Newstead College

Outdoor Education students remained on campus today, focusing on essential preparation for upcoming abseiling and rock-climbing sessions at the Gorge. 🧗‍♀️

Using a mock climbing and abseiling setup, students practised key skills including harness fitting, rope management, communication calls, and safety procedures. This hands-on session helped build confidence and competence while reinforcing the importance of risk management and teamwork in outdoor adventure activities.

Step Into Wellness: 💚💙🧡
Discover What’s New at the 2026 NC Health Expo

Check out stalls from over 10 vendors and student groups, discover local services, and learn how to look after your health and wellbeing.
Tuesday 1st September during Support Group and Lunch in the College Cafeteria

Expo Service providers:

-Speak up Stay Chatty
-Reconnect
-MRC
-Youth Health North
-Headspace
-Laurel House
-Family Planning
-YASP
-FIAAI
-MHC
-The Mish
-Vet Health
-NC SWBT

See you there!

Book Week comes to Newstead College 📚

All sorts of characters (that looked suspiciously like some of our staff and students) filled up the library today to celebrate Book Week!

The event demonstrated creativity, community, and a love for characters, storytelling, and books.

Congratulations to all the raffle winners, and well done to our amazingly dressed school community 📖🎉🏆

This years theme for Wear it Purple Day is ‘Colours of Courage’. The colours reflect the diversity of identities, experiences and stories within our community.

It honours the courage of our LGBTQIA+ young people as they continue to build community, connection and visibility, and our allies who choose to stand up, speak out and continue to create safe and inclusive spaces. 💜🏳️‍🌈

Please join us this Friday 28th Aug in wearing purple or the rainbow, in celebration of our LGBTQIA+ community!

🏀 Great to see both our Boys and Girls teams proudly represent Newstead College at the Tasmanian College Basketball Championships on the weekend.

While there were some standout individual performances, the real highlight was the fantastic team spirit, continuous improvement throughout the tournament, and the fun everyone had along the way. 🏀

National Skills Week 2026

This National Skills Week, we're celebrating the incredible opportunities that Vocational Education and Training (VET) provides for young people as they explore their future careers.

VET gives students the chance to develop practical, industry-relevant skills, gain real-world experience, and build pathways into further study, apprenticeships, traineeships, and employment.

At Newstead College, we're fortunate to offer a diverse range of VET programs that support students interested in a wide variety of industries and career pathways. Whether their passion lies in health, trades, hospitality, hair and beauty, early childhood education and care or beyond, our students can start building valuable skills while they complete their secondary education.

We're proud to help students discover their strengths, pursue their interests, and take confident steps towards their future careers.

NEWSTEAD COLLEGE PLAYOFFS 🎶

Get ready for an exciting evening of live music as our talented Newstead College student musicians take the stage! 🎤🎸

📅 Thursday 27 August
🕕 Doors open: 6:00pm
🎶 Acoustic performances: From 6:30pm
🥁 Band performances: To follow
📍 Newstead College Auditorium
🎟️ Free entry

Family and friends are warmly invited to come along, cheer on our performers and enjoy a fantastic night of student music!

What will you study in 2027? ⛹️‍♂️👾🧠🧪🎨👩‍🍳🎸

At Newstead College, our curriculum covers an extensive range of TASC, VET and UTAS courses, allowing you to tailor your learning according to your interests and pathway goals.

Browse your course options in the 2027 Course Guide:
🌐https://newsteadcollege.education.tas.edu.au/_d/6077

Students from across Northern Tasmania came together at Newstead College for the 2026 TASC Student Forum to share their experiences and ideas on senior secondary education. 💬🎓

Representing Newstead College, Tara Lette, Ashtyn Thorn, Amali Swarts and Sebastian De Vos contributed to discussions on Years 11–12 transitions, course selection, assessment, AI, academic integrity and student voice.

A valuable opportunity for young people to connect, share perspectives and help shape the future of senior secondary education.

2027 Course & Enrolment Information

📅: Tuesday 8th September 2026, 7.00 pm
📍: Newstead College Auditorium

More information about Newstead College is available on our website: https://newsteadcollege.education.tas.edu.au



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