We like parents to visit us before applying for the admission of their children.   Please contact the school office for an appointment.   We will arrange for a staff member to outline our philosophies and programmes, and walk you around the school.

We admit children according to vacancies and age.   In 2008 children born in 2003 are enrolled in Kindergarten, 2002 in Prep, 2001 in Grade 1 etc.

Proof of birth date is required for admission into Kindergarten. 

Applications for admission are available at the school office.

This service is provided by Malangenna.  One of their carers picks our children up between 2:45 and 3:00 each school day.

Malangenna is at 20 Valley Road and can be contacted on6424 4855.

We like parents and grandparents to attend our school assemblies.  Please ask for this term's times.

We are required to monitor attendance and late arrivals.

Please advise the school office by phone on the morning of absence.  Late arrivals and early departures need to sign in at the office.

Our behaviour management policy is based on "AT MIANDETTA WE CARE FOR EACH OTHER AND OUR WORLD AND WE HELP EVERYONE LEARN".

We expect all our children to accept responsibility for their attitudes and actions.

We actively promote and recognise appropriate behaviour and have a hierarchy of steps and defined consequences for inappropriate behaviour.

Your children should come to school after 8:30  and, unless involved in a supervised activity, leave between 2:45 and 3:00.

We have seven single bells to signal the beginning and end of lessons and breaks 9:00, 10:45, 11:00, 12:30, 12:45, 1:15 and 2:45.

Two bells are used to signify an inside day.

Continuous bells may be used for the emergency evacuation of buildings.

Students who complete a parent permission form are able to ride their bikes to school.  A bike rack is provided next to the car park.

Kindergarten children often want to ride our scooters, tricycles and bicycles in their outside programme.  They are required to bring and wear their helmet for this.

Your children's pencils, pens, rulers, erasers, books etc. will be supplied by the school office or their class teachers when you pay the composite levy we charge for each enrolled child.

At the beginning of the school year a base pack is issued.  During the year class teachers add to this and also replace pencils and pens as they wear out and books when they're full.

Damaged and lost materials are not replaced.

We have extensive buildings and grounds that are safe, comfortable and conducive to effective teaching and learning.

We have an action plan for the ongoing maintenance and development of our facilities.

We are serviced by

Mersey Link 6423 3231

Malangenna 6424 4855

We do not have a daily lunch service.  Most children bring a packed lunch and eat it under the supervision of a teacher 12:30 – 12:45.  A few go home for lunch at 12:30.

Our class groupings vary from year to year.

Each year we organize our classes according to the ratio of class teachers to enrolled children and the needs of each child.

We welcome parent input during the process on the understanding placement is the professional responsibility of the teaching staff.

When discussing and finalising your children's classes the teachers will consider such things as your views, each child's needs (eg friendships, relationships with other children, physical development, social skills, literacy and numeracy levels) and equity issues.

We are a government primary school.

We service the south side of the Bass Highway. This includes the residential areas Miandetta, Ambleside and Panorama Heights.

Services are provided through the Community Health Centre in Steele Street. Phone 6421 7729

We regularly practice the emergency evacuation of our buildings.

We teach the children to respond to the emergency evacuation signal by stopping where they are then walking to the centre of the oval via an approved route.

We have three emergency evacuation signals - continuous bells on the public address system, continuous blasts on a whistle and continuous beeps on the fire alarm system.

Excursion details are published in our Tuesday newsletter.

The costs of day excursions are covered by the composite levy we charge for each enrolled child.   You will be asked to pay an all inclusive fee for any overnight excursions eg. $60 for three days at the Hagley School Farm.

We use the Universal Health and Safety Precautions.  A copy of these is available at the school office.

If your children are sick or injured here at school we will administer basic first aid, care for them and where appropriate contact you or call an ambulance.

Please ensure our data base with your children's personal information is always current.

Headlice, school sores, scabbies, conjunctivitis, measles, chicken pox etc. are contagious and infected staff, students and parents have to exclude themselves from the school during the transmissible period.

Your co-operation in this will be appreciated.

Homework is a professional decision of each class teacher.

We see  homework as an extension of our teaching and learning programmes and an opportunity to further develop quality teacher, child, parent partnerships.

