4 May 2018

Newsletter Articles

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Parents/Carers

What a fabulous start to the term…and quite a few changes as well.

Green 1 and NMS

Janine has stepped out of the classroom for a while and is working in the Administration area. Welcome back to Lucy Sgro who will be in that room at least til the end of term.

Also we said goodbye to Ruth Caddy at Nightcliff Middle School last term and are now welcoming Noor Wright and Petra who will be co-teaching the class of very lucky students.

EAP/TEAPs

All EAPs and TEAPs have all been sent home this week. Please sign them and return them as soon as you can. If you want to change something or have thought of something to add, please write on the plan and we will update it.

New students who came at the end of last Term, will be having meetings this Term.

Marketplace

DON’T FORGET! The first Henbury School Market is scheduled for Tuesday 8th of May (first day back after the long weekend!).

The Market is open to the community between 9.30-12.00pm. The Café will be open from 10.30-11.30 (possibly 12, depending on the number of community members who come)

There will be a Mother’s Day raffle – tickets 1 = $2 or 3 for $5

Royal Flying Doctors 90th Birthday

Our Cruisin Brew will be at the Waterfront Sunday afternoon…we look forward to seeing you there too.

School Council Meeting

School Council meets next Wednesday 9th May at 5pm in the conference room.

Brenda Moore
Assistant Principal

HENBURY MARKET DAY

On the 8th of May from 9.30 to 12.00 at Henbury School there will be drinks and food and things to buy and do at our very first Henbury Market! This is a special Mother’s Day Stall. All money raised will go towards helping the students with their work skills. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

GREETINGS FROM DRIPSTONE MIDDLE SCHOOL OUTREACH 2

Semester 1 is slipping by quickly as we head into Term 2. This Term we have welcomed 2 new students, George and Peter, to our class.

We have settled into our new school environment enjoying the different aspects and opportunities that Dripstone Middle School provide such as:

Banjo - going to my Music Elective and to Clontarf at lunchbreak, buying my lunch from the canteen.
Jeremy - Music Elective, playing Wii sports games in the Library at lunchbreak.
Justin - going to Clontarf for my Elective subject, buying lunch at the Canteen.
Michael - learning skills in my Judo Elective.
Peter - going to Clontarf.
George - getting to know my new classmates.

Another of our Year 8 students said that he liked introducing his new classmates to Clontarf and showing them around DMS.

Over Term 1, we have been reading a collection of funny and weird short stories with strange endings by Paul Jennings. On Friday afternoons, we view short video adaptations of these stories from ‘Round the Twist’ TV series. We compare the texts with the video and discuss our personal preferences.

Friday afternoon video sessions with our ‘next-door’ class, DMS1.

This Term we have started reading the narrative ‘68 Teeth’, an action packed, crocodile hunting adventure story set in the Gulf country.

How many teeth does a croc have?

In class, we have discussed how lifestyle choices affect our health and wellbeing. Participating in our weekly Margy’s Gym Fitness program keeps us fit, strong and healthy.

Working on our body strength and endurance.

Practicing our Numeracy skills.

Every Thursday, we go on a community access visit with SMS Outreach class. Some of the places we have visited so far are Parliament House and the Reference Library, Planet Tenpin bowling, Howard Springs, Qantas Hangar and the Cenotaph on the Esplanade.

Banjo in front of the poppies he helped to make for ANZAC Day.

WELCOME TO GREEN 4

Our class consists of six incredible and diverse teenagers, two of which are in year 12; Peter and Igen, two in year 11; Nathan and Fu Seng, and two in year 10; Jeffrey and Manoli. Our major focuses include work training, life skills, communication, and wellbeing.

Our senior students are focussed on their transition from school and are progressing nicely. Jeffrey and Nathan are working offsite at the H Hotel in the laundry, while Peter, Igen, Fu Seng and Manoli are developing similar work skills in our class laundry program. The class laundry program is designed to work in conjunction with the H Hotel laundry program exposing students to the same skills with the objective being to eventually transition to the H Hotel workplace. Nathan and Jeffrey have continued to develop their skills in bakery and hospitality with the Coffee Crew on Friday mornings. This term students have started Coffee Crew training on Monday mornings giving Nathan and Jeffrey a great opportunity to share their knowledge and train their classmates.

