New Enrolments For 2022

We are currently seeking expressions of interest from students who would like to join our school in 2022. The Big Picture Learning Design requires students to actively engage in planning and participating in their own academically rigorous and personalised learning program. Some of the key criteria are:

1. Students with strong attendance and work ethic, but may not perform at their best in exam situations.
2. Students who are self-motivated and can work in a highly personalised way
3. Students who have the confidence to participate in a Learning Through Internship (up to 30 days per year or 180 hours)

We will be hosting an Information Evening on Wednesday 10^th November for interested families. This will be at our school, 4 Invermay Rd Inveresk, commencing at 5:00pm. Families wishing to attend should RSVP by contacting our school office on 63 351500 or by emailing Marianne Olsen- marianne.olsen@education.gov.tas.au.

Following expressions of interest students will be invited to participate in a transition program designed to give students a deeper understanding of the Big Picture Design including Advisory, Learning Goals, Learning through Internship and Exhibitions.

We also have limited places in Grades 10, 11 & 12 for 2022; interested students should RSVP to attend the Family Information Evening.

If you have any questions or require further clarification, please contact Marianne Olsen at school.

Finally, I would like to wish all members of our school community a safe and happy holiday break.

Adrian Dean
Principal

Learning Through Internship

During Term 3, 15 students participated in a two day White Card training course.

This course was offered as one of the trade industry days by Masterbuilders Tas.

By students completing their White Card they are eligible to be on a construction site, with many businesses using the qualification to ensure students have an understanding of work place safety.

If your young person did complete the White Card training a certificate was issued to them. Students need to go into service Tasmania with forms of identification to have the certificate transferred over to a formal White Card.

Blake who achieved his White Card training did a one week Internship at Fairbrother.  Blake worked from 7:30am – 4:00pm on the Inveresk UTas site, by working alongside experienced people in the construction industry, Blake learnt real knowledge and understanding of every day work skills required for the industry.  Thank you to Fair Brothers for supporting our LTI program.

We want your help for our Learning Through Internship Program!

If you are a local business and have opportunities for students to engage in your industry during these uncertain times,  please contact Mel at melanie.van.asperen@education.tas.gov.au

Mel Van Asperen
LTI Co-ordinator

Tamar Tales

On Friday, 3^rd September, four students participated in the Queechy Alliance’s Tamar Tales at Newstead College.

Students worked together to write and illustrate a book in a day.

They were given parameters on the morning and had time to plan the storyline and characters. This was done collaboratively and while one student began writing the story, the others began creating illustrations.

At the end of the day "The Dragon, the Mill and the Ring" was produced and students have a bound copy that they shared at their exhibition.

Marianne Olsen
AST/Support Teacher

The dragon the mill and the ring book.pdf

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My Book Binding and Paper Making Project

My project this term was on bookbinding and papermaking.

I picked bookbinding as it was an interest of mine that I have had for a while and wanted to look into further and I looked into papermaking as it was recommended to me so I could work on having a lower environmental impact when making my books.

I am really proud of how the products came out and I look forward to doing more in the future.

Flynn Bondeson
Advisory 10B

Personalising Learning Plans

This term we have changed the way we use Learning Plans with the aim to make them more personal and meaningful.

Students designed what they want their Learning Plan document to look like and the document evolved during the term as students added to it from time to time to record the learning and growth.

During exhibitions students have been able to explain their Learning Plans and use it to describe the Big Picture Learning Goals and give examples of how their experiences have provided broad learning across the goals.

Here are some examples of the diverse ways students have chosen to record their growth this term.

Jenni Fraser
9B Advisor

Term 3 - Coming to an End

It’s nearing the end of term 3 and many students at Launceston Big Picture School have had, or are preparing for, their exhibitions – Two grade 9 students, Amber and Bridie D are already working on their mouth-watering End of Term Reflective Tasks. They are getting their hands dirty with some cake batter and icing.

Normally written End of Term Tasks is the go-to, but Amber and many students are changing that up and doing something out of their comfort zones to reflect on their challenges, achievements and future focus.

