News from the Principal
Announcing our 2025 Grade 6 Student Leadership – Student Leader Agency & Voice
In 2025, we have 3 ‘all year’ elected Leadership opportunities for Grade 6 students: Student, Library, and Sports Leader positions.
Ask what the qualities of a student leader are, and you will hear answers such as:
- Trustworthy, responsible, respectful, and resilient
- Great listener and communicator
- Capable of finding solutions that work for everyone
- Able to get along and work well with others
- Has purpose, vision, and sets goals
And most importantly at TCPS, student leaders all actively model our key Values of…
- To Lead the Student Council
- To represent Table Cape Primary School at special assemblies, school and community events (e.g. ANZAC day)
- To assist school staff in carrying out a range of school related tasks
- To prepare running sheet and lead school Assemblies
- To be a positive role model for all students
Our Library Leaders’ main responsibilities include:
- Providing special help with borrowing/returns
- Assisting with daily lunch library tasks/duties as timetabled
- Maintaining a section of the school collection
- Assisting with lunch time and other organised activities in the library
- Book Week activities; Assist with Premier’s Reading Challenge
- To be a positive role model for all students
Our Sports Leaders’ main responsibilities include:
- Leading/assisting classes Prep to Grade 6 for Daily PE Programs
- Assist with lunch time and other organised sport/recreation activities
- Leading/assisting with ‘House’ events (e.g. Athletics carnival, sports events)
- Assisting with care of sports equipment and sports store
- To be a positive role model for all students
In preparing for leadership nominations and the recently completed election process, all Grade 6 children have participated in a range of sessions from the ‘Young Leaders Program’ to develop their personal leadership capacity throughout this term.
Our sessions focused on developing each child’s key mindsets and attitudes about a range of positive leadership characteristics and traits, as well as being a positive role model always showing care, courtesy, respect and self-discipline. It was extremely rewarding to run these sessions with all of our Grade 6s and see a noticeable increase in self-confidence and personal growth for so many in such a short period of time.
Following the training for all Grade 6 students, individuals then chose to nominate for one of the leadership positions. Nominees prepared a speech that was given to a Grades 3 to 6 student audience and accompanying staff. A copy of each speech was displayed for all staff to read prior to their voting. Students were elected by the combined voting results of Grades 4 to 6 students and all staff.
Congratulations to our newly elected Grade 6 Leadership groups:
- Student Leaders – Addison, April, Sienna & Eli
- Library Leaders – Reuben, Jasper F, Nicholas & Phoebe
- Sports Leaders – Grace, Blake, Indy G, Noah, Ryker, Daine, Zachary, Jagger, Kyron, Charlotte, Indy D, Esther, Nixon & Nayte
We are all really looking forward to the great leadership, support and service they will now provide to us all in their new roles!
Other responsible Grade 6 opportunities also include ‘Monitor’ roles for Sandpits, Playground Games and Safe Buddies and these will be allocated each term and will also include some of our grade 5 students.
After our Grade 6 Leadership elections, classes 3 to 6 have also elected their representative student councillor. Students will be a ‘voice’ for both their own class and younger ‘Buddy’ class. Student Councillors, along with our Student Leaders, will meet regularly to discuss and plan for initiatives, activities and fundraising events over the year.
Congratulations to our new Class/Buddy Student Councillors :
3A (Kinder A) – Isla 3B (Kinder B) – Ruby
4A (Prep A) – Madison 4B (Prep B) – Shelby
5A (1B) – Brock 5B (1A) – Jhett
6A (2B) – Johnathon 6B (2A) – Ellah
Communicating Learning Progress With Families
Term 1 – Prep to 6 Application to Learning Progress Report
Our first progress report for Term 1 will be your child’s Application to Learning Progress Report. The checklist report style gives a quick snapshot of how your child has settled into school this year. This will be sent home with each child on Thursday 27 March.
Families will then have an opportunity to book either a follow-up ‘face-to-face’ or ‘phone’ conversation with their child’s teacher about their child’s progress. Our meetings will be held on Monday 31 March from 2:45 – 3:45pm. Tuesday 1 and Thursday 3 April from 2:45 to 4:30pm and Wednesday from 2:45 – 3:45pm.
Bookings for your Term 1 meeting/s can be made over the next two weeks, from Monday 17 until Friday 28 March by accessing our SchoolZine App – Tile = Parent/Carer Teacher Meetings or by phoning our Admin Office for assistance (6442 3377). Please ensure you book early for either your phone or at school meeting.
From our updated Student Validation forms we have the information about who requires a duplicate copy of reporting information. However, if your family circumstances have changed since these were completed at the start of the year, please contact our office to ensure this request is recorded in our mail-out system.
