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Dear Parents/Carers, Students and Friends of Prospect High School,
Grade 11/12/13
Grade 11, 12 and 13 students have made an excellent start with their learning. Enrolments have been increasing each year as have subject offerings and flexible learning options. Students have been participating in a range of activities and are enjoying the flexible learning space, common area with new furniture and catering facilities. For enquiries, please contact Jennifer Pollard on 63444744 or Jennifer.pollard@education.tas.gov.au.
School Association
The first School Association meeting for 2022 was held on Tuesday. We welcomed new members and discussed plans for 2022. The School Association was also thanked for their support of the new hats and caps which are a great addition to the uniform. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 7th June at 5.00pm. There will be a short AGM then general meeting. New members are welcome to join. Meetings run for approximately an hour. As you can see this is a great opportunity for parents to be kept informed of our improvement journey, opportunities available for students and be part of the decision-making process at Prospect High School.
Covid Update
We have managed to navigate our way through the first four weeks of Term 1 well with regards to Covid and there has been minimal disruption. Numbers of cases for both students and staff have been low. Thank you to parents and carers for reinforcing and supporting safe practices with your children and to students for their co-operation with the guidelines we have in place. A reminder to families that Covid 19 safe practices as per Public Health advice and Department of Education guidelines are in place until the end of next week. This includes adults and students maintaining 1.5 metre social distancing and use of sanitiser provided. It would be appreciated if parents and carers could phone the school to discuss matters rather than coming in person when possible. If students are unwell, please keep them at home. Parents collecting students at the end of day are requested to stay in their cars and depart the school promptly. Cleaning and hygiene measures implemented last year will continue until otherwise advised. We are currently waiting on advice for actions that will be in place for weeks 6-10 and will communicate these when available.
Use of Phone for Payment at the Canteen
Our school policy for mobile phone use is to have these away and out of sight for the day from 8.35am until 3.00pm. However if needed students may make phone payments at the canteen. We have been reminding students that phone payments work like card/money payments and the following guidelines need to apply:
- Phones are only to be held/kept in a pocket and used for payment.
- Phones are not to be used for any other purpose.
- Breaches of our phone policy will be followed up by Grade Leadership Teams.
We ask parents for support with these guidelines to ensure students are doing the right thing.
School Events
This term we have not been able to hold our “Welcome” barbecue where new and current parents and families have a chance to meet teachers. Grade teams have sent out information about your child’s teaching team and learning activities. We are also trying to keep social media up to date with information so we can continue to build partnerships with families.
This year Prospect High School have changed the times of the Swimming and Athletics Carnivals. We were unable to hold a Swimming Carnival in Term 1 due to Covid restrictions and this will be held in Term 3 or 4 instead. Our Athletics Carnival will be held in Week 6 on 17th and 18th March. Further details can be found in this newsletter.
These events help to build school culture and provide time for students to build connections with one another and their teachers.
In conclusion, I hope everyone has an enjoyable long weekend on the 12th-14th March.
Mrs Lee Barker
Principal
| TERM 1 | |
| Monday 14th March | Public Holiday |
| Thursday 17th - Friday 18th March | Athletics Carnival |
| Thursday 24th March | Inter High Swimming Trials |
| Wednesday 6th April | Inter High Swimming |
| Thursday 14th April | End of Term 1 |
| TERM 2 | |
| Monday 2nd May | Start of Term 2 |
| Tuesday 7th June | School Association Meeting, 5pm |
| Monday 13th June | Public Holiday |
| Friday 8th July | End of Term 2 |
ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 2022 INFORMATION:
The Athletics Carnival will be held in Week 6, Term 1 (Thursday 17th and Friday 18th March), due to current COVID restrictions we are unable to invite families to attend. The event will be held over two days based on 2021 feedback from students and staff. This format is consistent with many other high schools in the North of the state.
