jingili school community newsletter
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jingili school community newsletter
JINGILI SCHOOL COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Telephone: 89851555 | Facsimile: 8985 3213 | Email: [email protected] Address: Knowles Street Jingili NT 0810 | Mail: GPO Box 40600 Casuarina NT 0811 Thursday 28 May 2015 | Week 7 ~ Term 2 Dear Parents/Carers I’m pleased to announce that we have a new Canteen Manager– Kylie Wilkie who is Alana and Lucus’s Mum and she is very excited to be taking over the canteen in Semester 2. Kylie is keen to continue the tradition of wholesome, healthy food that our canteen is well known for. We look forward to welcoming Kylie next term and give a big thank-you to Jane Fryar who has been very helpful in sharing her wisdom of 4 1/2 years of running the Jingili canteen with Kylie. Today was our Fun Run and I’d like to thank Mrs Grills and the SRC for their great organisation of this important event. As you know, all money raised from this event goes towards offsetting the cost of our swimming program which is programmed for Term 4 this year. Thanks to families and friends for supporting the Fun Run through sponsorship and thanks to our students for showing lots of stamina as they persevered with the run and other physical activities. We are getting increasingly concerned about the number of children coming late to school. Yesterday 46 children were late in the primary school and this equates to 15% of our students. When children arrive late and take time to settle as they invariably do, valuable learning time is lost. If children are late on a regular basis this can start to have a detrimental effect on their learning. Good habits start in pre-school so please make every effort to have your children here on time and ready to learn. On Tuesday students from years 4/5 Chellew and 4/5 Morgan/Stephen attended the National Sorry Day event at the Jingili Watergardens. Children had the opportunity to learn about the stolen generation and the impact it had on their lives, their families and the community. You will find some photos and interesting recounts written by some of the children in this newsletter. Thanks to our AIEW, Ms Narelle Rosas for organizing this valuable excursion. Next week I will be away for 4 days as I go back to school to attend a leadership course. I leave the school in the very capable hands of Mrs Armstrong. I will be back at school on Friday 5th June. Kind Regards Carin Symonds (Principal) Diary Dates 2015 SkoolBag App Jingili Primary School now has a free school app. You can download it onto your smart phone, ipad or tablet by typing Jingili Primary School into the search bar at the app store. We hope lots of you will sign up. We now have 108 users. NITS ARE NOT COOL! Holiday Break - 20 June - 21 July 2015 * Please check weekly as dates are subject to change * USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS Darwin Dental Clinic - 8922 6466 Jingili School Canteen - 8948 6225 After School Care & Vacation Care - 0417 894 042 Please check your child’s hair REGULARLY and help keep Jingili a NIT-FREE SCHOOL Please ensure your child’s hair is tied back and wash your child’s hat regularly. This helps to minimise the spread of Nits. For more information on how to prevent Head lice go to www.nt.gov.au/health ATTENDANCE PERCENTAGE - WEEK 6 LATES 100 98 96 94 92 90 88 86 84 82 80 Friday 22 May - Thursday 28 May Friday - 31 Monday - 40 Tuesday - 42 Wednesday - 46 Thursday - 41 *Ideally we would like to improve each week as a whole school PRESCHOOL NEWS The Preschool children participated in the national simultaneous story time reading of The Brothers Quibble’ by Aaron Blabey on Wednesday 27th May. It is a great story and we have had several requests for an encore reading. Preparations for the Dinner Dance are underway and tickets are now on sale. The Jingili Preschool ‘Dragonfly Ball’ will be held on the evening of Friday 12th June at 5.15. This is our major fund raising event for the year! Please keep this night free as it is an exciting evening for the whole family. This year the Dinner Dance will be held in our beautiful garden, around the boat area. Children can dress in their favourite outfit or party costume. Tickets cost $5.00 for each Preschool child and this includes dinner, dessert and a drink. Preschool children will sit down at the ‘VIP’ tables for a formal dinner. Please note that the formal dinner is provided for Preschool children ONLY. Parents and siblings can share in the ‘bring and share’ picnic for a gold coin donation. The Dinner Dance will be followed by a silent auction with some great items up for grabs to the highest bidders. We will also be auctioning artworks which have been collaboratively created by each Preschool group. We hope everyone will be able to attend! A reminder that children can borrow a book from the Preschool library from 8.15 to 8.30 every morning, except Fridays. Our rate of borrowing has reduced in recent weeks, so please provide your child with a named library bag, plastic bag or pillow slip so they can participate. Accessing the Preschool library helps to strengthen the links