Leadership Report 

Buildings Upgrade

We have been working with the architects to develop our concepts for the new buildings. The architects have been just finished their consulting with teachers and developing the classrooms to reflect their wants and desires. We are on track to present to the community later this term so the students and community can have input before we finalise the concepts.

Reminder - NAPLAN

Year 3 and 5 teachers and students are in the final stages of preparing students for NAPLAN next week. The preparation is to familiarise the students with the assessment tasks and allow them be more comfortable with the on-line delivery of NAPLAN. This year the Year 5's will be completing the writing element of NAPLAN as an on-line task. The Year 3's will be still use pencil and paper for their writing assessment. 

Curriculum Day - Term 2

This term's curriculum day has been re-scheduled to Friday June 18th. It was initially scheduled for the last day of term but due to organisational issues we have brought the day forward. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have occurred.

Replacement Teachers

Occasionally we have teachers who for a range of reasons need to be absent from school. Our current practice has been where supply is available to replace the teacher who is absent. However this term it has been extremely difficult for us and as the system in general to employ replacement teachers is undersupplied. So in response to this situation your child's grade may need to be split across grades from time to time if we cannot employ a replacement teacher. 

We hope you understand this is not an ideal situation, and we hope that we rarely need to do this.

Mother's and Others Day

We would like to recognise all the mum's and special person who tirelessly and unconditionally look after children and adults world wide. We wish you and others in the Newlands community a wonderful day.

School Dental Program

Details regarding this program can be found in the Wellbeing section of this newsletter.