From the Principal
Congratulations to everyone for supporting our Book Week event. A wonderful time was had by all, and what a treat to have the Examiner attend and publish such a positive story about our school. I was very unfortunate to have a prior commitment off-site in the morning so had to miss out on my dressing up for this year. I'll certainly be attempting to align this better for next year.
Road Safety
Please be aware of changes to the ‘drop off and pick up’ zone. This zone is no longer 5 minute parking. The Launceston City Council have installed no parking signs and extended the zone down in front of the school to the disable parking spaces.
This has been done in response to the back up of traffic which has become very unsafe as it interrupted the flow of the traffic. It will now be a pull in, stop and drop/pick up. Therefore, if your child/ren are not waiting when you get there, you will not be able to park and wait in the 'drop off and pick up’ zone.
We are currently waiting on new school signs, however the Launceston City Council signs clearly state no parking between 8:30 - 9:15 am and 2:30 - 3:15 pm.
2021
As per Department of Education policy for transfer of permanent staff, we will be having some changes in our teaching staff for 2021. This will mean that some of our long-term teachers will be moving on to new schools, and replaced with permanent DoE staff requiring transfers from other schools. At this stage I can confirm the following teaching staff changes.
| Outgoing Staff | Incoming Staff | ||
| Lynette House | Riverside | Kayla Farran | Longford |
| Brooke McCoy | Summerdale | Kellie Olsen | East Tamar |
| Sam Hookway-Dare | Exeter | Kate Scolyer | Riverside |
| Leonie Youdale | St Marys DHS | Allira Hayes | East Launceston |
| Bec Barker | Trevallyn | Carol Roberts | Longford |
| Amanda Horkings | Trevallyn | ||
| Ros Faulkner | Punchbowl | ||
| We are still to confirm some placements for our temporary staff. | |||
| Rebecca Chandler & Grace Evorall will continue in their current AST roles for 2021. | |||
If you would like to take up the opportunity to provide any information that may support placement of students into classes for 2021, and haven't already done so, please email this to the school email address - norwood.primary@education.tas.gov.au - by October 26th with the title "2021 Student Information"in the subject line.
Please be aware that requests for particular teachers are not taken into account, rather the focus should be on educational and\or social emotional information. If you have something that you would like to talk with me personally about, please contact the school office for an appointment.
Karen