Bridie, who is in the kitchen most Fridays for active learning, is turning that interest to her reflection task, with vanilla and chocolate cupcakes along with a marble cake. Her plan is to make fondant objects reflecting how this term went (challenges, and achievements), and how she wants next term to look like (future focus) and put them on her cakes.

The two students started with making the cakes and getting that over and done with ready for next day to ice when it’s not that busy with exhibitions. Excluding the part where they were worried that the marble cake wouldn’t be ready in time as the batter inside was still gooey whenever they checked, it was a pretty successful day for them.

Icing day went smoothly, apart from the need to fix Bridie’s icing that she made a mistake with and having to go out of the building to get more butter. The girls were able to successfully transfer the icing to a piping bag and make nice little swirls on their cupcakes.

Amber made four cupcakes, here is her reason behind the fondant shapes: The music note reflects upon Amber’s achievements in her personal interest project and active learning groups, the little person is a symbol from Youngtown Primary School logo and represents some challenges Amber faced seeking an LTI this term, although she has enjoyed shadow days with a teacher at YPS late in the term. Finally the question mark indicates that Amber is still considering her direction for Term 4 and the next few weeks will explore interest areas and LTI ideas.

With little icing left from the cupcakes, Bridie had to make another batch for her marble cake and dazzled it up with some sprinkles in the icing. Here is Bridies reasoning behind her fondant shapes: Bridie’s personal interest project was about dog grooming and the little paw prints represent her achievements in that area. The camera represents Bridie’s future ideas to explore animal photographs in term 4, which ties in her interest in animal behaviours. The large marble cake was chosen to represent challenges in the term with regard to LTI where Bridie persistently sought community connections related to dog grooming and came across many barriers to doing shadow days in this area but remained positive and is beginning to see the richness of her challenging experiences.

Paige Templeton
Advisory 9B

Exhibition Presentations

Students have recently completed some amazing exhibitions. The new learning on display was most impressive!

Mia Williams from 10A Advisory, researched on The Brain, and Justyne Westwood from 11A Advisory, focussed on Photography.

Follow the links below to view their amazing work.

The World's Greatest Shave

Monday the 20^th of September saw Bridie Dwyer from Jen’s Advisory be brave and shave for the Leukemia Foundations ‘World’s Greatest Shave’.

Bridie’s shave has raised $1,250 for the Leukemia Foundation, which will provide over two weeks worth of accommodation for families who are forced to relocate to seek treatment for blood cancer.

We would like to thank all of those who donated to Bridie’s shave, and to Adrian Stabb who kindly provided his skills as a hairdresser for the event.

We are very proud of Bridie’s effort and look forward to her sporting various beanies until the weather warms up!

Ally Pryke
9A Advisory

R U Ok? Day

R U OK? is a harm prevention charity that encourages people to stay connected and have conversations that can help others through difficult times in their lives.

Their work focuses on building the motivation, confidence and skills of the Help-Giver – the person who can have a meaningful conversation with someone who is struggling with life.

R U OK? contributes to suicide prevention efforts by encouraging people to invest more time in their personal relationships and by building the capacity of informal support networks – friends, family and colleagues - to be alert to those around them, have a conversation if they identify signs of distress or difficulty and connect someone to appropriate support, long before they're in crisis.

R U OK Website

On Friday the 10^th of September the students of Nick’s year 11 Advisory ran an afternoon of fun activities with relation to improving or maintaining our mental health.

We aimed to promote the ‘R U OK?’ organizations suicide prevention message and in doing so, bring awareness to mental health issues.

During our special R U OK? themed Town Hall students were able to have a go at making smoothies using the smoothie bike. The blender blends ingredients by pedaling a stationary bike. This was to promote physical exercise as well as a healthy diet.

The activities available to students on the day were:

• Biscuit Decoration – Decorate some sweet treats with colored icings and various confectionaries.
• Barbecue – Cook some juicy steaks, corn, marshmallows and other tasty foods on a portable fire pit set up out front of the school.
• Silent Activities/Meditation – Engage in some silent reading or meditation exercises and relax. Or be enthralled in the especially popular diamond paintings.
• Sport – Go for a quick run to Riverbend Park and fuel your exercise with competitive team-based sports.

