Term 1, week 4, 29th February,2024
Principal's Report
Dear Parents and Carers,
We have had another two productive weeks here at School.
This week we saw our first before school choir rehearsals on Monday and Thursday mornings. Working with Mr. Ives, the students will build up a repertoire of songs and performance skills. We look forward to seeing our students perform in future assemblies and events. All ages are welcome to attend rehearsals.
Our Kinder to Year 6 students participated in Fire Education Training with firefighter, Todd. They practiced the essential actions to take in the event of a fire. They also had a little fun trying to beat Todd in dressing dress up in firefighting gear the quickest!
We held our first Celebration Assembly for the year followed by our Open Classrooms event. Thank you to our families for coming along. Our students had the opportunity to showcase their work and we recognized students with our Values Awards presentation. We also announced the names of our recently elected Student Leaders.
Congratulations to the following students on receiving values awards:
Kinder/Prep
Mabel: For having a positive attitude towards her learning and trying her best.
Kensi: For having a positive attitude towards her learning and trying her best.
Matilda R: For consistently showing initiative and effort in all aspects of her learning.
Grade 1/2
Piper: For trying her best in her spelling and giving new activities a go before she asks for help.
Charlotte P: For having a positive attitude towards her learning.
Charlotte C: For showing respect to all members of the school.
Grade 3/4
Indigo: For showing growth in her leadership skills amongst her peers.
Grade 5/6
Taylor: For respectful and kind behaviour towards her learning and peers.
Mitchell: For growth, demonstrating endeavour towards completing new learning activities.
Grade 7/8
Jack: For an excellent start to 2024 and demonstrating all the school values.
Sophie: For demonstrating courage in her application to her schoolwork commencing high school.
Grade 9/10
Jai: For courage in demonstrating mature application to his schoolwork
Ashley
For growth in her persistence to tackle work that is challenging.
Specialist
Holly: For working hard in HASS and helping others
Ava B: For challenging herself and always setting high expectations with her learning during HASS.
Whole School Values Award Recipient:
William R: William is consistently respectful to his peers and teachers in the classroom and outside the classroom. William pushes himself in his learning to face challenges and isn’t afraid to give new things a go.
Values Raffle Winners:
Lucas McKay and Matilda Ramsay.
Congratulations to our 2024 Student Leadership Team
School Captains:
Danielle Bradburn and Ashley Bryant
House Captains for Clyde:
Robert Porter and Isabella Emerson
House Captains for Shannon:
Brodie Speed and Keeley Foster
We will look to appoint Student Leaders from the 5/6 class further into the school year to join our senior leaders.
Information about upcoming NAPLAN Testing
All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 in Australia do NAPLAN tests in March each year. NAPLAN tests students’ skills in reading, writing and maths. Students read some of the questions and listen to others with headphones. The tests will get easier or harder, depending on how students are going in the test. Students do four different tests.
The names of the four tests are:
- Writing
- Reading
- Conventions of language (spelling, grammar, and punctuation)
- Numeracy
Students in Year 3 will do the Writing test using pencil and paper. Year 3 students will answer the other test questions on the computer.
Students in Years 5, 7 and 9 will answer all their test questions on computers.
Teachers will help students get ready for NAPLAN tests.
Schools will get their students’ results. The school will then give parents/carers a report showing their own child’s results.
Parents/carers can talk to the teacher about these results.
NAPLAN shows how students are going all over Australia. People who work in the Australian Government, state and territory education authorities and schools use NAPLAN results. The results let them see which schools are doing well and which schools might need help.
Talk to your child’s teacher if you have any questions about your child doing the tests.
For more information on NAPLAN, visit www.nap.edu.au
For more information, parents are encouraged to click on this link: NAPLAN information for parents and carers brochure (PDF 108 KB)
Athletics Carnival next Wed 6th March
Finally, we have our Athletics Carnival next week. I look forward to seeing our students wearing their House colours (either blue or maroon). If your young person is not sure which house they are in please ask them to speak with their teacher or let us know and we can find out for them. The program for the carnival can be read further in the newsletter.
Kind Regards,
Erika Boas
Principal
Our School Leaders
Bothwell District High School Athletics Carnival
Our Carnival will be held on next Wednesday March 6th.
LiL's first day of fun.
It was so lovely to see so many little people coming to have some fun at LiL. As the pictures show below everyone was involved in the activities.
Another fun morning at LiL making cloud dough and sensory bottles as well as playing in the balancing bowl with all the couloured balls.
BDHS Association
Introductory To Our New Staff.
