Two AFL Holiday Programs Coming to the North West Coast!

Get ready for an unforgettable experience with TWO exciting events coming to our community! Whether you're a first-timer or an AFL pro, there's something for everyone. 

1️⃣ All-Girls AFL Holiday Program (April 14th)

• A fun-filled day just for primary girls!
• Ulverstone Football Club | ? 9am - 3pm
• Team banners, friendship bracelets, Easter fun, and more!
• Female coaches guiding the action!

2️⃣ Club VS Club Mini Series (April 15th)
Ready to compete with your club?

• Ulverstone Football Club | ? 9am - 3pm
• Split by age/skill level
• Mini interclub matches
• AFL Draft Testing, AFL Tas expert coaching!
• Grades 2-6

Join Us at CommUNIty Fest 2025! ?

From 3-13 April 2025, the University of Tasmania is hosting CommUNIty Fest at the Cradle Coast campus in Pataway/Burnie. This 11-day FREE program offers a diverse range of cultural, interactive, and educational activities designed to spark curiosity and celebrate learning.

Event Highlights

• An Evening with Samantha Harvey ?: Join the Booker Prize-winning author on Thursday, 3 April, from 7:00pm - 8:15pm in Room 238, as she discusses her novel “Orbital” and engages in a conversation about global challenges.
• Eats, Beats, and Savvy Sessions ??: On Wednesday, 9 April, indulge in food vans, live music, dance classes, and the opportunity to learn some useful tips and skills. It’s a perfect blend of entertainment and education for all ages.
• Island of Ideas Talk – Is Laughter the Best Medicine? ?: On Thursday 10 April. Can Laughter heal? Explore the surprising impacts of humour on health in this unique mix of comedy and expert insights.

• Questacon: Fascinating Science Exhibition : for schools and families, experience the world of science with the full set of activities at The Makers Technology and Innovation Hub in Burnie.

These events are just a glimpse of the exciting activities planned. To explore the full program and secure your spot, visit the commUNIty Fest.  website. Registrations are essential to ensure you don’t miss out. 

Upcoming Events

2025 Term Dates

As always we have had an incredibly busy few weeks at East Devonport Primary School, with so many amazing opportunities for our students.
We have had our year 6 girls attend an International Women’s Day function whilst our boys spent time with Mr Lindsay doing a range of sports-based activities.

We also have had a group of year 5 girls being involved in a resilience and confidence building program with the PCYC and Mrs Piper. This program is running for the rest of term and then again later in the year. We thank the PCYC for all their support.

Our Rotary readers program is up and happening again this year. We now have over 10 Rotary Volunteers working with our children in our literacy block. This support allows over 20 students each week to be involved in the program. Again, a huge thanks to Rotary for their support of this program.

Over the last 2 weeks we have had our own athletics’ carnival, which was a great success. It was a fantastic to see so many of our students out there doing their very best. A huge thanks to Miss Sharman for organising the day, especially all the fun sporting activities that our students participated in. Congratulations to those students who got to participate in the interschools carnival at Penguin last week. It was pleasing to hear that our students were excellent in all aspects of the carnival, participating, working hard and behaviour. Once again well done.

 

Our ‘Hands on Learning’ program will start next week. We were overwhelmed with how many students applied to be involved, 22 students will begin next week. I know that Mrs Haywood and Matt Willis are very excited to be starting the program. The renovations to the classroom/shed and the outdoor learning area are now completed with a leanto installed to support the outdoor learning program. We are ready to go and look forward to sharing all the great work our students produce in following newsletters.

Our student council executive will be attending a leadership program with over 30 other schools this Thursday, to learn about what makes an impactful leader in schools. Mr Perry and Miss Andrews will accompany the students and we look forward to hearing and seeing all the learning that happens on the day put into action at our school.

We have our Year 2 camp next week and Mrs Marcus and the team are busily preparing a very exciting 2 days for the students. These events are an amazing opportunity for our students, and I thank all the staff who are volunteering to stay overnight and going the extra mile to allow our students to experience this amazing opportunity.

We have held a leadership assembly this year to recognise our student leaders, both our SRC and SRC executive, these are very prestigious positions within our school.

Next week we will recognise our sports leaders at a special assembly on Tuesday 18th March at 10.30 am. This has meant our 1st celebration assembly for the year will now be held on Monday March 31st at 10.30. We love to see parent involvement in this assemblies. We hope to see you there.

Our year 3 and 5 students this week will be involved in NAPLAN testing. We have been working hard to get organised for this time, we know all our students will do their best.

Our 2025 Bright Eyes Scholarship recipient Kessendra attended the International Women's Day Talk sponsered by the Soroptimist International of Devonport last week. 

This is just a small example of all the amazing things that happen at East Devonport Primary School. It certainly is a very busy place to be!!

EASTER RAFFLE

East Devonport Primary School will be holding an Easter Raffle again this year.

We are inviting families to help by donating an egg, bunny or any other easter item, to help make up the prizes.  These donations can be left at the main office prior to the drawing of the raffle. Your contribution will be greatly appreciated.

Tickets will be $1 each or 3 for $5 and will be available at the office from Wednesday 5^th March until the drawing of the prizes on Thursday 17^th April.