between Preschool and home and to foster a love of books and reading. A few parents have raised concerns regarding our ice cups. We try to use only 100 percent fruit juice but we rely on donations from parents. If we don’t have donations of juice then we sometimes use cordial as this is all we have. We would greatly appreciate donations of fruit juice each week and a few parent helpers to make the ice cups on Mondays and to sell them on Wednesdays. We hope we can continue to sell ice cups at Preschool as this raises much needed funds for World Vision. Thank you for your support. Have a great week! The Preschool Team Numeracy Helping your child learn Maths at home Thank you for supporting your child’s learning at home. Below are some ideas of how you can support your child’s maths learning at home. Maths at our house: watching sport together Distances, times, scores… sport is filled with numbers! Whether you are watching sport on TV, reading the sports pages in the newspaper, or checking scores on the internet there are lots of opportunities to explore the results and statistics together with your child. Research shows that when children are working in maths contexts that interest them, they do better. Sport is a way to put some maths thinking and practice into a time you spend together. Keeping a Scrapbook Many children like to follow a team or a player and they will collect clippings and photos and print off information from the internet about their sports heroes. It is a worthwhile thing to encourage this as it can support both their literacy and mathematics learning. Large scrapbooks, newspapers, and glue sticks are reasonably priced and are the only things you need to start a Sport Maths Book. Encourage your child to find and clip out tables, graphs and charts about standings, results and other information. Ask them to explain what the numbers mean and what they can figure out from the graphs. Children can research their favourite players’ stats like birthdates, ages, weights, heights, personal bests, or season results. Encourage them to compare players and teams mathematically. Who is older? By how how much? If he started playing when he was 19 how long has he been playing? What does this mean: 78% success as goal shoot? How many points will they need to get to the top of the table? If the world record is 23.5 m how much further does she need to throw to beat that record? What can you tell about this cricketer from the wagon wheel graph? Look at the weightlifters' results. What is the difference between the first and last place? Merit and Citizenship Awards Week 4 Term 2 Class Merit Citizenship T - Boatwright Javier Jones Eirini Kostopoulos T/1 - Sachs Hannah Rose Samuel Middleton T/1 - Rioli Eulaia Van Den Hoek Tahia Szyc 1/2 - Smith Charlotte Williams Caelan Chapman 1/2 - Nathanael Harrison Boatwright Veronica Godinho 2/3 - Tracy Ry Clemments Kodi Hosking 3 - Stimson Torray-Che Bloomer Cayden Narkle 3/4 - Devriadis Sophie Kerr Christopher Kostas 4/5 - Chellew Grace Highman Chloe Littler 4/5 - Morgan/Stephen Hayley Kerr Jayden Boase 5/6 - Grills Mia Grose Kateena Norris 5/6 - Dixon Ningali Ward Thomai Devriadis Pen Licence Sophie Kerr Izaiah Tabora Evie dejager Brendon Hatton Tiarna Shilling Alyiah Rivas Working Bee A big thank you to all of our garden and kitchen volunteers who came and donated their time and energy on Friday and Saturday. Friday afternoon we had a sausage sizzle and market table to encourage some family and friend support to the garden and kitchen program. Thank you for all donations. Saturday morning we gathered nice and early to get some big jobs done around the garden. We achieved a huge amount and are grateful for all the energy and effort in the garden from our tireless volunteers. We managed to load, move and unload about 15 trailer loads of mulch to cover the path ways, log circle, chook pen and add to our garden. We moved some very heavy core filled besser blocks to create new garden beds in the chook pen, elevate new (trough) herb beds and the sink to rinse and clean in. There was weeding, digging, raking and plenty of chatting and laughing too. Everybody got involved from toddlers to a visiting Gran!! A special thanks to: Kari and Hireworks for organising and supplying the Dingo which moved our mulch into trailers. Glenys, Dion, and Zac for picking up and unloading 2 and a half tons of bessa blocks donated by Bunnings. Trish for setting up and running the BBQ and market table. Phil and Zac for being in charge of the dingo and trailers and keeping the kids entertained and the mulch rolling. Families that were involved in making our garden more productive and pretty: Helen, Tahlia and Nerida Darian Duffy Mel, Hunter and Bella Russell Zac, Geordie, Billy and Jan O'Toole Bridie, Savannah and Cylus Glenys, Dion, Henry and Will Jodi, Phil, Lucy and Hannah Rose Trish Hammond Kari Taylor Jingili School Sports Carnival 2015 Daytime / Evening Program Wednesday 17th June 2015 Thursday 18th June 2015 8:20-8:35am In classroom 8:35-8:45am Everyone to meet in Assembly Area in House Groups for chants. 8:45-10:20am Preschool – Year 2 walk to Early Childhood area to start tabloid activities. 