Dear Parents/Guardians, Students and Friends of Prospect High School,

While COVID-19 has to an extent impacted day to day operations at our school over the course of the year, the resilience and commitment of our students and staff has been incredibly impressive, maintaining a clear focus on teaching and learning and continuing to build and enrich our school culture.

This was particularly evident in our whole school assembly last Friday. The first assembly since COVID impacted. The whole school assembly last Friday allowed us to invite family and friends to join us in our whole first school celebration for some time. In fact, it was the first opportunity that our current year 8 students were able to experience in a whole school setting since joining Prospect High School at the beginning of 2021!

The formal celebration and introduction of our Student Leadership Board (SLB), musical items, grade 7-10 academic and effort recognition certificates and sequential large screen images from term one and two highlighting students and staff participating in an array of learning opportunities both in and out of the classroom and extra curricular passions and interests were showcased.  The intent listening and viewing from our audience highlights the fact that celebrating achievements has a significant impact on building community culture! We are very pleased that this part of our school community is slowly and safely being reintroduced! A huge ‘shout out’ to the families and friends that supported our assembly. Please see the gallery below for some photographs.

Once again, the willingness of our staff to support these activities and provide a multitude of activities ‘beyond the classroom’ for your children is greatly appreciated. 

Uniform Reminder:

As always, it is fantastic to see Prospect High School students proudly wearing our school uniform. Our school community takes great pride in our uniform – to uphold high expectations we have been reminding students of our schools uniform policy. We encourage families to review our uniform policy. Here is a snip of the key points in our uniform policy. The full policy can be found on our school website.

Payment at the School Canteen:

We also wish to remind students to pay by cash, card or order their lunch via the QKR app at our school canteen. We request students don’t pay by phone – students will be unable to pay by phone or smart watch from the start of Term 4.

 A quick reminder if you have not already, please follow us on Facebook:

This is one way we share some of the great things that are happening at Prospect High School on a regular basis, along with using it as a forum to send out reminders for upcoming events.If you have not already liked/followed our page, please do so, this will allow us to share our story with you as it happens.  

Kind regards

Lee Barker

Principal

Students can join the Chaplain in E01 on Tuesday mornings, anytime between 8.00am and 8.40am for breakfast food items and a hot drink.

Student Funding Support – The School Association supports students who have been selected to represent the State or Australia in a sporting or cultural academic activity. 

Submissions must be received by the Principal or School Association Secretary prior to the event or within three months of the event. No retrospective payments after the three-month period.

Application forms are available from the school office or via the Prospect High School Website.  Prospect High School (education.tas.edu.au)

In Week 9 (Tuesday 20^th September), Prospect High School will be hosting our major whole school arts celebration event… The Prospect High School Arts Bazaar! In this evening event, we will celebrate the work of students in the creative arts across grades 7-12 in Visual Art, Dance, Drama and our Tier 2 creative classes.

Visitors will enter via The Eagles Nest Café and the evening will begin with a visual arts gallery and live musical performances. As visitors make their way towards the Drama/Dance Studio, they will then enter a ‘Bazaar’ market style event, where students who have engaged in Tier 2 classes will have the opportunity to display and sell their ‘wares’ and to hold stalls and activities (we will advertise these closer to the event!). For a bit of fun, this year’s Arts Evening will be themed around ‘Aladdin and Arabian Nights’ – so bring the family and bring your ‘gold’! (Cash only sales.)

For the first time, this event will include the drawing of our BIG Arts Raffle, with a Prize Pool of just under $500 donated by local businesses! The prizes include: Two VIP tickets to Encore Theatre Company’s Jersey Boys in October at the Princess Theatre, a voucher to Paint the Town Red, a ukulele, kindly donated by Barrett’s Music, an art pack featuring over $130 worth of art products from Pearts Variety Store, artwork by a local artist inspired by Aladdin, and a Hamper of Middle-Eastern themed goodies put together by the Catering and Hands-On Hospitality Classes. A BIG thank you to the businesses who have supported us.

Next week we will begin selling raffle tickets. These will be available from the school office to purchase separately, or you can elect to take home a book of 10 to sell. We will be inviting all families of students involved in the Production and Arts Evening to take home a book of 10 raffle tickets to sell ($2 each, or 3 for $5), with a reminder that those purchasing tickets should be 18 years or older. Books will need to be returned to the office by Monday 19^th September. There will also be sales at the Arts Evening before the draw at 5:50pm. If you do not wish to sell tickets, please return the book to the school office. Funds will be going towards the costs of mounting the production including costumes, venue, equipment and personnel hire and licencing fees. As this is a school show, ticket prices to see the actual production have been kept low and the production is a non-profit event.

