It has certainly been a big two weeks at Norwood Primary School. National Science week is on this week with the theme Glass – More than meets the eye. Students around the school have been exposed to some fantastic learning opportunities both in classrooms and lunch time activities. Keep an eye out for photos and updates throughout this week and next on our Facebook page.

There has been some staffing movement that impacts on us here at Norwood. Mrs Katrina Richards has been the successful applicant for a full-time AST position at Longford Primary School until the end of the year. The position will be starting Monday 22/8. This will be a fantastic opportunity for Katrina to continue to build her leadership capacity and gain valuable experience. On behalf of the school, I would like to congratulate Katrina and wish her all the best for the remainder of 2022.

Coming in to the 5/6 team will be Mr Rich Talbot who has come us from East Launceston Primary School and Launceston Big Picture School. Mr Talbot is an experienced teacher who we know will bring valuable contributions to the team and school.

Communicating Learning Progress with Families

Meaningful communication of learning achievement, learning progress and student wellbeing is integral to supporting the partnerships between families and schools that effectively promote student learning and wellbeing. For Term 3 Norwood Primary School will be providing families with the opportunity for a two or three-way conversation focusing on learning progress, application to learning, wellbeing, and/or learning plan goals. Teaching staff may also discuss and share feedback on evidence of learning. More information regarding this communication will be emailed to all families during week 5. Please keep an eye out for this important communication.

Student Wellbeing and Engagement Survey

The wellbeing of our students is important to us - we want to hear how students feel, and think, about different things going on in their lives.

Those in Years 4, 5 and 6 at Norwood Primary School will be taking part in the Student Wellbeing and Engagement Survey. The results from this survey will help us get a picture of the current wellbeing of our students, and what we can do to improve future wellbeing for learning. The more students who take part, the clearer our picture will be.

A letter with more information will be sent home next week for all Year 4, 5 and 6 students, including Frequently Asked Questions and a form to sign and return to the school if you do not want your child to participate in the survey. If you would like further information, please contact the school.

Thank you for supporting us to ensure that all our learners are safe, feel supported and are able to flourish, so they can engage in learning.

Kind regards, Luke

Photo Day - Tomorrow -Thursday 18th August

Students should wear their full school uniform, jumpers will be removed for photos.  

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 today, 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.

To assist when selecting your child's class please see corresponding names.

Classes throughout our school have been digging deeper into what respect means for them both on an individual level and more broadly within the school context. Our value of Respect underpins our way of being at Norwood Primary School. It has been fantastic to see the varying ways that our teams of teachers have undertaken this. Some of these include:

• Pyramids of Respect
• Linking Respect to being a self manager
• Utilising Y-charts to explicitly unpack one Respect behaviour at a time

Why Respect?

At Norwood Primary School we respect ourselves, others, our past, our future, our environment and we are kind. Respect is a foundational value throughout not only Norwood Primary but the DoE. It provides us with a common understanding and expectation of how we relate, communicate and treat one another. Through acknowledging others opinions and experiences we can accept and celebrate difference. Respecting each other enables us to develop trust and allows us to work collaboratively. Respect creates a safe and supportive environment so we can continually grow and develop.   

What does Respect look like at Norwood Primary School?

• being kind and considerate of others 
• being active listeners
• being inclusive and accepting of others
• acknowledging hard work
• being fair with everyone
• valuing others right to learn

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 Respect behaviours of our Expected Student Behaviour with a Respect badge, which they can wear every day. These badges will be presented to students in assemblies in late Term 3. 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.

Touch Tasmania is running a Grade 5/6 tournament for interested students on the 5^th September. Norwood is looking to enter some teams in this event to compete against other Launceston schools throughout a day of competition.

Games will be likely be held at Prospect Park, Prospect Vale on Monday 5^th September (Week 7) between the times of 9:30am and 2:30pm. Games will be 25 minutes long, with the number of games played throughout the day dependant on entrant numbers. 

Prior experience with Touch Football is not necessary, anyone with an interest in participating is welcome to join!

The only equipment required to play is football/soccer boots, students would be representing Norwood in our sports tops.

There will not be a cost for students to participate in the event and the school will be providing transport.

If your child/ren are interested or would like more information, please email Mr Humphrey on ben.humphrey@education.tas.gov.au

Expressions of interest for this event close this Friday.

Ben Humphrey

Are you interested in learning baby massage? If you have a newborn to 12 month old baby you are invited to come along to a free of charge baby massage session.

When: Wednesday 24^th August 

Time: from 11:00-11:45am

Where: Kinder room

What to bring: a blanket and towel

Naomi from ‘Wholistic Massage’ will guide us on how to give your baby a calming whole body massage.

Please RSVP by contacting the school office on 63442533 or messaging Tania Fankhauser via the LIL Facebook page.

Looking forward to seeing you and your little one soon!

Tip of the Week

Talk to your children everyday!

When children hear a lot of words, it improves their undersatnding of language.  It also increases the number and variety of words that they understand and use. 

Upcoming events - We need your help!

Father’s day Stall – This will be held on Wednesday 31^st and Thursday 1^st September, can you spare some time to wrap gifts or assist on the stall?

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

 More information will be sent home shortly about the event, volunteering and how your child’s class will be involved in the day

We are currently asking for donations

• Small unwrapped toys from McDonalds etc – for prizes
• Trash & Treasure – Your unwanted Toys, Games and books only (please don’t bring these to school until the week before the fair)

School Disco – Thursday 29^th September, look out for more information coming up

Please like and share our Facebook page to help keep you updated with all our current activities! https://www.facebook.com/NorwoodPSSA

We can be contacted at norwoodpsa@gmail.com