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Students showcase Tiwi hospitality By Jessica Stasi, Arthurina Moreen and Shenaida Bush

On Thursday 15th of March the Jilmara Art Centre and Museum had its opening. Some students from Tiwi College cooked food for the visitors who came from all over Australia. We prepared and cooked wallaby stew, barramundi and buffalo burgers. We also made lots of salads. The people involved were Arthurina, Jessica, Shenaida, Kay Kay, Ella, Annis, Reggie and Rehn.

Adam Clarke, a chef from the mine at Jessie River, has a program called TASTE IT, DO IT, LIVE IT. He helps to teach us how to cook healthy food. Tiwi people did traditional dancing and singing before opening the new Jilmara Art Centre. After the opening Kay Kay, Joey and Jessica did an interview with the SBS crew. We enjoyed the day and the visitors loved the food that we cooked.

Inside this issue ...

Welcome to

2012 from

Mr Smithy

Primary,

Middle

School and Senior Class

News

Interviews

with the

house parents

Introducing

the GYW

Program

The Hayden

Way garden

Art projects

Who’s who on

staff

By Ailsa MacFie

Many people from the Tiwi College community flew to Darwin to support the Tiwi Bombers in the NTFL Grand Final against the Nightcliff Tigers. Jennifer and the Clancy mob stood out with their black and red headbands and hairspray. Teachers and students waved to each other as they all cheered from the stands. Mr Smithy and Mr Clancy’s faces grew redder as the Bombers scored point after point but lacked the goals to pull ahead. After an extremely exciting final quarter, the final siren sounded and the Bombers had won their first Grand Final. Tiwi fans streamed onto the field. Tic Tac cried tears of joy. Tiwi College students

and staff felt particularly proud of Shane Tipuamantameri, the Bombers’ captain, who has worked and lived at the College with his family.

The excitement continued the next day in Wurrumiyanga, with the Tiwi Islands Grand Final. Many teachers from the college purchased artwork before heading to the ground to watch Tuyu beat Imalu in an exciting game. Tiwi College students Adrian Mungatopi, Kenny Puruntatameri and Harley

Puruntatameri played in the match, while fellow students Kieran Apuatimi, Patrick Puruntatameri and James Farmer had helped their teams to the Grand Final but narrowly missed out on playing in the game.

Term One, 2012

Tiwi College News

Footy brings the community together

Tiwi College

Pickertaramoor

Melville Island

NORTHERN TERRITORY

Ph: (08) 8970 9024

Fax: (08) 8970 9025

Postal address:

LMB 127

Winnellie, NT, 0822

Principal: Ian Smith

[email protected]

Tiwi College Newsletter

From the Principal

The most important word: respect 2012 has begun extremely well, with our school at capacity for most of the term. Our strong student attendance numbers are very pleasing. We want as many young Tiwi coming to Tiwi College – run by Tiwi, for Tiwi. We welcomed our new academic staff members Ailsa MacFie (Senior Girls) and Stephanie Redgment (Primary School) at the start of this year, as well as 4 new Family Group Home Parents: Timoci & Viola Vea and Filipe & Aliti Soqali. We also welcome Dianne Moore (Senior Girls), Laelia Dunn (Middle School Girls) and Mark Smith

(Senior Boys) who have recently moved to the college to assist in our classrooms. Phil and Judy Harmer are our newest arrivals: they joined us last week to work in the areas of maintenance and office duties. On a sad note, JR Pilakui, Sonja Gunther and Gavin Low resigned late this term. We thank them sincerely for their contributions to the college.

