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Nearnung Primary School Newsle
Term 2, Week 6
Principal's Report
2024 Education Week
Last week we joined in with schools all around the state to celebrate Education Week with a focus on STEM. Our students were highly engaged in their learning throughout the week and our staff provided a range of STEM learning opportunities from Prep to Year Six! Our Friday assembly was very well attended by our families who then stayed for open classrooms on Friday morning! Big thanks to everyone for your support!
2024 Student Attitudes to School Survey
The 2024 Student Attitudes to School Survey will be open at our school until Monday 27th May for all students in Years 4 to 6 to complete. Kate is our coordinator and will liaise with Year 4-6 staff to select a suitable time to administer the survey and will support students to complete the survey. The survey takes approximately 40mins to complete. We look forward to sharing our data once we receive it later this year.
Year 6 to Year 7 Transition
Big thanks to our families of our Year Six students for completing and returning the Year 6 to Year 7 Placement Application forms. These will now be processed and applications forwarded for consideration by the secondary schools. If families have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
School Uniform
With the cooler weather, now is the perfect time to check your child’s school uniform and purchase any items needed. Nearnung Primary School expects all students to be in school uniform every day, including school jumpers and school jackets. Wearing a school uniform helps students to feel connected to their school, which in turn enhances the likelihood of engagement in school activities. Thank you for your support.
Attendance
Our current attendance rate is 87.2%. Thank you to our families for ensuring your child attends school every day, unless they are unwell. Let’s continue to work together to bring our attendance rate up to >90%.
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support
This week our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) focus is: INCLUSION - We include and this is being explicitly taught, referencing our School Wide Expectations matrix. This is also a focus at our morning Activate Wellbeing sessions with all classes and at our weekly assembly on Friday! Each day our students are acknowledged with House Tickets when they demonstrate our expectations and the total points for each House is shared weekly at assembly.
Farewell
This is my final week at Nearnung Primary School and I take this opportunity to thank our school community for your very positive and enthusiastic support of your child’s learning and of the school. Nearnung Primary School is thriving!The preliminary release of 2024 NAPLAN data shows our students (Year 3 and Year 5) overall position in English and Mathematics as being strong. Our wellbeing data is sensational with our students working hard every day to learn and demonstrate our school wide expectations. Parent feedback taken from the most recent parent survey is also very strong. 66 surveys were returned from our families. 96.9% of all responses agree with the survey statements. An overview is provided inside this newsletter.
I wish Nearnung Primary School all the very best for the future. A process is underway to appoint an Acting Principal before a substantive principal is appointed later this year.
Have a wonderful week everyone. Remember that whenever you have a good idea, a query or concern you want to share, please feel free to chat with your child’s teacher, Kerry or myself.
Take care.
Students of the Week
Congratulations to all of our students!
House Points
Every student is a member of either RED, BLUE, GREEN or YELLOW HOUSE. Each week students are acknowledged for demonstrating our school values and they receive House Tickets.
Every House Ticket earned, contributes to the overall number of HOUSE POINTS. See below for the current HOUSE POINT totals:
Every House Ticket earned, contributes to the overall number of HOUSE POINTS. See below for the current HOUSE POINT totals:
2024 House Leaders
Children Crossing
When parking or walking along Polly Parade please make sure your family uses the School Crossing to cross the road. Parents should park the car before students get out of the car. Never stop the car on the road to let children out. The crossing has been installed to help keep us all safe. Barb is our regular School Crossing Supervisor and she is here to help.
TIMES: 8.15am - 9.15am and 2.30 - 3.30pm every day.
TIMES: 8.15am - 9.15am and 2.30 - 3.30pm every day.
From the Office
Mobile Phones
The Department of Education requires students who choose to bring mobile phones (including watch phones) to school to have them switched off and securely stored during school hours.
Nearnung Primary School provides secure storage in the Administration Building for student phones. All students must present their phones to reception on arrival and collect them again at the end of each school day. Thank you for your support.
