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The Cottage School

Locality: Bellerive, Tasmania, Australia

Phone: +61 3 6244 3556

Address: 4-10 Queen Street 7018 Bellerive, TAS, Australia

Website: http://cottageschool.tas.edu.au/

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24.01.2022 Our Kinder students have enjoyed working from home during the last week. Here are some of the things they have shared with their teacher Steph.

23.01.2022 Welcome back to school everyone! Week one done and dusted

22.01.2022 The Middlies 1/2 explored biology last term and have learnt about the incredible and precious diversity in our old growth forests. This collaboratively created, old growth eucalypt art supports thousands of species. The kids and Lee have thoroughly enjoyed pondering the life of, in and around trees, and the incredible diversity of life in the soil beneath our feet.

22.01.2022 The Middlies 1/2 class are exploring plants in Science this term. They drew their favourite tree and wrote about it after their National Tree Day excursion.

21.01.2022 Even during these wintery days the students still go on their regular Environment Days. The Kinders weren't deterred by the rain, snow and wind today and they headed off to 5 Mile Beach this morning to find a sheltered spot for exploring. Last week the Middlies 1/2 class spent time at the River Street end of Bellerive Beach tending to plants they had planted last year.

21.01.2022 The Cottage School will be closing its campus effective Thursday 26 March, 2020 in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic. With the current COVID-19 situation in Tasmania and everything that we have learned about the importance of ‘flattening the infection curve’ we believe we should act decisively as a school to minimise the spread of the disease in our school and the wider community. While we are doing as much as possible to implement current health guidelines around the spread of ...this disease it is proving increasingly difficult to implement as effectively as we think necessary. Children simply don’t do social distancing well! We will be providing individual learning support to each of our students while they learn at home in the most effective way possible for that child. We will also be distributing information to parents about how to make this extra time with children as valuable as possible from a learning perspective.

20.01.2022 Our students are so lucky to experience dedicated poetry lessons each week. We're excited to share some of the poems written by the Biggies (grade 5/6) with you - currently on display at the Rosny Library.

20.01.2022 Our Plant Fair is only a week away! Heaps of plants, so many tomatoes, we're looking forward to seeing you! Apologies our sheep manure is sold out already.

19.01.2022 At last a Kinder Environment Day! We climbed trees, found native orchids and fungi and built cubbies.

17.01.2022 Looking forward to seeing everyone back at school on Tuesday. Here's a sneak peak at our playground development happening near the green space. Still a way to go but once finished, it will be a fabulous play space.

16.01.2022 The Cottage School in yesterday's Mercury, featuring Georgia and Amy. All staff have been very hard at work in the background making sure that our students are well equipped and ready to go for a very different start to the term. Enjoy the first week of Term 2 everyone - you've got this!

15.01.2022 National Tree Day provided a fantastic excuse to get out and combine some tree planting with plein air painting. Our Biggies class recently planted natives and tended older trees (planted by them in previous years) on the headland at Cremorne. Afterwards some watercolour landscapes completed a lovely day out.

15.01.2022 Nice to see the school featured in this month's Eastern Shore Sun with a story about our new playground equipment.

13.01.2022 The Cottage School Plant Fair - Sat 7 Nov 2020 - 9am-12noon on our school grounds at 6-10 Queen St Bellerive. 100s of plants available - herbs, tomatoes, natives, flowering plants, indoor plants, fruit trees plus more. And to give those plants a good start don't forget sheep manure is available too! Cash and cashless payments accepted.... We are excited to be able to share this great outdoor event with the community as (due to Covid) our usual school fair unfortunately can't go ahead this year.

12.01.2022 It's that time of year - what to do with those GIANT ZUCCHINIS! An idea from one of our Biggies is to use them to hold down your science project on a windy day. Any other tips and ideas gratefully received as there may be, ahem, more giants lurking... #cottageschoolbellerive #thecottageschoolbellerive

12.01.2022 During Autumn and our home learning time the Middlies 1/2 class learnt more about deciduous trees. The children hunted and found beautiful collections of leaves from deciduous trees in their local area. They were asked to sketch their leaf then to create an embroidery of this leaf using an autumnal colour palette. This took many hours and most leaves were completed at school during Art and Choosing lessons. Here are the final pieces of work. Aren't they stunning?

12.01.2022 Don't forget to call in to the Rosny Library to check out our fabulous display of the students' artwork. IT'S AMAZING!!

