20 June 2016

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Principal’s Report

Parents and Carers,

Events

Thursday 16

Henbury hosted Carpentaria’s Got Talent. Carpentaria Disability Services (CDS) ran "Carpentaria's Got Talent" competition in our Hall. Our students participated as audience members, during their intermission the Henbury choir sang and a few of our winners from Henbury’s Got Talent performed.

Friday 17

Friday was also a busy day, with the Annual Science Fair, the theme was Drones, Droids and Robots. All students had opportunities to participate in Robotics, B Bots activities and Drone activities. The day ended with the annual Science Fair Quiz. Thank you to Joan who coordinated the event. Also a big thank you to staff and students for their engagement in the day’s activities. Another group of 15 students attended the V8s and got to walk down Pit Lane and see some loud V8 vehicles.

Thursday 23 June

The final assembly is on Thursday. Parents and carers are welcome to attend to celebrate the end of the term and an era.

Week Beginning 20 June will be the last week of students and staff working on the current campus of 4 Henbury Avenue.

1978: The school commenced as Coconut Grove School with 15 students.
1982: Henbury Avenue School, 4 Henbury Avenue, Wanguri; Opened with 6 students
1997: Henbury Avenue School name changed to Henbury School

2 August 2016: Henbury School moves to new school at 11 Henbury Avenue, Tiwi with an enrolment of 109.

Staff and students are getting ready for the big move with more and more boxes in corners and alongside walls in classrooms. There will be many new changes before the first day back for on campus students on the 2 August. I will be sending updates to parents about what the first day will look like. Stay tuned.

Congratulations to Riley Elkins who received an Autism NT Teacher Appreciation Award at Government House. This award is in recognition of her work with working with students with Autism.  

Staffing

Next term SESOs Peter Fuller and Tina Glover will be returning to Henbury after extended leave. Peter will be working with Anne and the G1 boys, Tina will be working with Julie and the C4. I would also like to thank Kane Doughty and Antony Bird who have backfilled as SESOs for Peter and Tina. I am sure that we will see them around the school undertaking relief SESO work. Rod Opie will continue as Assistant Principal to the end of the 2016 school year.

School Council Vacancy

There is a vacancy for a parent member on the school council. Please ring myself or one of the other parent members if you are interested in joining School Council

Moving to new School

Approval has been given by the Chief Executive DoE and supported by School Council for Henbury School to move across to the new school Week 1 Term 3. Monday 25 July is already a Professional Development day for staff with no students attending both on and off campus.

For all students that attend Henbury Campus, Tuesday 26 July to Friday 29 July 2016 will be pupil free days to enable staff to set up and fully establish classrooms in the new school.

For students on campus, the first day back at school will be Tuesday 2 August, as Monday 1 August is a Public Holiday.

Students and staff at all Outreach classes will resume classes on Tuesday 26 July.

Vacation Care will operate for the pupil free week.

Special Needs Transport - There will be no transport for students who attend Henbury Campus 26-29 July. There will be transport for students at Outreaches 26-29 July.

Reports are currently being read and will go home in Week 11, beginning 20 June.

End of Term Assembly will be held on Thursday 23rd June at 10:30am. CSC1 will be running this assembly which will be our final one in our current location. To say goodbye with style, a Lip Sync Battle competition will be held which will be fun for everyone.

Carolyn Edwards
Principal

New School Update

Henbury School Staff Profile

Hello, my name is Denholm. I have taken over from Pat Hills as the Henbury OSHC coordinator.

I have a background in working with children with special needs as well as experience in many other industries from customer service to health and safety.

I am currently studying nursing at Charles Darwin University but will be changing my studies to focus on Education with special needs children, as I have enjoyed working at Henbury School so much this year.

I look forward to meeting all parents and carers who have students involved in the Henbury OSHC program, and of course, doing so many fun activities with the students.

Denholm Sargent

DHS 1

The students at Darwin High School have continued to settle into their year throughout Term 2. They have been displaying a greater maturity and independence every day. With a majority of students in year 12, they are preparing for their future transition out of school.

Dorys has started Work Experience with Redline Automotive.

This term, all students have accessed a Work experience and or a VET course. Some students are doing several days a week out of school at work training and study.

A big thank you to Felicity, Leanne C and Sarah C from Henbury for organising this.