We look forward to all working together as a team at Tiwi College. Our foci continue to be improving literacy and numeracy and channelling young Tiwi into Tiwi Enter-prises. As you will read, students have been busy this term, with important lessons taking place both inside and outside the classroom. Family Group Homes have developed activity and life skills programs for keeping students active after school. All

students are helping build and maintain vegetable gardens for their houses. After Shrove Tuesday and our big pancake feast, Ash Wednesday saw our first visit from Sister Anne from

Bathurst Island. She will be teaching every week and guiding students for their reconciliation. The opening of the new Jilamara Art Gallery and Museum at Milikapiti presented an opportunity for our students to show off their catering skills by preparing and serving food for 350 guests. Under the Morris Corporation funding, Tiwi College students are continuing to be educated in Hospitality & Cater-ing using a hands-on approach to learning.

Looking ahead, early next term we have the opening of our new, state-of-the-art library. It will support the school’s educational and literacy goals by provid-ing students and teachers with a variety of books and magazines as well as iPads, laptops, a smartboard and DVDs. I wish you all a safe Easter holiday break. Don’t forget to be ready for pick-up on Wednesday 18th April. Ian Smith

Term 1, 2012 Tiwi College Newsletter

Primary School

By Stephanie Redgment

The highlight of the term for the Primary School students has been visiting the Hayden Way garden. This visit was an opportunity to learn about how plants grow and where they get their energy from. The students thoroughly enjoyed trying different vegetables and seeing how the ducklings were growing. Following this outing, students were keen to draw and write about their experience. A big thank you to Jason for helping them to make real connections between classroom learning and the outside world. In addition to this the Primary class has been very lucky to have the older students working with them on a weekly basis. The Senior Girls have been reading with students every Friday in association with

the Books in Homes program. The Primary class has also spent time with

the Senior Boys practising their computer skills to create cards for the Tiwi Bombers. The encourage-ment and support from the older students has certainly paid dividends. The Primary class has been very lucky to have had many visitors to the classroom. Ali and Simon have popped in on numerous occasions to listen to the students read. It has been

wonderful to have Sister Anne come in the teach Religious Education; if only she could stay longer! Overall, the primary students have had a wonderful first term. Exciting things are to yet to come in Term Two!

“I like when we

play dodging ball

with the senior

boys.”

— Shanelle

“It was fun,

‘cause the senior

boys chose us for

sport.” — Ruth

“I like dodging

ball.” — Damien

“I like when we

play ‘Duck, Duck,

Goose’ and ‘Cat

and Mouse’.”

— Una

“I like to play

bulrush and

dodgeball when

the senior boys

take the class.”

— Ethan

By Juliette Puruntatamerri, Jovita Tipungwuti and

Shauna Apuatimi on behalf of the Middle School Class

In Literacy we have been reading a lot. We are using different reading book levels so that we don’t do work that is too hard or too easy for us. We also do writing at different levels. We do Study Ladder and other spelling and reading games on the computer. This term we have been learning how to cook different things like pizza and chocolate cake. We also made Anzac biscuits. We gave some of these to the teachers and house-parents to say thank you for looking after us. For Sport we play soccer and basketball. In Maths we have been learning about graphs and how to do mental maths. In Science we have learnt about energy and in Art we have been designing a logo for the Young Women’s Program. The Middle School Girls have been helping each other a lot this term. We work together on the computers and reading Fitzroy books. If we have problems and the teacher is busy, we ask other girls for help. Our teachers say we are more responsible. We work hard, we listen and we look after our books and pencil-cases. If we work hard in class, we get to play word games, read magazines or go to the creek for a swim.

Pizza Recipe

By Deanne Austral

Ingredients

1 cup flour

½ teaspoon yeast

A pinch of salt

A pinch of sugar

½ tablespoon oil

¼ cup of water

PLUS your choice of toppings

Instructions

1. Mix flour, yeast, salt and sugar together.

2. Add water and mix.

3. Knead the dough for 10 minutes.

4. Leave in a warm place for 30 minutes to rise.

5. Roll/press the dough onto a tray.

6. Put tomato and cheese on top. You can add

other things like onion, pineapple, ham or

capsicum if you want.