The Arts Bazaar will culminate in formal performances of Dance, Drama and Musical Items in the Drama/Dance Studio from approximately 6pm-7:30pm. These performances will include items for the Launceston Competitions, Rock Challenge, in-class projects and out of school endeavours. Most excitingly, it will also include some sneak-previews of Aladdin characters and a dance item from our show in November! Due to safety precautions, seating will be limited for the formal performances in the studio. All performers in the studio will be given 2 tickets for their families. If you require more, please contact the office when the tickets are released (we will give good notice before we release them). The tickets will be free to this event, as their only purpose is to enable us to adhere to COVID-19 safety guidelines. The room will have cooling and be well-ventilated.

So… get on your flying carpet and join us at the Prospect High School Arts Bazaar! We look forward to seeing many of our families there to celebrate the students in this informal event!

Production Tickets NOW ON SALE!

The Performing Arts Team are excited to announce that tickets to the Prospect High School Production went on sale this week! We have three evening shows Tuesday 22^nd, Wednesday 23^rd and Thursday 24^th November at 7pm and limited Matinee tickets for Wednesday and Thursday commencing at 11am. We warmly invite the Prospect High School Community to attend. It is going to be an amazing show featuring some fantastic Prospect talent (PLUS some of our favourite Disney songs).

As we have double cast the lead roles, be sure to select the night where your child/friend is starring (see lists below). When these students are not in the lead roles, they will still be performing as part of the ensemble – so come any night (or all of them) for an amazing evening of song, dance and comedy and discover ‘A whole new world’!

Students: $4, Adults $12 and Families of 4: $28. Tickets from the PHS Main Office.

‘Red Team’:

• Tuesday (opening night) and Wednesday (night)
• Thursday (Matinee)

Aladdin: Diesel

Jasmine: Summer

Genie: Mackenzie

Jafar: Imogen

Iago: Ella

 ‘Blue Team’:

• Thursday (closing night)
• Wednesday and Friday (Matinee)

Aladdin: Newen

Jasmine: Jamisen

Genie: Taylah

Jafar: Charlotte

Iago: Millie

Ava has been selected to represent Tasmania at the prestigious Pizzey Cup- National Secondary Schools Championships for tennis. The event takes place in Perth from the 27^th August- 3^rd September. A big congratulations on this achievement. We wish Ava all the best.

Congratulations Jamisen and Millie!

On Thursday 18th August, the Grade 8 Drama Class were fortunate enough to see Stage Right Theatre perform The Lion King at the Princess Theatre. 

The show was an amazing spectacular featuring strong vocals, dance and acting from the ensemble of young performers. It was an absolute treat to watch, and we are so proud of our two students, Jamisen (Gr 9) and Millie (Gr 10) who were part of it! Well done!

Next week on Friday 26th August, the SLB and Production class will be hosting an in-school, lunchtime barbecue, concert and karaoke event in the Grade 7 Courtyard. There will be sausages, vegie burgers and Disney themed cupcakes, all for $2.00, with all proceeds going towards mounting our Production of Aladdin Jr in Term 4. (Students - please remember, cash only sales)

A BIG thank you to BAXTERS IGA PROSPECT for their generous donation towards this event, and to Mrs McMahon’s catering class for providing the cupcakes. We would also like to give a big shout out and applause to our ‘graphic designer’ Grade 9 student Luca, who is responsible for the amazing BBQ and Production posters!! 

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) are running online sessions for parents/carers of young people in years 9-12 and education support staff. This session will cover NDIS-funded supports for school leavers. Note: registrations close 3 days before the date of each session.

Dates are as follows:

• Session 3: Wednesday 21^st September 7:00pm - 8:30pm
• Session 4: Tuesday 27^th September 3:45pm - 4:30pm.

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 and Mr Thomas Leydon

SUPPORT STAFF

School Psychologist
Mr Gene Colgrave
(Monday and Friday)

School Social Worker
Mr Brendan Dixon
(Monday, Thursday and alternate Tuesday)

School Health Nurse
Mrs Mia Blair
(Monday and alternate Tuesday)

Chaplain
Mr Tobias Verhaegh
(Monday and Tuesday)