May 17th

 

 

YEP!

The Commissioner for Children and Young People is excited to announce that our YEP! program is officially launching on 9 May 2023. Your Engagement Place (YEP!) is a place where children and young people under the age of 18 can find ways to engage with CCYP and other organisations around Tasmania to have a voice on things that matter to them. Any child and young person aged under 18 who registers before 9 June enters the membership draw for a chance to win an iPad. Children and young people can register here.

You can check out our YEP! hub now by visiting our new CCYP website. If you are an adult and would like to keep up to date with current engagement opportunities available to children and young people in Tasmania, fill out our adult subscription form.

Should you have any questions at all about the new program or wish to promote an ethical engagement opportunity open to young Tasmanians, please do not hesitate to email us at childcomm@childcomm.tas.gov.au or call us on (03) 6166 1366

Karen

Karen Monaghan | Principal

Norwood Primary School

Cross Country Carnival - This Friday 19th May

Students are to wear their uniform (not school dresses) and running shoes, bring a large drink bottle, warm clothing, spare shoes and socks. House colours are encouraged.

Students with asthma need to bring their puffers.

Parents and spectators are encouraged to attend this event, with a cordoned off section for viewing. This will allow spectators to see both the start and finish of the events. There is no limit to the number of spectators per student, however, please stay home if you are feeling unwell. We appreciate your assistance with this.

The structure of the day is below. It should be noted that spectators will not be able to leave/enter the viewing area during race times.

Kinder Fankhauser and Kinder Williams will be running their events tomorrow, Thursday 18^th May at 2:00pm.

Ben Humphrey

HPE Teacher

Grades 5-6 A, 5-6 B, 5-6 C, 5-6 D & 5-6 E

Our classes will be travelling by bus to the Richmond Village Green. From there, we will be exploring three locations that support the work we have been doing throughout our History inquiry, regarding the colonisation of Australia. We will be visiting the Richmond Gaol, the Richmond Bridge and Old Hobart Town (a miniature replica of Hobart in the 1820’s.)

Date:      Wednesday 7th June

Time:      Depart school at 7:00am and return at approx. 4:45pm

Recess/Lunch: Students will need to bring a packed fruit break, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and a large drink of water.

Clothing: Students will need to wear their uniform and bring a jumper and coat in case of inclement weather.

Hayley Marshall, Megan Poke, Laura Cronin, Emily Faulkner, Robert O’Brien, Nita Cummings and Isaac Klug

Class Teachers

Classes throughout our school are working incredibly hard to unpack our value of Aspiration and what it means for them. This has been an explicit focus for us during Term 2. We know that people with high aspirations tend to do better, and that young people’s aspirations have a significant influence on both their educational attainment and their future life outcomes.

By embedding this value in the culture of our school, we model the behaviours we encourage in our learners. Aspiration can relate to any area of life and can be linked to a sense of purpose or inner drive.

Having a value of aspiration can include:

• Expecting the best from ourselves and from others
• Striving for success
• Setting goals and planning to achieve them
• Building on our strengths and working on our weaknesses
• Continuing to lift and improve performance.

Aspiration helps us to move beyond our current circumstances and focus on where we’d like to be.

As part of our celebration of our Values, we will be awarding those students who have consistently displayed and modelled the Aspiration behaviours of our Expected Student Behaviour. Students who are recognised for displaying Aspiration, will be presented with an Aspiration badge, which they can wear every day. These badges will be presented to students at a whole school assembly 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.

Value Certificate Recipients

It was fantastic to acknowledge students across the school last week, 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.

A reminder to families that mid-year reports will be distributed in Week 9.

The report will show your child’s learning achievement on a 9-point visual scale for students in Years 1 to 6 (and for Prep students at the end of the year).

The 9-point scale shows where your child’s learning achievement is against the expected standard for their year level.

There will be no teacher comments in the report. Later this term parent/teacher conferences will be offered in Weeks 10 and 11. These are a great opportunity to discuss how your child is progressing with their learning.

For more information about reports:

• School Reports FAQs
• Understanding the 9-point scale
• Visit the Department’s website at: Reporting - The Department for Education, Children and Young People Tasmania (decyp.tas.gov.au)

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. Our local schools are aiming to assist students and their families by making sure every child is prepared and feels supported in their choice for high school learning in 2024. 

Coming up later this Term we have experiences available for those students who will be attending Queechy High School and Kings Meadows High School, plus those students who are still unsure. The purpose of both of these experiences is to increase students connectedness to their Year 7 high school, whilst fostering engagement through introductory experiences.

There will be more information to come around these sessions.

On behalf of the NPS Community we would like to thank Woolworths Kings Meadows and Island Fresh for their invaluable support of our breakfast program.