March 27th

Dear Families,

Congratulations to Zoe W (year 5) and Elijah W (year 2) who are our first Aussie of the Month recipients for 2024.  

Aussie of the Month recognises and celebrates personal endeavour, achievement, and contribution to the school community and reflects the universal values we share as Australians, such as fair go, mateship, respect and inclusion. Teachers nominate students they see displaying these values. 

We are greatly looking forward to our Aussie of the Month wall filling up as the year progresses.

We are extremly proud of our years 3 & 5 students who have undertaken NAPLAN over the past two weeks.  This ran very smoothly and a big congratulations to students for your high level of focus and resilience. 

School Association

Our NPS School Association Annual General meeting was held last week.  Thank you to all our committee members for your ongoing dedication to your member role, and to our newly elected Executive team. 

Thank you also to Rachel Kerrison (Treasurer), Rhiannon Morrison (Vice Chair)  and  Katie Nobes (Secretary) for the dedication you have given to each of your roles.

I look forward to another positive and productive year with this extremely dedicated team. 

DON'T FORGET ....

Our Colour Run will be taking place tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon. This will be loads of fun, and at the end, all participating students will look very colourful! The lighter coloured their clothes are, the more colourful they will look at the end!

Keep the fundraising going……$20,000 and I get SLIMED! 

Karen Monaghan| Principal

Anzac Day 2024 will fall during the second week of the school holidays.

Norwood Primary School will have representation at the march and the Launceston Cenotaph and will be laying a wreath on behalf of the school.

Timings for the ANZAC Day service are as follows:

March form up commences at 9:45am.

• March commences at 10:15am
• Civic Service begins at approx. 10:30am – 10:45am
• Service should be completed by 11:30am

All NPS students and families are welcome to attend the community service.

If students are going to be present and want to be part of the Norwood Primary School group, can you please notify the office.

The Launceston RSL encourages those students that have Service Medals or replicas, of their Veteran relatives, to wear them on ANZAC Day. These medals must be worn on the right breast.

Value Certificate Recipients

It was fantastic to acknowledge students across the school in week 6, 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.

In 1-2A we have been learning about artist Vincent Van Gogh and his famous 'Sunflowers' painting. We made our own sunflower collages with materials such as pipe cleaners, cardboard, paint and tissue paper after studying details of some beautiful sunflowers that Mrs Roberts brought in.

In science, 3-4E are looking at 'How can we be a scientist?'

An inquiry into what makes a scientist and how we can conduct fair scientific investigations. 

Thank you to everyone for your Brixhibition entries and to Mrs Stanton for putting together the foyer display. Congratulations to our winners for each age group. Winners will be announced next week.

Last Monday we hosted our 2024 Grade 3-6 Athletics Carnival at the St Leonards Athletic Centre. Students arrived at the track excited with plenty of house spirit and colour around. A day packed with running, jumping and throwing events showcased some excellent young athletes who received great encouragement from their house peers.

Despite some warm weather the participation from attending students was great, particularly when it came time for the newly made house chants which probably could have been heard at Norwood such was the gusto of the voices.

Waratah house took out the honours on the day, with Wattle pipping Banksia house by a solitary point to take home second. Another almost yearly reminder to students that every event participated in could have big consequences for your house.

A big thankyou to parents and families who were in attendance to both watch and assist in the running of the carnival. Students who excelled individually have spent their day today representing Norwood at the LSSSA Athletics Carnival. A wrap up of this event will be in next week’s newsletter.

Ben Humphrey

Last Tuesday eight Grade 5/6 Students were chosen to participate in the Tasmanian Youth Climate Leaders Conference at RHPS. We worked with adults from different companies and organisations to learn about how we can be leaders in our school around climate change. We embarked on an exhilarating journey full of fun activities, new subjects and so much more. We even got to try a tasty stew with home-made rice and freshly cut watermelon from the Ravenswood 24 Carat School Garden. Mr Walker was kind enough take us to the conference for the day.

Year 5/6 Outdoor Education students experienced rock climbing at the Penny Royal Adventures site last Wednesday. It was fantastic to see these students excel in an area that was out of their comfort zones and all showed enormous amounts of courage. Check out how high off the ground some of these students are!

Further photos will follow in our week 10 newsletter.