Wellbeing

SWPBS Certificates

Congratulations to these students for earning their SWPBS certificates!

Whole School Matrix

We have finalised our updated whole school matrix, which is condensed to clearly state the central expectations across the school at NPS. These expectations cover all the inappropriate and preferred behaviours that the school community identified. Thanks to all the students, families and staff who completed the surveys contributing to this back in Term 3. This will help teachers to consistently teach and remind students about the expectations using the same language. Check it out below...

Student wellbeing at the end of the year.

At this time of the year there are many students who are silently worrying about what the new year will hold for them. For the Year 6's and many of our Year 4's they are concerned about transitioning to a new school. Secondary school is a completely new world to become acquaited with and can be daunting for some. Our students go to 3 different styles of secondary school, Government, Catholic and Independent. Each system has its own way of transitioning incoming students and this is more often than not, completely out of our jurisdiction as a primary school. Therefore it is important for parents to be able to listen to their children's concerns about their year ahead at a new school and reassure them. Here at Newham we have a wellbeing app called Skodel. Students can mention concerns and how they are feeling about them here. Of late it has come to our attention that students are generally a little concerned about what going to a new school means for them. This is not every student, nor is it all the time, however rest assured, we have also been doing some reassuring around this topic here at school.