Every year the Department for Education, Children and Young People conducts a School Satisfaction Survey to find out what schools do well and where they may improve. 

We would be so grateful if families could complete our online survey about Mowbray Heights Primary School. Your feedback is very important and helps form school planning and decision-making.

The survey is open until Friday 20 September 2024 and should take about 5 minutes to complete.

Each family should nominate one person to fill in this survey for their child(ren).

Take the online survey by clicking this Link, or pasting it in your browser: https://nam.dcv.ms/qEDFA5rUiJ

The survey is carried out on a secure website and all responses are anonymous and confidential.

All families in this school receive the same survey link and no identifying information is collected. A summary of the survey results will be provided to schools.  Responses from individuals or small groups will not be disclosed to any Department for Education, Children and Young People staff.

Please contact us if you require any assistance and thank you for taking the time to fill in this survey. 

Sharon

PS Last year we had 76 responses and this year we would love to hit 100!

Congratulations to the following students who received awards at our last assembly.

Following our school round held in Week 4, 27 students have been invited to participate in the State round of the Prime Minister’s Spelling-Bee. These students will compete next week, against the top 200 spellers in their year level from across Tasmania! Congratulations and best wishes for the next round!

Students can practise for the Spelling-Bee at home via the link below.

Play – Prime Minister's Spelling Bee (spelling-bee.com.au

Zoe Galloway and Aimee Pridmore

Last Wednesday we celebrated Book Week with our annual Dress Up day. Students and staff were invited to come as a favourite book character or come dressed as a MHPS reader.  Enjoy the photos!

As part of our school-wide Book Week celebrations, we held a Colouring Competition. With over 320 entries across the school it was a hard decision to choose our winners.  We were very fortunate to be sponsored by Petrarch's Book Shop, Mrs Sharon Booth and the School Association in order to award some lovely books as prizes. Congratulations to:

Kinder Laura-Rose, Cristy, Medina 

Prep Nazia, Eric, Ava 

Year 1-2 David, Elinaz, Azalia

Year 3-4 Marvellous, Yulio, Savannah

Year 5-6 Ruby, Mackenzie, Luka, Abel 

Overall Winner Romeo

Honourable Mentions Brooke, Ryan, Scarlett, Everest, Tanner, Abdullah

Kaz Searle - Library Teacher 

Thank you to our families for supporting of our recent Book Fair. We made $1526.00, a percentage of which will be used to purchase books for the Library.  Many thanks to Priscilla, Eleisha, Maria, Nicole, Michelle and Anita for volunteering your time for this event.

Bootcamp Bowls @ MHPS

Kingball Summerdale Primary School v MHPS

Netball Invermay Primary School v MHPS

Football Summerdale Primary School v MHPS

Soccer MHPS v Riverside Primary School

Year 1-2 classes will be going on an excursion to Hollybank Forest Reserve as part of our HASS unit. We will be learning about forests in our community and significant places. Students will need to wear full school uniform, and bring a warm coat, packed recess, lunch and plenty of water. We will be travelling by bus and will leave school at 9:30 am and return by 2:45 pm.

Tuesday 3 September 1-2  Dingemanse and 1-2 Neville

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

1-2 Teachers

The SRC fundraiser for this term is the wacky and wonderful Crazy Hair Day.  We are supporting the Leukemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave.  Every child is invited to come along to school with their crazy hair – think style, think colour, think bling, think anything other than your normal hair! Remember to bring along a gold coin – or any coins – for our fundraiser. 

On Crazy Hair Day we have a student from 5/6 Alessio who will be having his hair cut, to raise even more money for the Leukemia Foundation.  Mason Aird will be having his below shoulder length hair chopped into a much shorter style!  He has a fundraising page and we are looking forward to supporting him.

After a six-year break, we are excited to announce that there will be an LSSSA Dance Event this year. Our students in Years 1-2, Years 3-4 and selected Year 5-6 students will be involved in an hour of dancing at the Silverdome with students from other Northern Primary Schools. Students will travel by bus to and from the event.

What Schools Dance Event

Venue Silverdome, Launceston

Date Tuesday 10 September

Times

• Year 1-2 9:45 am – 10:45 am
• Year 3-4 and selected Year 5-6 students 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

Parents are most welcome to attend and entry is free. There will be large numbers of students and spectators involved, so allow extra time for parking, transitioning to and from the main building, and departing. Please follow directions from Altus staff regarding parking. Parents must remain in the tiered seating section of the Silverdome for the duration of the event. 

Josh Leighton - Health and PE Teacher

As part of our History and Geography learning, students in Prep Freeman, Prep Fletcher and Prep Lockhart will be walking around the Mowbray community. We will be looking at the different shops and mapping our walk.