7. Cook for 10 minutes at 200C.

8. Put basil leaves on after it has cooked.


Middle School Young Women

By Josh Mackenzie and the Middle School Young Men

The Middle School Young Men have had a good term at school. We love coming to school and this is very evident in our high attendance rates. Every week most members of our class are waiting at the shop to be picked up. We love playing sport and going swimming at the creek. During school we have been playing hit the board and football. We also love to go to football training. In class we have been learning about newspapers and learning to write articles. We produced great pieces of writing previewing the Imalu vs. Mulluwurri football game in the last round of the TIFL season. In Maths we have been working with Mr Ben. We have been learning how to interpret and graph statistics. We really enjoyed mapping the statistics of the Tiwi Bombers players in their second final against the Nightcliff Tigers. In Science we buried different items then dug them up again later to learn about what decomposes and what doesn’t. We also did work in the Hayden Way garden with Mr Jason. He will tell you more about this in his article. Our teacher Mr Josh would like to thank our families for encouraging us to come to school and asks that you would keep doing this in the future.

“We would like

to say a big

thank you to the

Senior Boys’

Class for taking

football training

and doing a won-

derful job in the

absence of Clon-

tarf.” — from the

Middle School

Young Men.


Middle School Young Men

Literacy—by Vanessa Daniels and

Caitlyn Moreen

This term in Literacy we have been reading books, newspapers and magazines. We have also written lots of news articles and interviews. Pretty much we’ve been enjoying everything in our Literacy class. The best part for us was reading to the Primary School class. It’s good to be reading books so that we can read to our little brothers and sisters or to our children in the future. Maths—by Courtney Lynch and

Mollie Mungatopi

This term we have been doing graphs, tables, and useful stuff like money and building foods graphs. We have also been learning how to make a spread sheet. These activities are maybe going to help us in the future if we’re going to work on buildings or running a business. Home Economics – Alex Guy and Sonya Olsen

In Home Economics this term we made pizzas, Anzac biscuits, raspberry muffins, choco-late cake and sponge cake. We learned cooking skills. It helps our maths (measurement and cost) and literacy (reading recipes). Science—Vanessa Daniels and

Caitlyn Moreen

In Science we have been learning about the different parts in our bodies. We also have been putting the parts in the right place in our body in activities and using an online quiz. Sport—Cassie Black and Angela

Kerinaiua

We have trained so hard all through the term. In basketball we learnt about dribbling, defending, lay-ups and other skills. The girls have competed against each other and had lots of fun playing. The girls also did drills and skill-building activities led by Tic Tac.

First Aid—Ella Wonaeamirri and

Maggie Kerinaiua

In First Aid we’ve been learning how to treat an unconscious patient, snakebites, asthma, sprains, strains and how to help a bleeding person. We learnt how to use bandages, tweezers, gloves, gauze, salty water (saline), alcohol swabs and non-stick dressings. The best lesson was when

Ms Ailsa bought special movie blood. The other students had to treat and bandage the fake wounds.

Art—Aggie Puruntatameri and

Bobette Minniecon

This term we have been designing and making greeting cards using Tiwi fabrics and our own designs. We are planning to sell the cards so we can learn about business. When we have Art we have a relaxed feeling in the room. Ms

Ailsa gets to talk to us about how our weekends were and also asks us questions about Tiwi culture. Behaviour – Lauren Puruntatameri and Darrelyn

Puruntatamerri

This term the Senior Girls’ behav-iour has improved – and it was already good to start with. We have worked really hard all term. We try hard to listen to our teachers. We have learnt how to work independently. This term we feel much better about treating

everybody the same and with respect. Attitude—Cassie Black and Angela Kerinaiua

We feel proud of the work that we’ve been doing all term and we’ve enjoyed and experienced a lot of new things. It feels good to do challenging work and get it all done. Compared to the first couple of weeks of this term, in class we are getting more confident and not feeling shame to read our work in front of the whole class. We’ve tried hard and it makes us proud of succeeding.


