Issue Number 13 22nd November 2019

DIARY DATES NOVEMBER Monday 25th Author Visit ‘Walking To Corroboree’

Wednesday 27th NPS Food Drive

Friday 29th Assembly 9am Gymnastics Yrs 3 & 4 Yr 6/7 Aquatics

DECEMBER Monday 2nd Governing Council Mtg 7pm

Wednesday 4th Early Years’ Assembly 10am

Thursday 5th Sports Celebration Night

Friday 6th Sports Presentation

Assembly 9am Gymnastics Yrs 3 & 4 Rms 3, 8 & 11 Buddies Excursion

Monday 9th End of Year Concert

Tuesday 10th ‘Step-Up Day’

Wednesday 11th Year 7 Graduation

Thursday 12th PYs Pool Excursion

Friday 13th Leavers’ Assembly LAST DAY TERM EARLY DISMISSAL 2:15pm

Dear Families,

The term is quickly flying by and staff are busy writing reports for our

students as students reflect on their progress and activities they have

been involved in over the year. Our end of year reports will have a

general comment covering aspects of literacy, numeracy, social skills

and Science or HASS. Students in year 2, 4 and 6 will also have

comments from specialist teachers on the progress they have been

making over the 2 year cycle in their field.

The grades given to students are a summative grade of their whole

year of learning evidenced through classroom observations, writing

samples, tests, questions and class discussions and work samples.

Reports will go home with students on Wednesday 11th December,

week 9.

As the year comes to a close we have been planning and preparing

classes for next year, staffing and areas for improvement. Draft

budgets are being determined based on these needs. We have

reviewed our Site Improvement Plan and determined our goals and

actions for the coming 2 years. Our goals are to increase higher band

achievement in writing and to increase higher band achievement in

mathematics in all classes. Our challenges of practice and actions will

enable us to focus on improvement in learning though explicit

feedback to students and having students reflect on and determine

their next steps in their learning progression, utilising a range of

resources. Whilst we have our Site Improvement Plan with set goals we

also have a whole school focus on student well being and

engagement and determine actions for improvement. Building

student’s resilience, creativity, social skills and preparing them to be life

long learners. Thank you to the families who completed the school

survey as we have been able to reflect on this feedback and

incorporate new actions.

We are looking to our end of year events including the Christmas

Pageant, End of year concert and Year 7 Graduation.

We thank the Events and Fundraising Committee who continues to

work hard to raise funds for improvements to our facilities. $985 raised at school disco.

Another reminder that students are not to be on school grounds

unsupervised before 8.30 am in the morning and after 3.30pm in the

afternoon. Thank you for your cooperation with this.

Melissa

You can contact us: Telephone: 8362 4666 Email: dl.0131.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Department of Education and Child Development T/A South Australian Government Schools

Proud Sponsor of Mulberry Hall

Governing Council Report At the start of this term we celebrated the opening of the wonderful new nature play area.

Fundraising continues with the successful Redlegathon, Sports day cake stall plus other upcoming

events to fund the project. The next focus is the redevelopment of the planter boxes adjacent to

the nature play area and investigating more undercover seating. Governing Council applauds

the efforts of the Events and Fundraising Committee and the school community to make these

projects possible. This committee always welcomes more volunteers. Even if you can’t commit to

meetings, your help at individual events will be much appreciated.

The results of the NAPLAN testing have been released to schools. Governing Council is pleased to

see again that Norwood Primary School continues to perform very well both writing and

numeracy. Congratulations to the staff and students.

The Sports Committee reminds parents that they need to stay or arrange supervision of their

children at trainings and games. If a training/game ends early or is cancelled, parents need to

be responsible for their child rather than relying on the coach to stay and supervise the team.

The topic of increased Norwood Football Oval access continues to be on the Governing Council

agenda. Currently we are waiting for building works to finish but the school continues to develop

working relationships with the oval staff. The NPSP Council and Department of Education are

aware of our desires to have more Oval access.

Further information regarding the fees and charges poll:

Each year school fees comprise of the standard sum (for teaching and facilities) which is set by

the education department, and the prescribed sum (for materials and services) which is set by

governing council. Currently only the standard sum is legally recoverable, except for school card

holders.

