11 August 2017

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Principal’s Report

Welcome back to Semester 2. Welcome to Tegan Bryan and Leiha Kelsey to the Front Office. Thalia is still on extended leave and will be back 28 August. Deb Hall is on long service leave for Term 3 and we welcome Andrea White whom will be backfilling to Deb. Last week was the one year mark of us being in the new school. New visitors always comment on the great atmosphere and what great buildings we have. You may have noticed that school signage is starting to go up. Have you seen the new sign at the corner of Henbury Ave and Trower Road? This sign will display information on up and coming school events. The internal Wayfinding signs have been installed.

Casuarina Education Precinct (CEP) Professional Development Day

On Monday 24 July 430 staff of the Casuarina Education Precinct (CEP) which is made up of 9 schools from across the Darwin region: Alawa Primary School, Casuarina Senior College, Dripstone Middle School, Henbury School, Leanyer Primary School, Nemarluk School, Nakara Primary School, Wagaman Primary School and Wanguri Primary School attended a combined Professional Development (PD) day at Casuarina Senior College.

The lead topic of the PD day was Wellbeing: Is it really possible? The one-day forum considered the promoters of personal and team wellbeing, resilience, the mentality leading to sustainable change, and better mental health awareness in the Casuarina Education Precinct. This included key note speakers and workshops examining topics ranging from stress and sleep management, workplace energy, diet, trauma, mental illness, and anxiety in children.

The keynote speakers were organisational psychology consultant Stephen Macdonald and psychologist Dr Melanie Irons.

Vicki Baylis Chief Executive, Education addressed the conference taking the time to appreciate the amazing job we all do and reminding staff of the passion and importance of our craft.

Together the CEP will continue to contribute to and support to build a collaborative professional learning community that promotes excellence in public education through the stages of schooling.

Autism NT's annual Teacher Appreciation Night was 6 June. Parents nominated a teacher or support worker and they received their appreciation award at Government House.

Henbury Staff and Parents

Special School Principals, Carolyn, Lorraine and Annie

The Coffee Trailer and the new Higer bus have both had their wraps installed over the holidays. They certainly make a statement. Thank you to Boab, Red Mouse Designs and All Signs NT for all the work undertaken.

School Camp will be on Wednesday 9-Friday 11 August at the Batchelor Outdoor Education Centre. If students are not attending Camp, classes will be combining and following a modified program at school.

Junior National Special Olympics

Toby and Scott participated in the event which was held at the Gold Coast in early July. Congratulations on your achievements. Jye was a volunteer for the event.

Carolyn Edwards
Principal

School Immunisation Program

Student Immunisations will be on Tuesday 12th September 2017.

Henbury school parent survey

The Henbury school parent survey is open from the 14th August to the 1st September. If you wish to have a paper copy it is available at the front office. The feedback we received last year was really valuable, with your input and partnership we will continue to build on the excellent programs we deliver.

School Sports Voucher

The $100 School Sport Vouchers have arrived and will be going to the student’s teacher’s on Friday the 11th August.

Woolworths Earn & Learn

We’re thrilled to announce that the Woolworths Earn & Learn program is back for 2017. Now anyone can help us earn amazing equipment by shopping at Woolworths from now until 19th September.

For every $10 spent at Woolworths earn you 1 sticker. You then stick your sticker in your sticker sheet (Available at the front office) once the sheet is completed or as full as possible you can put it in the box in the front office, this helps us earn amazing equipment for your school.

Certificate II in Work Skills

Earlier this year, Henbury School was successful in applying for an equity training grant. This grant allowed us to partner with BCA to deliver a Certificate II Work Skills and Vocational Pathways to our Senior Outreach students. This certificate is being delivered in 5 x 1 week blocks at CSC.

Students are learning a variety of important skills including communicating in the workplace, work-related numeracy tasks and using digital technology. These skills will be useful for employment beyond school.

Our BCA facilitator Anna Tullemans, has extensive experience as a special needs educator and gifted Henbury School with a copy of the book she co-authored with Sue Larkey - The Essential Guide to Secondary School: A guide for teachers and families of students with ASD. Anna’s enthusiasm and skill in delivering and adapting material for our cohort has been appreciated by both students and classroom staff. She has also managed to make learning fun, with some music and dance breaks in between course work and assessments!

Lauren Hofmeyer
Acting Senior Teacher Transition and Pathways

Riding for the Disabled (RDA)

Riding for the Disabled will begin again in Term 3.

Students will be able to use their sports vouchers for membership. The cost will be $26.50 a week for each session ($25 per lesson and $1.50 for bus) plus $100 for insurance. If you would like your child to participate in this program please let their class teacher know so that paperwork is sent home.

Greetings from Purple 5

Semester 1 was busy and went so fast! Our week began with walking to Coles to buy our food for the week, and on Tuesday we cooked our meal of the week. Our favourite meals last semester were the mini quiches, lasagne and home-made spring rolls.

Farhat shopping at Coles

For Community Access we had alternated between bowling at Planet Tenpin and working at the school Op Shop. In Week 7 we went to the Nightcliff Café for a milkshake and a walk on the beach as a special treat.

We are keeping fit with gym class on Mondays, basketball practice Tuesdays, the new Engine Room Wednesdays, as well as Total Rec, Rock and Water and walking.

We now run a dog biscuit making business and this is giving us extra practice with measuring, as well as paying for extra excursions! You can purchase a bag of 15 for $5 from the Front Office to help support our class.

P5 making dog biscuits

Our unit of work in Term 2 was the Solar System. We now know the order of the eight planets from the Sun, as well as facts about the dwarf planets and their moons. We like to sing along to u-tube songs about the planets, which helps us remember the information.

We welcome everyone back to Semester 2!

CSC 2

It's been an exciting return for term three for CSC2, with students once more enrolled in online classes at CSC and working on Certificate II's in: Work Skills, Retail, Salon Assistant, Bakery as well as Certificate II in Sport and Recreation through SEDA. At CSC students are working once more with Clontarf and in Visual Arts and Cooking as well as work experience placements.

We are continuing Deb Hall's Integrated Learning with Andrea White this term, which the boys are looking forward to. Darlene Devery our AIEW will also be working with them this term to create are in Integrated Learning.

Greetings from CSC1

Welcome to term 3 where we have hit the ground running with most students moving towards many of their goals by continuing with work experience placements and vet courses. This week we continue as a class group with Certificate II in work skills, which will hopefully help us all to prepare for the work place in the future.

A few of us are getting excited about a day trip to the school camp next week.

As for school work we have started to learn about film where we will be working in groups to construct a short film, which we are all enthusiastic about.

CSC1 are creating a film for English!

In visual arts we are studying photographic self-portraits where we are learning how photographers have expressed identity with self-portraits. We are very excited about creating our own self portrait and bringing this into Photoshop to creatively edit it.

As well as all of this we continue with our banking, cooking and health programs where we are all working so well.

Have a great term, from CSC1 class.

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