9 November 2018

Newsletter Articles

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Parents/Carers

Hi All and welcome to Week 5 Term 4. (Yes, we are a week late.)

T/EAPs

It’s been busy, busy, busy with T/EAP meetings for the past 4 weeks. 133 meetings done! Thank you to all involved in the meetings. They went smoothly and on time. It was fantastic to hear all the positive feedback from parents and carers about how much each individual student has grown this year. As the year progresses, I think we forget to take a step back sometimes, and see all the little steps the students have taken, that adds up to fantastic progress and maturity for the year.

Marrara Craft Fair

This year the Marrara Craft Fair has moved to the Darwin Showgrounds! It has grown so big they need the extra space. Save the date: 24th and 25th November. Henbury School will be there with the products all students have made throughout the year.

Pop Up Stall

Speaking about selling our quality made products, Yellow 2 and Yellow 3 have had the opportunity to run a pop up shop at Casuarina Village this week.

Monday and Wednesday, students had the opportunity to set up a sale table in Casuarina Village Shopping Centre and sell gift items made at Henbury School. They practiced appropriate communication in the community and money management. This is part of their Personal Learning Plan subject and developing skills to participate in post-school options.

Henbury Corporate Luncheon HCL

It’s on again! 7th December! Darwin Convention Centre and let me assure you, the entertainment this year is guaranteed to plaster a HUGE smile on your faces. Overheard by one of our staff members at one of the October Business lunches… Person A:”Are you going to HCL?’ Person B: “Are you kidding? It’s the place to be seen at that time of year!”

Reports

Reports, both Progress reports and T/EAP reports will be sent home in Week 9. Do not forget that this term, for the first time is only 9 weeks and we finish on Thursday 13 December.

Brenda Moore
Assistant Principal

YEAR 12 GRADUATION

RSVP for the Year 12 Graduation has been extended to Friday 16th November. The Year 12 graduation dinner will be held on Thursday 29th November at the Travelodge Resort Darwin. Tickets are $50 for a 3 course meal. Final payments need to be made by Thursday 22nd November.

Contact the front office on 89977077 to RSVP or make payments.

HENBURY ART EXHIBITION 2018

Don’t forget to join us for our annual Art Exhibition and celebrate the creativity of our amazing students!

Grand opening is Friday 16th November @ 9:30am, Henbury School Hall. Our Café on Henbury will be open from 10:30am. Hope to see you all there!!

SPECIAL NEEDS BUSES 2019

A reminder that Special Needs Buses Continuing request forms need to be handed in by Friday 16th November.

If you child is not using the special needs transport but would like to request transportation for next year you will need to complete a ‘New Request for Special Needs Transport’ form.

If you would like to cancel the service in 2019 please let the school know.

Parent letter and forms have been attached to the electronic version of the newsletter. If you would like a hard copy please contact the Front Office on 89977077.

KEEP VACCINATING WITH THE 2018 INFLUENZA VACCINE

The Northern Territory often has a late flu season which is why it is important that all eligible people are offered an influenza vaccine if they have not already been immunised this year.

Eligible people include

• All pregnant women
• Aboriginal children 6 months to 5 years of age
• Aboriginal people15 years of age and over
• All people with a chronic medical condition
• All people 65 years of age and over
• Please ensure that the correct influenza vaccine for age is used:

AGE INFLUENZA BRAND

• 6 months of age to under 3 years of age
  FluQuadri™Jnr
• 3 years of age to 18 years of age
  Fluarix Tetra® or FluQuadri™
• 18 years of age to 64 years of age
  Afluria Quad®
• Over 65 years
  FluAd®

For more information please contact our school nurse, Janine Kelsey on 89977077.

WELCOME TO DMS1

Throughout the Year, DMS1 have been looking at different ways of communicating our ideas and three of the ways we have done this, have been through story writing, making a Stop Motion movies and talking in front of groups. Both Toby and Leeam wrote a chaptered story that they entered into the 2018 Territory Authors Award, and for their effort, they both received a participation award.

One way that we have been presenting our ideas is with Digital Technology, by making Stop Motion Movies and commanding some Bee-Bots to perform moves. Below are some scenes from each of our movies.

