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Please Note:Launceston Grammar Junior Campus is hosting a Mother's Day Breakfast for mothers and special friends on Friday 7 May 7.45am - 8.30am. All are welcome!
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Term 2, Week 1

Contents

Senior Executive
Headmaster - Mr Richard Ford Acting Head of Junior Campus - Mrs Jessica Kernan
Events
2021 Grade 12 Walkathon Cocktail Party Free Parenting Seminar - The Teenage Brain
Drama and Dance Report
Drama and Dance Update
Chaplain Message
Senior Campus - Rev. Paul Grayston
Community Noticeboard
Welcome to Autism Free Workshop Parent/Carer Information Sessions This month on SchoolTV - ‘Raising Girls’ 2021 School Series Competition
Senior Executive

Headmaster - Mr Richard Ford

It has been a delight to welcome back students this week after the Easter holidays. As I walked through the quadrangle in the morning on the first ...

It has been a delight to welcome back students this week after the Easter holidays. As I walked through the quadrangle in the morning on the first day of term, I found a Grade 12 student taking a photo of the space.

I asked about what prompted her to take a photo and she commented on the beauty of the space and the old outdoor wooden hand-made furniture which had been carefully restored over the holidays.

It was lovely to speak with a student full of gratitude for the many blessings that it would be easy to take for granted.

This momentary interaction was also a reminder of the digitally immersed world in which we operate, a world in which both the beautiful and the vile can be so easily and quickly captured and broadcast.

Conscious of the challenges for students and parents alike in navigating the ever changing digital terrain, the School welcomed this week Brett Lee from www.internetsafeeducation.com to present a range of age appropriate session.

For parents on Thursday evening Brett had five key messages:

  1. Communicate with your kids
  2. Set clear rules and boundaries
  3. Stay up to date with apps and programmes
  4. Consider and use parental controls
  5. Be the one who makes the final decision

On Friday in the quadrangle a BBQ was held for Grade 12 to congratulate them on their achievements during the Walkathon at the end of last term. Many a story of perseverance and camaraderie was shared.

Students have now raised $59,500 for Cancer Council Tasmania and donations are being sought for a silent auction at the cocktail party next weekend.

In light of this, I speculated during assembly this week about how Grade 12 would respond if one family decided to donate a dozen of their best bottles of wine, another family donated half their family farm and yet another family, not to be outdone, donated their child’s services as house help for the duration of their working life.

It was agreed that we would all be outraged by the last of the donations and could not possibly accept it regardless of the price we thought it might attract in the silent auction.

We were collectively outraged because we are hardwired to know that people are priceless and precious.

People are precious regardless of their age, appearance, ability, family connections, gender or nationality.

We know this and yet we sometimes forget it.

Even as adults, if we are honest with ourselves, there are times when we say things, write things or do things that make it clear we have forgotten people are precious.

When we forget, we need each other to stand up and remind us of what we have forgotten because that is what good communities do, that is what good men and women do.

As Term 2 begins, my hope for our School community is that we would all remember people are precious and that each member of our community would know how precious they are.

Each of us have a collective responsibility to make sure all our actions help others to know how much worth and dignity they have. Each of us have a collective responsibility to stand up when we see each other forgetting.

May we also be like the Grade 12 student I encountered on the first day of term and notice the good things which surround us and hold onto them with gratitude.

Let us settle for nothing less this term.

Richard Ford
Headmaster

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Acting Head of Junior Campus - Mrs Jessica Kernan

News from Junior CampusOur staff and students have returned from their holiday break, enthused for the exciting learning that lies ahead. As we lead ...

News from Junior Campus

Our staff and students have returned from their holiday break, enthused for the exciting learning that lies ahead. As we lead into the cooler months of the year, I share with you the below news from our Junior Campus.

New Head of Junior Campus 

We look forward to welcoming Sheona Carter in Week 5 of Term 2 (Monday 17 May). Mrs Carter’s extensive experience leading the learning and pastoral care of students will ensure the enhancement of education for our students at the Junior Campus continues. We will be back in touch with opportunities for the School community to meet with her during the second half of this term.

