25 September 2025

Principal's Report

Dear Parents and Carers,

Today’s newsletter is a day of welcomes and farewells.

On behalf of everyone at Rosetta Primary School, I would like to welcome Mrs Frances Thorp to our school as our new principal in Term 4. I know she will greatly enjoy meeting and working with the Rosetta community.

 I would also like to take a moment to thank and acknowledge Mr David Shepherd for his wonderful contribution as Chair of the Rosetta Primary School Association. David has been a tremendous support to our school in so many ways -from running barbecues, warmly welcoming visitors, and connecting with politicians at our awards assembly, to leading our meetings with clarity and confidence.

He has celebrated our achievements with us and has also played an important part in setting goals and ideas for the future of Rosetta Primary. His leadership, encouragement, and dedication have made a real difference to our school community.

On behalf of all of us, thank you David, for everything you have done.

I would also like to congratulate and welcome Mr Ben Naismith who has been nominated and voted in as the new Chair of Rosetta Primary School Association. Enjoy and all the very best in the role, Ben.

Have a wonderful break everyone and now I will officially sign off for the last time 😊

Kind regards

Deirdre Arendt

Principal

Coming Events

2026 Class Preferences - closing tomorrow

Student placement in classes is a highly planned process with many considerations going into place ranging from educational, social and individual needs. Students and staff have an input, and it is also important for you as parents to have an input on your child’s friendship group. Your input does help inform our planning around the organisation of student friendship allocation to class groups.

The time to make a request for 2026 is from Thursday 11 September 2025 until Friday 26 September 2025. We are providing just over two weeks for your input via the attached form titled 2026 Class Preference Form. Once this time has ended, requests cannot be accommodated because of the complexity around class creations. Numerous hours of planning and discussion go into them and once they are compiled, late requests bring about considerable changes. All requests, by the due date, are carefully considered and there are times when we can accommodate them and there are times when we cannot.

If you would like to make a friendship request for a 2026 class placement, could you fill out the form below (2026 Class Preference Form) and submit it by Friday 26 September. Thank you.

Merit Certificates

These certificates were presented at assembly on Monday 22 September for the Value of Connection: Building positive relationships and a sense of belonging.

Farewell Ms Arendt and Happy Retirement

Friday 26 September will see the final day of Ms Arendt’s principalship at Rosetta Primary.  Her time as principal has been marked by dedication, leadership, and a full commitment to all students and families. 13 years as principal has meant that Rosetta Primary has established a stable learning environment where students and families are valued and respected and learning opportunities have been embedded and reflect current educational practice. Changes are always embraced in structured and supported ways, and the values of responsibility, courage, responsibly, connection and growth are always at the forefront of work with students.

Ms Arendt has led the improvements in school wide results and a recognition of successful practice in both literacy, numeracy, and wellbeing.  Student Parliament and student voice are achievements that students have embraced.  There are high levels of participation in all specialist lessons and programs which also recognises the excellence of teaching and acknowledges that all students see themselves as learners.

These achievements are all a recognition of her dedication to education and her personal enthusiasm for learning - things that the Rosetta School community have gained from in so many positive ways.

Ms Arendt has been a visionary and uplifting in her leadership. She has touched each of us – with either the big smile – that the students recognise or the laughter that students say they can work out wherever she is. She is always out and about around the school connecting with students and families or in the carpark after school talking with students. Her presence will be missed.

Ms Arendt can truly look forward to the adventures that lie ahead. 

You will be missed Ms Arendt, but we will hold your time at Rosetta Primary as one that shared good humour and enthusiasm – and as the Student Parliament commented – a time of positive connections!

Congratulations and thanks to a time well spent at Rosetta Primary. Happy Retirement!

To our community, please call in or send your good wishes to Ms Arendt – she will appreciate your thoughtfulness during the last days of this term.

Mrs Lenthall

Assistant Principal

Good wishes from the Student Parliament

This photo was taken by Annabel G. (5-6D) on Friday 19 September. This was following the Student Parliament Morning Tea Celebration to honour Ms Arendt’s contribution to the school.

Students also acknowledged her support of how student voice in the school is valued and how she helps the Student Parliament create a positive approach to achieve their goals on behalf of all students.

Student Parliament 

Assembly Monday 22 September

The following photos were from the Assembly on Monday 22 September in the Hall. This includes some of the members of the Student Parliament Executive and the Assembly presenters for Week 10.

Ms Arendt was acknowledged by students for her 13 years of service to Rosetta Primary. 

