22 February 2016

Newsletter Articles

Assistant Principal’s report

Parents/Carers

Hello to all members of our Henbury community. Four weeks in and the school is humming. There are a number of activities and events that are happening over the next few weeks of term.

Acquaintance Evening & Youth Disability Expo

Our annual Acquaintance Evening & Youth Disability Expo will take place on Thursday 25 February from 5-7 pm in the hall, this is a fantastic event for both parents/carers and students to attend. More details in the article below. Please note that there will be a free barbeque for all attendees.

Parents as Career Transition Support (PACTS)

Henbury School will run the PACTS workshops again in 2016. The PACTS program is a series of information and education workshops for parents of secondary school students in their final year of schooling. The first workshop will take place at Henbury School on Thursday 10 March from 5.00 – 6.30pm. A light dinner, tea and coffee, with child minding will be provided. Bookings for this can be made with Sarah Corry 89275088. Please see attached flyer.

Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT)

A majority of students from Henbury School have undertaken progressive achievement tests in reading and maths through their classes. These tests which were done on line will provide the school with achievement levels for students which can be measured over the year. Students have undertaken these tests this week and will be tested again in week 2 of term 4 so as to determine increases in their reading (PATR) and their Maths (PATM).

TEAP’s and EAP’s

The TEAP/EAP process began this week, teachers will have made contact with parents/carers to book in a time for their TEAP/EAP appointment. A reminder that these meetings are absolutely crucial to determine your child’s goals for the year. Henbury School is using a new reporting format (Accelerus) so they will look different to last years.

RDA - Riding for the Disabled

Riding for the disabled will start again in term 2, students will bring notes home in the very near future giving parents the opportunity for their child to participate in this excellent opportunity. Sports vouchers can be used to participate in this elective.

Swimming

Swimming will begin in semester 2, with teachers currently undertaking their rescue swimming certificates run by Royal Surf Life Saving.

World’s Greatest Shave

On Saturday 12th March one of our SESO’s Ms Anne-Marie Davis is having her hair cut off for The World’s Greatest Shave, if you would like to sponsor her please click on the link below.

New School Photos

Rod Opie
Assistant Principal

Photo Day

Henbury School Photo day is on Thursday 25th February 2016

Order envelopes have been sent home. Please return the envelopes with your order as soon as possible.

Our school staff cannot open envelopes and therefore cannot give change so please ensure that the correct money is included. Payment can be by cash, cheque (made payable to Infocus NT), credit card or online.

For parents who are going to use online ordering at www.ntschoolportraits.com.au they need to use the discount code HEN2016 which is valid for a prepayment discount of $15.00 for Packages A to H between the dates 16/2/2016 to 13/3/2016. Please note that a $1 finance surchage is applicable for online orders.

Please ensure that your child wears their Henbury or Outreach school shirt on Photo Day.

Acquaintance Evening & Youth Disability Expo

WHEN: Thursday 25th February 2016
TIME: Open Classrooms: 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Come meet staff and spend some time in your child’s classroom. Outreach classrooms, at their schools, also open from 4:00pm to 5:00pm.

EXPO: 5:00pm to 6.30pm, Henbury School Hall

Youth and Disability Expo

The Expo will showcase over 20 different services available for students and their families. All families and interested community members welcome.

Also being showcased will be the Henbury Transition 2 Work, ‘T2W,’ program including Henbury Op Shop, Sense-ational Designs, Coffee Crew, Gardening Crew and our Enterprise Education program.

FREE sausage sizzle.

Henbury Café will also be open. Drinks and light snacks will be available for purchase.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Please see attached flyer.

Darwin Entertainment Book Fundraiser

Coming Soon! The new 2016 Darwin Entertainment™ Books and Entertainment™ Digital Memberships with 20% going towards our fundraising for Henbury School! For only $60 Entertainment™ Memberships are packed with hundreds of up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers for the best local restaurants, cafés, attractions, hotel accommodation, travel, and much more!

More details will be available in our next newsletter.

Greetings from the boys in B1!

The boys in B1 have had a great start to Term 1, 2016. We have four boys in our class, James, Deacon, Fu Seng and Bryce. Deacon and Bryce are new to Henbury School this year so we have been spending the first few weeks of school getting to know each other.

Our nutrition program has kicked off to an exciting start this year. So far we have cooked lasagna and a chicken cashew dish which were both very yummy! We also spoilt ourselves and baked some choc chip cookies which Deacon took a plate to our lovely neighbours in B2 to enjoy.

We have been exploring lots of sensory activities in our class such as rice, corn, painting and playdough. We have been joining in with the Sensory Café offered at our school which has allowed us to experience a variety of different sensory materials!

On Wednesday afternoons we have been going over to classroom G2 for a ‘Music Jam Session’ with a group of other classes. This has been great for us to get to know some of the other students in our school. Fu Seng has really enjoyed music and getting up to sing on the microphone.

In Science with Joan, the boys have been planting seeds and sorting out our recycling buckets. James assisted with the planting of the seeds and Bryce really enjoyed watering them.

We have a lot of exciting things planned this term. We have already begun to establish some really good friendships in our classroom.

We hope you enjoyed reading our class update!

From the boys in B1

Hello from C4

What a fun start to the year we’ve had! We have a class of five students who now know each other’s names and some of each other’s likes and dislikes! Everyone seems ready to begin the year positively, and to work on becoming good learners. We are learning that everyone is different and that it is important to look for the positives in other people, and be tolerant when things annoy us. In weeks 1 and 2 we have been creating new Maths games, covering books, planning healthy meals to cook, and beginning Rock and Water, Margie’s gym and Community Access programs.

In Week 2 we visited the Museum of Arts and Sciences to see and play with the Lego exhibition. This got us feeling creative, and we sat for nearly an hour, playing with all the pieces.

Molly and Coral-Lee built houses.

We will use Lego in our class this year, to help build our understanding of fractions.

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February

Rachel M - 07th
Nathan D - 17th
Robbie H – 27th
Gage T– 7th
Roxanne W– 10th
Amanda W – 6th
Ken D – 21st
Montel W – 10th
Tony K – 23rd
Michael C – 12th

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