From the Principal

Dear Norwood PS Families 

Welcome to our first newsletter for the 2024 school year.

A big welcome back to all our existing families and a special welcome to those joining us for the first time. 

We have had a very settled start to the year. It has been wonderful to see the enthusiasm for the return to school within the children as they venture into their new school year. Thank you to all parent and carers for ensuring that your children are well prepared for a successful start.

Throughout this term, alongside of our regular curriculum areas, each of our classes will be working within an Inquiry about building relationships and connections.  The overarching inquiry question that all teacher teams have used to guide this learning is "How can we foster a culture of belonging, positive relationships, community and ultimately a sense of connection at Norwood Primary". 

Our teaching teams have each planned this together to align with the age and development of the students across the school. Therefore, learning will look different across various year groups, however, the ultimate goal is for us to develop a sense of belonging and connection within and across the school not only with our students but extending to families along the way.  Given that some classes may start with 'tuning in' activities about their personal connections etc, some children may come home with questions that have arisen from the work in class.  Please ask your child's class teacher if you would like to know any more about this area of learning.

School Association Welcome BBQ; a time for meeting and greeting!

All NPS families are invited to attend our Welcome BBQ, supported by our very active School Association next Thursday 22nd February 4:30 -6:00pm. This is a perfect time to get to know other families and have a chat with school staff.  All our teachers and leadership team with be out and about at this so bring your picnic rugs etc. and come along and join us.  

SAFEGUARDING TRAINING IN OUR SCHOOLS

Many of you may have already seen our Facebook post in relation to the safeguarding training for volunteers. Please also see below the flyer with a QR Code for this training. It is now mandatory that all staff, external providers and volunteers to undertake this training. This must be done by volunteers before any volunteer work can be done. This doesn't take very long, on completion you will get a certificate. Please either print or take a screenshot of the certificate to email or present to the school office. 

I am looking forward to our work together for another year. 

Kind regards,