Larrakeyah Primary School is a member of the Darwin City

Schools and in partnership with Darwin Middle School, Darwin

High School, Northern Territory Open Education Centre,

Ludmilla Primary School, Stuart Park Primary School and

Parap Primary School.

Newsletter, Wednesday 2nd September, Term 3

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Last Friday we celebrated Science Week 2020: ‘The Deep Blue Innovation

for the Future of our Oceans’. Staff and students dressed up as someone or

something related to Science. The day saw a group of Year 6 students host

a morning Science Show, performing cool Science experiments for the Early

Childhood and Middle/Upper Primary students. Each class completed an

activity related to the theme, The Deep Blue Innovation for the Future of our

Oceans, which saw students design and make boats, create ocean

habitats and make art pieces exploring underwater themes. Staff and

students thoroughly enjoyed the activities.

Each school in the NT has an external school review every 4 years. Last

week, our school had a school review and a national tool was used to

cover nine domains/areas regarding the explicit school improvement

agenda, data, learning culture, resources, curriculum, teaching team,

teaching pedagogies, differentiation and partnerships. A school review is a

rigorous process, with reviewers working in the school for 3 days. The

reviewers read school documentation, school data and spoke to the

leadership team, school board members, parents, staff and students.

Our school review report was outstanding. The school is high-outstanding in

each of the nine domains. The lead reviewer informed us that Larrakeyah

Primary is in the top 3% of Australian schools and we should be extremely

proud of our achievements. In fact, the lead reviewer stated that he has

completed more than 200 school reviews and we are the first school that he

has given an outstanding rating for the whole domain on teaching

pedagogy. We are celebrating our success, the long journey and hard work

that has made our school the outstanding school it is today. Our school

community should be very proud. When we receive the final report, we will

place it on the school website.

Regards,

Fathma Mauger

Principal

ABSENCES

To ensure we keep our

Attendance

Records correct please contact

our Front Office if your child/

children are absent.

You can contact us on 89813211.

Alternatively, you can notify us via

our website or our Skool Bag

App.

Larrakeyah

Primary School App

The Larrakeyah Primary School

app is available to download. If

you prefer using the school

website, please check the Skool

Bag console in the For Parents

section for latest news.

Monday 31st August– Friday 4th

September

Father’s Day Stalls

Friday 11th September

Dress Up Day- DIY Creative

Costume

Tuesday 15th September

STEAM Day

Friday 25th September

End of Term 3.

Dates to Remember

We love to showcase the

Visible Learning, Math Focus and

Writing Focus activities our students

engage in every week. Now, we're

featuring these articles on our

website. To read the latest class

updates, and access previous

articles, visit our News section in the

Website.

https://larrakeyahprimary.com.au/

blog

Lost Property

The Lost and Found box is

overflowing, If you have lost lunch

boxes, water bottles, jackets and

hats please come have a look.

Reading Room

Help needed in Reading

Room, Please contact front

office.

Former Larrakeyah Primary Students

achieve their Dream

Congratulations to Emma Boeck and Sophie

Phillips who, after many years of hard work

and study, have been admitted to the Bar

and now can practise as lawyers. Emma and

Sophie are both former School Captains of

Larrakeyah Primary School and speak highly

of the education and support they received

at Larrakeyah Primary School.

Larrakeyah Staff and Students

wish them well on their future

careers.

Father’s Day Stall

Stall is located outside the front office.

Come and grab a bargain!

All gifts are $5.00—$10.00.

Morning and Afterschool only .

Monday 31st August— Friday 4th September

All money raised will be going towards SLT Fundraising.

DIY CREATIVE DRESS UP DAY

Come to school dressed in your own

DIY creative costume that you’ve

made!

Friday 11th September

Gold coin donation – all money raised

will be going to SLT Fundraising.

Please note, all costumes must comply

with the school’s sun smart policy.

READING AWARDS Level 10

Chezka Rama

Drisana Subedi

Olivia Dunbar

Simon Regmi

Will Bucknell

Elsa Zhang

Gabriella Gloury

Hayden Perrins

Nora Bau

William Chen

Lexile

Chelsea Stramare

Joshua Po Ching

Nehansa Perera

Tobi Fredericks

Tristan Goasdoue

Zain Ul Abideen

Aayan Thapa

Andrea Canini

Bert Wang

Zeke Thomas

Isabelle McGrath

Jax Knight

Lakyn Montgomery

Leo Ta’ala-Segi

Methuli Niyangoda

Michelle Doan

Penny Schoolmeester

Prithvi Shah

Sofia Aluwihare

ICE BLOCKS

For Sale

After School every Monday,

Wednesday and Friday.

$1.00 each

Room 8– Ms Korfias’ Class

All money raised will be going

towards SLT fundraising.

Defence School Mentor

Week 6 I was able to attend the DSM Workshop at DCO. It was great to hear from various

speakers. One being Padre Ricky from 5RAR of the Tiger Tribe, who gave us a brief insight to

the challenges he and his family faced during his last deployment. Your local padres and

chaplains are another wonderful support resource both physical and spiritually for ADF

families. Another was the visit from therapy dogs. They are used widely within the

community with positive outcomes including veteran groups, schools and libraries. So if

you have a reluctant reader, get them to read to a dog. Calm dogs are non-judgemental

listeners so can help reduce reading aloud nerves and anxieties to make reading fun.

Happy Father’s Day to all our Dads and Grand-dads on Sunday. Due to COVID– 19 we are

unable to hold our annual Defence Dad’s Lunch so instead the children have been busy

making little gifts for their Dads at Defence Kids Club.

Those families that are interested in purchasing a Medallion and having it presented to their

child for being brave on the Home front while a parent was away on Deployment please

let me know so I can try to help organise something special. See Military Kids Recognition at

https://www.opptsd.org.au/shop for the purchase of medallions.

Some families are already receiving posting orders as students are mentioning that they

are leaving. This is already showing some early signs of emotional change in some students

and parents. I understand that many of you have done this multiple times but it is still a

very busy time and difficult to juggle house hunting, school hunting, with big emotions in

little bodies…… There are a number of Farewell activities that the students like to do in the

lead up to their departure to help prepare for the new posting, move and school

mementos. Please let me know of your posting so I can help support your child’s

upcoming transition to a new location as early as possible. Some links to help with the

preparation to move:

https://www.defence.gov.au/DCO/Military-life/Moving-relocation/ before-during.asp

https://www.defencecommunityhub.org.au/, https://ext.defence.gov.au/postingconnect

Defence Gate Walking Bus has continued this term with students acting as the driver; so

students are showing responsibility for each other, independence of packing their own

bags, and confidence to lead others. If you would like your child to be collected from

class and delivered to the Base/school gate for your pick up on Monday, Tuesday and

Wednesday afternoons please let me know or they can just join the walking bus fun.

If you have a parent currently away on exercise, training or deployment please remind me

and your teacher so we can help support your child and give them that extra TLC if

needed. Currently you can register for Family Absent Support via Defence Family Helpline

1800 624 608 and order a bear and book pack for the kids or let me know you would like a

bear, supply your serving members PM Keys so I can get a bear through the DCO Darwin

branch for you.

Jodie Murdoch – DSM 89813211

jodie.murdoch@ntschools.net