We believe homework should be appropriate to the child and limited to half an hour's work a night or two hours per week.  It may include:

Homework should not preclude your children from important and valued out of school activities like music lessons, youth groups and sport.

Please contact your children's class teachers when they are unable to do set homework or experiencing difficulties.

The office is open each school day 8:30 – 3:30.

Children may come to school after 8:30.  Unless they are participating in a supervised activity, they must leave between 2:45 and 3:00.

Our lesson times are 9:00 – 10:45, 11:00 – 12:30, 1:15 – 2:45.

We have three houses, Woniora, Wareatea and Orion.  Your children will join their house for such things as the school athletic carnival and cross country races.

We do not have a special uniform for these events.  Most children wear the school sport uniform and some ribbons in their house colours.

Woniora is red, Wareatea green and Orion blue.

Kindergarten operates on two days per week.  In 2008, we are operating two Kinder groups; one Monday and Wednesday, and the other Tuesday and Thursday.

Both groups provide quality learning experiences for our four year olds.

Our lesson times are 9:00 – 10:45, 11:00 – 12:30 and 1:15 – 2:45.

We charge a composite levy for each enrolled child.  This helps to cover the cost of such things as children’s stationery, classroom requisites, reading books, spelling materials, mathematics games, science equipment, computer software and art supplies.  The levy also assists with photocopying, day excursions, swimming and water safety programmes and visiting performances.

Levies do not cover the cost of overnight excursions and out of school hours activities.

You may like to apply through the school office to the Student Assistance Scheme for help with your levies.  Forms are available at the office.

We value and teach listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing.  We believe all aspects of our school curriculum helps develop your children’s literacy skills.

We strongly recommend you clearly name all your children’s clothes, hats, shoes, pencils and pens, books etc.

There is a lost property box at the school office.

We do not have a daily lunch order service.  Most children bring a packed lunch and drink.   Our Parents and Friends Association organises and runs lunch days.  These are advertised through the school’s newsletter, and a menu is sent home at the beginning of term.

We administer medicine for children through the school office.

We are required to have two consent forms.  A parent consent form AND a doctor consent form.

If any of the arrangements change, new forms are needed.

Your co-operation will be greatly appreciated.

Class teachers use message books to communicate with parents.  They're also for you to write notes to the teacher.

A specialist teacher takes our classes for music once a week. 

Our weekly newsletter is sent home through the eldest enrolled child on Tuesdays.  The newsletter is also available through the web site or sent by email.  Please let us know your preference.

It is a very important link between the school and home.  We strongly recommend you read it.

We believe everything we do with patterns, numbers, space, money, time, temperature, data etc.  helps develop your children's numeracy skills.

Our office is open 8:30 to 3:30 school days.

The telephone number is 6424 4428.

In Term 3 we offer  parent child sessions for the children who will be attending our Kindergarten the following year.

These sessions provide the opportunity for next year's Kindergarten children and parents to get to know each other, the staff and the school buildings and grounds.

There is a cover charge of $2 per family per session.

The child must be accompanied by a parent, grandparent or carer.

We have an active Parents and Friends Association.  Its objective is to encourage parents and the community generally to support the school by promoting its philosophy, programmes and achievements, facilitating school get togethers and celebrations, providing services and raising funds for school projects.

The Association meets in the school at 7:30pm on the fourth Monday of each month.

Please become a member.

We value and actively encourage parent participation.

When you come to the school to work, please sign the volunteer help register at our office.

Please park in the parent car park on the left of the driveway as you enter the school grounds.

Please keep the personal information we have on your children current.

We need this information when they are sick or injured.

If we have to call an ambulance for one of your children a copy of her/his personal information will be given to the attending officers.

Our class teachers run a daily fitness and skills programme.

A specialist teacher takes our classes once a week.   She/he also takes swimming and water safety lessons.

We have an annual athletic carnival and cross country races and participate in events organised by the North West Primary Schools Sport Association.

We also have out of school hours sport thanks to the enthusiasm and commitment of voluntary coaches and managers.  Your help in this area will be welcomed and appreciated.

Miandetta Primary follows the Reporting Schedule as recommended by the Reporting to Parents Taskforce.

