GO Foundation

Congratulations to the Ngunnawal Primary School students who had the wonderful opportunity to connect with the GO Foundation founders a few weeks ago. We look forward to nominating more students for scholarships later in 2022.

The GO Foundation has 3 goals:

1. They provide scholarships to Indigenous students from primary school through to university, to students who live on country, in community and with family.
2. They help make the journey through school more rewarding for our scholarship students in the hope that they will self-select further education.
3. They work with their partners to make the future workplaces of our students culturally safe and inclusive.

Installation of transportable buildings at Ngunnawal Primary School

Ngunnawal Primary School has seen significant enrolment growth in our school community over the past few years. To accommodate the increase in enrolment, the school will be receiving additional spaces for teaching and learning with the delivery of transportable buildings and an additional toilet block. The units will provide an additional four learning spaces for our students.

The delivery of these units is scheduled to occur over three days (17-19 May). A series of delivery trucks will access the school site through Yumba Avenue & Balbo Place and may interrupt and limit street access on these days. 

Student, staff and community safety is a priority, with the school grounds appropriately fenced off before work commences. As with any construction work, there may be noise and disruption. We endeavour to limit impact on the school and local community. A Temporary Traffic Management Plan (TTMP) will be in place over these days to minimise traffic disruption as much as possible.

We have included a sitemap outlining the delivery access route and the location of the new transportable buildings. If you have any questions or concerns about these scheduled works, please contact ACT.Education@act.gov.au

Changes commencing in Week 6

With the easing of restrictions our school will be working towards a number of structural changes. These include:

Timetable

We will return to 1 timetable Tuesday 31 May (Week 6). The times will be the same as the junior timetable:

Assemblies 

For parent attendance, this will require a ticket. Tickets can be booked on the newsletter calendar or SZapp calendar. Assemblies will continue to be Wednesday 9.15am-10am.

Staying Safe Online

At NPS we want all of our students to be safe in the online environment. Sometimes this includes the misuse of images and videos by others on a range of platforms. We strongly encourage our families to monitor activity on social media to ensure your child is safe.

Afternoon STEM Lab 

Rebecca Turner

Principal

Writing/Spelling

During writers workshop students have  been learning about what is in a sentence. We have been exploring the importance of capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation and how to use these writing conventions in our writing. Independently we have been looking through books and identifying parts of a sentence.

Reading 

During reader’s workshop, we have been learning how to sound out words. First, we watch our teacher as they show us how we sound out a word we don’t know. We do this by making the sounds of the letters and blending the sounds together. We listen for the word we can hear! Then we practise sounding out together as a class where we write down the word we don’t know on a mini whiteboard, and then sound it out. Lastly, we practise being independent readers by doing the same activity again but by ourselves with a quality or levelled text.

Numeracy

In maths number we have  been learning about the number 8 and 9. We have been focusing on number formation and representing numbers in a variety of ways, such as tally marks, ten frames and pictures.

Strand

This term we have started a new unit on time. We have been learning the days of the week and have practised putting the days in order from Sunday to Saturday. We have enjoyed listening and singing along with songs about the days of the week.

We have been thinking about what day it was yesterday, what day it will be tomorrow and what day it is today. 

Zones

During Zones of Regulation lessons we have been exploring different emotions that link to each colour. Students acted out different emotions and identified ways our face and body would look like in each Zone. We also identified and reflected on events or ‘triggers’ that push our emotions into the yellow, blue and red zone. This is to help gain awareness of our emotions and work on problem solving to avoid those triggers.

Japanese

Respectful Learner

Safe

Responisble Learner

We have a massive amount of lost property

If you can please LABEL all jumpers and other property so we can return to your student.

Thank you Front Office Staff