Devonport Primary School

Department of Education

Issue No. 28: 24th November, 2016

Hello Everyone,

This week has been a big one for sport; starting on Monday with our

athletics carnival and finishing today with the Primary Schools Triathlon.

The general feeling is that our athletics carnival was a complete success -

the weather was kind, the P & F barbecue was a big hit and students put

in their best efforts. It seemed that there was a real family feel to the

day, perhaps because we had so many parents, grandparents and family

members coming along to cheer on our children. If you were able to

attend, thank you on behalf of our students, as we know they love having

you there to support them. Of course, a big day such as the athletics

carnival doesn’t just happen by magic; it is the result of a lot of hard work

and planning from our dedicated school staff. We owe a very big thanks

to Miss Narelle Genge for the hours and hours of organisation and

preparation she puts into this major event each year. The smooth

running of the carnival is testimony to the degree of thought and

consideration that she puts into this, weeks and weeks ahead of the

actual event. Thanks too to our staff and volunteers who assisted with

setting up and packing up as well as undertaking roles during the day - a

great team effort all round.

Likewise, the Primary Schools Triathlon has also involved a lot of planning

and preparation including in-school and after school training and a lot of

additional work for our office staff. Thanks again to Miss Genge for her

hard work, to Miss Warren for the significant contribution she has made

to support this and to Mrs Walker and Mrs Clark for ensuring all the

registrations have been completed and returned in good time. We’re

thrilled that so many students are participating this year and wish them all

the best.

Final preparations are now well underway for our annual school concert next Thursday 1st December. Tickets for the two concerts are on sale

at the office so please come and buy yours asap if you haven’t

already. The children are very excited about performing for family and

friends and we’d all love to see you there.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is a public holiday for Devonport Show

Day. We wish everyone a happy and safe long weekend and look

forward to seeing you all again next Monday for another very busy week.

Kind regards,

Jo

Jo Hillman

Key Dates for 2016 Term 4

Friday 25th November

NO SCHOOL

Devonport Show Holiday

Thursday 1st December

School Concert

Friday 9th December

Certificate Assembly

Prep-Grade 5 – 1:45pm start

Tuesday 13th December

Volunteer’s Morning Tea

Monday 19th December

Grade 6 Leavers Assembly

Grade 6 Leavers Dinner

Tuesday 20th December

School Picnic

Wednesday 21st December

Students last day

School Concert 2016

Our school concerts are scheduled for Thursday, 1st December. It is very important that students witness the

correct audience skills from our adult audience members. That means that there is to be:

No Eating

No Leaving Seats once seated

No Talking

No Photographs (under provisions of the Personal Information Protection Act 2004)

Appropriate Acknowledgement of Performance

As our floor surface is vinyl and subject to potential damage we ask that audience members wear appropriate

footwear (no high heels or stilettos).

Kindergarten Reid and Kindergarten Meldrum students will be required for the matinee (1:15 pm) and first

evening (5:00pm.) performances. Kinder Reid and Kinder Meldrum students will be required for the

first evening (5:00pm.) performance only. Kindergarten students will be housed in their classroom both before

and after their performance. It is expected that parents will collect their Kindergarten students at the end of each

concert.

There will be three performance times:

Matinee / Dress Rehearsal – Thurs 01/12 @ 1:15pm – 2:30pm

(with Kindergarten students)

Evening Performance 1 – Thurs 01/12 @ 5:00pm – 6:15pm

(with Kindergarten children)

Evening Performance 2 – Thurs 01/12 @ 6:30pm – 7:45pm

(both choir & recorder groups performing but no Kindergarten children)

Tickets are $4:00 each and can be purchased from the school office from Monday 21st November. A maximum of four (4) tickets can be purchased initially for each family, however extra tickets can be purchased, subject to

availability, from next Monday 28th November, if required.

Seating will not be numbered, we do ask that when entering you move to the end of the aisle to allow easier

access for everyone.

All children must be collected from School at 2:50pm as normal.

They will then need to be back in their classrooms no later than 4:45pm.

