Our School Mission

Working Together, nurturing personal achievement and life-long learning in a learner-centred environment, sustained by explicit values and strong school, family and community partnerships.

Our School Values Integrity, Responsibility, Excellence and Doing our Best, Respect, Care and Compassion and Collaborative Learning.

Contact Us Urquhart Street, Parap PO Box 69 Parap NT 0804 Phone: 8982 2922 Fax: 8982 2911 Web: www.schools.nt.edu.au/parap Email: parapps.office@ntschools.net

From the Principal Dear Parents and Caregivers

WALKATHON

I would like to remind parents that all students will be participating in our Walkathon Fundraiser this Friday. A note will be sent out tomorrow to ensure that students are appropriately prepared for this fun and exciting event. Please continue to encourage your child to collect as many sponsors as they can as this is a very important part of our Fundraising effort for this year.

UNIVERSITY OF NSW - ICAS -COMPUTER COMPETITION

Seventeen of our students from year 3 to 6 participated in this competition. Congratulations to Jackson Downing, Tilly Newman and Atish Ajaykumar for receiving a Distinction in this. Amelia Strohmayr, Jasper Durling and Oliver Zimmermann received a Credit and Laleeta Das, Darayat Chowdhury and Ethan Hee received a Merit certificate. It is always great to see so many of our students participating in these National academic competitions and pleasing to see them all doing so well.

Dates to Note

NUMBER 23 06/08/2014

Whole School Walkathon Friday 8

th August – Week 3

Science Week Monday 11

th – Friday 15

th August - Week 4

Book Week Monday 18

th – Friday 22

nd August Week 5

Celebrating the Bush Wednesday 27

th August – Week 6

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PARENTS

The NT Department of Education is asking for nominations for Teaching in the Territory Awards. Please see

the back of the newsletter for details or email me if you have any questions about this. The NT government

is also beginning consultation about school holidays and again if you wish to have your say the details can be

found at the end of the newsletter.

ATHLETIC SPORTS Our Cluster Athletics Carnival was held yesterday at Marrara. Our school had 55 students representing us in the track and field events. I was very proud to see all of these students striving for success and encouraging each other. The support of parents was also wonderful to see. Parap Primary came 2nd in the Overall Trophy with Essington winning the award. However in the Handicap shield PPS came 1st which is an amazing effort. Being one of the biggest schools competing we had to overcome a very high handicap to win and it is testament to the way our students worked as a team that we were able to do this. I would also like to thank Mr Small for the many hours he put in with additional training sessions each morning before school and the many recesses and lunch times he did this. 200 metres

Ben Lambert 3rd Brandon Mu 2nd Megan Spiritosanto 4th Ned Stevens 2nd

Becky Butler 2nd Mia Bowen 3rd Atish Ajaykumar 4th Kada Hutt 3rd

Giacomo Pandini 4th Isla Baker 3rd

100 metres

Becky Butler 1st Fionn Zaffino 1st Megan Spiritosanto 4th Mia Bowen 3rd

Ned Stevens 2nd Kieran Mu 4th Atish Ajaykumar 4th Isla Baker 3rd

Nadia Qin 5th 800 metres

Ben Lambert 1st Ian Orr 7th Meg Marker 2nd Laleeta Das 7th

Diarmid Brown 4th Sam Elder 3rd Chloe Everingham 3rd Tess Jungfer 5th

Atish Ajaykumar 2nd Derick Collard 10th Megan Spiritosanto 3rd Kieran Mu 5th

Taylah Spero 5th Jessie Davis 2nd

Shot Putt

Ashar Williams 3rd Justin Crossley 3rd Fatima Issah Bandao 2nd Bernie Dunn 4th

Ned Stevens 2nd Golf Hopkins 1st Hannah Lo 2nd Olivia Jagla 6th

High Jump

Isla Baker 1st Sam Elder 4th Hannah Lo 1st Bernie Dunn 4th

Ned Stevens 1st Golf Hopkins 1st Derick Collard 4th Tess Jungfer 1st

Long Jump

Becky Butler 2nd Zoe Smith 3rd Hannah Lo 1st Ben Lambert 2nd

Ned Stevens 1st Tess Jungfer 1st Atish Ajaykumar 3rd Giacomo Pandini 6th

Golf Hopkins 4th

Discus

Tess Jungfer 1st Atish Ajaykumar 2nd Zita Varatharajan 2nd Golf Hopkins 3rd

Ned Stevens 1st Denver Harley 3rd Pru Anderson 5th Sam Elder 5th

Bernie Dunn 3rd

Our wonderful day concluded with the age relay teams. Students were given the chance to run together and enjoy this experience. It also gave an extra event for those students who had not had such a busy day. Our relay teams did very well and it was a lovely way to finish a very exciting day.

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VICTIMS OF FLIGHT MH17

The Commonwealth Government has declared Thursday 7 August 2014 to be a National Day of Mourning to honour the innocent victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Flags on all Commonwealth Government buildings will be flown at half-mast.

