Dear families, 

Thank you to our entire school community for your cooperation this term by practising COVID-safe behaviours.

As you know, an important COVID-safe behaviour is to stay at home if you’re unwell and get tested for COVID-19 using a rapid antigen test. If you require RAT tests, please contact our school office on 63351500.

Public Health tells us that the number of cases of COVID-19 in children is low, and they’re likely to have milder symptoms.

It’s a good reminder to be mindful of the symptoms of COVID-19 in children. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 in children are cough, fever, runny nose and gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

For more information, please visit the Tasmanian Government Coronavirus website or contact the Tasmanian Public Health Hotline on 1800 671 738, or Department of Education COVID-19 Support Hotline at COVID19support@education.tas.gov.au or on 1800 816 057.

If you need support translating or interpreting this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.

It has been exciting to witness the innovative learning opportunities that students are engaged in every day at our school.  Teaching and non- teaching staff willingly go above and beyond to ensure our young people are given the best possible opportunities.  When I walk around our school, I am continually amazed at the innovative projects that students are engaged with. Our “Maker’s Space” with its sewing machines and 3 D printers is becoming very popular as is our visual arts wet area. We also have some new mobile trolleys that now enable students to work on practical projects such as chainsaws in our various learning spaces.

Changes to reporting in 2022

This year, you will notice some changes to reporting in Tasmanian Government Schools.

Firstly, you won’t see A-E reporting any more for Prep to Year 10 students.

Most families in Tasmanian Government Schools have told us that A-E reporting isn’t meaningful enough for them. So, the Department is introducing a new 9-point visual scale.

Along with the visual scale a worded description will be included to help you understand how your child is going against the expected standard for their year level. The 9-point scale will show more specifically where your child is at with their learning. This change won’t apply to students in Years 11 and 12.

The second main change you’ll see is that teachers will be communicating with you more regularly throughout the year, instead of providing written comments on reports.

This more regular communication might be through online communication, telephone calls, or face-to-face conversations.

By having more regular information about your child’s learning progress you’ll get a better understanding of how your child is going across the entire school year (not just twice a year).

Families will be supported to understand the new reporting requirements and the changes to mid and end of year report as they are implemented.

Watch the video introducing the changes:

If you’d like to know more about why these changes are occurring, visit Review into Reporting to Families - The Department of Education Tasmania

Learning Through Internship (LTI’s)

Many of our young people have commenced or are busy putting the final organisational touches to their Internships. It is wonderful to chat with students upon their return from their Internships and see the real sense of purpose and authenticity in the work they not only completed off site but are participating in at school. Thank you also to those family members who have assisted with student placements. We are aiming to have every young person involved in a “Learning Through Interest” placement in early term 2 and to do this, require support from our families and community.

Some examples of current internships include:

• Melody @ Sewing Machine Centre
• Dust Stephens @ Natured Cloth
• Arden @ Freestyle FX Signs
• Brayden @ Launceston Tram Museum
• Bridie @ Bowthorpe Horse Stud

Exhibitions

It is great to see the school a hive of activity as students are busy organising and preparing their first exhibitions for 2022. I have had the opportunity to witness some outstanding examples of learning and clever presentation ideas from our young people. From, engaging and interesting icebreakers, to the sharing of new learning from personalised interest areas, student exhibitions will no doubt be super impressive.  Congratulations one and all and I am looking forward to our week nine exhibitions.

School Association

We recently held our School Association AGM and first General Meeting for 2022. It was great to re-establish relationships with existing families and to also meet and welcome new family members to our Association. Parents and community members are always welcome to attend any of our meetings. A highlight of our first meeting for me was listening to year 12 student, Catie Owens, detail and describe her learning journey at LBPS and also her future ambitions. Catie was amazingly confident and articulate. Thank you Catie!

It was also fantastic to have lots of parent and community interest in joining our 2022 School Association. Congratulations to the following elected members for 2022:

• Chairperson - Dana Chick
• Deputy Chairperson - Ben Cunningham
• Community Representative - Robert Blackman
• Staff Representative- Marianne Olsen
• Secretary/Treasurer- Jennifer Kendall
• Parent Representatives - Elena Chagoya, Peter Harvey, Calinda Richardson, Terri Stevens, Paul Scambler, Sarah Westwood, 

Please remember that School Association meetings are open to all members of our school community. Our next meeting is Wednesday, 22nd June 2022 at 5pm. Please feel free to come along!