Henty update 

Over the holiday break the Henty Building (Grade 3 and 4 area) at our Junior Campus has received an upgrade with new carpet in each of the four learning spaces. The classrooms have also had new Touch Screen Technology installed, ready for our students and teachers to access at the beginning of Term 2.

The Launceston Grammar Difference 

Below you will find my reflections and thoughts on what we describe as the Launceston Grammar Difference – broadly speaking, what our staff, students, helpers and parents bring to our school community from before the first school bell rings of every chilly autumn morning.

At Launceston Grammar, we continue to nurture, challenge and inspire our students to be the best version of themselves, every single day. Our teachers are committed to ensuring that our students have access to a myriad of cultural and enriching opportunities to grow and flourish as individuals. We aim to cultivate successful learners, confident and creative individuals, who are active and well-informed global citizens.

Transdisciplinary experience-driven learning 

At our Junior Campus, our learners are able to think deeply, logically, and obtain and evaluate evidence in a disciplined way as the result of transdisciplinary learning. The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme is renowned worldwide for its rigour and appeal for students who think globally.

The high academic standards and strong emphasis on the ideals of intercultural understanding and responsible citizenship make it unique. Our students attend many excursions, incursions and gain access to expert speakers throughout the academic year, adding value to their inquiry unit and deepening their conceptual understanding with lived experience.

We develop our students’ capacity to learn and play an active role in their own learning. This is evidenced in our ‘curiosity playground’ at our Junior Campus. Play with different objects, loose parts, household items, puzzles, bubbles, music, scarves and figurines has demonstrated how curious children are when playing and interacting at school. These ‘pockets of curiosity’ encourage open-ended play, trial and error, collaboration and have demonstrated to staff that the limit to our students’ thinking is endless.

Further to this, play time is an opportunity to build social connections and to extend student thinking beyond the classroom. At Launceston Grammar, our students also have access to various lunchtime club offerings ranging from chess, performing arts, languages and culture. These optional ‘Little Extras’ give our students the space to become confident and creative individuals who have a sense of self-worth, self-awareness and personal identity that enables them to manage their emotional, mental, spiritual and physical wellbeing. We aim to foster our students’ sense of optimism about their lives and the future. These social lunch time clubs enrich leisure time at school to establish a life-long love of learning with friends.

Global perspectives and student-led advocacy 

Student voice, choice and agency is interwoven into the Launceston Grammar community. Our students are encouraged to work for the common good, in particular sustaining and improving natural and social environments. Learning opportunities to support these understandings are embedded into inquiry units using specific thinking routines and ongoing provocations.

Our Grade 6 leadership model aims to provide all Grade 6 students with leadership development opportunities. This year they will be involved in service to the community, outdoor experiences, encouraged to identify characters strengths and to acquire new leadership skills. At Launceston Grammar, we instil a sense of responsibility as active global and local citizens in every student.

In the classroom, within explicit Literacy and Numeracy lessons our teachers aim to equip our students with the specific skills to appreciate Australia’s social, cultural, linguistic and religious diversity, and have an understanding of Australia’s history and culture. We continue to scaffold our students with skills to unpack the complexity of significant local, national and global issues.

 

Our students continue to push new boundaries and take their learning to new heights. I am reminded everyday as to why I chose to become a teacher. In that magic lightbulb moment in the classroom when the ‘penny drops’ and a student masters a new skill, they look up with a sense of accomplishment and newfound confidence ready for the next challenge. At Launceston Grammar, we ensure our students are ready for the new and exciting opportunities that lay ahead of them. They will be well-prepared as active citizens to navigate successfully in an everchanging global landscape.

I take great pride in sharing news from our school and our school can look forward to sharing our students’ wonderful learning accomplishments and hard work from our teaching team this term.

Jessica Kernan 

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Events

2021 Grade 12 Walkathon Cocktail Party

Launceston Grammar’s Grade 12 students are hosting the 2021 Walkathon Cocktail Party EVENT DETAILS:Date: Saturday 1 May 2021 Time: 6:00PM- 8:00PM ...

