Leadership
School Walk Through - Wednesday 16/03/2022
We are looking forward to welcoming our current school community to attend our school walk through. This will be our first opportunity in two years to share our classrooms, and provide an opportunity for parents to view the learning that takes place across the school.
We do need to remind parents that COVID restrictions will be in place during the school walk through. Visitors, including parents must wear a face mask and be able to provide a digital or paper copy of proof of vaccination status upon request.
Below is a timetable for next Wednesday’s Classroom Walkthrough. We are really excited to have you back in the classroom so we can share our learning with you.
| Time | Activity |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Parents are invited to join in on the Builders Program in their child's classroom. This hour will show how our Mathematics Program looks at Newlands Primary School.
Parents will be able to see how students work together and how our learning assistants support the learning that takes place in the classroom using the Newlands Spiral. |
| 3:35 – 4:05 | Each Cohort will run an information session sharing some of the important information that families need to know. This includes the following:
Each presentation will provide a QR code which will allow families to ask questions that may not have been completed at the session. The answers will be in the following newsletter.
The presentations will be held in the following areas:
F/1 – Daisy/Rob’s room, which is the portable on the oval near the basketball court. This session will be presented by Sophia and Daisy.
2/3 – This will take place in Luisa/Nikki’s classrooms which are the classrooms in the 2/3 area near the office. Can families please use the ramp to minimise interruptions for office staff. This session will be presented by Isabelle and Luisa
4/6 – This will take place in Jose/Kylee’s classrooms which are in the 4/6 area. This session will be presented by Jose and Lisa.
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| 4:10 – 4:30 | The Newlands Leadership team will present to families the refined Literacy approach at the school as we transition to Synthetic Phonics Approach. This session will also provide families with ways that they can support with learning at home.
This session will take place in Daisy/Rob’s room, which is the portable on the oval near the basketball court. |
Voluntary contributions
We would like to thank those families who have paid their voluntary contributions of $280 this term. We understand that the payment is completely voluntary and families are entitled to make a choice to do so or not.
As a government school we are very proud of the programs we provide to all the students at Newlands. The voluntary contributions allow us to fund the extra curricular programs where we employ Specialist teachers as such as Performing Arts - Music teacher and a Performing Arts teacher for Dance & Drama - areas of the curriculum we have been very committed to over many years. This year we have employed a Specialist teacher for STEAM, a fantastic opportunity to enrich the learning of our students. Another commitment in providing our students with opportunities to engage their curiosity and make connections to all elements of the Newlands curriculum.
We are also committed to providing low classroom numbers so our bilingual Spanish/English teaching teams can maximise student engagement, a formula to support student success in language acquisition.
To provide the funding for these very worthy and we believe extremely valuable programs your voluntary contributions is very important and assists us to off set the costs incurred by the school.
We hope our community appreciates that while your contributions are voluntary we do really need your financial support to continue to offer the breath of educational experiences to all students.
Ross
Parents and Friends
Newlands PFA Annual General Meeting will be held Wednesday 30 March at 7.30pm over Zoom - see the Newlands PFA Facebook page for meeting details.
In addition to our usual work planning fundraising and community building events for the school, at the AGM we elect office bearers the coming year.
The office bearers are president, secretary, treasurer and communications officer. All of these positions will be up for election and you can nominate yourself for any you are interested in.
The president and secretary positions will both be vacated, so please consider applying for one of these positions.
Thanks heaps - Imogen