June 22nd

Yesterday 30 students represented Norwood in the All Schools Cross Country at Symmons Plains, these students were chosen based on their outstanding performance during our cross country season. All Schools Cross Country is a large scale event with over 200 students from all across Tasmanian in each race, there was much excitement and nervousness throughout the team.

The rain from the night before ensured no runner would cross the finish line as clean as they started which added extra eagerness to compete from our athletes. Throughout the day it was clear that the Norwood encouragement and sportsmanship was on full display, towards both our school competitors as well as other athletes.

All students who competed in yesterday’s event should be extremely proud of the achievement of representing Norwood in this competition as well as the aspiration, encouragement and respect they showed throughout the day.

Ben Humphrey

We have created snowy owls from the book 'Owl Babies'. We used different painting techniques to create our owls as part of our inquiry into animals and their connection to trees.

Tip of the week

One of the best gifts you can give your child is taking time reading good books to them. 

Did you know that if you read just one book a day to your child, by the time they reach Kindergarten they could have already been exposed to over 1000 books!! 

A great incentive has just been released by the Education Department. If you attend 10 LiL or State Library sessions you get a free coffee at Banjos and your child gets to choose a beautiful picture book to take home.

Please click on the link below to find out more information about this incentive.

https://greatstart.tas.gov.au/out-and-about/passport-to-learning/

Join our Launching into Learning at Norwood Primary School facebook page for updates on what LiL sessions are being offered each week and to see what our 0-4 year old and their families are getting up to!! Come and join us for some sessions, we would love to see you! 

Tania Fankhauser

School Photo Day is Thursday 18th August.

Ordering is online only click this link Norwood Primary School Photos and use access key ZNGLQKV9

If your child is unwell do not bring them to school, we may offer a catch up session later in the term. 

All students will have an individual photo taken on Photo Day regardless if they are ordering or not. Individual student ordering will stay open after Photo Day.

We are pleased to advised that we will be offering family photos, orders for family photos will close Wednesday 17th August - LATE ORDERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.  Family photos will be taken during school hours.  

Orders placed after printing the bulk of orders will be sent directly to parents and will incur a postage charge per order.

If you placed an order earlier in the year you do not need to do anything, your order will stand for the new date.

If you have any questions please contact Leading Image or the school office.

Classes throughout our school are working incredibly hard to unpack our value of Growth and what it means for them. This will continue to be an explicit teaching focus for us during Term 2.

 What does Growth look like at Norwood Primary School?

• looking for opportunities to develop a new skill or learning concept
• learning from experiences, mistakes and challenges 
• Encouraging all to make positive choices and do their best
• Listening to, accepting and acting on feedback
• Asking questions
• Never giving up.

Living the value of Growth means that we are focused on the process of learning, and we continually look for opportunities to improve. By embedding this value in the culture of our school, we model the behaviours we encourage in our learners.

As part of the celebration of our Values, we will be awarding those students who have consistently displayed and modelled the Growth behaviours of our Expected Student Behaviour. Students who are recognised for displaying Growth, will be presented with a Growth badge, which they can wear every day. These badges will be presented to students in assemblies later this Term. For parents/guardians of these students, please keep an eye out for an invitation to be a part of this assembly to recognise those students who go above and beyond.

Please Note: Student Leaders will be hosting all assemblies. Parent/Carers of our certificate and award recipients will be invited by text to attend.

Transitioning from primary to high school is a time full of fun, excitement and new experiences, but it can also be challenging or worrying for many students and their families. Norwood Primary School are fortunate to be able to collaborate with local high schools in order to make this process a smooth one. Below are two exciting opportunities for students transitioning to both Queechy High School and Kings Meadows High School:

Queechy High School

This will be our first trip to QHS for transition. For this visit QHS run a STEAM challenge in the library, the primary focus of this is to get students working collaboratively and also provide an opportunity for them to mix with some students from another school. Three schools at a time will go to QHS to maximise this interaction.

Date: Week 9 on Monday 27^th of June.

Punchbowl, Norwood, Waverley (+Invermay)

Arriving at 10:50 finishing at 12:20

This will be for all students who are considering attending QHS in 2023.

