2025 Class Information

All children have now had a chance to meet in their new class groupings and participate in some early team building activities, especially sharing their prepared ‘Personal Star’ with new teachers as a key way to get to know each other.

At the start of this term class teachers and members of the Leadership team created the most equitable classes possible by balancing a range of needs, including both learning ability and social connections.

Whilst parents have one child to consider (in a given class), we have approximately 320 children to consider, so educational decisions have been made to cater for all needs. We have worked very hard to ensure that every child has a friend, and we ask for you to support our placements and reassure children that ‘new’ groupings bring many ‘new opportunities’ for them in 2025.

Over the break, continue to encourage every child to embrace the many new opportunities planned for 2025… actively reflecting one of our key school values of ‘Courage’. For some children this week, we will have also sent home a personalised placement social story, and this is to further capture some of the key information for them and family members as a support for transitioning to a new class or new teacher in 2025.

We have formed 15 class groupings for 2025 and so far, our known staffing is:

Kinder – Anna Davis & Emma Lohrey

Prep A – Claire Thorp and Prep B – Kirsty Allen

1A – Ashleigh Laurendet and 1B – Cathy Kinch & Catherine Badcock

2A – Leane Bugg and 2B – Fiona Sculthorpe & Catherine Badcock (Mondays)

3A – Jennifer Golledge and 3B – Kelli-anne Gillam

4A – Pippa Mills & Felicity Hookway and 4B – Holly Grosbridge & Felicity Hookway

5A – Zoe Lucas and 5B - Imogen Beswick

6A – Teegan Townsend and 6B – Michelle Smitheram

Further confirmation of some additional part-time teaching partners, specialist curriculum teachers and teachers of other programs in our school will be shared at the beginning of 2025.

2025 Uniform Sales, Stationery Packs and Levy Days

Levy payments, collection of books and uniforms can be made on:

Wednesday 29 January (Kinder families) 9:00 – 1:00pm

Thursday 30 January: 8:30 – 11:30am Families with Surnames: A – C

12:00 – 3:00pm Families with Surnames: D – H

Friday 31 January: 8:30 – 11:30am Families with Surnames: I – Q

12:00 – 3:00pm Families with Surnames: R – Z

EFTPOS facilities are available for both levy and uniform payments.

Office hours from Monday 27 January until Monday 3 February will be 8:30am – 3:00pm.

PLEASE NOTE:

Parents/Carers unable to make the levy payment during this period should contact our School Business Manager, Andrea Miller on 6442 3377, to make alternative arrangements.

Please note that there are no credit arrangements on uniform sales.

Office staff will be able to accept any new enrolments and to assist parents with any queries from Monday 27 January. Office staff will also make appointments for parents who wish to discuss any matter with the principal and/or members of the Leadership Team.

CLASS PLACEMENT LEVY SHEET:

This sheet gives details of the class placement for your child in 2025 and the levy fee. It is included in your child’s 2024 End of Year reporting envelope.

PLEASE BRING THE LEVY SHEET WITH YOU WHEN YOU COME IN TO MAKE YOUR PAYMENT or collect Stationery packs if approved for STAS.

STATIONERY ITEMS:

Some stationery items for students will be issued upon payment of levies. The balance will be issued to children by teachers as required. The cost of these items is covered by your school levy payment.

Update of 2025 Medical Plans for Students

If you child requires a medical plan for anaphylaxis, allergies, asthma, epilepsy or a specific medical condition, then we ask that you have the most accurate and updated plans ready for us to copy when you come in for your allocated ‘Levy and Book Sales’ Day prior to school starting. This will ensure we are fully prepared to take on this extremely important duty of care for your child/ren.

STUDENT FIRST DAY OF TERM 1 IN 2025 IS THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY

2024 Grade 6 End of Year Presentation Assembly

On Monday this week we had a great event in celebration of this year’s Grade 6 Leavers at our annual Presentation Assembly – a wonderful show of support from our parents and school community for all of our finishing year 6 students. We are extremely proud of all of our students and especially this week of our departing Grade 6s. Most importantly, a special event such as this, helps to remind us of what really matters most in what has been another extraordinary year for everyone!

Table Cape Primary is a great school focused on quality teaching and high expectations for learning achievement; balanced with elements of fun and enjoyment. I am sure that our Grade 6 Leavers will treasure their wealth of memories from Primary School and be able to look back one day and remember how great it was to be at Table Cape!

Our Leaver’s Presentation Assembly provides us with an opportunity to recognise, reward and celebrate some individual award recipients along with all of our Grade 6 leavers. Congratulations to all of our 2024 Award recipients (listed below). It has personally been an absolute privilege to share in each child’s last 8 years at primary school. Parents and families should be very proud of this wonderful year group!

Grade 5 Award Presentation: *Respectful Student Award – Noah

Sponsored by Jo Palmer, Minister for Education

Grade 6 Individual Award Presentations:

*Wynyard High School $250 Bursary – Kobi

*Achievement in Health & Physical Education Awards – Aylah & Nyla

Grades 3 to 6 Class Kindness Award

At our final Student Grades 3 to 6 Afternoon Meeting last week, Class Teachers announced their ‘Class Kindness Award’ – for a child who consistently displays all Values and Kindness to everyone, all of the time!

Teachers had an extremely difficult task of selecting one student who has displayed the following Criteria in their class for all of the year:

Certificate Description - in recognition for:

Choosing to engage in random acts of kindness to others without seeking anything in return
Always saying and spreading happiness to others by being kind e.g. – giving compliments or just providing a listening ear to a friend in need
Your acts of kindness inspiring others to be kind as well
Making our class and school a better and happier place everyday

Your small acts of kindness are able to inspire others, who will then spread those actions to their friends and family. This snowball will continue to grow, and can eventually have a big impact on the world (with or without your awareness of it)

Congratulation to our … ‘2024 Class Kindness Award’ recipients:

4A – Stella 4B – Axel

5A – Ellah 5B – Blake

6A – Sage 6B – Aylah

Classes 4 to 6 – 100+ Home Readers Draw

Our one whole school ‘homework’ priority is Home Reading! Developing strong and independent Reading skills significantly supports all learners in every area of their learning and schooling. Each class has a lucky $20 Book Voucher draw for children who have achieved 100+ Reading turns.

Congratulations to:

4A – Eve and 4B – Chase

5A – Matthew and 5B – Addison

6A – Matthew

School Association Christmas Raffle Results:

Thank you to everyone who supported this term’s tea-towel fundraising, and the winners of our raffles were:

Celebration Concert 1 : 1^stPrize: Terri Webb & 2^nd Prize: Trudy House
Celebration Concert 2 : 1^stPrize: Deb Gardam & 2^nd Prize: Jess Courtney

Update #2: Staffing Information 2025

‘Thank You’ for Prep to 6 Visual Arts teaching with us this year, Georgie Smedley! Best wishes as you return to Wynyard High School next year.

Some more end of ‘2024 FAREWELLS’ and ‘THANK YOU’ TO STAFF include a number of Teacher Assistants who are finishing their Fixed-Term Teacher Contracts with us: