Newsletter - 9 May
- Principal's Highlights
- Student Voice
- Class Spotlight - 5/6D
- Week 1 Learning Snapshot - Media Team
- 2025 Enrolments
- Leadership Conference - Grade 6
- Peer Support
- Music at MNPS
- School Levy Payments - OVERDUE
- Launching into Learning - Term 2
- Before/After School Hours - Duty of Care
- Rubbish Reminder!
- Uniform Shop
- Cross Country
- Champions Athletics
- City to Casino Fun Run
- From the School Association
- Auskick Invitation
- Term 2 Chess
- Community Noticeboard
- School Calendar
Principal's Highlights
Our Annual Mount Nelson Primary School Association AGM was held last week in the staff room. It was great to see some new faces!
We would like to give a big thank you to Mary who has retired from the position as the School Association Chairperson this year. Thank you for your many years of volunteering. Gemma, our treasurer, is also stepping aside from this position and we thank her very much for her time and hard work.
Thank you to the 2023-2024 Committee for their contributions to our school community.
We warmly welcome our new committee members this year:
Chairperson: Julie Preston
Deputy Chairperson: vacant
Secretary: Tegan O’Shea
Treasurer: Sonya Doyle
General Committee: Amelia Fowles, Gemma Carter, Justine Shaw, Lucy Klein, Marita Jones
Margaret Crosswell continues to the be the staff elected representative.
We are always looking for people to support our School Association activities and help out in general. So, please come and join us at our next meeting or event!
Mount Nelson Primary School Cross Country Wednesday, 22 May
Our annual school Cross Country Carnival will be on Wednesday, 22 May and students from Kinder – Grade 6 will be all competing at various times throughout the day.
Like previous years, the Carnival will likely proceed regardless of weather, however if the carnival happens to be cancelled an update will be provided as soon as possible.
To ensure the safety of our students, if you are able to assist on the day and be on a checkpoint to make sure all students feel supported and safe please email abbey.clark@decyp.tas.gov.au and Abbey will provide you with the information required. Please ensure you have your RWVP card and have completed the safe-guarding training.
Parents are welcome to attend on the day and view the event from the designated parent viewing area.
Our students are really looking forward to our first event on our new oval. To celebrate this important milestone, the School Association are planning a special treat for our children. Please keep an eye on Schoolzine for details soon.
Families are requested to work with staff in encouraging respect for the school property and the environment, especially after school hours and on weekends.
Mount Nelson’s involvement in the CRJSA soccer is due to our wonderful School Association Soccer delegates. Special thanks to Jaymie, Emma, Cam and Stephan who have also been supported by Tegan and Mary and to all those families who have volunteered in a coaching or managerial role. We thank everyone for providing this sporting opportunity for our students and look forward to an energetic soccer season.
Canteen day is a day that students look forward to with much anticipation. Special thanks to Lihini and Sarah for the many hours of work that goes into getting the lunch organised weekly for our students and families.
Every School Day Matters
Going to school every day gives your child every chance to learn and grow, and connect with their mates and teachers. It’s where bright futures start and where they’ll benefit the most.
https://anything.tas.gov.au/schools
Please contact your child’s class teacher if you would like some support for your child.
Student Voice
Hi, this is the school executives here to update you on what been happening recently at Mount Nelson Primary.
We recently had the Champions Athletics Carnival. Ivy and Henry were lucky enough to go as well as some other students. And congrats to all who were invited to participate. As you may know, cross country is coming up very soon and we are going to be able to use are new oval for it as well! Thank you to all the helpers at the Mother’s Day stall and for all the donations that are going to go to the School Association. And most exciting for the Grade 6's our hoodies have arrived (as you may have noticed)!!
India, Ivy, Henry B and Joe M
2024 School Executives
Class Spotlight - 5/6D
In 5/6D we have kicked off Term 2 by investigating how journalists use statistics when reporting. We examined an article and the data, to check if the journalist was interpreting the data correctly, and identified some misconceptions!
We have also launched our Inquiry into “Who is Responsible for Australia’s Democracy?” with 5/6AH. We gathered all of our first thinking, which was an impressive amount. We then sorted this into which of the four key pillars of democracy that they belonged. We have also begun to generate our wondering and have posed some fantastic questions to help guide our inquiry!
