June 18th

Prep A & B Excursion

Where: Hagley Farm Primary School

When: Tuesday 24th June

Time: Depart school at 9:00am - return by 2:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: No lunch orders on this day

P/1A Excursion 

Where: Hagley Farm Primary School

When: Thursday 26th June

Time: Depart school at 9:00am - return by 2:30pm

PLEASE NOTE: No lunch orders on this day

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.

Aussie of the Month Award

1/2B

This term the class has investigated Living and Non-living Things. These are some of the Tri-ramus designed to support our living thing.

We have also focused on Capital Letters, talking about where we need to use capital letters and their importance in our writing.  Everyone created a Letter Person as a celebration of learning for this unit of work.

5/6B

In 5/6 Secker, we have been scientists exploring our place in space.

We have been posing questions and researching the Earth's tilt and orbit, and how these factors connect to the seasons, as well as night and day.

Did you know Earth's tilt is 23.5 degrees and we are on a tilt because something the size of Mars knocked into Earth placing us on a tilt? 

We are very proud of the hard work we put into this learning this term! 

Over the past 2 weeks we were pushed to our limits making the fastest cardboard formula 1 car we could. The cars were made of extra thick card, which is thicker than normal cardboard paper.  They were difficult to make, but we managed to succeed. it was very exciting figuring out how it worked and how to put them together!

We raced our cars on Thursday 5^th June with the help of students and Mr Clark from Queechy High School.  Thankfully they helped us put the wheels on our cars properly. We had a fantastic time watching them all race, with most going down the 20 metre track in less than 2.5 seconds!

By Anna v and Evelyn C

A team of 50 Grade 3-6 students have represented Norwood at the LSSSA and State All Schools Cross Country. At the LSSSA Division 1, Norwood came second overall. At the carnivals we have seen persistence, courage, and resilience as students pushed themselves and each other to give their best effort. Our team should be proud of the sportsmanship they demonstrated.

Yesterday, was the All Schools Cross Country Carnival at Symmons Plains. We had 46 young athletes participate in the event and there were 200 plus students from all over the state per race.

As always, the encouragement of our NPS students was excellent.

Special congratulations to Chloe A on finishing in 4^th place in her event – what an amazing achievement!

Well done to all our NPS Team!

On the Friday 20th June, the following students will participate in the Primary School Netball Championships at Hoblers Bridge. We wish them all the best!

5/6 Sports - Friday 6th June (Week 8)

No 5/6 Sport

5/6 Sports - Friday 27th June (Week 9)

Hockey v East L'ton & Trevallyn @ Hockey Centre

Netball H v Riverside 1 @ Norwood

Netball S v Waverley @ Waverley

Football v Riverside @ Norwood

Soccer v Riverside 1 @ Norwood

Gardening @ Norwood

Bootcamp @ Norwood

What a wonderful turn up to our 2025 Winterfest. Congratulations and a huge thank you to our organising committee and to all our volunteers helping to make this event successful!

We had the pleasure of inviting, Hayley, from RACT to discuss road safety with our younger students for another year. Hayley specifically discussed crossing the road safely. The children learnt about safe places to cross and when to use traffic lights/ pedestrian crossings and school crossings. She also reminded the children of the motto, stop, look, listen and think, before crossing the road.

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 for Education, Children and Young People website.

Medication in Tasmanian Government Schools - The Department for Education, Children and Young People Tasmania (decyp.tas.gov.au)

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 signed by a doctor and parent as well as an ‘Administration of Prescribed Medication Authorisation’ completed by a doctor, pharmacist or practice nurse. These must be updated annually.

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