From the Acting Principal
Dear families,
I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful long weekend. I want to thank the Norwood community for a lovely warm welcome to the school. The students have been a delight to get to know. It has been an absolute pleasure getting into classrooms and seeing students engaged in learning.
This week our students in years 3 and 5 have begun the NAPLAN online assessments for Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation, and Mathematics. It's important to reassure your children and yourselves that these tests represent a moment in time and teachers know your child/children's strengths, personal qualities, and creative skills which NAPLAN doesn’t assess. We are regularly encouraged by our student’s determination and resilience. If your child is at all nervous about NAPLAN please let their teacher know. Our Prep students continue to complete their beginning of year PAT EY testing, this provides valuable data around what students already know and what we will need to focus on throughout the year.
We look forward to our athletics carnival for students in years 3-6 on Thursday 16th which will be held at St Leonards Athletic Centre, a big thank you to Mr Humphrey for all the organisation that goes into running this event. We look forward to seeing family and friends supporting our students. I hope to meet a few more families on the day.
It has been fantastic to see so many families coming along to our LiL programs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. We are incredibly lucky to be able to offer such a variety of LiL programs including Little Joeys, Little Readers, Chat and Climb and Music Mates. In particular I extend a warm welcome to those families who are joining the Norwood Primary School community for the very first time.
SAFEGUARDING LEAD APPOINTED
Norwood Primary School has recently appointed Nita Cummings as our first Safeguarding Lead.
Safeguarding Leads have been appointed in all Tasmanian State Schools to help ensure all children and young people in Tasmania are known, safe, well and learning.
Nita will support the wellbeing of all our students and help us all understand that keeping children and young people safe is everyone’s responsibility.
Please support Nita in this new role!
For further information on Safeguarding in Schools please click here
Elizabeth O'Donahue