This walk will take approximately 45 minutes and will be completed during school time on Wednesday 11 September. Students must be in school uniform and bring a coat in case the weather is cold.

Kristie, Rylie and Paige

A massive congratulations to the following students who have been selected to represent the Launceston State Schools Sports Association (LSSSA) at the North vs North-West Sports Exchange on Friday 20 September. These students will compete against the North-West Primary Schools Sports Association (NWPSSA). Our Girls AFL representatives will also compete in a Gala Day competition this Friday 30 August.

AFL Ruby, Nariah, Bailey and Braxton

Netball Malachi

Soccer Bridget, Abel, Shalom, Peter and Presal

Josh Leighton - HPE Teacher

At MHPS, families are valued members of the school community and play an important role in their child’s learning. There is a strong culture of mutual trust, and parents/carers and staff work in partnership to support student learning and well-being. This is evidenced by the outstanding attendance data at our previous two communication opportunities, in March we had 95% of our students represented and in June we had 93% of our students represented.  

Communicating Learning Progress with Families for all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 will take place again, in September.  This is our third opportunity to formally communicate about learning this year and once again we are providing two options for communication in Term 3.

Parents/carers can choose either a face-to-face conversation at school or a phone call from your child's teacher.

The conversation will focus on any follow-up matters from the June meeting, evidence of learning, progress and strategies for improvement, and your child’s wellbeing. 

Students are not required to be part of this meeting.  Childcare will be available for school aged students in the PAC.

A letter was sent home on Monday 19 August, containing the details you need to know, a preference sheet for dates and times, and an agenda where you can record anything you would like to discuss.  Please return the preference sheet and agenda to class teachers as soon as possible.

Safeguarding Leads have been appointed in all state government schools to help ensure all children and young people in Tasmania are known, safe, well and learning. Safeguarding Leads also have a responsibility to share information with their school community because regardless of your background, where you live or work, we all have a role to help keep children and young people safe. 

Strong Families Safe Kids is an advice and referral line.  It is the first point of contact for child wellbeing and safety.  Anybody can use this service, parents, relatives, friends, neighbours and children.  The person who answers your call will talk with you about the situation, answer questions you may have and offer information or advice.  You can call 1800 000 123 or you can explore this site https://strongfamiliessafekids.tas.gov.au/ for more information.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to make contact.

Janaha Williams - Safeguarding Lead

Launceston Physiotherapy Waitlist update: - St. Giles (stgiles.org.au)

Now accepting referrals in Launceston with no waitlist!

Did you know: St. Giles provides publicly funded physiotherapy services to children aged 0-18 through the Tasmanian Community Health Service?

We are currently accepting referrals from parents and healthcare professionals for the assessment and treatment of conditions that are short term or episodic in children such as

• Plagiocephaly or torticollis (infant head preference or flat spot)
• Gross motor delays / developmental delays (not keeping up with peers) in babies, toddlers or school aged children
• Lower Limb Biomechanical Conditions e.g. knock knees, bow legs, flat feet, pigeon toed
• Gait Abnormalities e.g. toe walking, out-toeing, in-toeing
• Poor coordination, clumsiness, frequent falls
• Musculo-skeletal conditions e.g. Severs disease, Osgood Schlatter’s disease, Idiopathic scoliosis, JRA, Scheuermann’s disease
• Pain

The cost for these services is covered by public health funding (no out of pocket fee)

Exclusion criteria:
Children who have a permanent and significant disability who have current NDIS funding.

Due to rising costs we have had to slightly increase the price of a small number of items on our Canteen Menu. The new prices came into effect from Tuesday 30 July.  

The price increase applies to the following items:

The following sizes are available in the 2024 Year 6 Leavers Polos.  The tops are $35.00 and can be purchased at the school office. These are the last sizes available and no further orders will be placed.

STAS closes to new applications in the first week of September. New applications for 2024 will not be accepted after this time and further assessments will not be made for this school year.

Parents and guardians who are approved for STAS 2024 will have their files automatically re-assessed for the 2025 school year. Letters will be sent to families confirming STAS approval or otherwise at the end of the 2024 calendar year in preparation for 2025.

STAS applications for children enrolling in Kindergarten for 2025 cannot be accepted until the beginning of the new school year. Parents and guardians of students, other than students in Kindergarten, who have not applied for STAS previously can apply online from December at stasonlinesubmission.education.tas.gov.au (or Google STAS to be taken directly to the online application service).

Once approval letters for STAS 2025 have been delivered, if a parent or guardian wishes to add a newly enrolling student to their existing 2025 file they will need to email their details and the student’s full name, date of birth and grade in 2025 to stas@decyp.tas.gov.au. The additional student will be added to their existing file. Additional students cannot be added to an existing STAS file using the online application service.

For queries, please contact stas@decyp.tas.gov.au