School Fire Education Programme
Next week, we are fortunate enough to be able to provide our EL-6 students with learning opportunities about Fire Safety in partnership with the Tasmanian Fire Service. This opportunity supports specific outcomes from the Health and Physical Education section of the Australian Curriculum, those that relate to making safe decisions to enhance health and wellbeing.
Our Prep to Grade 6 students will experience a range of formal lessons through Fire Safety week and Early Learning will have a visit from a firefighter who will provide age level appropriate learning experiences.
The Tasmanian Fire service school program is designed to raise fire awareness in children and includes fun and engaging activities, videos, activity books and giveaways. We strongly encourage our parents and other family members to participate by reading the information and assisting your child with the after-school activities or within the home learning that your class teacher may provide.
Key Fire Safety Messages include:
- Wake up – Install a smoke alarm in every bedroom
- Plan and practice a home fire escape plan with the whole family
- In a fire crawl low and go, go, go to the nearest exit
- In an emergency call triple zero
- Keep flammable material at least two metres from the heater
- If your clothes catch fire, stop, drop, rock and roll
- Keep matches and lighters away from children
- Cooking – Turn it off before you turn away
- Cool a burn under cool water for at least 20 minutes
- Most house fires can be avoided. Make your home fire safe
More information www.tfseducation.com.au
We are very much looking forward to this wonderful opportunity. Please email Annabel Eastoe at aeastoe@lcgs.tas.edu.au if you have any queries about the programme.
Launceston Competitions – Speech and Drama, Creative Writing
From May 6-12, many of our students are participating in the Speech and Drama and Creative Writing sections of the Launceston Competitions. This competition supports specific outcomes from the Drama section of the Australian Curriculum.
- Exploring and Responding
- Developing Practices and Skills
- Creating and Making
- Presenting and Performing
This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to engage in a community event where they must prepare and present rich literature though drama and/or writing, to a set criterion, for an audience. Our students will receive feedback for their performances and enjoy viewing performances from other schools in our Launceston community.
A further notice and permission slip will be sent home soon. As we receive more information from the organisers, our staff will communicate session times with parents via Seesaw.
Parents are welcome to attend the sessions at their own cost. To find out more information, visit www.launcestoncompetitions.org
Mathematics Improvement Project
In 2022, our staff began working together with Tierney Kennedy from Back to Front Maths to analyse our longitudinal data for Mathematics and to enhance our repertoire of skills and capacity when teaching Mathematics. Most recently our staff have been interested in understanding the changes to the curriculum since the launch of the Australian Curriculum version 9. Our teachers have shifted their scope and sequence across to the version 9 curriculum and completed any necessary changes in their planning documentation.
This year our staff have access to a masterclass webinar series. So far this year staff have accessed webinars about; Place Value, Quantity and Partitioning and Decimal Numbers. Next in the series is a webinar about Multiplicative and Structural thinking, including the importance of teaching division. We are very pleased with the progress of our project so far, and the way that it is supporting our staff to deliver the best possible outcomes for our students in this key learning area.
www.backtofrontmaths.com.au
Claire Calvert
Primary Years Programme Co-ordinator