26 October 2017

Newsletter Articles

Key Dates

Friday 27 October – Samaritan’s Purse Casual Clothes Day.
Monday 30 October – Tasmania Zoo Excursion (Kinder – Prep).
Wednesday 1 November – Assemblies (Years 7 – 12: 12pm, Prep – Year 6: 1.30pm).
Thursday 2 November – Black Dog Ride.
Friday 3 November – Last day for items for Shoe Boxes.
Friday 3 November – Student Free Day.
Friday 3 November – Cattle Handlers (Ulverstone Show).
Monday 6 November – Recreation Day.
Thursday 9 November – Excursion: Railton 3-4, Cement Australia.
Thursday 9 November – School Show afternoon judging events.
Friday 10 November – School Show.
Monday 13 November – Railton Pool hire season begins.
Tuesday 14 November – Thursday 16 November – Year 10 Exams.
Wednesday 15 November – Don College Enrolments.
Thursday 16 November – Saturday 18 November – Cattle Handlers (Scottsdale Show).
Friday 17 November – Athletics Carnival.
Tuesday 21 November – iParty – Year 10.
Tuesday 21 November – SRC 2018 Interviews.
Wednesday 22 November – Assemblies (Years 7 – 12: 12pm, Prep – Year 6: 1.30pm).
Thursday 23 November – Kinder Athletics Carnival (11.00am Sheffield Campus).
Friday 24 November – Saturday 25 November – Cattle Handlers (Deloraine Show).
Friday 1 December – Devonport Show Day.
Monday 4 December: North West High Schools Sports Association Inter High Athletics.
Tuesday 5 December – Orientation Day.
Thursday 7 December – Arts Concert Evening (7pm).
Friday 8 December – Saturday 9 December – Cattle Handlers (Circular Head Show).
Friday 8 December – Year 10 First Aid Training.
Tuesday 12 December – Presentation Day Awards Assembly (11.30am).
Wednesday 13 December – Cattle Handlers Dinner.
Thursday 14 December – Year 10 Celebration Dinner.
Thursday 14 December – Picnic K-6.
Friday 15 December – Last day Year 11/12.
Tuesday 19 December – Railton End of Year Assembly (2pm).
Wednesday 20 December – Picnic: The Bluff, Devonport Years 7 – 10.
Wednesday 20 December – Christmas Assembly P – 6.
Thursday 21 December – Year 10 Assembly.
Thursday 21 December – Last day of term (students).

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to term 4, with a very busy and full calendar ahead!

Education Act Update

Over the past term and a half, we have been working to update our policies in line with the staged roll out of the new Education Act (2016).

During term 3, a working party consisting of members of the School Association reviewed the model constitution provided by the Department of Education. This working party carefully reviewed the model document and considered the Sheffield School context and our previous constitution to make a small number of alterations and additions. Our proposed Constitution has been sent to Legal Services and we are currently waiting for this to be approved. I will provide further information regarding this and what it means for families and students, once we have received approval to proceed from Legal Services.

Our attendance policy and procedures are also currently being reviewed. There will be some changes to current processes and expectations and further details will be shared in the next newsletter.

Professional Learning Day

A reminder to parents that next Friday, 3 November as determined by the Minister is a Professional Learning Day (students do not attend). Staff will be working across a range of areas over the course of the day, with a strong focus on moderating student work to ensure consistency in assessment leading into the end of year reporting process. The day will also provide an opportunity for staff to meet to further progress work on a number of school based priorities.

Respectful Relationships Curriculum Parent and Community Session

Thank you to those school community members that attended the Respectful Relationships Curriculum session conducted by Janice Atkin (Principal Author of the Respectful Relationships Curriculum Package) and Anthony Crawford (Principal Education Officer – Curriculum Services). The session was an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the Respectful Relationships Curriculum, how it is structured, the focus areas and some of the associated resources. The underpinning concept of the curriculum framework is ‘Respect’, with our future work around unpacking our new school values of Respect for Self, Respect for Others, Respect for Learning to be complemented by this new curriculum package. Below is a link to the PowerPoint presented at the session and links to the curriculum package.

