30 September 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principal's Report

Dear Parents/Carers

Term 3 ended with a fantastic Assembly. Congratulations to all students who received awards at the assembly:

Year 7 – John H for Respect
Year 8 – Jai P for Resilience, Respect, Care & Compassion
Year 9 – Robby H for Care & Compassion
Year 10 – Coral-lee for Resilience
Year 11 – Harry S for Resilience
Year 12 – Dorys DaCosta for Responsibility, Care & Compassion

Official Opening

The date is set for the Official Opening of the new school. Save the date for Monday 17 October 5-7:30pm. The opening will be officiated by the Minister for Education, Eva Lawler. After the official opening the school will be open for Family Night. Family Night this year is open classrooms with static displays. Outreaches will not be open this year for Family Night. Halikos are providing a free BBQ and there will be soft drinks and popper juice available for purchase. Various Enterprise Education business will also be selling their wares. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

School Sport NT Swimming

Two of our Henbury students were chosen to swim in the School Sport NT Swimming at Casuarina pool in September. Nathan Dignan and Jonathan Tan participated in individual and relay swims during the 7 day event. School Sport NT swimming should be commended for their inclusion of our students in a very positive team environment. There were over 600 swimmers from all states and Territories and many Multiclass swimmers who participated throughout the meet. Congratulations to Nathan and Jonathan.

Bus Stop Art

The students of Blue 4 entered an Art competition that was run by the Department of Transport NT. The students Artwork was selected to be painted on the bus stop on Willeroo Street Tiwi. The students worked alongside local Artist David Collins using spray cans to bring the bus stop to life with their focus on Pedestrian Safety.

Enterprise Consumer and Financial Literacy Project.

Henbury was successful with our submission of incorporating the beverage trailer to supply drinks to the community and to embed this within a financial literacy learning program. The grant is worth $10 000. The teachers' learning journey and programs developed for Henbury will support other special schools and teachers in the Territory considering enterprise as medium for financial literacy learning.

PECS Training-Special Price for Parents/Carers of Henbury School

Henbury is hosting the PECS Level 1 Training 31st Oct 2016 – 1st Nov 2016. As we are hosting this training the school is able to give parents a discount of 30%. Cost for parents is $400, less 30% which means parents only have to pay $280. Parents will need to contact the school to arrange details.

Term 4

Rod Opie will be on Long Service Leave 10-14 October and Brenda Moore will be on Long Service Leave 19 October -8 November.

Carolyn Edwards
Principal

SCHOOL REVIEW

The school review was held 23 and 24 March 2016. The outcomes of the review will be included in each newsletter. Included this week are Domain 4: Targeted Use of School Resources. This data will be used when writing the Strategic Improvement Plan towards the end of the year.

CONGRATULATIONS

Carolyn has been shortlisted in the Principal category in the Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards and is a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards, in the Academia and Public Sector section.

CASUARINA SENIOR COLLEGE OUTREACH 1

This term, CSC Outreach 1 have been busy putting together a whole school Art Exhibition as part of their Cross-disciplinary Studies program. This program is one that four students are undertaking in order to obtain a Modified NTCET. Our other programs include English Essentials, Mathematics and Visual Art.

The exhibition will be held in Week 3 of Term 4 in Yellow 5. On Tuesday the 25th of October we invite special guests and our judges to attend an open morning from 8:30am-11:00am. Henbury Coffee Crew will be open on this day for guests to purchase delicious hot food and beverages. We ask anyone who is thinking of attending the open morning to please RSVP to lauren.hofmeyer@ntschools.net.

Students and Staff will then have the opportunity to wander through the exhibit on Wednesday and Thursday (26th-27th of October) from 8:30am-3:00.

Winners will be announced in the Week 4 newsletter.

In the gallery below are some photos of our planning and invitations which you can now see around the new Henbury School Campus. We hope to see you there!

Lauren, Leanne & CSC1

CASUARINA SENIOR COLLEGE OUTREACH 2

Our class Henbury Outreach CSC 2 planned a fundraising event for Footy Colours Day. The event was at Henbury School. A week before the event we went to Henbury School and handed out Footy Colours Day posters. We explained to the students to bring a $1 or $2, to wear your footy jumpers and that we would be running footy drills at school. We planned for the day and what equipment we needed.

On the day our class went to the storeroom to collect the footys and we had to pump them up because they were flat. When we finished that Jye and I went around the school class rooms collecting fund raising money for the Fight Cancer Foundation, it was fun. The event was on at Recess out on the field area. We did footy drills, with students learning how to kick the ball properly it was awesome. We raised $63.10 for the Fight against Cancer. This is a good amount for a short amount of time.

This event was successful, my favourite part of the day was getting around seeing my friends to show them how to kick the ball. Next time we should have a Footy game.

Article written by Byron M

DRIPSTONE MIDDLE SCHOOL OUTREACH

This term DMS Outreach have been participating in model making sessions. The students have been making paper mache models, including cars, boats, and monsters.

They started with balls of newspaper, sculpted them to the required shape, covered them in paper and glue, and then decorated them with paint. They are looking amazing!

Robbie is working on a crocodile, Nadia on Pikachu, Dominic is creating a replica of the RMS Britannic, Melissa has made a Ford Focus, while Scott finished a Land Rover and is now making an aeroplane.

Robbie participated in the crop and colour fundraiser on Dripstone day. Robbie raised $117.00 for the Little Heroes Foundation. He had his hair coloured yellow to raise money for this great cause. Well done Robbie!

SAVE THE GORILLAS FUNDRAISER

Please donate your old mobile phones, chargers, iPods and headphones to Blue 3 class.

We will be sending them to a group of young students called "The Gorilla Girls" in Victoria so they can help raise money for the Gorilla Doctors in Africa. Every phone or device equals $2.00. The Blue 3 students will also be donating money from their class cooking business. For more info go to the BTN website and look up the "Gorilla Girls" story. We look forward to receiving your old devices!

Here is a link to the BTN story about the Cross River Gorillas and The Gorilla Girls

NDIS SESSION

National Disability Insurance Agency and Northern Territory Government invite Participants, Families, Carers to an information session on transitioning to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). See attached flyer for more information.

2016 RAZZA-MA-TAZZ

The 2016 RAZZA-MA-TAZZ Show is a FREE Live Variety Comedy Show for the Special Needs and Disadvantaged Kids of Darwin. It's a madcap cavalcade of comedy to be held at the DARWIN CONVENTION CENTRE on SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER 2016.

Please RSVP with numbers by calling the office on 89 977 077. See flyer below for more information.

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Happy Birthday

SEPTEMBER

Katie V – 3rd
Malakai – 3rd
Breeanna – 4th
Mihali – 6th
Rivers – 11th
Manoli K – 18th
Dominic – 24th
Molly – 27th
Nicole – 29th

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