Primary Update – Term 3 Week 4
Year 2 Blue Assembly
In Week 3, the Year 2 Blue class shared with us a wonderful Assembly, focusing on the importance of friendships. The students shared with us many important messages from our PK-6 Primary School Friendship Curriculum (URSTRONG), including friendship facts and what healthy friendships are. They concluded with a timely song – ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’. Thanks Year 2 Blue for sharing these important messages about friendship!
Newman Norms / Medals of Marcellin
Our new Newman Norms are now on our website and I encourage you to have a look at these expectations for our Primary students – Newman Norms – Newman College. Each week our staff and students will focus on 1 Norm, to discuss and unpack what that norm means for our students in their day-to-day school life.
In Week 2 Shay (Marian) and Austin and Kairav (Lavalla) were drawn out of the raffle for demonstrating our Newman Norm of Greet our teachers & respond to the roll call appropriately.
In Week 3 Addison (Marian) and Leo (Lavalla) were drawn out of the raffle for demonstrating our Newman Norm of Make sure we are prepared with everything we need for our day.
Congratulations to all students who received a raffle ticket in the past fortnight.
Wellbeing Week
This week, Newman College students and staff were excited to celebrate Wellbeing Week! This special week was dedicated to promoting the mental, emotional, and physical health of our students through a variety of engaging activities.
We believe that Wellbeing Week was a wonderful experience for our students, helping them to build healthy habits and positive mindsets.
Justin Kirry & Edwina Battersby
Leaders of Wellbeing
We kicked off the week with some energising activities. Students had the opportunity to incorporate movement into their lessons and participate in Staff vs Student games. At Marian Campus, we played Soccer (Students beat Teachers 1 nil!), and at the Lavalla Campus, we enjoyed a game of Netball (Teachers won 16 to 1!).
This day was all about gratitude. Students were encouraged to write notes of appreciation to their peers or take some time for self-reflection.
We focused on relaxation and mindfulness. Students participated in meditation activities designed to promote calmness and mental wellbeing.
To conclude the week, students dressed up in their favourite “Zones of Regulation” colours (blue, green, yellow, or red). This dress-up day helped students visually connect to the Zones and promoted emotional awareness. Thank you for your support in making this day a success.
URSTRONG – Lesson 6 Upcoming
Lesson 6 will be rolled out across the Primary next week. The areas of focus for this upcoming lesson are:
PK-2: This session teaches students, step-by-step, how to resolve conflict with a friend and how to respond to hurt feeling and misunderstandings.
Years 3 and 4: This session teaches students how to respond to intentionally cruel, rude, or mean behaviour with a Quick Comeback. Students learn the difference between a Friendship Fire vs Mean-on-Purpose behaviour, along with Reporting vs Tattling.
Years 5 and 6: This session highlights hot topics for this age group including: how to kindly decline, feeling caught in the middle, ways to end gossip, and navigating friendships online.
A reminder parents have access to a FREE URSTRONG parent membership. We hope that as a URSTRONG Family, you will reinforce the important messages of empowerment, self-compassion, & kindness at home.
Student Illness
As we travel through the middle of the winter months, it is important to remind families of the importance of keeping children home if they display symptoms of being unwell. Illness spreads quickly amongst primary students, so we ask that if your child is sick that you do not send them to school. Please keep them home until symptoms clear, to avoid passing on sicknesses to other students and staff. This is particularly important for vulnerable members of our community. Students that present to school with symptoms of being unwell will be sent home. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Student Arrivals
If your child arrives/is dropped off to school after the 8:45am bell to commence the school day (this is the time the class roll is taken), then they must go through the front office to sign in and have the roll updated by the front office. We appear to have a number of students arriving after 8:45am and going straight to class, which causes disruption to our attendance procedures, so please ensure your child goes through the front office for their attendance to be updated.
Kiss N Ride
Please ensure you are not parking in the Kiss N Ride section at either campus, to ensure smooth flow of cars and efficient pick-up process for all.
Disabled Parking Bays
Only cars with ACROD permits should be parking in the disabled parking bays. Please be mindful of those in our community who need these bays.
Athletics Carnival
Please note that our upcoming Athletics Carnival (Friday 6 September) is an alcohol-free event. More information regarding the day will be sent out by Mrs Richards in the coming weeks.
Wishing all families an enjoyable and relaxing long weekend!
Ryan von Bergheim
HEAD OF PRIMARY