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- Penguin District School Calendar
- Principal's Report
- Vivace Choir at the 2024 Tasmania EducationalLeaders Conference
- EVERY DAY MATTERS
- Year 3/4 National Simultaneous Storytime
- Calling all Lego master builders - it’s Brixhibition time!
- PDS PRIMARY CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
- Year 7-12 English
- Science and Engineering Challenge
- Secondary Cross Country Carnival
- Reading at Home
- Introducing Formal Connections North West
- Burnie Musical Society
- Wing's Wildlife Park - Biggest Morning Tea
- School Calendar
Penguin District School Calendar
For all upcoming events please see the Penguin District School Calendar
Our Vivace Choir, conducted by Mrs Lusted, began the conference by belting out renditions of Lanterns and Naughty (from Matilda the musical). This brilliant performance provided me with a proud ‘dad-like moment’. I had the opportunity to video them and sit proudly (and a little nervously) with an enormous smile on my face, as the principal of our amazing school. Watching them perform to the room singing loudly and proudly with enjoyment and excitement written all over their faces, will be something I won’t forget. You can view some of their performance on our PDS Facebook Page. Thankyou to our support crew of Mr Beard, Alanah and nurse Alex who accompanied the team, demonstrating theirs and our commitment to school and students by being at school by 7:20am to facilitate this great opportunity. Thankyou to the students and families for ensuring they too were at school for what might be their earliest start to a school day in their little lives to date. A great example of our staff and families working in partnership to support our kids.
It is for these ‘little people’ that we turn up each day. Lee Crocket described it eloquently in his keynote at the conference when he described, that WE as educators are in the business of building better humans and the extreme importance of our role given whist children are only 15% of our population, they are 100% of our future!
Mr King and Miss Schake provided an opportunity and support for a group of over 20 motivated senior learners to attend The Science and Engineering Challenge in Burnie this week. The ‘Challenge’ encourages students to consider a career in science or engineering, and to study the enabling sciences in senior high school. Impressively our budding Einsteins finished tied for 2nd and whilst Mr King thought we might have possibly won if we had been a bit better at tidying up at the end of the day for some ‘bonus points’, we are certainly proud of their efforts.
It’s little wonder that the days and weeks go by so quickly in ‘school land’ when we manage to pack so many wonderful experiences into them. On Tuesday and Thursday all of our students participated by walking, jogging or running (or almost flying Miller!) in our Primary and Secondary Cross Country races. The running craze has really taken off all along the coast with Parkruns and running clubs popping up all over the place. With an emphasis on being active and participation, get on down to the Big Penguin on Sunday mornings to join the Sunday Penguins Run Club, held each week at 8:30 am.
On Wednesday our classes were ‘tuned in’ for National Simultaneous Storytime. This annual event to celebrate and develop a joy of reading and books, sees the nation stop (readings version of the Melbourne Cup) to view and listen to the same story at 12pm. This year’s choice was a beautifully illustrated and eloquently written picture book from Aura Parker - Bowerbird Blues. It’s a touching story of longing and connection about a beautiful bowerbird on the search for blue! Take the opportunity to listen to the book read by the author National Simultaneous Storytime Livestream 2024 (youtube.com) or read along with your child PDF version of the book at home.
This week has been National Volunteers Week. I cannot say often enough, how invaluable volunteers are in supporting our school and broader Penguin community. Our Breakfast Club is possibly the most well received and eagerly anticipated morning each week for our students who get to enjoy the fruits of our volunteers’ labour in prepping hot toasties and providing freshly cut fruit. On behalf of the school, I would like to say THANKYOU to all our volunteers, we are extremely grateful for the sensational support you provide for our school. If you’d like to volunteer some of your time to support our children please contact your child’s teacher and make sure that you have your WWVP Card and have completed the Safeguarding Visitors Training.
As always, I encourage you to keep your eye on Schoolzine, Seesaw and the newsletter for information about upcoming events and for celebrations of our students’ success.
Yours in partnership
Matthew Perry
Vivace Choir at the 2024 Tasmania EducationalLeaders Conference
Congratulations to Mrs Lusted and our Vivace Choir on their outstanding performance at the Tasmanian Educational Leaders Conference.
We know that education has a positive impact on the lives of children and young people, and that every day at school can help them have bright lives and positive futures.
The Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) is doing statewide consultation on school attendance. 3P Advisory is independently running the consultation. Your answers are confidential, and you won’t be identified.
This will help us better understand any barriers that may be in the way, and what supports are needed to help with getting to school. You can also share your thoughts about what you like or don’t like about our Every school day matters campaign.
We want to hear from students, their families, our staff and anyone in the community. You. Take part in an online survey, share or vote for suggestions, or join an online drop-in session via the 3P website (survey links and info).
The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Some schools across the state will be doing extra consultation (for example, in depth interviews). You may be contacted by your school to get involved.
Every piece of feedback counts.
Thanks for helping shape future DECYP initiatives, school-based engagement strategies and public awareness campaigns.
Year 3/4 National Simultaneous Storytime
This week the Penguin Primary students, along with other students from around Australia, celebrated National Simultaneous Storytime. This year’s selected book was ‘Bowerbird Blues’ written by Aura Parker. The 3/4 classes took inspiration from the story and demonstrated their understanding of nouns, adjectives and verbs to write diamante poems.
