A Message from the Principal
School Leader Changes
We congratulate Nat Munoz who has won a position with the Education Directorate for Term 3. This is a wonderful opportunity for Nat to strengthen her work with community, in particular the 3 year old preschool program. Many of you of formed strong connections with Nat and she will be greatly missed. In her absence, please contact any of the school leaders or myself.
| K-2 Deputy Principal | Ann Harrison |
| 3-6 Deputy Principal | Jennifer Hearne |
| SLC Preschool/Kindy | Kristina Vizadis |
| SLC Year 1 | Danielle Parker |
| SLC Year 2 and 5 | Erin Salleo |
| SLC Year 3 and Small Group | Vernetta Rolls |
| SLC Year 4 and 6 | Ahmed Jalloh |
Futsal Brilliance!
On Tuesday 30th July we had two year 5/6 teams participate in the ACT Futsal Cup. Both teams went through the rounds winning the majority of their games.
Ngunnawal team 1 made it through to the semi finals and things got very exciting! The team won in a penalty shootout to make the grandfinal. In the grandfinal they came up against the team who beat them in an earlier game 5-0. The team executed the game plan to apply constant pressure and become champions winning 2-1.
All players should be proud of the way they represented NPS.
Kindergarten Cultural Experience
Last week our Kindergarten students welcomed Aunty Winnie and Aunty Sue Bulger, Aboriginal Elders from Wiradjuri Country to share their Indigenous culture and Wiradjuri language. Aunty Winnie is Lulu's grandmother in KLP and regularly visits their local school in Brungle, NSW to share their passion for reading.
The kindy students spent the morning listening to yarns, storytelling, and acting out the characters in the story of Tiddilick. They enjoyed singing songs in the yarning circle and creating artwork from the story ‘How birds got their colour’.
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day is held annually on 4 August and is a day dedicated to celebrating our children. National Children’s Day allows all Australians to show their support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and learn about the impact that culture, family, and community play in the life of every child.
The 2024 theme Strong in Culture, Stronger Together elevates the intention of Children’s Day, focusing on the strength of our children that comes from their connection to culture and mob.
Our Cultures Student Leadership Team read books to students in the library to recognise this day and it's importance.
Books, books and more books!
This term, there are 2 opportunities for students to purchase books looking for new homes for a gold coin donation. The first opportunity is the $1 Book Sale on Wednesday 21 August, the same day as our Book Week Parade. We will be selling a range of books we currently have at school. Funds from this day are going towards new books for the school library.
The second is The Great Book Swap on Wednesday 4 September. We are accepting donations of books in good condition for this day. Books are being collected at the front office now! Funds from this day will go towards the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
2024 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey
Each year, the Directorate surveys all parents and carers, school staff and students in Years 4 to 12 about their experience of public education. The 2024 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey will be available online from 16 August to 6 September. The survey results will help us to continue to make quality informed decisions about how to improve our school. No personal identifying information will be provided to any school or college.
For each child in their family who attends an ACT public school, parents and carers will receive:
▪ A letter about the student survey outlining the reasons for collection and privacy provision for the data; and
▪ An email about the parent survey, including a unique link to access the survey. Genuine survey invitation emails will have the title "The 2024 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey is now open!" and will be sent from EDU Surveys & Evaluation with 'from' address EDUSurveys@act.gov.au.
If you do not receive the survey invitation, please check your Junk email folder; if it is not there, please contact your school. If you do not have an email listed with the school, please contact the front office on 61421266
The Parents and Carers Survey will be available online in other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Urdu, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Spanish, Telugu, French and Italian. Respondents can select their preferred language when they start the survey. A shortened paper-version of the Parents and Carers Survey is also available in the following 5 languages: Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Karen and Mon. These surveys will be available if required at the Front Office.
For the results to reflect the opinions of our whole school community, we need as many parents and carers, staff and students as possible to complete the survey. Your feedback is important, and we hope you will take part.
For more information, visit: School satisfaction and climate survey - Education