NPS has a highly active group of Parents and Friends who engage with school programmes and contribute to fundraising activities.

NPS plays a vital role in the local community.

Our school encourages parents to take an active role in their child’s education in a variety of ways, including formal and informal discussions of children’s progress, participation in class programmes, plus excursions and camps, being members of the school council and community relations committee and by maintaining contact in a variety of media.

The school grounds are extensive with a variety of play spaces, and natural and cultivated areas.

A school bus service is available for students who reside at least 4.8 km. from the school on the current bus route. Please contact the school if your child/ren require bus travel. If a student will be absent from school, if would be helpful to the bus driver if parents could inform the school.

A number of programs underpin the school’s approach to the development of student well being.

Newstead Primary has a strong focus on literacy and numeracy.

Reading

In the senior classes students are taught strategies to understand text features and the language devices of texts. Students make personal responses to texts, interpret, analyse and use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts.

The school prides itself on the great range and diversity of camps and excursions that it offers its students annually.

The School Council is a legally elected body of people that has a role setting the long term future of the School and maintaining oversight (but not management) of the School's operation. The Newstead School Council comprises of teachers (Education Department representatives), the Principal, a community member and elected parents. They meet once a month and report back to the general school community via the school newsletter and Annual Report.

Council regularly prepares and updates policies that assist in school governance.

Consistent with DET requirements NPS prepares a three year Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plans.