Helen Doyle,
Mrs Doyle is our new teacher for classes 7/8 and 9/10 in the subjects of English, HASS, and My Education, as well as this she is taking her own newly introduced to the school route of teaching the Australian curriculum while also giving every student their own passion-based route to learning the curriculum. Personal Interest Projects, otherwise known as PIP, is a new take to the curriculum she has brought down from New South Wales to help students learn the curriculum while also giving them the broad opening to learn in a way that keeps them focused and makes it more enjoyable for the student. Her inspiration for bringing PIP into schools is and intriguing subject of conversation, she believes that bringing all the curriculum’s subjects together as a different line of study will leave the students with a more open-mindset to their learning as it takes the basic subjects of the curriculum that have to be learnt, and combine it with the student’s interests, it also shows higher-authorities of government and other schools that subjects don’t have to be isolated to their own subjects, one topic can be branched into many needed subjects. As well as this, it also gives the students and teachers the opportunity to have a more one-on-one connection, giving the teachers the chance to have a stronger idea of a student’s interests and to open up students to having a trustworthy adult to which they can talk to if needed. Before moving to Tasmania, she taught at many different schools across New South Wales as a relief teacher and a Careers Advisor, and although there is a significant difference going from teaching there to teaching here in Tasmania, she seems to have adjusted quite well in such a short period of time. She comes to us from over in New South Wales with her husband, her dog, her sewing machine for doing quilting as it’s one of her main interests, and her caravan, and although she has had to leave some of her family over in Australia, we hope to make her feel at home here in Tasmania. As well as quilting, she also enjoys bushwalking, which will be give her the wide opportunity to bushwalk across Tasmania with all the untouched bushland we have.
Lee Nichols,
Mr Nichols is from Tasmania he is our new P.E and grade 5/6 teacher, he has a 1-year-old Jack Russel named archie. Knowing a lot about the school previously and schools around here, he has taught across Tasmania mainly in primary schools, so he hasn’t been around older students a lot. He is very passionate about the physical education side of his role, liking all sports and participating in fun runs. He, like other new teachers, hope to see students enjoying their teaching from them and in general, he seeks new leadership and is looking forward to seeing the leadership amongst both older and younger students increase. He also wants to see community culture, showing off how our school is and our achievements along with presenting to the student’s parents and community members our achievements and goals. So far, his impression of the school and students is welcoming, eager and friendly and hopes to keep it that way.
Welcome to you Both!
Library Activities
Class Two went for a visit to the Library. They had an activity on Butterflies, these were put up on display in the Library.
Class 7/8 doing Maths work
The grade 7/8 students have opportunities to work on their maths in ways that suit them.
Central Hawks Football Clinics
AFL TAS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CENTRAL HAWKS FOOTBALL CLUB ARE RUNNING TWO FREE ONE HOUR AFTERSCHOOL CLINICS AT BOTHWELL SCHOOL OVAL.
WHEN: 6TH & 13TH MARCH
STARTING AT 3PM
ALL AGES WELCOME
7-8 English
Year 7 & 8 English
We have started a unit on Communication. This unit is designed to foster students’ communication skills – both verbal and nonverbal. We are trying to encourage the students to feel confident and engage at equal rates.
The first exercise was to look at this image and identify:
- Things that couldn’t be disputed – literal reading – for example the girl is wearing orange clothing.
- What you think may be happening – inferred reading – for example, the girl is trying to hide behind her hair.
- What the emotions or personalities are that are on display – inferred reading/viewing.
- What you imagine may have occurred before this photo was taken.
- What you think may happen in the next 10 minutes.
The students worked firstly in pairs, which each person having 30 seconds to tell their partner what they thought and then they swapped speaker roles. Then the pairs were formed into groups of 4 to come up with a consensus.
The students all worked well on this group activity. They are not only learning about communication from an image but also putting this into practice which is very important. Miss Boas also joined us and her expertise was very welcome.
School Leaders
Jai, Keeley, Isobella,Danielle,Robert and Brodie went to the Athletics carnival at Kempton. Absent was Ashley. These students were very helpful at the carnival helping as marshalls.
Community Consultation
What do YOU want Bothwell, Hamilton and Ouse to be like in the future?
Central Highlands Council is currently developing 'Structure Plans' which will guide future development and help establish a 'vision' for each town.
Everyone is welcome to contribute their ideas at community workshops held between 12-14 March - see flier below.
For more information including how you can have your say if you can't make one of the workshops, please contact Council on 62595503 or development@centralhighlands.tas.gov.au
