Alawa Primary School Newsletter

Last Friday we all recognised the exemplary behaviour, attitude and efforts of one very special young lady at our school - Ms Mikayla F.

Her dad Chris and big sister Shania [ex Alawa student] came along to Assembly to share this celebration and also popped back in later in the day for the Rainbow Run.

Mikayla spent time helping Ms Megan check the daily attendance, joined 5/6 Hammond morning tea, visited classrooms and handed out merits to students she noticed doing their best in classrooms and helped out at Muster.

Dear Alawa Primary School SRC,

Year 2 Ward did an Emu Bob at the logs, near the shed and at the muster area. We found more than one bag of rubbish and a broken pipe.

We feel super sad that because there is a lot of rubbish around the school. As a school we need to clean up the rubbish. All of this rubbish can kill the animals that live around the school.

Our suggestion is to have a no plastic/ nude food school. This would decrease the amount of rubbish at Alawa Primary school.

Sincerely,

 Year 2 Ward

Students have been busy practicing events, games and chants for the upcoming Sports Day.  Our annual sports day will take place on Friday 11th June . The program for the days will be released later this week - we hope many parents / carers can come along and join us for the fun.

REMINDER: Any older sibling of school age should be at their own school and not at Alawa on the Friday.  All our Alawa children will come back into the middle area for recess and lunch - parents / carers are welcome to join them BUT they cannot stay outside the gates with their families during the breaks.

We are still in need of Sports day volunteers

If you are able to help on the day with either: marshalling, junior year rotations, primary year field events or set up and pack up

please email tamra.caruana@education.nt.gov.au or call 8997 7666.

Last week we were treated to a special visit from Sadie’s Mum Nicole. She was our first preschool parent guest to volunteer her time and share what she does for a job. Nicole talked to us about being a midwife and a nurse. Sadie was very proud to be her Mum’s assistant as she talked about how she helps deliver babies and takes care of needs of new Mums. The children made lots of comments about how they were once babies and were really engaged in the session. These sharing sessions are a wonderful opportunity for children to learn all about the different things they might like to do when they grow up. We certainly have many interesting and varied occupations, interests and talents amongst our preschool parents and look forward to more opportunities for preschool children to ‘show off’ their Mum or Dad.

We currently have a strong focus on strengthening fine motor skills within the preschool program. Children are doing a variety of activities to encourage the development of these skills. Through activities such as threading, ripping paper, punching holes, rolling plasticine and manipulating clothes pegs and tweezers children are helping to strengthen the muscles in their hands that are an integral component of writing readiness.

We hope you have a fantastic week,

Alice, Emma, Kelly and Flor  [Preschool Team]

This week we have been doing a 3 ingredient challenge in Kitchen and have had some amazing results.

Here are a few pictures of the delicious inventions.

Tina Sullivan [Kitchen Teacher] 

Why we should have 3 day weekends by Hein Duc

In my opinion I think that it is time that we get a three day weekend and here are some reasons why.

My first reason is that if we have three day weekends we could have more time to rest and sleep. Because students and teachers have such a busy week that they are soo tired that they can’t concentrate.

My second reason is that if we have a three day weekend we could spend more time with our family and help out.

My last reason is that if we have three day weekends we would have more time to do homework.

Sooo this is why it’s important to have three day long weekends. Oh and can we have Saturday, Sunday and Monday off? 

Why Alawa should not wear the school uniform by Asha Fulton

Dear Ms Cartwright I believe that the Alawa kids should not wear the school uniform. I have a few ressons why we should not wear our school uniforms. And here they are.

First reason is when kids get dressed it takes so long to find their school uniform and that is probably why kids are getting late.

Second reason is our own choice of clothes could be more comfortable and could be cleaner. Don’t go away because there is one more reason.

Reason 3 I hope you like it here is my astounding reason parents don’t have to wash as much.

So what do you say?

Please please please say yes and get rid of the school uniform and make it free dress.

This term in Year 4/5 France we are looking at how to persuade an audience. We have looked at different persuasive pieces as well as different advertisements. This term we wrote a persuasive report on something we are passionate about as well as making an advertisement aimed at children. We have found that colours and juicy language draw in the reader/viewer.

Natalia: "This term in writing we have been learning how to persuade. I wrote a letter to Ms Cartwright to persuade to allow our class to have more recess. She was convinced so our class got extra time!"

Carla: "We have been doing persuasive I am doing it on getting a bearded dragon as owl class pet. My three reasons were it will make us more responsible and mature, it is low maintenance and does not have a very complex diet. I’m sure Mr France will be convinced." 

Lachie: "This term we’ve been writing a persuasive piece to someone on why we should or shouldn’t have something e.g. why we should have a class pet or why we shouldn’t have a class pet. I tried to use as many rhetorical questions as I could, that is a question where the answer is obvious." 

Hi my name is Miss Lena and I am the new classroom support assistant in Transition Connelly. I am really enjoying getting to know the students and staff at Alawa Primary School it is a very fun school. 

I am originally from Taiwan but have lived in Australia for almost nine years now. Six years in the East Kimberly and now we have been in Darwin for two and a half years. 

We have a son Jackson 7 years and daughter Charlie 5 years and we like to cook, go camping and sewing. 

 I look forward to meeting everyone around the school. 

Lena Hu [SESA] 

The winners of the colouring in and Designing a Spaceship competition run in the library were chosen last week by Miss Sacha and the Library Monitors with the winners receiving a book about Space or the Earth. It was a tough choice with two winners being chosen for the colouring in competition one each from the lower primary and one from upper primary and one winner for the Spaceship design. The winning Spaceship design saw a rocket created using different foods. 

This week in the library the display and books are Celebrating Reconciliation Week through recognition of Relationships, Culture and Art.

Sacha Evans [ Library & ICT Manager]

As you would all be aware we are heading into the peak exercise period of the year and we have many serving members with various upcoming courses. This can be a stressful time for both spouses and the children. A useful document that can make these times a little less stressful is the Member and Family Care Plan that DCO provides. It is a one stop document to record all of the household/family information that you may need when the serving member is away. For example insurances policy information, registration information, finances, wills, emergency contacts to name a few. If you would like a copy of the Family Care Plan please let me know and I will get one to you.

We have been busy I Defence Kids Club creating beautiful. Bright posters for our upcoming Sports Day. We will continue to work on our posters this week so if you child is interested please remind them to come along on a Thursday lunch time. 

Katie Wedel [Defence School Mentor] 

We will be holding a Professional Development Day for staff on Tuesday June 15th.  Professional development days are used by schools to improve the skills of our teachers, school leaders and school administrative support staff. They also allow us the time to continue working on our School Improvement agenda. Students are not to attend school on this day and we have once again arranged Brat Pack to be available for child minding [at your own cost] for those in need.

Please contact Brat Pack direct to secure your child’s place.—8927 2546 or thebratpack@bigpond.com

* Please note that Jingili OSCH will not be operating that day.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the office on 8997 7666 during school hours.