Moderation Day and Assessment

Thursday 1^st of April is Moderation Day for all teaching staff. Our staff will be working with colleagues from Southern Big Picture schools (Ogilvie, Kingston, Sorell). We will be working at establishing shared understandings of where student work sits but more importantly, we will be discussing strategies with regard to what we can do to assist our young people with extending their learning.

Please note that as a consequence of this, Thursday 14^th of April is a student free day for all students.

Principal Position at Launceston Big Picture School

I would like to announce to our school community that I have been appointed Acting/Principal of Cressy District High School for week 10 of term 1 and for all of term 2. I look forward to returning to Launceston Big Picture School at the start of term 3. I will share with you all, my replacement, when confirmed.  

Thank you for your continued support of me and our school in general and I wish all families a safe and happy term break and I look forward to seeing everyone in term 3.

Adrian Dean
Principal

Heart Dissection!

Students learning the art of heart dissection!

Small Engines

Cylas had a keen interest in small engines. He is currently learning about the internal workings of a chainsaw- fantastic authentic learning!!

10A Advisory

Congratulations to Charli Hindrum and Connor Harvey for being elected as our Advisory Representatives.  I am sure they will work hard to develop their leadership and organisation skills and to represent student ideas as best they can.

All students are working hard preparing for Exhibitions next week.  It is great to see their projects coming together and we are looking forward to the exhibitions.

Some students have organised LTI (Learning Through Internship) opportunities and these students are:  Genevieve Marshall, Josh Steer, Ally Pryke, Charli Hindrum and Zach Kerrison.  Thank you to the parents who have suggested LTI opportunities and all the work Mel Van Asperen is doing to arrange for all of our students to go out.

Please note that if your child has to stay home for Covid reasons they can be marked as ‘Present-working from home’ only if they engage with their work and check in with their Advisor on a regular basis. 

Scott Davenport
10A Advisory Teacher 

Helicopter Experience

On the Tuesday 22/03/22 students from LBPS went to Helicopter Resources to learn more about their interest in aviation. Students toured the hangar facilities, where they house the 5 helicopters - , two ex-army bell 204, two bell 47, one of which was in the hit tv show ‘skippy the bush kangaroo’, and their main helicopter the Airbus H125. Hoey, our main guide, gave instruction on how each of the 3 different models operate, with different engines, controls and gauges for each. Students were then able to sit inside of the helicopters and get a feel for what flying one might be like……. one day.  

Dan Smith
Year 11 Advisory Teacher

Grade 9B Advisory

During week 6 Grade 9 students all made a video reflection of where they are up to with their work. Here is Aria’s video.

Bobs Writing Group

A few weeks ago, Bob asked us to do a writing activity. It was a writing duel. We were grouped up into pairs or trios and given instructions. Each of us would write one sentence and take turns doing so. Our goal: to disrupt whatever stories the others were trying to tell. And that led to these amalgamations being created. I hope you don’t like continuity, or for things to make sense. Because in these stories, nothing makes sense.

The pinecone fell from the tree with a thud. Later that day chasing its prey the deer trampled over the pinecone fracturing it into small shards. The shards got stuck to the bottom of its hooves, a little girl saw the deer run past. But she ignored it and decided to spend the rest of her day baking delicious bread. Obviously, she needed pinecones for the bread for it was a special pinecone bread recipe. As she reached for the pinecone the great pinecone spirit died, causing all the pinecones in the land to disintegrate. “Crap” she exclaimed “this was my best chance for an epic adventure”. A voice shined down from the stars “don’t worry young girl you may continue your adventure… in the afterlife”. “Uh, ok”. She was then structed dead.

