Posts By: Mel

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A popular event on the community calendar, The Cottage School Fair is best described as a cross between a Farmer’s Market and a Craft & Design Market. The whole school community, including members of extended families; past school families; friends; and even community members, unconnected to the  School, bring the best of home-grown ; homemade… Read more »

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Well done to everyone who made it to our last working bee for 2013. It was a tricky day to find the time with the Federal Election requiring us to vote and the weather threatening to dampen our day (there will be plenty of catch up jobs for those that didn’t make it!), but in… Read more »

The Great Book Swap is a fundraising event for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Kids donate unwanted books from home then buy another book for $2. This really encourages us to sacrifice something in order to gain something else. It’s also a great opportunity to discuss some of the difficulties many indigenous children live with; growing… Read more »

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The Cottage School manure dig for 2013 saw over 20 keen parents and friends meet in the Tassie highlands to shovel, scoop and encourage very good quality sheep manure (can you say that?) into 1100 bags. This is a great opportunity for the school community to get to know each other better, but it’s also… Read more »

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The whole school squeezed indoors due to bad weather to watch the end of term 2 concert. Special thanks to Shona (our music teacher), Kate (our French and poetry teacher) and the kids of course! Check out the gallery page for more pictures. And we say goodbye to Ruby. We wish you all the best… Read more »

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A beautiful night for the Cottage School winter solstice bonfire. Good fire. Good food. Good company. Special thanks to Vanessa, Thierry and Cléo for hosting.

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Thanks to everyone who came to the mid year working bee last Saturday We always have a diverse range of jobs and a diverse range of skills to match. A lot was achieved. One of the best things about these days is seeing the school community come together. Having an opportunity to catch up with… Read more »

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Jo (L) and Kerrie (R) from  the Tasman Dunalley Neighbourhood House with the donations. The Dunalley Tasman Neighbourhood House Revegetation and Garden Restoration Program were VERY happy to receive 40 bags of sheep poo (and a couple of bonus spades) last week from the Cottage School, funded by profits from the Garden Market. The poo… Read more »

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The Cottage School is very much looking forward to the start of the 2013 school year. See you all on Monday 4th Feb… Term 1 – First Day Monday 4th February – Last Day Friday 19th April  (No cooked lunch on the first Monday) Term 2 – First Day Monday 6th May – Last Day… Read more »

Today was the last day of a long year at Cottage School and it was with a little sadness and best wishes that we said good bye to our grade sixes, teachers Janet and Margie and others heading off in search of new adventures… More pictures at School Leavers gallery…

The traditional end of year concert was held last Friday and was well attended by family and friends. Thanks to the good weather we were able to hold it outdoors. Big thanks to Shona, our music teacher and Aaron, who’s been teaching guitar this term, for organising the performance. It’s always nice to have the… Read more »

  Wed Notice Dec12

For the 2012 third term camp we had glorious weather for our 3 night camp, one of the Cottage School’s favourite spots. Mayfield on the East Coast was the scene of much emotional, physical and social growth and this camp was undertaken wholeheartedly by all. The Middlies (Grades 2,3 and 4) together enjoyed swimming with current… Read more »

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The school is thrilled to advise that we have recruited 2 new, very high caliber teachers. A very big welcome on behalf of the Cottage School community to Michelle Mihalic (Littlies) and Pamela Daly (Kinder). Michelle has a number of years teaching experience including Reggio Emilia training. She will be known to some of you… Read more »

The third term Biggies camp was held together with John Marsden’s Candlebark School (Victoria) at Douglas River on the Tasmanian East Coast. Read more…CAMP REFLECTIONS – Biggies 2012 See more…