Giant Steps Tasmania in Deloraine, Tasmania | School

Giant Steps Tasmania

Locality: Deloraine, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6362 2522

Address: 35 West Church St 7304 Deloraine, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.giantsteps.tas.edu.au/

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24.01.2022 This looks like a wonderful opportunity. A chance to spend some time looking after yoursef.

24.01.2022 Where are the staff of Giant Steps Tasmania hiding? Lost in the mazes? Team Building Day!

23.01.2022 Book Week 2020!

22.01.2022 Today is Autism Acceptance Day. The excellent picture on this post is from the I Can Network Facebook page. We are always happy to see our awesome students and as most of them are currently at home we miss them terribly. So stay safe everybody and happy Autism Acceptance Day!... #AutismAcceptanceMonth #autismrocks #neurodiversity

22.01.2022 A very interesting collection of photos showing the old and the new of our beautiful little town.

22.01.2022 VOTE NOW! Our students have 3 films in the festival this year. The Soccer Game - Directed by Tristan https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/2011.html... The Worlds Worst Cup of Coffee - Directed by Harry https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/2015.html The Final Countdown - Directed by Uriah https://www.focusonability.com.au/FOA/films/2031.html Choose your favourite and vote now! Please share.

22.01.2022 For any of our families looking for respite options. Mosaic are an established orgaisation but are relatively new in the North of TAS. They are worth checking out.

22.01.2022 A very white morning in Launceston. There will be an update as to how this may effect the school day at 6.30. Stay safe everyone.

22.01.2022 This could be fun!

21.01.2022 An interesting article. Sometimes it seems we make all the decisions for students. Perhaps they need to make some for themselves. Take some risks and explore!

21.01.2022 Hello awesome parents and care givers! There seems to be some confusion around the next few days, so I thought I would clear it up. Giant Steps Tasmania is open for regular business tomorrow October 30th. Some Government and Independent Schools are having a student free day, but not us. ... We are closed for the long weekend (No school Monday 2nd November)and will be back in action on Tuesday November 3rd

21.01.2022 Welcome back! Today is the first day of students for 2021 and the staff are all very excited to have the students back! We have been working hard over the last 2 weeks to get the classrooms ready and the staff have also participated in some professional learning sessions on topics such as differentiation and curriculum. Please see the attached photo to see the staff working diligently So as you can imagine we are keen to have the students back as it is much more fun with them here. We hope that everyone has had a great break and we look forward to an excellent 2021.

21.01.2022 https://tas.swimming.org.au/ge/inclusive-swimming-tasmania

20.01.2022 FREE WEBINAR ON RETURNING TO SCHOOL - PREPARING FOR CHANGE As COVID-19 restrictions ease, schools across the country are managing the return of students. For so...me, this has happened quickly. For others, it has been a staged process that will continue throughout term 2 and possibly beyond. For students on the autism spectrum, returning to a school environment that may look, feel and operate very differently, may present its challenges. We invite you to join us for a Q and A webinar where we will have the opportunity to explore some of the questions and concerns you may have about your child’s return to school. If you have a question you would like discussed, please add it in the question box at the time of registration. Be part of an interactive hour where you get the opportunity to listen, share and learn with parents/carers, teachers and others who support individuals on the autism spectrum. All of our webinars are free and all participants that attend receive a certificate following the completion of the webinar. There are two different session times to choose from. Tuesday 19 May, 2020 12pm AEST Tuesday 19 May, 2020 7.30pm AEST To register for one of our sessions, click here - https://www.positivepartnerships.com.au//returning-to-scho

20.01.2022 Mornings! Love them or hate them?

19.01.2022 Silent sandcastle building, or burying Sam? Greens Beach.

18.01.2022 Some great tips! Bed time can be stressful.

18.01.2022 Some helpful home learning tips and reminders from the team at Maths Pathway.

18.01.2022 So often our AAC learners get bombarded with questions and directions. We have things we want to know and we're trying to get through the day. The problem is th...at constant questioning can increase anxiety, make the interaction less enjoyable, and teach them that their primary role is to be a responder. That's not what we want or intend! Declarative language is a great way to change the dynamic! See more

18.01.2022 The bus is looking awesome. Thanks, Ben and Cassie for all your hard work! Happy to support a local business and receive excellent service.

18.01.2022 Congratulations to the Deloraine Kangaroos Football Club. A win in the NTFA Grand Final. Great stuff for the Deloraine Community!

