Newington Public School

Learning for Life

Telephone02 9748 7933

Emailnewington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Rules and policies

Rules and policies are in place to make sure your child remains safe and well at school.

Visit the NSW Department of Education’s policy library for all current operational policies.

Our school uses the department's School Community Charter to ensure all of our communication is collaborative and respectful.

Attendance and absences

Students must attend school regularly so they can achieve their educational best and increase their career and life options.

In NSW, all children from the age of 6 are legally required to attend school or be registered for home schooling through the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA). All students must complete Year 10, or its equivalent and remain in school, employment or training until they turn 17.

For more information about compulsory school attendance, visit:

Application for extended leave

School frameworks (school rules)

As well as following the department’s operational policies, we have developed frameworks for our students in line with our school’s values and commitments.

Newington PS Behaviour Support and Management Plan

Newington PS Enrolment Policy

Newington PS Uniform Policy

NSW DOE Behaviour Code for Students

Newington PS Anti-bullying plan 2025

NSW DOE Compulsory School Attendance

NSW DOE School Community Charter

Mobile phones and digital devices.

NPS' Student Mobile Phone Management is the Off and Away Strategy. All mobile phones are ‘off and away’ for the full school day, including recess and lunch. This means that students have a responsibility to turn off their phone and store it safely in their school bag for the course of the school day. This is an approved NSW Department of Education option. If your child brings a mobile phone to school please reinforce that the mobile must not be switched on until they have left the school gate. Smart watches are included in this policy and can only be used with mobile phone capacity switched off.

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We acknowledge the Wangal people of the Eora Nation, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land along the southern shore of the Parramatta River. We pay our respects to the Elders, both past and present, and to those of the future, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the cultures and the hopes of Aboriginal Australia. We must always remember that under the concrete and the asphalt upon which Newington P.S. was built, this land is, was and always will be, traditional Aboriginal land.

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