The average daily attendance rate; Year-to-Date, derived from student attendance data recorded in EduPoint as at 02/07/2025 is 89%

It has been a wonderful term of learning, particularly with the innovative approaches to our teaching of Literacy across the school.

Our Early Years, Prep–Grade 2 are delivered UFLI Foundations, an explicit and systematic phonics program that introduces students to the foundational reading skills necessary for proficient reading. It followed scope and sequence to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and apply each skill with automaticity and confidence.

Students in Grades 3-6 are engaged in UFLI and Word Origins, an evidence-informed program designed to provide the next step in spelling, reading and vocabulary instruction for students in middle to upper primary school and beyond. Designed to follow any high-quality structured phonics program, Word Origins targets student knowledge of the morphological regularities of English, and the etymology, or language of origin, of our vocabulary, and the impact these elements have on spelling, reading, and word knowledge.

There have been many highlights during the term including some of the following:

Early Childhood Swimming Orientation Program.
Cross Country Carnival: The event was an enormous success with outstanding participation from Kinder to Grade 6.
National Simultaneous Storytime: A school-wide event promoting reading.
Reconciliation Week: Participation in activities promoting Indigenous culture.
Readers Cup: A team of four students from Grades 5-6 went to Hagley Farm School to participate in the competition.
Maths Extension: A small group of Grade 5-6 students are participating in a maths extension program run by a parent volunteer, which has been an enormous success.
Social and Emotional Groups: These groups are supporting, attendance, connection and belonging, with participation in card games and board games through volunteers.

As we end Term 2, I would like to the opportunity to wish all families a restful holiday period.

Principal Award Certificates Thursday 03 July, 2025

P1 Lockwood	Penelope
P2 Mahar/Hookway-Dare	Lachlan
Grade 1/2 Achilles	Ida
Grade 1/2 Eastley	Christopher
Grade 1/2 Hardman	Jett
Grade 1/2 Kerrison/Poxon	Alice
Grade 3/4 Atkinson	Asha
Grade 3/4 Duncan	Ella
Grade 3/4 Zandavar	Faith
Grade 4/5 DeHaan	Oliver
Grade 5/6 Petrohilos	Osman
Grade 5/6 Sundra	Layla
Grade 5/6 Wood	Oliver

Merit Certificate

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This term students from Prep to Grade 6 have been investigating a range of topics that include materials, sound as energy and solids, liquids, and gases. Each grade group has been exploring an inquiry question relevant to their developing understanding and progression of learning across our school years. Check out the questions below and a snapshot of some of the learning opportunities provided.

Prep: What are materials made of?

Students have been working with Mrs Howell to explore what things are made of what is a material, what do materials look and feel like. They are finishing the term building houses made from different materials BUT the big bad wolf is coming (hair dryer), and they are going to see if their houses survive the wolf.

Grade 1/2: What happens when we make sound?

What is sound? How is sound made? Can we make sound? Is sound electrical energy? Can we make things move with sound? These are some big questions that we have been exploring in 1/2 classes this term. We have made sounds, with homemade instruments and actual instruments. We have learnt that sound is made when there is movement, when a movement happens it causes vibration which creates sound. We have moved rice and sprinkles with sound energy and learnt about volume and pitch. Families would have seen our pitch straws that allowed students to experiment with high and low pitch. We have explored how an ear works and recently we have been learning about echo and echolocation in dolphins and bats. Students have been every interested in learning about sounds and sound energy.

Grade 3/4: How do materials change when heated and cooled?

We began our term with an experiment about seed dispersal from our term 1 learning and from this we learnt that we need to improve our science investigation skills during experiments. This led us into our explorations of solids and liquids. We have been exploring custard and learning that it can act like a solid and a liquid because it is a non-Newtonian gel that does not act like a true solid or true liquid. Next on the journey is to begin exploring what happens to liquids when frozen and learn about change of states due to heating and cooling.

Grade 4-5-6: What is matter and how is it different?

It has been a challenging term as we have grappled with the states of matter, that include solids, liquids and gases at an invisible level. Realising that everything is made up of matter and what the particles look like in matter has been interesting, challenging and eye opening. Understanding how invisible particles are arranged helps us to understand the properties of matter and how matter behaves. Based on its behaviours we can determine if it is a solid, liquid or gas. We have been conducting a number of experiments to explore solids and have begun exploring liquids and the different viscosity of a liquid and what this means for the particles in this matter.

NAIDOC stands for the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee.

This year’s theme for NAIDOC week is ‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy’.

This celebrates not only the achievements of the past but the bright future ahead, empowered by the strength of our young leaders, the vision of our communities, and the legacy of our ancestors.

National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in July from the 6^th to the 13^th, to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about, and participate in, celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.

It’s premiere event is the National NAIDOC Awards Ceremony which showcases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander excellence. The NAIDOC Poster competition is an iconic feature of National NAIDOC Week and has a rich and significant history.

NAIDOC posters have been exhibited by various Australian cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Australia. They reflect many significant social changes that have occurred since 1967 and the evolution of art over the years.

Jesse and Mason

Our artwork, created using only black and white oil pastels, focuses on form, light and shadow.

Winter is often thought of as cold and lifeless, but our art pieces show its quiet beauty and the stillness Winter brings in the bare trees, the quiet snow-covered ground and the silence in the sky.

We hope you enjoy our artwork as much as we have enjoyed making them and our positive twist we have applied to our colder months.

Nights of Reading Achievement

There have been a fabulous number of students reaching the 100 nights of reading milestone. Many of the students have been from Prep to Grade 2 classes and we encourage our Primary students to find the reading material that interests them and then record this in their Reading Log.

Students are rewarded for reaching this milestone with a $2.00 canteen voucher and a certificate in the next assembly. If families would like to witness the certificate presentation, they just need to attend the assembly that follows the milestone completion date, no invite is provided.

The 2025 Premier’s Reading Challenge Continues!

We are into week 3 of this 10-week challenge. Nearly 32,000 students are participating across Tasmania in schools, colleges, and Home Education families!

At Exeter Primary School, each grade is challenged to achieve different goals including- - reading in the library during lunch

- completing the 10 Book Reading Log page

- reading a range of text types

Reading is a skill we need for life. All the reading you do in this challenge will help you at school and at home.

The Challenge runs until 24 August. For more information you can go to- Premier's Reading Challenge - Department for Education, Children and Young People