Harmony Week… ‘everyone belongs’…
Monday 17 - Sunday 23 March
What is Harmony Week?
Harmony Week is the celebration that recognises our diversity and brings together Australians from all different backgrounds. Australia is one of the most successful multicultural countries in the world and we should celebrate this and work to maintain it.
The annual date celebrating ‘Harmony Day’ is 21 March along with the key message of the entire Harmony Week being… ‘everyone belongs’.
It is about inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all Australians, regardless of cultural or linguistic background, united by a set of core Australian values.
Did you know?
- Nearly half (49 per cent) of Australians were born overseas or have at least one parent who was.
- We identify with over 300 ancestries.
- Since 1945, more than 7.5 million people have migrated to Australia.
- 85 per cent of Australians agree multiculturalism has been good for Australia.
- Apart from English, the most common languages spoken in Australia are Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, Tagalog/Filipino, Hindi, Spanish and Punjabi.
- More than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in Australia.
Schools have always been Harmony Week’s greatest supporters – throughout the year children and families have opportunities to think, talk about and recognise how our differences make Australia a great place – and on a smaller level, our School Community, a great place!
NWPSSA Inter-Primary Athletics Results and Twilight Qualifiers
A huge congratulations to everyone who participated in last week’s NWPSSA competition days for grades 3 and 4 and grades 5 and 6. Along with Mrs Lee, I had great pleasure in accompanying both of our school teams this year and was extremely proud of every team member’s effort – all represented our school with outstanding sporting qualities, a healthy competitive spirit and applied their personal best to every event - two impressive days for all involved!
Well done to all involved in our Primary teams:
Gr 3 – Xander, Rory, Jakob, Tucker, Leilah, Isla, Azariah & Willow H
Gr 4 – Alexander, Sawyer, Jett, Lucas, Natahlia, Issy, Alirah-Kate & Sophie
Gr 5 – Axel, Samuel, Lenni, Jack, Josie, Rylie, Ruby & Lilly
Gr 6 – Johnathon, Ryker, Blake, Nayte, Esther, Addison, April & Indy D
A special congratulations to our athletes who are 2025 Twilight Finals qualifiers for the entire North West Region of schools: Johnathon Gr6 Boys 75m, Samuel Gr5 Boys 200m & 1500m, Blake Gr6 Boys 100m & 400m, Esther Gr6 Girls 100m & 1500m, Jett Gr4 400m, Josie Gr5 Girls 1500m. What a terrific achievement to make regional finals!
Digital Skills for Families – Online Resources and Social Media Content
The DAISY Awards
Recognition for our school health nurses
School health nurses play an important role in our school community, delivering health education and promotion, and supporting student wellbeing.
The Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) has recently introduced the internationally recognised DAISY Award program in schools through the School Health Nurse program.
Those with a health background may already be familiar with this program. Run by the DAISY Foundation, it is a way to acknowledge and celebrate the care and compassion that nurses deliver to the people they care for each and every day.
The program is run in 38 countries, but this is the first time anywhere in the world it will be delivered in a school setting.
Nominations are now open for the DECYP DAISY Award. If you or a family member have had a positive experience with a school health nurse and would like to see their work recognised, why not consider nominating them!
You can nominate them using this form, by sending an email to daisy@decyp.tas.gov.au, or getting in touch with school staff for help or more information.
Whether you’re a student, parent or carer, or a DECYP staff member, anyone can nominate a school health nurse you think is worthy of recognition.
Nominations will close on 13 June, with winners announced at an awards ceremony on 4 July. For more information, you can also visit DECYP’s website.
Passenger Code of Conduct for School Bus Services
The Department of State Growth (DSG) has released a Passenger Code of Conduct (the Code) for School Bus Services.
The Code sets out the expected standards of behaviour for students when using a bus.
It provides guidance and processes for bus operators and drivers to follow when a student breaches the Code, ensuring that all students, and breaches of the Code, are treated in a fair and consistent manner.
All operators of School Bus Services have adopted the Code as conditions of travel for the purposes of regulation 11 of the Passenger Transport Services Regulations 2013.
The Code has been developed by the Department of State Growth in consultation with the Tasmanian Bus Association (TasBus), the Department of Education, Catholic Education Tasmania and contracted school bus operators.
A shared understanding between all stakeholders of the expectations of students travelling on buses – and the consequences for any inappropriate behaviour – is essential for ensuring compliance with the Code.
A copy of The Code is on our A link to the code is: Passenger Conduct Code for School Bus Services – Transport Services