29 June 2018

Newsletter Articles

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Dear Parents/Carers

Farewells

Sue Price is moving to Katherine and will take on a new role as the Senior Teacher 1 at Kintore Street School. Sue has been at Henbury for 10 years. Sue has had many roles over the 10 years from a classroom teacher, Art teacher and in recent years the Sensory Integration teacher. We would also like to thank her husband John who has maintained a lot of the sensory equipment in the Sensory Room. Sue has also worked in the library, ensuring that the library functions as a library. We wish Sue all the best for her new job in Katherine. Peter Fuller will be on Paternity Leave for the next two years. We wish Pete an enjoyable time with his young family.

Congratulations to the following students on winning Good On You Value Awards during assembly:

Year 7 – Shaun M for Teamwork, Responsibility and Respect
Year 8 – Mikaylah CS for Resilience and Respect
Year 9 – Roxanne W for Responsibility
Year 10 – Rosie T for Teamwork, Responsibility and Resilience
Year 11 – Julio for Respect
Year 12 – Jye NS for Teamwork

Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards

Congratulations to the following staff who have been nominated from Henbury. To have been nominated, the staff members had to have shown significant personal contribution to student engagement, growth and achievement. Winners will be announced at Parliament House at the World Teachers Day function on 26 October. We wish them the best of luck.

Progress Reports will be sent home Friday 29 June.

Supported School Transport and the NDIS Discussion Paper

Please take time to read the discussion paper via the link below. Written submissions close the 20 July 2018.

Management of Actual and Potential Aggression – MAPA training

Parents/Carers of Students of Henbury and Nemarluk Schools

What: You are invited to attend a 6 hour training course for Management of Actual and Potential Aggression- MAPA®. This training is an accredited program that is a safe non-harmful behaviour management system designed to help parent/carers to provide the best care, welfare, safety and security of disruptive, assaultive and out of control individuals – even during their most violent moments.

This course will help to build your understanding of escalating behaviour and what you can do to help calm and de-escalate.

The Workshop will

• Identify four behaviour levels that may be exhibited by a child during a crisis situation and the corresponding effective responses.
• Understand the importance of and demonstrate how appropriate body language can reduce anxiety of a child and improve the safety for everyone.
• Understand how what is said can influence the outcome of a potential crisis.
• Examine parents/carers own fear and anxiety to maximize the effectiveness during a crisis situation.

Who: Delivered by two trainers from Student Support (Department of Education).
Where: Henbury School Hall
When: This workshop will be delivered in two 3 hour sessions at Henbury School.
Saturday 11 August 2018. 9am – 12 pm and
Saturday 18 August 2018. 9am - 12pm
RSVP: Please ring Henbury School on 89977077 by Friday 3 August 2018 (Week 2 Term 3)

If you would like more information, please contact Carolyn Edwards Principal Henbury School on 89977077 or via the link below. The first day back at school for students will be Tuesday 24 July.

Principal
Carolyn Edwards

DARWIN HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH

Darwin High School Outreach Class has had such a busy semester. Our Year 10s Jack and Aaron have had an excellent start to Senior School and have already been involved in doing the Bakery skill set, doing Certificate 1 in Retail both at Henbury and at the Op Shop Training Site and Coffee Crew and doing travel training to get ready for being involved in Work Experience next semester. They are also studying English Modified and Maths Modified courses for their NTCET. They are planning their Inspiration Project which will be very exciting work in second semester. Watch this space!!!

Our Year 12s Gerry, Desbina, Jypsey and Jayden are spending the year getting ready to leave school at the end of the year and making preparations for organising their lives. They continue to move from strength to strength with Crewz’n Brew the Henbury coffee trailer which goes out into the community on regular visits. They are out on Work Experience visits and, for those who are eligible, completing their NTCET commitments.

As we write this newsletter Gerry is out on a week at CDU for his Retail 2 course and Jayden has a four day extensive Work Experience at a Hairdressing Shop. Desbina has finished her work at the Child Care Centre and had a few trial visits at McDonalds to see if she liked it. Gerry has finished his work Experience at Woolworths at Nightcliff. The Year 12s were also involved in doing the Drive Safe course to gain their Ls for driving.

Jypsey and Despina working on organising paperwork for life in a Z file

SANDERSON MIDDLE OUTREACH

Wow what a great year so far! We have been ultra-busy learning about ourselves, our environment and where we are in the world. Some of our favourite learning areas are

• Shawn – Learning about the world and maps
• Alexander – BTN or Behind The News, because it gives you interesting facts
• Mickey – Art and using sensory equipment.
• Keanu – Doing Maths, it’s fun.
• Ali – Pop Art and drawing.
• Jaydon – Moving and using the sensory equipment.

We visit Henbury Campus on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s to access Skills Sets, Science, Human Growth and Development and community access. This means we need to be more organised on these days and pack what we need to take with us. It’s been a long process, but we think we’ve got the hang of it now.

Our weekly shopping trips are always eventful and give us the chance to negotiate and choose items we prefer to eat. It’s ok to have a treat occasionally, just not for every meal. We meal prep on Wednesdays making healthy lunches that we freeze in portion sized meals for use over the week. Everyone chips in and prepares the vegetables, meat and rice or pasta. Sometimes it’s difficult to wait for lunch as it smells so good.

We love our combined community access with DMS 1 each Thursday. Some of the great places we have explored include, mini golf, 16 Mile WW2 site, Bowling, Howards Springs Nature Park, Channel Island bridge and Power Station, Train Station, East Point and Parliament House.

We are looking forward to our holiday break to recharge and start a new term.

ALL ABILITIES NETBALL COMPETITION

Henbury students Molly, Coral-Lee, Gregory, Emily, Kate, Nadia, Rosie, Amanda T, and past students Adrian N and Harry S signed up for the new All Abilities Netball Competition for people with a disability. They are playing for the Banks Bulldogs Netball Club. The first game against the Pints team was held last Thursday evening 21st June. Well done to our players on the Banks Bulldogs team! If you are interested in your child signing up for this competition in the future please contact Haylee Gillies at community@netballnt.org.au

UPCOMING EVENTS 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JULY

Leigh O – 2nd
Banjo M – 3rd
Manoli K – 4th
Shamus – 10th
Gregory – 12th
Tiler – 14th
James – 22nd
Emily – 28th