2 May 2025

Update from Principal

Welcome Back

Dear Families,

Welcome back to Term Two! I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break with your loved ones. It’s been a joy to see our students return with bright smiles and renewed energy, ready to dive into a new term of learning and discovery. This term is shaping up to be full of exciting opportunities—both in and out of the classroom. From engaging class projects, cross country events, NAIDOC Week celebrations, Year 6 Camp, and assemblies there’s so much ahead for our students to experience and enjoy.

At the heart of everything we do are our school values: challenge yourself, teamwork, respect, and kindness. These values guide our learning, our relationships, and the way we support each other every day. We are proud of the way our students live these values and look forward to seeing them continue to grow in confidence and character throughout the term. I am also excited to see which students will be chosen this term for our Lunch with the Principal for continually demonstrating our values.

As always, we deeply appreciate the strong partnership we share with our families. Thank you for your ongoing support — we are excited to work together to make this term a successful and rewarding one for every student.

Staffing

Over the holidays we have had a few staff changes:

• Mr Iain Freeman (Room 11 Year 3/4) will be taking up a position at a school closer to home as of Monday 5 May.  Mr Ed Hammond will be taking over from Mr Freeman.  Mr Hammond is well known to the school as he worked in the school last term in Room 13. We wish Mr Freeman all the best and extend a warm welcome to Mr Hammond.
• Miss Samantha Cummins will be joining us on Fridays to work in Room 13.
• Mrs Annette Griffiths will join us on Fridays in Kindy.
• We welcome Miss Karrinna Batskos who will be joining us on a Wednesday and Friday as well as doing relief in the school.
• Our new Music Teacher Ms Dee Ritchie will also be working in Room 16 on a Wednesday.
• Mrs Terri-Ann Fraser (SNEA) has taken up a position elsewhere for the remainder of the year. We wish Terri-Ann all the best.
• We welcome some new Special Needs Education Assistants – Mrs Desiree Devine and Mrs Laurel Bell.

Regards,

Denise Jeffs

Principal

Premier's Reading Challenge

Discover the magic of reading

Register your child for the Premier's Reading Challenge! From 7 April to 27 June 2025, students from Kindergarten to Year 12 can discover the joy of reading and log their progress for a chance to win weekly prizes.

Visit premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au for more information.

Reporting to Parents

In Week 10 of this term, you will receive your child’s Semester One report.  As per the directive from the Minister for Education in 2024, we will continue to provide grades in each Learning Area where applicable and a general comment.  There will be no comments for individual learning areas.  Should you have any concerns about your child’s progress, please contact their classroom teacher for information.

Deputy News

Miss Tucknott

YEAR 1 Room 4 – Paying respect to the ANZACS

At the end of Term One, Room 4 learnt about ANZAC through reading two books, My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day by Catriona Hoy and Benjamin Johnson and ANZAC Ted by Belinda Landsberry.

In response, Room 4 students wrote letters of thanks to ANZAC Ted and drew an ANZAC soldier.

Please enjoy some of their work from the display in our administration building.

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Ms Ward

The Banksia Broadcast News

Newborough Primary School Student Leaders, Ms Jeffs and Ms Ward are excited to announce that we will be starting a news broadcast that will be shared each term. It is called the Banksia Broadcast News or BB News for short! Please enjoy the teaser trailer for this exciting new project!

The Banksia Broadcast BB News

Music News

Kaya Newborough Families and Carers,

On Wednesday 14 May at 8:00 am our lovely senior singers in Years 4-6 will be commencing Senior Choir for 2025, so please look out for the choir contracts coming out next week. Please note, our junior choir will begin in Term Three.

I will also be sending out a quick survey to ascertain the musical styles students (and your family) are listening to and if we have any talented parents/grandparents or carers in our community. Watch this space!

I look forward to getting to know everyone in our school community.

Kind regards,

Ms Ritchie

P&C News

P&C Support Year 6 Camp 2026 - Election Sausage Sizzle

Hello everyone,

The P&C has offered the current Year 5 group of parents to run the election day sausage sizzle on Saturday 3 May. Please follow the links below to sign up.

Volunteer opportunities for "Yr 6 Camp 2026 Election Sausage Sizzle" are now open.

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet:

volunteersignup.org/QA3BM

To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Thank you for volunteering!

Regards 

Laurie McCallum

Easter Raffle

Congratulations again to our 2025 Easter Raffle winners. 

We would like to again thank our community businesses for their generous support and hamper donations. John De Leo, Force Real Estate, and Justin Geary, Gasco Services WA. Your support is much appreciated.

Containers for Change

Canteen

Please find below the instructions for how to create an account through Flexischools. 
You will be able to order from Flexischool every Tuesday and Friday. Orders will close by 8am each canteen morning.

The Canteen will continue to run in Term 2 using Canteen Kings food delivery service. The volunteer roster for sorting the lunches into class baskets needs to be filled for the term (12:20pm-12:50pm each Tuesday and Friday) to ensure the canteen continues to run smoothly. Please do your part by signing up for a 30 minute shift via this link:

https://volunteersignup.org/H88R7 

Thanks!

Georgia 

Newborough P&C Secretary 

Netball

Welcome to all new and returning players. Teams commenced training this week, including our youngest PP/Year 1 group. For Years 2 - 6, games will commence in Week 2.

Game day uniforms were handed out at training this week. Please try them on straight away. If you need to swap a size please contact me ASAP.

West Coast Fever Participant packs (for the PP/1, 2/3, and 4/5 Friday night players) are currently on backorder from the supplier. If you are yet to receive your pack, sit tight, they should arrive in the next week or two. If you were interested, also look out for your West Coast Fever email (received ~16/4) with a code for receiving a free child ticket to the game on the 3rd or 10th May. If you have any issues using your code, contact membership@westcoastfever.com.au

Thanks again to all our wonderful coaches, parent helpers, and volunteers. We would be lost without you. Wishing everyone an enjoyable season.

Tanya Cawthorne

Newborough Netball Club Coordinator

newboroughnetball@gmail.com

Uniform Shop News

This is the offsite uniform shop.

Second-Hand Uniform Shop

The second-hand uniform shop will be open on the following day:

Tuesday 6th May 2025 - 8.15am - 8.45am

School Directory

No Animals (Including Dogs) on School Grounds

DoE Security

Keep an eagle eye on our school!

School Watch encourages the school community to report any suspicious activity in and around school grounds, after hours and on weekends, as well as during school holidays.

Telephone 1800 177 777 (free call) or 13 14 44 (WA Police).

Please do not approach any individuals, just contact security and they will investigate the situation or contact the Police. Working together will help protect our school.

Community News

BARNES KARATE

SOCCERPLAY