September 27th

Karen Monaghan| Principal

1/2 Roberts have been getting artistic by creating crazy hair self-portraits.

5/6 Faulkner have been inquiring into the different places in the world, and their famous landmarks. We have been experimenting with using watercolours to create realistic sky backgrounds.  

Yesterday, in perfect weather, the grade 3/4 classes travelled to the QVMAG and Inveresk Museums as a culmination to their recent inquiry on “How the first fleet impacted First Nations Australians”.

The 5 classes split into two groups for the day, with one group visiting QVMAG and the other the Inveresk Museum. We then met at Riverbend Park for lunch and a play before the groups swapped venues.

At each venue, we made connections that deepened our understanding about the First Nation People of Tasmania, and Australia’s participation in Space Discovery. We also learnt about the sinking of the ship the Sydney Cove in 1796, as well as a exploring a variety of paintings throughout the history of Tasmania.

The students had a fantastic day, enthusiastically learning new information and making connections to First Nation Australians and their place in our history.

Today 6 teams are representing Norwood at the F1 In Schools Challenge Day at the Tailrace Centre.  These students, from grades 5 and 6 were selected by teachers to participate in this extension program and worked in teams of 3.  Each team has a Team Manager, Designer and Engineer. 

The Team Manager has created an A2 poster explaining their design process, the Designer has used engineering software to design their car under strict rules and the engineer has sanded, painted and finished the car ready for racing.

The F1 cars are approximately 21cms long and they are propelled using CO² Canisters.  The cars can reach speeds of up to 80km/h.

Thank you to Mr Clark at Queechy High School for milling our cars out of balsa wood as well as all your ongoing support. Thank you also to Willtrade, Temtrol Technologies, Integrated Scada and Exceed Engineering for their sponsorships of our cars in this years competition.

We will announce our results on Facebook over the coming days.

See photos below of the process of designing the cars.

Kinder Fankhauser & Kinder Williams Excursion 

Where: Hagley Farm Primary School

When: Thursday 28th September

Time: Depart school at 9:00am - return by 2:45pm

PLEASE NOTE: No lunch orders on this day

Prep Dahl & Prep Koch/Tyers

Where: Tasmania Zoo

When: Wednesday 18th October (first week back in Term 4)

Time: Depart school at 9:15am - return by 3:00pm

PLEASE NOTE: No lunch orders on this day

Value Certificate Recipients

It was fantastic to acknowledge students across the school last week, who were deserving recipients of Values Certificates. These certificates highlighted those students who have displayed exceptional behaviour, an outstanding approach to learning and academic excellence. Congratulations to all recipients.

Congratulations to the following 5/6 students who were selected to represent the North of the State in the North/North West Sports Exchange on Friday 15th September.

This event was a great opportunity for our students to display their talents playing with and against other students from our State.

Please be aware we have a large amount of lost property!

The most common items making their way to lost property include jumpers and jackets which are un-named. Students have access to lost property during the school day to search for misplaced possessions. When possible, labelled items in lost property will be returned to students.

Due to the limited space for lost property, unlabelled and unclaimed items will be disposed of or donated to our spare uniform clothes at the end of Term 3.

We discourage children from bringing unnecessary personal items such as money, jewellery, toys or other precious possessions to school as the loss of these can be very upsetting.