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

Phone: 08 89271655 • Fax: 08 8945 2193

Web: www.wanguriprimary.nt.edu.au • DECS: http://www.nt.gov.au/

Emails: wanguri.prim@ntschools.net • gail.quigley@ntschools.net

THE WANGURI WORD

Term 3 Issue 3

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Principal: Gail Quigley Assistant Principal: Pam Adam

Administration Manager: Robyn Nowland Assistant Principal: Michael Calwell

Front Office: Jayne Carter, Olga Dalrymple Senior Teacher Early Years: Michaela McNair

& Justine Cox Senior Teacher Primary Years: Julie Fraser

Aboriginal and Islander Education Worker: Special Needs Teachers: Angela Pickard

(AIEW): Esther Carolin Amy Drury

Dates to Remember

Inside this Issue

From the Principal 1

Assembly Awards 2

Book Week 2

Canteen News 2

Sustainability News 3

Sports News 4

DSTA News 4

1

Good afternoon Wanguri community

Camps

A big welcome back to our Year 6 students from Canberra and to our Year 4 and 5 students from Batchelor. My conversations with the students clearly indicates what a wonderful time they had.

I went to the Batchelor camp for a day and was so impressed with the facilities and the activities that were provided. Canoeing, kayaking, damper making, low ropes, etc…what more could children ask for? The behaviour of the students was exemplary!

A very big thank you to the teachers, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Dobrini, Mr Glover, Ms Webb, Ms Reyneke and Mr Robinson, as well as fantastic parent helpers, for giving up their personal time to facilitate the camps. It is greatly appreciated by the school community.

Parent information session

A parent/community information is being held on Wednesday 27 August from 6 - 8.30pm at Darwin High school around the topic of school autonomy. As you may be aware, this new phase in education is due to be rolled out in 2015, giving schools and communities more power regarding decisions around finances and resourcing.

Flexi Schools

Our online canteen ordering system has taken off with a flying start with many parents commenting how convenient it is. I encourage you to join up to Flexischools if you haven’t already. We will be gradually phasing out over the counter orders so if you need any assistance setting up please contact Liz in the canteen or one of our office staff.

Safety on Wanguri Terrace

A reminder to please be mindful of our students when driving in our school zone. There is a 40 kph speed zone on all the streets surrounding our school and this is patrolled regularly by the police. Many of our students walk home without supervision and as we know not all children have ‘road awareness’ especially when talking to friends. Please ensure you stay within the speed restrictions and watch out for students crossing the road.

Next Wednesday night there will be a discussion at the School Council meeting around having a ‘lollipop person’ to man the crossing on Wanguri Terrace. Please feel free to come along and join in the discussion.

Stranger Danger

I would like to remind parents to have a talk to their children about Stranger Danger. With our busy lives we sometimes forget to reinforce to our children that they should not talk to strangers or ever go with a stranger.

There are a lot of extra people in Darwin in the Dry season so it is a good time to sit down with your children and remind them of the four 'R's:

Recognise the danger Refuse any offer Run away Report it to the first person they feel safe with.

Unwanted Books

This term some classes will be setting up their students with their own personal book boxes. This will allow students to select their own books to create their own reading box for reading times. If you have any unwanted books, fiction or non-fiction, comics, magazines, etc that are appropriate for school aged students and in good condition could you please bring them in to the front office. Thank you for your support with this initiative.

Regards

Gail Quigley

Principal

August

27 School Council Meeting 6 pm

29 Assembly 8.40 am

September

1 Start of swimming lessons for Years 5 & 6

12 Assembly 8.40 am

24 School Council Meeting 6 pm

25 End of Term Disco

Tran - Year 2

• 5.30 to 6.30 pm

Year 3 - Year 6

• 6.45 pm to 8.00 pm

18 Years 3 & 4 swimming lessons until 28 August

T Jones • Jenara Grant - always striving for her personal best.

• William Smyth - great addition and partitioning numbers to 10.

T Laskazeski • Izayah Emmerson - for trying really hard to sound out his words in his writing.

T Costelloe • Rose Mystica Denex - for staying on task and being a great help in the classroom.

• Noah Guillet-Blake - for excellent effort in maths.

