NPS Newsletter

A Message From The Principal

Mrs Claire Allen

Week 4 has flown by and it has been exciting to see our students preparing for upcoming eisteddfod items, participating in anti-bullying programs and workshops, and improving their use of skimming and scanning skills as part of our strategic school support in reading program.

Our students have taken on board their anti-bullying strategies and it has been wonderful to hear students looking for opportunities to support each other, identify problems as soon as they arise, and recognising when their actions or the actions of others may or may not be bullying.

Our school is currently reviewing our Anti-Bullying Policy to formalise our preventative measures and strategic approach to educating our students and make our school a safe and nurturing place where everyone feels cared for and can achieve their personal best.

Upcoming Events

Families & Community invited to attend

Week 5

Please be aware, our Term 2 and 3 dates have changed this year due to staff professional learning commitments

Term 2 Dates are: 26/4/23 to 29/6/23

Term 3 Dates are: 17/7/23 to 22/9/23

Last day of Term 4 classes will be Friday 15 December 2023.

Do It For Dolly

Today our school was a sea of blue as our SRC raised funds for 'Do it For Dolly Day'. As a special tribute our staff and students created a beautiful blue butterfly on the back flat and a drone was flown to take a snap!

Our school community also raised funds by way of a gold coin donation to Dolly’s Dream. This foundation helps empower and educate our kids, families, schools and communities about the devastating effects of bullying and cyber bullying, and how it can be prevented.

Thank you to Miss Dudman and the SRC for organising this event.

Nitbusters

Nitbusters was a huge hit! The Balonne Street Salon opened at 9am with students from Kindergarten to Year 3 participating in our Nitbuster program. Students danced into the hall, bopping away to our salon tunes, and with smiles from ear to ear.

They got to take a seat in one of the 7 salon chairs and were treated to a conditioning head massage and comb before having their hair done in their style of choice. We had mohawks and plaits, ponytails and groovy Sonic spikes.

Each child takes home a confidential note that shares with parents if we found lice or not and how to treat them. This was such a positive experience for all participants and our students excitedly showed off their styled hair to all their friends. Participating in this program each term helps take the stigma out of head lice and teaches our students how to prevent the risk of spreading head lice. We looking forward to seeing this program expand all the way to Year 6 in Week 4 Term 3.

NPS Eisteddfod Timetable

Week 5

Monday 22nd May - 8:30 am

• Woodwind
  

Tuesday 23rd May - 10:30 am

• Infants Musical Entertainment
  
• Primary School Choir

Friday 26th May - 10:30 am

• Infants K-2 dance
  
• Upper primary 5 & 6 Kamilaroi Dance Group

Week 6

Tuesday 30th May - 10:30 am

• K,1 & 2 Group Speech

Wednesday 31st May - 8:30 am

• S4 Set poem year 4
  
• S3 Set poem year 3
• S6 Set poem year 6

Wednesday 31st May - 10:30 am

• Junior Primary group Speech
  

Thursday 1st of June

• Senior primary Group Speech
  

Grip Leadership

Last Wednesday 17 May, our leadership team journeyed to Moree to participate in the GRIP Leadership conference with other schools from across the North-West. They enjoyed an action-packed day full of activities that were built around the fundamentals of quality leadership.

Our leaders learned the importance of putting others first and the four H's of leading: Hear, Helpful, Happiness and Humility. All students thoroughly enjoyed the day, displaying our Core Values and representing NPS with pride.

They look forward to bringing their new-found knowledge back to NPS and putting it into action.

Federation Farm Meeting

Narrabri Public School hosted the latest meeting of the Federation Farm Committee last Wednesday. It is a wonderful opportunity to hear about how our Narrabri Federation Farm is progressing and what important things are happening that keep the farm producing profitable crops. The project generously donates to local schools every year and this year we have committed these funds to expand our Gardening Gurus Sustainable School's program.