Week 1 Learning Snapshot - Media Team
Here are some pictures from the first week back in term 2.
These are some students working in classrooms ranging from Preps to Grade 5's, we were very impressed by all of the hard work these students are doing in the first week of term 2.
Media team
2025 Enrolments
Our school is starting to look at enrolments for 2025 from families within our school catchment area and out-of-area. We encourage all families with children who will be joining us in 2025 to contact the school office mount.nelson.primary@decyp.tas.gov.au or fill in the form below.
Please note, all out-of-area families will still be required to complete the Expression of Interest Out-of-Area application form and are not guaranteed a place at Mount Nelson Primary.
If your child is not in grade 6 and your child will not be continuing with us next year - please let us know for our future planning by contacting the school office or filling in the form below.
Leadership Conference - Grade 6
Hello, we are the School Executives, we have recently been to Huonville Primary to the Primary Leadership Conference.
When we were there, we started with a few people talking about why we were there, some others that were talking about life stories and we used that information and key words to bump up our vocabulary. Next we had recess with a lot of free food prepared by the year 10’s. Next we moved to the PCYC and we split into groups of 4. We needed to have people from different schools in our groups and we wrote down things that make a good leaders.
After we did that, we had to get into a line of birthdays from 1 Jan to 31 Dec in the quickest time possible. Then we split into 2 groups and in our group we lined up by alphabetical order by first and last name. After lunch we went upstairs for two more activities that helped us learning about collaboration. We learnt how to be better leaders and how to work with people we didn’t know as well as adapt to different situation.
Henry, Ivy and Joe
Part of the School Executive
Peer Support
Our Kinders are so lucky to have the support of our Grade 6's for their Buddy sessions.
Lars and Sam loved reading the Kinder students a book and explaining to them what’s happening, they are also encouraging them to read and enjoy books!
Music at MNPS
Our Junior Choir is performing a musical this term called The Fisherman’s Wife.
"Our musical is called The Fisherman’s Wife. Someone dresses up as the fisherman, someone as the fisherman’s wife and someone as the fish. The fisherman’s wife wants the fisherman to catch the magic fish because he caught it before and the fish granted them a wish. The magic fish says ‘ I’m a special magic fish with s special fishy wish. Make a wish today and I’ll grant it right away."
Florence
Junior Choir Member
"I am excited for the musical and I’m looking forward to singing and acting!"
Andy
Junior Choir Member
School Levy Payments - OVERDUE
Thank you to parents who have paid levies and to those who are making regular payments. Levies are now overdue. If you are experiencing difficulties with making payments, please contact Sandy to discuss a payment plan. Payments can be made weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Sandy Fenton
Acting School Business Manager
Launching into Learning - Term 2
Welcome to Term 2!
Please share our timetable to friends and family. We can't wait for another fabulous term of play and inquiry with our littlest learners!
Also, don't forget to join our LiL Facebook group to stay up- to-date with all our sessions! https://www.facebook.com/groups/718618779874942Georgie & Shell
Before/After School Hours - Duty of Care
Mount Nelson Primary School staff have duty of care from 8.30 am with school finishing at 3.00 pm.
Mount Nelson Primary School's hours are 8.30 am through to 3.00 pm. It is important that parents/carers do not bring children to school before school hours because there is no supervision of students at that time. Prior to 8.30 is also an important preparation time for our teachers. Similarly, it is important parents/carers either collect their children at the end of the school day, arrange for them to catch the bus home or make other collection arrangements so students are not left unsupervised at the end of the school day.
Unsupervised students may engage in dangerous play or put themselves in dangerous locations. Parents/carers are responsible for their child outside school hours unless they have accessed school based child care during these times.
Rubbish Reminder!
To stop rubbish ending up in our playground here are some things you can do:
- You can buy things with less or no packaging.
- You can unwrap the things at home.
- If you do have rubbish, you can keep it in your lunchbox or put it in the bin when you get home or you can put them in the bins at school.
Grade 6 Green Team
Uniform Shop
Hello from the Uniform Shop!
