17 February 2017

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Parents/Carers

Work Training

Last week the Kitchen at Henbury hosted the first session of the Bakery Skills Set. 11 students baked Rock Cakes and Scones. This course will run for 9 weeks. At the completion they will receive a Certificate. This course is being facilitated by Bill and Phil from CDU. Henbury hosted the first Taste a Trade days, this was capably organized by Sarah Corry. Students had the opportunities to ‘taste’ the following trades, Hairdressing, in Yellow 1 that has begun the process of changing into a ‘real’ hairdresser and thanks to Leanne Chalker and Jayden who demonstrated and instructed students in how to blow wave hair. The Coffee Crew, gave opportunities to make barista coffee and bake scones, thanks to Ally, Felicity and Coffee Crew certified students who helped. The students made bookmarks in SenseSational designs, using the sewing machines, thanks to Sarah C for running this station. The Workshop had students making wooden key tags, thanks to Rod for running this. The Gardening Crew demonstrated the range of tools that could be used if they joined and thanks to Matumba for running this.

T/EAP Meetings

T/EAP meetings will commence next week and run for 3 weeks. Class teachers have been in contact to make appointments with parents/carers to come into school and discuss what will be the focus of each students T/EAP for 2017. The timeslots are tight with relief staff booked to enable teachers to meet during the week. The timetable allows some changes but not many.

School Council

The Annual General Meeting will be Thursday 2 March, commencing at 5pm, in the Conference Room at Henbury. This meeting will be followed by a General meeting.

Nutrition and Community Access Programs

Nutrition programs and excursions out and about in the community are based on student contributions towards the purchase of food and cost for transport/venues. These programs are integral to teaching life skills in menu planning, nutritional value of food, shopping, meal preparation and involvement in activities within the community. These programs are voluntary. The costs associated with these programs have not increased since 2013. The new costs for 2017 are $27.50/week for Nutrition and $8.50/week for Community Access excursions. Therefore a total of $36/week. Payments can be made via direct debit, cash, cheque, EFTPOS and Basics Card. Centrelink payment plans are also available. Please phone the school for more information.

Students who don’t participate in the nutrition program will need to bring their own food to school. Please note that each student is required to pay the excursion cost of $8.50 per week even if they are not participating in the nutrition program. If you have any questions please contact your child’s teacher. Nutrition Program consent forms have been sent home through your child’s communication book. Please ensure they are completed and returned to school by 24 February. If forms are not returned students will need to continue to bring recess and lunch from home. Students cannot access these programs if they still have outstanding money from 2016.

2017 PossABILITIES Expo

Henbury School with the support of the NT NDCO, Julie Forrest-Davies, are coordinating the 2017 PossABILITIES Expo, formerly the “Henbury Youth and Disability Expo.” This will be 6 April from 2pm to 6:30pm. This event will also include Acquaintance Afternoon.

Acquaintance Afternoons

On campus classrooms Thursday 6 April 4:30-5:30.
Outreach Classrooms

DMS-When EAP meetings are held, parents will be able to visit the classroom at this time.
SMS- When EAP meetings are held, parents will be able to visit the classroom at this time.
NMS- When EAP meetings are held, parents will be able to visit the classroom at this time.
DHS- Will occur at Darwin High from 2:30-3:30 Thursday 6 April.
CSC-When TEAP meetings are held, parents will be able to visit the classroom at this time.

Notification of student absences

Please notify the school of any absences. Please note, where a child is absent from school for a period exceeding three days, a medical certificate must be provided.

Emergency details updates from SAMS has been sent home. Please make any changes and send back. If there are no changes, please also send back to school.

Sports vouchers have also been sent home.

Carolyn Edwards
Principal

SchoolZine Phone App

Henbury School currently uses SchoolZine to publish newsletters throughout the year. The school newsletter is an important communication tool to inform our school community of student learning, important notices and upcoming events.

In an attempt to increase accessibility to this service we would like to introduce the SchoolZine app.

This is a free app that can be easily downloaded onto any iPhone or android device which allows school newsletters to be viewed conveniently on any smartphone or tablet device.

To download this app please see information attached.

Any questions please direct to myself on the contact details below. I am available to assist with downloading the app any time, please ask at the front office for assistance if required.

Paul Drewitt
Senior Teacher 1
Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting

National Disability Insurance Service (NDIS) Information Sessions

See attached schedule for upcoming NDIS Information sessions held in Darwin, Katherine, Alice Springs and Tiwi Islands. For more information email NT.engagement@ndis.gov.au.

Welcome back from Purple 2!

This year Purple 2 consists of five young men and three staff members. Fu Seng, Deacon and James have returned and Paulo and Tom are new to Henbury School this year. Wanderson and Jessica are back again and we welcome Lesley to our team.

Over the first couple of weeks we have spent some time getting to know each other. Fu Seng really enjoys watching music videos on the computer. Deacon loves working on the iPad and reading lots of books in the library. James really enjoys listening to music and playing different switch activities on the CommBox. Paulo likes watching food being cooked in the pan during cooking lessons. Tom likes the sensory room and some of the sensory boxes we have available in Purple 2.

This year Purple 2 have a lot planned! Once we settled back in, we got straight back into working hard with our literacy, numeracy and nutrition program. Other programs that are starting up include Music Jam sessions, Rock and Water, Choir, Gym, Community Access, Human Growth and Development and a whole lot more. This year Purple 2 is lucky to have Sue come in each week to work with us for a sensory session. We have really enjoyed our first few classes with her.

That is all for now, we hope you have enjoyed reading our update!

From the Purple 2 team.

GREETINGS FROM PURPLE 3

Welcome to 2017. This year our class has five members. Roxanne, Banjo, Michael, Justin and Jeremy. We are working hard to be a team and display team working skills in all that we do. We are a very healthy class and make a variety of different foods for recess and lunch under our nutrition program. We’ve been especially active out in the school yard and work with Purple 4 and 5 for Gym and some members in Purple 3 for Just Dance and Yoga.

We look forward to a very busy but productive year ahead.

Cheers,
Nicole and Shelley

Upcoming Events

Happy Birthday

February

Micky K – 7th
Danny N – 13th
Dawyte C – 14th
Coral-Lee N – 14th
Jeremy J – 16th
Tessa O – 17th
Adrian N – 22nd
Nadia K – 27th
Pearl M – 28th

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