It is unbelievable to think that this is the last newsletter for Term 3 2022. A heartfelt thank you to our entire school community for your on-going support throughout this term as we have navigated some difficult circumstances. I have been very fortunate to be visiting classrooms on a daily basis and have observed our students highly engaged in lessons. This is a direct reflection and testament to the hard work our staff have been undertaking in their Collaborative Learning Teams. It has been fantastic to see the quality learning that is taking place across our school.  

There have been many fantastic opportunities occurring in our school for our students. Some of these have included:

• Norwood Primary School Fair
• Tamar Tales (formerly Write a Book in a Day) run by the QA and organised from a NPS perspective by Mrs Kate Scolyer
• Kinder Excursion to Hagley
• The Year 5/6 3-day excursion experience
• Years 3-6 Swimming and Water Safety Program
• Norwood’s Got Talent
• Dance Fever rehearsals
• Online Auslan Pilot Project
• Multiple LSSSA Events
• Values Certificates given out in weeks 3, 6 and 7 both at after lunch line ups and at assemblies
• Respect badges awarded to one student from each class
• The Young Tassie Scientists program and Science Week
• Tasmanian Science Talent Search
• Book Week celebrations including our parade through the hallways and buddy classes visiting one another to share books and celebrate reading
• Chess Tournament
• Book Fair
• Touch Football Tournament
• Student Parliament meetings held in weeks 3, 6 and 9 to develop our NPS Playground Expectations document
• Student leaders involved in hosting assembly, our Peace Pole Ceremony and helping facilitate the Student Parliament sessions
• Grade 1 Phonics Check- a compulsory check to see how the phonics skills of all students in grade 1 are developing

Building Works & Infrastructure

We were successful in receiving a large outdoor learning grant. This money will be spent reshaping the space near the prep toilets to convert this into an outdoor learning space. This space will provide students from multiple classes with an outdoor option for learning and will fit the aesthetic of other outdoor spaces throughout the school.

Surveys

A thankyou to all families who participated in the 2022 School Satisfaction Survey, your feedback is important to inform our School Improvement Planning and decision making. Staff were also asked to complete a Satisfaction and Wellbeing Survey and the data from this is invaluable.

Students in Years 4-6 have undertaken the annual Student Wellbeing Survey, which is another useful data point for our school and one that informs our School Improvement Plan. 

Staffing

In conjunction with Learnings Services Human Resources we have commenced planning for staffing in 2023.  This is an ongoing and dynamic process that can run right up until the start of the school year, but I can advise we will have some changes to staffing. This will be communicated with families in due course.

2023 Organisation

The planning and organisation that goes into setting up NPS for success in 2023 has already begun.  It would be greatly appreciated if you could tell us now if you know that your child/ren will not be attending Norwood Primary School next year as student numbers do influence configuration of classes and the staffing and resource allocations. If you are aware of families who live in our area and who intend to enrol with us for 2023, can you please encourage them to contact the school. Thanks in advance for your understanding and assistance with this.

At the beginning of Term 4, I welcome families to send any information for class placement via the school email. Please be aware that requests for particular teachers will not be considered and instead need to be aligned to suit the educational needs of your child. Families are also welcome to make a time to come and speak with me if that is a preferred option. All requests will need to be in by the end of week 2, Term 4.

Best wishes for the holiday period.

Regards,

Luke Padgett

A/Principal

Value Certificate Recipients

It was fantastic to acknowledge students across the school, during recent Assemblies, who were deserving recipients of Values Certificates. These certificates highlighted those students who have displayed exceptional behaviour, an outstanding approach to learning and academic excellence. Congratulations to all recipients.

Respect Badge Recipients

The following students have consistently displayed and modelled the value of Respect throughout our school. Congratulations on being a positive role model to your peers.

Tip of the Week

Thank you to all those people who have donated items to Kinder.  It is greatly appreciated.

NORWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL is supporting....

We have a number of items of clothing, drink bottles, lunch boxes and plastic containers in our lost property box - located at the far end of the main corridor.  Any unnamed items that are not claimed by the end of term will be dontated to the City Mission. 

Are you due to clean out your cupboards? If so kinder are happy to take any clean items in good used condition to utilise in their outdoor area. 

We are looking for items such as;

If you could please drop your donations down to the Breezeway in the Kinder building, that would be appreciated. 

Thank you in advance for your help, our Kinders and future kinder children will greatly appreciate your donations! 

The Early Years team 

When: Thursday 29th September

Price: $3.00 per child

Times: 

Grades 1 and 2	3:30pm - 4:30pm
Grades 3 and 4	4:45pm - 6:00pm
Grades 5 and 6	6:15pm - 7:30pm

• Cordial, chips and chocolates will be available for purchase at 50c per item.
• STRICTLY NO PHONES
• Students must be picked up by a parent/guardian. Please enter via the large double doors and locate your child’s class group and notify the teacher that you are collecting your child.  Supervising teachers will mark students off when they have been collected. 

Kinders and Preps don’t miss out, they will have their disco during school hours, to be held on the same day. Kinders during their lunch time and preps during the afternoon. There is no cost and students are to wear normal school uniform.

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

COLOUR RUN!

The School Colour Fun Run is being held on Thursday 17th of November. Information packs went home with students yesterday.

We held our School Fair on Saturday 17^th September and well all we can say is Thank you. First and foremost, to our amazing Fair committee who have worked tirelessly since last year in preparation for this Fair, we had to postpone from April but carried on to get it done. The weather wasn't on our side but we made the right decision. Thankyou Chantal Innes, Fiona Baker, Nicole McQueen, Scott Driessen, Bec Leedham, Ben Cunningham, Kirsty Crawford and Kim Butterworth.

Thankyou to all the teachers and volunteers who came on the day we really do appreciate all your help and made all the stalls possible.

Special thanks must go to:

- Mark and Albert from Brown Cords

- Dance Fit

- Glen Dhu Super Skippers

- South Launceston Football Club

- Scouts Tasmania

- Queechy High School SLB doing Craft Stall

- Madie Peck and Lily Johnson who were our amazing face painters.

Thankyou all for coming and making our Fair a success. We hope to update you later this week of our final amount.

We must also thank our amazing local businesses who were so generous in donating prizes for our surprise wheel, silent auction and raffle. We couldn’t have done it without you. Please support these businesses when you can to thank them for their support:

Thankyou so much also to our food suppliers for their support:

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

We understand families are anxious for school photos to be returned.  We are sorry for how long it is take, but it is out of our control.  We have contacted Leading Image and they hope to have photos ready for distribution in week 2 of Term 4.  If you have any questions, please contact Leading Image directly on 1300 084 586

Midford Launceston store will be closed for stocktake from Tuesday 27^th September until Friday 30^th September and re-opening on Saturday 1^st October at 9am.