Welcome to the second article for Grade 7. We are pleased with students’ progress so far and the way they have settled into routine. There are lots of exciting events coming up so have a look at the upcoming events section. We would also like to welcome back Mrs Hume who has returned from her honeymoon. We hope she has had a great first week back!

Celebrations

In Grade 7 we love to celebrate student achievement both inside and outside of school. We would like to encourage all students and families to contact their class teacher to share their successes without grade.

Congratulations to:

• Jonte Groves 7C who represented the Launceston Touch Association at the state cup last weekend.  
• Toby Harrop 7F who last weekend participated in the National Skills Acquisition Festival in Devonport for Soccer

We also had a number of student successes through Little Athletics in both state and centre championships

• Caitlin Lyons - Javelin, High Jump, 200 (PB)
• Lucy Smith - 800m (bronze), High Jump, Javelin, 200m, 70m
• Lucas Freestone - Field Relay Hobart (Silver-State Champs), Javelin 2^nd, High Jump (PB)
• Lochie Harris - Javelin (Gold), 200m, 70m (Gold), High jump (Gold), 800m (Silver)
• Riley Harris - Relays 4 gold Hobart State Champs, 70m (Silver), 200m (Silver), High Jump (Second), Javelin (PB-Bronze)

Grade Focus

Our Grade focus for the first part of Term 1 is students knowing and following our ROCKS expectations.

ROCKS stands for:

R - Respect, ourselves, each other and our environment

O - Organisation

C - Commitment to learning

K - Keeping Safe

S - Sensible Behaviour

Our current focus is following the ROCKS at break times, in particular the common room and canteen spaces. Where there are a large number of students in areas around the school we are focusing on being safe and respecting our beautiful learning environments