6 December 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Carers

The school end of year activities are fast upon us all. The last day of the 2016 school year is Thursday 15 December. EAP/TEAP review and reports will be sent home in Week 10 week beginning 12 December.

Year 12 Graduation

The year 12 Graduation took place Thursday 1 at the Hilton Hotel. All students looked amazing as the young adults they are. I have included a section of my speech on the night, “Tonight we are here to celebrate the milestone that is the completion of Year 12. A milestone is a significant event or stage in the life of a person. Completing Year 12 has provided you with the solid foundations upon which to start the next stage of your life. You are tonight celebrating with your support team. The person who has done the most in laying the foundations is you! The journey after school will be amazing, liberating, confusing, challenging, exciting and filled with the unknown. Moving into the unknown is what all adults do. What you need to remember is that you have solid foundations and with resilience you will move forward”.

Halikos Group Presents the Henbury Corporate Luncheon

The Luncheon is Friday 9 December. This year we have 37 tables and have had to for the first time in years stopped selling tickets. The Live Auction will consist of the following items. You are welcome to bid for items using a proxy. Contact the front office on 899 77090 for more information.

Strategic Improvement Plan 2016-2017.

Staff have worked over the term on the Priorities, Goals and Deliverables. School Council will also view this draft document on Thursday 8 December at the School Council Meeting. Parents and Carers are welcome to attend.

Northern Territory Disability Services Awards

Henbury was represented at the 2016 Northern Territory Disability Services Awards in the Excellence in Promoting Community Awareness category, in recognition of the Henbury Corporate Luncheon. The HCL promotes the valued role of people with disabilities in the wider community. Thank you to staff who work so hard in ensuring our event is fantastic. Congratulations to HPA Helping People Achieve who won this award.

Christmas Craft Fair at Marrara

Henbury’s stall at The Christmas Craft Fair is a long standing tradition. Enterprise Education goods/products made by students are sold to the general public. This year the most popular products were the photographic coasters made by Nightcliff and Sanderson Middle and Darwin High and CSC Outreach classes. Closely followed by the wooden Christmas ornaments. Thank you to Leizl and Penny for your coordination efforts. A big thank you to staff who helped set up, sell and pack the stall away.

Farm

The latest addition to the farm is the aquaculture tubs. The fish have grown so fast and we look forward to harvesting the fish as well as the garden produce and eggs.

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 9 – School/Community Partnerships-Building and Maintaining Positive and Caring Relationships with families, Carers, Students and all those Associated. This data will be used when writing the Strategic Improvement Plan towards the end of the year.

Sanderson Middle School Outreach

At Sanderson outreach, this semester, we welcomed a new student named Keith (Mickey) to our class and he fitted in well, making friends with his peers. We have been doing lots of interesting activities, this semester, to achieve our annual targets of student EAP goals.

Throughout this semester, our class continued work training at the Henbury Op shop, Patch and FoodBank, together with our cupcake business, weekly.

• Students enjoyed working at the Patch, that offered individual project based learning throughout the year and provided the opportunity to use so many different types of power tools while helping students attain a hammer and saw licence respectively. They also helped in the garden and looking after the chickens.
• Henbury Op shop has been providing a great platform for learning a variety of responsibilities to students, that is essential in a retail business and our students did their best to excel in all given tasks.
• Foodbank Northern Territory is a non-profit organization which relies on the support of a large network of dedicated people who have a commitment to fulfilling the aims and objectives of Foodbank Northern Territory. The concept of Foodbank Northern is simple – to feed the country’s needy by redistributing surplus food. SMS outreach students and staff worked as volunteers to help give back to the community in the best way possible.
• A small classroom business that operates as “Cupcake Masters”. This business started in 2015 by the classroom teacher and is thriving successfully. The whole class actively participates in the preparation, baking and decorating of the final product to packaging and delivering throughout the year. The profits go towards student choice of excursion at the end of each term.