The benefits of a two day program are:
- students will have more time at events as they will only be required at one event at a time,
- promotes outdoor learning as encouraged by DoE as a COVID strategy for learning and connecting with school,
- fosters and encourages ‘ team house’ culture and
- enhances student/staff relationships early in the school year.
This significant change to the Athletics program is a proactive approach to recommendations from the NHSSA. The timing of our carnivals will align with Inter High Carnivals in 2023. The Inter High NHSSA team will be determined from this event and students will participate in the Athletics Inter High Carnival in Term 4. The team will have an opportunity to practice in term 4 prior to the carnival.
SWIMMING CARNIVAL 2022 INFORMATION:
Due to COVID restrictions, venue density requirements and everchanging circumstances we are unable to hold our annual Swimming Carnival in Term 1. We will run our regular carnivals program in late Term 3/Term 4 (date TBC). The Swimming Inter High Carnival is still being held in week 9 of Term 1 and Prospect High will be entering a team. On Thursday March 24th the HPE team will take those who sign up and last year’s Inter High team to the Launceston Aquatic Centre to participate in Swimming Trials (12-3pm). Students will have the opportunity to sign up for this in the coming weeks if they believe they could place on the Inter High team based on ability. This will ensure students have a fair opportunity to compete to be a part of the Inter High team. All novelty and non-competitive events will be held later in the year at our annual carnival, and students will then have the opportunity to break records and compete to become Carnival Champions.
KEY DATES:
Thursday 17th & Friday March 18th – Athletics Carnival
Thursday 24th March – Inter High Swimming Trials
Wednesday 6th April – Inter High Swimming
If you have any questions please contact the school on 6344 4744.
These safety procedures are designed to ensure students are safe and do not walk through traffic.
Please note - Students MUST NOT be dropped off or collected from the front or rear of the school.
- Zone 1 – Drop off and pick up only
Cars are not to wait in this zone. This will allow traffic to continue to flow. - Zone 2 – Drop off, pick up, waiting
- Zone 3 – Waiting only
- Cars are not allowed to drop off, or pick up in Zone 3 because Zone 3 is not next to the footpath where students enter the school.
- Parents/guardians will need to move from Zone 3 to vacant spots in Zone 1 or Zone 2 when dropping off, or picking up students.
- Students can signal or text parents when they are on the footpath at a vacant spot in Zone 1 or Zone 2 ready to be picked up at the end of the day.
Passenger Conduct Code for School Bus Services:
Discounts and Concessions:
In 2022 The Nest Café has expanded to include a nationally recognised Cert I HOSPITALITY (Year 11) in addition to the successful TIER Barista Basics Program and 8,9,10 Catering subjects.
This inclusive space provides students with an authentic training environment to learn about the Hospitality industry particularly catering, customer service and barista skills using our LCC registered kitchen and commercial espresso machine.
When COVID measures relax we aim to invite PHS community members to come and enjoy our space also. Watch this space for further information.
We have been training in preparation for an expanded range of offerings as the year progresses. Each newsletter we will provide a café news update.
Adrienne McMahon
VET Hospitality and Catering Teacher
The Bike Doctor group has started up again this year at PHS. The students are working hard to repair and clean up bikes ready to give to children who have been missing out on the joy of riding a bike to school and around the neighbourhood with their friends.
STUDENTS ENJOYING THE LIBRARY COURTYARD
NEW BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY
Treehouse Joke Book 2 by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
808.8 GRI Australian Author
From fairytale fun to classroom capers and movie madness, there are jokes galore for the whole family.
Q: What did one ghost say to the other ghost?
A: Do you believe in people?
Paranormal Fiction
Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful and inexplicably dangerous. Now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school - something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing, leaving behind only bizarre clues, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days.
Graphic Novel
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are having a really tough year: with their father serving in the military overseas, they must work overtime to make ends meet...and each girl is struggling in her own way. Whether it's school woes, health issues, boy troubles, or simply feeling lost, the March sisters all need the same thing: support from each other. Only by coming together--and sharing lots of laughs and tears--will these four young women find the courage to discover who they truly are as individuals...and as a family.