With a start she woke up, “what a horrible dream I had”, she thought to herself. But then she remembered it was her best friend’s birthday today! So, she went out and got her friend a happy meal for her birthday. She then realised that she needed another present! Her friend loved dogs, so she went to the pet shop. But before she was able the enter the pet shop a giant gruff man blocked her way “Yo broski give me your food or feel my wrath!” Thinking quickly, she slipped under his legs due to the fact that she was very small and agile. But soon she faced another problem for the local gamer boy challenged her to a battle of Minecraft, the first one to slay the other wins. Luckily, she was unnaturally good at Minecraft and won the battle immediately. And finally, after many trials, there in front of her was the pet shop! As she entered the pet shop a bomb was set off inside and everything exploded leaving only one soul surviving guinea pig. And her, for she was wearing an explosion proof vest. She then liquified the guinea pig and magically turned it into a dog. “Woof woof” the dog exclaimed as he proceeded to sprint out the door to search for his true love. She put on her three-league boots and easily caught it. A local police officer saw this happen and decided to fine the girl for animal abuse and steal the dog for his secret genetic experiments that were previously used on a VERY familiar guinea pig. Meanwhile the girl reached her friends party. It turned out it was a very special party because this was not a party celebrating her friends birthday but the party celebrating the birthday of the great pinecone destroying deer of which she dreamed of.

On the other side of the world a monkey salted its piece of pineapple. Sadly, the monkey did not know that today was the start of the apocalypse. A few minutes later the world imploded with a popping noise that sounded like a metaphorical trumpet. The trigger of this great apocalypse was the birthday party, this is due to the great butterfly effect which meant that the soul survivor of this apocalypse was the Minecraft gamer boy who now lives on Mars. So we conclude that this apocalypse with the most irrational information and is somehow related to the super cool most played computer game made a few years later. Just keep in mind there was only one person who actually played it.

Now two centuries later the gamer’s alien offspring conquered the great vast land of mars and started developing The Simulation. When they were making The Simulation, they bumped into a fire breathing dragon that ate them. Sadly, their work was never finished. While inside the dragons stomach they came up with the idea to make The Simulation 2 and were determined to break out of the dragon, they did this by running around in the dragons stomach so much that the dragon fell ill and threw them up. They had just finished celebrating this amazing feat when a meteorite obliviated them and half of mars. But the remaining work of the abandoned Simulation lived on so one boy 50 years later found it and decided to create his own game called Minecraft. He first made cheese sandwiches. Then he finished the game, resetting the timeline and returning to the beginning of the universe. Though he had forgotten about all the dinosaurs roaming around back then. But it was all okay because he got executed because he defied the laws of space time. But his game lived on. And was rediscovered a millennia later for all to enjoy. The End

Written by Aria Van Mourik & Riley Casburn
Grade 9B

Hugo was never much for Mexican food, but today, he felt like he needed some spice in his life. Unfortunately, he is a bland person, so he only jumped out of a jet.However, jumping out of a jet would not let him escape the apocalypse.

He knew the only thing that could save him, is landing right through the roof of the Mexican food restaurant. And then detonating the whole place with copious amounts of explosives, allowing him to tear a hole in reality and travel back to the Jurassic era. Wait, didn’t all the dinosaurs go extinct? Surely this wouldn’t be the best way of escaping the inevitable.

However, he knew he could save himself, if he went to space to eat the giant Mexican meatball before it wiped the world clean. But the moon god had a different plan. If Hugo would go to 18th century Britain and assassinate a child, he would let him live freely. The mexican food could wait, it was time to commit arson and other various war crimes.But first, he had to eat the 18th century british Mexican food child, as requested by the moon god.

Suddenly, he became violently atheist and adopted Darwin’s theory of evolution, instantly creating dinosaur people as a byproduct. Thanks to the butterfly effect and other various time travel stuff, Hugo himself was now a dinosaur person. A dinosaur person with Mexican food for arms, and as there was no other food around, he had no other choice. But to disassemble himself and to upload his consciousness to the supercomputer that was hiding in the moon to avoid the notice of an interplanetary tyrannical empire.

An empire responsible for creating Hugo’s greatest enemy, Italian food To temporarily get his mind off of his greatest enemy, he decided to go into a digital coma that was actually a simulated version of a Mexican food restaurant.

A projection of his ancestor, Aeneus, one of the founders of Rome speaks to him, telling him to recreate the empire in space. To do this he would need the help of one man, an old friend of his, Moth man. He projected his consciousness into a small dog in Moth Man’s general area (somewhere in modern day Mexico) to find and help him retrieve his golden Mexican food.

But that could wait, as he had to sacrifice digital Romulus and Remus to the planet Jupiter, creating the city of digital Rome in the centre of a black hole. This was going to be a treacherous task. Now, the bees were coming.