News from Prep-1

This term students in Prep-1 have been exploring the concept of partitioning one- and two-digit numbers in a variety of ways. Through hands-on activities using base ten blocks, students have been learning to break numbers apart into tens and ones and we have even had a look at 3-digit numbers to challenge ourselves! We have been engaging with games and activities to deepen our understanding of how numbers can be represented.

Miss Gamble 

Prep-1 Class Teacher 

Combined Primary Schools Annual Concert

Tickets for the Combined Primary Schools Annual Concert, to be held at MyState Bank Arena on Friday the 21st of November 2025, will be on sale from 10.00am on the 22nd of September.
The concert performance will start at 7.00pm sharp, and students are requested to be at the venue by 6.30pm. Student performers do not require a ticket.
Please note, due to copyright and privacy, recording and photography are not permitted during the performance.

3B Excursion to Narryna House and Tasmanian Muesum and Art Gallery (TMAG)

On Wednesday 22 October 3B will be going on an excursion to explore Narryna in Battery Point and the TMAG museum exhibitions parrawa! parrawa! Go Away! and ningina tunapri. This excursion links with our recent book study ‘Finding our Heart’ and our ongoing work in HASS.

We will depart Rosetta at 9:30am. We will walk from Narryna to TMAG and return to school in time for lunch and lunch orders. Please ensure your child has a packed recess, drink, hat and good walking shoes for the day.

We will require a parent helper for this excursion to go ahead. So, if you have your RWVP and Safeguarding Certificate and would like to join us, please contact Ms Stanton.

Ms Stanton

Class Teacher

2026 Kinder Enrolments are open

If you have a child born in 2021, they are eligible to be enrolled in Kindergarten in 2026. Please contact our friendly office staff for an enrolment pack via phone on 6208 1200 or email rosetta.primary@decyp.tas.gov.au, or in person from our Admin office. 

2025 Schools Triathlon Challenge

Students in Grades 3-6 who are interested in this year’s triathlon, to be held on Friday 28 November, are reminded to have their forms back by Week 1 of Term 4. This allows for students details to be entered, and for the triathlon packs to be ordered and delivered to school. 

The cost to enter is $25.00 per student and forms are available from the office. 

Further info about the event can be found on the Schools Triathlon Challenge website:

Rosetta Swimming Carnival

A huge thank you to all students who participated in our recent Swimming Carnival at the Clarence Pool! It was a fantastic day filled with energy, enthusiasm, and some impressive performances—both in individual races and team events.

I would especially like to acknowledge our Grade 3 and 4 students, whose participation points made a significant impact on the overall results.

Final House Points:
🥇 1st Place – Mace: 618 points

🥈 2nd Place – Nile: 586 points

                                                      🥉 3rd Place – Rasid: 510 points

Congratulations Mace for taking out the win, and well done to everyone for your effort, sportsmanship, and team spirit!

Ms Button

AST

E Team

The E Team members have been busy over the last couple of weeks trying to keep up with the weeds in the garden, as you at home would have no doubt noticed!

We have also been watching our peas and garlic growing beautifully.

Our Kipli garden has been weeded and the plants are slowly starting to establish themselves.

On Thursday this week a group of E team students will again be working alongside the Glenorchy City Council to complete the shrub and grass planting beside Jaques Creek. This will take the total number of plants we have planted to 100.

Along with all our gardening, we have been doing some litter patrols and are pleased to report that we have not found a great deal.

Our fun fact for this week is about students starting their own gardens:

Kids love a space they can call their own, so set aside an area just for them. In small spaces, a few pots and containers will be enough. If you have more room, create a raised garden bed, no higher than 40cm. This stops the kids walking on the plants yet still makes everything easy to reach. 

It’s as easy as that!

Mrs Devereux 

AST/E Team Coordinator 

Brixhibition Lego Competition

Recently Rosetta Primary conducted our own section of the Brixhibition Lego Competition. What a fantastic array of creations we had entered. Congratulations and well done to all students who entered – Chenuka and Eliza (Kinder B), Jim, Jameson, Alfred and Alby (Grade 1-2), Kasai, Charlie H, Bailey, Ava, Libby, Max, Lachlan K (Grade 3-4), and Emily and Toby (Grade 5-6).

Please take time to look at the photos of the creations.

We had some age group winners who were:

Kinder Prep  Chenuka

Grade 1-2   Jim

Grade 3-4  Lachlan K

Grade 5-6  Emily

Our overall winner was Lachlan K, whose Lego displayed a group of robots building a monster truck. Lachlan’s Lego will be on display at the Brihibition Lego Show which is on over the holidays.

Well done and thankyou to everybody involved.

Mrs Devereux 

AST

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