18.01.2022 This wonderful group might be useful for some of our Launceston families in need of a laptop.

18.01.2022 For those Minecraft Fans out there!

17.01.2022 Now that our borders are open, it is a good reminder to stay safe and to practise our COVID-Safe behaviours. Wash and sanitise your hands Keep your distanc...e Stay at home if you are sick Get tested if you have symptoms Cover coughs and sneezes with your elbow Follow current restrictions If you need more information, visit the COVID-19 page on our website: http://bit.ly/tas-covid

16.01.2022 Good Morning all. The roads in the Launceston area are extremely dangerous this morning. Launceston Bus Run will not operate today. Launceston students are encouraged to remain home and stay safe. Devonport/Latrobe Bus Run seems to be OK as conditions are quite different on the NW. Giant Steps will be open to students. ... Programs at school will be modified due to some staff not being able to go to school. Updates will continue. See more

16.01.2022 A warning below for our families with children who use social media.

16.01.2022 Wise words from Chris Varney. Happy World Teachers Day to all of our awesome teachers and the wonderful staff who support them. #worldteachersday2020 #WorldTeachersDay

16.01.2022 Giant Steps Tasmania would like to thank the awesome blokes from Tasmanian Hand Sanitiser . This great Tasmanian business has donated us 5 litres of locally made, medical grade hand sanitiser and a very flash auto dispenser unit, with stand for our main entrance. We are very grateful for your support. Get behind this excellent local business and seek out their top quality products! Tasmanian Hand Sanitiser https://www.m2logistics.com.au/about/

16.01.2022 A good reminder.

15.01.2022 A good reminder. Be kind to yourselves. Also, remember our awesome students may be feeling quite anxious and out of sorts.

15.01.2022 I think this would be a great idea for the 2020 Giant Steps Movie Premieres!

15.01.2022 Hello to our awesome school community. We need your empty bread bags and plastic tags! Please help us to recycle these items and our school will hopefully get some rewards in the form of sporting goods. A good cause for the school and the environment.. They can be any brand of bread bag.

14.01.2022 Although things might be stressful, we have been given a gift of time with our kids. Sure, it can be hard to be in close quarter, but it’s also a brilliant time... to connect. To inspire you, I made this calendar with daily suggestions. Please share the activities you’ve been doing with your children. We can all benefit from inspiration at this time, and you never know if your connection idea will be something that is valuable to someone else. We are in this together and we will get through this together! To get the calendar, visit here: https://makesociallearningstick.com/coping-with-overwhelm-/

14.01.2022 Hello to the Giant Steps Tasmania community. Just a reminder that we are open as normal tomorrow. We do not take the Launceston Cup Day off.

14.01.2022 A great selection of free audiobooks for use at home. No sign up required!

14.01.2022 Something for the weekend? Looks like fun. Perhaps something to do to hone your body and mind before the Giant Steps trivia night ?

13.01.2022 Giant Steps Tasmania would like to wish the Deloraine Kangaroos Football Club Senior and Under 21 teams all the best in the NTFA Grand Final this weekend. Congratulations, we will all be cheering you on!

13.01.2022 We are looking for a new Speech Pathologist to join with Nupi in providing services to our students. Spread the word.

12.01.2022 Students from Giant Steps Tasmania have been hard at work, making films for this year's Focus on Ability Short Film Festival We'll post links to some of the brilliant entries in the comments section

12.01.2022 The Autism Spectrum is not linear. Learn more: From Autistic artist Rebecca Burgess, "Understanding The Spectrum: A Comic Strip Explanation" (tinyurl.com/ycqu...oqur) From Autistic uni student Lucy Wallace, "Autism, The Spectrum" (tinyurl.com/y3psz9p4) h/t More Than One Neurotype

11.01.2022 From our good friend Yenn Purkis, shared with permission: "Autistic people are individuals. We are not all maths geniuses, we don’t all like trains. I am hopele...ss with technology and much prefer painting. There is no 'typical Autistic'. But I think we probably all like being respected and validated." See more

10.01.2022 This is a great resource. Something to introduce the idea of returning to school to your children. We are looking forward to seeing some more of our stduents in just a few weeks.

09.01.2022 An excellent new activity in our community!

09.01.2022 This could be very useful for some families.

09.01.2022 FREE ONLINE PARENT & CARER WORKSHOP IN THE TASMANIAN REGIONS Join us for our new online workshop for those in Tasmania where you will have the opportunity... to listen, share and learn with parents and carers who support individuals on the autism spectrum. During the online workshops, we will cover three topics: the diversity of autism, including sensory processing understanding behaviour working together with your child’s school. For more information about our Tasmania online workshop and to register, click the link here - https://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/workshop/

08.01.2022 Today we are sharing the page of a young man on the spectrum who takes awesome photography of diecast cars. I stumbled across his work as I am a bit of a collector of diecast cars myself and I was amazed at some of the excellent photos he takes. He really has a unique eye for detail and perspective. I am also sharing this as it is a great inspiration for our students to see another young person on the spectrum doing excellent things. Autism does not define our students and we certainly hope they will find ways to shine like Anothony has. Have a look at Anthony's photos and send him some words of encouragement.