This will assist us to realise the dream of kitchen facilities that will support our students to develop essential life skills. We are looking for a new NPS representative to join the Federation Farm Committee. The representative would need to attend 4 meetings a year to discuss matters related to the farm and contribute to decision making processes. They would be someone with an understanding of agriculture and have a passion for contributing to our school community by sharing their knoweldge and skills in this worthwhile manner. If you think you would be a good fit for this important role, please contact Mrs Allen on 67922246 to discuss.

Week 4 Infants Assembly

The hall was filled with shaking hips and infective dance moves, with kindergarten hosting their first infants assembly! After our award presentation, students presented their eisteddfod dance 'I like to move it!' for our audience.

We hope you enjoy our performance.

Mrs Angela Young & Mrs Tarnya King | Classroom Teachers

The scheduled Week 5 Primary assembly has been postponed to

week 7.

No Assembly week 5

You've Got Mail

As part of our school's development of sustainable practices and efforts to keep our family and community connected, we request that you check your emails regularly as Narrabri Public School moves towards online communication.

If you are unable to access the information digitally, please contact the office on 02 6792 2246 to make alternate arrangements.

APCI WORD

This term Narrabri Public School has welcomed Rachael Passfield to our school. Mrs Passfield is the Lead Specialist for Literacy (Primary) from the Tamworth Education Office, and she has come to our school to work with our Assistant Principals of Curriculum & Instruction, Mrs Lindsay, and Ms Marple.

These specialist teachers will be working alongside classroom teachers to improve our students’ reading by focusing on the explicit teaching of evidence-based effective comprehension teaching strategies.

This week, our specialist teachers visited all classrooms to demonstrate a lesson to help our students answer literal comprehension questions. Students were explicitly taught how to skim and scan texts to find directly stated information. Our students did an excellent job locating directly stated information and answering literal comprehension questions. Mrs Passfield and our APCIs were highly impressed, and so were the class teachers!

Save the Dates

Monday 22 May - Eisteddfod begins

Wednesday 24 May - National Simultaneous Storytime

Thursday 25 May - PSSA Touch Football Knockout Match

Friday 26 May - PSSA Netball Knockout Match

Friday 26 May - Choir singing at Aquatic Centre

Thursday 8 June - NPS Leaders speak on MaxFM @ 9am

Thursday 22 June - School Photos - winter uniform

Thursday 22 June - NPS Leaders speak on MaxFM @ 9am

Thursday 29 June - NAIDOC Celebration Assembly

Friday 21 July - Primary Athletics Carnival @ NHS

Monday 21 August - Book Fair begins

Monday 21 August - Life Education Visit begins

Tuesday 19 to Thursday 21 September - Year 5 Excursion to Gulgong

Friday 20 October - Grandparents Day & Twilight Fete

Monday 23 to Friday 27 October - Year 6 Excursion to Canberra

Stewart House

Donation Drive

We have had a great response to this very worthy cause - Thank you! All envelopes are due back THIS Monday, 22 May, to be posted and received in time for the big prize draw.

Congratulations to the Australia Cotton Research colouring comp winners

Upcoming Sports

Thursday 25 May - PSSA Girls & Boys Touch Football knockout matches aginst Narrabri West Public School at Leitch Oval

Friday 26 May - PSSA Netball Knockout match 9:30am for a 10am start at Bev Burrows Netball Courts

Soccer Skills Shine!

The Narrabri Public School soccer team competed in their first match of the PSSA knockout competition against Narrabri West Public School yesterday.

Several weeks of after school training paid off for our team, as shown by their control of the ball and attempts to make accurate passes to their players. Our defensive back line shined, maintaining pressure but unfortunately it was no match for the West School who scored 2 goals. It was a close game, ending with a score of 2-0.

The West School chose Nate as player of the match for demonstrating exceptional sportsmanship, skill and effort.

ICAS returns in 2023

We’re delighted to inform you that we will be participating in ICAS again this year, to recognise and reward students’ academic achievement. The assessments are now fully online and sitting dates will commence in Term 3. Learn more by visiting icasassessments.com.

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