Principal Message
What a busy Term 2 here at Forest Primary School! A great school to be at and with many opportunities for all our students to be engaged in quality learning opportunities.
Our Grade 6 students are currently away on camp in Hobart for the week – supported by Toni Popowski, Sarah Cuthbertson, Neville Barnard and Margaret Ollington. I thank our staff for their massive contribution for supporting our students and our school.
We wish Ari Korpershoek all the very best as he will represent the Northwest Coast at the State Athletics Carnival. He has been attending trainings to fine tune his amazing running ability. We wish you all the best Ari!
Little Learners & Bake and Take are back every Monday, engaging in thoughtfully designed learning experiences while fostering connections between our community and school through the joy of baking!
Students from 3/4 and 5 classes have attended Stanley Primary School today. We were so lucky to be invited to be a part of a performance from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Our students thoroughly enjoyed this musical experience, thankyou to Annette for supporting this.
Selected students from years 3 to 6 participated in the CHSSSA cross country carnival at Redpa Primary last week. It was a lovely day and well done to everyone for representing our school. From this event, Celeste Korpershoek, Eleanor Johns, Rylan Anderson, William Morrison, Nate House, Montie Thorp, Ari Korpershoek, Ruby Medwin, Dustin Brown and William Ettlin are off to Ulverstone on Tuesday 27th of May to represent the Cluster of schools at the Northwest Carnival.
With Mother’s Day this Sunday. At Forest Primary we will be celebrating our Mums, Nans, Grans or someone special to your hearts with a delicious breakfast on Thursday 15th of May from 8am-9am. Please RSVP to the school office for catering purposes.
On Friday 6th of June (moderation day) the Cluster of Circular Head Schools will meet here at Forest Primary School to moderate students learning in the areas of English and Mathematics.
Moderation in Tasmanian government schools is a collaborative, ongoing undertaking where educators use evidence of their students’ learning to:
- clarify their understanding of the quality of learning required for each achievement standard described in the curriculum
- identify the evidence of learning that is demonstrated in work samples
- develop consistency of judgement in assessment among educators within a school and across schools in the system
- identify what to teach next to support the progression of learning
- reflect on the design of assessment tasks that are effective in eliciting evidence of learning that demonstrates achievement standard at a range of levels
- engage with opportunities for powerful, embedded professional learning.
Term 2 Reporting & Communication - This term we will be offering a 2-way parent/teacher conversation happening in Week 8. More information will be sent home to explain this process for you all and our JAM specialist showcase – watch this space!
We have lots of fun events and programs upcoming at Forest Primary these include Word Recognition Parent Information afternoon, Children’s University, Spice Kids, Walk to School Safely Day, Anything but a school bag day, National Simultaneous Storytime, Netball Championship, School Photo’s, "Sending your child to Forest Primary" Information evening, P&F Trivia Night!!!! There is a lot happening at Forest and this isn’t everything… we can’t wait!!!