Hello from Y3

Work Training and VETiS programs kept the senior students of Yellow 2 and 3 very busy in Semester Two. In addition to the Yellow 2 Sweet Treats business and the Yellow 3 Henbury Healthy Chefs Business, students were participated in a wide variety of work experiences:

Coffee Crew – Jeremy, Melissa, Emily, Malakai, Geoff
Animal Studies Certificate I, Furry Godmother Woolworths Café - Jye
Weekend Crewz’n Brew – Jye and Malakai
HPA Ausdesigns - Coral-Lee, Molly
Retail Certificate I and II – Coral-Lee, Mihali, Melissa, Kimberley
Sensational Designs – Melissa and Molly
WIMS Shoe Shop – Molly
Agrifoods Certificate I, Woodwork – Gregory
Office Works – Emily, Melissa, Daniel
Saturday Op Shop – Melissa
Hospitality Certificate I – Malakai
RDA stable hand – Kimberley
Gardening Crew – Hugo, Julio, Geoff
Kokoda – Geoff
Coles – Daniel
RDH Laundry – Mihali, Lorenzo

It has been fantastic to watch our student’s broad range of work skills grow over the year as they prepare for their future pathways. Yellow 2 and 3 thank Lauren Hofmeyer and Felicity Faull for the amazing job they do at coordinating the work training and VETiS programs at our school.

Yellow 2 and 3 also had a lot of fun working on their different Modified NTCET subjects. As part of HPE the students joined forces and ran a low support PE group on Wednesday mornings. It was fantastic to see students’ confidence grow as they instructed their peers and got stronger and fitter!

In English, students studied a book about migratory birds which live on Casuarina Beach for the wet season. Part of student’s assessment was to persuade someone to read the book. The students were amazed at how far these birds travel each year (all the way to Alaska!), and were interested to learn how to help protect these birds.

In Personal Learning Plan, teacher Deb Hall coordinated work training taster days at various venues to help students learn about different aspects of work life. Venues included Cash for Containers, Greening Australia, Henbury Op Shop and Foodbank. Thanks Deb!!!

Nicole H and Darlene helped run an art program. Collage and Aboriginal art was a focus. Come along to the Henbury Art Exhibition to check out the finished products! Thanks SESOs Sarah and Tina for all your hard work behind the scenes!

Visible Learning Yellow 3 - this semester students have been tracking their own spelling progress. They looked at their assessment results from Semester One and made a goal of how many words they wanted to learn by the end of Semester Two. Each week they chose words from their spelling lists to practice. It will be great to see how close they come to achieving their spelling goals at the end of the year!

Visible Learning Yellow 2 – students have been discussing their learning goals this term and checking for progress. Every day we have a little discussion about how the day went, what went well, what could be improved, and how to improve it. We’re still working on improving our Growth Mindsets!

Vince & Tina, Raylee & Sarahb

Spelling goals

VISIBLE LEARNING UPDATE FROM DHS

DHS Outreach students love green. Green means that work is finished on their Visible Learning Board. Congratulations.

“It is helpful being able to look at the board to see where I am up to. It takes a lot of the stress out.”
Jack

“I like knowing what I am up to and what is left to do. It saves confusion.”
Gerry

DHS KILLER ART PIECE

DHS has been working on a fascinating literacy project. For our English Modified subject we had to demonstrate our communication skills. We had to prove that we could work together and also learn together.

The idea to make our art project around Crime and Society came about from reading a segment in the book we studied where some developers tried to evict someone and when she said no they started doing some illegal things to make her leave. The book was called Blueback and it was written by Tim Winton.

We did a lot of brainstorming on a website called “Mind-mup” for what our art pieces should be. Some of our ideas were paper chains of dolls or a thought line but we chose to represent Crime and Society on frames. Firstly we tried calico and cotton. They both worked well but they had their problems so we had an investigation where we worked out all of the problems it had. Then we decided to change materials to satin but found similar problems. We ended up using A5 lime paper. The reasons why we chose this are because it didn’t fray like the others or bleed like the some of them.

After finding out the best material to use we started making our art. It was really hard just for the three of us, me, Aaron and Willis but Darlene came to help us out with our work. She was really helpful and even made some frames for us.

We had to make a video to show everyone in a staff meeting. Ms Kate helped with the script and filming. Next we tried looking for a background to stick all the art frames on. We decided to an all-black sheet to use but some of the art frames kept falling off and even got damaged. Ms Kate found a melamine board she thought would make it easier to move around and so far it has proven to be good.

It has been a really challenging 2 terms to get this finished. Mainly because we only had three people but over time we have gained in confidence.

We showed our work to some Darwin high staff.

We would like to encourage you to visit the Art Exhibition to see our final installation which has 20 frames. It is fantastic.

Explaining our project to Nick Ergos, DHS Year Co-ordinator

Tantalising glimpse of the top of our installation – I did the headings.

My frame on Crime opened my eyes to issues.

Jack Auld
DHS Outreach

UPCOMING EVENTS 2018

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

NOVEMBER

1st Daniel R
2nd Jevaughn
3rd Keanu & Graham
4th Jeffrey, Faisal & Jayden M
5th Jayden B
10th Jolina
13th Ben
15th Josie Lyn
19th Jypsey Lee
20th Hayley
21st Leah
22 Scott, Hugo & Jack

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