Proposed Bus Route Changes for 2018 (Paradise /Lower Beulah)

The Department of State Growth as a part of the recontracting process have been reviewing the existing bus services across the state. In our context we have recently had notification that they are proposing a merger of the Paradise and Lower Beulah routes. A letter from Andrew Kruup, Department of State Growth will be posted out to parents of children that currently utilise this service. If you have not received this by early next week please contact the school to receive a copy. Andrew is seeking any feedback from parents regarding this proposed change, before making a final decision on the service.

Kentish Rowing Club

Recently I had the pleasure of attending the launch of the new Kentish Rowing Club. There is a significant amount of effort that goes into starting a new club and I would like to congratulate the committee members who have made this happen. The club will provide a complete pathway in rowing from juniors through to senior level competition, and have the capacity to train locally which given we have the Lake Barrington International Rowing Course at our backdoor makes perfect sense. Congratulations again to everyone that has been involved with this exciting development. Pictured are some of our rowers with the Club’s Patron, Drew Ginn.

Sheffield School Show

The Sheffield School Cattle Handlers show season is underway and the team have been busy preparing, parading and judging cattle at the Burnie, Launceston and Hobart Shows. A gallery of images are included.

On Friday 10 November Sheffield School will be hosting our annual Junior Cattle Handlers Show of Tasmania at the School Farm. This event will showcase the skills of our own cattle handling team as well as students from around the state including students from Scottsdale High School and Yolla District High. The Show will begin at 8am with the popular Hoof & Hook competition where the beef cattle will be judged on the hoof. The junior handling competitions will begin from 10:15am. Lachlan James will travel from NSW to judge the beef cattle events assisted by our past students Bronte and Pyper Page, and Ian Hortle from Moriarty will be overseeing the dairy cattle events.

Tasmanian Black Dog Ride

Next Thursday morning we will welcome members of the Tasmanian Black Dog Ride to our school. The aim of the Black Dog Ride across the country is promoting awareness of mental health, depression and suicide prevention. This year their fundraising efforts will be directed to support 500 defence and emergency service personnel to complete the Mental Health First Aid course, with the hope that this will increase within communities the capacity to identify and respond appropriately to those in crisis requiring support. The members of the Black Dog Ride will be at school from 8.30am, located on the Primary courts; parents and students can take a look at their bikes and converse with them prior to school commencing.

Student Achievement

Congratulations to Ebony Sims who has been selected in the State Under 16 Girls Futsal Team. She will be competing at the nationals in Sydney in early January. Well done Ebony!

Recently one of our past students achieved significant success at the Royal Melbourne Show, Pyper Page won the National Final in the handlers competition; a great achievement!

RON DALY
PRINCIPAL

2018 Classes

Staff will soon begin the process for creating class groups for 2018. A number of considerations are taken into account to create classes and a number of hours are dedicated to ensuring classes are equitable. Once classes have been created teachers are allocated a class, therefore requests for individual teachers cannot be made.

Parents are invited to discuss any educational concerns or important information they may have for their child with the senior teacher in charge of their child’s current area of the school. Whilst all requests will be considered there is no guarantee that it will be possible to grant them.

Arts Concert Evening

Black Dog Ride

Children’s Cancer Foundation

Crazy Hair Day/Sheffield’s Greatest Shave

Crazy Hair Day was an astounding success this year and received lots of positive feedback. Many students from Kindergarten to Year 10 came to school with their hair done in a crazy way to fundraise in support of the Children’s Cancer Foundation. Everyone looked like they were having lots of fun!

Crazy Hair Day also incorporated the Sheffield’s Greatest Shave assembly where two students and four teachers gave up their hair in support of the fundraising effort. James Currie and Nathan Huett both had their hair cut off by students during recess time and then shaved at the beginning of the assembly, before focus turned towards the teachers. The fun was boosted with Mr Bakes’ promise to shave if the fundraising efforts were to raise $2500.

The SRC would like to thank all who participated and donated to the cause, including a very generous donation from a local business. In total, $4000 was raised and passed on to the Children’s Cancer Foundation from all of the fundraising efforts during the term.