Senior Young Women


Senior Young Men By Ben Kelly

The Senior Young Men have had a busy start to the year. In Literacy they have been looking at the fea-tures of newspaper articles and how to summarize and interpret the information. They have also been working on aspects of basic literacy such as spelling, reading and writing skills. In Numeracy they have been working on the topics of chance, data and statistics. They have compared dif-ferent AFL players’ statistics in their kicks, marks, handballs and tackles throughout a whole football season and presented this in a form of a line graph. They even took statistics on each other when playing their own modified football game called ‘hit the board’. After doing this, they knew how many possessions they had had and how many goals they had kicked during the game.

In their VET Sport and Recreation lessons they have just begun to take the Primary School class for P.E lessons. This has involved the boys planning the lesson during their class-time and then taking it in turns to run and organise games for the Primary students. It has been fantastic to see the older boys run these lessons and it is something that has put smiles on many of the students’ faces.

The Senior Young Men would like to thank John Ross Pilakui for the time that he spent in their classroom providing many laughs and smiles through his time at Tiwi College and we wish him all the best for his future endeavours. We would also like to welcome Mark Tunmuck Smith into the class as John Ross’s re-placement. We look forward to him helping the young men to get a better education. Mark was previously employed at Garden Point as a Sport and Rec officer.

“It was fun for

me and I’m

happy that the

little kids are

having fun in

class.”

— Isadore

“I like taking the

primary kids. I’m

happy being with

them and playing

sport with them.

I love to see

them smile.”

— Kenny


Highlights of Term One

The family group home parents have been busy this term: as well as the non-stop cooking and cleaning they do for their Tiwi children, they have also been running after-school activities and accompanying the students to home-work sessions. They have an important role in nurturing the students, providing discipline and teaching life-skills such as hygiene and healthy eating habits. In this edition of the newsletter, the Senior Young Women present profiles of the house parents. The girls designed all the questions themselves, carried out the interviews for homework and wrote up the reports with their partners.

House 1—by Cassie Black and Angela Kerinaiua

Pisa and Meaghan Ravula are the house parents for the Family Group Home 1 boys. They have two children, a girl and a boy, whose names are Talei and Maikeli. They started at Tiwi College 2 years ago when they first heard about the school from Isoa. They came here to make a difference to the young people and experience the land. They expected the school to be big in the community but their expectations were totally different. They find the lifestyle of Tiwi interesting, good and different to the lifestyle and culture that they grew up with. They say the students are great young men and women with good potential. They like the environment and working

with the Tiwi students because they are friendly and nice. The students at Tiwi College think that Meaghan and Pisa are fun to hang with and they’ll be so sad if they leave!

House 3—by Courtney Lynch and Mollie Mungatopi

Isoa Waqairagata is the Family Group Home 3 houseparent along with Akanisi Domolala (who wasn’t available for this interview). He also instructs the boys’ football training. He used to be a youth worker down in Queensland. He ran a lot of programs. He came here because he enjoys working with kids and secondly, he likes the challenge. He likes the Tiwi Islands because it is the same lifestyle like where he’s from – Fiji. His work involves looking after young boys and helping them in any way to make them better. He likes seeing kids change their behav-iour and how they act towards others. Isoa doesn’t know when he is leaving but in the future he wants to be a youth counsellor and own a property and help the under privileged.

House 4—by Aggie Puruntatameri

and Bobette Minniecon

Filipe and Aliti Soqali are looking after the girls at Family Group Home 4. They both got offered the job from Mr Smithy, and also Isoa was sending emails back to Fiji. Aliti said, “my very first glimpse of Tiwi was from the air trying very hard to focus through the thick fog while the single propeller plane was circling above the campus for the fifth time before landing. I fell in love with Pickertaramoor straight away.” They both find Tiwi culture a bit challenging but also similar to their culture (Fijian). They both said that Tiwi culture is different to other Aboriginal cultures. Aliti said each individual is different and she also admires Tiwi students. When they both came to Tiwi College they were very homesick but then they both got used to it. Aliti said, “I admire the Tiwi personality. They seem to easily forget the past and always strive to move forward. I wish that we can adopt this value.” She really respects Tiwi people.


