Message from Acting Principal Sarah
From Sarah Nightingale, Acting Principal
Message from Acting Principal Sarah
From Sarah Nightingale, Acting Principal
Congratulations to all our students, families, and staff on the near completion of Term 1. What a busy, successful, and rewarding term it has been with camps, sports days, Open Classrooms, 3 Way Conferences, assemblies, visiting teachers and educational consultants, incursions…the list goes on!
It has been so lovely to see students back in the classroom and engaged in their learning. Our Preps and new students have settled in and are enjoying being part of the NMPS family. After such a positive start for everyone, we are very excited to see what Term 2 will bring us in our learning journey.
In the following pages of our newsletter, we acknowledge the 2021 student leaders, house captains, and junior SRC members of our school. These students all have a role to play in the school, sharing ideas and developing student voice and agency for all. Please take the time to continue scrolling to become familiar with our leaders across the school.
As the term draws to an end, we have a large pile of lost property, including jumpers, hats, drink bottles, and other items. If your child is missing anything, please take the time to visit the school on Thursday to view our lost property. Any unnamed items not collected by the end of the term will be donated to charity.
The Victorian Government has further relaxed it’s COVIDSafe settings from 6pm on Friday 26th March 2021.
Changes to the COVIDSafe settings include allowing more visitors in the home, changes to wearing masks in some settings and updates to density limits in some settings. There are limited operational changes for schools.
Visitors continue to be welcomed at our school, however face masks must be carried by individuals 12 years and over at all times and worn when physical distancing of 1.5 metres cannot be maintained.
Thank you for your understanding and support throughout this term as we continue to implement COVIDSafe practices at our school.
Following the School Council Election earlier in the term, I would like to formally introduce the 2021 School Council members.
President: Melinda Green
Vice President: Megan Cusack
Treasurer: Nick Sissions
Secretary: Gen Kelly
Parent Members: Nuary Tasci, Melinda Green, Noriko Yamazaki, Nick Sissons, Simeon Branca, Emily Miller, Joy Cassidy, Megan Cusack
School Employee Members: Sarah Nightingale, Hilary Guymer, Kristen Pepyat, Gabrielle Panozzo
Community Members: Amith Nag Dasari, Genevieve Kelly
The School Council plays a key role in enhancing the educational opportunities for all students and strengthening community bonds. All School Council are encouraged to have a number of sub-committees to assist in the work that needs to be done. Sub Committees provide advice and make recommendations to School Council.
The Sub Committees formed for North Melbourne Primary School are listed below with School Council membership.
Finance
Nick (convenor), Sarah, Megan, Amith
Biz-E-Kidz
Joy (convenor), Kristen, Melinda, Sarah
Parents & Friends
Simeon (convenor), Emily, Gen, Hilary
Education
Sarah (convenor), Gabi, Nuray, Kristen, Melinda, Amith, Nick
Building & Grounds
Noriko (convenor), Sarah, Emily, Amith, Hilary, Joy
We encourage non-school council members to join the Parents & Friends Sub Committee to continue to strengthen our community engagement. If you are interested in joining please contact the school or reach out to Simeon directly.
Once again, I would like to acknowledge the retiring School Council members for their support and work on council over their term. Thank you to Laura Lynch, Nick Oliver, Paul von Chrismar, Will Chang, and Gemma Bamforth.
It was great to see so many children walking, riding, and scooting to school on our recent Ride2School day. Moving into Term 2, we will continue to encourage students and families to walk, scoot, ride or catch public transport to school as often as possible. Reducing the number of cars around the school makes it safer for everyone.
Once again, I would like to remind families of the following, if you do need to drive to school some days.
Together with following the above rules, we can ensure NMPS is a safe place for everyone.
There will be a number of different contractors working on both the buildings and school grounds over the holidays. These works will see improvements to NMPS and will continue into Term 2.
There will be a whole school assembly on Thursday at 1pm to celebrate the term. If you are attending, we ask that you make sure you sign in using one of the QR codes on the gate and ensure that you maintain social distancing.
I wish everyone a safe, relaxing, and enjoyable break and look forward to welcoming all students back to school on Tuesday 20th April.