08.01.2022 Due to technical issues we will not be able to send out a newsletter today. Apologies and we will get one out early next week. Our server had decided to have a moment!

08.01.2022 This sounds interesting!

08.01.2022 ATTENTION ALL! We need your old, unloved and surplus to requirements ceramic tiles! We are doing some mosaic projects in each of the class groups and we would really like some more tiles to help us with this.... Any colour, shape or pattern would be useful. They will be broken up into little pieces so do not give us Great Aunt Ethel's Hand Painted Porcelain Plates. So if there are some leftover tiles from a project or some dusty unloved tiles in the back of the shed please consider sending them our way. They can be dropped at the school or sent in on the school buses, any method that is convenient. If you cannot get them to us, please feel free to give us a call and we may be able to pick them up. 03 63 622522 THANK YOU!

08.01.2022 A great new page on Facebook! Racing with Autism has been doing great things in Canada and the USA with the mighty Austin and his awesome racing skills. A great positive message for our young people and it is great that our wonderful friend, Jess, is going to bring some of that positivity Down Under! Do we have any budding racers out there in our community???

07.01.2022 ATTENTION GIANT STEPS COMMUNITY!!! Vote for your favourite!... Our staff have had a great day of team building and adventure. We braved the awesome maze at Glengarry Bush Maze and we tamed the wild Greens Beach! The staff were divided into teams and one activity was to build a silent sand sculpture! Teams were given a communication board and the team captain used this to communicate with their team. There may have been some cheating but the results are awesome. ... NOW WE NEED YOU Please vote for your favourite Sand Creation by liking the photo and the winning team by April 15th will get a prize! Vote now! (There was no team 2!)

07.01.2022 A great idea from our friends at Aspect.

07.01.2022 Principal Tim has added courier to his long list of duties with an early morning dash to Hunters Products in Invermay this morning for rather important paper-related supplies! Thanks, Hunters Products for your help and support. A great Tasmanian company! #huntersproducts

06.01.2022 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! The winner of our staff sandcastle building competition was Team 3 ! The awesome Dragon and Game of Thrones Castle was created by Danni, Heidi, Emma and Tahnee. These creative staff members will recieve their prize this week. The staff team building day was great fun and a great end to Term 1 ... Welcome back to school!

05.01.2022 Children and young People with Disability: Education Survey 2020 - Learning in a time of crisis COVID-19 (Coronavirus) (Link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5LQ2...M63) Every year CYDA completes a National Education Survey. This year our survey is different because of the COVID-19 situation. We will use the information to advocate to government about the needs of children and young people with disability during this time. The survey will be open all through May and it will be vital to capture as much feedback as possible on the education of students with disability as they have experienced learning from home and as they transition back to face to face learning. We are hoping you can complete this survey about the education experiences for students with disability and we want to hear from you as either: - a young person with disability - a parent or carer of a child or young person with disability This online survey will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Your responses will be confidential and we do not collect identifying information. Complete the 2020 Education Survey Learning in a time of crisis COVID-19 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5LQ2M63 All Means All - The Australian Alliance for Inclusive Education Family Advocacy Imagine More Belonging Matters Inc. JFA Purple Orange YDAS - Youth Disability Advocacy Service Youth Disability Advocacy Network - YDAN Queensland Collective for Inclusive Education Queensland Advocacy Incorporated - QAI CRU - Community Resource Unit Ltd. National Ethnic Disability AlliancePeople with Disability Australia Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)

05.01.2022 This is NOT! As a part of Bianca’s critical thinking lessons this year we have been doing ‘Think outside the Box’. These lessons are a favourite among both students and staff at Giant Steps Tasmania. During these lessons’ students are given part of an outline which is NOT the most obvious object, and are asked to turn it into something different. This activity promotes imagination and problem solving skills, utilises critical and creative thinking and allows students to recog...nise and respect the differing opinions of others. We loved our ideas so much that we have turned our work into 6 amazing books to share with everyone! Each book is a professionally published 20X20cm hardcover book. All proceeds from these books will go to purchasing new resources for Giant Steps Tasmania. These books are a great addition to your home library, as gifts for family and friends, or if you work with children they are an excellent teaching resource. Order now in time for Christmas!! All art work is students original work. We are super proud of everyone’s efforts and help to make these books! We really hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Contact [email protected] for more information or to place an order.