On the recommendation of the school leadership, governing council proposes that both the

standard fee and the prescribed fee become legally recoverable for non-school card holder

families. As such the governing council is seeking parents to vote on this proposal.

Please note that the outcome of this poll will have no bearing on the fee that is charged for 2020

which is proposed to be $450 ($244 standard sum + $206 prescribed sum), an increase of $15

from 2019. This is in line with the school fees charged by other schools in the region. Aimee Patten on behalf of Governing Council

ICAS Results 2019 This year the ICAS testing through the University of NSW was very successful. This was the first time

the testing has been conducted completely online, resulting in easier access for families to results

and payments. The tests included Digital Technologies, Mathematics, English and Science.

71 Norwood Primary School students participated in the various tests and achieved the following

results:

Medal of Achievement – 1 Credits— 49

High Distinctions – 5 Merits— 22

Distinctions – 23 Participation— 104

We would like to acknowledge the outstanding achievement of Moeed A, who was awarded a

medal of achievement for the highest Digital Technology score in his age group in South

Australia and Northern Territory. Special mentions also go to the students who received high

distinctions:

English - Jennifer S and Hugo T

Mathematics - Nick P and Jason S

Digital Technologies - Moeed A

Well done to all participants!

Library News Our annual Scholastic Book Fair was an outstanding success!

Thank you for purchasing books and contributing towards children’s

literature.

An amazing $3,348 worth of books, packs, posters and stationery were

sold of which the Library received $1,109 towards books.

A BIG, BIG thank you to our parent co-ordinator, Hilary Cree and her

fellow parent helpers.

It wouldn’t take place without you!

Happy reading!

Library Staff

Music News This term has been a busy one for music students, with many working hard to complete the 40

Piece Challenge and some doing AMEB/ABRSM exams as well. Congratulations to students who

also performed on their instruments at school assembly during the term and in “Norwood’s Got

Talent”!

New enrolments for 2020: Students interested in starting to learn an instrument at the school

with Michael Beare or Melissa Burrows in Term 1 next year are

invited to enquire/enrol now to secure a place.

We offer lessons for piano, keyboard, flute, clarinet, saxophone/

jSax, trombone and recorder.

Our yellow information/enrolment brochures are available at the front office, or alternatively

please contact Michael 0403004733 michaelbeare@adam.com.au

or Melissa 0422667261 mburrows@adam.com.au

Library Stocktake

Reminder—Week 7 all library books are due back ready for stocktake.

Please encourage your children to return their books promptly.

Thank you.

Coming to Norwood Primary School…. A new way to find your lost property in 2020!

Here’s how it works… 1. After purchasing a new garment, activate the Smart Tag inside the garment by texting a unique code.

2. When the garment is lost and located in the lost property cupboard,

a text message is sent to your mobile phone.

How great is that!

Extra Smart Tags are also available in the Uniform shop– 2 RagTagds for $5

Mayor’s 2019 Christmas Card Competition Winners

Congratulations to talented NPS students Jennifer, 1st Prize Winner for Year 3 and

Anashra, 3rd Prize winner for Year 3 in the Mayor’s 2019 Christmas Card Competition.

The judging panel was very impressed with ‘the striking pictures

capturing the spirit of the festive season’.

Beautiful job girls!

It’s beginning to look a lot like

Christmas……….

NPS, along with other local schools

are once again participating in the

Norwood Payneham St Peters

Council Christmas tree display on

Osmond Terrace.

Please take the opportunity to

come along and have a look at the

wonderful displays!

Did anyone recognise these two crazy clowns goofing around at the Christmas pageant held in the city recently? Hmmm….they do look kinda familiar….

Norwood’s Got Talent was a successful event hosted by the

Creativity and Diversity Team.

It was a fun and exciting experience for both the

participants and audience.

The acts were fantastic and there was lots of evidence of the time

and effort spent rehearsing. All of the auditions were wonderful,

however, there could only be 3 winners. Congratulations to all of the winners of 2019 Norwood’s Got Talent.

Michelle P, Nina W, Ava W, Manan R, Jonny M, Tekin B and Sam P

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information is shared in good faith. Parents should exercise due diligence when determining their child’s involvement.