The whole class looked forward to their Sports and Arts lessons throughout the semester. They enjoyed playing a friendly game of basketball or football on alternate weeks in Sports and creating 3D models using Paper Mache techniques in arts class. Our class also provided their contribution towards the craft fair.

We at SMS outreach have had a great year and looking forward to 2017. Have a great weekend, from Sanderson Outreach.

Darwin High Outreach 2

DHS 2 has had an incredibly busy semester two. All of our students work at Coffee Crew once a week and do work experience. They even catered for 50 Principals who visited Henbury and did not get stressed at all. They are awesome at Coffee Crew. Thanks Ms Felicity.

Dawyte did his work experience at Woolworths and is the King of the baked cookies, Rachael was at a Preschool, Despina at a Child Care Centre and Gerry at Darwin Bolts. They used these experiences to improve their independent travel training which has also counted for part of their mathematics course.

Gerry did a Game Development subject at his host school and made some very good computer games. He got to work with students other than those in our class and he got valuable feedback from the students in his class. Despina did a term of Foundation Music and can play some easy songs now.

All four students have been studying the Compulsory Subject called Personal Learning Plan which has to be passed in order to have any hope of getting their Northern Territory Certificate of Education (NTCET). They have worked with Ms Deb.

Gerry and Despina did a subject called Integrated Learning which turned the First Aid course they did in first semester into a subject which counts towards their NTCET. They had to show they had improved in their basketball skills and were good team players.

As a group we worked hard to turn our fantastic CyberBullying movie into a Community Studies course and we made some fantastic resources to help teenagers with this problem.

In Mathematics DHS2 students tracked their own fitness while walking to Mindil Beach with Mr Cam’s class. They had fun on an excursion to Coles and Dollars and Cents planning a party for which they had to do a budget. They had to show their improvement in maths in six different areas and all managed to do this. They filled out checklists including pretending to be the cleaner who had to report on the cleanliness of the student facilities. They booked plane flights and Greyhound bus trips.

The subject that took a lot of our time was English where we did a huge group project. The students have written a newsletter article about this as part of their course work. They also had fun writing a children’s book.

Adding to these activities, Careers Talks, Science Days, Climate Change nights, Discos, joining in with the Lip Sync competition, Celebrations with other Outreach classes and proving we improved to our folks at the TEAPS and you can see how busy they have been. They have set themselves up really well in year 10 for their future pathways and leaving school in two years time. Well done students, Ms Alysha and Ms Kate are so proud of all of you.

AWESOME LITERACY PROJECT

DHS2 class has been working on an interesting literacy project. For our English Modified subject we had to prove that we could communicate by writing and speaking. We had to show that we were good citizens and could work as a team and learn together.

We decided to plan a project that would allow us to show this. We wanted to seek out the ideas of what home means to people. We looked for a good way to do this. We read stories and poems about homes, homelessness and poverty. We liked the poem Forgiven by A A Milne which you may know as Alexander Beetle.

In this poem, a beetle was in a matchbox and it ran away. This gave us the idea of using matchboxes to show what home means to people. We made samples so we could show people what we wanted them to do. We made a short film clip to take to a staff meeting.

We met with the Head of the Secondary Intensive English Unit to ask to work with a class of their students who were studying the same novel we had studied. We showed them our boxes and explained what we needed done. Rachael made some teaching resources for the teachers to help the students.

We kept making boxes to show homes for all types of people from different backgrounds. Other people helped us - Kabita’s class, Anthony, Radhesh , Leizl and Cam’s class. Mr Martin helped with ideas.

We realised that all our helpers now live in the Northern Territory even though they came from all around the world. We made the background a map of the Territory.

We acknowledged the Indigenous people by using an Aboriginal saying printed in the colours of the flag, black representing the Aboriginal people, red representing the Earth and yellow for the Sun.

We found this project very worthwhile and we are extremely proud of what we have accomplished.