Coming to create giant walls of Mexican food, which blocked Jupiter, which could only be destroyed if eaten by a small dog. Luckily, this could be easily ignored in favour of a century of practising Taoism.

They are approaching.

Approaching the golden Mexican food, so close to them that it wouldn’t hurt to stop by and eat it all before rebuilding digi-Rome.

“Ok Grandma, time to go to bed,” he says as he picks up the old lady telling the other sides of the story and throws her into the sun.

Then grandma walked up behind him, confused. That wasn’t grandma he threw into the sun.

It was a food god, that came down from the sun, and spoke, “you will now be force-fed Mexican food as punishment, both of you!”

“I’ll throw a thousand more Grandmas into the sun before I eat Mexican food!” He declares, throwing another Grandma into the sun. Grandma after grandma was flung directly into the sun, blotting it out completely and casting the world into darkness.

“Alright, I’ve thrown a thousand grandmas into the sun.  I am ready!”

An unearthly roar echoes through the vastness of space as Grandma causes a supernova, taking the power for herself and eliminating all other food in the universe apart from freshly baked cookies. Truly, this was the best timeline. Mexican food wasn’t worth it. However, Hugo was not satisfied, so he came out of grandma’s crazy story, took a cookie, used his digi-kenesis to turn it into Mexican food, and ate it.  He ate Mexican food.

Grandma plunged her fist into Hugo’s chest, ripping out the Mexican food and removing the heresy from existence, before flinging him into the cosmic timeout corner. And there he sat for the next 1000 eons, eternally being called a little baby man by the large space hand that watched it all and was so very concerned for Hugo’s well being.

As Hugo eternally ate Mexican food for every single second of that thousand eons. Each time he attempted to eat Mexican food, his limbs would shatter and the food confiscated by an omnipotent being only known as “the Grandma”, never allowing him to eat Mexican food. This must be hell, but apparently it wasn’t, even Satan himself was getting weirded out by these punishments.

And so, Satan pushed the universe aside, lifted Hugo into a pocket dimension, and offered him the finest demonic Mexican food Satan could offer. That was until a space hobo on crack barged into hell and preemptively removed their organs before disappearing into the night, to gorge himself on the blood of Satan.

At this point, there wasn’t anything left of Hugo except for his spleen. So he rebuilt himself into a Mexican-food eating lobster, which required Mexican food in order to build his digital Roman Lobster empire on top of the terrible intergalactic Grandmas. Fueled by the long rotting corpses of the Grandmas that came before it, “the Grandma” awoke from its slumber as Hugo reincarnated. Finding this offence unacceptable, it removed his oesophagus.

“Okay grandpa, time to take your meds” Hugo’s granson spoke softly as he led Hugo back to bed.

Hugo tucked up in his bird’s nest in the centre of the solid marble pocket dimension next to the giant Pepsi can of light energy, and dreamt of Mexican food, and strange octopi with pretzels for legs.

As the distant sounds of Pepsi man grow ever closer, a feeling of pure dread cements itself in his soul as time begins to distort and tear.

He is coming.

Coming to force feed Pepsi and Mexican food to Hugo, until he died of terminal cancer.

Pepsi man pries open the fabric of reality, grabbing Hugo by the throat and shoving a fully intact pepsi can into his throat, sealing it in place with pepsi glue™ before shoving him into a second pepsi can and striking a menacing pose.

And that kids is how Pepsi was created!

“That was a terrible origin story for Pepsi, you should just tell us the true story, industrial revolution and all!”  The smartass kid said with an annoying tone to the Pepsi employee. The employee grabs the child by the throat and brings him out the back, where he stuffs him into the suit of an inanimate pepsi man, to spend the rest of eternity in torment.

Written by Emily Blair Grade 10A
Brayden Cunningham & Fenix Jaitong Grade 11

There once was a wizard who was also a lizard. The witch lay an urn on her head. They became good friends and wanted to pick flowers. She looked very funny with her pot. A pothead you might say. The wizard lizard became judgmental of how the witch looked and rifts in their friendship began.

The witch left her home in pursuit of milk, so she trailed off to Walmart. On her way to Walmart, she was ambushed by milk loving people who didn’t want her to drink. She took out her pot from her head and then proceeded to beat them with it. She was filled with a fiery rage directed at those who were in between her and her milk. Our witch had lay people dead on the floor.

