It’s been a busy and fun fortnight at SPS! I've been on 4 excursions - two to the East Coast Heritage Museum, a home visit to meet a lovely past student - Mrs. Iris (Bub) Anderson and another to Huonville Primary School with some of our Grade 6 Leaders.  I’d like to take this opportunity to thank:

• Mrs Anderson for her interview on what life was like at Swansea Primary School (82 years ago!)
• Maureen at the East Coast Heritage Museum for hosting us and welcoming us to the new exhibition (which is fantastic by the way) to learn more about how Swansea and school life has changed over time.
• And, last but not least, Ava, Arcena, Gabriel and Xearna for stepping outside of their comfort zone and participating with enthusiasm and pride as they represented Swansea Primary School at the Student Leaders Conference.  I am super excited to see the impact all of our leaders have this year. Thank you to Lilly and Summa also for their encouragement and confidence during our recent Swan VS Oyster Athletics carnival.  I am looking forward to heading down the highway again on Wednesday 10^th March to watch all of the 3-6 students, participate in the Inter-Schools SPSSA Carnival.  Pray for fine weather! 

This week for the staff have been busier than usual too, with Progress Reports coming home today and Settling Interviews taking place next week.  If you haven’t done so already, please book in a time to chat with your child’s teacher, just to touch base and to learn about your child’s personal and academic goals for the term/year ahead. All of our students are working very hard and your support in helping them to achieve their goals will be greatly appreciated.

This was one of the activities our student leaders participated in and shared when they got back to school. It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to seeing how their teamwork skills develop over the course of the year.

Enjoy your long weekend everyone!

Kind regards,

Kristy Hay

Principal

Volunteers and Visitors

Swansea Primary School is always looking for families and community members to come in and volunteer.  Please see attached brochure with links to registering for your working with vulnerable card.

Melissa in the school office is happy to assit with the application process.

On Thursday the 4^th of February the Grade 2/3 class ventured to the East Coast Heritage Museum for an excursion. While we were there, we viewed a historical diorama of Swansea. We looked at historical tools, such as a sugar snipper, a raisin shredder, a vegetable cutter and a cockroach trap. We walked through the old classroom and saw a school uniform from 1860. Evie noticed the ink wells in the old desks and we saw some photos of the old school building. 

Many students were excited to recognise a model of a Ningher Canoe in one of the rooms and share some of the facts that we learned about them last year with Maureen. We had seen a photo of this model last year, made by Rex Greeno.  

We viewed some amazing maireener shell necklaces (one of which was made by Dulcie Greeno- Rex Greeno’s Mother), a bull kelp water carrier (made by Yvonne Copper) and some different types of woven baskets. We also saw some photos of a thylacine and learned that a thylacine tail was a lot like a kangaroo tail and helped them with stability. 

Finally we walked through the War Memorial room, where we saw a variety of Military uniforms, war memorabilia and the big competition- sized Billiards table, which was once in the old school room and provided a place for ex-servicemen to socialise with other ex- servicemen.  

This was a fantastic learning experience for our class and we look forward to our next visit to the East Coast Heritage Museum. Thank you very much to Maureen Martin Ferris. 

School Association Parent Fact Sheet

The School Association Committee held their AGM for 2021 last Tuesday the 23rd of February, thankyou to those parents that were able to make the agm.

The Swansea Primary School Association Committee for 2021

Chairperson - Alice Laing

Vice - Chairperson - Mike Travalia 

Treasurer - Kristen Darke

Secretary - Melissa Quinn

Principal - Kristy Hay

Community Representative - Suzanne Hickey

Staff Members - Bronwyn Brown, Saskia Sparshott & Melissa Quinn

Parent Reps - Kellie Lyne

The committee has two parent rep vacancies - if you think this may be a role for you please speak to one of our school association reps

The association's next meeting will be held on the 23rd of March at 12.30pm at Swansea Primary School in the reading room or please see the zoom link attached.

Welcome to attend on site at Swansea Primary School or via Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8252372662?pwd=YldEM1QyUFBsVm4wbkgwazBVWUhiZz09

Meeting ID: 825 237 2662
Passcode: 9sMBcy

Professional Circus Instructor

(possibly travelling from Kingston on a Monday)

After school hours 

Class runs 1.5 hours

Max 10 students per class

Swansea Primary School Swan Hall

$50 per class - costs include travel time from Kingston (*will be slightly reduced for a per term commitment - payment in advance)

5+ years - 12 years only

Time to be confirmed if enrolments are sufficent.

Please email: Ange Boxall if you are interested in this East Coast intiative.

Angela Boxall: info@angeboxall.com 

www.circusstudio.net.au

Swan vs. Oyster

Athletics Carnival

2021

On Tuesday 23^rd of February we held our annual Swan vs. Oyster athletics carnival. The day was a great success and students showed a great level of sportsmanship throughout the course of the day, participating in all their events to their fullest potential.

This years Swan vs. Oyster carnival was a special event for students, parents, and staff as it was the first sporting event since COVID-19 that parents could come and be a part of rather than through zoom.

This year, students were timed in their events to start the collection of records for our carnivals. All students who placed first in their events all set the initial record for our schools data and we endeavour in future years to continue recording students times to then inform students and parents if any previous records were broken, adding that extra little piece of competition to the day and  increasing student engagement.

The results of this year’s carnival were very close, with Swan house being the overall winner for the day finishing on 251 points, 17 points more than Oyster, who finished on 234 points. The results all came down to the throwing events, as the total points in the running events seen Oyster lead over Swan by four points. This goes to show you how close our carnivals are, so every point, even participation points are crucial!

Thank you to all that attended and helped make the day a huge success!

Prep/One class are looking for helpers .

Are you available to come in and help with reading, art & craft, gardening, woodwork and lots more fun things?

Please contact the school office or Mrs Elise Wells P/1 teacher on 62578 126

Please ensure you have a current Working with Vulnerable People card, if you need any assistance please call into the office and we are happy to help.

Every child should have received a dental form to take home to see the dentist starting from next week when they are on site at Swansea Primary School.

All parents, grandparents are also more than welcome to book a time to see the dentist whilst on site.  We ask that these appointments please be booked outside of school times.

Please make contact with the school office.