The Newlands Times

Welcome 2021

Great to be Back

Welcome everyone to a new year and the start of a new learning journey. We would firstly like to warmly welcome our new Foundation families to Newlands. This year sees our Foundation cohort at 75 plus students! This is such an exciting development for us, it emphatically says our community is with us and can see more than just buildings, they learning opportunities that align broadly with their expectations of learning. For our returnees to the classroom we can only hope that the stresses and strains of Covid 2020 are behind us, and we can take many of the learning positives from 2020 and adapt them into our learning journey in 2021.

Generator on the Green

You maybe asking why there is a generator parked under the gum tree in the school grounds. Simply during the last week of the holidays there was a power surge on a power pole in Elizabeth Street. This in turn sent a surge into the switchboard, and basically melting the wires. We expect to have the generator on site for at least four weeks running our whole school, including air-conditioners.

Covid - 19

We are currently advising parents that DET hasn't changed any of the daily local school protocols from 2020.

  • When parents need to be at school for more than 15 minutes, you must register through the QR code at the office.
  • Wearing a mask and social distancing is still expected at school.
  • Parents cannot enter the classrooms for any reason, unless prior arrangements have been made with staff involved.
  • Further information and compliance will be rolled over the coming weeks.

Second Week Arrangements

Monday 1/02/2021 & Tuesday 2/02/2021

Foundation students will complete their individual assessments.

Monday 1/02/2021 - Friday 5/02/2021

All students from Year 1 to 6 will continue attending full time.

Wednesday 3/02/2021

All Foundation students will start attending school all day.

Specialist Programs

This timetable is ONLY for this week 2. This is due because of the Foundation assessments. A revised timetable will be published for week three onwards.

All Specialist programs - Visual Arts, Physical Ed., Music and Performing Arts will commence this week 9.00 am through to 2.30pm:

Monday Years 2/3 - Cass, Jose, Isabelle and Jessica

Wednesday Years 4-6 - Karren, Nadia, Lexie and Clara

Thursday Foundation/1Team A - Ally, Luisa, Angelica and Brenna

Friday Foundation/1 Team B - Jess, Sergio, Sophia and Jacqui 

Further Announcements

Additional announcements and notifications will be sent through Sentral when required, and will also be included in the school newsletter calendar section. Additions to the calendar will be updated weekly where necessary.

Sentral and Newsletter

We strongly recommend both parents sign into both platforms as these two platforms are our key to our ability to communicate relevant and up to date information to our community.

School Assemblies

We intend starting school assemblies' in the third week of term. We will be 'Zooming' assemblies via Teams on Thursday [11/02/2021] starting at 3.00pm - 3.30pm. This arrangement will continue for the remainder of the term 1.

Further information will be published in next weeks newsletter. Please, if you have concerns around logging in etcetera, please wait until we have provided the relevant information in next weeks newsletter.

School Council Elections for 2021

We will be holding our 2021 half school council election in the coming weeks. Additional information will published in next weeks newsletter.