This term in ECE music the children have been developing  their sense of beat, reading rhythms, and learning about pitch and tempo. 

We've been practicing our ukulele skills, exploring the keyboards and creating our own compositions on the laptops.

The lunch time choir are sounding wonderful and we are hoping to see you at the Lilydale Christmas Carols this year. The kinder, prep and grade 1/2 students will also be busy rehearsing in Music and Drama in coming weeks to prepare a special song for the evening.

In 1-2 Art students have recently looked at collage art. We looked at some famous examples and then created our own using a range of different range of textures, patterns, shapes and colours. Here are the examples of the students work.

This term in Science, Year 3-4C students have been exploring the fascinating world of living and non-living things, with a focus on life cycles! They have learnt about how living things grow, change, and how these life cycles differ among animals and plants. Students have observed caterpillars transforming into butterflies, seeds sprouting into plants, and the care that mammals provide to their young. Students have also been identifying non-living things in the environment and understanding how they interact with living organisms.

It’s fantastic for their curiosity to grow as they have learnt how living and non-living things interact in the world around us!

On Tuesday, 29October, we held our annual 3-10 Swimming Carnival at the Scottsdale Aquatic Centre. Similar to last year, the carnival was split into two sessions, primary students in the morning, and high school students in the afternoon.

The weather conditions were perfect for a great day of racing, participating in novelty events and cheering each other on. The events that took place were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, sea horse race, cork scramble and the cannon bomb competition.

The day started in an extremely positive manner, as our primary students were making a splash, racing in the sea horse race, and diving to the bottom of the pool to retrieve points for their house. As the day was much about participation there was a significant amount of competition, which was evident in the competitive races across all year levels.

As the day progressed, it was time for the high school carnival to begin. Students arrived with a ‘can do’ attitude, and plenty of house spirit. The addition of the cannon bomb competition for the high school students was a huge hit, as they made a mark with several huge splashes.

Overall, both students and staff had a great day building connections and participating in activities away from the classroom.

At the conclusion of the day, Corinna were crowned Swimming Champions, totalling 429 points, which was followed by Maralinga on 418 points.

Students will receive their ribbons in the sector assembly. Below are the Swimming Carnival Champions for 2024.

Through the generosity of Jenny and Brian Baxter and Landcare Tasmania, Year 5 & 6 students recently had a day excursion to the Baxter’s Pipers River farm, Greenside.

The excursion’s focus was ‘Healthy Farms’. In small groups, we explored four different stations that each had a particular focus such as flora and fauna, insects, soil and nature journalling. Brian also showed us the biggest compost pile we had ever seen and explained how they make biochar to use to fertilise their paddocks.

With binoculars we were able to start identifying the local bird species and with hand lens we had close encounters with insects. On Thursday, the Year 6’s were even lucky enough to see a pair of falcons locking talons as they fought over territory or mates. Down by the riparian zone, we worked with Bennie on soil testing. We dug holes to identify the quality of the soil and investigated mineral contents such as potassium and pH.

We began to realise that it isn’t just great grass and healthy farm animals that make healthy farms, but also the creation of vibrant riparian zones full of bugs, birds and other beasties. Equally important are soils made up of a good balance of minerals, nutrients and organic matter.

A favourite site for everyone to absorb their surroundings, was on the hill overlooking the farm. On big sheets of paper and card, the students responded to the landscape noticing details that appear when you have the time to really look at things.

It was two very full and enjoyable days that were made possible by a team effort of Lilydale District Staff and completely justified by all students being their best, curiosity-filled selves.

Gillian Marsden - Food and Fibre Teacher

Lilydale District School had a visit from Ditto the Lion and the Bravehearts team last week. Bravehearts’ Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure Show teaches young children essential personal safety skills using age-appropriate language, song, and dance. Students from kinder from year 2 had a wonderful time learning about protective behaviours and singing along with Ditto.

On Thursday, 12 December Year 10 students are invited to attend their Celebration Dinner at the Boathouse, Invermay. The cost of the dinner is $50 which students are required to pay to the office or through the QKR app by December 1. They will receive another letter at the end of this week detailing more information for the dinner.

On Friday, 13 December Year 10 students and their family are invited to attend a big Breakfast catered by the school between 8:30am – 9:30am. The Year 9 students are also invited to attend the breakfast. Year 10 students will then leave for their mystery bus trip after 10:00am.

High School – Student of the Week

Every week all staff, Student Leaders and the wider community have the opportunity to nominate a high school student as a ‘Lilydale Legend’. These nominations acknowledge when another person has noticed the student demonstrating our school values of being safe, respectful and learning. If a student is nominated by multiple people their name will appear twice. Lilydale Legends for the week will get recognised in our high school assembly and receive a certificate. Congratulations to the Lilydale Legends for Week 3 & 4 - Term 4.

Week 3

Congratulations to the Lilydale ‘Mini Legends’ winners over the last few weeks! These students were drawn from a pool of Lilydale students who received a raffle ticket for demonstrating safe, respectful behaviour. Well done to all the winners and to everyone who received a raffle ticket and were able to have a lemonade and paddle pop with Mr Pearson on Friday afternoon.

Prep: Payton, Rylie, Pip, Isaac
1-2A: Angela, Dom, Elliot, Eli
1-2B: Cooper, Isobel, Jacob, Ash
3-4A: Flynn, Finley, Phoebe, Paige
3-4B: Darcy, Cooper, Harry, Samantha
3-4C: Alex M, Chloe, Alex G, Ryan
5-6A: Chaise, Frank
5-6B: Gwyneth, Bailey
5-6C: Maggie,Seth

Think UV. Not heat!

Schools back and that means hats back on and time to Slip on sun protective clothing, Slop on sunscreen, Slap on a sun safe hat, Seek shade and Slide on sunglasses whenever the UV is 3 and above. Remember to pack a hat and sunglasses and apply sunscreen before coming to school.

Let’s be Sun Safe for term 4 !!

Our School Association usually meets on the second Monday of each month in the Kinder space. Our next meeting will be on Monday, 2 December at 7:00pm. We would love to see more people at the meetings and invite you to attend.

If you need to get in contact with members of the School Association, please contact the school office on 6395 0100. Thank you.