24 June 2022

Newsletter Articles

SENIOR TEACHER’S REPORT

A big hello to the Henbury School Community,

Semester one is complete with some major milestones reached in the past few weeks.

First day of Term 3 is Thursday 21st July

Henbury School will be delivering Professional Development at the start of Term 3.

The first day back for our students is Thursday 21st of July.

SR@H is available for parents who require care for their children from Monday the 18 July to Wednesday the 20th July.

Region/Top End School Sports Athletics (T&F) Championships, Marrara Athletics Stadium

We had a total of 24 student representatives at the event with incredible results and memories. Thanks to the staff that supported their students to attend, chasing paperwork and contacting parents. These opportunities are like gold dust for our students, they shine bright with self-empowerment and have such a positive impact that lingers for an eternity.

40th Birthday Celebrations

On Wednesday the 22nd June the school community came together and celebrated our wonderful 40th birthday. Staff and students from past years enjoyed a stroll down memory lane. Many a joke was shared about past experiences and the laughter was heard from afar. A big thank you to the 40th birthday events group for making the night so special.

Congratulations to the following people who won prizes in our 40th raffle:

1st Prize – Hintz family
2nd Prize – Goerlich-Voutt family
3rd Prize – Andy Rolfe

NTCETM and Progress Reports go out this week

Students completing their NTCET M continue to accrue points towards their certificate.

It is always amazing to see how far each student has progressed with their learning.

Henbury Sports Day

Henbury held another successful sports day in Week 8.

It was wonderful to see the variety in inclusive games chosen by the sports day team and suggestions from student feedback from the 2021 ACHPER Come and Try day. Bocce was an absolute hit as was the Sound Bowling and Goal Ball games. Students had an amazing day that ended with a whole school disco in the hall.

School Assembly

Thank you to all the parent/carers that attended our end of term assembly. Congratulations to all the students that received class awards.

Well done to the following students who received a ‘good on you’ award:

Year 7 – Shantae Hunt for responsibility
Year 8 – Charleze for responsibility
Year 9 – Riley G for resilience
Year 10 – Hannah Z for responsibility and resilience
Year 11 – Ali G for respect
Year 12 – Kate C for resilience

Pride Day

Henbury School held its very first Pride day on Thursday 23rd. This very special day celebrated the diverse range of sexual identities that we have in the world, facilitating the concepts of fairness, equity and gender freedom of choice in our lives.

Paul Drewitt
Senior Teacher

SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

We have had a huge semester over here at SMS outreach. All students have joined in with a Sanderson Middle mainstream elective class this year, including Art and P.E. Shianne and Camillia have been busy representing SMS Stars in Cricket and working at the Henbury School Op Shop on Fridays.

Some of our lucky boys got to attend the Clontarf Football Camp down to Katherine recently. Dion managed to get the goal that got the team into the finals! We continue to go on exciting community access excursions, including a Clean Up Australia Day event, where we picked up over 150 pieces of rubbish from East Point.

Purple 3

This term Purple 3 went on an excursion to the Jingili Water Gardens.

We went especially for the opening of the new accessible playground!

We had lots of fun exploring the park, rolling down the hills, listening to Aiko sing, playing on the playground, and enjoying our lunch under the shade of the trees.

We got to look at some great artwork by artists from The Free Space Studio, we got to pat LOTS of friendly dogs. We even saw some police officers and their horses.

Also, the new accessible playground was great, but more exciting was meeting all the puppies!

We had a great day!

HELLO FROM YELLOW 5 MOB!

Greetings from Yellow 5! This year we welcomed back Keanu, Aidan, Roanin, Jayden and Paddy. Callum and Zac are our newest and youngest members, they have been a wonderful addition to the class.

Yellow 5 students have had a productive semester working on their Modified Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training Stage One and Two programs. Students are completing tasks in English, Mathematics, Health and Wellbeing, Personal Learning Program and Cross Disciplinary.

Our students are enrolled in Work Skill courses, work training, MNTCET Skill Set and work experience programs. These programs have promoted and encouraged independence and confidence.

Yellow 5 students enjoy listening to tunes when producing beautiful art pieces and cooking delicious meals from scratch. We have some future artists and chefs in our midst’s!

HENBURY WOODWORK NEWS

This semester in Woodwork we have made heaps of cool projects! Made almost entirely from recycled timber pallets and donated wood our projects are sustainably sourced, helping the environment and keeping our costs down.

Using Structured Teaching methods my High Support classes have put together some decorative wooden fish. These are available to purchase at HOA, and at our Father’s Day stall next term.

Meanwhile my Moderate Support classes have constructed toolboxes, cute toy animals, and crazy cars.

And finally my Senior low support guys have been busy making model vehicles, tables and playing with the new laser engraver!

Some independent, some hand over hand- but all very proud students with some excellent finished projects.

Vincent Poke
Enterprise Ed / Woodwork Teacher

SEMESTER 1 SCIENCE NEWS

It has been a very busy semester in science with lots of activities and experiments:

Blue 3 & 4, Purple 4 & 5 – Material World Unit

Students explored the properties of different materials.

DMS 1 & NMS – That’s My Water

Pat & Pat from Power & Water set the students a challenge and gave short overview of the NT water story. Students learnt the about the water story in the Northern Territory and conducted numerous water related experiments.