2024 School Review - Nearnung Primary School Parent Survey - May 2024
66 surveys were returned from our families. 96.9% of all responses agree with the survey statements. Written feedback is summarised below based on trending statements.| ITEM | AGREE % | DISAGREE % |
| My child likes being at this school. | 98.5 | 1.5 |
| My child likes being at this school. | 98.5 | 1.5 |
| My child's learning needs are met at this school. | 90.9 | 9.1 |
| My child has the opportunity to develop valuable social skills. | 98.5 | 1.5 |
| My child feels safe at this school. | 97 | 3 |
| Overall, I am satisfied with the education my child receives at this school. | 97 | 3 |
| The teachers at this school expect my child to do his or her best. | 95.5 | 4.5 |
| The school values and expectations are explicitly taught at this school. | 100 | 0 |
| Student behaviour is well managed at this school. | 92.4 | 7.6 |
| I feel comfortable approaching this school with any concerns. | 98.5 | 1.5 |
| There is effective communication between staff and parents. | 93.9 | 6.1 |
| This school celebrates student achievements. | 100 | 0 |
| This school provides opportunities for parents to be involved in the school. | 97 | 3 |
| This school has suffcient indoor and outdoor learning spaces. | 100 | 0 |
PARENT FEEDBACK TRENDS:
What’s working:
- Communication between school and parents.
- Staff are very approachable and want to help.
- The school is very inclusive and values diversity, including cultural diversity.
- Students are happy, engaged in learning and doing well.
- Students are taught the school values and expectations.
School Highlights
- Safe and welcoming school staff and school environment.
- Academic achievement of students.
- All the school activities, sporting, special events and parents/families invited to participate.
- School facilities.
Next Steps
- Language teacher
- Celebrate more cultural festivals.
- More opportunity for parents to be in classrooms.
Around Our School - Year 3/4/5 Classes
Literacy
This term in Reading, we have been learning about non-fiction texts and their many features. We have been exploring a range of non-fiction texts and diving deep into reading strategies, such as summarising, synthesising and analysing text structures to further support students in developing their comprehension abilities of texts.
In Writing, we have been running a writer’s workshop, which was designed to help students consolidate their skills in punctuation, spelling, sentence structure and grammar. This, combined with our exploration of non-fiction texts, will be a great segue into then covering procedural texts, which will start this week. The students are very engaged and keep to continue updating their reading and writing skills.
Mathematics
This term in Mathematics, we have been learning about addition and subtraction as part of our number and algebra unit of work. We have examined strategies used to solve addition and subtraction problems. Sometimes we have used our own strategies and have further developed our understanding by implementing new strategies we have learnt. We have been learning to analyse worded problems and apply these strategies to real world contexts, to make mathematics meaningful in our classroom.
Additionally, we have been learning about data representation and interpretation as part of our statistics and probability unit of work. We have examined different types of lists, tables and graphs to begin to understand why and how data is important. Together, we have posed categorical questions and have surveyed each other to gather data that we would like to know, for example ‘what is your favourite fruit?’. From there, we have constructed different types of graphs (picture and column) to represent our data. We have then used our data to interpret and discuss results. For example, ‘which is the most popular fruit?’ or ‘which is the least popular fruit?’. We are working hard to complete this process on our own at the moment, to complete our Term 2 portfolio task.
Inquiry Learning
This term, we have been learning all about Healthy and Safe Kids. We have been looking at how we can be healthy and active with the support of the Wyndham City Council Active Kids Program. We have been recording how much fruit and vegetables we eat, how much water we drink and how active we are. Then we are learning about the impact it has on our bodies.
Some things that have surprised us are how much five servings of vegetables is and what our “sometimes foods” are. We have discovered that we are active and enjoy moving and doing sports.
Wellbeing
The Resilience Project
This term in Wellbeing, we have been examining the concept of gratitude during our resilience project session. We have collaborated to create class definitions of gratitude and have covered lessons and activities that include the following. Students have worked to apply their knowledge in the classroom and outside when interacting with their peers.
Wellbeing and Respectful Relationships (RRRR)
The aim of the Respectful Relationships program is to promote respect and gender equality and help students learn how to build healthy relationships. It prepares students to face challenges by developing problem-solving skills and building resilience and confidence. This term during respectful relationships, we have focused on topic 3 - Positive Coping. We have examined concepts that include:
- Everyone is different
- Understanding strong emotions
- Identifying and responding appropriately to angry feelings
- Making an apology
Kind regards,
Michael, Agnes, Kunal and Jane
Team Kids
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