March 30th

I would like to sincerely thank our entire Norwood Primary School Community for your support, consideration and adaptability as we juggle the requirements around Covid. This support reinforces and exemplifies our School wide values of Aspiration, Growth, Courage and Respect. As a school the impact of this has been felt, both through student and staff absence. Acquiring relief staff, both teaching and non-teaching, is continuing to be a significant challenge at the moment. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our staff team who have been incredibly flexible in stepping in to fill the gaps to keep our school operating as ‘normal’ as possible. This allows our students to continue with their learning, every day. Where we have been impacted through outbreaks, this process has been managed efficiently and we are now seeing a steady increase in our attendance.  

NAPLAN 2022 - 10/5 – 20/5

As students progress through their school years, it is very important that checks are made along the way to see how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and mathematics – skills that will set them upon the path to success as adults.

NAPLAN is a point-in-time assessment that allows parents to see how their child is progressing in literacy and numeracy against the national standard and compared with their peers throughout Australia. At the classroom level, NAPLAN provides additional information to support teachers’ professional judgement about student progress. Senior Leaders use NAPLAN results to inform school planning and to allocate resources and support including informing decisions around targeted programs and initiatives for individuals and groups.

This year our Grade 3 and 5 students will be participating in the online Australia wide NAPLAN testing from Tuesday, 10^th May through till Friday, 20^st May. All children in Grades 3 and 5 will complete online tests in the areas of Numeracy, Language Conventions and Reading.

Parent information regarding NAPLAN will be sent out this week. If you have any questions around this please contact the school.

Kind regards, Luke

Thank you to our entire school community for your cooperation this term by practising COVID-safe behaviours.

As you know, an important COVID-safe behaviour is to stay at home if you’re unwell and get tested for COVID-19 using a rapid antigen test.

Public Health tells us that the number of cases of COVID-19 in children is low, and they’re likely to have milder symptoms.

It’s a good reminder to be mindful of the symptoms of COVID-19 in children. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 in children are cough, fever, runny nose and gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

For more information, please visit the Tasmanian Government Coronavirus website or contact the Tasmanian Public Health Hotline on 1800 671 738, or Department of Education COVID-19 Support Hotline at COVID19support@education.tas.gov.au or on 1800 816 057.

If you need support translating or interpreting this information, please contact the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.

Tip of the Week

If you are a parent of a young child remember it is not a race to get them writing.  They need lots of pre-writing experiences before they can put pen to paper!

Launching into Learning Upcoming Sessions

• Pop up playgroup at Punchbowl Reserve (0-4 year olds) on Thursday 31 March 9:30-10:30am
• Pop up playgroup at Charlton Street Playground (0-4 year olds) on Tuesday 5 April 1:30-2:30pm
• Kindy Gym (0-4 year olds) in the Kinder yard Wednesday 6^th April 9:15-10:00am
• Forest Fun (2-4 year olds) at Norwood Primary School on Thursday 7April 1:45-2:45pm

Hope to see you there!

Tania Fankhauser

School beanies are now available, ONLY in store at Midford School Wear - $25.00  

School Photo Day has been postponed until later in the year. We will let you know when we have a new date confirmed. 

Thank you so much Norwood families for all your donations for the Easter Raffle and we hope all the kids had a great time on free dress day.

For anyone who was away Friday and are back this week we would still love any Easter donations, kids can drop them into the school office.

Easter Raffle tickets are now live on Qkr! App. $2 per ticket. Drawn on Tuesday 12th April. Please encourage family, friends, anyone to buy tickets into this awesome raffle. Number of prizes will be released soon.

Easter Bun and Anzac Biscuit Fundraiser. Orders OPEN NOW on Qkr! App ready for Easter. Delivered and sent home on Tues 12th April. Please share and order for family and friends.

We need your help! please follow the attached link and complete our volunteer survey

https://norwoodps.schoolzineplus.com/form/27

Please like and share our Facebook page to help keep you updated with all our current activities!

All are welcome to attend our meetings, you do not need to commit to be a regular member or attendee, you can also just be a volunteer. If you have any questions or want more information about how you can be involved and have the chance to make a real difference to your school community please contact us at norwoodpsa@gmail.com