Spring has sprung!

School Saving Bonus 

In Term 4, 2024, families with a child enrolled in a government school from Prep to Year 12 in 2025 will receive the one-off $400 School Saving Bonus.

The $400 School Saving Bonus provides families with support for education-related costs, such as school activities and/or school uniforms and textbooks.

The School Saving Bonus is not available for full-fee international students, home schooled students, TAFE students and students attending kindergarten in 2025.   

Actions for parents and carers

Before 18 October 2024, the Department of Education is asking parents and carers to:

• Complete enrolment: If your child, or children are changing government schools for Term 1 2025, or starting Prep or Year 7 in 2025. For more information, read about Enrolling in School. 
• Check/update your contact information: Ensure your email address and phone number is up to date with us. Please complete the form and return it to the school office by the end of term. 

We need to ensure your contact information is up to date as the Department of Education will email you twice:

• in October, to verify your email address
• in November, with your $400 School Saving Bonus and access to an online system.

Please check your junk mail regularly to make sure you do not miss an important email.

To learn more about the School Saving Bonus visit vic.gov.au/school-saving-bonus. 

School Concert - Express Yourself! Mon 16th Sep

Tickets sales for our Annual Whole School Concert are still available! 

This is a seated event ...so, just like a Taylor Swift concert - first in best dressed!

Tickets are available via Trybooking HERE. 

To conclude our Jump Rope for Heart program, the SLA will be running Jump Off Day on Thursday 19th September.  This is a chance for Newtown students to practise the fantastic skipping skills they have learnt this term by participating in lots of fun and challenging skipping activities that will be run by the Senior Learning Area students.

Staff and students are invited to wear a ‘pop of red’ on the day to fit in with the message of keeping a healthy heart, and students should dress in appropriate footwear and clothing for skipping.

The Prep and Junior students will be skipping from 9.30am – 11am, the Middles will skip from 12pm – 1.30pm,  and the Seniors will skip from 2.30pm – 3.30pm.

This is always a fun and exciting day for our school, and we are thoroughly looking forward to it again!

See you there!

The SLA 😊

Newtown PS is Social!

Are you connected with our social media accounts?

Did you know that we are on Instagram and Facebook? We love sharing our achievements and happenings with our school community, and one of the ways in which we do that is via our social media. We have recently re-activated our Facebook page and continue to post on Instagram. Follow us via the links below.