24 July 2025

Update from Principal

Welcome Back – Term 3

Dear Families,

Welcome back! I hope you had a restful and enjoyable break with your loved ones. I'm looking forward to a productive and engaging Term 3, filled with new opportunities for learning, connection and growth. It is a busy term ahead with Book Week, Athletics Carnival, excursions and the Enterprise Fete just to name a few things, but also very exciting for our students.

As we begin work on developing our new Business Plan, we want to ensure that our direction is shaped by a shared understanding of what matters most for our students based on the thoughts of our staff and our community. To help with this, we invite all families to complete a short survey that will help us gather your perspectives on what you value most in your child’s education and schooling experience at Newborough PS.

Your input is incredibly important. By working together, we can ensure we are aligned in our beliefs about best practice and continue to create a learning environment where every student is supported to reach their full potential.

Please click on the link below to access the survey. The survey closes on Tuesday, August 5 at 3:15 pm.

Thank you for your ongoing support – we’re excited for the term ahead!

Warm regards,

Denise Jeffs

Deputy News

Book Week Incursion: Tuesday, 19 August 1:20 pm Pre-primary to Year 6

Theme: Book an Adventure

To help celebrate Book Week, we have organised a performance company, Perform! Education, to perform a Book Week specific play, Treasure Hunt by Craig Christie for all Pre-primary to Year 6 students in the undercover area. The cost of the Incursion is $9.50 per student and is due by Friday, 15 August 2025 please. Incursion Advice Forms are going home with your children today.

Please note the differences in the Incursion Advice Form for Parents for this incursion:

1. You do not need to return a signed permission form for students to attend, just make the payment on time please. The form is just to provide you with the information.
2. Newborough Primary School has a new Bank Account and these details are on the form. Please use the new account instead. Mrs Jeffs sent an earlier email today through Compass with the new information as well, but the new details are also below. 

As part of the Department’s move to a new administrative technology system, Kaartdijin, Newborough Primary School has moved their bank account to the Commonwealth Bank, with a dedicated Education Account Manager.
Effective from Tuesday July 22, 2025 the new bank details are:
Account name:               Newborough Primary School
BSB:                                    066040
Account No:                     19908278
Please delete the previous account details and update your apps with the new information.

Book Week Dress-Up Parade: Wednesday, 20 August 8:40 am Kindy Green - Year 6

What is a Book Week without a Book Week Dress-Up?

This year, we will also be holding a Book Week Dress Up Parade on Wednesday, 20 August at 8:40 am either in the undercover area or quadrangle, depending on the weather. The Book Week Dress Up Parade will be a chance to share our favourite book characters by dressing up as them and celebrating the wonderful world of books.

Please note the following information about our Book Week Dress Up day:

1. We encourage all staff, parents and students to come along on Wednesday, 20 August dressed as a favourite character/item/book cover from a book and ask that the book also comes to school that day also, if possible. (Not just a free dress day!)
2. Kindy Red will have their Dress Up Day on Thursday, 21 August.
3. There are no prizes for the Book Week dress up and we encourage families to reuse, recycle, share costumes, use second hand stores and think creatively and cheaply about their costumes. They could be as simple and inexpensive as cardboard book covers hung over student shoulders. There are many websites with creative and cheap ideas for costumes.
4. If your child has Science on a Wednesday, appropriate footwear still needs to be worn/brought to school for Science lessons and recess and lunchtime play.
5. The theme for Book Week this year is 'Book an Adventure'. Your child's costume may also be about this theme.
6. If you do have any bits of leftover costumes you believe the school may be able to use for our students who potentially won’t have costumes, can you please drop them in to Karen Tucknott. These would also be a donation for future years. Thank you.

Book Week Open Classrooms: Wednesday, 20 August - straight after the Book Week Dress Up Parade

After the Book Week parade, classrooms will be open until 10:30 am for families to participate in some Book Week activities conducted by the class teacher. We hope you may be able to join in with your child/children.

Advanced Notice: In-Term Swimming Term 4

In-term swimming lessons are in Weeks 1 and 2 of Term 4. We are now in the process of starting to organise this and will have the Excursion Advice and Permission Form and costings to you mid-way through this term. Last year's lessons cost $43.00 per student. We hope this year is similar or not too much more expensive. Please be aware of this excursion coming up.

New Attendance Notification System

REMINDER 

Advising the school of your child’s absence – changes from July 7, 2025

As of July 7, 2025 the old absentee SMS number is no longer operational, which means that the school will not receive any messages sent to this old number. We strongly suggest that parents delete the old absentee SMS number to avoid confusion – it can no longer be used to communicate with the school.

From July 7, 2025 parents will need to email the school on newborough.ps.absentee@education.wa.edu.au or phone the school, if their child is going to be absent, either on the day or for a future absence. There is no longer an absentee SMS available. Please ensure the absentee email is used as this is received by the attendance team for data input -  you are also welcome to copy your child’s teacher on the email.

If you have any other queries regarding attendance SMS communication, please contact the school on 9278 0450 or email newborough.ps.absentee@education.wa.edu.au .

P&C News

Quiz Night

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.  

Uniform Shop News

This is the offsite uniform shop.

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

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