8:45-12:45pm Year 3 – 6 – Track and Field Events by year of birth. Long Jump +Over under tunnel ball, Shot Put, High Jump, Discus,400 Run & 800 Run + Cheering in houses 8:30until completed Year 3-6 only - Track and Field Events continuation 4:30-7:00 Whole School Twilight Sport at Marrara Stadium (Program below) Twilight Sport Evening Program Thursday 18th June 2015 4.30 pm for a 5.00pm START of EVENTS Age Distance Sprints We’ll have girls then boys races for each age group 10 Years Old 200m Girls/Boys 11 Years Old 200m Girls/Boys 12 Year Old 200m Girls/Boys Pre-School 25m Girls/Boys 5 Year Olds 25m Girls/Boys 6 Year Olds 50m Girls/Boys 7 Year Olds 50m Girls/Boys 8 Year Olds 75m Girls/Boys 9 Year Olds 75m Girls/Boys 10 Year Olds 100m Girls/Boys 11 Year Olds 100m Girls/Boys 12 Year Olds 100m Girls/Boys Relays Teams of 4 from each house 8 Years Old 50m Mixed 9 Years Old 50m Mixed 5 Years Old 25m Mixed 6 Years Old 25m Mixed 7 Years Old 25m Mixed 10 Years Old 50m Mixed 11 Years Old 50m Mixed 12 Year Old 50m Mixed Don’t forget there will be delicious food and cold drinks for sale at the Twilight Sports Carnival so bring along the whole family and have your dinner while watching the sprints and relays. Please listen to PA system as calls to students will be communicated throughout the program. Please note that this program is maybe subject to change. Reflection of “Sorry Day” “Sorry Day Report” I understand that “Sorry Day” is about when Kevin Rudd said sorry to the people who had their kids taken away from them. I think it was mean to take the kids off their parents. Today when I went to the Jingili Watergardens I thought of the kids, mums and dads who went through that tough time. I felt sad and happy! Sad, because the people didn’t get to grow up with their mum and dads and happy because it was a fun time to remember we are sorry. Emily Ludlow Today we got to experience another culture. I listen to Dreamtime stories from aboriginal people. It is so good that the government have not taken away the aboriginal kids anymore. Altogether, I had lots of fun and I learnt lots of new things. I met heaps of people who told me about the Stolen Generation and how they got taken away from their family and friends. I felt sad for them and sorry. Austin Wilson Reflection of “Sorry Day” Today we went to the Jingili Watergardens. I got to speak to an Elder, a man who told me he was taken away from his family when he was 8 years old. We also got to watch a cultural dance by O’Loughlin College. I learnt that Kevin Rudd gave a “sorry” speech to the aboriginal people in 2008. My favourite part was talking to the elders. I will always remember the Stolen Generations. It’s good that we stopped taking the children away from their families. Declan Wait Today I went to the amazing, wonderful and awesome Jingili Watergardens. I loved the day and it was great and I’m disgusted that we took little children from their parents in the past. I think we should not have done that to people and it’s really good that we are saying sorry to those people and now I’m saying the Day was GREAT! We got to watch plays, hear songs, release balloons, eat sausages and have our face painted. Some of us got to have a photo and I’m sure I’m going to be on TV. We also made hands for the people and I’m going to say this again, “we shouldn’t take children from their families”. I think the show of hands says sorry too! The people of the Stolen Generation really had something sad happen to what they care about. This helps me learn about them. My favourite thing today was getting to gather around with people and listen to the very important speeches about Sorry Day. Grace Highman “ Reflection of “Sorry Day” “Sorry Day Report” Today I went to Jingili Watergardens. It was “Sorry Day”! 26th of May 2015. I felt a rush of care and sadness. I definitely understood the things that the Aboriginal people felt. I couldn’t imagine being taken away from my parents and family, but all these people had put up with it. Chloe and I sat down to watch the culture celebrations of aboriginals. They all danced and sang. It was lovely, we watched the balloons released to the sky and we listened to the speeches that aboriginal elders spoke about. While I was at the Watergardens and asked an Elder politely if she would like to tell me a story of the “Stolen Generation”. She spoke about being taken away and she remembered screaming and trying to pull away from the hand connected to a suit, she was about 6 years old. All in all I had a great time, I had lots of giggles and enjoyed playing Frisbee and tip. Evie de Jager “Sorry Day Report” I understand that “Sorry Day” is about when Kevin Rudd said sorry to the people who had their kids taken away from them. I think it was mean to take the kids off their parents. Today when I went to the Jingili Watergardens I thought of the kids, mums and dads who went through that tough time. I felt sad and happy! Sad, because the people didn’t get to grow up with their mum and dads and happy because it was a fun time to remember we are sorry. Emily Ludlow Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program Supporters Supporters of the Jingili Chooks