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Calling all Lego master builders - it’s Brixhibition time!
This year we are lucky to have 2 competitions to enter, a building one and a Lego drawing competition.
Lego Drawing Competition:
Design your own unique Lego creation on A4 paper using pen, pencils or crayon. It must be an original idea and it has to be an object, not a scene.
Entries into your classroom teacher by Thursday 6th June for class voting.
1 lucky winner from Penguin District School will have their design built by the Brixhibition Lego builders and be on display at Brixhibition Ulverstone.
Lego Building Competition:
Build your own unique Lego creation, no kits, no bigger than 4 x 32lug base plates. No teams or partners.
Entries into your classroom by Thursday 6th June for classroom voting. Classroom winners will be displayed in the library for voting from 11-14 June.
Each competition has the following categories: Kinder – Prep, Grade 1-2, Grade 3-4, Grade 5-6.
PDS PRIMARY CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
A fantastic day was had at our cross-country carnival yesterday. It was great to see all our students participating, giving their personal best, persisting through challenges and achieving some excellent results.
Announcements for the winning house and ribbon presentations for place getters will be made next week.
Congratulations to those 3-6 students who have made the PDS team to compete at the NWPSSA carnival next Tuesday 28 May. These students will need to have their permission forms returned by Monday 27 May.
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This term in Year 7 English we have been working on Life Writing and building our knowledge of sentence types, literary devices and PEEL paragraphs. We have been planning out our bibliography on someone that inspires us. We studied some life writing examples on some famous people, to grow our knowledge on how to understand different writing techniques. To challenge what we have learned, we were asked to write a bibliography on someone that inspires us using literacy devices such as symbolism, and rhetorical questions.
- Ruby, Year 7 student
In Year 8 English we have been doing visual studies and have recently started on themes and hidden messages inside stories. Previously we have done symbolism, colour, and characterisation. This is all working towards being able to pull apart videos and stories to find key parts and then implement them into our own writing and videos. We have been able to find hidden messages and meanings in multiple short clips and hopefully soon be able to write our own soon.
- Simon, Year 8 student
This term Grade 9 has been focusing on persuasive speeches. Students would select a famous speech of their choice and proceed to do a in depth analysis by breaking down the structure and delivery of the text. During this process students have been able to decipher what components are required to create highly effective speeches. Currently we are beginning to write our own persuasive speech on a topic of interest, keeping in mind that there must be room for persuasion. Some examples of topics chosen by students being, magazines are setting unhealthy beauty standards for young people, horse racing should be prohibited, netball should be introduced to the Olympics, and that the process of harvesting palm oil is harmful to the environment. This will soon lead into the next unit for Grade 9’s which will focus on analysing films.
- Wynnonna, Year 9 student
Year 10’s started off the term by completing their life stories, a task in which students were asked to interview and write a story based on the life of a person of their choice. While the task seemed stressful to some, most students enjoyed what they did. Then moving on to doing a novel study, students chose between two books, The Messenger and Kevin the Plumber. Both books have been an interesting read so far, with tasks and activities to complete along the reading journey.
- Gracelyn, Year 10 student
Year 11/12 English students have been looking at how arguments are a vehicle in texts. We started the term analysing different types of texts and then writing a comparison. They have now started to write their own narratives where they need to have a clear moral or value present in their text. This will form part of a folio that they will continue to add to throughout the remainder of the term.
- Matilda Lutwyche, English Inquiry teacher
Science and Engineering Challenge
On Monday the 21st of May 21 students attended the Science and Engineering challenge at Marist. Students were split into groups to complete different STEM related problem-solving activities and gained points based on their performance. PDS took home a very close second place, as well as winning the bridge-building competition and breaking a national record in the wind turbine activity. PDS may be competing in the state finals on Monday, depending on the performance of other regions in the challenge this week!
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Secondary Cross Country Carnival
House Competition Results
2090 |
Duncan Sharks |
1935 |
Montgomery Blaze |
1880 |
Blythe Tigers |
1775 |
Dial Thunder |
Race Results
Champion |
Runner Up |
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7 Girls |
Pippa Kable |
Eva Ridderhof |
7 Boys |
Reede Smith |
Logan Pilkington |
8 Girls |
Willow McDonald |
Maggie Fielding |
8 Boys |
Miller Hubbard |
Kobe Febey |
9 Girls |
Taleah McKenna |
Chelsea Ivory |
9 Boys |
Mitchell Stretton |
Avery Paterson-Lynch |
10 Girls |
Heidi Kable |
Mia Metzger |
10 Boys |
Logan Raimondo |
Romulus Rabe |
Introducing Formal Connections North West
Who are we? Formal Connections North West are a non-for-profit project providing all clothing and accessory needs for high school students on the North West Coast (Smithton - Latrobe).
What's out intention? With the upcoming year 10 season for students on the NW coast. The wider community have collaborated to provide all students with the opportunity to find the perfect look, at no cost, to dance the year away!?
Where to find us? 105 Ironcliffe Road, Penguin (The old primary school campus)
We can't wait to assist you in finding the perfect look to make your night special ❤️
Instagram: formalconnections_nw
Facebook: Formal Connections NW