Breakfast Club Sponsors

Our students are extremely fortunate to have access to a Breakfast Club on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday during the week.  Having breakfast in the bellies of students before they enter classrooms for the day, allows them to be prepared for learning and the ability to concentrate better.

This would not be possible if it was not for volunteers and sponsors of the program.  We are so grateful for the volunteers that give their time providing breakfast and for the sponsors that donate to the program. If you can contribute to help us provide breakfast, that would help ensure it continues moving forward. You can donate money via the Qkr! App, or at the school office. Sending a jar of vegemite, cream cheese or some honey with your child to school is another way to be a massive help – there is a box at the office where these can be placed.  Thank you to those people that have already helped, Breakfast Club is solely dependent on donations, so anything you can contribute is valued and appreciated. Thank you!

Apraxia Awareness

During Monday Meetings with all students, we have been sharing and learning sign language as a whole school.  We have some students in our school that require sign language to communicate and if we can all learn as much as possible then this will help us all communicate effectively.  Some students have Apraxia, and May is National Apraxia Awareness Month.

Grade 6 student Bella Maine shared in our whole school meeting that Apraxia of speech is when your brain has trouble telling your mouth how to make the sounds you want.  It’s like when your tongue and lips don’t work together smoothly to say words, even though you know what you want to say. With some practice and help from speech therapists, you can sometimes train your brain and muscles to work better together so you can talk more easily.  Together we believe every child deserves a voice.

On Friday May 24 we will be holding our own Apraxia Day, and encourage all students to wear anything blue to promote awareness.  Our SRC students will also be holding activities during recess and lunch.

Music and the Arts

I am pleased to inform you that Mrs Laura Willcox will be teaching drama/performing arts to Grade 3 – 6 students this Term.  Students have already accessed the engaging and enjoyable lessons facilitated by Mrs Wilcox, and we are excited for our students to be accessing the Arts in this manner.  It was also a pleasure to introduce Mr Clinton Hutton to Boat Harbour Primary School this week.  Mr Hutton will be working with two small school bands, and a Grade 3/4 and a Grade 5/6 choir.  This is an exciting and evolving space, and I look forward to sharing the progress made as the Term progresses.

Cross Country and Assembly Thursday May 23

We are looking forward to holding our first assembly for Term 2 in week 4, Thursday 23^rd May.  The Kinder to Grade 2 assembly will start at 9:10am.  Directly after this assembly, early childhood students will move to the playground and participate in their Cross Country.  Parents are invited to both events.  At 11:10am we will hold the Grade 3 to Grade 6 assembly.  This will finish in time for their Cross Country to start at 12:00pm.  We hope you can join us!

The Cross Country is encouraged for all, with participation a key priority.  Students are welcome to run, jog, walk, or a combination of each.  Like all school-based activities, students are encouraged to try their best.  Walking and completing the course can be fun and still earn points for their House Team. 

Times:

9:10am            Kinder to Grade 2 Assembly

10:00am          Grade 2 Cross Country

10:05am          Kinder Cross Country

10:10am          Prep Cross Country

10:15am          Grade 1 Cross Country

                        Recess

11:10am          Grade 3 to Grade 6 Assembly

12:00pm          Grade 3 Cross Country

12:05pm          Grade 4 Cross Country

12:10pm          Grade 5 Cross Country

12:15pm          Grade 6 Cross Country

School Association

Nomination forms for new members for our School Association will come home this week.  The only commitment for the Association is two meetings each Term.  If you know someone that has a strong voice within our school community and will positively challenge and contribute to the organisational functions of the school, then I encourage you to nominate them.  This Association is a mechanism to help guide the direction of our school, and I look forward to working with a driven group of people to ensure Boat Harbour Primary School remains an outstanding learning institution that is focussed on improvement.

Term 2

We have had an excellent start to Term 2. The manner that students have returned after the school holidays has been impressive.  Teachers have been able to continue positively with learning programs and share enthusiastically about the progress students are making.

