Newman Primary School

Well done to Room 11 who presented such an amazing assembly, showcasing their learning in Talk 4 Wring and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. For Pre-Primary they were such amazing public speakers and certainly set a high standard for us all to follow. Once again, I was blown away by all the amazing work of our students and was privileged to acknowledge this through our merit awards.

It is with sadness that we farewell our wonderful Education Assistant in Kindergarten, Isla Madson and welcome Mrs Diana Cure who will be joining this room. We also welcome two other Education Assistants, who have already settled into our school and are doing wonderful things with our students. Welcome to Mrs Fong Lieu and Miss Lily Reid. We are still on the lookout for cleaners to join our team and if you know of anyone who may be interested in this role, please direct them to our front office.

All reports K-6 will be emailed using the email address we have on file. If you wish to have a hard copy, please email newman.ps@education.wa.edu.au as soon as possible. Remember, the link you have been emailed will be ‘live’ for four weeks, so download for future reference.

Attendance comment in reports

Student reports will include an attendance comment which clearly states the WA Education Department’s view on the impact of student attendance on learning. This percentage is based upon student attendance at the end of Week 6, Term 2; so it may have altered since that time. The following wording has been adapted from the Department documents and coloured sections may be utilised. 

We had a very successfully learning Journey evening on Tuesday. Thank you to all the families that came along to share their son/daughter(s) amazing work throughout the year. The students did an amazing job sharing their progress and work in classrooms. Thank you to our teachers for all their hard work in preparing the students and thank you to the P&C for providing scrumptious dinner options for the evening.

We know many families have been helping to promote reading through the Premiers Reading Challenge. As a school we are using this medium to focus on the importance of reading. If you have not done so, I encourage you to sign up and share the joy or reading with your family. If you need assistance or would like the classroom teacher to help sign in please contact them. Reading is one of the biggest predictors of success for our students and we are proud of what our readers have achieved already with the challenge (see table below).

Reading Challenge by year level so far:

As a school we were really privileged to help raise funds for breast cancer awareness and research as this has strongly impacted our community. Well done to everyone on the day for wearing pink and donating to this worthy cause. 

We appreciated all the parent survey responses to our ‘School Culture Survey’ and will be sharing snippets of this each newsletter. The graph below represents responses related to Teaching Quality. Whilst all areas are positive, there are always areas for improvement. As a staff we have looked at these and discussed ways we can improve moving forward.

We've been having fun in our literacy sessions over the past few weeks, diving into the wonderful world of "The 3 Billy Goats Gruff." The students have been actively engaged and learning through fun activities.

Together, we created a story map and modified the text to ensure everyone could participate. The kids even came up with their own ideas and acted out the story with enthusiasm. It's been a joy to see them learn new vocabulary and text structures. We also got creative and made cute goat headbands as resources for the story. 

                                                                                                We're thrilled to have witnessed such enthusiasm and active participation from each student in                                                                                                 Room 11.

Newman Primary School leadership team are hosting a "Colour Explosion School Run 4 Fun" fundraiser. The students leadership team are wanting to purchase new flags with a stand to use at our assemblies and pull up banners with the National Anthem and School Song. Please support this fundraiser and set up an online profile today!

Make sure you keep an eye out for your child's sponsorship booklet to get started straight away.

Here's  to a colourful 2023, There are many wonderful prizes students can earn through their individual fundraising.

We can't wait to fundraise with you. Stay tuned!

Newman Neighbourhood Centre - Inaugural Kids Market!

Registrations are open for our inaugural kid's market.

Your kids can sell some of their old toys, clothes or handmade products and its free to have a stall!

If your child would like a stall, please contact Jane on 91751516 or admin@newmanneighbourhood.com.au or complete our form.  

https://forms.gle/jrPZf1fmnJ

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!

26 June               Reports go home

29 June               NAIDOC Activities

30 June               Last Day of Term 2

17 July                Student Free Day

18 July                Students Commence Term 3

26 July                ECE 100 Days of School

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

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