Then she took off again for her milk. As she travelled to Walmart, she became lost in a dark forest, she heard a low growl of a foul beast. She did not give a flying duck though, she burnt the entire thing down. She fled the fire but on her way, she saw small children who had witnessed her crime and would undoubtedly tell authorities. She burned the children and stuffed their ashes in her pot.

Her craving of milk only grew as she watched the burning around her, she had also run out of matches that she used to light things on fire, she came across a firefighter who looked worried. She fed the ashes to him. Then beat him senseless with her pot. The fire fighter managed to escape her wrath by promising her that he could get milk for her, she hesitates for a second and he runs away, little does she know he worked for a terrible man who hated milk. Before the man could tell on her, she and her ways of being a karen reported his mis duties to the head of his department.

The man was instantly fired and his rage at the witch only grew, he must take matters into his own hands. The witch left the area in search of Walmart. However, she picked up a loaded Glock 19 in case of emergencies.

The fire fighter's name was Dwayne the muffin. Johnson predicted that the witch would arm herself, so he got himself a shotgun and decided to find Walmart and drink all the milk before she got there. Unfortunately for our heroic firefighter. This witch loved muffins, she had turned him into a muffin. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO” yelled the muffin “I would taste delicious eaten with milk”. Well, she never loved eating muffins, just squishing them. She took out her glock and shot it. The witch was filled with joy as she looked upon what was the muffin and the muffin’s ghost looked with rage as he ascended to heaven.

She spotted a glimpse of Walmart around the corner. Wowies, her milk was in eyesight. The witch watched as what could be called a miracle occurred, a bolt of lightning struck Walmart and a large fire began, she entered the burning building determined to find her milk.

She had a flashback of why she was truly there, it wasn't for jugged milk. She wanted it straight from the cow. Right outside the burning Walmart there was a cow farm but at the sight of fire the cows had grown scared and had run away. She grabbed one before it would escape and took it home. From there it was milked and placed into the garage. As the witch looked upon the milk a thought occurred: why? She needed goat's milk. Not cows milk, into the flower pot it goes.

Written by Andre Santamaria & Orlando Hagan
Grade 10A

Bridport Beach day

On Friday March 11th, Launceston big Picture School headed to Bridport for a whirlwind of sand, snags, surf and sunshine. The day was organised by Ocean's 12 as an Advisory Project and we were pleased to have about 95% of the school present for Flags, Fishing, Volleyball, Swimming, surfing and sandcastle building. Although the waves were minimal and the tide was out, many got their 'surfer dude' on with boards provided by the Bridport Life Saving Club. The day was enjoyed by all and could not have been possible without the support of the Bridport Lifesaving Club and our lifesavers Chloe and Ned Hawkins and Georgia Hall Also special thanks to Kath hawkins for helping us source our life guards!

 Ocean's 12
(Photos by Tom, Taya and ben)

10B Advisory project - Games and STEM activities

Games and STEM activities provide excellent opportunities for students to socialise and learn. Our school has a range of board games, card games, strategy games and STEM activities, which provide hands-on, social opportunities for students to learn, grow and connect.

10B Advisory (aka Table Failure) have taken on the task of organising the resources in the school and this became a good opportunity for an Advisory Project. We have worked as a team to plan the project and recognise potential learning that we can do through it. Students have created a detailed inventory of resources in the school using Excel and catalogued those in good condition so they can be used immediately.

They have surveyed students and staff in the school to find out people’s preferences, evaluations and ideas. They have then analysed survey results to organise the games and create a shopping list. Our goal is that by the end of term our school will have a wide range of learning activities and games that appeal to all students and provide rich learning opportunities, and are arranged in a common area to be accessed for Active Learning.

Jenni Fraser
10B Advisory Teacher 

Blake Gelston Grade 12

Not all of our grade 12 students are planning and working on theoretical senior projects! Blake has big plans to restore his family’s trailer to its former glory!!

Cooking Group

Every Wednesday the kitchen fills with an amazing aroma of delicious smells made by fantastic chefs creating elaborate baked goods and savoury meals. As well as making a wide range of foods, we learn many different techniques and skills. These include:

• Different knife techniques
• Different flavour types and combinations
• How long it takes to cook things
• The different techniques when cooking certain things
• How to make things look better when presenting them on a plate

We also like improving on recipes to make them even better than before and trying again when something doesn’t go to plan, (for example) adding more ingredients, changing a step, replacing an ingredient with something else.