In Green 4 we use a variety of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) to support our verbal language including, sign language, Proloquo2Go (P2G), Pragmatic Organisational Dynamic Displays (PODD) and Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). Our students need to be able to understand and be understood. We regularly have conversations discussing our likes, dislikes, needs and wants focussing on effectiveness. If a message is not understood students are taught to find alternative ways to communicate their message effectively. To encourage communication students have created “Chat Books”. These books include information such as likes, dislikes, activities, recent news and the important people and things in their lives. These are a great tool to encourage conversation while developing our recall and use of descriptive language.

This year we have fully embedded mathematics into our life skills and work training programs. Each week students learn about money in relation to their weekly excursion. Students are learning to recognise the right notes and coins to use in a transaction, as well as the appropriate steps and effective communication when ordering and paying for an item or activity. So far students have ordered and paid for a game of bowling or arcade at Kingpin, lunch at Red Rooster and lunch at Café Central. Mathematics is also being delivered in our daily morning tea preparation and our new and exciting enterprise “Meaties Pet Food- Pleased to meet you, Meat to please you”. We are making and selling nutritional raw pet food for cats and dogs. Within these programs students are learning a range of mathematical concepts including units of measurement, number and place value and fractions and decimals. And finally in our laundry program students are developing skills with number and place value and data representation and interpretation.

All our students enjoy exploring their senses. We always have access to sensory equipment in class to help keep ourselves regulated. In the Engine room the boys enjoy running and crashing, balancing, crawling through tunnels and immersing themselves in ball pits. In the Sensory room they enjoy relaxing on the water bed, travelling to another realm in the infinity light tunnel and feeling the soft vibrations of the music in the speaker chair.

To keep our minds and bodies healthy we participate in weekly swimming and Zumba classes. We are getting creative in Sense-ational Designs making a range of different items including headbands and coffee cup sleeves. And finally, in music and dance we are working on some performances for your viewing pleasure.

Green 2 News for 2018 Term 2

Green has started the year with lots of changes and challenges. We have senior student, Hamish who’s preparing for life outside school, Ken who is continuing to develop and learn new routines, Anastasios, Thomas and Patterson who has continued from last year and Zac joined us from Nermaluk.

So far this year we have ventured out to a range of locations such as the Wharf Precinct, Kingpin, The Planet and the Esplanade to name a few.

In class students are developing skills with Sensational Design, Enterprise Ed and Hairdressing. Patterson is also enjoying being shown how to make coffee and other delights with the coffee crew. This is a hard choice to make for Patterson as we have cooking at the same time. Students also have been powering along with their literacy and maths program and learning about things that grow and how different things grow. Thomas is particularly interested in the chickens, what came first, the chicken or the egg!?

2018 Haileybury Rendall School Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp

Haileybury Rendall School students will spend three days out of their June school holidays providing respite care for developmentally delayed children at the Haileybury Rendall School Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp, held here at the School’s boarding campus. The senior students become full-time carers for children with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities. Students will be partnered with the children to take part in a number of fun-filled activities across the three days.

This year the camp will be held from Friday 29 June until Sunday 1 July 2018. Our campers will be entertained with a variety of activities both on and off the campus. The accommodation for the weekend will be in the recently renovated Boarding House, located off College Road. The camp is supervised and supported at all times by a number of dedicated Haileybury Rendall School staff, and trained medical staff are on hand throughout all activities and overnight. The completed applications then need to be sent to arrive at Haileybury Rendall School by Thursday 17 May 2018.

Completed applications need to be forwarded to:

Mrs Lisa Cadd – Haileybury Rendall School Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp
Haileybury Rendall School
PO Box 241
BERRIMAH NT 0828.

If you have any questions regarding the camp please contact Lisa Cadd on 8922 1611 or by email lisa.cadd@hrs.edu.au
Below is the electronic application form. If you would like a hard copy please contact the front office on 89977077.

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK

Our Entertainment Book fundraiser is well under way. Thank you to those that have already purchased a book through Henbury School. Click on the link below to buy yours now!

Books are also available at our Op Shop in Aralia Street.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

COMMUNITY NOTICES

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