Launceston Grammar’s Grade 12 students are hosting the 2021 Walkathon Cocktail Party

EVENT DETAILS:

Date: Saturday 1 May 2021

Time: 6:00PM- 8:00PM

Location: War Memorial Assembly Hall, Senior Campus

$40 Per Person

$70 For a Couple

$10 For Students

To purchase a Ticket Click HERE

 Cocktail Party Invitation

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Free Parenting Seminar - The Teenage Brain

Hear from David Gillespie, author of ‘Teen Brain’ about how teenagers are uniquely susceptible to addiction and the severity of this problem in an ...

Hear from David Gillespie, author of ‘Teen Brain’ about how teenagers are uniquely susceptible to addiction and the severity of this problem in an age where excessive screen time is the norm.

Please note a change of venue School Auditorium.

Reserve your place here.

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Drama and Dance Report

Drama and Dance Update

Since the beginning of term one, the TCE drama students have been hard at work on this year’s TCE production, entitled Are You Still Here? The ...

Since the beginning of term one, the TCE drama students have been hard at work on this year’s TCE production, entitled Are You Still Here? The production follows multiple stories of young Tasmanians and their journey to move out or decide to stay in Tasmania. The naturalistic drama covers some dark themes, whist still having some contrasting comedic scenes. We are performing Wednesday the 28th and Thursday the 29th at 7pm in the drama centre and would appreciate the support. All are welcome to attend. It should run for an hour maximum.

The Launceston Competitions are also fast approaching. The Grade 9 to 12 drama and dance students, and some grade 7 drama students, are preparing their pieces to perform in week 4. The drama captains are also offering up time to have the drama room open on Tuesday lunch times. Mrs Peters is available every day and after school until 4:30 over the next 2 weeks for  students who want time to practise their competition pieces.

Carry On, the school’s musical production, will be starting rehearsals next Friday. Set during WW2, it shows the experiences of both men and women in the war, whilst following a love story of two young Tasmanians. We are looking forward to putting the show on in week 3 of term 3, we hope to see you all there. Congratulations to Miss Hedges, this year’s director for writing the whole show. A huge effort!

So far this year in Movement and Dance with Miss Reynolds, grade 7A and 7D movement classes have been exploring: rhythm, shapes, tutting and body percussion and this term, they will look more closely at intention and abstraction.

In Gr 8 Dance, a strong ensemble made up of: Adelle Adams, Bella Clark, Caitlin Douglas, Rosie Jackson, Claudia Waddingham, Tilly Wall and Lucy Wood have been making some powerful work around identity, which they will perform at the end of this term.

Gr 9/10 Dance students have been working with kinesphere using the artist, Frida Kahlo’s paintings as a stimulus. Exploring themes of grief, vulnerability and pain. These students are participating in the Launceston Drama Comps for Dance in week 4. We wish Mia Ainsley, Layla Anderson and Ava  Curtis all the best of luck.

Lastly, the TV on the wall of the Drama centre has photo footage up- of some of the work the  students have been doing in this space, so please check it out next time you are down there.

Estella Campbell-Hodge, Maddi Ward, Charlotte Savva & Poppy O’Shea

Dance and Drama Captains

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Chaplain Message

Senior Campus - Rev. Paul Grayston

CHILDREN OF GODWhen asked about his family, Jesus declared that the crowds gathered around him were his “brothers and sisters”. He taught his ...

CHILDREN OF GOD

When asked about his family, Jesus declared that the crowds gathered around him were his “brothers and sisters”. He taught his followers to pray to a heavenly Father. We are all in the one huge human family and by Jesus’ coming into the world we are declared “Children of God” (John 1).

We have begun the term in Chapel reflecting on these concepts of the human family and “Children of God”, and how Jesus, and the New Testament writers and apostles John and Paul develop these teachings. It is all a reminder of and an invitation to receive God’s love and grace. Paul writes that he kneels before God and prays longingly that we all might grasp just how wide, long, high and deep is the love of God towards us as God’s children (Ephesians 3).

