Newman Primary School

Congratulations and well done to both the Student Leadership team and Room 6 for hosting our recent assemblies! Room 6, your performance is one of my favourite songs "Going on a bear hunt" and you performed it so well. I could watch you do this over and over again!

A massive thank you to the P&C and parent volunteers who continue to support our award winners with a morning tea for them and their parents/carers. This is very special for our fortnightly award winners.

Our Year 3-6 students participated in the Faction Swimming Carnival. We had a very successful event with many champions, runner up champions, great sportsmanship and Parnka took home the shield. Well done to all the students and staff who took part in the carnival. Such an event would not be successful without our amazing parent helpers!!

I thank our student leadership group for running such an organised ANZAC DAY Remembrance Service during week 10 of Term 1! It was a privilege to have Michael Smith, a representative from the Pilbara Army Regiment speak to our NPS community. Each class made and were able to lay a wreath at the flagpole as a sign of respect for our past soldiers. Then, Ava, Tinbite and Dean joined in with the Community dawn service and represented NPS with pride.

We welcome back Darrielle Batchelor-Hirama – Special Needs Allied Professional who has returned from maternity leave. Darrielle is working across our Early Childhood and Junior Grades.

We also welcome Michael Munro to our team for this term. Michael is part of the Department of Education’s flying squad. Michael is doing an amazing job across all year levels and jumping in wherever he is asked. Yes, I am trying to talk Michael into staying with us!!!!

This term, our staff have been undertaking many different Professional Learning opportunities including Graduate modules, Talk for Writing and Kindergarten Pre-Lit. I thank all staff for their continued professionalism and hard work they put in for all our students.

We held our Interschool Swimming Carnival during week 2. The competition was fierce, and the sportsmanship was outstanding. Congratulations to those students who won the champion or runner up champion in each of the age groups. A massive congratulations to South Newman Primary School who was the overall winning school for 2025 by 12 points.

A massive thank you to our wonderful P&C who have recently held a Mothers’ Day/carers day at the school. The children were very excited to attend and enjoyed the experience of “independent shopping”. Fantastic effort to our dads that volunteered to run the stall over the 2 days. We hope everyone all had a special day!

As the weather is cooling, the mornings at school are becoming a little chilly. I encourage all families to purchase a school jumper from Sports Power as described in our uniform policy. If another jumper is needed in the interim, a mostly plain black jumper is the most suitable. Please put your child’s name on their clothing items.

Our school is continuing its journey with Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). PBS provides a continuum of support to build relationships with students and guide the implementation of evidence-based practices to improve student academic, behaviour and social and emotional learning outcomes. Newman Primary School’s values are: Be Responsible; Show Respect and Strive for Success.

Coming up next week is our Colour Fun Run. If you have not set up your child’s profile page, there is still time. Join in the fun of the whole school event on WEDNESDAY 28 MAY, 1:30pm on the school oval. Remember to wear a white shirt to school on this day.

Newman Primary School is committed to providing quality education to all students in a safe, inclusive and caring learning environment. We value working together with parents and families as critical partners in student learning outcomes. Effective communication is the key to building a positive relationship between home and school and plays an important part in the education of your child. You should feel confident that we will listen and respond to your concerns and effectively manage and resolve complaints.

We look forward to the upcoming weeks!

Robyn Hudson                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Principal

Welcome back to another term! We hope you all had a wonderful school holiday.

Our first expected behaviour for the term, which ran over Weeks One and Two, was: “We show respect through whole body listening.” This falls under our Showing Respect value.

Our expected behaviour for Weeks Three and Four is: “We keep our hands and feet to ourselves.” This also falls under the Showing Respect value.

Here are our expected behaviours for the upcoming fortnights:

Weeks Five and Six expected behaviour: “We raise our hand when we want to ask or answer a question.” This falls under the value Show Respect.

Weeks Seven and Eight expected behaviour: “We follow all staff instructions.” This falls under the value Be Responsible.

As of the end of Week Two, our school has earned a total of 6,573 tokens:

Be Responsible: 1846

Show Respect: 1577

Strive for Success: 3150

The students have now reached their second whole-school reward, which is Free Dress Day. This happened on Thursday the 22nd of May. Well Done to all the students and keep up the amazing work. We are very excited to see how many tokens our students can earn this year!

If you have any questions about Positive Behaviour Support at Newman Primary School, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your classroom teacher.

Thanks for your continued support.

The PBS Team

Newman Primary school runs an on-school site Early Learning Program for children and families aged 0-3.  This program targets children’s readiness for school by offering a coordinated approach to engage children and their families with important services and early intervention to address areas of developmental concern.

Come down to Newman Primary Room K9 in the Early Childhood area on Thursday and Friday from 8:00am - 10:00am to meet Miss Lisa Mahoney and learn about the importance that language plays in your child’s developmental journey.

This program is proudly sponsored by BHP and there is no cost to families who wish to attend.

Letters have been sent home if your 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!

Everyone is welcome to attend all of our special events.

Tuesday 27 May - Reconciliation Breakfast

Wednesday 28 May - Colour Fun Run

Friday 30 May - School Development Day

Monday 2 June - WA Day 

Monday 9 June - Book Fair

Friday 13 June - Cross Country

                                                                                                 Friday 20 June - Opening of Yarning Circle

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