be published online and available for children with cancer to read in hospital. The entry fee of the challenge is to raise much needed funds, Grade 6 students proudly contributed money they have raised through the Grade 6 Legacy Fund, as well as the generous support of members of our school community achieved the impressive entry fee donation of $800 for The Kid’s Cancer Project.

We value you, Ian!

Children across the school nominated Ian for a School Values award. Ian is a local retired Teacher who volunteers most days at our school, he thoroughly enjoys being part of our school community and is a passionate advocate for improving children’s literacy outcomes. Children couldn’t decide which value Ian demonstrates most and settled on Connection and Growth.

Children described Ian as being a kind, patient and cheerful person, who helps us to improve our reading by listening and asking us questions about the book. Children were particularly chuffed that Ian dressed up for Book Week and was a judge for our parade.

When sharing news of Ian’s Award in an assembly, children who have read to Ian were asked to raise their hand. This spur of a moment question resulted in hundreds of hands shooting up into the air.    We sincerely do value you, Ian!

Tasmanian Japanese Speech Contest 2024

Congratulations to all students (and Sensi Watson and Jarman!) who participated in this year’s Japanese Speech Contest, Margate Primary School students achieved outstanding results. Ari (1^st) and Neve (2^nd) will be receiving invitations to attend a reception at Government House in November to be presented with their awards.

Congratulations to our incredibly talented World Champion Isla H (Grade 6)

Who represented Australia at the GKR Karate World Cup in August.

43 girls from around the world competed in Isla’s age and belt category!

Well done, Toby! (Grade 6), who has been selected for the Tassie Devils AFL Southern Representative Team.

Families, please share with us any out of school student achievements so we can celebrate with our School Community in our upcoming “Celebrating Our Students” Special Assembly. pieta.langham@decyp.tas.gov.au

2 fantastic FREE events in term 4 for parents and carers:

Empowered Kids, Raising resilient children

Tuesday 22 October 6.45pm- 8.15 Snug Primary School

Navigating Friendships

Wednesday 20 November 6.45pm- 8.15 Margate PAC

Please save the dates and RSVP:

Activities on offer After School

We are so fortunate to have so many wonderful opportunities for our students, thank you to Amanda Caletti and Biana Bell organising the following after school activities:

Staffing term 4

We are happy to share the following staff adjustments for Term 4:

Kate Longey will be continuing in her AST Quality Teaching Coach role (Kinder – Grade 2).

We wish Emma Stafford all the best for her new role at St Aloysius College.

Key dates Term 4 (Week 1 – 4):

18 October Grade 3-6 Athletics Carnival & BBQ 

22 October School Association Empowered Kids Event 6.45pm @ Snug Primary

23 October Kinder – Grade 2 Sport Activity Day

24 October Show Day Public Holiday

25 October Student Free Day/ Staff Professional Learning

1 November 2pm Prep – Grade 6 “Celebrating Our Students” Special Assembly

Wishing students, families, staff and the wider school community a happy, safe and restful Term 3 School Holidays!  

Pieta Langham

Principal

Grade 3-6 Athletics Carnival

Golden Tickets

Congratulations to the following students who won the golden ticket draw on Monday. These students and many others have earned golden tickets by displaying our values of Connection, Courage, Growth, Responsibilty and Respect.

Book Week Parade Prize Winners

Book in a day

Write a Book in a Day challenges teams across Australia to write and illustrate a novel in just 12 hours to raise vital funds for kids' cancer research.

Book In A Day is part of our Extension Literacy Program here at Margate.

Ten year six students were selected from a very competitive field of thirty applicants. We worked all day and well into the night, and produced a book made by the entire group.

The book will be published online and will be available for children suffering from cancer to read in hospital. Thanks to our very generous school community, we have raised over $800 so far for research!

https://writeabookinaday.com/

Student quotes:

“It was fun but challenging.”

“At the beginning we felt very excited and keen, then we just felt like we were getting it done. I was nervous to present to families.”

“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, I liked doing it, and it was a big achievement. I haven’t done anything like that before.”

“It made it harder working with other people but we got more done. I like how everyone had their own style of writing or drawing but it made the whole book better.”

“Coming up with ideas as a group is way easier than individually.”

“It gives us the feeling of achievement and excitement, and a stronger connection with our friends.”

Students all worked very hard. They were passionate about their book, they were supportive of each other and challenged themselves. They appeared very proud when presenting their book to families at the end of the day.

Colour Run Fundraiser Friday 15th November

Gumnuts Early Learning

2025 Kinder

Parents and Friend's News

Uniform Opening Hours 

Term 4

8.45am - 9.15am Mondays

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

Congratulations Isla

Recently, one of our very own students showcased their remarkable skill, determination, and sportsmanship at the GKR (Go-Kan-Ryu) Karate World Cup held in Sydney.

In a remarkable display of skill and determination, Isla Huskins in Year 6, has brought home a gold medal from the first Karate World Cup held since COVID. The event, this time held in Sydney, attracted over 1,400 competitors from across the globe, including teams from Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and the USA.

Isla’s victories are a testament to her dedication to karate. Training three to four days a week with two-hour sessions, Isla not only displays a deep passion for the sport but also an unwavering drive to continuously improve. Her success at the world championship comes as she prepares to grade from a red belt to a Brown belt in the coming weeks, proving that she is truly at the top of her game.

Duty of Care

We have had a number of students at school well prior to 8.25am.

We would like to remind families that the school does not have duty of care for children before 8.25am and encourages families to drop student/s off from then onwards.

The school office is open during each term from 8.25am - 3.45pm Monday to Friday.  

Safety of Van Morey Road

Van Morey Road is very busy around school times with buses and cars going everywhere.  This is why we had a school crossing installed.  For the safety of yourself and your children please only use the school crossing to cross Van Morey Road.

Booking of the Gym

Just a friendly reminder if you wish to use the gym after hours for training, please make sure you ring and speak to the office first to check that there are no other bookings.  Thank you.

Collecting your child from school within the school day

If you are collecting your child from school within the school day for an appointment or other early departure reason, please come by the office first.  The office will then assist in calling your child up to the office and you can sign your child out.

Attendance Notifications

Please contact the Office with attendance notifications no later than 9.30am to avoid receiving a phone call from our office staff.

If you are social distancing, please email margate.primary@decyp.tas.gov.au 

Facebook

Please follow us on our School Facebook page for infomation about upcoming school events and celebrations.

Lost Property

Please help us by coming along and looking through the lost property items. Named lost items will be returned to the student (where possible) and all un-named items will be passed on to the uniform shop at the end of term.

Community Notices