We will conduct an ANZAC Commemoration for the Senior Campus staff and students on Monday to remember our war dead and veterans, and to pray for peace. The ANZAC reading will be heard in Chapel through the week, and declares that we should relate to one another with sacrificial love and grace. Or, to paraphrase Paul (rather loosely), treat all older people like uncles and aunties and all younger ones like your cousins (1Timothy 5). We are all God’s children and we are all family.

CHAPEL READING AND PRAYERS

From John Chapter 15  Jesus said, Here is my command. Love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than the one who gives their life for their friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I have told you everything I learned from my Father. You did not choose me. Instead, I chose you. I appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit that will last. I also appointed you so that the Father will give you what you ask for. He will give you whatever you ask for in my name. Here is my command: Love one another.

Prayers share around… add your own prayer!

Dear God, help us to break down the barriers between people. To show respect and appreciation for all humanity and for all types of people.

Help us to live up to the values we talk about. To show kindness to those who need support. To be a friend others can rely on. To stick up for people who are treated unfairly.

We pray for those who are sick or in trouble. We pray for those close to us who are not well. We pray for people around the world affected by the pandemic. For all the health workers and carers.

In the Lord’s name. Amen

Rev. Paul Grayston
Chaplain

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Community Noticeboard

Welcome to Autism Free Workshop

Autism and transitions: Planning for success This workshop explores strategies, resources and services to assist parents, family members and carers ...

Autism and transitions: Planning for success

This workshop explores strategies, resources and services to assist parents, family members and carers to manage and celebrate their child’s key life transitions.

Starting school, high school, further education, employment, independent living.

This session is for parents and unpaid family carers of children who are on the autism spectrum, or who show autistic characteristics. A confirmed diagnosis of autism is not needed.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Questions?
Contact Robyn Thomas.
Email robyn.thomas@autismtas.org.au or call 0458 375 604.

Hobart
Tuesday 4 May 2021: 10am–1pm
The Vibe Hotel, 36 Argyle Street, Hobart
Register NOW

Launceston
Wednesday 5 May 2021: 10am–1pm
Autism Tasmania, 39 Tamar Street, Launceston
Register NOW

Burnie
Wednesday 5 May 2021: 10am–1pm
Burnie Arts & Function Centre,
77-79 Wilmot St, Burnie
Register NOW

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Parent/Carer Information Sessions

Autism Tasmania’s information sessions are for parents and family members of people on the autism spectrum. The sessions aim to give encouragement ...

Autism Tasmania’s information sessions are for parents and family members of people on the autism spectrum.

The sessions aim to give encouragement and trustworthy information so that parents and  carers can support their children to grow into confident and empowered adults.

The sessions provide a safe place to:
» meet other parents/carers;
» share experiences and advice;
» learn new things.

The information we provide is based on evidence from scientific research, together with the views and advice of autistic adults.

The topics that we cover in our information sessions are outlined over the page

Who should attend?
These sessions are for parents, family members and foster carers of children who are on the autism spectrum, or who show autistic characteristics. A confirmed diagnosis of autism is not needed.

Cost
Sessions are FREE to attend.

Registration
Registration is essential. To register, and for more information about venues and session times, please check the online booking links here: www.trybooking.com/eventlist/autismtasmania

Questions?
Contact Robyn Thomas.
Email robyn.thomas@autismtas.org.au
or call 0458 375 604

Read more about the sessions

 

 

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This month on SchoolTV - ‘Raising Girls’

Raising girls in today’s modern world can be a difficult path for parents and carers to navigate. These days, girls are transitioning to puberty a ...

Raising girls in today’s modern world can be a difficult path for parents and carers to navigate. These days, girls are transitioning to puberty a lot earlier than they used to and the physical, psychological and emotional changes they experience are challenging.

In this edition of SchoolTV you will hear about ways to support them: https://lcgs.tas.schooltv.me/newsletter/raising-girls

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2021 School Series Competition

The Newstead Athletics Club are delivering their school series cross country competition again. Click here for details. ...

The Newstead Athletics Club are delivering their school series cross country competition again.

Click here for details.

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