12 November 2020

Newsletter Articles

SENIOR TEACHER’S REPORT

Parents/Guardians

A big hello to all who comprise the Henbury School community. Term 4 is well and truly in motion with some very important events coming up.

We welcome Amy Taylor to our team at Casuarina Outreach with the departure on Leizl Mowbray at the end of last term. Sadly we will also be saying good-bye to Cam Lobos at Dripstone Outreach at the end of week 5 when he leaves to travel interstate. We are very lucky to replace Cam with Matthew Vaughan. Matthew has already started with us which has enabled ample time for a smooth hand over to occur.

Reports

It’s a big term for reporting. Semester and T/EAP reports will go home with students in the last week of school. Whilst being part of review meetings and reading student reports it has been great to see our students making progress with their learning and celebrating in their success.

Halloween Disco

Our annual Halloween disco occurred last Thursday with a fantastic turn out. Students dressed up in their scariest outfits and danced the night away to their favorite tunes. Parents and carers enjoyed the atmosphere and there was also a BBQ dinner during the event.

School Review

Last week Henbury School had its School Review. The review was led by ACER School Review consultant Trevor Gordon and Principals Julie Perry and Lorraine Evans from the NT Department of Education. We were also fortunate to have system leader Sheina Treuel who has had extensive experience as a Special Education Principal. The school was provided with commendations, affirmations and recommendations that will influence the school strategic plan for the next 4 years. We will share this feedback with you when we are provided with the final report.

Swim Teacher Rescue

A special shout out to our NMS teacher Rowan Barrow for running the Teacher Swim Rescue Award for our staff. This will ensure that all staff are trained in safety procedures in the pool.

Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup Day luncheon spread was amazing. Thank you to Natalie and Janine for organising it. Our staff thoroughly enjoy it!

Paul Drewitt
Senior Teacher

HI FROM PURPLE 4 & 5!

Both classes are now coming together for all literacy and numeracy lessons. Working together has enabled our students to be better challenged at their own ability levels in English, and maths classes. Semester 2 has been a full and busy time with some new programs introduced including reading groups on a Friday, which are specifically planned to foster a love of literature. In their ability groups students enjoy listening to different novels a chapter at a time and drawing their understanding in pictures, then orally presenting their work back to both classes.

Excursions

For community access visits in Term 3 we visited a range of interesting locations including the Aviation Museum, The Museum of Arts and Sciences and the East Pt Military Museum. During these visits, students decided on an area of interest which they would like to research further in the next day’s literacy lesson. Learning to effectively research their topics of interest through Google searches was the major goal of the research projects.

We continued with Rising Stars on Fridays, and enjoyed barracking for our favourite Henbury teams.

Yellow 2

Y2 were the Winners of the ‘Are you OK?’ window display in Term 3!!!

Here we are using our voucher at HOA!

Administrator Visit

What a great way to end week 3 with the celebration of World Teachers’ Day! We had a visit by the Honourable Vicki O’Halloran AO, Administrator of the Northern Territory. Our Learning Commissioners led Her Honour on a tour of our beautiful school. With our new flag poles going in during the holidays, Her Honour joined us for our first flag raising ceremony. Enrique made us proud when he led the singing of the national anthem.

World Teachers’ Day

Last Friday 30th we celebrated World Teachers’ day. Each and every one of our teachers play a pivotal part in the education of our students.

All our staff received a gift which is around us all sharing the responsibility of communication with all our students. This has come from the work the NT Learning Commission team have been doing with whole school communication boards to support every child having a voice.

Staff also received a free coffee/treat from our café.

Thank you once again to Lauren Moss MLA for dropping of some tasty treats for our dedicated staff.

Lauren has also gifted our school with 2 beautiful books – 2021 World Guinness Book of Records and the latest Ripley’s Believe it or Not. We’ll get these into the library for all students to enjoy.

Year 12 fundraiser Raffle Winner

Congratulations to Shelley for winning the Year 12 fundraising raffle price. Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets. With your help we managed to raise over $600 which will be used towards our Year 12 Graduation expenses.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday to the following students that celebrate their birthdays in NOVEMBER:

Keanu F – 3rd
Jeffrey J – 4th
Faisal Z – 4th
Jayden B – 5th
Paul E – 10th
Mia P – 12th
Tanika - 12th
Josie Lyn S – 15th
Hayley H – 20th
Hugo A– 22nd
Jack A – 22nd
Hasan – 26th
Cruz L – 29th

UPCOMING EVENTS – Term 4

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