As always, I invite you to make contact with me if there is anything you would like to discuss regarding your child’s learning or about our school.

In Grade 1, we LOVE being part of a hands-on learning environment, especially in Maths. This way of learning gives us an opportunity to put our new skills to use in a real-world context. Recently, we have become experts on understanding place value of 2-digit numbers and knowing that while a digit can be the same, its value depends on where it is in the number. Some of us even tried it out with 3-digit numbers! We can’t wait to use this knowledge to help us with addition and subtraction. 

On Wednesday afternoons Preps have Music with Mrs Matthews, this term we have been focusing on keeping a beat. Students listened for, moved to, used body percussion and percussion instruments to play the beat in music.

• Eleanor – beats can go fast and slow.
• Adele – a steady beat makes a boom noise that repeats.
• Xyla – beats can change in different music; I like playing the instruments in music.
• Henry – Your heart makes a beat like a beat in a song.
• Quinn – I like making different sounds with the instruments and playing the beat to the music.

In Kinder C we have been learning about sorting and grouping objects. We have been sorting things by their colour, size and shape. We collected a variety of objects from around the classroom and grouped them into their colours, we did an activity where we sorted monsters by their size. We had a class discussion about when in our everyday lives we have seen things be sorted by size, shape or colour. Some examples that we came up with were: 

At the pizza shop they have different sizes - Archie 

When we are buying a coffee we can choose what size - Daisy 

Clothes we wear have different sizes – Ivy 

The bread is together in their types in the supermarket – Ellis 

We sort the forks in our kitchen drawer – Riley 

The fruits and vegetables at the supermarket are sorted  – Merlo-Raine 

In Science, grade 2s have been exploring how materials can be physically changed, without changing their composition. We have explored this in the experiment ‘The Bouncy egg’. We predicted what we thought might change and observed these over several days, noting down what we could see. Some predicted the egg in vinegar would bounce but the egg in toothpaste would be stronger and not bounce. What happened, the vinegar egg was bouncy and the egg in toothpaste was changed inside but not bouncy.

“The vinegar is white but has brown bubbles on top” Sam.

“The egg in toothpaste absorbed some of the toothpaste, its stronger” Sahara.

“The egg was on the bottom of the jar and is now floating” Nate.

“The egg in vinegar has increased in size” Edward.

“The toothpaste isn’t bouncy” Kyah.

“The egg is stronger as it didn’t break on the first drop” Will.

“If not in the toothpaste it would have broken quicker” Max.

The membrane from the vinegar egg, “ it feels like a balloon” Maddie.

NWFL WYNYARD PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROSTER AND RULES (2024)

ROSTER (Team named first is the home team)

Venues

Yolla District School - Yolla Recreation Ground 

St Brigid’s Catholic School - Wynyard High School (Precinct - Oval 3)

Table Cape Primary School - at school

Boat Harbour Primary School - at school 

Round 1: Friday 24 May 2024

Yolla (home) vs St Brigid’s (away)

Table Cape vs Boat Harbour 

Round 2: Friday 31 May 2024

St Brigid’s vs Table Cape 

Yolla vs Boat Harbour 

Round 3: Thursday 6 June 2024 (change due to DECYP Student Free Day on Friday)

Table Cape vs Yolla 

Boat Harbour vs St Brigid’s 

Round 4: Friday 14 June 2024

St Brigid’s vs Yolla 

Boat Harbour vs Table Cape 

Round 5: Friday 21 June 2024

Boat Harbour vs Yolla 

Table Cape vs St Brigid’s 

Round 6: Friday 28 June 2024

Yolla vs Table Cape 

St Brigid’s vs Boat Harbour 

COMPETITION RULES

This competition can be considered as a hybrid between NWFL Under 12 (club) football and Auskick. For those involved in NWFL Under 12 football, please be reminded of the above point. 