10.01.2022 The Kinder class have been exploring Communities. For Choosing yesterday they built a massive community made from many things; lots of them hand made. Much fun was had by all!

10.01.2022 Our Prep group had a fabulous Environment Day at Mortimer Bay yesterday. Here they are trying to keep their feet dry - or not!!

10.01.2022 #cottageschoolbellerive #thecottageschoolbellerive

10.01.2022 Last week the 5/6 Biggies completed their term's work around Colonisation and the establishment of Hobart Town. An earlier trip to the Hobart Female Factory and a sail up the Derwent on the replica ship The Lady Nelson, helped to build our understanding, as did the generous assistance of historian, Robyn Everist. The children researched the lives of individuals from the period; from convicts to free settlers, from the notorious Ikey Solomon to Lieutenant Governor David Collins, and created models and dioramas depicting them and their surroundings. We invited the rest of the school along to see our work and hear our stories. Our investigations culminated in a 'Colonial Quest' through the streets of the waterfront, in role as our colonial characters! Our budding historians loved it!

10.01.2022 Great article in The Mercury today about our new playground! A poem written by Lulu and Remi says it all... Waiting, waiting, waiting! It’s here! Some parts metal, some parts wood.... Climbing up as high as we could. Towers, tunnels, bars and rings. Checking out all these new things. Crawling through the tunnels. Spying through the holes Swinging like a monkey hanging upside down Feeling rather giddy falling to the ground! Thank you to designers, to workers and the crowd. See more

10.01.2022 What excitement there has been this week with the opening of the new play equipment! The children have spontaneously sorted themselves into lines to respectfully wait their turn to swing on the new rings and rope accessories and are really enjoying exploring all the new spaces. It has been very popular at all breaks and even used for PE and IT lessons.

09.01.2022 Our Kinder crew went out on their first Environment Day today. The wet weather arrived much sooner than forecast, so raincoats went on and tongues came out to catch raindrops! Great to see such resilience, preparedness and independence. #cottageschoolbellerive #thecottageschoolbellerive

09.01.2022 Cottage School will be getting out doing our bit this week and encourage others to do the same. Waste challenges aren't just for one day and require ongoing work - so let's all work together to Clean Up Australia! #CleanUpAustralia #StepUptoCleanUp #cottageschoolbellerive #thecottageschoolbellerive

09.01.2022 The Biggies (5/6) participated in a Biochar making workshop at Longley Organic Farm this week. It was an extremely informative, hands on session which furthered their knowledge about stable carbon and ways we can improve the soil that sustains our lives. It was a chemistry, gardening, sciencey, messy, dirty, fire and smoke filled experience which the kids and staff loved. What Cottage School kid doesn't like learning outside, managing fire, and therefore risk, and getting their hands in the earth?

07.01.2022 All students from Prep - Grade 6 are really enjoying their visits with Mark and Anna from Circus Arts Tasmania who have introduced them to lots of different circus props. Students have been able to draw on their fundamental motor skills and techniques learned in gymnastics to add to their circus skills.

07.01.2022 What do Cottage School kids do on a very rainy day? They enjoy every minute of it! Here are our Kinders on their first Environment Day.

07.01.2022 Always was, always will be. Our students have explored maps of lutruwita (Tasmania), made models of living sites and joined together in the milaythina song to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples #naidoc

06.01.2022 Thank you for supporting our plant sale last weekend. We had a fantastic turnout, perfect weather and helped hundreds of people choose new plants for their homes and gardens.

04.01.2022 Grade 6 students went on an overnight camp to Tasman Peninsula recently. They walked into Crescent Bay via Mount Brown and had a glorious swim and play on the dunes. A highlight was a visit to Peter Adams's property ‘Windgrove’ at Roaring Beach, Nubeena. Peter Adams and Aviva Reed have combined their artistic talents to create the Gaia Evolution Walk which displays how the Earth’s flora and fauna has evolved over the past 600 million years. Peter’s sculptural work and Aviva’s illustrations were inspirational.

02.01.2022 The Biggies are exploring Biological Sciences with Lee this term in a unit called 'The Soil Story' with an emphasis on the Carbon Cycle. Here are a selection of posters demonstrating their understanding of photosynthesis.

01.01.2022 Our Biggies artists copied Picasso’s line drawing of Igor Stravinskybut upside down. This classic exercise focuses on observing the relationship between the lines and the spaces around them. It's amazing how looking at something from a new perspective can change everything!