OzHarvest Feast Program started this week at Molesworth Primary with our Grade 4-5.

The program was founded by Ronni Kahn AO in 2004 after noticing the huge volume of food going to waste, OzHarvest has quickly grown to become Australia’s leading food rescue organisation.

FEAST is a free curriculum-aligned education program for primary and high schools, which explores the issue of food waste and its environmental impact, positive food choices and easy classroom cooking.

This week the Grade 4-5 class created fruit skewers with natural yoghurt and learnt about safe cutting techniques.

The School Association held a Democracy Sausage Sizzle on May 3^rd with a cake stall.

Thankfully the sunny day attracted lots of hungry voters and it was a fantastic way to connect with people in our school community.  An enormous thank you to all those who donated delicious cakes and treats.

Thanks to the Burns, Cowley, Graham, Hanson, Priestly, Stock, Sutton, Verrills, Wade, White and Young families, as well as Miss J.

We expect to have raised a few hundred dollars from this event.

Children aren’t born with natural skills in reading, like they are for walking and talking. They must develop new pathways in their brain to master this skill. 

National and international research shows that the process of learning to read can be broken down into lots of individual skills.

Cognitive scientists can clearly see that teaching all these individual skills systematically and explicitly, sets up the pathways in our brain for reading.

This approach is effective for beginning, struggling and advanced readers. Importantly, it is an engaging and fun way for all students to learn.  

This is what informs and underpins Tasmania’s new approach to reading. 

The foundational elements of reading can be broken down into six skills – often referred to as:

Source:

Literacy - Department for Education, Children and Young People

Current recommendations from support specialists such as school psychologists and speech pathologists are all evidence based strategies and include the above approaches as well as include the use of technology to assist students with reading difficulties. 

This includes software that we have access to at Molesworth such as Read Write which can read the onscreen text to students or use speech to text functions to assist the student record their thinking.

Last Friday I ran in the PSST State Athletics Carnival in Launceston at the St Leonards Athletics Track. Mum and Dad drove me up and we had to leave at 7:00 am and arrived at the track at 10:00 am.

I was in the 100m girls grade 4 race and the Grade 4 girls circular relay. I was feeling good about the day.

There were 85 other students from Hobart. I made friends with the other girls from Grade 4. They were from lots of other different Hobart schools. I knew one of the girls who I raced against at the SPSSA Champions Athletics Carnival.

Our relay team came first overall for the state! I came 5^th or 6^th in the 100m. It was a big day and I was tired by the end of it. It was a good experience.

By Bonnee C (Grade 4)

NEXT GENERAL MEETING

SCHOOL SAUSAGE SIZZLE

Last Friday the 9th of May was Do it for Dolly Day 2025.

Staff and students were encouraged to wear blue and to bring a gold coin donation to raise awareness about bullying and spreading kindness.

LOADS OF SECOND HAND UNIFORM UP FOR GRABS!!!!

Please pop in to the School Office and have a look.  Thank you to those who kindly donated all this wonderful uniform back to the school.

Being Allergy Aware

Allergies have a big impact on the day-to-day life of those that have severe reactions. To make everyone feel safe and ready to learn here at Molesworth Primary, we all need to be allergy aware. It is not recommended that schools ban foods, however, we do take measures to ensure the safety of all students.

As a school community, we all have a part to play.

It is important for us all to be allergy aware, so we become familiar with the precautions, preventions, symptoms and required treatments for the allergic individual to keep everyone safe.

Making small changes could make a big difference.

For more information visit www.allergy.org.au.

ALLERGIES AND ASTHMA IN TASMANIA*N GOVERNMENT SCHOOL (education.tas.gov.au)

If you would like more information or want to discuss ways that we can support you with your child’s health and wellbeing please feel free to email me anytime at danielle.triffett1@decyp.tas.gov.au.

The Tasmanian Government wants your feedback on the current public bus network in Greater Hobart including outlying areas such as New Norfolk, Sorell and Southern Beaches, Richmond, Campania and the Huon Valley. We want you to tell us how easy or hard it is to use the network and why, and what you need to be able to use it more often (or at all).

Click here to tell us what you like and don’t like, and what you would like to see in the future.

It doesn’t matter if you currently use the bus or not, we would like to hear from you!

Please find below ptunarra Child and Family Learning Centre’s May newsletter!

ptunarra Child and Family Learning Centre - May

Included in the link, you will find our calendar along with other happenings for the month.