CRAFT FAIR

This year our school stall at the Marrara Christmas Craft Fair was a success. Students worked throughout the 2nd Semester to produce a variety of products for us to sell. We had a great selection of items created by a wide range of our students, on campus and at outreach classes. The profit goes back into the Enterprise Education budget for the following year’s projects.

Enterprise Education is a programme to teach the students the benefits of being creative and productive; to develop entrepreneurial and financial literacy skills. The Craft Fair is a great opportunity for us to show off what our students are capable of creating and what they have produced through Enterprise Education projects. It is also a wonderful opportunity for us to build relationships with the greater community.

STAFF PROFILE – FLEUR RADOVIC

My name is Fleur Radovic. I am current working as a SESO at Sanderson Outreach with 5 talented young men.

I was born in Darwin and attended Moil Primary School. I then went on to attend a Private girls School in Perth (Methodist Ladies College) throughout my high school years, where I was a boarder for five years.

After finishing year 12 I went on a Student Exchange to Germany for a year, attending two different schools (Gymnasium der Benediktiner, and Ricarda Huch Schule) in Meschede and Keil consecutively, staying with two German families for 6 months in these beautiful places.

I have three beautiful children my daughter who is 21 years old, my eldest son who is 18 years old and my youngest son who is 11 years old.

I began working at Henbury OSHC in February 2009 and soon started doing relief within the school. I have enjoy working at Henbury, finding new exciting challenges with every class I have had the privilege to assist teaching in. I have learnt so many new skills myself while working alongside my students. This year in particular I have loved working with my colleague Kabita as we have endeavoured to help our students increase their work skills as well as build community relations at Foodbank, Henbury Op shop, The Patch and our Cupcake business.

My greatest passion is travelling which I try to do as often as possible. My first experience began at just three months of age travelling on the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia, where I nearly froze to death (-20 degrees) as we were thrown off the train at Lake Baikal for having the wrong Visa documents. Travelling is in my blood and I have travelled to most continents of the world, my latest trip to Tokyo just 8 weeks ago, luckily missing the recent earthquake. Hopefully my next adventure will take me to Antarctica, the last continent to conquer on my bucketlist.

NDIS UPDATE

NDIS Update Transition of supported accommodation Eligible people in supported accommodation, including Commonwealth Residential Aged Care, will move to the NDIS as follows: From 1 January 2017 people in supported accommodation in Darwin Urban will begin to move to the NDIS. From 1 July 2017 people in supported accommodation in Alice Springs and Katherine will move to the NDIS. Where can I find more information? Information packs on the NT roll out have been developed as a resource for providers and future participants. These resources include a range of factsheets and a frequently asked questions document on the NDIS and the NT roll out.

Easy English materials about the NT roll out have also been developed.

NDIS – National Disability Insurance Scheme Roll out schedule across the NT

The NDIS will be rolled out geographically across the NT over the next three years:

January 2017 - East Arnhem Supported Accom. Darwin
July 2017 - Darwin Remote, Katherine Supported Accom. Alice Springs
July 2018 - Darwin Urban, Central Australia

Schedule of upcoming information sessions:

Darwin – Double Tree by Hilton, 122 The Esplanade
Session: What is the NDIS & Participant Pathway

Tuesday 6 December - 6:30pm to 7:30 pm
Tuesday 13 December – 2:00pm to 3:30pm

SENSITIVE SANTA AT CASUARINA SQUARE

17 NOVEMBER - 22 DECEMBER 2016

A slower paced Santa experience for kids with Autism or special needs.

This program invites families with a child on the autism spectrum to have a photo with Santa without the common hustle and bustle and sensory overload of a shopping centre.

Families can choose a time suitable from the list below, which means no queues to have their child or children photographed with Santa in an autism-friendly environment.

If you have any questions please contact Aerin Langworthy, Marketing Manager, on 89202306.

Sensitive Santa photos are available for the following days and hours:

Upcoming Events

Happy Birthday

DECEMBER

Nikolaos E – 9th
Shaun B – 11th
Simba – 12th
Brandon – 18th
William BB – 21st
Jai P – 23rd

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