Family Group Homes

House 5—by Alex Guy and Sonya Olsen

Tim and Viola Vea are the house parents at Family Group Home 5. They started this year. Timoci said that when he first came here it felt like home. He likes going to new places and meeting new people. He also likes that the school’s in a remote area. Before he came here he had heard about Tiwi Culture, also that Tiwi people are gifted in design. Timoci has learnt a lot about the Tiwi lifestyle. His plan for the future is to learn more and do more in a different community.

House 6—by Vanessa Daniels and Caitlyn Moreen

Anthony and Stefanee Lyons are the House 6 houseparents. Anthony and Stefanee also have a daughter named Kloe; Kloe is 2 years of age. Stef is pregnant and will have the new baby in the Easter holidays. Anthony & Stef said they both enjoy working at FGH6 with the Senior Girls and one little midget named Jessica (the only Middle School girl in the house!). Both Anthony and Stef feel like a family when they are with the girls and Kloe. They also enjoy working here because Kloe has Tiwi sisters in the house. They both felt nervous when they first came here, but at the same time they were excited about the new adventure. So far both Anthony and Stef have learnt about the Tiwi Culture, Tiwi languages and also learnt about

the history of the Tiwi Islands. Anthony and Stef both said that the students are a good bunch of kids, especially the girls who want to further their education.

Family Group Homes Coordinator, Solo Tuibua—by Ella

Wonaeamirri and Maggie Kerinaiua

Solomon loves Aboriginal people. He also loves the Tiwi lifestyle because it is similar to his own country. Solomon sees this place as the place he’s been searching for. Solomon doesn’t want to leave Tiwi College until he turns 70 years of age. In the future Solomon wants to go back to Fiji to operate his family school.

Next time... Tiwi staff interviews

Here’s a sneak preview...

Dianne Moore—by Darrelyn Puruntatamerri and Lauren Puruntatameri

Dianne is the Teaching Assistant in the Senior Young Women’s class. She and Ms Ailsa teach Literacy and other subjects. Everyone calls her by her nickname: Tic Tac. Tic Tac found out about the job through Tippa and Tammy Tipuamantameri. She came here because she thought it would be interesting to live and work here. When Tic Tac first came to Tiwi College she was nervous because she didn’t know a lot of the students. She has only been here for 3 weeks but would like to work here for a long time. She likes working with all the girls and say it’s different to other schools she has worked in. Tic Tac knows a lot about Tiwi culture because she is Tiwi and comes from Snake Bay.


Family Group Homes

Growing Young Women’s Program takes off By Jasmine Puruntatameri, Aggie Puruntatameri and Edwina Mungatopi

The Growing Young Women’s Program started this year so that girls would be able to go on trips, get a good education and travel around the world.

The Growing Young Women’s Program has homework every Tuesday and Wednesday and we also have training to do every Tuesday and Thursday. We have also been designing the GYW shirt logo. The girls in the program earn points for coming early, joining in the training, and working

hard in class. If you earn enough points you get to go on trips. The first trip this year is to a basketball competition in Darwin in March. We can also earn an iPod to keep and a shirt. Last year, the boys had the Clontarf room and program, but the girls only just got their program and GYW room this year. We are happy that we have a place to chill out in and that the girls have the same

opportunities as the boys. Students say that the program is fun and enjoyable. At training we feel a sense of achieve-ment when we improve at basketball and football skills. We also enjoy going to the creek to cool off after a tough session. The Senior Young Women are looking forward to going on work experience in Darwin next term, and the Middle School Young Women will be going to Melbourne later in the year to visit Tintern School. The Smith Family is helping the school to run these activities.