They were also lucky enough to have visit from Lachlan Hallett a geologist from AusEarth to learn about NT soils and Volcanoes.

Senior skill set and Blue 1

Students explored Scientific Method and the Design Build Process.

They designed and built towers out of a variety of materials and conducted experiments to examine the properties of everyday materials. There final task was building a boat out of cans for the Regatta which they will race in the Battle of Mindil on Sunday the 26th of June. Please feel free to come on down to the event at about 4:30 pm to watch it race. The boat is called HS Star Trek, which took out first place in the school vote. Uncanny and New Kids on the Dock came 2nd and 3rd.

Santos Science Experience – CDU

Four of our Senior Students were selected to attend the Santos Science experience to learn about the various science course on offer at CDU. Activities included Aquaculture, Trade Tours, Oil and Gas Demonstration, Health Science, Paramedicine, 3D Fire Model Workshop, AusEarthed, Microorganisms, Engineering Bungee Jumping Chook, Sports Science. Well done, Leeam, Julianne, Roanin and Jake for representing the school with pride.

Solar Car Challenge

Well to done Blue 3 and Purple 5 for participating the Solar Car Challenge held at CDU. The students designed and built a model solar car which they raced against another school. Great fun was had by all.

A big thankyou to Down Syndrome Association and Bunnings for their kind donations to our Science Program.

Click on the link below to see a report by ABC news.

Carol Ayers
Science Teacher

DARWIN REGION ATHLETICS

On Thursday 16th June Henbury participated in the Darwin Region/Top End School Sports Athletics (T&F) Championships, Marrara Athletics Stadium. We had a total of 24 student representatives at the event with incredible results and memories. Thanks to the staff that supported their students to attend, chasing paperwork and contacting parents. These opportunities are like gold dust for our students, they shine bright with self-empowerment and have such a positive impact that lingers for an eternity.

Thank you to the following staff for making the magic happen on the day: Amanda, Maddi I, AnneMarie, Maddi B, Alison, Dylan, Tina, Sarah, Leanne.

A massive, thank you to the BBQ Crew. These guys did not stop from the time they entered the gate until 2pm. Fed the hungry athletes and made a fundraising effort of $500 plus!! Natalie, Leah plus our student workers Jordan, Morgan, Jacinta and La Toya!!

Thank you to the Purple 3 cheers squad and mentors, Thomas Owens and Jess.

DARWIN REGION MIDDLE YEARS NETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Congratulations to all our Netball students who participate in the Darwin Region Middle School Netball Championship. Our team had 3 wins and 1 draw to become equal first WINNERS in their pool.

A Massive effort and congratulations to everyone involved. This talent has blossomed from the many extra hours of training and game time with the Bulldogs team.

Thanks Nightcliff Middle School Netball girls for helping with extra help with duty. I know their teacher was super proud and loved working with you all.

Below are some student comments – which they wrote independently about the event:

Narvia

I am proud that Henbury and Outreach team won three games and one draw to win Darwin Region Middle School Netball Inter School, Pool E Championships. A first for our school.

I am grateful for my dad driving me to the Netball competition.

Laura

I am proud that the team passed the ball around to everyone. My job (GK) was not letting the other team get any goals.

I am grateful for Miss Rowan for giving the forms, Miss Brit for taking us there, Mr Dave for driving us and Ms Nat for going with us. Thanks Ro

SRA Social and recreational activities

EMPLOYMENT AND PATHWAY WORKSHOPS

We highly recommend families/carers of students in Years 10-12 get along to one of the below workshops. These workshops are a great source of info about preparing for post school options and how NDIS can support.

MENINGOCOCCAL B VACCINE

Our school will be involved in B Part of It NT, a study of the meningococcal B vaccine. The licenced vaccine is safe and proven to protect against meningococcal B disease, a rare but severe disease.

The study nurses will visit schools across Northern Territory in 2022 to offer free Meningococcal B vaccination to students in years 10, 11 and 12.

If you child joined the study in 2021, you do not need to sign another consent for them this year.

Please read the information contained in the online information sheet and consent form https://is.gd/BPartofitNT. If you want your child to join the study, please fill in the student’s details and sign the online consent form.

If you want to find out more information about the study please contact the study co-ordinator at: MeningococcalB.Study@nt.gov.au or call 0476 599 247. You can also ask for a hard copy of the information and consent form if you prefer to fill it out on paper.

For more information see:

GRAND FONDO CYCLING EVENT

This year our teacher, Rowan Barrow, will be organising a Henbury section of the Happy Days team for the Grand Fondo Cycling event Sunday 24th July (it is not a race but a 9km fun ride).

We are hoping to get students to ride the 9km event using some of the school bikes (or their own) along with family/carers on the day.

Happy Days team is this year fundraising for Sabrina Reach4Life and Mates in Construction, promoting a Mental Health Awareness message throughout the community.

If you would like to join the team please contact Rowan on 0457 457 019.

UPCOMING EVENTS – Term 3, 2022

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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

Kaleb C – 9th
Zyethan C – 11th
Oliver A – 13th
Laura Y – 13th
Sophie S – 27th

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