Cooking is all about exploring, learning, creating, and most of all having fun.

Izzy Schuppe
Grade 9-10

Prabhat Neupane from Tasmandu

Friday 25th March, we had chef Prabhat Neupane from Tasmandu come into an active learning cooking class. He taught the students to make MO MO's. It is a Nepal dish. 

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:

• JORGA  WALTERS: Respect - for being respectable to others.

• IZZY SHUPPE: Aspiration, Courage, Respect, Growth - for being amazing and a good friend.

• NATHANIEL GOSS-WEBB: Courage - organising an informational interview with representatives from the fire brigade.

• AMBER HARTLAND: Aspiration, Courage - excellent initiative to focus on learning and project development.

• WILBUR McTAGGART-WILLIAMS: Aspiration - focussing heaveily on goals and consistently trying new things.

• DUSK STEVENS: Growth - amazing attendance improvement
  • 16% in 2021
  • 100% in 2022

We have successfully raised over $500 so far, and we need your help to reach our target.

All money raised goes towards beating blood cancer.

On Friday 18^th March we hosted a ‘Dress Up / Dress Down’ day.

We had donations from Cindefella, an Army soldier and plenty of Onesies/Pyjamas patrons.

Funky hair styles were also noted around the school.

We raised $125 towards our fund. Thank you to everyone who donated coins (and a few notes!)

Students are encouraged to join up:

They will receive their own webpage which they can share for sponsorship.

Collect parental permission forms (U18) from Advisory 9A.

General donations to the school team can be provided here:

We welcome business donations, and you can state your business name on our donation page.

We’re so excited for the big day on Wed 13 April.

Save your gold coins… there will be snacks and some stalls on the day.

Exhibitions Commence

• Monday, 4th April 2022

Term 1: Start and End Dates

• Wednesday, 9th February 2022 - Thursday 14th April 2022

FREE BUS TRAVEL

Does your child catch the bus?

If not, perhaps now is the time to try as it will be free for the next 5 weeks!

Travel is free on all public and school buses from Monday, 28 March to Saturday, 30 April 2022.

This five-week fare free period is intended to encourage more people to try the bus and help family budgets.

For more information, schools, families, and students can talk to their bus driver, visit www.transport.tas.gov.au/public_transport or call 6166 3343 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm weekdays).

World's Greatest Shave

On Wednesday 13 April, LBPS will be participating in the World’s Greatest Shave.

We are attempting to raise $3000 to further life‑saving research and support families facing blood cancer.

There are two ways you can help.

1. Participate!

We would love as many students and teachers to be involved in fundraising.

You can shave, cut or colour your hair for the cause.

A parent permission form is required for students under 18 years old. See attached form or grab one from the school office, fill in and return.

To sign up to participate, please go here:

Participate in The World's Greatest Shave

2. Sponsor/Donate

We ask the community to please donate by going to:

Donate to The World's Greatest Shave

Please share the link on your social media profiles, and share with friends and family to help our cause.

Every little helps! So please spread the word.

Thank you, from Advisory 9A

Some interesting Autism workshops that you may  be interested in.

Autism Workshops

Bob's Bikes For Sale! 

Our School is very proud of our Bob’s Bikes program which is led and coordinated by Bob and Shirley Blackman.

The amount of money raised and appeals supported is simply amazing.

Tamar Valley Writers Festival

Facebook Posts 

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.

Updating Student Medical Details

We are committed to ensuring that our information with regard to managing the wellbeing of our students is always accurate and updated.  

If your son/daughter:

-has a medical need and would benefit from being supported by a medical action plan (MAP)

-currently has a Medical Action Plan at school but has had recent health changes and would benefit from their plan being adjusted and updated

-requires the support of medication during the school day

-has any other medical or mental health needs (new or needing to be updated)

We ask that you please complete the relevant attached form and return to our office ASAP.

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

Local Transport Services

Student Leaders 2022

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Our Newsletter

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If are involved in a community organisation and would like to advertise in our newsletter, please contact our office. Where possible, we will be happy to assist.

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