Newman Primary School

A big congratulations to Room 5 who performed a fantastic assembly item related to their Science investigations around living and non-living things. There were some inventive costumes, and the students did a wonderful job singing and acting. The crowd really enjoyed this item and were impressed with the students’ recital; well done!

What a busy couple of weeks it has been with our Year 6 Camp to Broome, School Photos, Colour Fun Run and Speedway visit. Please see more details of these below. Next week we move into our Faction Athletics and Book Week activities, an exciting part of our term! Our Faction Athletics has been redesigned this year to fit on our oval and to run with possible impacts of Covid. A few things to note are that; students have been pre allocated into divisions for races based on sprints during sport lessons (alleviating the need for timers on the day); longer races, such as 200m and 400m, will be completed with laps on the 100m track and team games are scheduled after each running session. We hope this makes for a smooth day and one that all spectators will enjoy. We look forward to seeing you there.

We have farewelled Miss Nina DeAngelo, an amazing Education assistant, as she moves on with her family. We wish her well and thank her for her valuable contribution to our school; especially our Pre-primary classes. We are currently still recruiting for this and other vacancies. If you know of someone in town who may be looking for Education Assistant work with school hours and school holiday leave, please encourage them to come and speak with us at the office.

Earlier in the year, parents had the opportunity to complete the National School Opinion Survey and provide their responses. Staff and the school board have reviewed these and celebrated the successes and investigated areas for improvement. Some areas recognised as strengths were; teachers at this school expect my child to do their best, I can talk to my child’s teacher about my concerns, this school looks for ways to improve and teachers at this school motivate my child to learn. A common theme for investigation was the management of behaviour and we are please to be undertaking the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) journey to build on our school’s existing strengths, positive behaviour programs and strategies, develop a consultative and collaborative community-owned process, build a consistent approach to positive behaviour expectations and develop procedures for responding to behaviour errors, with a focus on re-teaching.

Our staff have developed the below purpose statement do drive this-

The Newman Primary School Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) team aims to collaboratively facilitate a positive approach to expected behaviours across the school in consultation with students, teachers, and the community. Our safe, positive and supportive learning environment will be enhanced by an easily understood and accepted framework that fosters improved behaviours, and explicitly teaches social skills and resilience, enabling us to achieve higher educational outcomes.

Congratulations  to Room 2 winners of our Attendance Cup for this fortnight.

 Room 2 had an attendance of 88.10% which was an increase of 14.6% 

Well done.

This shows the commitment of families and students and a reminder about

 the importance of attending school everyday unless your child is sick.

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019). Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes the year of schooling, category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional and the level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive. This information assists schools to formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools, consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools and develop shared practices so that they can review learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

A Year 6 Parent Information Evening will be held at Newman Senior High School Library on Tuesday 30 August at 6pm.

Please contact the High School for further information.

Please note the school canteen will be closed on the following dates:

Friday            19 August

Monday         22nd August

Wednesday   24th August

                                                                                                  Friday            26th August

                                                                                                 Monday        29th August

                                                                                                Apologies for any inconvenience.

Fathers and positive male role models are welcome to attend our footy and maths morning.

Please dress up in your team's footy colours and bring a special snack for you and your child/ren to share

SAVE THE DATE for BOOK FAIR

MONDAY 5TH – THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

 We are looking for assistance with Set up, Pack down & Sales for our school’s Biggest Book Fundraiser.

If you can spare and hour or two please contact Ms Rickert at NPS Library on 08 9154 3900

For an enrolment form please call into the school office.

The BHP Pilbara Education Partnership is a collaborative partnership strengthening a community based approach to ensuring all students start school well prepared.

Session Details:

DAY:          Wednesdays & Thursdays

Time:         8.10am - 10.10am

Place:        Early Learning Centre in the Early Childhood Area at the school. (Rear car park)

Age:           0 - 4 multi-age play environments (Pre-Kindy)

Contact     Jaci Kilburn

Details:    jacqueline.kilburn@education.wa.edu.au

Current public health and social measures are below.

For schools:

• masks no longer mandatory, however, are recommended at school 

• density and capacity limits no longer apply to school activities

• asymptomatic close contacts no longer required to isolate (see requirements below)

• an additional supply of RATs for all students and staff, are now available from the School Office.

If your child becomes an asymptomatic close contact, due to a person in your household being COVID-19 positive, they will no longer have to isolate for 7 days. They will be required to:

• do a daily Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) and receive a negative result each day to attend school

• wear a mask at school (for students in Year 7 and above) and when travelling on public transport or ride-share.

In the meantime, if your child becomes symptomatic or a household close contact, please contact us.

All school activities can resume, and we will continue to follow COVID-19 safe measures.

         Mon 22 Aug     Jumps & Throw

         Wed 24 Aug     Book Week Parade 8.20am

         Thurs 25 Aug   Reading By Torchlight 5.30 -6.30pm

         Fri 26 Aug        Athletics

         Tues 30 Aug    Father's Day Stall    

         Thurs 1 Sept   Father's Day Math Morning & Stall

         Fri 2 Sept         ECE Carnival

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

2022-Information-Booklet.pdf (newmanps.wa.edu.au)

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!