Christmas Newsletter
Registrar's Christmas Message
Hello Everyone and Merry Christmas!
As we start to wind down for the year, I'd like to take a moment to reflect and share on a very busy 2022.
2022 brought a lot of change and learning to navigate unchartered waters with COVID-19 was new for us all. The enormous influx of new home education applications at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, meant that we had to make adjustments to our usual processes. I would like to extend a big thank you to all of you, your support, patience, understanding and flexibility throughout that time made a challenging situation so much easier. The feeling of community was strong, and I am so grateful for that.
I would like to congratulate our 2022 Home Education Graduates who will complete their home education registration at the end of 2022 as they are now, or nearly 18 years old. There are 26 Graduates who have attained their Statement of Year 12 Completion Certificate issued by the Education Registrar. On behalf of our Registration Officers who have been part of your home education journey, I wish you all the very best for your future as you move into the next chapter of your life.
The OER commissioned some tokens for our 2022 graduates as a keepsake of their time in home education and as a mark of congratulations to them for their achievements. The tokens are glass prisms engraved with the OER logo and the student’s name and year. Please see photo below (LHS).
I would like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to THEAC for their advice and counsel during the year. It is so important to have the voices of home educators reflected in our decision making around home education and I really appreciate the time they give to doing that. Thank you, Denise Cox (Chair), Andrea Ferguson (Deputy Chair), Bill Linton, Fiona Lohrbaecher, Caroline Norman, Martin Hamilton and Christine Buist.
I hope you are able to take some time to spend with loved ones this festive season while enjoying a restful and cheer-filled break.
Warm regards
Katharine
Congratulations Esther!
Congratulations to OER Registration Officer Esther Ottaway, whose book of poetry, Intimate, low-voiced, delicate things, has won the Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry and also the People's Choice Award for Poetry, in Tasmania’s highest literary honours, the Tasmanian Literary Awards!
What an amazing achievement Esther!
Christmas Card Design Competition 2022
Congratulations to Amelia James, 9 years of age and Connor Glover-McGrath, 14 years of age, who have been chosen as the winners of their age category by the Registrar Education for the 2022 Christmas Card Design Competition.
Congratulations to Summer Smith, 8 years of age (pictured bottom right) and Benjamin Thayer, 11 years of age (bottom left) who were selected as runners up.
Thank you to everyone who entered the competition, it was wonderful seeing them all!
Participation certificates have been sent to all who entered. If your child has not received their certificate by the end of the week - please email registrar@oer.tas.gov.au with your child's name.
Merry Christmas!
2023 Young People's Reference Panel
Applications are now open for our 2023 Young People’s Reference Panel!
Children and youth, aged 7–17 years who are passionate about museums and art galleries, and are interested in contributing their ideas are highly encourged to apply.
Applications close at 5:00pm on Friday 3 February 2023.
For more information and to apply, go to https://bit.ly/referencepanel
OER Office Hours - 2022-2023
The Office of the Education Registrar will be closed to the public from 5pm on Thursday 22 December 2022 and we will re-open on Monday 10 January 2022.
Should you wish to make contact throughout this period you can do so via email at registrar@oer.tas.gov.au.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!