I'm not entirely shore what you mean.

Normaly I have a partial view in my template like @Html.Partial("whatever")

On that partial you could do:

var newsArticles = Umbraco.ContentAtXPath("//news");

var property = newsArticles.GetPropertyValue("someproperty");

Does that answer your question?

In that case you could do the following:

Template:

var newsArticles = Umbraco.ContentAtXPath("//news");
@Html.Partial("myView", newsArticles);

Partial view:

    @model IPublishedContent

@foreach(var item in model.Children)
{
//Do stuff
}

Although I would keep the foreach in the template and pass the child to the partial view like so:

var newsArticles = Umbraco.ContentAtXPath("//news");

foreach(var article in newsArticles)
{
    @Html.Partial("myView", article);
}

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