1 Finn • Sammy-Joe Nyalungwe - for excellent results in his maths assessment.

• Maria Papathomas - for always doing her best in class.

1 Tsikouris • Henry Goerlich-Voutt - for his improved work ethic.

• Sara Bertschi - for trying hard during literacy

1 Wicks • Vagelitsa Hatzikostantis - for using expression and emotion when reading.

• Ethan Roe - for working hard in maths

2 Henschke

• Raul Ellis - for improved focus during class.

• Lavinia Mu - for always being an outstanding role model in class.

• Georgia Cruickshank - for working hard on procedures in her own time.

2 McLean

• Lucy Smyth - for being responsible and demonstrating initiative.

• Amber Wunungmurra - for developing confidence in speaking and writing.

• Ben Flevelle - for trying hard to complete writing tasks to a high standard.

3 Amidy • Kagiso Boitshwarelo - for a huge improvement with her writing tasks.

• Michael DeBusch - for a huge improvement with his reading.

3 McNair

• Xavier Fitzgerald - for excellent work in telling time to the minute.

• Lily Shoemark - for excellent work in telling time to the minute.

• Dekotah Assan-Petterson - for excellent work in telling time to the minute.

4 Robinson • Ryan Hunter - for outstanding work on his maths homework.

• Aeron Verhoeven - for outstanding effort in her reading homework.

6 Dobrini • Year 6 Dobrini students who didn’t go to Canberra - for respecting their relief teacher.

WHY are we using Flexischool for Canteen ordering?

� Parents can select the food for their children from the online menu

� Ensures that students never miss out on preferred items due to not enough money.

� Allows more hot food preparation time to meet the growing demand

Ordering online with Flexischools eliminates the need for paper bags and looking for lose change during the morning school rush.

Simply to go www.flexischools.com.au and click ‘Register Now’. You will be sent an email with further instructions on how to complete the registration. Once registered, you can start placing orders immediately. If you have any questions, Flexischools provide

a great help desk on 1300 361 769, or you can contact them via their website.

Liz Mu, Canteen Manager

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

All week-drawing competition-(T-3) & (4-6)-CONNECT to Reading

Paper Chains Make chains with titles of books 1.Scrap paper cut in strips 2.Textas 3.Staplers

Book Wall Make a wall of titles. 1.Cover small boxes 2.Scrap paper 3.Glue/brushes 4.Draw/write titles,

characters with textas

Puzzles Make your own puzzles card. 1.Draw or cut out pictures 2.Textas/magazines/glue 3.On the back design the

puzzle pieces 4.Scissors to cut out 5.Place pieces into

decorated envelope.

Wool The longest wool ‘rope’ 1.Wool-Connect different

wool to make the longest ‘rope’ or make friendship bracelets.

2.Knots

Map Collage 1.Maps, scrap paper, glue sticks

and scissors 2.Using old maps make a

collage

ENVIRO WEEK

August 24 to August 30 is Enviro Week. It’s a time for everyone to celebrate caring for our Earth and everything that lives on it. You can check out Wanguri’s profile page on the Enviro website at:

http://www.enviroweek.org/teams/sustainability-ambassadors/

Wanguri Primary School will be celebrating the week by offering fun environmental activities in our school garden on Tuesday and Wednesday at lunchtime. The Sustainability Ambassadors will be giving tours of the garden, there will be a colouring competition, and students can help make posters. They can come and add their green thumbprint to our canvas and hang a wish for the Earth on our Nature Tree. The Sustainability Ambassadors will also be selling packets of Snake Bean Seeds from our garden for 50 cents a packet.

So come to the school garden next Tuesday and Wednesday at lunchtime to have some fun and help celebrate our Earth.

And as always, remember to save power by the hour!

By David and Isaac

Wanguri Preschool is now taking enrolments for 2015 for children living in our catchment area.

Children turning 4 years of age before 30 June 2015 are eligible to commence preschool on 27 January 2015.

To assist with class placements, parents are encouraged to start the enrolment process as soon as possible

Enrolment Process

� Step 1: Collect the Preschool Information Pack from the Wanguri School Front Office and complete the Expression of Interest form.

� Step 2: Log on to http://enrol.ntschools.net and complete the online enrolment form and advise the school on 89271655 when you have finished this step.