Students will remain in their classrooms before and after their class’ performance. Parents will be able to collect

their children at the end of the 6:30pm concert, no later than 8:00pm. Kinder students can be collected from their

classroom at the end of the 5:00pm concert.

Should students wish to bring electronic devices to use in their classroom they may do so but the school takes no

responsibility for these items.

PARENTS & FRIENDS

CONCERT BBQ

NO PRE-ORDERS-PURCHASE ON THE DAY

Come along and have a Sausage!!!

Selling outside the Library 4:30pm – 6:30pm

NO FOOD ALLOWED IN THE GYM

Sausages $2.00 Hamburgers $3.00

ENDEAVOUR CARDS Effort – Encouragement – Environment

MERSEY FORTH LEVEN DON

1,372 1,533 1,471 1,324

The winners of our Endeavour Card Vouchers this week are:-

Ben Rootes, Lucy Swaine, Isaac Rigby, Rhyse Page & Jayden Starkey

Don’t forget to collect your prize from the office.

MERSEY FORTH Ethan Yang Tazmyn Bissett x2

Breanna Clark x2 Jade Eley x14

Ryan Best Lauren Page x2

Isabelle Roberts Nikita Robert

Piper Pratt Rhyse Page x3

Isabella MacKenzie Bella Walker-Brooks

Hollie-May Poke India Sleeman

Tom Emmett Ben Rootes

Ranee Murfet Mitchell Evans x3

Declan Osborne x5 Jay Harding x3

Olivia Menere Blake Fidler x3

Milly Martineer

Stella Hill

Lachlan Glover x10

LEVEN DON Jayden Starkey x11 Lucy Swaine x4

Lachlan Gale x7 Brittney Streetsx12

Georgia Ryan x11 Racquel McGuiness x3

Chloe McQueen x4 Sarah Chant x5

Jaiden Armstrong x2 Tahlia Parnell-Fitzgerald x2

Logan Petts Ryan Wilson x4

Jessica Renshaw Jethro Denby x2

Emmi Bruce Amelia Lynd x2

Sophie Atkins Damien Draper-Arnold x3

Jack Freshney Lilly O’Neil

Oliver Mason x16

Isaac Rigby x10

Camp Clayton Summer Camps

We are excited to announce that our 2017 camp catalogue is finally available!

It’s an exciting time for us as we prepare for our big set of camps coming up in the 2017 Summer holidays!

We would love it if you had some of our 2017 camp catalogues at your reception office to display for parents

and students to take home. If you would like physical copies of our catalogue, please just reply to this email

with how many you would like, and with your postal address, and we will send them out to you!

Get involved in the School Banking program. Devonport Primary School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.

The School Banking program provides children with an opportunity to deposit money into their Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at school each week. The program is about how often your child makes deposits, not how much they deposit. To encourage regular savings behaviour the program offers an exciting Rewards Program. Every deposit earns your child a silver Dollarmites token, and once they’ve collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for a reward. These 2016 rewards are currently available:

Outback Pat Bag Tag

Bush Fly Fan

Wriggly Glow Worm

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives $5 when a student makes their first ever School Banking deposit and 5% on every deposit made through the school (to a maximum of $10 per individual deposit). Getting involved in School Banking is easy!

All you need to get involved in the School Banking program is a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account. To open an account for your child, you can visit your local branch. All you need to bring is your current personal identification as well as your child’s birth certificate. If you are an existing Commonwealth Bank customer and have NetBank, you can open an account for your child online. If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet. School Banking day is Monday.

If you would like to know more about the School Banking program, please ask for a 2016 School Banking program parent pack from the school office.

SPORTS NEWS

Devonport Primary School Athletic Carnival

Monday’s School Athletic carnival proved to be a busy but exciting day for everyone involved. All children should be congratulated on their

fine display of behaviour, running ability and house cheering. The carnival was extremely close with the lead changing many times.

Congratulations to Leven House, which were our eventual winners with 2565 points coming in 2nd was Mersey house (2499) followed by

Forth (2446) and then Don house (2390). Well done to our house captains, vice house captains and senior students, who lead the cheering

and helped the younger students to get ready for their races. Thank you to parents and Friends for their excellent BBQ skills providing us

with a yummy lunch.