We are moving our delivery and open shop days to Wednesdays, 2.45 pm to 3.15 pm
Orders need to be placed by 6 pm Tuesdays for Wednesday delivery
There has been a delay in Polo Tops, Qkr will be updated as soon as they arrive!
There is a significant amount of second hand stock, mostly polos and polar fleeces - get in quick!
Ruth
Uniform Coordinator
Cross Country
Our annual school Cross Country Carnival will be held on Wednesday 22 May on our new oval. Students from Kinder to Grade 6 will be competing at various times throughout the day.
Like previous years, the Carnival will likely proceed regardless of weather, however if the carnival happens to be cancelled an update will be provided as soon as possible.
Students are encouraged to bring the following items:
- Plenty of food and drink
- House coloured clothing
- Appropriate running shoes
- A change of clothes in case of muddy/wet weather
The Cross Country Carnival is part of our Physical Education program and as such participating is expected for all students. Each student who completes the race will earn one house point. There will be assistance provided on the day from staff members and students leaders positioned around the course.
Students are invited to wear the following house colours:
Tasman: Blue
Flinders: White
Bass: Red
Please find below an indication of times you can expect your child to be competing in their race.
To ensure the safety of our students, if you are able to assist on the day and be on a checkpoint to make sure all students feel supported and safe please email abbey.clark@decyp.tas.gov.au and I will provide you with the information required.
Champions Athletics
On Wednesday, 1 May 2024, some students went and represented our school in the Champions Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Tom, Hugo, Josie, Angus, Jamie, Joe, Lara, May, Annabel, Ivy and Henry who made it to champions. Well, done to Tom and Josie for also making it to state. We are all wishing you the best of luck and look forward to seeing the results.
2024 House Captains
City to Casino Fun Run
Join the Mount Nelson Primary School team in the City to Casino fun run on Sunday 26th May.
Click on the link to join the team: https://raceroster.com/events/2024/84922/raine-and-horne-city-to-casino-fun-run-and-walk/register?team=646191 or search “Mount Nelson Primary” in teams list.
Wear your uniform and run/walk at your own pace & we could win a prize for our school!
Contact lucy.klein@decyp.tas.gov.au for more information or check the webpage https://citytocasino.com.au
From the School Association
Association AGM and Committee Elections
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Association AGM last week. It was truly wonderful to hear from a diverse range of voices on the issue that matter to our children and to our school.
We’d like to take a moment again to thank our 2023-24 Committee for their contributions to the life of school. As noted at the AGM, we especially thank Mary for her many years in various roles across the school and the Association Committee, and Gemma for her service as Treasurer.
Catherine has introduced your new committee in her Principal’s highlights. The Association Committee is here to represent all parent/carer/community voices across the school. We’d love to hear from you, in the playground, in a meeting, or by email at mnpsassocation@gmail.com
Oval celebration on Cross Country Day
It’s been a long time coming, and we know just how excited everyone is to get back onto the lush, green oval. In recognition of the school cross country as our first event on the new oval, the School Association have some plans in the works. Keep an eye out on SZine for more details.
Mother’s Day Stall
Thank you to everyone who was part of another successful Mothers and Special Person Stall this year. We received a wide range of amazing donations from families and community members including Mount Nelson Pharmacy. On Wednesday, children enjoyed the opportunity to select a gift for the special person in their life.
Please join our next School Association Committee Meeting
The new 2024-25 Committee will come together on Thursday 16 May, 2-3pm in the school staffroom. All parents and carers are warmly invited to attend our committee meetings. Days and times will continue to vary throughout the year in response to your feedback in an Association planning workshop.
City to Casino Fun Run and Walk
Join the Mount Nelson Primary School team for the City to Casino Fun Run and Walk this year. This fun event is great preparation for the school cross country, and we could win a prize for the school.
Details and registrations at https://raceroster.com/events/2024/84922/raine-and-horne-city-to-casino-fun-run-and-walk/register?team=646191
Auskick Invitation
If you would like your child to participate, please register into the Sandy Bay Lions Auskick program: https://www.playhq.com/afl/register/92ce64
Term 2 Chess
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