� Step 3: Bring in all completed forms and a copy of your child’s Birth Certificate and Immunisation record, or the original, and we will photocopy them.

Enrolment forms are also available on the Wanguri School website www.wanguriprimary.nt.edu.au

Thank you to the families who have returned their swimming lesson permission forms and payment.

All forms and payments are due back at school by 29 August.

Swimming lessons for Years 5 & 6 will commence on Monday 1 September and run over two weeks from Monday to Thursday each week.

WOW, almost half way through Term 3 already. Where does the time go? Before we know it, a lot of us will be packing up houses and moving on.

DCO are offering several workshops to help Defence families and individuals become more resilient and manage times of change particularly during challenging times such as absence from home, deployments and moving house and schools.

The programs are called FAMILYSMART, TEENSMART and KIDSMART. These are workshops delivered by DCO staff and are tailored for families and partners, teenagers and younger children.

These workshops can be completed by face-to-face workshops or if life is too busy to be able to attend these workshops, DCO also offers online workshops.

To register for attending a workshop, please call 1800 624 608 or if you are interested in completing an online workshop, please visit www.defence.gov.au/dco

Rachel Dolan rachel.dolan@ntschools.net 8927 1655

Apple slinkies are back on Tuesday’s at recess

News from the Sports DeskNews from the Sports DeskNews from the Sports DeskNews from the Sports Desk Congratulations to Kurt Parriman who has returned from the Australian School Sport Rugby Championships.

Here is Kurt’s report:

I went to Wollongong in NSW to play rugby in the Australian School Championships. We had a 2 day training camp in Darwin and then did activities like Zone 3 and swimming. We played in Wollongong for 5 days, after flying from Darwin to Sydney and then took a bus to our accommodation. We won 2 games and I played mostly 2nd row and prop. I have improved my tackling and running the ball more often. It has motivated me to become a professional rugby player when I am older.

Written by Kurt Parriman

September 5

Footy Colours Day - watch this space.

Healthy Living Apps:

• Yoga Studio - take yoga classes anywhere you go at a time that suits you! • Food switch - scan products to make healthier choices • Sleep Cycle - sorts out your sleep pattern/teaches the importance of a good night’s sleep. • Coeliac Australia - find gluten-free ingredients

DID you know ?

PARSLEY and MINT

• Parsley is the most commonly consumed fresh herb because it can be grown in most climates. • Parsley is a soft herb so is best added at the end of cooking to preserve its flavour. • Parsley can only be used in savoury dishes because it has a strong flavor. • Garlic and lemon are great accompaniments to parsley. • The ancient Romans believed that eating mint would increase your intelligence. • Some people chew mint leaves because they believe it can reduce tummy upsets. • Mint works brilliantly in desserts and fruity, summer drinks. • Mint leaves or oil deter ants so put some fresh leaves in your cupboards for a natural solution. • Mint is one of the few herbs that can stand up against chillies and other spices.

TRY this minty yoghurt dip from Jamie Oliver: Ingredients: 4 sprigs of mint, one lemon, one quarter of one garlic clove, 200g plain yoghurt, veggie sticks Method:

1. Pick and finely chop mint leaves 2. Finely grate the zest of half a lemon, then cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice into a mixing bowl 3. On a board, peel and very gently chop the garlic 4. Add the yoghurt and a tiny pinch of salt and pepper to the mixing bowl with the chopped mint and garlic. Stir well 5. Serve with a platter of veggies for dipping such as tiny tomatoes, carrot and celery sticks, crisp lettuce cups, capsicum

and zucchini lengths.

Healthy Living Competition

Congratulations to the Higgins family (Travis and Jocelyn) and the Shoemark family (Lily–Anne) for being the first two to respond to our competition last week. The three students chose a prize each from the suitcase of goodies and there were a lot of envious friends, so……… read the newsletter, answer the Healthy Living Question and win a prize!

How to be the first to answer to win a prize: two prizes per newsletter - one to the first family to respond via email and the other one to the first student to answer face to face. Plenty of prizes to choose from so think quick!

Responses emailed to anne.goodman@ntschools.net or face to face with Mrs Goodman on Thursday mornings.

Question for this week:

• Parsley can be used as a natural breath freshener – TRUE or FALSE?