We teach the children to use Safety Houses when they feel insecure or threatened.

Safety Houses have been used by children who have been followed by cars, approached by people who made them feel uncomfortable, bullied on the way home from school, frightened by a dog and hurt.

We strongly recommend you ensure your children know where your neighbourhood Safety Houses are.  Homes display the sign on their letter boxes.  Businesses like shops have them in their windows.   THE SIGN IS NEVER USED IN A VEHICLE.

The School Association is the current staff and parents of Miandetta Primary School. It elects the Management Committee which is responsible for such things as the school's beliefs and values, policies and procedures and reviews and plans. The Management Committee may appoint sub committees for specific tasks.

A child health nurse regularly visits the school.  She/he systematically checks the children's eye sight, hearing and physical development.  She/he is available at other times through the Community Health Centre.  Phone 6421 7800

At the close of 2006, our school identified four main priority areas to focus on during 2007 and 2008.  These were:

• Improving student literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Building high level staff team performance and

• Establishing meaningful assessing, monitoring and reporting processes.

We are extremely pleased with our progress, particularly in the identified area of literacy, with 2007 data indicating improved results in Year 3 and Year 5 state-wide testing.

Most of our children transfer to Reece High School at the end of Grade 6.  Some go to Devonport High School and St. Brendan Shaw College.

If your children are sick or injured here at school we will administer basic first aid, care for them and where appropriate contact you or call an ambulance.

Please ensure your children's personal information is current.

We believe the development of your children's social skills is a shared responsibility.  We see you as their prime educator, that you set both the example and standards.   We build on what you teach.

We consider almost everything your children do at school involves and develops social skills.

We value and cultivate such things as self esteem, confidence, optimism, sense of responsibility, respect for other people, cultures and property and concern for the environment.  We foster a love of learning, commitment to personal best and pride in success.

We recognise and encourage desirable qualities like manners, honesty, punctuality, reliability, independence and team work.

Some of the foundation stones and structures we use are:

• At Miandetta

• Rights, Rules and Responsibilities

• Behaviour Management and Management of Inappropriate Behaviour

• Problem Solving

• Harassment Procedures

• Class Meetings

• Student Awards

• Program Achieve

We charge a composite levy for each enrolled child (Please refer to LEVIES).

You may like to apply through the school office to the Student Assistance Scheme for help with your levies.  Forms are available at the office.

The Student Assistance Scheme does not cover the cost of  overnight excursions and out of school hours programmes. You will be asked to meet these expenses.

We actively encourage commitment to personal best and formally recognise outstanding achievement and high level success through teacher and principal awards and Class Achievers

At the end of the year we present the following Grade 6 awards:

• High Endeavour

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• Citizenship

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• Participation in School Programs

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• Goss Family Encouragement

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• Minister for Education Pride in our School

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• NWPSSA Sportsperson

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• At Miandetta

We use the Commonwealth Bank's service.

Class teachers collect the children's deposit books at 9:00am on Thursdays and forward them to the school office for processing.  They are returned to the children via their class teachers.

The office has the forms to open an account.

An educational psychologist and social worker regularly visit the school.  We also have access to speech pathologists.

Sometimes these support staff meet with teachers and parents.  Sometimes they assess children. Often they work with the children.

Referral to these professionals is done in consultation with the parent through the Principal.

We are recognised as a sun-safe school. We expect our students to wear the school hat during first and third terms.

Our teachers are on duty from 8:30 to 3:00 each school day.  In the playground the children are supervised by duty teachers.  In their teaching and learning areas they are supervised by the class teacher or specialist teacher.

Children may come to school after 8:30.  Unless they are participating in a supervised activity, they must leave between 2:45 and 3:00.

Our telephone number is 6424 4428.

We have three terms and an Easter break.

We actively encourage the wearing of our three uniforms: Summer, Winter, Sport.

The school office has a brochure that describes each uniform or see our uniform page.

We teach and use these precautions.

The school office has a copy of them for you to read and reinforce at home.

Details are published in our Tuesday newsletter.

The costs are covered by the composite levy we charge for each enrolled child.

Our web site is located at

www.miandetta.tased.edu.au