By Maggie Kerinaiua and Ella Wonaeamirri

Tash was a House Parent last year and this year she is the Growing Young Women’s Coordinator. She has been here since the start of 2011. She came here because she wanted a

challenge and it was somewhere different. She has learnt about Tiwi culture, with its different rules and lifestyle. She loves helping all the girls, having fun and she enjoys everything. She thinks the school is beautiful and a nice place to live. Also she loves looking at different animals like buffaloes, horses and wallabies which are not in the city.


Outside the classroom

Interview with Tash


Outside the classroom

Hayden Way

Garden news By Jason Ryan

This term it has been all hands on deck in the Hayden Way garden. Students have shown great inter-est in watching and learning the processes by which a sustainable garden functions. Daily chores for the students include identifying produce from the garden which is ready to eat. Food harvested daily includes cucumbers, okras, eggplants, snake beans, capsicums, chillies and ginger, as well as duck and chicken eggs.

Middle School Boys have spent time in the garden this term. A major focus has been educating them on the effective operation of machinery. Safety was also a critical point with students having to identify the dangers when driving the John Deere tractor. Tasks included effectively using the bucket to manoeuvre hay bales and complete a driving course throughout the garden. The Primary School has also visited this term. They ensured the chooks and ducks were returned to their sheds and also looked after three baby ducklings. They were a delight to have and hopefully next term I can do more with the entire school.

Art around the school By Anne McMaster

Art at Tiwi College has been taught during the daily cur-riculum and also in evening homework sessions. The Primary School students have been busy creating im-ages for a book we plan to produce this year titled ‘Life at Pickertaramoor”. So far, they have made drawings and paintings of buffalo, horses, barramundi and crabs. The Middle School Young Women been busy working in their visual diaries on a unit of work titled “Optical Illusions”, and on designing a mural for the air strip shed. The Sen-ior Young Women have been designing cards during their weekly Art period. The Sen-

ior Young Men continue to work on can-vas paintings, and will finish a mural on the oval shed this term. The boys have been influenced by AFL football culture for their designs. Senior boys have developed wonderful canvas paintings in their evening homework classes. These art works have been asked to be permanently displayed in the head office of Matilda Zircon mining in Perth,


Who’s who at Tiwi College

Sandy Gunatange

Teacher: Middle School

Young Women

Akanisi Domolala

House-parent (FGH 3)

Stephanie Redgment

Teacher: Primary

Sila Pati

Vice-Principal

Ian Smith

Principal

Dennis (Den-Den) Henry

Assistant Teacher

Paula Callus

Hospitality

Pisa Ravula


Meaghan Ravula


Solo Tuibua

FGH Co-ordinator

Anthony Lyons


Stefanee Lyons


Timoci Vea


Laelia Dunn

Assistant Teacher

Bianca (Bang) Daniels

Assistant Teacher

Stephanie Mackenzie

Primary Assistant /Library

Shane Tipuamantameri

Clontarf Program

Pirriwayi Puruntatameri

Chairman—Tiwi Education

Board

Natasha Bennett

GYW Program

Dan McNamee

Clontarf Program


Who’s who at Tiwi College

Brian Clancy

Secretary—Tiwi Education

Board

Anne McMaster

Teacher: Art

Viola Vea


Kumsi Ullungura

Admin. Assistant

Jeff Winston

Mechanic

Sister Anne

Religious Education

Filipe Soqali


Aliti Soqali


Isoa Waqairagata


Jason Ryan

Hayden Way garden

Phil Harmer

Maintenance

Judy Harmer

Office

Joy Moreen

Student Support

Mark Smith

Assistant Teacher

Dianne (Tic-Tac) Moore

Assistant Teacher

Shane Henry-Murphy

Cleaning

Jess Davies

Cleaning

Josh Mackenzie

Teacher: Middle School

Young Men

Ailsa MacFie

Teacher: Senior Young

Women

Ben Kelly

Teacher: Senior Young

Men

Term 1, 2012


Be ready for pick-up!

Term 2 starts

Wednesday 18th April

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