With thanks from the SRC.

Cooking with Kids

Launching into Learning (LiL)

Learning in Families Together (Lift)

Everyone loves being read to. Check out this link for some fantastic read aloud books for all ages!

Board Game Library

Board games are fabulous for people of all ages. We are hearing some really positive feedback from our families. A reminder that our board games are to be returned every Tuesday at Sheffield and Thursday at Railton with all of their bits.

Snap a photo of your family using a board game and send it in for your chance to feature in the newsletter. Email photos to carly.sullivan@education.tas.gov.au

Sheffield Pre-Kinder

Fridays at 1:30 in KINDER (Sheffield)

If you have a child that was born in 2013, they are eligible to begin Pre-Kinder. This is an informal, one hour session where children stay with their parents in the Kindergarten room. This is a great opportunity to play and learn, get familiar with the environment, get to know friends who will be in Kindergarten with them in 2018 and share some songs and a story together.

There is no cost for this program.

We will provide all the information you need for the enrolment process, uniforms, lunch boxes and the routines of Kindergarten. Please spread the word.

*Railton Pre-Kinder will run during LiL each Thursday at 11:30-12:30 in Terms 3 and 4.

For further information, contact Carly Sullivan 6491 8222 or carly.sullivan@education.tas.gov.au

Samaritan’s Purse – Helping Kids in Need

This year during our History lessons, 8A and 8B have decided to work together to make gift boxes to send to children in Developing Countries. The students will sort the donations and buy gifts to put into separate gift boxes for boys and girls between the age groups of 2-4, 5-9 and 10-14. The boxes are passed onto the Samaritan’s Purse organisation, to sort and send over to a country in need.

Leading up to sending the gift boxes, we will be holding a casual clothes day and we will be taking around a jar of smarties for a whole week leading up to the casual clothes day, for students to bring a donation and guess the amount of smarties in the jar. The casual clothes day will be held on Friday 27 October to raise money for the Samaritans Purse Organisation. If students, parents or community members would like to donate suitable items to go into the gift boxes it would be greatly appreciated. Items can be delivered to the main office at both campuses no later than Friday 3 November.

Thankyou in advance.
By Olivia Taylor (8A)

Ideas for Shoe Box.

Items not accepted due to Quarantine and Border security regulations:

Items that will leak or melt (these can ruin the boxes and what’s inside) including toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner, bubbles, plasticine, playdough or batteries.

Any food, lollies of any kind (due to shipping regulations, including medicines and vitamins).

Any used or damaged items due to customs regulations including clothing and toys.

Any breakable items: glass, mirrors or porcelain.

Any items that can scare or harm a child including knives, war related and toy guns.

School Canteens

Railton Term 4 Price List

Sheffield Term 4 Price List

School Uniform

Community Notices

123-Go Kids’ Race

Carols By Candelight – Kentish

Christmas Art Competion

Defence Force Recruiting

It has been a busy couple of months for Defence Force Recruiting – Hobart with hundreds of applicants interviewing for their dream jobs in the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

In September we ran the Australian Defence Force Careers Expo that had well over 3500 attendees and featured many different pieces of equipment and ADF staff members. It was truly a pleasure to host so many different schools and all the students that attended were excellent.

YOU SESSIONS

YOU Sessions are filling up for the rest of the year, if your child is keen to get their application started before the end of the year we highly encourage them to call 13 19 01 and book in.

INFORMATION SESSIONS

ACCELERATED TRAINING OPTION – ARMY RESERVE

The Accelerated Training Option (ATO) is a program within the Army Reserve that commences in January 2018. The ATO offers three months of continuous employment and is aimed to get an Army Reserve recruit fully trained within the timeframe. Perfect for year 12 graduates!

Available to Army Reserve Infantry Soldiers this is a great opportunity. To learn more please contact their Defence Force Recruiting Careers Counsellors.

Learn to Manage Difficult Behaviour in children 2-12 years old

Mersey Community Care

Sheffield Cricket

Shimjang Taekwondo Academy

Splash

TS Mersey Navy Cadets Fundraiser