Announcing we are a B Kinder School!

Becoming a b kinder school signifies a proactive approach to student leadership. B Kinder schools empower students to actively exemplify and cultivate a culture of kindness, empathy, and compassion throughout the entire school community. This initiative assigns specific responsibilities to students, empowering them to use their voices and take meaningful action to enact positive change within their school.

At this week’s assembly this week we officially awarded our B Kinder Ambassadors their badges. Announcing Mikayla, Matthew, Hudson, Zainab, Mason and Sean are our 2025 B Kinder Ambassadors.

We are so proud of the courage that our B Kinder Ambassadors have shown at the workshops, where they have been learning and presenting their thinking to other schools across Australia. Mr Griffiths is leading this work with our student leaders from each 5/6 class. The Ambassadors have attended professional learning on Celebrating Difference and Modelling Kindness with Matthew Smith, and Leading with Compassion with Catherine Kolomyjec.

Check out the video links to learn more about why this is important to our students.

https://youtu.be/pV99mMhkBMg

 b kinder day animation

We are grateful to the B Kinder Foundation and Glenorchy City Council for supporting and sponsoring this initiative. It is great to see our school leading alongside other schools in a proactive approach to wellbeing and connection to school. As our students and families said in assembly, being kind makes us feel happy!  As Cianna said its better to be kind, than to be a bully!

Stay tuned as we reveal more strategies to empower our students to create a culture of connection, where every student feels that they belong and are happy to come to school and learn.

Feeling grateful,

Michelle De Paoli

Interschool Cross Country

Congratulations to our Interschool Cross Country Team for coming fourth, a massive achievement. 

Most importantly every participant put in 100% effort and cheered on other schools- those running fast and those putting in big efforts to run the long distance. 

We were a connected Team Glenorchy and to see the children warming up together, smiling, doing the Nutbush and singing loudly to Justin Bieber was just pure joy and reduced any worries about the competition ahead. 

Thank you to Adam, Adrian, Patricia, Tarryn and Sarah, Cara for your support.

Kitchen Garden

We are so grateful to have Kitchen Garden each week at GPS. The wonderful benefits of 24 Carrot Gardens include increased student engagement, sense of belonging and agency.

Thank you to Dom, Ben and Laura for all that you do to make this magic happen each week.

Just some of the benefits include:

• Increased development of practical food growing and cooking skills.
• Positive effect on academic outcomes in literacy and numeracy, with the kitchen and garden creating a context for authentic Australian Curriculum-related learning.
• Kitchen garden staff provided familiarity and continuity, reducing impacts of broader teacher/leadership turnover on student wellbeing.

This month the film crew came along, and you may notice some little stars in this video.

Sharky and Kirscha wrote to us to say: ‘We all really enjoyed seeing how the program is having an impact on your students and their enthusiasm really shines through in the video. We really appreciate the time and energy you all put in, and it's so wonderful to see the K/G program flourish with the new garden alongside your dedicated team of heroes in Dom, Ben and Laura'. 

Here is a link to the final video for downloading and you can see it live on instagram here. 

Prep-2 Home Reading Program

Daily reading at home is one of the best ways to support your child’s learning. Your child has received a home reading log, which their teacher checks weekly. Just 10 minutes of reading each night can make a big difference. Please ask your child to read aloud to you, fill out the log and return it regularly.

Students may bring home:

• decodable reading material like mini-books or UFLI passages to practise skills learned in class
• interest books they choose themselves. If a book seems challenging, feel free to read it with or to your child – this still counts as a night in the home reading log

Please make sure your child reads the same book or passage 2-5 times before returning it to their teacher, each time will count for a night in your child’s log. This is called ‘repeated reading’ and helps to develop your child’s fluency and comprehension skills.

Each time your child completes 15 nights of logged reading they will receive a special certificate, and a photo sent home on Seesaw!

Thank you for supporting your child’s reading journey—your involvement truly matters!

Steph Brown

Instructional Specialist

After reading the Australian tale Wombat Stew in class, we were all inspired to take our learning outdoors! The playground became our kitchen, and nature provided the ingredients—sticks, leaves, sand, rocks, and a splash of water and we created our very own wombat stews. Look out for our version in the bookstores!!!

Glenorchy students shone as did the weather when our excited teams of runners headed to Bayview College to compete in the Inter-school Cross Country. What a great day it was with some stunning shows of courage, resilience and perserverance by our students. After a recount Glenorchy Primary came a very credible fourth over all. Well done to all our runners!

Our class has been exploring the theme of Then and Now, discovering how everyday life has changed over time. One of the highlights was a hands-on history lesson with a real washboard! Students had the chance to experience how laundry was done before washing machines—scrubbing, rinsing, and a whole lot of elbow grease!

Before any cleaning could be done, we had to make sure the clothes were nice and dirty!

It was a fun, eye-opening activity that sparked great conversations about the conveniences we enjoy today.

Our Launching into Learning timetable is here for Term 2!

These sessions are a great opportunity for young children to begin to develop their confidence and curiosity as learners prior to commencing full-time school. They are also great for our families to make connections and friends within our community.

• Tuesday 9:00-11:00am and 1:00-2:30pm (classroom)
• Thursday 8:45-9:30am (Gym) 9:30-11:00am and 1:00-2:30pm (classroom)
• Pre Kinder with Mrs Robins 9:30-11:00am Thursday (Kinder Blue classroom)

Come along to one session, two sessions or every session! We have so much fun.

Pre Kinder Session 

Do you have a little one that will be joining us in Kinder in 2026? Our Pre Kinder session have started this term - 9:30 - 11:00am every Thursday in our Kinder Blue room. These sessions are facilitated by one of our Kinder teachers, Mrs Robins, and they are great opportunity to begin the transition to school.

Wheely Active

Register at: Freedom Solutions Wheely Active Day!

MONA Senory Sessions

Family Concert at the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra 

TSO Family Concert coming soon to the Federation Concert Hall. Bring the whole family along to Australia: One Land, Many Stories!

A musical storytelling concert featuring The Kookaburra Who Laughed at the Moon with narrator Gina Rose and other Australian inspired music. All backed by the full Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra! Adults $35 | kids under 17 $15

Thursday June 19, 6pm

Buy tickets and find out more: https://www.tso.com.au/concerts/australia-one-land-many-stories/