04.01.2022 Tim is happy to be modeling his awesome new Racing With Autism Australia T-Shirt! Supporting young people on the spectrum with their interests in motorsport is a great thing to get behind. https://www.facebook.com/Racing-With-Autism-Australia-109843507421202/ "The purpose behind Racing With Autism Australia is to not only gain exposure for Autism Awareness but to also support families who have children, teenagers, or even adults on the Autism Spectrum in their racing endeavours."

04.01.2022 Come to our Trivia Night! Next Saturday!!

04.01.2022 On Friday 30 October, say a big thank you to teachers and celebrate the bright future of teaching. Post a photo in your sunglasses on social media, either on your own or with family or friends. Use these tags on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn: #worldteachersday2020#thankteachers #brightfuture AITSL Go to https://www.aitsl.edu.au/world-teachers-day/2020 to find some fun camera filters. Use the tags and post them to our Facebook if you can!

04.01.2022 A nice collection of resources for anyone looking to help their children through this tricky time.

03.01.2022 Remembrance Day - Students from Giant Steps Tasmania attended the Deloraine Remembrance Day Service. We went to pay our respects to those who had given so much for the causes they believed in. We laid a wreath on the Cenotaph to remember those who had fallen. LEST WE FORGET

03.01.2022 Join us on April 2 (World Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day) for AUStism at Home! We're bringing our event straight to your place via Facebook Live at 8:30pm AED...T on Thursday 2 April. Put on your trackies, grab a drink and tune in for an insightful discussion about 'Transitioning to adulthood on the autism spectrum..." Our panel includes Chris Bonnello - @Autistic Not Weird, Barb Cook - Neurodivergent author& speaker, Charmaine Fraser - autism mum and Director of Aurora Coordination and Nicole Rogerson - Autism Awareness Australia. Look forward to seeing you online! See more

03.01.2022 We do love AGFEST! It was awesome for Rural Youth Tasmania and our staff to provide our students with a small slice of it this year.

03.01.2022 WOW! 6 years since we had this awesome exhibition of our student's photography. We must do this again soon.

03.01.2022 Our 2020 Claymation group have done an awesome job creating stop motion animations featuring a character they made using a wire armature and clay. Check them out on YouTube with this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIy7_N61468&feature=youtu.be ... Enjoy!

03.01.2022 Today Mellany and I took a bit of a road trip to the Port Sorell Golf Club, where I had the pleasure of talking to a great group of Golfers and Rotarians about our awesome school and students. Today was the annual charity Golf day organised by the Rotary Club of Devonport South East and this year Giant Steps Tasmania is one of the recipients of the raised funds. We are always grateful to be supported by our community and a big thanks goes out to this great club for a great day for a great cause.

03.01.2022 An exciting day in Deloraine! New swings being installed.

03.01.2022 Bike Skills Group | Pre-Assessments Children with developmental challenges can learn to ride! Amanda, Occupational Therapist and Rebekah, Physiotherapist will ...be offering bike skills pre-assessments in the school holidays! Bike skills at Engage Therapy is a unique evidence-based framework developed specifically for clients with developmental challenges. The pre-assessment takes 45 minutes and includes a social story, visual schedule, parent education and training, and bike set up. Some children will successfully transition to riding after their pre-assessment. Engage Therapy also offers a bike skills intensive group for those requiring this. The pre-assessment and group is for NDIS participants. If your child or young person is interested in learning to ride a bike, please contact our friendly reception staff on (03) 6343 7852 or email [email protected].

02.01.2022 We have added new measures to ensure essential support is in place for our participants, workers and providers through the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Find... out more: https://bit.ly/33BEwA7 Download the fact sheet: https://bit.ly/2UlA5Fc [Image description: image is a graphic with the NDIS logo in the top left corner. Below are the words 'New measures to support particpants and providers through COVID-19. NDIS plans to be extended by up to 24 months. Proactive outreach to high-risk participants. Financial assistance to providers to support retention of workers. Telephone meetings where possible.'] #Coronavirus

02.01.2022 Thank you Win News Tasmania!

02.01.2022 What a great night for Giant Steps Tasmania. We are so grateful to The Bendigo Bank/ Deloraine and Districts Community Bank Branch for awarding us a grant of $32, 836.00! This money will be used to purchase and install a new fort in our playground. It was also great to see all the other fabulous projects supported by the bank. Great to see organisations doing so much good for the community. Deloraine & Districts Community Bank Branch

01.01.2022 LEGO fun in Deloraine!