Overall, the event was a huge success. Everyone had a good time and enjoyed themselves which is exactly the kind of headspace we want to encourage.

Jordan Sutcliffe
11A Advisory

End Of Term 3 Games Afternoon

My name is Josh Steer and I am one of the student leaders at school. Our group of student leaders were keen to have some fun at the end of term and celebrate what has been a busy but very enjoyable term.

We all loved the idea of having a games afternoon and spent time planning “points based” challenges that involved all advisories having representatives.  Our challenge activities included, mario kart, Minecraft, basketball, just dance and old fashion Board Games.

It was a competition between advisories and the winners were:

• 1^st – Dan’s Advisory
• 2^nd – Nick’s Advisory
• 3^rd – Jen’s Advisory

Joshua Steer
9A Advisory 

Halloween in September!

What an amazing last day of term! Harry’s project has been about celebrating Halloween in September. Check out these photos- Harry you are a star!!

Food and Cooking

Over the past year and half, Robin Ellenberger, expert Baker, has been in our school kitchen mentoring students.

Robin has now decided to leave the Kitchen and work in the newly established Makers Space.

Robin will be in this space on a fortnightly basis starting Thursday 21^st of October.

Robin has experience in sewing, spinning and wool dying and is happy to assist all students with any projects in this space.

Welcome Shirley Blackman, to take over the role of Kitchen Supervisor on a fortnightly basis on a Thursday Starting 21^st of October.

Shirley will be offering assistance to students in their individual cooking projects.

Rob Lewandowski
12B Advisor

Sport & Recreation 

Recently students have been exploring some of the racquet sports on offer at the Elphin Sports Centre. Badminton was a challenge for some people, but the progress and new learning that occurred was very obvious.

Design and Construction

Our students with an interest in building and construction continue to enjoy spending time in our workshop. Our “master builder- mentor” John Crick, has been very impressed with the progress being made by all participants.

Aspiration, Courage, Respect, Growth

We are always looking for ways of rewarding positive behaviour at our school.

Students and staff are encouraged to nominate those people who have shown Aspiration, Courage, Respect or Growth. Winners receive a voucher from Bizy Bee  Café, Invermay Road and our winners this month so far are:

• Percy Aitken: Courage and Growth - for organising her informational interview and LTI at Steve's Grill and Courage was demonstrated by being a positive leader in and out of advisory. They always offer to speak to visitors in our school and assists others to complete tasks.
• Catie Owens: Aspiration - for always demonstrating great organisational skills
• Abbey-Lee: Respect - for picking up rubbish while walking in the Inveresk precinct to help keep the environment clean.
• Josh Kennedy: Respect - for cleaning up the mess on the floor that was made by others. Josh responded politely when asked to do it and happily compelted the request to ensurea positive and clean learning environment
• Andre Santamaria: All areas - for being really kind to others in our school community and helping to put a smile on the face of others by being funny.
• Ayva Riley: Respect - for assisting Cameron with his driving test.
• Ryan Smith: Courage - for asking some great questions during the Senior University excursion to Hobart.

School Holidays

• Monday, 27th September 2021 - Friday, 8th October 2021 

Term 4: Start and End Dates

• Monday, 11th October 2021 - Thursday, 16th December 2021

Student Free Day 

• Friday, 29th Ocober 2021 (Grade 9-12)

Public Holiday

• Monday, 1st November 2021 (Recreation Day)

Parent Information Evening 

• Wednesday, 10th November at 5:00pm

Presentation Awards Evening

• Tuesday, 14th December at 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Celebration Dinner 

• Tuesday, 14th December at 6:30pm - 8:30pm 

Schools Triathlon Challenge

After a year off the Schools Triathlon Challenge is back for 2021!

Launceston Big Picture School are looking for participants to compete either individually or as a 9/10 or 11/12 team.

The challenge will be held on Wednesday the 24^th of November at the Devonport Bluff.

The cost to enter the event is $10:00, please click on the link below for further information.

to sign up, please see either Brendan or Charlie Hindrum.

Charlie Hindrum
9A Advisory 

Teacher Aide Appreciation Week

Monday August 30th - Friday September 3rd was Teacher Aide Appreciation Week!

