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From the Principal 1

Assembly Awards 2

Anzac Day Assembly

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This Week at Wanguri - 3 Pendlebury

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1 3 A P R I L 2 0 1 6 T E R M 2 W E E K 1

WANGURI NEWSLETTER 46 Gsell Street, Wanguri NT 0810• PO Box 40519 Casuarina NT 0811

Phone: 08 89271655 • Fax: 08 8945 2193 Web: http://web.ntschools.net/w/wanguri/ • DECS: http://www.nt.gov.au/

Emails: wanguri.prim@ntschools.net • jen.coad@ntschools.net

April

22 Anzac Day Assembly

25 Anzac Day Public Holiday

26 School Council Meeting

27 Interschool Soccer Excursion

May

2 May Day Public Holiday

10 - 12

NAPLAN for Year 3 and 5 Students

5 Mother’s Day Stall

11 Wildthings Performance Pre 1

13 Wildthings Performance Pre 3&4

DATES TO

REMEMBER

Good Afternoon Parents/Carers, ‘Our role as adults and educators is not getting students to do their best but to get them to exceed what they think their potential is.’ John Hattie

Welcome back to Term 2 and an early reminder that this year Term 2 is an 11 week term. We hope your child/ren enjoyed the week’s break. All the students have settled back into school and its finally starting to cool down, so being in the playground will be easier. Please continue to remind your children of the benefit of drinking water during times outside to keep themselves hydrated. It was great to see parents and carers meeting with teachers at the end of last term to discuss their students’ progress. It is encouraging to see the positive partnerships that are developed between school and home to support our students and their learning. Update on staffing, Esther Carolin has retired and we wish her a happy healthy retirement. Michael Calwell has returned from long service leave and Mark Mangohig has accepted an ST1 position. Mark won’t have a class but will continue on with the work he started in Term 1.

Reminders from the Year Events Planner • ANZAC Day Assembly will be

held Friday 22 April at 8.45 and we welcome all families to join us at this time.

• NAPLAN testing for all students in Years 3 and 5. Teachers are working with students to familiarize them with the testing format so they can fully participate. NAPLAN is a great opportunity for students and their families to see where they are in their learning journey and a great opportunity to get comprehensive data to enhance individual and class learning in the future.

Just a timely reminder to talk to your children about road safety – you will have noticed that there have been some changes to signage around the school notice and as always if you notice anything we need to bring to the communities attention please contact us. Don’t forget to download the Wanguri Primary Skoolbag App - go to the App Store/Play Store and search for Wanguri Until next time, Cheers Jen

Principal

Principal: Jen Coad Administration Manager: Robyn Nowland Assistant Principal: Pam Adam Front Office/SAMS Admin: Jayne Carter Assistant Principal: Michael Calwell Front Office : Nicole Schmitt Senior Teacher: Julie Fraser Special Needs Teacher: Jill Williams Senior Teacher : Mark Mangohig ICT: Justine Cox

Tr Aralar • Pascal Campbell - For doing your best and being a confident swimmer. • Ruwen Lin - For developing great confidence in your swimming.

Tr Henschke • Brayden Da Costa - For having a great attitude towards his learning. • Daniel Gardiner - For fantastic behaviour during swimming.

1 Burchert • Teleah Jones - For being a kind and caring classmate. • Nomikos Hourdas - For excellent results on his spelling test.

2 Finn • Jathan Robertson - For working hard to complete his Maths activities. • Zac Barwell - For writing fantastic sentences with his phonic words.

2 Glover • Martika Assan-Petterson - For brilliant reading comprehension skills. • Kaylah Lotsaris - For a great recount of her Easter holiday.

3 Pickard • Lily Skinner - For being a good friend and a responsible learner. • Taluga Adakpoku - For a huge improvement on his writing and numeracy

skills.

3/4 Dobrini • Theo Lelekis - For consistently trying his best and succeeding. • Cally Eagles - For consistently finishing work to a high standard.

4 Jones

• Darius Pastikos - For showing maturity and making appropriate choices in his learning.

• Lucy Smyth - For consistently being organised, responsible and ready to learn.

4/5 Fraser • Nakisha Angerer - For great work on her history project. • Jico Granada - For consistently working hard across all learning areas.

5 Reyneke • Jemma Mason - For working hard on her Planets Project.

5/6 Draper • Alexsei Simonetti - For continued effort and improvement in Mental Maths. • Megan Harris - For creating excellent narratives on 'Storybird'.

6 Webb

• Archie Reed - For demonstrating a Growth Mindset when facing challenges in mathematics.

• Fiona Lee - For demonstrating maturity and consideration for others when working collaboratively.

The Ochre shirts, shorts, skorts and small hats have arrived. If you have prepaid and/or preordered any of these items, please collect them from the front office.

Please see new uniform prices below Ochre and Sports T-shirts - $28.50

Skorts - $22 Hat - $13.50

Canteen Volunteers

Wanted

If you would like to volunteer in the Wanguri School Canteen please

contact Natasha in the canteen or email canteen.wanguri@ntschools.net

Current Ochre Card is necessary .

This may lead to occasional paid employment when staff are absent.

Anzac Day

Service Parents and Community of Wanguri Primary

School

You are Invited to Attend our

Anzac Day Service on

Friday 22 April at 8.45am in the Assembly Area

Defence Parents, Join me for a cuppa and a chat every Tuesday

morning at 8.30 in the Conference Room, next to the Front

Office. Light Morning Tea provided. I look forward to

meeting you. Veronica Merton

DSTA Defence Schools Transition Aide.

This survey asks your perspective on your child’s school and what you think is important for the school to consider in better supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete the survey. The answers provided by parents and carers are completely anonymous and it will not be possible to identify you or your child from your answers. Data is stored electronically by KidsMatter Primary in a password secured database. If you consent to participate, please complete the survey according to the instructions given by your school, which may either be to fill out the paper-based survey and return it to the school, or complete the online survey at: www.kidsmatter.edu.au/primary/parentsurvey

Completing this anonymous survey is entirely your choice. Whether or not you decide to participate, your decision will not disadvantage you or your child.

However, we hope that you will contribute to helping us improve our school community. Please feel free to discuss any concerns you may have about completing this survey with any of the staff.

Wanguri Primary now has it’s own Skoolbag app, to download it’s as easy as going to the app store/play store and looking up ‘Wanguri’ If you have any issues or have a Windows phone please use the instructions here http://www.skoolbag.com.au/forparents.php

Using the Wanguri Skoolbag app you can view newsletters, see upcoming events and add them to the calendar on your device, use eforms to notify of absence and much more. The app is free for parents to download and will help the school communicate more effectively with parents/carers about what is happening in the school.

CJ Bruton is a 6 time NBL champion and he is one of the NBL's best 3 point shooters. He came to Darwin to host the Darwin Basketball Association Easter challenge. We learnt important basketball skills over 2 days and I got to compete with under 12 and under 14 boys from all over the NT. It was a great experience and can't wait to do it again next year. Written by Max Neve

SRC News Thank you to everyone who donated to the Fijian Cyclone Appeal. Wanguri Primary raised $55.00!

Posi�on and Loca�on During this maths unit we will be exploring movement and posi�on

concepts. The students have drawn maps and wri�en direc�ons focusing

on the use of right, le�, up and down. They have been introduced to the

concept of North, South, East, and West and the use of these posi�ons

on maps.

Today we read a story called "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael

Rosen and we had to draw a map of the places the family went through

in the story. To be successful we needed to draw a path between the

loca�ons, the path represents the journey.