Yours sincerely Yvonne Harding Acting Principal yvonne.harding@ntschools.net

All students in Northern Territory Government schools from Transition to Year 9 are required to wear an authorised school uniform whilst on school premises

and when attending official school activities during and after school hours.

Uniform Styles: Parap Primary Blue School/House Shirt with Blue School Shorts or Parap Primary Blue School Dress. (No other shirts, shorts or pants are acceptable) Footwear: School style shoes such as joggers must be worn (for some school activities, certain types of footwear may be unsuitable. Class teachers will advise as appropriate). Bare feet, thongs, “Crocs” and masseur-style sandals are prohibited. Hats: The wearing of a school hat is compulsory and a range of school hats is available from the school.

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SCHOOL MERIT CERTIFICATES AWARDED FRIDAY 1st

AUGUST

Class Student Comment

T Cash Chalie Cole Neat, careful work.

Ethan Mu Wonderful work in maths.

T Rowe George Milatos A focussed and positive start to term 3.

Sabrina Graesslin Being such a positive and helpful class member.

T/1 Morgan Mason Williams Trying hard in maths and doing great work with grouping.

Mia Donnelly Working hard in guided reading lessons.

Ishmael Bakalie Working hard in guided reading lessons.

1 Giallouris Finn Coughlan Great work with writing a narrative.

Natalie Camilleri Fantastic work with grouping in mathematics.

1 Collins Naryon Gerschwitz Striving to achieve her personal best.

Jack Baker Strving to achieve his personal best.

2 Doyle Jett Doyle Exceptional work in all subjects.

David Dela Pena Excellent instructional writing.

2 Dzulkifly Anastasia Milatos Great Improvement in spelling.

Keiryn Orr Great Improvement in spelling.

2 Perry Cooper Williams Starting term 3 as a caring and co-operative member of his tribe.

Evie Rodwell Always showing a love of learning and doing her personal best.

3 Rogers Claudia Coggan Her insightful observations and predictions in reading.

Alwyn Miller All his hard work during maths this week.

3 Tennant Grace Beard Her enthusiasm and dedication during our maths unit on money.

Lexi Roach Always being a kind and caring classmate and always staying on task.

3 Witts Peyton Cole Always trying her personal best in all classroom activities.

Brody Embuscado Being a sensible role model at all times in class.

4 Burke Michael Mavotas His wonderful attitude to reading.

Matthew Koole Showing Mrs Harding and the class how to do origami.

4 Gibson Laleeta Das Putting a huge effort into improving her reading and spelling.

Kayla Collins Being a mature and hard working class member.

4 Hardy Brooke Henderson Caring about her class mates.

Mika Freund Always working to the best of her ability.

5 Wallis Becky Bulter Consistently submitting exceptional homework.

Ben Kronk Consistently leading his groups by setting a great example.

5 Williams Kelly Walters Always participating well in class and doing her best.

Justin Crossley Working well in maths and for interesting science homework.

6/5 Oates William Brown His amazing contributions during our reading strategy class discussion.

Mark Bawden-Hill Always contributing during discussions and striving to achieve his personal best.

6 Bishop Mahayla Ocampo-Spratt Excellent work in english rotations. Great reading strategies used.

Grace Fox Excellent definitions of angles, triangles and quadrilaterals. Greast maths skills.

6 Bond Elliott Mitchell A fantastic attitude to start the new semester. Well Done.

Zoe Smith Her fantastic diagrams in science and use of scientific language.

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Canteen Special Tuesday12th – Wednesday 13th

Teriyaki Chicken Wings and Rice

$5.00

We need your HELP Become a Canteen Volunteer

If you can help please call Sandra 08 89822955.

Old Business Cards – WANTED –

Mrs Supple urgently needs Blank Backed unwanted business cards. She uses hundreds in her reading program and is now

reduced to cutting up cardboard. Please send cards in straight away!

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Teaching in the Territory Excellence Awards Nominations now open Show your appreciation of an exceptional principal, teacher or support staff member by nominating them for a 2014 Teaching in the Territory Excellence Award. Nominations are now open and categories include: • Northern Territory Primary Teacher of the Year • Northern Territory Secondary Teacher of the Year • Northern Territory Principal of the Year • Northern Territory Award for Excellence in Teaching or Leadership in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education • Northern Territory Early Childhood Teacher of the Year • Northern Territory Support Staff Member of the Year Nominate now by visiting www.teacherawards.nt.gov.au For more information contact Briseis More on (08) 8999 5704 or Dave Guy on (08) 8901 4981 or email teacherawards@nt.gov.au Nominations close 4pm on Friday 22 August 2014.

Consultation on school holiday dates

The Northern Territory Government is conducting a survey to hear your views on the configuration of holiday breaks in government schools – when each break occurs, and the length of each of the breaks over the school year.

The current arrangements for school holidays have been in place since the 1970s and it is time to consider if they best fit the needs of students, parents and the NT community. The survey will help government to decide if further consideration of changes is necessary. Any proposed changes would not occur until 2017.

To find out more, and to complete the survey, visit www.education.nt.gov.au