Finally a big thank you to parents, grandparents, carers and little and big brothers and sisters for coming along and sharing this special day

with us.

Devonport Primary is a Sporting School! Term 4 – Surfing

Tuesday saw 32 Devonport Primary students participated in a level 1 4 hour surfing program. Students undertook

a 1and ½ hr theory session at school learning about beach/water safety and surfing basics before hitting the beach for a 2 and ½ hr surfing lesson afterschool at the Devonport Bluff. Students and staff had a great time. A HUGE

thank you to Garry and Isaac from 42 degree South Surf School for running this program.

2016 PRIMARY SCHOOLS TOUCH FOOTBALL ROSTER

Games Times for tonight Thursday 24th November at Meercroft

4:20pm Devonport vs East/West Ulverstone Ground 6

Special Monday night round Monday 28th November at Meercroft

3:30pm Devonport vs Latrobe Red Ground 5

Remember to like the Devonport Touch Association Facebook page for touch cancellations due to bad weather.

Spring Basketball Roster

Don’t forget to return your school basketball tops to our school office this week so tops refunds can

be issued as tops are returned. Due to the athletic carnival madness on Monday please avoid returning

tops on Monday.

The Grade 5/6 Boys Bulls team members will need to return their tops on Friday night to the

basketball stadium after their game has finished as theses tops belong to the DBC. Please remember

to bring a spare top to wear home.

NEW SPRING NETBALL ROSTER – Wednesday’s Afterschool

Grade 2/3/4 Netta Netball and Grade 5/6 Netball

Game times for next Wednesday 30th November

Grade 2/3/4 Netta

4pm Devonport vs. Nixon Yellow Court 13

Grade 5/6 Netball

4pm Devonport vs. Sheffield Swifts Court 4 Remember to like the Devon Netball Facebook page for netball cancellations due to bad weather.

Junior Primary Summer Hockey

A fun casual summer junior hockey roster has started on Thursday evening with all games being played at 6pm. This

is an informal roster with students just turning up to play each week. Primary games start 5:15pm and the cost is

$3 per week. Sticks can be borrowed from Miss Genge or will be available at the games for students to borrow each

week. Please note we will not be not be entering a school team in this roster but any interested students are

encouraged to go along each week and join in the fun.

LIL News DON’T FORGET

No LIL this week Friday 25th November due to the Devonport Show Day

holiday.

Please don’t forget to RSVP to the school office ASAP for our Wings excursion and the LIL Xmas

Party.

December 2nd LIL Wings Wildlife Excursion 9am to 1pm Wings Wildlife Park Gunns Plains LIL excursion to the Wings Wildlife Park (Gunns Plains). All LIL families are invited to meet us at school 9am to catch a bus or alternatively

families can drive and meet us there at 10am. At Wings we will be going for a walk and having a picnic lunch. We will finish at the wildlife

park at 12pm. Please remember to bring a hat, your lunch and a drink. So we can book enough seats on the bus and at the wildlife park

please RSVP by this Thursday 24th November to the Devonport Primary School office on 64247788. There is no cost for this excursion.

December 9th LIL Xmas Party and last session for 2016 - 9am to 10:30am at Devonport Primary

School Please bring a plate of food to share (remember we are a nut, egg and kiwi free school). Please RSVP for the LIL Xmas party by Thursday

24th November to the Devonport Primary School Office on 64247788.

Miss Genge and Mrs. Page

COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

DISCLAIMER: Parents should note that advertisements for educational services, companies, activities or similar events are published as a ‘community service’. Devonport Primary School is in no way liable for the quality, supervision or integrity of the provider and strongly suggest that parents make their

own enquiries before engaging with the advertised event.

CONTACT DETAILS

57a Stewart Street, DEVONPORT, TAS 7310

Phone: 03 6424 7788 Fax: 03 6424 1659

Email: devonport.primary@education.tas.gov.au

Web: www.education.tas.gov.au

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