Students regularly practice social skills and are encouraged to do extra-curricular activities or plan a get together with other students.

Students also participated in the Couch Surfing event to raise awareness about Youth Homelessness. They decorated a couch and raced it. They also won a prize.

DHS 2

Our Henbury School Outreach class based at Darwin High has been concentrating on transitioning from Middle School to Senior School this semester. Our teacher is Ms Kate and our SESO is Ms Alysha. Our class members are Rachael, Despina, Gerry and Dawyte.

Our literacy and numeracy programs allowed for contribution towards the Northern Territory Certificate of Education Training.

Our major literacy focus for the semester was a novel study of ‘Blueback’ by Tim Winton. We studied this in both traditional book and ebook formats. We learned some amazing facts about sea creatures and laughed as we learnt. We all completed our first assignment which was to write a summary of this novel for our peers. This summary counted towards results for the English Modified course.

As we worked through the novel, we tested our reading and we all improved the number of words we could read and spell. We had fun interpreting words and had some awesome questions on our Wonder Wall.

Our numeracy focus was on improving our ability to do our basic skills work faster and equipping us with strategies to help with this. Our best area of maths is money. Our twice weekly fitness walks became data for a spreadsheet which will be contributing to our Maths Modified result.

In technology we learned how to make Wordles, Spreadsheets and studied Cyber Safety. Our Cyber Safety video clip made with Moviemaker won a competition.

As we begin our journey of transitioning to some form of work after year twelve, we are studying a subject called Personal Learning Program with Ms Deb. All Senior students across the Northern Territory study this subject. This subject teaches us a lot about how we learn and helps us set our future goals. We have a banking program as part of this subject and deposit money each week towards a class goal. We are on target to meeting this goal.

We returned to Henbury to study Human Growth and Development each week and worked as part of the Coffee Crew team. We have become very proficient at the jobs associated with this work and helping train other students. We can't wait to work in the new Cafe at the new Henbury.

We got to study First Aid with students from another school and enjoyed the course and the socialisation.

Each week we worked with the other Outreach class on the tile project with Ms Penny and we are looking forward to seeing our work in the overall artwork at the new Henbury. We also watched our mates in the Couch Surfing competition.

We are gradually becoming involved in out of class activities such as Despina representing DHS in basketball, Rachael contributing to the Anime Club, Dawyte and Rachael being involved in the Climate Change Challenge as members of the Henbury teams and helping out at the Science Fair.

We catered for and met with the ladies from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program.

Individually we have started or have plans in place to start work placements and Vocational Education Studies. Dawyte has won a place to study a Certificate One in Hospitality at Taminmin next semester. Despina had a work placement at Furry Godmother. Gerry has been gaining experience at Darwin Bolts and has been studying a Retail Certificate 1 at the Henbury Op Shop.

Despina and Rachael have plans in place to gain some experience in the Childcare Industry.

All in all, we have had a very busy semester and have made an awesome start to our Senior Schooling phase.

NMS

Nightcliff Middle School Outreach has worked hard this Semester, particularly achieving great success in their Physical Education Program. All students participate in a minimum of 30 minutes continuous physical activity daily.

They play competitive sports like basketball, rugby, football and soccer. The focus for the team sports is to improve fitness, ball skills and teamwork. NMS participate in Total Recreation Sports and have learnt and practised skills for soccer, rugby and athletics.

On Thursdays they attend The Edge Gym in Casuarina where they work out with a personal trainer. The focus for these sessions is to engage the students with a variety of different training methods and equipment to work towards our class goal of being healthy, fit and strong for life. The students enjoy a variety of gym exercises, i.e. boxing, body weight exercises, free weights, weight machines, fitness circuits, treadmills and bikes.

Our outreach class participated in the NMS Sports Day. The students competed in long jump, tug of war, shot put and running races. Aaron came second in the Year 8, 100m sprint. Willis came second in the Year 7 shot put.

Gardening Crew

In term 1 the plan was to build on our succeses of previous years. By the end of term 1 we were booked out and challenged to keep up with bookings as far as Howard Springs, Palmerston and the city. The students were extremely excited and enthusiastic about the jobs and the travel to get there and back.

The students were an excellent pick of dedicated individuals. As a group the jobs completed, got great feedback.

All students who participated in the Henbury Garden Crew in Semester 1 should be proud of their achievements.

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