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Fantasy Fiction
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power from the sun peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch whose rare magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves.
Indigenous Fiction Aboriginal Australian Author
Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running. The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart, re-education is enforced. This rich land will provide for all. This is not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history. This Terra Nullius is something new, but all too familiar.
Exploding Endings 1 by Tim Harris
Comical Short Stories Australian Author
A hilarious collection of short stories.
What are the 79 wackiest excuses for being late to school? How do you stop a maniac dentist from terrorising children? Why is the new smartphone so ridiculously dumb? And what does it take to get every single student at Milford Junior School put on detention? Find out in this hilarious collection of short stories. One thing is guaranteed - you will NEVER pick the endings!
Senseless by Steve Cole
Paranormal Fiction
Gaming and adventure combine in this thrill-a-minute ride.
It's a dream come true - Kenzie has been invited to a big international gaming tournament on a sun-soaked island. But then unreality ratchets up with disturbing scenes involving other contestants, soldiers, and frantic chases through the hotel. Worst of all, Kenzie seems to be losing his senses one by one - and he has no idea whether the dangers he faces are real or the game.
Monstrous Devices by Damien Love
Action and Adventure Fiction
When twelve-year-old Alex receives an old tin robot in the post, the note from his grandfather simply reads: 'This one is special'. But as strange events start occurring around him, it doesn't take Alex long to suspect that the small toy is more than special; it might also be deadly.
Just as things are getting out of hand, Alex's grandfather arrives, whisking him away from his otherwise humdrum life and into a world of strange, macabre magic. From Paris to Prague, they flee across snowy Europe in a quest to unravel the riddle of the little robot and outwit relentless assassins of the human and mechanical kind. How does Alex's grandfather know them? And can Alex safely harness the robot's power, or will it fall into the wrong, wicked hands?
Applications Open for Youth Advisory Council
Career planning for students on the autism spectrum – a webinar for parents and carers | Wednesday 9 March | 4.00pm (AEDT)
For 20 years, myfuture has been a trusted source of career information within the Australian education community providing content that is practical, targeted and developed by experts. As well as supporting students, teachers and career practitioners, myfuture provides tools and resources to help parents and carers support their child’s career exploration, engage them in career conversations, and raise awareness of post-school options.
In this Insights webinar, Associate Professor Marina Ciccarelli from Curtin University, and Cheryl Mangan from Autism CRC will provide information about the myWAY Employability evidence-based resources available to assist young people on the autism spectrum in transition planning, to build their employability, and maximise their potential.
Join us as the team from myWAY Employability discuss such topics as:
- Starting challenging conversations about the future
- Identifying personal strengths, interests, and sensory preferences to guide career exploration and work experiences
- Providing a just right challenge
- Building self-determination.
Register now for this free event: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1366920972620471309
School Executive
Principal
Mrs Lee Barker
Assistant Principals
Mr Mario Bergamin and Ms Bonnie Hall
School Business Manager
Mrs Debbie Chancellor
Grade Teams
Senior Grade Leaders
Grade 7 Mr Brendan Poke
Grade 8 Mr Brendan Liddell
Grade 9 Ms Anna Collins
Grade 10 Ms Sandra De Paoli
Years 11/12 Ms Jennifer Pollard
Grade Leaders
Grade 7 Miss Kirsty Wilson
Grade 8 Mr Brad Colson
Grade 9 Mr Steven Andrews
Grade 10 Mr Will Reynolds
Years 11/12 Mrs Jan Phillips Mr Thomas Leydon
Support Staff
School Psychologist
Mr Gene Colgrave
(Mondays and Fridays)
School Social Worker
Mr Brendan Dixon
(Monday, Thursdays and alternate Tuesdays)
School Health Nurse
Mrs Mia Blair
(Monday and alternate Tuesdays)
Chaplain
Mr Tobias Verhaegh
(Monday and Tuesday)
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