Newman Primary School

Congratulations to Room 20 for their assembly! The messaging around resilience, empathy and a positive inner voice was certainly an important one. I was impressed by the students’ perseverance and adaptability to technical difficulties; it was great to see the resilience demonstrated, there and then, from our Year 5s.

It has been a very busy couple of weeks at school. A big well done to our Year 3 and 5 students who have completed NAPLAN online for 2023. We look forward to accessing and sharing the results later in the year.

Mr Chappelow ran a very successful Faction Swimming Carnival for our Year 3-6 students with details included below. I was extremely proud of how our students represented Newman Primary School and the sportsmanship displayed by all.

We celebrated National Ride to School Day on 24 March with many students participating in a fun obstacle course before school. Whilst it is a message I often give; I will continue to mention the importance of bike and scooter safety. Too many of our students continue to arrive at school on scooters and bikes without helmets and ride in our front car park before school opens. Helmets are such a simple but potentially life-saving piece of safety gear; I hope you will join me in reinforcing this message.

As well as these events, we have had Harmony Day activities in classrooms, morning Tai Chi with Meg Languages, Eagles, Rick the Rock, visit and clinics, Shire talks re the upcoming eclipse and Rainbow Day for Autism. Our staff and students have embraced these events and we hope the students enjoy all these opportunities.

A friendly reminder to all families that children should not arrive at school before 7.45am in the morning. From 7.45am, we provide supervision in the undercover area before students move to classes at 8am. In our ECE area, supervision is provided by parents until drop off to the classroom doors at 8am. We thank you for your support.

Friday the 17 March we had our 3 - 6 swimming carnival at Newman aquatic centre. Well done to all students who participated and may thanks to parents and staff who assisted on the day and Newman Senior High School Rise Up for the sausage sizzle.

Congratulations to Marlu for taking the 2023 title and to all individual champions and runner

                                                                                                ups on the day.

                                                                                                  Marlu 355            Parnka 351                  Karlaya 293

Letters have been sent home if you child has an unexplained absence. The letters are on bright paper and need to be returned to the front office. If you have any concerns or questions you can contact the front office by email newman.ps@education.wa.edu.au or phone (08) 9154 3900.

In an effort to streamline our absences process, we would like to request that you advise us of student absences via text message using our school messaging platform.

Our school messaging platform number is 0437 152 405

When you message the school, please include the name of the student, their class, the date they will be absent and the reason for the absence.

                                                                                        We thank you in advance!

31 March         Inter school swimming.   

5 April               ANZAC service Assembly  

25 April            ANZAC Day (Public Holiday)

2 & 4 May        Mother's Day Stall

15 - 18 May       Book Fair

Our Parent handbook has been updated and is available on our website

2023-Information-Booklet.pdf (newmanps.wa.edu.au)