Players on Ground

• 15 players on the ground at any given time 
• By mutual agreement, the coaches may alter this number, but must ensure no team is disadvantaged 

Match Start Time 

• All matches start at 3.30pm 
• Schools must contact each other where challenges exist 

Inclement Weather 

• In the event of inclement weather, the home team will communicate at lunch time to update opposing school
• In light rain, games should continue
• It is the responsibility of the school to communicate with respective families where changes to games occur

Ground Conditions

• In extreme cases, grounds may be closed. Of all the grounds, Yolla Recreation Ground is more likely to be closed due to ongoing use. The Waratah-Wynyard Council will communicate with Yolla District School where the ground is unsuitable for use
• Yolla will in turn communicate with the school concerned 
• Langley Park, Somerset, is a back up ground for this roster, particularly for the Yolla Recreation Ground, as well as all grounds as necessary
• Boundary lines do not need to be marked with a white line. In the event this is not possible, marking with cones is perfectly acceptable. 

Length of Quarters 

• 15 minutes per quarter to enable games to finish by 5.00pm 

Physical Contact 

• Wrap tackle (hold with hands), no bumping

Mouth Guards 

• Mouth guards are encouraged but not compulsory 

Zones

• Players start in their “thirds” but do not need to stay in these parts of the ground

Umpires/Coaches/Time Keepers

• School responsibility to coordinate 
• Only one umpire is needed per match as a minimum. Both schools participating in the match should endeavour to supply an umpire. 
• Coaches and umpires are expected to prioritise sportsmanship and communicate this to all players, at all times

Scoring

• Informal scoring is acceptable as the children do have an interest. We are not playing for “premiership points” nor ladder positions. 

Parental Behaviour

• Parents and spectators are expected to model sportsmanship and communicate this to their own children 
• Unfortunately, parents who are unable to demonstrate this will not be permitted to attend matches

Bounces 

• One bounce permitted

Out of Bounds 

• From a kick a free is awarded against the player who last kicked the ball. From hands, or if there is doubt the umpire shall call a ball up 10m in from the boundary 

Kicking the Ball Off the Ground 

• Not permitted unless accidental 

Rotation Policy 

• Every player should play at least 50% of game time

Penalties 

• A 25m penalty can be applied
• Players can be yellow/red carded (sent off for time or full game depending on behaviour shown)

Goal Post Pads

• All goal posts must have pads

Cricket Pitches on Grounds

• In the event where a synthetic pitch exists on the ground, the umpire must exercise caution and blow the whistle where congested play exists within close proximity
• Players must be briefed on this before the game by coaches and umpires 

Autism and Puberty
A workshop for parents and carers

This 3 hour workshop is for parents and family carers of autistic children or those who show autistic characteristics. A confirmed diagnosis is not required. During this workshop we discuss how to prepare and support your child during this hormonal period. Come and learn about sensory impacts, hygiene routines and navigating changing relationships.

This workshop helps you to:

• Explore the physical, emotional and social changes of puberty
• Gain strategies, resources and services that may be helpful for the whole family

Upcoming Dates: 

• Hobart: Thursday 13th June 2024
• Book Here: https://www.trybooking.com/COYJL
• Launceston: Tuesday 18th June 2024
• Book Here: https://www.trybooking.com/COYSI
• Burnie: Tuesday 25th June 2024
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• Online: Wednesday 4th December 2024
• Book Here: https://www.trybooking.com/COYVD

Light refreshments provided at in person sessions. All workshops are designed to be interactive for our participants including our online sessions. We tailor our workshops to the individual needs of our participants in order to provide the most relevant information and resources.

The cost of our workshops are $10 online or $15 in person. Exemptions are available, please contact us as we strive to ensure our workshops are accessible for those who need them.

Registration is essential. 

You can find further events and training near you or online by visiting our calendar using the below button or Click the Flyer image below to download a copy of our PDF Flyer for this workshop.

If you’re looking for Professional Development workshops, please head to our Professional Learning & Development webpage here.

Get in touch via learning@autismtas.org.au for further information.