Kings Meadows High School

Visit 1 - The Year 7 Transition Team (Learning Support Kate Hume, Tom Hartley, Taylor Neilson, AST Brenton Gale, Year 7 2023 Leader Daniel Richardson and/or Claire Lovitt AP) will be visiting Year 6 classes commencing Week 8, Term 2 (20th - 24th June). The KMHS staff will be observing those transitioning Year 6s in their normal class and quietly speak to individuals about how they learn best.

Visit 2 - In addition to the Transition Team visiting, the Transition Leaders (Year 7, 2022 students) will be visiting to speak with Year 6 students about their transition journey and life at KMHS. This will also be an opportunity for our Year 6 students to explore the 'Welcome to KMHS' canvas course and participate in a virtual scavenger hunt through our grounds. This will take place on Monday of week 9.

This will be for those students intending to enrol at KMHS for 2023.

Please Note: Spectators are welcome at home games only.

Friday 24th June

Hockey v East Launceston at St Leonards Hockey Centre

Soccer v East Tamar at East Tamar

Netball H v Riverside at Norwood

Netball M v West Launceston at West Launceston

Football D v Trevallyn at Trevallyn

Football F v Riverside at Norwood

Bootcamp at Norwood

Friday 1st July

Hockey v St Leonards at St Leonards Hockey Centre

Soccer v Glen Dhu at Glen Dhu

Netball H v East L'ton at East L'ton

Netball M v Glen Dhu at Norwood

Football D v Punchbowl at Norwood

Football F v Glen Dhu at Glen Dhu

Bootcamp at Norwood

A reminder to parents and carers if your child will be absent please notify the school by 9:30am. You can do this in person, email school at norwood.primary@education.tas.gov.au, (please do not email individual staff members), phone (63442533), text message (0407 665 749) or via the Schoolzine App.

If student attendance remains unexplained after three days, parents will receive a follow up text message for them to please notify the school of these absences. Thank you!

If your child requires ‘over the counter’ medication at school you must sign a parent permission form.

If your child requires prescribed medication (eg. antibiotics) you must have an

‘Administration of Prescribed Medication Authorisation’ completed by a doctor, pharmacist or practice nurse. These forms are available at the school office or from the Department of Education website. Medication - The Department of Education Tasmania  

All medication must be handed into the school office in the original packaging. Students can only have their asthma medication in their bags.

If your child has Asthma and requires Asthma medication (eg. Ventolin) at school we will need an Asthma Action Plan and a ‘Administration of Prescribed Medication Authorisation’ signed by a doctor and parent. These must be updated annually.

Please ask at the School Office if you have any questions.

Levies are one of the many ways that families contribute to our school community. Levies support student learning by contributing towards the cost of essential items and services.

When setting school levies and charges the school:

• Considers inclusive education, community expectations and family financial constraints
• Sets levies at the lowest amount possible
• Consults with the School Association of the school

Payment for school levies are due, the school will be contacting families with outstanding levies to make arrangments for payment.  

if you are unable to pay in full we are happy to take instalments, please contact Nicole on 6344 2533 to arrange.  Payments can be made at the school using cash or card or online via BPay. Families with a Centerlink Health Care Card are eligible for financial assistance click here to apply online Student Assistance Scheme (STAS) (education.tas.gov.au)  

We need your help!

School Fair – Saturday 17^th September, save the date! Planning is starting to ramp up, if you would like to be involved with the planning committee please contact us.

We are currently asking for donations

• Old clean plant pots - to grow cuttings ready for sale at the fair.
• Small unwrapped toys from McDonalds etc – for prizes
• Trash & Treasure – Your unwanted toys, games and books

Please like and share our Facebook page to help keep you updated with all our current activities!

https://www.facebook.com/NorwoodPSSA

Next School Association meeting:

When:            Tuesday 9th August  2022

Time:              7:00pm

Where:           Staffroom and online

Exciting that we have our first face to face meeting for the year, if you would like to attend online please let us know at norwoodpsa@gmail.com to organise an invite link to the meeting.

All are welcome to attend our meetings, you do not need to commit to be a regular member or attendee, you can also just be a volunteer. If you have any questions, want to be on our mailing list or want more information about how you can be involved and have the chance to make a real difference to your school community please contact us at norwoodpsa@gmail.com

Entertainment Book – The school benefits from every membership purchased!