We are so lucky at LBPS to have such wonderful teacher assistants.

Thank you for everything you do Jacqui, Tracey, Mia and Adrian! You are all stars! 

Bob's Bikes For Sale! 

Our school is very proud of our Bob’s Bikes program!!

Students who have an interest in working with bikes work with our coordinator, Bob Blackman, one afternoon a week to renovate the bikes. This renovation work achieves two main objectives: to involve students in a community project which is designed to benefit other people or causes; and to learn practical and technical skills associated with bike care and maintenance. Some of the bikes are sold directly from the school but the majority of the bikes are sold on Gumtree.  

The program continues to have a partnership with Tasmania Police in Launceston who regularly supply and donate unclaimed bikes in their possession.  Donations of bikes are also received from members of the local community who have become aware of and want to support the program.

Recently Shirley Blackman (Bob’s wife and financial manager of the program) transferred an amount of $3,100.00 on behalf of the school into Australia for UNHCR's NAB bank account.

Of the $3100.00, we have asked to donate $2,500 to your Afghanistan emergency appeal; and $500.00 to the ongoing emergency appeal for the the crisis in Yemen. 

As a school we are very much in appreciation of the work of Bob and Shirley Blackman – our students gain so much from this project and we can also assist such worthwhile causes.

COVID Quick Check-In TAS

To comply with Public Health Directions, our school is now set up with the COVID Check In TAS App. This app enables visitors to our school to register their visit using the self-check-in QR code and have their information directly stored with the Tasmanian Department of Health for contact tracing (if required).

Use of the app will help the Tasmanian contact tracing team quickly identify and assist anyone who may have been exposed to COVID-19.  

Click on the link below for instructions on how to Download the COVID Check-In TAS App.

Big Picture Education has 12 distinguishers. 
In our newsletter we will share them. 
Our eighth is...

8. Everyone's a Leader in Big Picture schools, leadership is shared among the Principal, staff, students, family and comunity partners. Opportunities for leadership are created for everyone.

Informing School of Student Absences

Your child’s Advisory Teacher records attendance daily using the DoE EduPoint system. Attendance is taken between 8:55am – 9:30am. 

If your child is going to be absent, you will need to inform the school ASAP - otherwise the EduPoint system automatically marks the absence as ‘Unauthorised-Unexplained’ and this is not altered until communication is received from parents.

The preferred method of communication is to send the school an SMS 0427 016 460 (this is a short message service only, so you will not be able to ring the school on this number).

LBPS admin check the SMS service throughout the day and update any changes to student attendance.

You can of course ring the school direct on 6335 1500 and leave a voice message on the answer phone.

School Uniform

It is compulsory for students to wear their school uniform when attending school excursions, interviews, LTIs or if they are representing the school at events. 

Uniforms can be purchased from the school office and are sold at cost price:

• Polo Shirts with school logo = $30 
• School Hoody with school logo = $65

Any pre-worn uniform donations would be very much appreciated and are used in our emergency uniform/clothing pool.

Parking Inveresk Precinct 

It is highly recommended that parents and visitors to the school DO NOT PARK along the nature strip in front of the school, slong the footpath or on the grass area beside Aurora Stadium.

The City Council have recently approached the school and have advised these areas are being patrolled and infringements are being issued.

Parents and visitors are advised to use the paid parking facilities at the Inveresk Car Park (next to Blue Cafe).

Communication & Useful Links

I would like to remind families of some useful links and apps that you may use to assist with receiving communication from our school.

• SMS Only - 0427 016 460 to report student absences, please send a text to our short message service
• Schoolzine App & Newsletter - Our newsletter is published at the end of every month through Schoolzine. Schoolzine is an app that allows you to communicate with the school, receive notices and newsletters

• School Website - Our website allows you to access lots of useful information about our school

• School Facebook - please 'like' our facebook page as we often post communication to parents on there

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Adrian Dean
Principal

Thank You

Just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the LBPS students who have contributed to this months newsletter, we really do enjoy reading your articles and stories of your personal progress.

If students have stories they would like to share, then please email your news items to me jennifer.kendall@education.tas.gov.au

Jennifer Kendall
School Business Manager