Southern Support School

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08/12/2025

Raffle tickets booklets should have made their way home today!!! 😁😁
Extra booklets can be arranged through the office or by sending a message to our page and we will happily organise them to send home with your student.

School update – Friday 12 DecemberDue to planned staff stop-work action, our school will be closed to students on Friday...
08/12/2025

School update – Friday 12 December
Due to planned staff stop-work action, our school will be closed to students on Friday morning.
The school will reopen at 12.00pm, with classes commencing at 12.15pm.
The student bus transport will not run on this morning.
Thank you for your understanding.

This year our Year 11 and 12 students have been thriving in our Access to Work Program, which gives them the opportunity...
05/12/2025

This year our Year 11 and 12 students have been thriving in our Access to Work Program, which gives them the opportunity to engage in meaningful, simulated work experience within the school setting. Through hands-on roles in both the Senior Campus Café and our weekly canteen service, students are building confidence, independence, and real-world skills.
Our Café team has especially enjoyed learning how to make coffees, take orders, and serve staff. This provides an excellent opportunity to practice communication skills using AAC in a context outside of the classroom. Meanwhile, S Pink class has excelled in preparing and packaging our canteen lunch orders each week. Each week they practice not only their cooking skills, but also spatial awareness, communication, graphing and working with currency.

S-Blue has been on a creative adventure, experimenting with bold and imaginative ways to bring paint to life on canvas!S...
05/12/2025

S-Blue has been on a creative adventure, experimenting with bold and imaginative ways to bring paint to life on canvas!
Students have explored techniques such as layering, squirting, stamping, drawing, and printing—transforming everyday classroom objects into artistic tools. The result? A vibrant, dynamic masterpiece that bursts with colour, texture, and originality.

In Weeks 6 and 7 of Term 4 Blue Class have had a focus on sun safety in honour of National Skin Cancer Action Week (16th...
02/12/2025

In Weeks 6 and 7 of Term 4 Blue Class have had a focus on sun safety in honour of National Skin Cancer Action Week (16th – 22rd of November). We’ve sung and danced to You’ve Gotta Be Sun Smart by Jay Laga’aia and used the 5 S’s as a prompt for our writing: Slip: on a shirt, Slop: on some sunscreen, Slap: on a hat, Seek: shade, and Slide: on some sunnies. We even tie-dyed hats so we can be sun-safe in style!
We have also enjoyed demonstrating our knowledge on paper versions of ourselves – we slipped on a shirt, made sure they had their sunscreen, slapped on a hat, and slid on some sunnies before sliding them under the shady tree on our window display.

2025 YLOT Graduation at Government House - what an amazing program and an even more amazing group of young people đŸ€©
30/11/2025

2025 YLOT Graduation at Government House - what an amazing program and an even more amazing group of young people đŸ€©

TASC students in S-Pink class have been consolidating their skills at Mini-Woolies. Every day the students attend a shif...
27/11/2025

TASC students in S-Pink class have been consolidating their skills at Mini-Woolies. Every day the students attend a shift at Mini-Woolies to serve classes. With minimal prompting, they ask for the key at the office, turn the lights on and put the open sign on the door. They will then sign in, put their apron and hat on, to begin work, which includes, serving, stocking shelves, putting new catalogues on the stand and basic cleaning jobs.

This Term pink class are really enjoying getting creative with a range of art activities. We have been exploring differe...
25/11/2025

This Term pink class are really enjoying getting creative with a range of art activities. We have been exploring different mediums, including water colour and acrylic paint and experimenting with new ways to express our ideas. We have also been basing some of our artwork on our class reading, such as Bowerbird Blues, where we created our own colourful bowers inspired by the story. We especially enjoy art when our friends from the YLOT program come to visit.
It has been a wonderful term of creativity, imagination and hands-on fun in pink class.

Active learning! A learning space where students are encouraged to explore and be active participants in their surroundi...
20/11/2025

Active learning! A learning space where students are encouraged to explore and be active participants in their surroundings. Active learning helps our students develop important skills so they can be more engaged in the classroom.
Students participating in the program explore lots of different ways to move their body:
‱ gross motor activities like rolling, walking and balancing while sitting or standing.
‱ focusing on their fine motor skills like grabbing objects with their fingers and squeezing their hands into a fist, as well as tapping switches for cause-and-effect activities.
The program offers students a variety of activities for differentiated learning, so they have lots of fun along the way!

Students on the senior campus recently enjoyed some amazing Table Tennis and Drumming sessions delivered by Table Tennis...
18/11/2025

Students on the senior campus recently enjoyed some amazing Table Tennis and Drumming sessions delivered by Table Tennis Tasmania and Rakkael as part of TASC Social / Leisure Group.

It was a great opportunity for students to participate in fun and engaging activities with peers from different classes.
Students showed great enthusiasm, teamwork and encouragement toward their peers, creating a positive and inclusive atmosphere.

We are excited to invite Rakkael and our visitors from Table Tennis Tasmania back for more sessions in term 4.

The students in Purple Class have been working hard on their communication and have demonstrated significant growth in t...
17/11/2025

The students in Purple Class have been working hard on their communication and have demonstrated significant growth in their communication skills. Students have shown great pride in being able to tell their teachers how they are feeling, to go away, what food they want to eat, what tv show they want to watch, they need the toilet, ‘no watermelon, mango’ and that ‘no’ their work is ‘finished’, ‘go’.
We love chatting with our students and seeing their confidence grow as they learn how to communicate their wants and needs.

This week S-Purple class celebrated this year’s Remembrance Day by participating in an Art lesson where they painted the...
13/11/2025

This week S-Purple class celebrated this year’s Remembrance Day by participating in an Art lesson where they painted the remembrance poppy in honour of all those gallant soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. The students had fun painting poppies in appreciation of this day.

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223 Clarence Street
Hobart, TAS
7018

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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